Clouds and Moon Shadow

Chapter 502 Two Secrets, Exchanging Searches for the Child

Upon hearing this, Nian Yuwei finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"More than three years ago, I accidentally lost my child. Later, I inquired around and heard that someone had seen him on the border of the Great Chu, but I have never been able to find him. I hope that if I die, Young Master Ye can help me find him. There is a portrait of him in the envelope."

Gu Qingyue: !!!

She finally took the envelope with suspicion and pulled out two pieces of paper.

Gu Qingyue didn't rush to see the secret, but instead opened the one with the portrait.

"How old is your child? Is this what he looked like three years ago? It looks like a portrait of him when he was one or two years old?"

Gu Qingyue looked at the portrait. It was a picture of a toddler with obvious baby fat. The painting was very lifelike, with long, narrow eyebrows and eyes. The child even looked somewhat familiar.

But I can't quite remember where I've seen them before. I suppose all kids look pretty much the same, chubby and cute.

She suddenly felt a little sorry for Nian Yuwei, who had lost her child.

"No, this is a portrait of him from five years ago. He was a little over two years old then, and he should be almost eight years old now."

Nian Yuwei lowered her head, her voice somewhat low.

Almost eight years old?

Gu Qingyue's heart stirred slightly. She paused for a moment, glancing towards Xiao Nian's direction. She guessed Xiao Nian was about the same age, but... although Nian Yuwei was a member of the Tiger Warrior tribe, it was said she had married into the Guanli tribe, which was quite far from the Tiger Warrior tribe...

Could it be Xiao Nian?

Never mind, I'll ask about it in detail later.

“Since it was lost three years ago, why isn’t there a portrait from three years ago? The child was a little over four years old then. If there were a portrait, it would be easier to find him,” Gu Qingyue said, folding up the portrait.

He tucked it into his sleeve. If the information she provided was valuable, then helping her find her child would be worthwhile; it was a kind of exchange of benefits.

After a moment, Nian Yuwei spoke: "When my child was a little over two years old, I entrusted him to a pair of servants in my household to raise. During this time, I was not allowed to leave Wanhua Valley. More than two years later, they sent me a message through someone saying that the child had disappeared. From when the child was a little over two years old until he was a little over four years old, I... never saw him."

"I see." Gu Qingyue sighed softly.

She vividly remembered when Mu Dong first met Nian Yuwei, she was fighting with someone and mentioned that when she lost her child, the child's father was having an affair with another woman...

It's clear that the child's father was also with the child at the time, so what was the point of her lying then?

However, it was none of her business. She only needed to send someone with the portrait to look for the child. As for the child's father at the time, she had no interest in knowing.

Thinking of this, Gu Qingyue opened another piece of paper.

The information on the paper was indeed very important: the Crimson Blood Gu had a new formula with an extremely high success rate and had been secretly used in the Nanzhao army, but it had a fatal weakness: the person who planted the Gu would gradually lose their mind.

Gu Qingyue narrowed her eyes. She composed herself and realized that it was indeed valuable. She casually gave it to Mu Yun Chu.

After reading it, Mu Yun Chu remained calm, showing no emotion, and only nodded slightly to Gu Qing Yue.

After the others had finished reading it, Gu Qingyue put it back into her sleeve.

"Is there any other information you know? The sooner the Wizarding Temple and the Holy Maiden's tyranny ends, the sooner you'll be free, right?"

Gu Qingyue raised an eyebrow and looked at Nian Yuwei.

Upon hearing this, Nian Yuwei frowned and thought for the time it takes to drink half a cup of tea. "I can tell you all are from the Great Chu. So I will tell you a secret of the Great Chu."

After saying that, she walked to the table next to her, picked up a pen, and wrote a line of words.

When this line of text reached Gu Qingyue's hands, she was genuinely surprised: the Prince of Da Chu was using the Ink Blood Gu from the Wizard's Hall to train his secret guards.

Gu Qingyue suddenly remembered the black jar they dug up from the Prince An's mansion on the day Prince An escaped. She had seen it up close and it was indeed a Gu worm, but she didn't know what kind of Gu worm it was.

It was originally called the Ink Blood Gu.

It seems that Prince An has quite a lot of ambition!

The dozens of secret guards he trained were indeed highly skilled, even more so than the Divine Dragon Guards. It turned out that this was all thanks to the Ink Blood Gu!

She passed the note to Mu Yun Chu, who frowned after reading it.

He was clearly thinking the same thing as Gu Qingyue.

"Go and rest first!" Gu Qingyue waved her hand, called over a young man from Moon Shadow Pavilion outside the door, and asked him to take her back.

Unexpectedly, upon reaching the entrance of the hall, Nian Yuwei turned around, pursed her lips, and said, "Please, Young Master Ye, show mercy and spare Granny Yu and Xiao Yuan from the kitchen. Granny Yu is kind-hearted... Xiao Yuan was also captured to be used as a medicinal ingredient, but was later sent to do menial tasks by the Holy Maiden... she..."

Before she could finish speaking, Gu Qingyue raised her hand to stop her, "I have already given the order: everyone except you must die. I can promise you a quick death for them!"

Watching Nian Yuwei walk away, Gu Yuanen nudged Gu Qingyue's arm: "Are you really planning to kill that Granny Yu and Xiao Yuan?"

Gu Qingyue flicked her sleeves. "Investigate carefully. Keep her alive; she might be useful."

Don't say Gu Qingyue is cunning. She felt that Nian Yuwei was still not telling the truth. She didn't have time to interrogate her personally, but leaving one or two people to restrain her was not a bad idea.

"Master, bring Doctor Qin over," Mu Dong's voice rang out from outside the door.

When Mu Yun Chu and Gu Qing Yue came out of the medicine-inducing dungeon, they instructed them to bring Qin the witch doctor over now, as there were many important things they needed to ask her.

For example, the place where the Gu poison is raised has not yet been found.

Looking at the old woman who was brought in by Mu Dong, she still had the same dignified appearance as before.

With her dark face and messy, graying hair, this image perfectly matched her sinister and ruthless personality.

"You snot-nosed brats, how dare you treat me like this! The Great Wizard will not forgive you!" Even though she was tied up like a dumpling the moment she was thrown to the ground, it didn't stop her from cursing immediately.

Oh------

Gu Qingyue raised an eyebrow; she had actually woken up!

Gu Changling was also poisoned by the little golden snake's venom, which paralyzed his body, and he hasn't woken up yet. It seems that this old woman must have other secrets!

For example, their favorite kinds of Gu worms.

Maybe she planted countless kinds of them to protect herself from different poisons! She's not afraid of being eaten alive by the Gu worms.

Believe it or not, Gu Qingyue's casual, wild guess actually came true!

"What, you don't want to admit defeat? Come on, tell me where you're raising your gu poison? Tell me and I promise you a quick death, how about it?"

Gu Qingyue raised an eyebrow, her eyes brightening, completely ignoring her curses.

"Hmph! Forget about it!"

Qin the witch doctor turned his head, closed his eyes, and clearly intended to fight to the end.

Gu Qingyue wasn't annoyed. She glanced at Mu Yun Chu and the others, and their expressions clearly said: You should do it!

Gu Qingyue smiled and continued, "Then tell me why you would kill your own guards? Aren't you from the Wizarding Temple? Aren't you a confidante of the Holy Maiden?"