Nangong Yuan listened intently to the conversation between Ye Yi and Han Yiyi in the hall, thinking about how this woman had taken care of him these past few days. Although she sometimes seemed quite disgusted on the surface, she actually treated him like her own son—ah! Bah… like family.
Han Yi looked at Ye Yi, who had finished a large bowl of noodles, two eggs, and all the leftovers. Her expression was hard to describe. She thought to herself, "His appetite is even greater than that of my silly son."
However, seeing that he still looked like he hadn't had enough, he still politely asked.
"Um, should I cook some more...?"
After finishing the last sip of soup at the bottom of the bowl, Ye Yi licked his lips before replying.
"Thank you for your trouble, young lady, but it's not necessary. I'm afraid I won't be able to fall asleep if I eat too much tonight..."
Han Yiyi: ...
Nangong Yuan remained silent until the light in Han Yiyi's room went out, then quietly got up and slipped into the guest room.
Zicheng's room and the guest room were originally connected. Now that he had slipped into the guest room, Han Yiyi didn't notice. However, given Nangong Yuan's skills, it would probably be quite difficult for Han Yiyi to find out.
However, Ye Yi noticed the person who had flashed in immediately and quickly bowed.
"Your subordinate greets the General..."
As for Ye Er, he was still unconscious in bed. Just now, Ye Yi saw that he was not injured, so he slapped him twice. There were still two red handprints on his face, but he still did not wake up.
Nangong Yuan glanced at Ye Yi kneeling on the ground, then at Ye Er on the bed.
His brow furrowed slightly. "Get up. Where are the others?"
Upon hearing Nangong Yuan's question, a look of pain flashed across Ye Yi's eyes.
"Reporting to the general, they, they have all sacrificed themselves..."
Upon hearing Ye Yi's words, Nangong Yuan's eyes turned icy cold, as if a layer of frost had instantly formed in them.
"Where is the body?"
"My subordinates and Ye Er buried them together at the foot of Shaoyang Mountain..."
Shaoyang Mountain should be considered the middle point between Kyoto and Heian Town. If you go north from Yanlang City back to Kyoto, you will reach Heian Town in the opposite direction.
After Nangong Yuan and his men fought Dongli and drove them beyond the border, they received an urgent imperial edict. However, the edict did not explain the reason. After checking the edict, they found that it was not forged, and then they set off.
Nangong Yuan was worried that the Dongli people would retaliate, so he did not withdraw the border generals and they remained stationed in Yanlang City.
Therefore, when he left Yanlang City, he only took his ten shadow guards with him. However, as soon as they left Yanlang City and arrived at the foot of Shaoyang Mountain, they were ambushed by a group of more than a thousand people, with no less than a hundred of them targeting Nangong Yuan, and each of them was highly skilled in martial arts.
What's even stranger is that those lying in ambush seemed to know that they would appear at that time and place.
Because of the enemy's large numbers, they were scattered, which is why Nangong Yuan was chased all the way to Ping'an Town by those who were lying in ambush.
Thinking of this, Nangong Yuan's eyes turned icy cold. This ambush must have been orchestrated by the Beichen people in collusion with the Dongli people, otherwise so many people wouldn't have ambushed them on their only route, especially at that time.
But he could confirm that the edict was indeed written by the emperor himself. If that was the case, then where did the problem lie? Thinking of the person sitting on the throne, and the bond they had formed as children, Nangong Yuan's eyes were filled with complex emotions.
He couldn't be sure whether he had believed the rumors circulating in the streets that he was too powerful for the emperor, or whether there was something unusual happening in the palace that was causing him to be coerced.
Nangong Yuan glanced at Ye Er, who was still unconscious, and couldn't help but ask, "Is Ye Er injured...?" However, thinking of the kick Ye Er had given him earlier, he didn't seem to be injured, so he frowned.
Upon hearing Nangong Yuan's question, Ye Yi turned to look at the person on the bed and slapped him again. Seeing that he still did not react, Ye Yi was also puzzled.
"He wasn't injured. It's just that when you fainted, he rushed over to check on you in a panic, and then, somehow, he suddenly collapsed to the ground..."
"However, I did see that before he fainted, that general's mother, no, that girl, seemed to touch Ye Er. But, I don't think that girl knows any martial arts. Could it be some kind of hidden silver needle weapon..."
As he spoke, Ye Yi remembered that after he subdued the man in black, the girl seemed to be holding something in her hand and pointing it at him. Thinking of this, Ye Yi carefully searched Ye Er's body again, but found nothing, and couldn't help but frown.
Upon hearing Ye Yi's words, Nangong Yuan suddenly remembered that when Han Yiyi had just rescued him, he mistook her for a Dongli person and had even taken her hostage. At that time, he felt as if he had grabbed her neck, and then he suddenly felt pain and numbness all over his body, and then he lost consciousness. When he woke up again, he had become mentally impaired.
If Han Yiyi knew that Nangong Yuan was thinking this way, she would definitely cry out that she was wronged. Whether he was stupid or not, it had nothing to do with her stun gun, and she would not take the blame for it.
However, Nangong Yuan would never admit that he had to get up to relieve himself because he needed to, but his limbs wouldn't obey him, and he fell off the bed, hitting his head and becoming mentally impaired.
Nangong Yuan stepped forward to check Ye Er's pulse again. Seeing that Ye Er had simply fainted, he paid no further attention to him. Seeing Ye Yi's exhausted face, he told him to rest first and that they could discuss the rest tomorrow.
As for the man in black, Ye had brought him in when he returned to his room earlier. It wasn't because he was afraid the man would freeze to death outside, but because he wanted to bring him in to question him about who was behind him.
In fact, when Ye Yi fought with the man in black, he already knew that the man in black's fighting style was not the same as the group of people who had ambushed them before. He just didn't know if the mastermind behind it was the same person.
Nangong Yuan told Ye Yi and the others to rest, while he carried the man in black back to his room.
After returning to his room, Nangong Yuan first checked the man in black's face to see if he had a human skin mask. Then he pressed acupoints on the man's body to wake him up.
When they fought just now, Nangong Yuan realized that this person was not after him, but wanted to kill that woman.
If he hadn't tried so hard to stop him, he wouldn't have wanted to kill him. But Nangong Yuan couldn't understand who would kill a woman, especially one with two children.
For some reason, Nangong Yuan didn't want to describe Han Yiyi as a woman.
In Nangong Yuan's memory, Han Yiyi was kind-hearted and cheerful, not a bad person. Apart from her ex-husband, she didn't seem to have any conflicts with anyone.
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