Chapter 196

Senior sister!

Qilin heard Mu Yuanzhi was coming and immediately sprinted over.

"I said I would bring Ah Zhi back safe and sound." Pei Shangling said.

"Tch, what merit are you seeking? Does it even concern you?" Qilin rolled his eyes in annoyance.

That's the fact; Pei Shangling had to change the subject: "Ah Zhi..."

Mu Yuanzhi, as usual, treated Pei Shangling as if he were air, only speaking to Qilin: "Have you finished brewing the medicine? Why haven't you undone the gu yet?"

Qilin chuckled: "Isn't this waiting for you to come back?"

Mu Yuanzhi eyed Qilin suspiciously: "Are you hiding something from me?"

She always felt Qilin had something to say but held back.

"No, no! How could I hide anything from you, you're so smart." Qilin, trying to be cute, took Mu Yuanzhi's hand and said, "By the way, senior sister, how should that damned Pei Yunxi be punished?"

"Stop beating around the bush and tell me!" Mu Yuanzhi narrowed her eyes: "When you lie, your eyes can't help but dart around."

"Really?" Upon hearing that, Qilin didn't dare move his eyeballs.

He looked even more suspicious!

Pei Shangling couldn't help but interject: "He really is hiding something from you."

"Shut up!"

"You shut up, Pei Shangling, you speak." Mu Yuanzhi pushed away Qilin's anxious, hurried face.

"Undoing the Symbiotic Gu poses a danger to life." Pei Shangling said, "This is what Qilin heard from a monk."

"Do you know that monk? Do you know how capable he is? Are you as capable as I am?!" Qilin gave him a sideways glance, "Senior sister, don't listen to his nonsense."

"Qilin, tell me the truth: if undoing the gu is this dangerous, then don't do it." Mu Yuanzhi said worriedly.

Qilin gave a slight pout; he thought it didn't matter, but he just didn't want his senior sister to worry.

"Yeah, what's there to solve? I don't mind at all." Pei Shangling said.

He didn't want her to worry.

Although her worry didn't include him.

"You of course don't mind, what right do you have to mind? It's all your fault!" Qilin snapped, with no awareness that he himself was the instigator.

Mu Yuanzhi asked Qilin again: "So is there really a threat to life?"

"Maybe Yuan Yan is just talking nonsense?" Qilin pursed his lips, "He often scares me; maybe he wants to study my Symbiotic Gu."

"I don't think so." Mu Yuanzhi sighed, "Forget it, let's not solve this Gu for now."

"But..."

"But if we don't solve it, older sister can't kill Pei Shangling, right? Give him a half-dead state?"

"No more 'buts,' unless Master Yuan Yan has another way."

"Older sister, you trust that demon monk too much."

Pei Shangling: "That monk is indeed strange, Ah Zhi, you need to be careful."

"If you know him, just say it!" Qilin decided Pei Shangling was an idiot who seizes every chance to fawn.

Pei Shangling finally got angry: "Can't you stop being so childish?"

"If it weren't for Ah Zhi's sake, he would definitely give this brat a hard time; his constant tolerance of this brat is all because of Ah Zhi."

"Otherwise, ten of these brats wouldn't be enough to die!"

"Older sister, let's go, stop looking at people's faces here." Qilin said and went to pull Mu Yuanzhi.

Mu Yuanzhi nodded; she also didn't want to stay here.

Pei Shangling, who lifted a stone to drop on his own foot: "Ah Zhi..."

Originally I wanted to keep her here for a meal.

"Older sister, I think staying in the imperial palace is unsafe; we should leave the palace quickly." Qilin said.

He always felt that their return to the capital was like sheep entering a tiger's den; if it were to deal with Pei Yunxi, he wouldn't let older sister come back.

Only by following Gu Rongjin together would it be safe.

Mu Yuanzhi: "You're right; the emperor didn't keep me for questioning today, which makes me even more uneasy."

As for the National Teacher's matter, the emperor didn't ask a single word.

"Are we going back to Pingnan Wangfu?" Qilin asked.

"Go back."

She guessed Pingnan Wangfu was already empty, but not returning now would arouse more suspicion.

Gu Rongjin hasn't sent a letter; I don't know how he is.

Thinking of this, Mu Yuanzhi couldn't help but worry.

Qi Shihuai looks crazy, but he probably really needs Gu Rongjin.

It probably won't be detrimental to Gu Rongjin, right?

"Older sister, I have a question." Qilin looked around, lowered his voice further, "Gu Rongjin is loyal to the Pei imperial clan; if he rebels against the emperor, he'd have to support another Pei surname to take the throne, right?"

Mu Yuanzhi thought and indeed that's correct.

"But I think those princes are no good." Qilin shook his head disdainfully, "Whether it's intellect or tactics."

"You really think a lot; or do you want to follow your brother-in-law?" Mu Yuanzhi teased.

"This is knowing oneself and the enemy; one can't just follow with an empty head."

"Ah Zhi!"

Xiao Yichen's voice came from behind.

Mu Yuanzhi and Qilin were both speechless.

These people really can't have a moment of peace—how can they not be hateful?!

"Azhi!" Xiao Yichen glanced at the Qilin, wanting to speak but stopping.

With his previous experience, he knew Azhi would not send this kid away.

"Why didn't Gu Rongjin and the National Teacher come back together?" Xiao Yichen asked.

Mu Yuanzhi's expression was cold: "What is Prime Minister Xiao saying? My husband is in the capital—when has he ever left home?"

"Azhi, it's come to this—can't we stop beating around the bush between us?" Xiao Yichen said anxiously.

Gu Rongjin didn't return, and neither did the National Teacher—too abnormal!

Now the border situation is urgent, he can't help but think more.

"When? What's happened between us? Sorry, I didn't understand a word."

"Azhi, do you not know how dangerous Gu Rongjin really is? Don't step into the abyss!" Xiao Yichen feared she would be blinded by love.

She had always been like that toward him.

Thinking of this, Xiao Yichen felt another pang of heartache.

Too bad now, her heart no longer holds him.

"Please, Prime Minister Xiao, conduct yourself properly and do not slander my husband." Mu Yuanzhi remained unmoved.

Calling others "husband" left and right made Xiao Yichen's blood pressure surge, his expression visibly darkening; he really wanted to gag her so she could never call another "husband" again.

However, he only dared to think it—if he did, he'd surely get no good outcome.

Xiao Yichen took several deep breaths to calm himself: "What about the National Teacher? What exactly happened to him? You can at least tell me that."

"The National Teacher has urgent business; as for what exactly, you can go ask His Majesty—he sent a secret letter to His Majesty."

Xiao Yichen certainly didn't believe Mu Yuanzhi was unaware; he stared at her, feeling deeply helpless and lost.

She wasn't willing to reveal even a bit to him—could their enmity really be this deep?

"I'm just concerned about you."

"Really? How do I feel you're just testing me?" Mu Yuanzhi said sarcastically: "You're not trustworthy at all, Xiao Yichen—in my eyes you're a petty person; you know what you've done."