The Fourth Lady novel Chapter 84

Hearing Fengshuang's words, Murong Jingxuan also felt he had a point. At the time, both the black and silver python were rescued from that forest when he was passing by. The nearby residents of the forest slaughtered pythons for fun, but eventually suffered from the python's retaliation. Afterwards the inhabitants gradually became sparse, and thus the forest got its name.

"Heibei*, do you think it's possible?" Murong Jingxuan glanced to Heibei, and it too looked back, flickering its tongue, as if it was agreeing to his words.

(*TN: Black-back, I suppose it's also its species name.)

However, at that moment, Fengqing suddenly appeared before them, "Master, not good, young miss has disappeared?"

When he heard those words, Murong Jingxuan stood up at once, "What did you just say? Yan'er is missing?"

Seeing Murong Jingxuan's angry appearance, Fengqing gulped, "Master, I didn't do my best to protect her."

Murong Jingxuan looked to Fengqing and asked in a low voice, "Just what happened?"

Fengqing could only explain everything that had happened to Murong Jingxuan. For some reason, he had dozed off for a while, and when he woke, he found that Su Qingyan was already gone.

"Other than that, did you discover anything else?" Murong Jingxuan still spoke coldly.

"Other than that, the white tiger and silver python that usually followed by her side were missing too. Do you think this was specifically aimed at the young miss?"

After hearing what Fengqing said, Murong Jingxuan felt rather relieved. He had kept the silver python by his side for more than ten years, towards its nature, he was more than understanding of.

Other than Su Qingyan leaving the yard herself, even with just the silver python, no one would be able to break into Su Qingyan's room. Not to mention, she also had that white tiger by her side.

"Heibei, can you sense where the silver python is at?" Murong Jingxuan glanced to the black python on the floor.

Hearing the silver python's name, Heibei got up as if it was energized all over. Heibei once again flickered its tongue, telling Murong Jingxuan to crawl on its back. Murong Jingxuan did as it said, and afterwards, the python disappeared before them.

Heibei and the silver python were actually a pair of male and female pythons. At one point, they were almost killed by the nearby villagers. Just when they were about to be beheaded, Murong Jingxuan appeared.

He saved them from the hands of the villagers, and they soon discovered that Murong Jingxuan understood the language of snakes. Thus, they'd always stayed by his side.

Murong Jingxuan treated them really well, completely unlike those villager. Over time, they willingly remained by Murong Jingxuan's side.

"Heibei, just where are you taking me?" Murong Jingxuan became increasingly confused as he watched the pitch black landscape before him pass by. Don't tell me, Su Qingyan was going to appear here in the middle of the night?

Heibei hissed its tongue replying, "There's a pack of wolves nearby, master, we need to be careful."

After hearing what Heibei hissed, Murong Jingxuan seemed to have understood something. That was, his Yan'er must have also found out that Su Yun may encounter an ambush here, thus she made these animals go protect Su Yun and the others. But just where did Yan'er get this information?

Qingyan sat on the back of the tiger, while it ran, carrying her through the forest. But just at that moment, the silver python seemed to have sensed something. It flickered its tongue at Qingyan, "Master, my master seems to currently be heading towards this direction as well."

Qingyan looked to the silver python and frowned. The silver python was once a python raised by Murong Jingxuan, then in other words, Murong Jingxuan was also heading to this place. But what was Murong Jingxuan coming here for at this time?

The silver python felt Qingyan's gaze on it. Those ghostly eyes looked Qingyan, hissing again, "Seems to be coming for you."

Qingyan patted the sprinting white tiger on the head, "Xiaobai, let's wait for his Highness that's behind us for a bit." The white tiger gradually slowed down its speed. And in that moment, Murong Jingxuan appeared next to her, riding on the back of the black python.

And when the silver python saw the black one, the two snakes excitedly intertwined together. That feeling was like that of old friends, but to Qingyan these two snakes felt like they were a couple.

"Why are you here? And this black python?" Qingyan looked to him with a perplexed look, "Don't tell me you came for me."

Murong Jingxuan walked next to the white tiger and nodded to Qingyan, "I heard from Fengqing you disappeared, so I rushed to find you."

Thinking back to Fengqing falling asleep because of the incense earlier, Qingyan felt apologetic, "I made Fengqing doze off, you don't need to scold him too harshly."

"Naturally I know it was you that made him fall asleep." Murong Jingxuan flicked her on the forehead, "So you also got the news that the General might get ambushed, that's why you left the city through the night?"

Qingyan didn't expect him to say something like, but she still looked to him and nodded. "I saw it in a dream. In my dream, I saw a pair of silhouettes, trapped in the marshes, unable to free themselves. This is mostly the reason why I haven't been able to sleep at night recently.

"And you can't go out to protect them yourself, so you thought of the animals?" Murong Jingxuan had no choice but to admire the girl before him.

She wasn't impatient and reckless like he'd imagined, and she wasn't like ordinary girls who like to cry. If a normal girl were to learn that her parents were attacked, she would have already been at a lost for what to do. Yet, she was able to calmly watch every step she took as such.

"On the way here, I heard from Yun'er that on their way back they will pass through this forest, and large beasts appear in this Forest of Buried Souls. If they are to be purposefully drawn into this forest, even you and I, might not be able to walk out, let alone my father and mother."

"You're right. I reckon they've probably already set up an ambush in the forest. And those animals typically attack hostile humans. Once the two sides begin fighting, it was possible for the people on either side to get hurt. However, for the other side, they're directly aiming for Su Yun's life, so they simply wouldn't care how many of their people die." Murong Jingxuan looked to Qingyan and give his opinion on the matter.

"That's right. That's why in the end, the ones to get hurt could only be my parents." Qingyan tightly clenched her fist. "Although, for the time being, we don't know who the spy in the army is, I'm really quite surprised at Ning Siyao's schemes."

"You know this is by Ning Siyao?"

Could it be that his Yan'er had the ability to predict the future and was able to foresee even this kind of thing?

"Heh." Qingyan coldly laughed, "Right now, aside from Ning Siyao, who else has the intention of attacking my parents? Naturally, Ning Siyao didn't have a way, but behind her stood the entire Jingguo manor. Looks like the Jingguo manor can't stay anymore." Qingyan tightly clenched her fist as she said this. The blood slowly dripped from where her nails dug into the skin.