C17

Xiao Yi should not have disobeyed Xiao Jingyue's orders, but he could not help but believe in Qu Ling's words.

He had yet to get a wife, so it was not worth it to be poisoned to death like this.

But even if he had to disobey his master's orders, he couldn't do it.

After thinking it over, Xiao Yi still chose to be loyal to the general.

After instructing someone to send a message to Xiao Jingyue, who was in the Yun Cavalry Battalion, Xiao Yi immediately left the house to chase after Qu Ling.

The moment Qu Ling stepped into the front hall of the Prime Minister Mansion, he saw Murong Yan, who he hadn't seen for a long time, talking to his grandfather.

Jiang Huo, who went to visit her at the General Mansion, stood at the side and played with bugs. When he saw her enter, he only raised his head to look at her, but there was not a single trace of longing in his eyes.

Qu Ling stared at Jiang Huo, then called out to the Prime Minister Jiang in the main seat: "Grandfather."

Prime Minister Jiang replied softly, he put down his teacup and got up to leave.

When he walked past Qu Ling, he suddenly stopped and asked softly: "What happened to Huo Xinyi?"

"She ate the Crane Head Red, she should have died completely, but someone used a Gu on her to revive her." Qu Ling said honestly, "I guess Huo Xinyi should know something, if not she would not be surprised at all about her own revival."

Huo Xinyi should not have known about this matter, if not when she told him about it yesterday, Huo Xinyi would not have had such a reaction, and would not have sneakily gone to the Minister of War Palace that night.

After thinking about it, Qu Ling asked: "Grandfather, how is your relationship with Minister of War's Li Yun?"

Prime Minister Jiang said, "Not good, not bad."

The civil officials had always been at odds with each other in the imperial court, but the relationship between the two groups of court officials only improved after Qu Ling and Xiao Jingyue got married.

If it was to be said that there was any enmity between Prime Minister Jiang and the both of them, it could not be said that they had a grudge.

Qu Ling understood what the Prime Minister Jiang meant, "Alright, I understand."

Prime Minister Jiang did not ask his granddaughter why she suddenly asked about this. She only said: "A few days ago, Huo Xinyi's matter became known to everyone in the family. Yesterday, the justice court came to ask me and General Xiao, it seems that they wanted to take over the investigation and were stopped by General Xiao."

As the saying goes, a son of heaven offends the common people, not to mention that Qu Ling was just a general wife who didn't even have a title, it was normal for the justice courts to question him.

Qu Ling expressionlessly looked at his grandfather, "What does your grandfather want to express?"

"Damned girl!" Prime Minister Jiang glared at her granddaughter, "This morning, Huo Xinyi was brought here by Caoital Officials to be interrogated. No matter who threw her at the back door of South Wind House or left her there to be planted for you, the matter regarding her has nothing to do with you. You can't get involved with this anymore, you better live with General Xiao properly, and don't wander around everyday, do you hear me!"

Only the devil would want to live a good life with that short-lived pervert! Qu Ling waved his hand perfunctorily, "I understand, I understand. Grandfather, you go and busy yourself."

Prime Minister Jiang was fuming with anger, but he did not linger and gave the place to these few juniors.

Without waiting for Qu Ling to ask, Murong Yan took the initiative and said: "A letter from my family earlier, I returned to the Murong Villa for a few days."

After Qu Ling heard this, he changed his focus and asked: "Have you opened your South Wind House yet?"

"Open this morning." Murong Yan paused, "I heard that Chu Yu was taken away by the General Xiao, do you know where he is being held at?"

Too many things had happened in the past few days that Qu Ling had completely forgotten about Chu Yu. He immediately patted his head and said, "He seems to be locked in the General Mansion, I'll go back and ask."

"Hold on." Murong Yan stopped Qu Ling, "It's not convenient for you to say anything about Chu Yu, so there's no need to concern yourself about it. I'll look for a time tomorrow to go and get more people from General Mansion."

Qu Ling asked suspiciously: "You know Xiao Jingyue?"

Murong Yan laughed lightly, "I don't know. But my brother is sworn brothers with him. "

When she heard this, she gave an 'oh' and did not say anything else.

The current head of the Martial Forest Alliance was from the Murong Villa. The reputation of the Murong Villa in the Martial Forest was quite impressive. Since ancient times, the imperial government had not interfered with each other. Xiao Jingyue was a member of the imperial government, but he never thought that he would actually be associated with people of the martial arts world, and even become sworn brothers with the eldest son of the Murong Villa.

Qu Ling let Jiang Huo see her out the door, and she walked towards the residence alone.

This time, she did not look at the Gu Worm poison in the backyard, but directly went back to her room to rummage through the boxes.

After feeding the Gu Worm and returning from the backyard, Jin Yi heard the sound and looked out, "Miss, is that you?"

"It's me." Qu Ling replied without raising his head, and with a body covered in dust, he pulled out a small, locked box from the secret compartment under the bed.

Jin Yi quickly put down the things in her hands and walked forward to help Qu Ling wipe away the dust on her body. "Miss, do you need to change clothes?"

"I'm not going to trade. Let's do it like this." Qu Ling waved his hand, then took out a key from the bed and placed it inside his sleeve, as he picked up the small case and started walking out, "I'm going back to the General Mansion first. If you have nothing else to do, then go find yourself a husband to do.

Jin Yi's small face reddened. He lowered his head and did not speak any further.

Unlike Qu Ling who was a girl with half Chinese blood in her bones, Jin Yi was a woman with Miao Boundary in her heart.

Most people from the Miao Boundary do not like to be married to outsiders. Qu Ling's mother was an exception, but not everyone from the Miao Boundary would have such an accident.

Qu Ling only casually said that, he did not have any intention of letting Jin Yi find a Chinese man to get married, but Jin Yi thought that it was true and thought that it was true.

When he returned to the General Mansion, Xiao Jingyue was still at the Ranger Camp.

Qu Ling directly carried the small box to the study room, took out the key to open the box, and took out a small booklet.

This booklet was's mother's notes before she died. There was a thick book that recorded both her mood and the affairs around her.

The entire booklet was written in Miao language, Qu Ling had followed his father to learn Chinese knowledge and thus did not know much about Miao language. The words written by his mother in the booklet were even uglier than her own, causing Qu Ling to be unable to understand it even more.

Originally, he wanted to look for any records related to the Gu Worm in Xiao Jingyue's body, but before he could even flip two pages, Qu Ling's head was already lying on the booklet.

When he woke up again, the study was already lit.

It was unknown when Xiao Jingyue had sat down by her side, but he was currently holding onto her obscure booklet that was comparable to a heavenly book.