Chapter 36
After questioning the victim's family, Gu Luoyan took a car and returned to the escort agency with Nianqing and Lian.
As expected, nothing was found.
The family of the deceased knew nothing about it. After complaining and crying for a while, they had nothing else to say.
The clues to the mad ghost incident seemed to have disappeared. Since Master Hongli and his apprentice caught the attacking bat, there had been no more rumors of mad ghosts in the capital for half a month, and no more casualties.
Nian Qing was feeling depressed when the horse driving the carriage suddenly screamed. After a few jolts, the carriage stopped.
Gu Luoyan lifted the curtain and looked out. On the other side of the carriage, the driver ran over and said to Lian, "Captain, the carriage collided with an oncoming vehicle. The front wheels are badly worn and can't move."
Before Lian could speak, a sharp voice rang out from not far ahead: "Who are you, blind man? If you offend this person inside, can you bear the consequences?"
After she finished speaking, a palace maid in formal attire came over. She walked outside the carriage and looked inside with her eyes slanted.
"How many women? Why don't you get off the car and apologize to Her Majesty Princess Zong?" The palace servant shouted and was about to stand on tiptoe to pull away the bone smoke that was sticking out.
Before her nails touched Gu Luoyan's hand, blue lights appeared in Nian Qing's eyes behind her.
Nian Qing said coldly to the palace servant, "Go back."
There was silence for a moment.
The palace maid's eyes became dull, and she turned and walked towards the carriage on the other side.
Gu Luoyan looked at her and frowned.
Nian Qing restrained himself when he saw it, and the blue glow in his eyes disappeared.
The three of them got off the carriage again and looked at the carriage that had collided. They saw seven precious lanterns hanging outside the luxurious glazed carriage, and there were about ten maids accompanying the carriage on both sides.
Even the horses pulling the harness were covered in pearls and jade.
I think the owner of this car must be an extraordinary person.
The palace maid who had lost control stopped for a moment, turned around with confusion and anger, and opened her mouth to curse, but the words came from the luxurious carriage.
"Mammy, be quiet. Princess Zong needs to rest." The personal maid came out and scolded.
The palace maid behaved herself properly, bowed, and retreated to the front of the carriage.
After two breaths, the nobleman sleeping inside seemed to moan for a moment, and the curtain in front of the carriage was lifted, revealing the nobleman inside.
She was supported by the maids and walked out with a swaying step.
He was still muttering, "It's so noisy that it won't let me have a moment of peace."
The woman was about forty or fifty years old, but the jewelry she wore was more exaggerated than anyone Nian Qing had seen in the Hong Kong Coliseum.
As soon as she stepped out, a diligent servant knelt on the ground and served as a footstool for her to get out of the car.
The noble man was helped down to the ground.
Now the beautiful woman had the leisure to look over. Her brows were still relaxed, but when she saw Gu Luoyan, she seemed to be frightened. She jumped up in an instant, bounced away in the next, and the fatigue between her brows disappeared.
She covered her mouth and nose, gasping in surprise, and her appearance frightened the servants around her.
The maid tried to pull her away, but she pushed her away. The old woman tried to help her, but she pushed her to the ground.
The woman almost ran over. She ran in front of Gu Luoyan and looked at him with horror.
Nian Qing raised one arm to protect Gu Luoyan. She stared at the woman in front of her with hostility, wary of the nobleman's next move.
But what he got was a sound of kneeling down.
The plump woman knelt down in front of Gu Luoyan with a thud, and begged for her forgiveness over and over again with a frightened look on her face.
She seemed to be possessed, muttering, "You are so magnanimous, please let me go. It's not me, it's not me... I just did what my brother told me..." Then she even crawled on the ground and knelt at Gu Luoyan's feet, grabbed the hem of her skirt, and knelt on the ground with her forehead, as if begging for forgiveness.
There was a strange silence all around, and everyone was confused. The nobleman's servants rushed over and wanted to help her up, but they were unsure of the identities of the people in front of them.
In the end, it was Gu Luoyan who took action. She helped the woman up, but the woman refused to look at her.
Gu Luoyan asked her the reason, but she didn't answer, only murmured.
