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Qin Yousi blocked the flowing light behind him, stepped forward and politely bowed to Xia Lieyun, saying, "Liuquan Temple Heyue greets Sect Master Xia."
Xia Lieyun didn't even bother to look at Qin Yousi for an unknown girl in the Taoist temple. He just said to Liuguang fiercely, "Do you want me to do it myself?"
Qin Yousi took another step forward and said with a smile, "Master Xia, please don't scare the young lady. It was actually me who issued the challenge. I have something important to discuss with you."
"You?" Xia Lieyun glanced at the little girl in front of him and snorted coldly, "Who the hell are you?"
The rage in his heart grew stronger and stronger, and he cursed the older generation of the Oujiang Boat Gang in his mind. They were a bunch of useless things, and they actually allowed two girls to make trouble. They really didn't take the Nine Sects seriously!
Seeing that his grip on the broadsword was getting tighter and tighter, Qin Yousi didn't want to cause any more accidents that might hurt Liuguang or himself, so he quickly added, "It's about Master Xia's son."
Just half a sentence made Xia Lieyun's forehead hot, and his neck and face turned red, which showed how excited he was.
"What did you say?" He picked up Qin Yousi, and her thin body swayed in the air like an autumn leaf.
Seeing this, Liuguang quickly drew his soft sword from his waist and stabbed it towards Xia Lieyun's neck, shouting, "Let her go!"
Xia Lieyun dodged Liuguang's quick sword and flew away without saying a word, picking up Qin Yousi.
Liuguang chased for a while and lost the man, but when he saw the secret signal left by Guwu, he felt relieved. He ordered people to dispatch experts from the gang to help, and sent people to deliver letters everywhere.
Qin Yousi was taken directly to the post station outside Yangcheng by Xia Lieyun. Nearly thirty masters from the nine sects came with their sect leader, and the post station was packed inside and out.
Only when everything was under his control did Xia Lieyun let go of Qin Yousi and said in a tone that was as non-urgent as possible: "Since you have something to discuss with me, I will give you this opportunity. Go ahead."
Qin Yousi shook his head and chuckled, straightened his clothes, picked up the teapot on the table and said, "Master, you scared me. Let me have some tea to calm my nerves."
Xia Lieyun slammed the table hard, and was about to explode, but he held himself back.
Qin Yousi drank half a cup of warm tea and finally spoke, "From what I know, Sect Master Xia has twin brothers. You were strong and robust since childhood, but he was weak and sickly. He was sent to study medicine at a young age. Later, when the Nine Nether Sect underwent a major change, you took the opportunity to claim that he died of illness and premature death, but in fact, you two brothers always kept in touch through letters. Second Master Xia had a son, the only descendant of your Xia family. Although you knew of this child's existence, you had never seen him. Later, Second Master Xia died, and you could neither find the cause of his death nor the child. This matter troubled Sect Master Xia for ten or twenty years, is it true?"
This happened many years ago. Xia Lieyun saw that the girl in front of him was not very old and was probably not even born when these things happened, so he thought she was delivering a message for someone.
"Do you have any news about the child? Ask your parents to come and talk to me!"
Qin Yousi laughed out loud: "My master was seriously injured by you and couldn't come! And my master didn't know about these things, so he had to ask Sect Master Xia to talk to me, a junior."
Xia Lieyun finally understood the whole story and said, "So you are Taoist Xiwei's disciple. If you help me find the child, I will spare the lives of you and me."
Qin Yousi shook his head and said, "I want more than this."
Xia Lieyun slammed his fist on the table and shouted, "Don't think you can fool me by saying a few ambiguous words. I promised to spare your lives, which means I have already given you a chance!"
Qin Yousi was not in a hurry at all. He quickly glanced at Xia Lieyun's lower garment and stopped talking.
Previously, Qin Yousi said that the child was "the only descendant of the Xia family", and Xia Lieyun did not think about it too much. But after the little girl glanced at him, this middle-aged man in his fifties blushed like a fool!
This damn girl even knew that he was infertile!
For a moment, he couldn't say anything!
The martial arts that Xia Lieyun practiced were extremely advanced. In order to achieve quick success, he over-nourished himself when he was young. At that time, he felt that his martial arts practice was as if he were assisted by God, but after he got married, he found that he was completely unable to reproduce.
Over the years, he changed several wives until he married Ke Xian'er. Ke Xian'er was willing to help him conceal the matter and secretly adopted a child from outside, and then the matter was quiet for a few years.
But how can an adopted child compare to a biological nephew who has the blood of the Xia family?
Therefore, over the years, he never gave up looking for his second brother's son.
After holding it in for a long time, he finally spoke and asked, "What do you want?"
Qin Yousi took the initiative and said, "If you want to know the cause of your brother's death and the whereabouts of your nephew, you need to do two things. First, stop causing trouble for my master. Second, use Ke Xian'er's life in exchange!"
"How dare you!" Xia Lieyun was so angry that he smashed the table with a palm. He felt that the woman in front of him was so bold that she even dared to tell him to kill his wife to her face!
Qin Yousi squinted at him and sneered, "Insolent? Who is insolent? My master has no grudge against you. Just to get information from the Supervisory Office, you poisoned her and ruined her lifelong cultivation! I will never tell you a word until I avenge you! If you don't believe me, just kill me and see if there is anyone else in this world who knows! You don't have to think about interrogating me. If you dare to touch a hair on my head, I guarantee that your nephew will die!"
"you!"
After searching for decades, Xia Lieyun really found nothing. When he thought about the woman in front of him who had described everything about the two brothers from birth to death, he did not dare to be careless.
