Seeing his persistent look, Su Mingyu let out a long breath and then said in a deep voice, "I don't rely on internal strength."
"That's impossible. If you didn't use internal strength, how could you knock down those secret guards?" Kang Zeyan had clearly seen Su Mingyu's heroic bearing just now.
That agile speed and powerful strength didn't seem like someone whose internal strength had been suppressed no matter how you looked at it.
Seeing that Kang Zeyan didn't believe her, Su Mingyu casually picked up a teacup and exerted a little force on her hand. With a "click", the teacup shattered.
A look of surprise flashed in Kang Zeyan's eyes. "How did you do that?"
Being able to crush a teacup with bare hands without any internal strength only showed that the strength in Su Mingyu's hands had reached a terrifying level.
Su Mingyu calmly threw the broken teacup out of the window and then said coldly, "If you were to carry things twice your own weight regardless of the seasons like I did, you could also achieve such skills."
"You mean... you were dragged by Wang Manwen to do hard labor?" Kang Zeyan reacted for a second and then narrowed his eyes. This Wang Manwen was even more ruthless than the information he had obtained.
Su Mingyu was too lazy to talk to him. "Otherwise, does Young Master Kang think that the Su family would support a good - for - nothing?"
Kang Zeyan just raised his eyebrows. Anyway, the Su family was a high - ranking official's mansion. It could easily support not only one idle Su Mingyu but also ten or a hundred without any financial burden. And Wang Manwen had actually made Su Mingyu work for so long with such an excuse?
"You don't seem like such a stupid person." Kang Zeyan looked at Su Mingyu. He knew how smart Su Mingyu was, so he couldn't believe that Su Mingyu would obediently be at Wang Manwen's mercy.
Su Mingyu didn't force him to believe her. She just curled her lips and said, "Say whatever you want. Anyway, that's the reason. Believe it or not."
She of course knew that her words were not very convincing, but the original owner of this body was just such a fool.
Moreover, it was better to say that she had been abused by Wang Manwen than to tell Kang Zeyan that she was actually a specially - trained agent since childhood who had always relied on physical strength and never used internal strength.
Su Mingyu deliberately pretended to be very disappointed. She leaned her head against the carriage and closed her eyes without looking at Kang Zeyan again.
When the group returned to the Water Mansion, the sky was as black as ink.
Su Mingyu looked very tired. Without a single word of nonsense, she turned around and entered her room, closing the door behind her.
"You came quite quickly." Su Mingyu glanced obliquely upwards and saw a familiar figure crouching there.
Hearing Su Mingyu's words, the man jumped down from the beam and knelt on one knee in front of Su Mingyu. "Mu Yi pays respects to the Princess."
Su Mingyu waved her hand. "Don't be so polite. Get up."
Looking at Mu Yi's still wet clothes, Su Mingyu raised her eyebrows. "Did you come in through the secret passage as soon as you received the news from Gu Ruobai?"
Mu Yi gave a soft grunt. "Kang Zeyan's attention was all on that boat, so I came in and made some arrangements quietly."
Unexpectedly, Mu Yi had become more cautious than before after a few days' absence.
Su Mingyu nodded in satisfaction. Just as she was about to say something, a tall figure flashed, and Gu Ruobai appeared in the bedroom like a ghost.
As soon as Gu Ruobai appeared, he was in a very bad mood. His calm eyes seemed to have a bottomless darkness, which was chilling.
"Mu Yi, have you finished reporting your matters?" The voice of King Ruixian was very low, sounding like a storm was coming.
Mu Yi quickly reported what had happened these days. "Our salt workshop was falsely accused of not removing impurities. Some people got diarrhea after eating the salt. In our rice shop, some people said they had bought moldy rice. So... many of our shops have been sealed up. And... and the armory..."
The lower Mu Yi spoke, the lower his head sank. "It seems that someone has discovered the place where we train soldiers. Our people found that someone was asking around in the rivers and lakes about the empty land where our training ground is located."
The training ground? Su Mingyu's heart sank. This training ground was Gu Ruobai's biggest and most secretive secret. Although the emperor allowed Gu Ruobai to cultivate a little power, he didn't allow him to have such a large number of highly - combat - capable and loyal subordinates.
"Someone is just inquiring?" Su Mingyu frowned. "If so... can you narrow down the scope of suspects?"
Gu Ruobai nodded. "I see. Put aside the matter of those shops. I want to know who is investigating me. Kang Zeyan may just be a pawn. A tunnel of that scale in the west couldn't have been built by him alone. Start investigating who owns this lake."
Mu Yi quickly nodded. "Yes, Master."
Gu Ruobai waved his hand. "Okay, be careful when you leave. Don't get discovered."
After seeing Mu Yi leave, Su Mingyu carefully looked at Gu Ruobai and then swallowed. "Well... I can explain what happened today."
Gu Ruobai nodded. "Explain."
Su Mingyu bit her lower lip, thought for a while, and then said, "I... really don't know why the King of Yu was there. And... I've already firmly rejected him."
Gu Ruobai raised his eyebrows and looked at Su Mingyu stammering as she explained. Deep in his heart, it was as if it had been illuminated by the warm sun, warm and cozy like a quilt that had been sun - dried.
However, he still pretended to be gloomy. "Continue."
Su Mingyu scratched her nose. "I... swear that I have no feelings for the King of Yu at all. Everything today was just an act!"
Gu Ruobai looked at Su Mingyu with a cold face. "An act? When I saw you trying to kill 'me', you acted quite well."
Su Mingyu blinked her eyes. "Well, there were so many people watching. And the sword wasn't sharpened, right?"
Speaking of this, Su Mingyu thought those two maids had acted very well. If she hadn't made an agreement with Mu Yi in advance, she would really have thought that those two women had been killed by her.
Looking at Su Mingyu with her beautiful eyes wide open, Gu Ruobai couldn't help but curl his lips. Before Su Mingyu could react, he grabbed her and pulled her into his arms, hugging her tightly. "You've had a tough time today."
Su Mingyu originally thought that Gu Ruobai was really angry, but unexpectedly, he had just been testing her.