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That year, when Qu Ling followed Prime Minister Jiang back to the capital, his maternal grandma had stuffed her with many books related to Miao Boundary and Lich Gu techniques.

The Prime Minister Jiang was not willing to let her granddaughter learn those evil tricks, so she kept all the books in her study, refusing to let Qu Ling touch them no matter what.

Qu Ling went to find these books on the way back to the Prime Minister Mansion.

Seeing her granddaughter suddenly return, Prime Minister Jiang was startled, "Why are you back?"

Qu Ling personally poured a cup of warm tea and carried it to Prime Minister Jiang. With a face full of a fawning smile, he said: "I missed Grandfather, so I naturally came back."

He received the cup of warm tea and drank it. He was happy in his heart, but he did not reveal it on the surface, and spoke coldly without lifting his head, "If you have something to say, hurry up and say it. If there's nothing else, go back to the General Mansion."

Qu Ling looked left and right, not daring to look at Prime Minister Jiang, and casually said: "Actually it's not really anything major, I just want to visit your study room."

Prime Minister Jiang was about to drink the second mouthful of tea when he heard this and stopped in his tracks.

After a while, he drank his tea as if nothing had happened, and slowly said under Qu Ling's anxious gaze: "Remember to put it back after reading it."

"Thank you, Grandpa!" Qu Ling was overwhelmed by the favor, and was afraid that his grandfather would go back on his words.

Prime Minister Jiang looked at his granddaughter's back and felt angry and amused at the same time.

Before Qu Ling entered the study room, he suddenly thought of something and called Xiao Yi out, "Go back and tell Xiao Jingyue that I'll stay here at Prime Minister Mansion tonight and won't be going back."

Xiao Yi accepted the order and silently left.

Within the general's study.

After Xiao Jingyue heard Xiao Yi's words, an indescribable rage started to rise in his heart. He threw down the letter that he was holding in his hand from the Southern Guarding Prince Palace and walked out without saying a word.

Murong Shan watched his back, so angry that he almost crushed the teacup in his hand.

Qu Ling was not someone who could afford to read books. After flipping through two pages, before he could understand the meaning behind them, he started to feel drowsy.

During this time, Prime Minister Jiang had people bring tea and snacks over, when Qu Ling was tired, he immediately poured tea into his mouth, but he was no longer sleepy, instead, he was anxious inside.

Qu Ling went to the toilet and when he returned, he suddenly saw another person in the study room. He was shocked and asked, "Why are you here again?"

When she saw him, she remembered that both of them had slept in the study last night. She couldn't help but feel awkward.

Xiao Jingyue did not think as much as she did, and upon seeing the bashful look on the woman's face, he frowned in displeasure.

It's fine if he doesn't want to live with me, but now he doesn't even want to see me anymore?

He put down the book in his hand that she had turned over and coldly said, "Do you really not wish to see this general?"

Qu Ling was so scared that his entire body started to tremble. He hurriedly changed the topic, "Does my grandfather know that you're here?"

Xiao Jingyue restrained his anger and said: "I know."

She winced and said no more.

After that, without saying anything, the two of them went through each of the boxes of books which faintly emitted a musty smell.

Not even an hour had passed before he started to feel drowsy again. He put down the book and started finding words to calm himself down, "What are you looking at? Do you know what I'm looking for?"

He calmly replied, "I don't know."

"Then can you understand it?"

He continued to calmly reply, "I don't understand."

"…"

She found it tiresome to talk to this short-lived pervert, and in a few sentences she was on fire, and her drowsiness was gone in an instant.

Qu Ling took a deep breath, then decided to not look at him anymore.

The time spent reading was boring and long to her, but time passed little by little without her even realizing it.

Prime Minister Jiang more or less knew that the two were busy and did not call them over for lunch. Instead, he had them bring the dishes over to the study room.

The moment he smelt the fragrance of the food, Qu Ling immediately threw the book in his hand over and started eating.

On the other hand, Xiao Jingyue calmly sat there. After reading the page he was currently reading, he got up, walked to the seat opposite of her and sat down.

Qu Ling swallowed the food in his mouth, and glanced at him: "You have nothing to do?"

"Yes."

"Hmm?"

"With Madam."

"…"

Qu Ling's face stiffened as he swallowed down the words "I don't need you to accompany me" with great effort. He gave a fake smile and said, "There are guests at the residence, General should go back and receive them."

Xiao Jingyue's eyes darkened slightly as she said coldly, "You won't say anything!"

Qu Ling, "..."

If you don't speak, then don't speak.

She quickly finished the bowl of rice and returned to her original position. With a bitter face, she continued to flip through the book.

With regards to the parasite in Huo Xinyi's body, she already had some idea of it. She had come to check the books this time to confirm whether it was the parasite she had guessed or not.

It was just that with so many books, it was extremely difficult to find one.

On the other side, Xiao Jingyue finished his lunch and also continued to flip through the books.

Qu Ling glanced at him from time to time, seeing that he was looking at her seriously, he couldn't help but suspect, was Miao Wen pretending to understand him, or was he trying to trick her because he understood Miao Wen?

Based on what he had learned from the days he had spent with him, it was possible for either of them to be true.

Xiao Jingyue suddenly raised his head from his book and asked with a smile that was not a smile: "Did it look good?"

Qu Ling laughed dryly: "Not bad right?"

He lowered his eyes to hide the smile in his eyes. "Then Madame should continue."

"…"

She really couldn't continue like this. Throwing the book in her hand, she jumped off the stool and ran out. Without looking back, she shouted, "I'm going to pee!"

Xiao Jingyue's hands trembled, and almost tore the page in his hands apart.

He looked at Qu Ling's voice, and all sorts of feelings welled up within him. There were so many girls in the world, and just what kind of evil did he fall for to actually fall for such a vile thing?

After Qu Ling returned to the latrine, he did not return to the study immediately, but instead went back to his own courtyard.

When he came out again, he had a bulging bag in his hands.

When Prime Minister Jiang walked past her, he casually asked: "What are you holding in your hand?"

She answered truthfully, "I've nurtured a few years of Gu, some of the medicines I've made, and a few poisonous substances in the Hundred Insects Pool."

Prime Minister Jiang heard this and felt a chill from the bottom of his heart. Resisting the urge to flick his sleeves and leave, he asked with an ashen face, "Why did you take these things out?"

"I'm going to go to the Miao Boundary with Xiao Jingyue in a few days, it might be useful with these things." Qu Ling paused, and suddenly looked at his grandfather with wide eyes, "I'm going back to see my grandmother, what good things do you have for me to bring? "I remember grandma likes golden things the most. If you had …"

Without waiting for Qu Ling to finish speaking, Prime Minister Jiang angrily cursed "wastrel" and mercilessly chased her away.

Returning back to the study room, she couldn't help but complain to Xiao Jingyue: "My grandfather is too stingy."

Then he told him what had happened.

Xiao Jingyue lightly tapped the page with his index finger, and did not deny it.

Qu Ling rolled his eyes and suddenly asked: "When you see my grandma, do you want to give her something?"

Xiao Jingyue moved a little, and when he raised his eyes to look at Qu Ling once again, his eyes seemed to be covered with ink, it was so deep that one could not see the bottom of it.

The originally relaxed atmosphere in the study suddenly changed.