The Fourth Lady novel Chapter 148

Qingyan at this time suddenly recalled Jiang Mengrou's matter that Murong Jingxuan mentioned previously. She turned her gaze towards the serious looking Yaochi standing behind her, "Yaochi, you go and investigate the Su manor's Jiang Mengrou. I want to know what kind of past she has with my daddy."

"Jiang Mengrou?" Yaochi look to Qingyan, who was standing in front of the window, "Could it be...." Yaochi in the end didn't say the suspicions in his heart out loud.

He faintly felt that the Su Qingyan before him really seemed to have become different from the previous incarnation's Qilian Qingyan. This time, Su Qingyan seems to carry a vicious determination that the previous incarnation didn't have. So much so that there even a trace of cruel ruthlessness.

If put in the past, how could she possibly go kill someone in that kind of situation, to directly go take a life. She originally was a gentle woman, who couldn't even bear killing an ant, but in the end she ended with that kind of ending.

"That's right." Qingyan turned her head around to look at Yaochi with a serious expression, "Perhaps she's the one that poisoned me." Qingyan said as she tightly clenched her fist. "So I must know what kind of past exist between Jiang Mengrou and daddy."

"This subordinate understands. I'll go take care of it right away." Yaochi said as he flew out from the window.

Seeing Yaochi's figure leaving, Qingyan's voice faintly sounded, "Fengqing, return to Shizi's side, I have Yaochi and the others to protect me here."

In the next moment, Fengqing appeared before Su Qingyan; he looked to Qingyan with a confused expression and asked, "Master, we're all killers who lack human nature, but why is master able to treat us so open-heartedly."

Fengqing had already been following by Qingyan's side for some time now, so Qingyan's personality he was still very clear about. A seemingly cruel and heartless woman like this yet treated the people by her side with such kindness. So much so that she was able to even take all aspects into consideration for them.

"His Highness, Shizi, doesn't treat you all well?" Qingyan looked to Fengqing and calmly spoke.

"Naturally, no. His Highness treats us also like his own kin." Fengqing looked to Qingyan and replied in seriousness.

"Right. Only a master who can understand others, can have a large number of people following after them. Something that clearly doesn't need to be settled by force, why use force to settle it?" Qingyan said as she lifted up the teacup on the table and slowly began drinking it. "Go back, Shizi's side probably also needs you very much."

Fengqing looked to Qingyan, who was carrying a gentle and warm smile on her face, and nodded at her, "This subordinate understands."

After Fengqing returned to Shizi's manor, he told everything that happened to Murong Jingxuan.

When he heard those words, his lips couldn't help curving into a smile. At least that girl still had in him in her heart.

"Master, Miss Su inherited the Thousand Beast Pavilion just like that. It might not be a good thing for her." Fengluo didn't understand what happened, but hearing Fengqing saying this, he still was a bit worried for Su Qingyan's safety.

"Fengluo, Yan'er's matter you don't need to worry about for now. You also go investigate that Jiang-shi's* matter. I feel the matter this time isn't that simple." Murong Jingxuan looked to Fengluo and spoke in a heavy tone, "Although we have looked into that Jiang-shi's matter previously, but it wasn't really the case."

(*T/N: I've clarified it before but in case it has been too long, 'shi' endings when paired with a suranme roughly translates to 'from clan of' or 'is of surname...')

"This subordinate understands." Fengluo said and disappeared before Murong Jingxuan.

"Master, this subordinate thinks that Shizi Consort probably wants to make a move herself this time." Fengqing looked to Murong Jingxuan with a serious expression.

Murong Jingxuan looked to Fengqing while playing with the teacup in his hand. "How could I not know this? It's just, for some matters, it's still better to have an understanding of. After all, Beilin and Xiyue* are all beginning to stir."

(*T/N: The names of the other two countries aside from Donghe and Nanchen.)

"Master, this subordinate is a bit confused." Fengqing looked to Murong Jingxuan and still decided to ask the questions he's suppressed in his heart for a long time.