After rebirth, I became the widow of my mortal enemy

Chapter 172 Who is stronger?

Yan Mobai returned to Fuxue Garden and entered the side room, but did not see Ning Miao.

He turned and went back to the study.

In the study, Ning Miao was leaning over the table, holding a brush in his hand, and drawing something intently.

Afraid of startling her by entering suddenly, Yan Mobai raised his hand and knocked gently on the door.

Ning Miao looked up when he heard the voice, and when he saw it was him, he curled his lips and said, "You're leaving court so soon?"

"Not very fast." Yan Mobai took a step forward.

"What are you drawing?" He tilted his head to look.

Seeing that it was a portrait of a person, he wondered, "Whose?"

Ning Miao said nothing and finished the last few strokes before putting down his pen and handing him the finished portraits.

"These are King Kang's other four counselors: gold, wood, fire, and earth."

"Metal and wood are men, and the three of us, water, fire and earth, are women."

Yan Mobai took a look and felt that it was unfamiliar.

"King Kang has protected you five very well."

If it weren't for the iron mine map in his previous life, he would never have seen her since he and she killed each other.

"But you still got my portrait in Jiangnan," Ning Miao said.

Yan Mobai's eyes flickered slightly.

not at all.

"Do you really live in Prince Kang's Mansion? You never go out? Do you live in the basement of Prince Kang's Mansion?"

Anyone who had entered or left Prince Kang's mansion, anyone who had lived in the mansion, his people or Prince Ning's people would surely have been able to find out the news.

Ning Miao glanced at him and said, "What are you thinking about? We are counselors, not prisoners who must not see the light of day."

"We live in the residential area around Prince Kang's Palace, just like ordinary people, but the residences where the five of us live have secret passages leading to a dark room in Prince Kang's Palace."

Yan Mobai was surprised.

Then he laughed: "King Kang is really good at digging secret passages."

Last time, they also dug a secret passage and stole the bell.

"In fact, you are just counselors, not killers, so why do you have to do this? What's wrong with letting you appear in public? The princes will not kill counselors in the fight."

Ning Miao lowered his eyes and curved his lips.

is it?

In my previous life, you not only killed me, but also cut open my stomach and even stabbed me between my eyebrows with a dagger, preventing me from reincarnating.

When Yan Mobai saw the mocking smile on her lips, his eyelashes trembled. He immediately remembered that he had killed her in his previous life and quickly changed the subject.

"No wonder there is so little information about you. It turns out you are hiding from the public."

After that, he asked again: "Why do you draw their portraits for me?"

He didn't care about these four people.

All along, he only considered her as his opponent, and he didn't take the others seriously at all.

"I think that given King Kang's sinister and suspicious nature, he would have tortured me for three years. He must have also done something to the four of them, such as secretly poisoning them or secretly controlling their relatives." Ning Miao said.

Yan Mobai nodded.

"so?"

"So, send someone to secretly investigate what methods King Kang used against them to see if you can get them to defect."

"Defection?" Yan Mobai curled his lips and put the portrait in his hand on the table: "I don't need them to defect."

Ning Miao looked at him with an unhappy expression.

Yan Mobai picked up the portrait again: "Of course, there's no harm in checking it out."

Ning Miao frowned, "I know that you alone are enough for His Royal Highness Prince Ning to deal with any prince's think tank. Letting these people defect is not to let them help you and His Royal Highness Prince Ning to plan anything, but to get the movements of Prince Kang, which is better than any of your spies."

"You're right." Yan Mobai said.

Ning Miao suddenly remembered something: "Forget about Hua Yao. She has that kind of relationship with King Kang, so she shouldn't be likely to betray."

"What kind of relationship?" Yan Mobai flipped through the portraits in his hand and found the woman named Hua Yao.

He lowered his eyes and looked.

A woman with such a worldly air on her face is not what King Kang would like.

Ning Miao glanced at him and said, "You are asking even though you know the answer. It must be a relationship between a man and a woman."

Yan Mobai's eyes darkened slightly: "King Kang even got involved with the counselors around him?"

"Aren't you even getting involved with your mortal enemy?" Ning Miao replied quickly.

Yan Mobai raised his eyes: "Are you defending him?"

"No, I'm praising you. When it comes to getting involved, who's stronger? You're stronger." Ning Miao said.

Yan Mobai: "......"

After being speechless for a moment, he said, "You were the first to touch me."

Ning Miao raised his hand and touched his forehead, not wanting to continue on this topic.

"Do you remember the disappearance of the Emperor's alchemist last year?"

Yan Mobai was surprised that she suddenly mentioned this and nodded.

Of course he remembered that this alchemist had been making elixirs for Emperor Zhaoqing to prolong his life and was extremely trusted by the emperor. But for some reason he suddenly disappeared, and the emperor sent many people to look for him, but they couldn't find him after a long search.

"This person is in the hands of King Kang." Ning Miao said.

Yan Mobai was very surprised.

Ning Miao sighed: "It's a pity, I only know that this person is in his hands, and he is asking this person to refine the elixir of immortality, but I don't know where it is hidden."

She also learned about this matter when she accidentally overheard the conversation between Prince Kang and his personal guard.

King Kang was cautious and did not tell his advisers everything.

"It's okay, I'll send someone to investigate secretly." Yan Mobai said.

Ning Miao nodded: "If we can find this person, Prince Kang will have no chance of turning things around in the Emperor's place."

"By the way, there is one more thing I need your help with."

"You said."

"You haven't picked up the Xihou jade pendant that you ordered from Nie Huan for Yan Changjing yet, right?"

"not yet."

"When you go get it, please give her a message and ask her to ask my master for a chasing butterfly."

"Chasing butterflies?" Yan Mobai narrowed his eyes.

"Yes, it's a kind of butterfly that can be used for tracking. It looks similar to ordinary butterflies, but it's actually a special species."

"Ordinary butterflies only live for half a year at most, but this butterfly can live for five years, or even longer."

"If you feed it with nectar of a colorless and odorless medicinal flower every day for two years, its sense of smell will become extremely amazing. It can smell the scent of this medicinal flower nectar from a hundred miles away, so it can be used for tracking."

Ning Miao added: "When I went down the mountain, the butterfly had not yet been fed. It would take another year to feed it, but now the time has passed."

This was the first time Yan Mobai heard of such a butterfly.

"In other words, if you want to track someone, you can get the colorless and odorless nectar of the medicinal flower on that person. No matter where that person goes, even if he is a hundred miles away, the butterfly chaser can find him. Is that what you mean?"

"Yes." Ning Miao nodded.

"This thing is great!" Yan Mobai said happily, "I'll put some nectar on you every day, and I won't be afraid of not finding you anymore."

Ning Miao: “…”

The reason she wanted a chasing butterfly was to see if she could find the place where King Kang was refining the elixir by tracking King Kang or his personal guards.

"I'll go to Dingyuxuan to get the jade pendant in the afternoon." Yan Mobai said.

Ning Miao thought it was inappropriate.

"Forget it. You should send someone you can trust to look for my master. Nie Huan may have been targeted by King Kang. We can't let her go."

Yan Mobai nodded, thinking that what she said made sense.

Suddenly he realized something and asked her, "Doesn't King Kang know your master?"