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Xiao Er was surprised for a moment, but quickly calmed down.

Chen Linye, who was at the side, spoke out the words in his heart for him.

Xiao Jingyue did not reply. With a slight movement of his index finger, he flipped open a page.

Chen Linye paused as his thoughts spun. He suddenly revealed an evil smile, "If Mrs. Xiao knew that you wouldn't be tricked by her beauty, would he be angry?"

Xiao Jingyue's forefinger bent slightly, and she raised her head expressionlessly. Her deep gaze focused on the evil smile on Chen Linye's face, and her thin lips softly said one word: "Scram."

Thus, General Chen rolled onto the carriage and acted as the coachman for Xiao San, riding straight towards the capital city.

Qu Ling brought Xiao Yi and Xiao San back to the Heaven City. They did not return to their previous inn and instead, transferred to the city's largest inn, Yun Lai Inn.

Yun Lai Inn was the Mu Rong family's shop, so Qu Ling took the keepsake Murong Yan gave to him and the shopkeeper immediately gave them the two best rooms in the inn.

Xiao San entered Qu Ling's room first, and checked around routinely to see if there were any secret mechanisms or if the doors and windows were firm enough.

Xiao Yi accompanied Qu Ling to the door and looked at the busy Xiao San in the room, and asked softly: "Madam, what do you plan to do next?"

With Murong Yan's help, the room that the shopkeeper had arranged for them was very quiet, the interior of the room was not simple and crude, and they could faintly feel that there were many people whose martial arts were not weak hidden around them. He was safe now, but under the surveillance of others, Xiao Yi had no choice but to lower his voice as he spoke.

Qu Ling lazily leaned on the doorframe and said indifferently: "Just you wait."

He was waiting for Xuman to come knocking on his door.

Xiao Yi lightly nodded and didn't continue asking.

After lunch, Xiao San went out to buy herbs for Qu Ling, while Xiao Yi stayed behind in the tavern.

Qu Ling sat by the side of the table and drank half a pot of tea.

A few days ago, she accidentally discovered that the worry-free lamp that she had picked up as the eye of the formation in the cave had a few small transparent bug eggs hidden in the gaps of its leaves.

The only thing that could complement the Worryfree Lantern was the firefly.

There was a high chance that this bug egg was made from a firefly's blood.

Although he did not know why a worry-free lamp that had not blossomed would be covered with insect eggs, Qu Ling was not willing to let go of these little things, planning to hatch them.

The red firefly that was hatched had been raised since childhood. If it could be used for its own purposes, that would be the best.

Qu Ling was not serious in his studies, but if he was tormenting these little things, it would be endless, to the point of forgetting to eat and sleep.

The door was not closed, so Xiao San came in once. Seeing that she was busy, he did not say much, put down his things, and left.

When it was dinner time, Xiao Yi knocked on the door, bringing Qu Ling, who was currently focused on studying how to hatch a bug, back to the real world.

There were already quite a few people sitting in the hall, and most of them were guests who had stayed in the inn to eat.

Because Murong Yan had previously instructed him, when the shopkeeper saw the object as if it was him, he immediately went up to welcome Qu Ling upon his arrival. He then personally led the person to an empty table, and smiled amiably: "What does Madam want to eat? "Although our dishes are not as many as those in restaurants, they are definitely better than those in restaurants …"

"Mrs. Xiao, we meet again." A familiar female voice came from the right.

Qu Ling turned his head to look, only to see Xu Man sitting at the right side of a table.

Seeing her look over, he raised his teacup to her.

Qu Ling ignored the noisy shopkeeper and walked to the opposite side of Xu Manru and asked with a smile: "Is there anyone sitting here?"

Xu Man put down her teacup and extended her hand. "Mrs. Xiao, please."

The noisy shopkeeper followed along, not sparing any of them and asked, "Is there anything else you would like to add?"

