It would be a lie if Yang Qing said he didn't feel slightly nervous from seeing them. Meeting unfamiliar figures, one of them from the administration department and the other being a guard, considering his history, Yang Qing on default assumed there might be a reprimand coming his way.
In the past, after his various failed schemes, the Order would usually send some unassuming person at the most inopportune of times to deliver his sentencing which made him forever wary of people he did not know, wearing a polite demeanor.