C828 How could she forget

Qin Xuan stroked his perfect chin, looked at Yan Yuan, and laughed: "Your highness, have you forgotten that I introduced you at the entrance of the Duke's Mansion? Xiao Niu is my personal bodyguard, and my personal bodyguard is naturally in charge of my personal protection. If I let her stand outside the door, how would I call her personal bodyguard? "

Liu Ruo Qing clenched her teeth, stared at Qin Xuan, and was unable to interrupt.

Yan Yuan's heart became even more unhappy, but when he looked at Liu Ruo Qing, his eyes became colder, but he did not object to Qin Xuan's request, "Come in."

As if it was within expectations, Qin Xuan pursed his lips and laughed. He glanced at Liu Ruo Qing, came close to her side, and said: "This king is putting in a lot of effort to make you look at Yan Yuan a few more times, right?"

Liu Ruo Qing ignored him, her footsteps distancing herself from Qin Xuan, "Your Highness, please."

The door to the study was closed. Liu Ruo Qing dutifully stood straight up behind Qin Xuan, and couldn't help but look at Yan Yuan. However, the moment Yan Yuan raised his eyes, he hurriedly withdrew his gaze.

Yan Yuan didn't know if he was imagining things, but he had the feeling that two burning hot gazes were looking at him from the direction of the little guard, and when he looked over, the little guard's eyes were lowered.

Not wanting to let himself be troubled by this strange feeling, Yan Yuan did not focus his attention on Liu Ruo Qing anymore. Instead, he looked at Qin Xuan and asked: "Prince Duan, why have you come to my Easternum?"

"Has Your Highness heard of the Seedling Earth Shaman Gu?"

Qin Xuan had already put away his teasing in front of Liu Ruo Qing, and asked while looking at him.

Yan Yuan nodded, "I heard of it."

"For the past year or so, Nanling has been secretly joining hands with the xieqing, with the intention to start a war with him. This matter has been going on in secret, has King Jing heard of any news?"

Yan Yuan nodded his head, "This king has long known about this, is Prince Duan here for this reason?"

Qin Xuan did not beat around the bush and nodded his head, "I believe that Prince Jing is not interested in the internal affairs of my Nanling, so, I do not plan to tell Your Highness about it. My purpose in coming here is the same as Your Highness, to prevent xieqing from cooperating with my Nanling."

"What do you think, Brother Qin?"

"Has Your Highness ever heard of a Magus called Ye Man in the Miao Land?"

"Senior Magus Ye Man?"

The one who spoke was not Yan Yuan, but Liu Ruo Qing.

When she heard the name, she almost blurted it out.

When she received Yan Yuan and Qin Xuan's doubtful gazes, she knew that she was in a better situation.

Yan Yuan stared intently at her face, his eyes were like a searchlight, sharp to the point that Liu Ruo Qing did not dare look straight at her, and then heard him say: "Do you know him?"

Calming himself down, Liu Ruo Qing lowered his eyes and said respectfully: "Reporting to the Duke, a relative of this one died from the poison this person concocted earlier, so this one will definitely not forget this name."

Back then at the Boundless Cliff, she felt that this name was familiar. Only now did she remember that Ye Man had mentioned this to her before.

He was poisoned by the poison plotted by the person beside him, and was poisoned by the poison made by the Great Witch Ye Man in the nursery.

Afterwards, she almost died at the hands of the Senior Magus Ye Man. How could she forget about that evil person?

When she was speaking, her head was lowered, and because of the difference in height, when he lowered her head, Yan Yuan could only see the top of her head, and not her face. Hearing her words, he did not suspect his at all.

Then, his gaze turned to Qin Xuan, who said: "This king had once been poisoned by this person, but I have only heard of his name, and have never met him personally."

Saying that, he paused for a moment, after pondering for a moment, he continued, "I have recuperated from my injuries in the seedling field before, but I have heard that Ye Man is an expert in the Wu Gu arts. After that, we found out that the Nanling and the people from the xieqing had traces of frequent visits to the seedling grounds, and I suspect that it is related to this Ye Man."

"That's right."

Qin Xuan nodded his head, "I sent some people to investigate and found out that Ye Man had left the seedling grounds a few months ago, and that all the people there had been killed."

Hearing Qin Xuan talk about it, Yan Yuan thought about how Dong Dan looked when she was buried, and frowned, as though she had thought of something.

"When I was in the Western Regions, I heard that the Gu technique could control the person that was infected with the Gu. The Gu Master could control them as he wished."

As he said that, he recounted what happened to Dong Dan that day to Qin Xuan.

A moment later, he took out a silk cloth from his sleeves, and wrote a string of dense characters on it that no one would be able to understand. Qin Xuan said: "This was obtained by my men deep in the seedling grounds, and these characters are placed on a big stone."

"Words from Miao Di?"

Yan Yuan looked at the incomprehensible sigil and asked.

Qin Xuan nodded his head, but his brows furrowed even more, "Although these are the words from the Miao grounds, they are symbols from hundreds of years ago. I asked a few people from the Miao grounds, but none of them could understand what the characters on them are."

Speaking till here, Qin Xuan paused for a moment, thought for a while, and continued: The way those people died, is extremely similar to the scene you mentioned earlier, I suspect that those people were also killed by monsters similar to Dong Dan.

Following that, he pointed to the piece of cloth in Yan Yuan's hand, and said: "After I obtained this string of words, I was chased by Qin Mu Huai's men. I suspect that their movements in secret is related to the thing above, maybe as long as we decipher the meaning of the symbol on it, they will be able to solve the question that is currently plaguing us."

Yan Yuan nodded his head, lowering his eyes, deep in thought.

"Prince Jing, this matter concerns the peace of Nanling and the Easternum for a hundred years, I hope that both of us can work together."

Qin Xuan stood up from his chair and cupped his hands towards Yan Yuan, "I, Qin, will go first. If you have any useful information for your highness, you can also ask someone to inform me."

"Alright."

Yan Yuan stood up to send him off, but Liu Ruo Qing habitually walked beside him, and the two walked out side by side.

At the same time, she raised her foot and stepped across the doorstep. Liu Ruo Qing's footsteps paused, and she unconsciously turned to look at Yan Yuan, but seeing that he was also looking at her, she panicked and quickly retracted her foot.

"Please, Your Highness."

Qin Xuan walked in front and looked at the weird expression between the two of them. He couldn't help but twitch his lips, but at the same time, he looked indifferent.

Yan Yuan retracted his gaze from her face, pretended to be cold, and stepped out, ignoring the familiar feeling in his heart.

At this moment, he was somewhat disgusted with this mysterious guard. Although it was a face that he had never seen before, it still caused his heart to be unable to calm down.

Damn it all.

"Please wait, Prince Jing."

Reaching the gates of the Duke Palaces, Qin Xuan turned around and said to Yan Yuan.

"Prince Duan, take care."