Nian Qing leaned over and whispered in Gu Luoyan's ear, "She's having a nightmare. Go back to the car and let me ask her."
Gu Luoyan quickly exchanged glances with Lian, who nodded. Then she approached the noblewoman's servant and said, "My daughter wants to reminisce with your wife. Please lend me your carriage. I'll come back in an hour to pick her up."
"But..." The maid started to argue, but then heard Lian continue, "You don't want your wife's actions today to spread throughout Mingjing, do you? I know her identity. If you truly care about Princess Zong, you should be more cautious. The most urgent thing is to deal with the rumors, silence the witnesses, and stop dealing with me."
The maid's face showed worry, but she finally stopped arguing with Lian. She stepped aside, asked the coachman to get off the carriage, and waited on the side with a group of maids and old women, watching Gu Luoyan and the woman get on the carriage together.
The coachman waved the reins and the carriage set off.
The wheels rolled forward. Inside the carriage, Lian and Gu Luoyan sat on one side. They worked together to restrain the woman and waited for Nian Qing on the opposite side to speak.
The eyes closed, then opened again, revealing the form of a beast, glowing blue.
Although she had seen Nian Qing perform spells several times, and after seeing the fox transform, and after seeing Gu Luoyan and everyone else's explanation, Lian still felt fear when she saw it again.
Monsters are not like humans after all.
The escort agency makes a living by escorting convoys, and encountering evil spirits on the road is a common occurrence every few years.
Encountering a demon often resulted in tragedy, with either death or looting of goods. Escorting a caravan could also end in failure.
Monsters are not like humans after all, they have no emotions.
Thinking of this, Lian couldn't bear it and turned her head to look at Gu Luoyan through the mumbling woman.
She was worried that her journey with the demon wouldn't last long. But Lian couldn't bring herself to say it. What Gu Luoyan was doing was too big and far-reaching, and without the demon, she probably couldn't accomplish it.
——
The fox opposite chuckled, and the moment his pupils dilated, the woman in front of him stopped mumbling.
The fox's ears appeared, and its tail curled into a circle and wrapped around the nobleman's wrist.
Nian Qing asked her, "What are you afraid of?"
The woman in front of him paused for a moment, then opened her mouth again and said word by word, "I'm afraid that the girl will come to seek revenge, and I'm afraid my brother will kill me to silence me."
Nian Qing narrowed his eyes and asked again, "Who is that girl you're talking about? What have you done to be so afraid of her?"
The woman's face showed pain and fear, but her voice remained icy as she answered word for word, "Ten years ago, at my brother's request, I sent that girl to the Red Pavilion as a concubine. Her father was the Left Prime Minister, and her mother was General Ceci."
"She is the daughter of General Sisi and the Left Prime Minister."
Gu Luoyan's breathing slowed down. She didn't say anything, but just grabbed the woman's hand and squeezed it tighter.
Nian Qing noticed this detail, so she asked specifically, "Where are the General Saisi and the Left Prime Minister you mentioned?"
The woman's mouth twisted, her body trembling. She said, "They're all dead."
"Why did you die?"
"He was sentenced to death by the Emperor for treason. The Left Prime Minister's residence was raided by my brother, and he was beheaded at the city gate. General Saisi was attacked by both enemy forces and civil unrest, and never made it back to the capital."
Nian Qing fell silent. The tail wrapped around the woman's wrist moved like a snake, going further inside her arm.
She suddenly asked, "Are they really guilty?"
Tears streamed down the woman's hollow eyes as she spoke word by word: "No, I was framed by my brother."
"Why do you want to frame me!" Nian Qing raised his voice.
"Because the emperor doesn't want them to live..."
"The left-wing prime minister is upright and has risen to power, which is the first threat. General Sisi is brave and fearless, and has won the support of the people, which is the second threat."
The woman began to sob, her voice softening as she spoke to Nian Qing, "My brother simply became the emperor's sword. What wrong has he done? The emperor is wrong! The emperor is wrong!"
"Shh..." Nian Qing raised a finger and looked at the woman, seeing her sobbing gradually stop.
Nian Qing finally asked, "Who is your brother?"
