The Fourth Lady novel Chapter 151

When Qingyan left from the slums, she brought the three of them with her. Zizhu, who was following at her side, naturally didn't recognize these three, but Qingdai and Chishao were still very familiar with the three of them.

Because they were precisely the Thousand Beast Pavilion's four guardians' Qinglong, Baihu, and Zhuque.

They'd once seen their appearances before in a drawing. It's said that their martial art skills, in Jianghu, were not at all inferior to the Seven Star Hall. Moreover, they possess an intelligence network even more accurate than the Seven Star Hall.

She'd never imagined that Qingyan would actually be able to recruit the three of them. But she saw the calm look on Qingyan's face, as if she was already familiar with them.

When they returned to the General's manor, Su Yun just happened to see them. And Qingyan just very simply explained their identity. Qingyan's intentions were very simple, for a girl, there was still the need to have people at her side to protect her. She couldn't let Su Yun continuously worry about her.

Seeing Qingyan like that, Su Yun naturally also gladly agreed, but he still couldn't help testing the three's martial art skills. He could clearly tell that these three's martial art skills all came from the same place. But just exactly which sect, he couldn't tell.

"Daddy, they're all my bodyguards, as a General, how could you bully them." Qingyan looked to Su Yun and said in a pouting tone, "You need to believe your daughter's eyes."

Su Yun looked to Qingyan who was acting like a spoiled child and patted her head, "Daddy naturally believes you."

Qingyan smiled at Su Yun and nodded, "Isn't it just fine? From now on, they'll be daughter's courtyard's bodyguards. In the future, there definitely won't be anyone that will dare to bully your daughter."

Su Yun pinched her nose, "Who dares to bully my daughter, I'll chop them up."

"Yes, yes, yes. Daddy is the strongest. Daddy's a great hero in this daughter's heart." Qingyan looked to Su Yun and still spoke in a childish manner. "Oh right, I'm going to go arrange a place for them to stay now."

Su Yun looked to Qingyan and nodded with a smile, "Go ahead."

Qingyan brought Yaochi and the others back to her Yingshuang yard. After returning to the yard, the first thing she did was inquire about the matter related to Jiang Mengrou.

"Yaochi, regarding Jiang Mengrou's matter, how's the investigation going?" Qingyan sat down on a stone stool and asked in a heavy tone. Afterwards, she also poured them tea.

"Master, regarding Jiang Mengrou, this subordinate has more or less investigated most of it." With that said, he took out a secret letter and placed it into Qingyan's hands. "According to our informant's report, twenty years ago, Jiang Mengrou once had a crush on the General. But afterwards, the General married the madam, and the Jiang family, seemingly because were involved in a corruption and bribery cast that year, fell into ruins. Later, unknown as to how, she was saved by Su Ming."

After Qingyan unfolded the letter, a muslin piece fell out. Using her fingers, she dipped some water and placed it onto the muslin. Very soon, the handwriting appeared on the muslin.

This was the Thousand Beast Pavilion's most used method of transmitting information. This method is only applicable to the members of the Thousand Beast Pavilion. One is to prevent others from getting their secrets, and secondly, it's also for efficiency.

Qingyan listened to Yaochi's words and shifted her gaze back onto the handwriting on the muslin. All the words on there all explained how Jiang Mengrou used to liked Su Yun. After the Jiang family fell, Jiang Mengrou, under her father's protect, was able to safely escape. And afterwards, in some small town in Jiang Nan, she was rescued by Su Ming.

At the end of the letter it even said, Jiang Mengrou had originally thought it would kill Luo Bing. Yet, not only did Luo Bing not die, she even gave birth to a daughter. It was probably because that year, when Luo Bing was pregnant, the infant in the womb voluntarily absorbed the poison, thus Su Qingyan was born with fetal poisoning.

"I really didn't expect that Jiang Mengrou had actually once liked daddy." Qingyan said as she threw the muslin into the fire. In a split second, the muslin was already burned to dust.

"Master, then what should we do now? You've left the Su manor, so it'll be difficult to deal with Jiang Mengrou when the time comes." Yaochi looked to Qingyan and plainly spoke.

"No matter, I think that Jiang-shi probably won't just let me off like this either. Next, we'll just see what Jiang-shi has arranged for us. Besides, there isn't any movement from Chai Yiyun and Ye-shi's side either at the moment." Qingyan spoke with a heavy expression, "No matter what, I should just calmly wait and see."

Chai Yiyun wanting to deal with her through Yi Jiqing was also reasonable. After all, Chai Yiyun wasn't like Ning Siyao, who has an entire Jing Marquis manor behind her to help her. Chai Yiyun's paternal family was just an insignificant small official's family. And Chai Yiyun's father was also considered the selfish kind. So they simply wouldn't care about Chai Yiyun's wellbeing.

But the Jing Marquis was different. He'd already lost a Xiuran, he couldn't lose another daughter.

"Miss, what about over at the Jing Marquis manor? Also, Su Qingming does indeed have some bad news of General Su's in his hands. He originally wanted to have the Second Prince use as blackmail, but unexpectedly the Second Prince chose to believe in Yi Consort's words." Yanmei looked to Qingyan and replied in a calm manner.

"As expected of my Thousand Beast Pavilion members." Qingyan looked to Yanmei and smiled, "Don't worry. As for the evidence in Su Qingming's hands, although unfavorable for daddy, it ultimately can't affect the military power in his hand. Because Hongjia Emperor knows in his mind that right now, there simply isn't anyone that can take daddy's place."

"Master, do you need this subordinate to gather information on the Jing Marquis manor?" Anying looked to Qingyan and plainly spoke, "However, our Thousand Beast Pavilion does have information regarding the Jing Marquis in our hands."

"En, I also have some information here. However, I didn't expect that Xiuran was actually Jing Marquis's eldest legitimate son. Looks like that year when Jing Marquis escaped from Nanchen, he really had a moment of heartlessness." Qingyan looked into the distance and lightly hooked the corner of her lips.

"That's right, master, regarding the old General and young General's matters?" Yaochi looked to Qingyan and thought of Qilian Yuyun and Qilian Qingyang. Right now, Qingyan was already their pavilion master, it seems there's still the need to tell her about what had happened previously.

"Daddy has retired to the mountains, and my younger brother* from the same mother was saved by you all while he was being sent to exile. As for Ning'er and Jing'er, they were taken away by Weisheng Junmo, correct?" Qingyan turned her head around and looked to Yaochi with a smile, "These things, I've already learned from Shizi."

(*T/N: I wonder if he's her twin younger brother, since previously it mentioned that her mother died shortly after she was born. Or one of those inconsistencies that the author overlooked....)

Yaochi looked to Qingyan and paused for a moment, before continuing, "Although it's as such, the old General didn't really retire into the mountains, but is together with Gentleman Weisheng. It's said that Nanchen's Eight Trigram Sect was established by Gentleman Weisheng. In addition, before coming to Donghe, I've heard that the Eight Trigram Sect has brought up a very strong assassin. Wherever this assassin goes, not a single life remains. This subordinate is thinking, that assassin....."

"Is possibly Ning'er, right?" Qingyan interrupted Yaochi's words and plainly spoke, "Junmo instilling the thought of revenge inside Ning'er, this bit, I've already thought of. If he can let Ning'er live on like this, perhaps it's not bad."

Because as long as he was still alive, they can be reunited.