Chapter 161 – Children at the Temple (1)
After a year, Ye Mu had become accustomed to Mo Linyuan’s inner cruel side, so thinking of a good strategy, she whispered into Mo Linyuan’s ear.
“How about we make a commotion? Let’s find a group of people pretending to be the empress dowager’s people and save him? With his lingering fear of the empress dowager, I’m sure he would be frightened till he would refuse to run away again.”
She broke into a wicked laugh when she thought of Mo Shiwen’s panic-stricken appearance. Matters now are sensitive. Therefore Mo Shiwen should not be allowed to make things worse.
As Mo Linyuan listened, his eyes brightened slightly. “That’s a good idea!”
He thought of it for a while and then asked Wen Feng to come forward to say a few words in his ear.
Ye Mu stared at Mo Linyuan from the side; he was now twelve and a half years old. Although he was still only a child, his eyes held too much heaviness and maturity that did not belong to his age. Nevertheless, his delicate, slightly-raised chin and phoenix eyes were still pleasing to the eye.
Ye Mu couldn’t help thinking, Why did such a person die so early in his forties?
After Mo Linyuan was able to issue the command, he saw the Ye Mu, who was waiting, looking at him fixedly; he immediately thought her little appearance too indescribably cute!
“What are you thinking?” He looked at Ye Mu and could not refrain from stretching out his hand to pinch her little button nose.
“Oh, nothing. I just…feel a little stuffy in my chest recently. It must be from the approaching the full moon again.” Ye Mu subconsciously touched her nose and whispered.
When Mo Linyuan heard this, his eyes dimmed. Every full moon, Ye Mu would wake up feeling extraordinarily ill-tempered and unpleasant. Even if the silent Buddhist master can help her suppress it when they are in the temple, the thought that she was at the control of others made Mo Linyuan feel uneasy.
“Then I’ll take you to the temple. Remember, although the silent Buddhist monk is a close disciple of the late great monk, you should be on guard against him; don’t believe him so easily.”
Ye Mu nodded, “Don’t worry, it’s okay; I’ll be back soon.”
Mo Linyuan nodded and personally sent Ye Mu off as far as the gates.
Her departure from the palace to the temple, she was accompanied by a large number of soldiers. Everyone knew that Mo Linyuan held great importance on this girl with unknown origin since every time she goes away from the palace, Mo Linyuan doubles the guards guarding her!
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“Here again?”
When Ye Mu arrived at the temple, the monk came out from the depths of the jungle, carrying a medicine basket on his back. As a powerful monk, his appearance was otherworldly; his thin eyebrows, paired with an out of place, compassionate expression, still made him look unforgettable as if he was some mystical creature.
Ye Mu nodded, “I’m going to trouble you again. Somehow, I feel the murderous aura in my body is getting heavier. Every attack is stronger than the last.” She said, keeping a close eye on the monk.
After placing the basket down, the silent Buddhist master just sighed, “That is because you accumulate too much external force in your body, and the internal force of this poor monk that is placing in your body can only mildly play a stabilizing role. But it can certainly not be as strong as stopping it completely, so for you to experience that kind of feeling is expected…”
He paused, then added in a quiet voice, “Of course, with your meridians far from being restored to their healthy state, you are not able to use your internal force.” He then gestured, “Follow this poor monk to the backyard. The poor monk will help you concentrate and calm down.”
Ye Mu nodded when suddenly a monk hurriedly ran towards them!
“Master, master, it’s not good! A pregnant pilgrim fainted in the Buddhist temple! ”
“What?” The silent Buddhist master’s expression changed, subconsciously looked at Ye Mu.
Ye Mu waved her hand, “It’s all right, you go and see her first, I can endure it for the time being.”
Chapter 121 – The Yellow Sparrow Behind the Mantis Stalking the Cicada (2)
This constant onslaught of attacks made Ye Li freeze on the spot.
Meanwhile, Yan Xu was silent in the whole debacle. But then, his gaze shifted to Ye Mu to the side, as he spoke in a stern tone, “Come here. Don’t meddle in the matters of men. You’re still a child!”
