Chapter 85: Volume 1, Chapter 85: Rather unexpected news

Yun Qiyue followed Qingyan and Sixue all the way to an inconspicuous alley in the west of the city.

The three had just entered the alley when someone followed them in.

However, after that person turned into the alley, he found it empty, with no one there.

A flash of urgency crossed his face, and then he hurried forward to chase.

Then, the alley connected to both the left and right sides, but neither side had any sign of people.

For a moment, the person hesitated, fearing he had chosen the wrong direction.

"Are you looking for me?"

At this moment, Yun Qiyue's voice sounded from behind him.

Turning around in panic, he saw Yun Qiyue and her two servants standing behind him, not one missing.

"You... you..."

How did they appear behind him?

He clearly saw them enter the alley, why would they appear behind him?

Just as he was puzzled, Qingyan flashed, and a dagger in her hand was pressed against the person's neck.

"You... you..."

The person looked terrified, never expecting Qingyan to know martial arts.

Then, the person knelt down with a "thump."

"Miss, spare my life! I was just following orders, Miss, spare my life!" He knelt and begged for mercy, looking like a coward.

Indeed, he was just an ordinary servant of the Marquis Mansion, usually working in the stables, rarely having the chance to go to the front gate. He had been ordered to follow Yun Qiyue and keep an eye on her every move.

He thought it was a very simple task, even simpler than his work in the stables, so he took the mission without thinking much, and even less did he expect that Yun Qiyue and her people would know martial arts.

Yun Qiyue looked at the person, knowing he was just a small fry, so she asked for the reason, didn't make things too difficult for him, and let him go.

"Miss, you just let him go so easily?" Sixue was a bit puzzled.

Yun Qiyue, however, didn't think so. "He's just a cannon fodder."

Sixue: "?" Cannon fodder? What does that mean?

Seeing Sixue's confusion, Yun Qiyue didn't explain, and the few continued forward.

After bypassing a few alleys, Sixue and Qingyan stopped with Yun Qiyue in front of an inconspicuous residence.

The few had just stood at the gate of the residence when, as if hearing movement, the door was suddenly opened from the inside.

The person opening the door was a matron with a wooden face; even seeing Qingyan, Sixue, and Yun Qiyue, there was no extra expression on her face.

Yun Qiyue looked at the Mama, feeling a bit of memory, but couldn't remember at all, so she could only size up the Mama.

While Yun Qiyue was sizing up the Mama, the Mama was also looking at Yun Qiyue, but there was still no expression on her face, and there was always a feeling of being unfathomable, which made Yun Qiyue even more puzzled.

At this time, the Mama said faintly, "Come in."

The three then went in.

But after entering, there was no joy or excitement of loyal servants seeing their master as Yun Qiyue had expected, only silence and coldness.

Yes, coldness.

There were eleven people here in total; besides the Mama who opened the door, the rest were all men.

And these men, except for a twenty or thirty-year-old named Yu Lin, the rest were all in their forties.

It looked like they were all martial artists, and their martial arts shouldn't be weak.

But, how were such people driven out of the General's Mansion by Xu Shi and the others?

Yun Qiyue expressed doubt.

However, before Yun Qiyue could ask the doubt in her heart, Yu Lin directly answered Yun Qiyue's doubt. "We were driven out of the mansion voluntarily."

Yun Qiyue was only slightly startled upon hearing this.

Startled by Yu Lin's frankness.

However, it was only for an instant.

Subsequently, Yun Qiyue raised her eyebrows slightly and asked, "Why?"

Yu Lin glanced at the others and said, "The General died too suddenly back then. The General had grace toward us, and we couldn't watch the General die unclearly, so we were determined to leave the mansion to find out the truth of the General's death and find the General's body."

Yun Tian died, everyone knew.

Yun Tian's body disappeared after death, everyone knew too.

As for the cause of Yun Tian's death, it was said to be killed on the battlefield, but as Yun Tian's subordinates, no one believed it.

Yun Qiyue felt a bit surprised now, but thinking that she was Yun Tian's daughter, the surprise in Yun Qiyue's heart didn't show on her face, but she asked, "Then these three years, have you found anything?"

Hearing this, Yu Lin's expression paused slightly.

Subsequently, Yu Lin said faintly, "We subordinates are incompetent, we haven't found anything."

Yun Qiyue looked at Yu Lin, always feeling that Yu Lin hadn't told the truth.

But since Yu Lin didn't want to say more, Yun Qiyue didn't intend to get to the bottom of it, but led the topic to her purpose today. "Then now, are you going to continue to investigate my father's whereabouts, or are you going to follow me back to the General's Mansion?"

Although Yu Lin and the others gave her a mysterious feeling and were a bit strange, her intuition told her that they were people who could be used.

If they were ordinary subordinates, she might still need to doubt and test them.

But, Yu Lin and these people, from the first look at them, from the aura emanating from them, made Yun Qiyue have no thought of continuing to test them.

Of course, whether Yu Lin and these people could be used by her, she had no idea.

At least, from the attitude they had when seeing her, they weren't the kind who truly regarded her as their master.

Hearing this, Yu Lin looked at the others, and then, eleven people, including the Mama, knelt down to Yun Qiyue together. "We subordinates are willing to follow Miss back to the General's Mansion and follow and protect Miss to the death."

Hearing this, Yun Qiyue raised her eyebrows slightly.

To be honest, she was a bit surprised that these people would choose to follow her, or rather, say those words of following her to the death.

Thinking for a moment, Yun Qiyue probed, "I am a person who cannot tolerate betrayal the most. Since you have said words of following to the death, then you must serve me until death... In this way, do you still want to follow me back?"

When Yun Qiyue said this, it was three parts joking and seven parts majesty, making people unable to ignore her words.

However, at this time, Yu Lin and the others didn't have the slightest hesitation and said to Yun Qiyue, "Since we have decided to follow Miss back to the General's Mansion, then from now on, the General's Mansion is our home, and Miss is our master."

Although that was said, these people didn't have half a bit of respect or similar emotions toward Yun Qiyue on their faces; obviously, recognizing her as master had some other reason she didn't know.

However, Yun Qiyue didn't care about these.

Because in her view, if a person wants to gain respect from others, first of all, they must be recognized by others in terms of ability.

And she, liked challenging things the most.

She had absolute confidence to make these people recognize her as master sooner or later, rather than because of some other reason.

So Yun Qiyue didn't say anything more.

Just when she was preparing to take them back to the mansion, Yun Qiyue received a piece of news that surprised her quite a bit... ===== CHAPTER 86 =====