Tang Nian nodded solemnly: "That's right. Ming Huan is a smart man. If we just ask you to stay, he will definitely guess that you are here to keep an eye on him. He will be more wary of you in the future. What I need to do is make him give himself away, so we need to reconsider this matter."
What she feared even more was that Ming Huan was very different from the person she remembered. She couldn't imagine what he would do if he found out that Jing Yao was spying on him.
Jing Yao pondered for a moment after hearing what she said.
I also think that Tang Nian's words make some sense.
If I simply stay here, the other party will definitely notice.
With Ming Huan on guard, it became much harder for them to uncover the truth.
Jingyao thought about it but couldn't think of any other way.
"Have you come up with an idea?"
Tang Nian nodded: "I do have an idea."
"Tell me about it." Lou Mu frowned, worried that Tang Nian was thinking about something dangerous again.
Tang Nian then said, "This time, you can come out of the city with us."
Jing Yao was still a little taken aback.
"Going out of the city with you? Should we keep an eye on Ming Huan then?"
Tang Nian smiled as she looked at her bewildered expression.
Jing Yao glanced at Tang Nian, then at Lou Mu, who also had a smile on his face, and scratched her head.
Tang Nian smiled and said, "Of course, it's to keep an eye on him. However, if you are left alone in the city, Ming Huan will be wary of you, and he won't make a move easily."
At this point, Tang Nian smiled and said, "So I want you to pretend to leave with us, and then secretly return when Ming Huan is unaware, to keep an eye on him."
Hearing Tang Nian say that, Jing Yao's eyes lit up immediately.
I never expected there would be such an idea.
After thinking about it, she felt that Tang Nian's idea was indeed feasible, so she quickly nodded in agreement.
Back at the government office that evening, Tang Nian was just about to rest when she was interrupted by a knock on the door.
Tang Nian quickly grabbed the long sword from beside the bed and shouted, "Who's there?"
"It's me." Tang Nian recognized the voice outside the door; it was Lou Mu.
She breathed a sigh of relief, put down her longsword, picked up the cloak from the screen, put it on, and opened the door.
"What is it?" Tang Nian stepped aside to let Lou Mu into the room, then closed the door herself.
Lou Mu poured himself a cup of tea and also poured one for Tang Nian: "Are you going to investigate Kunlun?"
"It was just to test Ming Huan." Tang Nian sat down at the table, picked up her teacup, but didn't touch it for a long time.
"Stop lying to me, tell me, did something happen?" Lou Mu tapped his fingers lightly on the table, mercilessly shattering Tang Nian's lie.
Tang Nian put the teacup back on the table and remained silent.
Lou Mu's next sentence made her eyes widen.
"Is he your master?"
Tang Nian scratched her head in distress, thinking for a long time. Lou Mu sat quietly beside her, waiting for her to speak.
"Lou Mu, has anyone ever told you that you are really smart?" Tang Nian said with a wry smile.
“You don’t seem like the type to bring up Kunlun, but your master is from Kunlun, you just returned from the underworld, and the young prince has also returned to the mortal realm. I don’t believe these things aren’t connected,” Lou Mu said with a smile. “Can you tell me about it? I’m, after all, from Kunlun Mountain.”
Lou Mu was ultimately different in Tang Nian's heart.
Tang Nian sighed and told Lou Mu everything that Yama had told her.
The room was filled with a long, quiet stillness.
"What's your idea?" Lou Mu didn't immediately reveal his thoughts.
"I can't go to Kunlun right now, and I haven't resolved the issues in the human world. I can only go to Kunlun to save my master when I have enough merit."
Do you think it was done by a god?
No matter what, Lou Mu always suspected the Supreme God.
Whether it was Jiang Chen, whom they first met, or Ming Huan's origins, or later the Celestial Master Wang in the imperial city, all of them had the shadow of a supreme deity behind them.
“She has no reason to treat me like this.” Tang Nian denied Lou Mu’s words without even thinking. “Besides, if she did it, she wouldn’t have left so many loopholes for me to see.”
She always knew that her magical powers had been sealed by the gods, and that she was required to collect merits. On one hand, the gods wanted her to ascend to immortality, and on the other hand, it was also related to Xiang Liu's clan.
Back then, the Xiangliu clan was in turmoil, and a traitor emerged who wreaked havoc among the people. It was the Kunlun people who suppressed him.
Originally, the Xiangliu clan should have been sealed away, but it was Fairy Jingyun who pleaded for them, or perhaps the High God did not want to exterminate them completely. In the end, the Xiangliu clan was imprisoned in a secret realm, but Tang Nian was given a task.
As long as Tang Nian collects enough merits, Xiang Liu can return to the world.
"Besides the Supreme God, who else do you think could it be?" Lou Mu asked again, not in a hurry.
"Lou Mu, you are a fox spirit from Kunlun Mountain. Do you know that the High God has a younger sister?" Tang Nian asked in return.
"You mean the Holy Maiden Miaoxu?" Lou Mu gently twirled the cup in his hand. "For the past few hundred years, the High God has been in a semi-secluded state, and the Holy Maiden has been handling all the trivial matters on Kunlun Mountain. What do you mean?"
Tang Nian nodded.
In fact, she had little contact with the Holy Maiden Miaoxu; she had only heard of her name and had never even met her in person.
However, if we rule out the gods, then the greatest suspect is the saintess.
Lou Mu pondered for a moment: "I will send someone to investigate."
"Thank you." Tang Nian suddenly remembered the jade ring she was wearing. "There were a lot of people yesterday, so I didn't mention that there was a Princess Huaining ring next to that invitation."
"Chu Roujia? Did she go there on her own, or was she kidnapped?"
Although she has so many bodyguards around her, they are very likely facing something that is not human.
Tang Nian shook her head: "I don't know, we'll have to keep an eye out when we go."
Chu Roujia came out with her, so she should bring her back safely.
The room fell silent again. Tang Nian thought for a moment. Since Lou Mu was already here and it was just their people, she decided to voice her guess.
"Lou Mu, I have an idea about damaged human skin."
"you say."
"Since they're missing their facial skin, could someone be making human skin masks?" This was the most likely explanation Tang Nian had been thinking about.
Lou Mu thought for a moment: "We can think in that direction, but I don't really feel like it is quite right."
A human skin mask doesn't require peeling off an entire piece of human skin, but if it's not explained this way, it seems there's no other way to explain why the face was damaged.
Lou Mu left after the two chatted until very late.
Two days later, the four of them set off together for Jingning City.
Lou Mu, Tang Nian, and the young prince only needed to use magic to get to Jingning City, but in order to let everyone see that Jing Yao had also left with them, the four of them found a carriage and left Nanyu City in a grand manner.
After the four-person carriage left the city and traveled a distance further, Lou Mu finally stopped the carriage.
After the carriage stopped, Jingyao changed her clothes and came out.
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