Yu Mingyue curved her lips, "Mm, I also saw a handsome young man in Brother Jiayan's study. He said he was your old friend and had fallen on hard times, coming to seek refuge with you."
"Mm, he is an old friend, but you don't need to pay attention to him next time you see him."
Hua Chao Fei's habit of teasing pretty young girls was truly hard to break.
"I'll listen to Brother Jiayan," Yu Mingyue smiled obediently.
Since Brother Jiayan hadn't asked, she wouldn't tell him that a small misunderstanding had occurred today.
Because when she entered, he was browsing the bookshelves, so she mistook him for a thief.
Actually, she had given him a chance.
But he was incredibly unreliable, claiming that he and Brother Jiayan had a life-and-death friendship, that they had roamed the jianghu together, and were known as the Jade-Faced Twin Heroes...
She knew Brother Jiayan was knowledgeable and skilled in martial arts, but the talk of being heroes was an exaggeration.
Brother Jiayan was the future Prime Minister, not some wandering swordsman. It sounded like a disreputable friend, and the things he spoke of were utterly preposterous.
The Brother Jiayan he described was completely different from the Brother Jiayan she knew.
So, she pretended to be very interested and personally brewed him some tea.
She carried the colorless and odorless sleeping powder prepared by Sister Su Mu for self-defense.
Therefore, she added some to his tea.
This sleeping powder would normally make an ordinary person sleep for one to two hours. She wanted to teach him a small lesson and wait for Brother Jiayan to return and discipline him. Unexpectedly, he woke up in just fifteen minutes.
At that moment, she thought he must be the kind of expert Sister Su Mu mentioned, someone who could neutralize poison with internal energy.
His words... might be true.
Moreover, Liaokong happened to enter at that time to deliver peach blossom cakes, and his expression showed no abnormality.
She had made a mistake.
To cover it up, she had praised him a lot.
Now, it seemed he was a decent person, as he hadn't told Brother Jiayan about it.
Xie Jiayan could tell from Yu Mingyue's visibly relaxed expression that neither of them had told the truth.
It was likely that one had played a trick and was embarrassed, while the other had been tricked and felt too ashamed to mention it.
"Brother Jiayan, is there any news from Youzhou?"
Although Yu Mingyue had confidence in her brother, the Wang family had sent assassins, and given her brother's nature, he wouldn't abandon the Seventh Prince.
Swords and blades are blind, and she didn't have a ten-tenths certainty that her brother and the Seventh Prince would win.
"Worried about your brother?"
"Mm!" Yu Mingyue nodded eagerly.
"Don't worry, your brother will be fine. Jizhou has sent reinforcements, and the Eldest Princess has promoted many of her own people over the years. The Luo family won't succeed," Xie Jiayan said.
The Sage had already laid this trap long ago, waiting for the Luo family to fall into it.
Otherwise, gratuitously killing old officials would chill the hearts of the ministers. Now that the Luo family was seeking their own demise, it was no wonder the Sage was ruthless.
"But my father is in Jizhou," Yu Mingyue's expression didn't improve much.
"Sixth daughter, your father and your brother know what they are doing and will be responsible for themselves. Don't let your worries become their burden or shackles. They are far stronger than you imagine."
Although he hadn't interacted much with Yu Mingjing, he was meticulous and quite cunning. His disappearance this time was likely a smokescreen, a feint.
If he guessed correctly, Yu Mingjing and the Seventh Prince's target was the Khitan royal tent. Their so-called disappearance was merely a diversion, "mending the plank road while crossing the Chencang."
"Really?"
Yu Mingyue didn't doubt her father's and brother's abilities; it was just that in the storybooks, their deaths were extremely tragic, and she couldn't let go of it.