"Don't be afraid, those killers outside are all dead."
His voice was soft and gentle, trying his best not to scare her. He saw that Liu Ruo Qing had raised her eyes and looked at her, her pale lips quivering with fear and uneasiness.
"I... I pulled the man's intestines out. "
It took her a lot of effort to force herself to face it, and she remembered the scene.
She wanted to drink the blood from the corpses on the ground, the way she looked so hungry, like a drug addict who'd just gotten addicted and seen drugs again.
That black-clothed man wanted to sneak attack her from behind. She didn't know what was going on with her, so she punched his abdomen, pulling out all of his intestines.
When she thought back to it now, she could not help but feel nauseous.
Yan Yuan frowned, he frowned, but did not know how he should console her. He only held her tightly, wanting to let her feel at ease.
Liu Ruo Qing quietly leaned in Yan Yuan's embrace, her eyes extremely sore. Was everything really over?
Why did she think the nightmare had only just begun?
"Good girl, your hands are clean. Have a good night's sleep. Nothing will happen tomorrow."
Yan Yuan bent over and lightly kissed her forehead. He got up and brought her hot water, helped her wash her hands clean, and helped her change his outer clothes before lying down with her.
Pulling her into his embrace, feeling her iciness, Yan Yuan's brows tightened even more.
What happened tonight would probably make her brooding over it.
However, he had to get to the bottom of this matter.
"Don't worry, go to sleep. I have everything."
He whispered in her ear as he held her in his arms.
Liu Ruo Qing nodded, she did not want Yan Yuan to worry about her, but the moment she closed her eyes, she could still see that terrifying scene, making it impossible for her to fall asleep. She did not know how much time had passed before she slowly fell asleep in Yan Yuan's embrace.
But at this moment, Yan Yuan was not the least bit sleepy. Looking at the person in his arms who was breathing weakly, Yan Yuan's heart hurt even more.
He thought that everything was over, but unexpectedly, Qing Er's ordeal had not stopped.
The next morning, Liu Ruo Qing was woken up from her dreams. When she opened her eyes, the man whose stomach she had stabbed with her bare hands, who even had her internal organs torn out, was still shaking in her dreams, causing her to wake up from shock.
She felt her heart thumping hard, and her body was still trembling violently. At this time, Yan Yuan's voice came from beside her ear, "You're awake?"
These two simple words seemed to carry a mysterious power, causing Liu Ruo Qing's initially frantic heart to instantly calm down.
When she turned around in Yan Yuan's arms and looked at his face, she saw that under his eyes, there was still a slight bruise and a large amount of red blood stains. She frowned and asked: "Did you not sleep all night?"
Yan Yuan was startled, then, he smiled and shook his head: "I slept, but I woke up earlier than you."
In reality, he had indeed not slept the entire night. Thinking about Liu Ruo Qing's appearance at that time, and her fear and hesitation due to what had happened to him, he was unable to sleep.
Liu Ruo Qing looked at him with suspicion, but did not pursue the topic. She sat up from his embrace, purposely not thinking about what happened last night, and instead asked about another matter, "Did you solve the problem with Zhu Yi Dou and the others?"
She knew that Yan Yuan going to the banquet with Zhu Yi Dou wasn't as simple as going to the banquet.
There was no need to delay the Yizhou's disaster relief operation any longer. They had more important matters to attend to.
Sure enough, hearing Liu Ruo Qing's question, Yan Yuan nodded his head, "They are not worried at all, right now, we have more important things to do."
Liu Ruo Qing nodded her head, she knew what Yan Yuan was talking about, the water calamity in Yizhou was controlled by humans, according to the news that she was hiding an army, it was not good news.
The Yizhou's water was deeper than they had imagined.
Yan Yuan did not continue to discuss this with her, he hoped that she would relax a little. If possible, he wanted her to return to the capital right now, but the assassins last night told him that the people from the Yizhou had their eyes on her. Their goal was to use her to threaten him.
Right now, it wasn't safe to send her back to the capital, so he might as well let her stay by his side. At the very least, he could relax a little under his watch.
"That's right, Second Brother came to look for me yesterday. Today, we will stay in the King Carefree Palace."
"Second Brother came to find you?"
Liu Ruo Qing turned around and looked at him. She didn't know why, but she felt that this Second Brother, whom she had never met before, was really weird. However, she didn't mention this kind of thought to Yan Yuan.
"Yes, King Carefree Palace is much better than the county magistrate's. Those assassins wouldn't dare to recklessly enter the King Carefree Palace to assassinate them."
This was only one aspect, but Yan Yuan had another aspect to consider in his heart. This was only his suspicion, so he did not say it explicitly to Liu Ruo Qing to prevent her from worrying.
Regarding the water calamity in the Yizhou, it was temporarily put to rest. Regarding the construction of the disaster area, Yan Yuan had already ordered some people to arrange it.
King Carefree Palace —
"Second brother, second sister."
Yan Yuan brought Liu Ruo Qing forward, and gave the King Carefree couple a simple bow.
King Carefree's Consort seemed to be very happy to see Yan Yuan and his wife, from start to finish, her face carried a shallow yet undisguised happy smile.
Furthermore, the King Carefree Concubine was famous for being beautiful when he was young. Even though he was old now, the shadow of his beauty when he was young was still there.
Although it was his first time seeing her, Liu Ruo Qing liked her a lot.
Xue's sized Liu Ruo Qing up from head to toe, then laughed and turned to Yan Yuan, and said: "The last time I saw you, you were only a teenager, now you are already married and become my father."
Yan Yuan pursed his lips and laughed, his face carrying a trace of gentleness, "Second brother and second sister are both grandparents now, this is what makes people jealous."
Yan Yuan and his brother had grown up a little, so when they were very young, they were already married. The two sister-in-law had treated him very well, thus he revealed a rare gentle face towards his second sister, whom he had not seen for a long time.
"Kid, you're even making fun of us."
King Carefree spat at him in annoyance, but the smile on his face did not diminish, as if he was a happy big brother that had not seen his little brother for a long time.
At this time, the son of the King Carefree, Yan Zhiyuan, came over with his son, Crown Princess.
Seeing Yan Yuan and his wife, he hurriedly went forward to welcome them, "My nephew greets Ninth Imperial Uncle, greets Ninth Aunt. My nephew left the city with his wife and children yesterday, I didn't know that Imperial Uncle would come to visit, I hope that Imperial Uncle can forgive me."