Ye Mu’s expression could only be described as intensely dispirited. She glanced at the Ye family soldiers around her, with the same gloomy expression as hers, and softly sighed.
“Now that the outcome of the battle has been decided, can you…can you not kill us all?”
She thought, if Ye Li were truly to die, then at the very least, these people he had instigated to fight for him would not die in vain.
Yan Xu frowned. “I’ve never thought of slaughtering everyone of the Ye household.”
For Yan Xu, from the very beginning to the end, the only person he desired to kill was Ye Li.
At this moment, Ye Li, who had his head lowered the entire time, suddenly spoke with a coarse voice.
“Mu’er, you already knew about Mo Linyuan’s identity, didn’t you?” Although his tone was very low, when it entered Ye Mu’s ears, it felt as if the words weighed her little body down by a thousand pounds.
After everything, she still could not change the plot?
Ye Mu turned around to look at Ye Li’s weathered face covered in blood and nodded calmly; of course, she already knew.
In an instant, Ye Li’s gaze became extremely terrifying. “And because you were aware of his identity, you held back from cutting his tongue?”
Ye Mu pursed her lips. “Yes, that’s right.”
Ye Li gripped the handle of his blade in deathly grip. “So… you knew from the beginning that that his help was all a sham. that in truth, you were scheming against me with him. You knew the Map of the Imperial Army was a fake, and that I would lose in the inevitable end—you knew the fate of these people were to die?!”
Ye Mu frowned at this barrage of accusations, but without waiting for her to reply, Ye Li quickly interrupted.
“I was wondering why you were so protective of him—it turns out that you’re one of his men! The reason you hid by my side and humbled yourself to me was all for him, right? Placing my trust on you had been all for nothing; to think that you dared to betray me!”
As he roared, his inner Qi gushed out in a frenzy!
Ye Mu’s expression immediately became tense. In the face of a raging Ye Li, she could only refute, “I didn’t do it!”
But Ye Li was done listening to anything she had to say. Without a word, he thrusted the blade in his hand towards Ye Mu’s face!
“Quick, save her!”
Yan Xu was stunned and hurriedly ordered his men to help. Not only the people around Yan Xu rushed forward, but the 20 experts from before also used their full strength to block Ye Li’s attacks.
But the furious Ye Li’s martial prowess was even more astonishing than before! No matter how many people tried to stop him, his bell-like eyes only focused on Ye Mu’s lithe body, and he was getting closer and closer!
“I’ve been helping you all this time. Even if you want to kill me, I’ll only say the truth!” Ye Mu replied while trying to escape.
“How dare you lie to my face!”
Ye Li’s eyes were bloodshot as he fought one-on-one against thirty in a chaotic battle, furtively pressing closer towards where Ye Mu was.
“Since you already knew that he is the Crown Prince and that I was searching for him for a long time, how can you say you are helping me?”
After he finished speaking, the blade in his hand brought with it the smell of blood as it hacked down on her mercilessly; Ye Mu barely dodged the sharp curve of the blade. But as it brushed past her face by a margin, the hair on her back were instantly cut!
“You deserve to die!”
The more Ye Li spoke, the faster the blade in his hand rushed towards Ye Mu. Even if there were many people trying to block his attacks, Ye Li was simply too fast. Ye Mu didn’t even know how she was able to dodge attacks at such a speed.
“Stop!”
A youth’s voice suddenly sounded amidst the imminent carnage, and in the next second, the strongest expert beside Mo Linyuan suddenly appeared and struck Ye Li with his palm. With this, Ye Li and Ye Mu were finally separated from each other by a safe distance.
Seeing that Ye Mu was fine, Mo Linyuan finally calmed down.
“It was all my doing. If you want to settle a score, then do it with me!” With Mo Linyuan’s appearance, he shielded Ye Mu behind him defensively, looking at Ye Li with a challenging gaze.
“Ah, yes. It’s you…very good! It’s you I’ve been looking for!”