The woman who had just been crying smiled, her voice still icy cold: "My brother was the Right Prime Minister of the current dynasty. After the Left Prime Minister died, he was granted the title of Duke, named Qian Qiuxue. My brother is the best brother in the world! It is thanks to my brother that I can become the Princess of the Qibao Clan. It is true that my name and my life can bring blessings to my brother..."
Her face, which had been smiling just now, suddenly deflated, becoming distorted and sad: "But why didn't my brother take my brother Pan with him when he became immortal... Why didn't he take me with him when he became immortal..."
The controlled person's eyes began to shake, and her two hands were about to break through the restraints of Gu Luoyan and Lian and grab her own face.
She began to talk in her sleep again, shouting over and over again: "Sure enough, my brother is going to kill my brother Pan...Sure enough, my brother is going to kill my brother Pan!"
The tail wrapped around the woman's arm quickly retracted, and the blue glow in Nian Qing's eyes widened even further. She shouted at Gu Luoyan, "It's getting out of control! I tried to remove the nightmare from her heart, but failed. She's obsessed with too much, and there's no way to change it. Tell the driver to turn around and take her back!"
Nian Qing's eyes began to turn pale, then turned into a deep darkness. Her pupils gradually expanded, eventually covering the whites of her eyes.
The moment you start to lose your mind, there is no turning back.
"I want your mind to fall asleep, burying everything in your heart, and never wake up again."
The moment she finished speaking, the woman raised her head and completely broke free from the restraints of the two men on her left and right.
She screamed, swallowing the words she hadn't spoken in pain.
Yes, eat it.
Those words seemed to take shape, and she chewed and swallowed them one by one while screaming.
Soon, she quieted down and began to chew her fingers stupidly.
Her mind died along with the fear in her heart, she became crazy and left with her life.
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When people met Brother Qian Pan again on East Street, it was already half an hour later.
When the personal maid saw the noble lady acting like a fool, she was about to explode.
But the person who came out of the car made her shut up.
The fear lasted only a brief moment, and was followed by silence and numbness.
Nian Qing's pair of black eyes did not show any signs of normalcy, and he still maintained the technique of losing his mind.
She looked at the servants and everything fell silent.
Nian Qing said, "Go ahead. Today will be torn from your memories. You will no longer remember us. Everything will be back to normal."
A group of servants supported Brother Qian Pan and the Princess of Qibao Sect as they left.
Lian glanced around and luckily the maid listened to her and gave money to the people around her, or threatened them, and the situation was cleared.
No one around saw the monster casting the spell, as if everything was just as she said, normal as usual.
Lian shuddered in her heart again.
She pretended to look around, but she didn't dare to look at Nian Qing.
Yu thought to himself that she was a demon, not a human.
After putting away the magic, Zong Ji and her group left.
Nian Qing took Gu Luoyan's hand, which had grown cold at some point, and covered it with both of hers to warm her up. She asked, "What are your plans next?"
Gu Luoyan covered Nian Qing with her other hand, and the touch was as cold as the hand she was holding.
She was silent for a moment, then said, "I'm remembering some past events. My mother had a very good relationship with the General of Saibei. I think I should go to the northern border."
Nian Qing looked at her, kept looking at her, and finally just covered Gu Luoyan's hand with his hands tighter. Nian Qing said softly: "No matter where you go, I will go with you."
"Gu Luoyan, I'm sorry."
"Why do you want to apologize?" Gu Luoyan looked at the people around him.
"What I induced that person to say today is your pain, right?" Nian Qing lifted Gu Luoyan's hand, opened a gap in his covering palm, and blew hot air into it.
"Li Shisan once told me what pain is."
She suddenly opened her arms to Gu Luoyan and said to him, "You always hugged me before. Now, you should lean on me more."
"It's my turn to hold you."
Nian Qing moved closer to Gu Luoyan and hugged her tightly.
She learned what she had learned from Gu Luoyan and tried to melt Gu Luoyan into her embrace.
Once again, the fox gained a deeper understanding of love and human emotions.
She said to Gu Luoyan:
"Gu Luoyan, I won't tell you not to cry again. You can cry this time. Maybe crying will make you feel better."
"I'm very reliable, Gu Luoyan. It doesn't matter. I'll be here no matter what."
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