My spirit appeared on the road to exile, and I was treated as an ancestor.

Chapter 131 They were all fooled by the little girl.
The tribesmen around him echoed, "That's right!"
Lu Xingyao spoke earnestly to Shunyu, "Your Highness, this person must have been sent from the capital. He is full of lies; Your Highness must not be deceived by him!"

Shunyu sighed, "Young Master Lu, this person is really not a bad person."

He had already explained it himself, so why didn't Lu Xingyao believe him?
After hearing Shunyu's words, the others felt that this little princess was still too young. Look how easily she had been deceived. She was still speaking up for this little liar, really treating him as someone who had come to save her!
After a while, inside the tent, Mingyuan was found with her hands and feet bound, thrown on the ground, and her mouth gagged with a piece of cloth.

When Lu Qing was awakened, he was holding three items: two dragon-patterned tokens, one large and one small, and a letter.

Everyone was watching him, waiting for the order to drag this lying little girl out and deal with her!

Lu Qing replied, "This is indeed the late emperor's handwriting."

Everyone looked at each other in disbelief, especially Lu Xingyao, who was almost dumbfounded. Ah, is this really the manpower that the late emperor left for the little princess?

Lu Qing gestured to Changsun to untie Ming Yuan on the ground. "Although I have never seen the Golden Scale Guard token, I did see Yan Hai, the Right Envoy of the Golden Scale Guard, when I was with the late Emperor. I wonder how he is now?"

The cloth was removed from Ming Yuan's mouth, and she wiped her mouth vigorously. "You may be mistaken. The Right Envoy of the Golden Scale Guard is not surnamed Yan. Only the Left Envoy is surnamed Yan and named Yan Cang."

Lu Qing then handed the item back to Shunyu, saying, "Your Highness, this is indeed from the Golden Scale Guard."

He knew that the late emperor doted on this daughter, but he never expected that the emperor would scheme so far for her. If the current emperor had known that the Golden Scale Guard had not been abolished and would still be in Shunyu's hands, he would never have let her leave the capital alive.

Shunyu took the item, clutching it tightly. Old Master Lu had been the Emperor's right-hand man, so he naturally recognized the Emperor's handwriting. With him testing her, it was clear that Mingyuan was indeed a member of the Golden Scale Guard.

She wanted to hear Lu Qing's opinion, so she asked, "Mr. Lu, do you think I should leave with them?"

Lu Qing: "Whether you stay or leave is entirely up to Your Highness. With the Golden Scale Guards here, they will surely protect you."

The implication is that the Golden Scale Guard is a good weapon, and how Shunyu uses it is entirely up to her; no one can force her.

Shunyu was silent for a moment, then asked, "If I leave, would you be willing to come with me?"

Lu Qing was slightly taken aback, and the others were even more astonished. They all looked at the old man. If he escaped, it would give the person in the capital a legitimate opportunity to eliminate him completely.

“Your Highness, the Lu family has many members. If we were to leave with you, it would inevitably cause trouble.”

His Lu family will eventually shed their status as exiled criminals, but not now.

Although Shunyu was not surprised, she couldn't help feeling disappointed. If Old Master Lu refused to leave with her, then she wouldn't leave either.

Moreover, if he goes to the North now, at least Xiao Zhan in the capital still thinks he can control him. If he finds out that he is gone and the investigation traces back to the Golden Scale Guard, then it will be a loss for him.

We need to use the Golden Scale Guards, but we can't expose them too early.

She looked at Mingyuan, "When you pass through Ji County tomorrow, go and meet the people there."

Ming Yuan was stunned. "Your Highness isn't leaving?"

Shunyu nodded, "Just say that I want to go to the North with Elder Lu. I am fine now and do not need to leave. I hope that the Golden Scale Guards will hide in the shadows and not be noticed by anyone. They will help me return to the capital in the future."

Her decision made Lu Qing realize that this little princess had truly grown up.

Emerging from the tent, Shunyu walked ahead, while Lu Xingyao kept staring at Mingyuan beside her, unable to contain his curiosity, "Was the woman that night really your mother?"

A cold glint flashed in Ming Yuan's eyes. "No."

Lu Xingyao pressed further, "Did you kill that woman?"

The more he thought about it, the more something seemed off. How could it be so perfectly timed? They had just arrived, and she was gone, and she had fainted at just the right moment, leaving him no choice but to bring her back. Now that things had come to this, Ming Yuan felt there was nothing to hide. Meeting Lu Xingyao's gaze, she said, "I killed her."

Upon hearing this, Shunyu stopped and turned to look at Mingyuan, asking, "Why did you kill him?"

Could it be that he wanted to infiltrate the team and get close to him?
Ming Yuan remained silent for a long time. "She conspired with others to sell her daughter to that kind of place. We took her away. The adults said that people who sell their daughters should be killed."

Many of the Golden Scale Guards were sold into the force by their families for money when they were young, while a small number inherited their parents' profession.

So they drugged the woman, making her voice hoarse, and controlled her with poison. They also killed all the men.

What Ming Yuan didn't say was that the Left Envoy also said that it was a blessing for that woman to be able to "serve" the princess.

She felt the same way.

Shunyu never imagined that such parents existed in the world.
Lu Xingyao suddenly blurted out, "Good riddance! People who sell their own daughters deserve to die!"

Ming Yuan remained silent.

Thinking of Ming Yuan's skills and abilities, Shun Yu suddenly became curious and asked Ming Yuan, "How long have you been in the Golden Scale Guard?"

Lu Xingyao, who was standing to the side, also looked at Ming Yuan with curiosity.

Ming Yuan: "Your Highness, I was brought into the Golden Scale Guard when I was six years old, which is ten years ago."

Lu Xingyao understood. Ten years! No wonder he's so skilled! Wait a minute!

He stared wide-eyed at Ming Yuan, "You look only eight or nine years old?"

Where did the ten years come from?
Shunyu was also shocked. Looking at Mingyuan, she was clearly not even ten years old, but the way she acted did not seem like she was only nine.

Ming Yuan ignored Lu Xingyao and instead explained to Shunyu, "I have suffered from a strange illness since childhood, so my body and appearance cannot grow like ordinary people."

Shunyu was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized that she had asked the wrong question and touched a sore spot.

Lu Xingyao was also surprised to find that a sixteen-year-old girl looked only nine years old. He immediately stopped talking and stopped being curious.

Ming Yuan didn't think much of it. Because of a strange illness, she was abandoned in a beggar's den when she was a child. But if it weren't for this strange illness, the Left Envoy wouldn't have brought her back to the Golden Scale Guard to raise her, give her medicine, and let her live until now.

People around children tend to be more kind and less wary towards younger children.

Just like the Lu family, no matter how vigilant they were, weren't they still fooled by themselves?
Lu Xingyao escorted the master and servant back, then hurriedly ran back to find his grandfather.

Inside the tent, several grown men sat facing each other, their hearts filled with mixed emotions. They thought to themselves, "So many men in the Lu family have been fooled by a little girl. Luckily, nothing went wrong. We must remember this lesson."

Lu Xingyao ran into the tent, excitedly saying, "Grandfather, that Ming Yuan isn't an eight or nine-year-old girl at all. She's clearly sixteen, but she looks eight or nine!"

"I knew it! How could we possibly let a little girl who's not even ten years old do us any good!"

The Lu family members: "."

Is it possible that even if someone is sixteen years old, it's still embarrassing?

Here's a silent greeting, waving goodbye to my darlings and begging for some monthly votes!