C133

Never stingy with praise.

Gu Mingyan was not afraid of the suspicious gazes that would come from all directions either. She tugged at Xiao Qiran's sleeve as her eyes sparkled, "You promised to teach me before."

"You haven't recovered yet, and practicing martial arts is just the opposite."

Xiao Qiran half helplessly, half lovingly tapped the tip of her nose, turned around and slightly nodded towards his Martial Academy Master. With a raise of his wrist, Gu Mingyan's hand that was grabbing onto his sleeve fell down onto the palm of his hand, and his fingertip tightened a bit.

"I do not wish to cause trouble, the Martial Academy Masters have their own merits, do not disturb me again."

His gaze turned cold, causing the unsatisfied people to have bitter expressions, but the student who was sent flying to the side only patted the dust off his body, as if he was already used to this, and casually retreated, causing Xiao Qiran to look at him in another light.

The Yu siblings, on the other hand, turned around at the same time, watching the two's interlocked hands.

As the discussions continued in the surroundings, Gu Mingyan subconsciously followed along with Xiao Qiran's footsteps. Seeing that the man in front of him was suddenly half a head taller than him, she could only smile and jump two steps forward, then opened her mouth to rescue him.

"Most of the techniques Your Highness has learned are techniques used in battlefields. The only difference between the methods of the Martial Academy students and you is the way of travel, how can you make comparisons? I might as well bring the hall down to the Reading Pavilion, I've tidied it up cleanly."

Gu Mingyan's voice became louder.

But it was obvious that he was helping the people from the Martial Academy to get out of this predicament.

Gu Mingyan did not forget, although Xiao Qiran was here to take care of matters, he was also looking for someone to use. Since he was here to take care of matters, he should take care of this matter personally, and get the chance to recruit talented people.

Hearing her words, Xiao Qiran laughed: "You sure know how to talk."

"Of course, when I looked at that young master just now, he didn't seem to want to take your life, but instead, you directly strangled him by the neck, this isn't a martial arts competition."

When Xiao Qiran pinched her palm, she stopped and smiled: "You're cheating."

Caught off guard, Xiao Qiran smacked him on the forehead.

Gu Mingyan merely blinked playfully, rubbed her forehead and released Xiao Qiran's hand, then waved at Bai Song, who was bringing Bai Shao over: "Cousin!"

Bai Song heaved a long sigh. This cousin of hers was not only lively and lively when she was outside, she also didn't put others in her eyes.

"Your Highness, you should go back to your work, it's time for me and my cousin to take care of things for my brothers and sisters."

After she finished speaking, she grabbed her skirt and ran over to Bai Song's side. She was like a butterfly in this Martial Academy that was filled with profound clothes, and a pair of peach blossom eyes rippled with a few patches of light colored sunlight. Just a quick look was enough to cause many Martial Academy students to be unable to shift their gaze away.

Xiao Qiran was also helpless against her and could only laugh. "You all, follow me over."

The Yu siblings hurriedly rushed forward to welcome them.

Gu Mingyan and Bai Song wanted to go back to the Academy to leave their names there, but before they left, their eyes met with Xiao Qiran who was in the distance, and the two of them smiled at each other.

Many things were left unsaid.

Gu Mingyan nimbly moved to Bai Song's side, and from time to time, her nails would land on Bai Shao's shoulders, until Bai Shao could no longer resist and took her hand away, angrily saying: "Don't touch me."

"So cute."

Gu Mingyan was slapped so hard that one of his hands had turned red, but he still laughed lightly, and turned around to face Bai Song: "Since Bai Shao is so obedient, my cousin will definitely help him, he has good luck."

Secretly raising his eyebrows, Bai Song looked at her helplessly: "You are thinking for our National Duke's Mansion, so you aren't afraid that the Prime Minister and that Madam Liu will make things difficult for you at home."

"As long as they don't know, they won't come looking for us."

Gu Mingyan's footsteps paused, his gaze swept past Bai Song, and landed on Gu Ziyan and Gu Zixi who were not far away.

She had stayed in the Seventh Prince Palace for too long, to the point where she had almost forgotten about the two threats here.

"Cousin, I'll need you to take care of the rest yourselves."

Gently pulling on Bai Song's sleeves, he placed the two jade white porcelain bottles into's hands. Only after brushing past her shoulders did he say in a soft voice, "Red silk colourless tasteless poison, Blue silk antidote, can protect against poison."

The hand holding the white jade bottle in his hand suddenly tightened, Bai Song did not know where to use it.

Bai Shao, who was at the side, heard those words and immediately became angry. "Third Uncle said you should be careful of her."

"She is your elder sister. You know that she was already paving the way for you when you arrived at the academy's entrance." Bai Song patted his shoulder heavily, and brought him to circle around the Gu sisters, but in his heart, he had his own way of looking at them.

Since Gu Mingyan was willing to pave the way for Bai Shao, and his age couldn't be so shocking in one go, then it was likely that they had been waiting for him to take action.

This also suited the current situation of the National Duke's Mansion.

Seeing Bai Song's expression, Gu Mingyan's heart calmed down. He believed that he did not need to worry about the National Duke's Mansion at the moment, as long as Grandma Xu comes over to unravel the secret of the Mountain River List, and then according to the rules, he would say that Grandma Xu had been attacked and died. Only after that would Xiao Qiran be able to get the big fish behind her back out of his system.

However, he was not in a hurry.

When Gu Mingyan slowly walked in front of Gu Ziyan, he gave a shallow smile.

This was a huge problem.

She had been busy working for Xiao Qiran for many days, and had not interacted much with him at Prime Minister's Mansion. Her two little sisters had repeatedly wanted to teach her a lesson, but to no avail, they would probably become even more aggressive in the future, and she had never forgotten how Gu Zhiyuan had treated her bitter mother.

"Big sister received the Seventh Prince's protection every day, and now her National Duke's Mansion was touched with light as well." Gu Ziyan pulled Gu Zixi behind him, and said in a low voice, "When we return today, mother would like to talk to you alone."

"I do have something to tell Auntie."

Gu Mingyan returned to her usual docile and charming appearance. With a light smile, she took out two jade ornaments from her bosom — these were taken from Bai Song's hands last night. I heard that they were defective items made by craftsmen in the manor, but these two pill birds were indeed lifelike.

Before it could reach Gu Zixi's hands, she had already said coldly: "I'm not lacking this piece of jade."

Gu Mingyan raised his hands and froze them in mid air as he recalled the two pill birds back helplessly.

"Since you don't like it, then forget it. If your sisters have nothing else to do, I'll have to go and inform Mister. I still have to attend the afternoon class."

With that, the softness in her eyes also fell into the cold pond.

The two jade ornaments slipped back into her purse and she walked towards the study room by herself with her hands on her lower abdomen.

There was actually no room for two people to talk at all.

After walking through the long corridor and the broken stone path, there were many people who pointed out the relationship between her and Xiao Qiran, who had progressed at an incredible speed. Even the young miss, who was at the side, couldn't help but say: "If I could also have that kind of face, maybe I could climb onto the imperial palace."

Everyone laughed.

In their eyes, Gu Mingyan was still an untalented person.

In a place like this, staying for a day was torturous.