Chapter 294: Learning One’s Identity 4
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Qi Qingyao noticed that he was terribly quiet all of a sudden. She stretched out her fingers, waved them in front of his eyes, and asked, “Why did your expression become so serious suddenly?”
Lu Yan’s dark eyes were very cold. After staying silent for a while, he took a sip of the slightly warm tea and murmured, “Him. I know who he is.”
Qi Qingyao’s eyes suddenly brightened. “Go on.”
Lu Yan frowned and said, “The State Preceptor has one sworn enemy in the imperial court. He has decent looks, quite handsome in fact. Come to think of it, his height is indeed very close to the ox-head man’s. His circle overlaps with mine and Pei Fengtang’s. He came to Qingzhou City for work a few months ago. He disappeared later on and hasn’t returned to Capital City even now. There’s only one person.”
Qi Qingyao said anxiously, “Tell me his name.”
Lu Yan raised his brows and said, “The Head Grand Secretariat, Jiang Yeqian.”
Qi Qingyao, “…”
Who?
Head Grand what?
Did she hear wrongly?
That sounded like a high-ranking government official.
“Head Grand Secretariat…” Qi Qingyao whispered the government official title.
Lu Yan suddenly began muttering to himself in disbelief. “But that’s not right. If he’s that superior Head Grand Secretariat, did he lose his memory?”
Qi Qingyao looked at him in confusion. “Hm?”
Lu Yan’s eyes were foreboding, as though glowing faintly with fire. “Under normal circumstances, the dignified Head Grand Secretariat would never continue being your lackey instead of returning to the imperial court to report himself. It doesn’t make sense.”
Qi Qingyao provided him with a suggestion. “Maybe it’s because he is being hunted by the State Preceptor and wants to use me as a shield.”
Lu Yan’s gaze darkened. After thinking about it for a while, he said, “That’s true. With Ox-head and Horse-face behind you, the State Preceptor would never think that one of the bodyguards of a single woman with three children would be the dignified Grand Head Secretariat.”
“But don’t expose him yet,” Qi Qingyao said seriously.
Lu Yan’s mind was a mess right now. “I heard that the State Preceptor indeed doesn’t see eye to eye with him and has been hunting him down. Although the Head Grand Secretariat and I are acquainted, we don’t actually have a deep friendship. There’s no need for me to expose his identity. Since he wants to use you as a shield, then you can just keep using him as a bodyguard. Either way, the Head Grand Secretariat is indeed a very powerful man!”
Jiang Yeqian was a smart man; he even knew how to use Qi Qingyao as a shield… even Lu Yan could not help feeling a bit impressed.
After listening to him, Qi Qingyao muttered, “I’ve got to hand it to him. A Head Grand Secretariat, lying to me multiple times. I suspected him now and then, but he would never tell me the truth. He even claims that he’s Jiang Chenye, the second son of the Jiang Family of Yuehua City. He just wouldn’t reveal his real identity. Did he think that I might hug his leg and beg to be his concubine if he told the truth?”
“That, I don’t know.” He claimed that he was from the Jiang family of Yuehua City? He… really knew how to spin a tale! Lu Yan was caught between laughter and tears at the thought.
Qi Qingyao suddenly said, “I despise people who are full of lies.”
Lu Yan was in a very good mood for some reason. “Then what’s your plan now?’
Qi Qingyao finished the tea in the cup in one gulp. Then, her gaze darkened, revealing a scheming look. “Since the Head Grand Secretariat does not intend to tell me the truth, I’ll just treat him as a useful pawn and make good use of him. After all, he’s still very qualified as a bodyguard.”
Lu Yan thought the same as well.
However, he would probably feel a little conflicted the next time he saw the ox-head man.
He had to pretend not to know him.
…
Ke Yishan was the corpse collector in Qingzhou City. When he was called over this time, he brought his people over thinking that there would be corpses everywhere again as soon as he entered. So, he was rather surprised when he did not smell fresh blood.
However, the corpses right before his eyes were still very real.
He briefly checked for the cause of death.
His brows furrowed.
These people all had their necks broken… The killer’s modus operandi was too neat and cruel!