Qin Yousi stood up and walked straight out, but Xia Lieyun's broadsword immediately blocked his way.
Qin Yousi knocked on the blade of his sword and said, "If you don't let me go, my people will think something bad has happened to me, which will harm your nephew. Are you really not going to let me go? When the Sect Master has figured it out, bring Ke Xian'er's head to Liuquan Temple to apologize. I will definitely get the information you want."
After saying that, he walked around Broadsword and headed towards the door. This time, Xia Lieyun and the people from the Nine Sects did not stop him.
Gu Wu was lurking outside the post station, listening carefully to the movements inside, but he never heard the distress signal that he and Qin Yousi had agreed upon. It was not until he saw her come out safely that he breathed a sigh of relief and hurried to meet her.
"Girl, you put yourself in danger. Don't do it again!"
Qin Yousi smiled comfortingly and said, "Let's go back quickly. Sister Liuguang must be worried."
Things in Yangcheng went according to Qin Yousi's plan, but it made Baili Hongyuan in the capital feel frightened.
He first received an urgent report from the secret guard, knowing that Qin Yousi was going to risk his life to settle accounts with Jiuzong in person; just as he was about to dispatch people to rush to Yangcheng, he received an urgent letter from the Oujiang Boat Gang, saying that someone had been captured by Jiuzong.
He had just ridden his horse for only thirty miles out of the city when the post station received messages from the secret guards and the Oujiang boat gang, saying that Qin Yousi was safe and sound and would be returning to the capital immediately.
He stopped his horse outside the post station, looked at the message in his hand, pondered it for a while, turned around and ordered: "Return to the city, go to the princess's mansion!"
Because he didn't like Princess Linglong keeping a lover, Baili Hongyuan rarely returned to the princess's mansion.
Princess Linglong was very surprised to hear that he had returned, and the concubines beside her also retreated obediently, leaving the mother and son to talk alone.
Princess Linglong glanced at her son, and seeing that he was dressed in light armor, as if he was going on a long journey, she asked, "Is there something urgent?"
Baili Hongyuan frowned slightly. He came to see his mother today for an important matter, but it was not urgent.
But when he thought of Qin Yousi doing something dangerous on his own, he felt that he had to speed up the process and could not keep dragging it out. So he sat down and said to Princess Linglong in a gentle voice, "I've been thinking about something recently. After thinking it over, I think I should inform my mother first."
Princess Linglong's face darkened.
Her son never consulted her about anything, whether his own life or government affairs. He was very opinionated. The only reason she let him speak so kindly was because it was related to the Northern Liang Kingdom.
As expected, Baili Hongyuan said, "Since the death of Marquis Xichang, Your Majesty's prestige within the court has grown even higher. No minister dares to challenge him. This is a stark contrast to the weak situation of previous years. I think it's time to step down from the Supervisory Office to avoid being abandoned after the rabbit has died."
Although he and the emperor are cousins, he has Beiliang blood in his body after all. Although the emperor regards him as a trustworthy minion, he only regards him as a minion and is used to doing things that are difficult for the government office to handle.
The real confidential matters are not the responsibility of the Supervisory Office.
He wanted to be transferred out of the Supervisory Office, and Princess Linglong had no objection, but if it was just this matter, he didn't need to discuss it with Princess Linglong.
Princess Linglong then asked, "Where are you going?"
Baili Hongyuan squeezed the teacup in his hand and said, "Beiliang has been sending me letters for the past two years. He wants to see me."
Although this "he" is not explicitly stated, it can only be his biological father, King Baili Zai Jin of Northern Liang.
Princess Linglong was so angry that she threw her sleeves and slammed the teapot on the table. She gritted her teeth and said, "You want to go with him?"
In fact, Princess Linglong and Baili Zai Jin had a very good relationship back then. It was only because Baili Zai Jin chose to return to his country to inherit the throne and abandoned them, which made Princess Linglong feel angry.
Now that I heard my son had made the same choice, I felt even more angry. For a moment, my head hurt from anger.
Baili Hongyuan soothed him, "My son is increasingly feeling constrained in his duties in Kyoto. Furthermore, the situation on the Northern Liang border is complex, and both His Majesty and the Queen Mother want to make a fuss about my son's marriage. While we can delay it for now, it's not permanent."
Princess Linglong sighed and finally understood why he made this choice. He simply wanted to marry that female doctor!
"How dare you do this for her! What good is Beiliang? You grew up in Dasheng, so how could the officials and people of Beiliang support you? You're just jumping from one den of tigers and wolves into another!"
There were some things Baili Hongyuan couldn't tell his mother right now, but ever since he knew that Qin Yousi wanted to investigate the past of the emperor and the harem, he decided to leave a way out in Beiliang.
Baili Hongyuan knew that this matter couldn't be resolved in a day, so he simply let his mother know about it to prevent her from being too upset later. He then said, "The specifics of how to proceed still require careful consideration by your son, and it won't take a day or two. I have something else to do today, so I can't discuss it in detail. I'll be leaving now."
After watching her son leave, Princess Linglong leaned on the soft pillow and thought for a long time without moving.
She spent the first half of her life wandering around, from marrying in the Xizhu Kingdom to returning home to marry the Beiliang hostage, and finally getting divorced and living alone. She experienced the ups and downs of life and witnessed the ruthlessness of the emperor.
She pondered for a while and realized that her son must be hiding something from her. If it was just for the freedom of marriage, they and her mother still had many ways to think of, and there was no need to go to Beiliang Kingdom to find a way right now.
Since he wanted to leave Dasheng, there must be some people or things here that threaten them.
Princess Linglong could not think of anyone else who could make Baili Hongyuan feel fearful except the emperor.
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