Qu Ling casually ordered two dishes and sent the shopkeeper away, and smilingly asked the woman opposite him: "Lady Xu is also staying in this inn?"

Xu Man nodded, looked behind Qu Ling, and asked: "Why is Mrs. Xiao here, Xiao … Young Master Xiao did not accompany you? "

"He returned to the capital in advance." Qu Ling poured tea for himself and took a sip.

If Xu Man did not ask Qu Ling why he did not follow them back, to her, it would be best if Qu Ling could stay here.

There were too many people around. The two of them did not talk about the Soul Borrowing Gu and just chatted.

Last year in the Murong Villa, the two of them didn't even greet each other and just pretended not to see each other.

Yet today, he was able to sit down and eat while chatting happily.

This was the case with the fickleness of the world.

After eating their fill, Xu Man suddenly asked: "Could Mrs. Xiao speak with me for a bit?"

Qu Ling looked at her, got up and brought her back to his room, then said straightforwardly: "I can remove the poison from your body."

There was nothing in the world that they had gotten for nothing. The two of them were neither family nor friends, so naturally they did not help out of nowhere.

Xu Man asked in a probing tone: "What does Mrs. Xiao want?"

Qu Ling turned around, half of his face had a strange look under the light of the candle.

Her lips moved slightly as she said in a cold voice, "I want your senior brother's life."

Minister of War Mansion. In the dining hall.

When Li Yun returned from the palace, the moment he sat down at the table, he sensed that something was amiss.

He looked at his wife, whose eyes were red and swollen. He looked at his son, who had a cold expression on his right side. He then looked at his daughter-in-law, who was expressionless on the opposite side of the table.

Li Yun frowned, and asked irritably: "What's wrong again?"

His home was supposed to be a safe haven, but now that his daughter-in-law was going to make trouble, he almost didn't dare to return home.

Minister's Wife dismissed all the servants, and after they closed the door, she repeated what Qu Ling had said to Li Yun during the day.

After Li Yun heard this, he lost his appetite.

His heart ached as he looked at his son for a long time. His heart was in pain and he was angry at the same time.

He slammed down on the table and began to vent his anger on his own wife, "If you hadn't given Xuan'er the medicine, he wouldn't have flared up so quickly!"

Minister's Wife knew he had done the wrong thing, and lost his usual arrogance, crying: "The expert only gave Xuan'er the medicine for three months, after three months she will have to return to her previous state, if I want to remove the parasite, I still have to make this choice, what use do you think I have?"

Previously, Li Chenxuan was afraid that her mother would bother with Qu Ling and anger her, so she did not inform them that it was Qu Ling who gave her the medicine. She only said that it was from an expert.

So even to this day, Minister's Wife still thought that the person who gave the medicine to Li Chenxuan was an indeterminate "expert".

Li Yun was choked to the point that he had nothing to say, his face darkened and he did not say another word.

The dining room became terrifyingly quiet in an instant.

As the person in question, Li Chenxuan was calmly eating, and from time to time, he would scoop something into Li Ning'er's bowl.

This morning, after knowing that he wrongly accused Li Ning'er last night, and seeing that Li Ning'er had only managed to recuperate a little and get his body ruined again, no matter how cold and cold-hearted Li Chenxuan was, he couldn't help but feel guilty, and his attitude towards her became even more gentle.

Li Ning'er did not like talking with this family and focused on eating.

She didn't dare to start off with food. Whatever Li Chenxuan gave her, she would eat, even if there were a few that she didn't like.

After a moment of silence, Minister's Wife's gaze fell upon Li Chenxuan and Li Ning'er. "There are risks to solving the mystery of the Soul Borrowing Gu, I see that Mrs. Xiao has some ability, if I were to ask her about any way to prevent Xuan'er from drinking blood for a short period of time, wait until Ning'er is pregnant with her child, then we can discuss about detoxifying the parasite."

Li Yun looked at his son for a long time, then decided: "Let's do it this way."