C880 880 This is the command of the Senior Magus

"Prince …"

Seeing Yan Yuan looking at his and not making a sound, Liu Ruo Qing thought that she was angry.

"If you want to go, then go. If you ruin this duke's plans, then don't blame this king for not giving Qin Xuan face."

"Yes, Your Highness. I will not do anything bad, thank you very much!"

Yan Yuan was once again lost in thought when he looked at the pair of familiar eyes, no matter how much he wanted to avoid, he couldn't help but feel his heart soften when he saw the smiling appearance of, as though if he were to see happy, it was normal for him to be spared.

Because Duo Ya was only thirteen years old, and died before he was even old. According to the customs of the Easternum, Duo Ya's funeral could not be too grand, other than during the day when monks came to recite scriptures, the only people responsible for keeping watch at night were the people kneeling in front of the mourning hall.

Because of the death of his daughter, Grand Princess Nuo Lan immediately fell ill, and did not drink any water for the past two days. Xi Ya also received a day's worth of guests who came to offer their condolences, and returned to the house without leaving her room.

On the rooftop not too far away, two black figures were staring at Xi Ya's room. After a long time, they only saw that the lights in the room had been extinguished, but Xi Ya still had not come out.

"Why isn't she coming out?"

On the roof on the other side of the house, Liu Ruo Qing and Yan Yuan were squatting side by side. Even after staring for a long time at Xi Ya's room, she still did not come out.

"Wait a little longer."

Yan Yuan was patient. His sharp, deep eyes were like a night hawk's as they stared at Xi Ya's room.

"Xi Ya has been in the mourning hall all day, she can only see Heng Er at night, we will wait patiently."

Yan Yuan looked to the side, seeing the worry on her face, he comforted his in a soft voice. It was as if he could not bear to see her like this, since the moment Heng Er was taken away, he suddenly realised that this brat seemed to have become much more haggard, and his face was filled with fatigue.

Liu Ruo Qing knew that it was useless to be anxious, so she could only nod her head and continue staring at Xi Ya's room.

After a moment, he heard Yan Yuan say: "There's faint light in her room."

Hearing that, Liu Ruo Qing immediately looked over, and sure enough, there was an extremely weak glimmer of light shining out from Xi Ya's room.

It was very dark at night, and the light was very weak. If one wasn't near someone, they wouldn't be able to see it.

"The lights in Grand Princess's Palace are all top-notch glazed lamps. She didn't light the glazed lamps, and instead used such a weak light. It seems like she doesn't want others to find out what she is doing now.

"Heng Er is in her room."

Liu Ruo Qing had not finished speaking when she was suddenly stopped by Yan Yuan. Her heart suddenly trembled as she stared at Yan Yuan's serious face in a daze, her heart racing from nervousness and excitement, "Prince, you said that your son is in Xi Ya's room?"

"Yes."

"But during the day, didn't we sneak in and find nothing?"

"Xi Ya's room might have a secret room."

Yan Yuan replied as he stared at Xi Ya's room, his gaze never moving away from him as he continued: "The Grand Princess Palace used to be the residence of the officials of the previous dynasty, when the previous dynasty moved to the south, the political situation was too chaotic, some officials in order to leave a path for themselves, they would always set up a secret path in the palace, or maybe there are some in the Grand Princess Palace too."

The reason why they did not find any clues in Xi Ya's room during the day was because they did not expect that there would be a secret passage in the Grand Princess's residence.

Why did Xi Ya suddenly kill Duo Ya? Maybe it was because Duo Ya found some clues related to Heng Er in Xi Ya's room.

This time, she lit a candle and secretly touched it in her room, maybe because she wanted to take this opportunity to see Heng Er.

Thinking this way, his eyes became stern, and he said to Liu Ruo Qing with a sidelong glance: "You stay here and guard, I'll go take a look."

With that, without waiting for Liu Ruo Qing to speak, he flew up to the roof of Xi Ya's room.

Lifting up the tile and looking down, the light in Xi Ya's room was already gone. But when the moonlight shone through the hole in the roof, Yan Yuan could still see clearly that Xi Ya was not in her room.

She did not go out from the door, and she was not in her room, which confirmed Yan Yuan's guess, that there was a secret room inside.

After Yan Yuan stayed on the roof for a while, there was finally movement below him. The sound of the stone door opening was heard heavily, following that, Yan Yuan heard a few weak crying children.

It's Heng Er!

A trace of ruthlessness flashed past Yan Yuan's eyes, and he also clenched his fists tightly at this moment.

A moment later, she saw Xi Ya appear in the room while carrying young son. Both his eyes and mouth were tied, so he could only let out a few low whimpering sounds.

Just as Yan Yuan was about to get up to save the person, he heard sounds of fighting coming from the roof.

Looking over, he saw Liu Ruo Qing was fighting with two black clothed men, judging from their movements, even if they were weaker than him, they should be at the same level as him.

Yan Yuan's gaze dimmed. In the next second, he saw Xi Ya running out of the room with young son in his arms, and upon seeing the scene playing out in the courtyard, his face trembled. He turned around and was about to escape.

Seeing that, Yan Yuan could not care about Liu Ruo Qing and leaped down, blocking in front of Xi Ya.

Xi Ya did not know that the person in front of him was Yan Yuan. Seeing that he was covering his face, he tightened the strength in his arms that were holding onto young son, and asked: "Was it Master who called you here?"

Yan Yuan was startled, then he nodded his head without changing his expression.

Seeing Xi Ya laughed coldly, "I told master, even if the child was in his hands, Yan Yuan would not necessarily allow the little guard to exchange with him. To him, the fate of the Easternum is much more important than his son."

In Yan Yuan's grey eyes, there was a trace of cold air. After a moment of silence, he tried to speak: "This is the order of the Senior Magus. Tonight, the child must be taken away by us, if not … "Then you will die!"

Yan Yuan suppressed his voice and spoke. His hoarse voice made Xi Ya not recognize that it was him.

Xi Ya was frightened by the killing intent in his eyes. Although she was Ye Man's disciple, she had not learned much martial arts from Ye Man, other than a few basic Gu techniques, but because her skills had gone berserk due to her incompetence, when she was too angry, she couldn't even control the look in her eyes. When her eyes had turned completely black, she looked like a ghost, which was exactly the same as his master.

When Ye Man was young, because his foundation was not solid, because he was short on quick results, and because he was ambitious, he hurriedly went berserk during the process of training his Gu techniques. What was even more serious was that Ye Man's eyes were already gone, and normally, he looked especially terrifying.