Chapter 28

Duanmu Huaixin's body gradually became limp, and a trace of painful struggle appeared on his face.

As the medicine took effect in Duanmu Huaixin's body, the toxins that had been suppressed by his internal force began to roam freely in his body, but the locations where those toxins roamed were all close to the wound on his neck. Gradually, a pool of dark green venom gathered at the wound on Duanmu Huaixin's neck.

"...Master, that man..." Yin Yi suddenly received the secret signal of 'danger' from his brothers. His expression did not change, but he felt uneasy in his heart. He hurriedly reported to Wen Weili.

"No need to say more," Wen Weili scooped up a spoonful of Four Gods Soup and blew on it gently, "Mr. Li will not hurt Xinxin."

Yin Yi bowed to Wen Weili and quietly retreated into the shadows, "Yes."

Wen Weili brought the Four Gods Soup into the room and smiled when she saw the fallen guards. "Li Zhigu, the guards I carefully trained wouldn't spy on your medical skills."

"It's hard to say." Li Zhigu rubbed the white cloth in his hand across the wound, wiping away the poison. He glanced at Wen Weili's expression and said sarcastically, "I wonder which guy is secretly reading my medical books every day."

"That explains it," Wen Weili put down the medicine bowl and took out a bandage to bandage Duanmu Huaixin's wound. "If I hadn't understood before, I would have thought my little trick had worked. But now I know you're not an ordinary person. How could you not hear me?"

Li Zhigu also laughed, "It's true that the little girl is not easy to deceive when she grows up. She wants to run away now that she's grown up. Madam Wen has been talking about you for many times."

"Mother would rather I wasn't home to bother her," Wen Weili casually tied a beautiful bow at the end of the bandage. "How is Xinxin?"

"The situation isn't good," Li Zhigu took Duanmu Huaixin's pulse and listened. "If it were an ordinary person, they would have been preparing for the seventh day of death. Fortunately, his internal energy protected his heart meridians and trapped the poison in one place, so he held on until I could save him."

Li Zhigu glanced at Wen Weili with a half-smile, "If it weren't for your deep friendship with him, I would have thought you were planning to leave him to die."

"Why do you say that?" Wen Weili looked at the unconscious guards around him.

Li Zhigu stood up from the stool and gradually approached Wen Weili, watching her every expression, "Why didn't you come to me first?"

Why didn't I come to you first? Don't you know what's going on? Wen Weili's heart was full of complaints about Li Zhigu. He was picky, reckless, and good at taking advantage of others' misfortunes. If she went directly to Li Zhigu, he would definitely give her a hard time. Only by asking other doctors to come and treat her first would he be more competitive and choose to treat Duanmu Huaixin first instead of arguing with her.

Of course, Li Zhigu's act of knocking out the secret guard can be considered as venting his dissatisfaction to some extent.

Wen Weili looked at Li Zhigu's face approaching, and what she thought in her heart was not that Li Zhigu was handsome, but why he was becoming more and more childish, and how much his mother doted on him at home.

"Why don't you answer me?" Li Zhigu lifted Wen Weili's chin and looked into her hazy eyes. "Are you angry? I don't think I've started scolding you yet?"

"That's enough fun." Wen Weili really disliked Li Zhigu's occasional intimate actions. It felt like cooking with too much oil. She wanted to push away the face in front of her, but Li Zhigu grabbed her hand.

Li Zhigu moved closer to Wen Weili and lowered his voice, with a hint of tentativeness in his low voice, "You really aren't going back to the Wen Mansion? Madam Wen is very angry. Maybe you won't get beaten if you apologize earlier."

"Since I've chosen to help Xinxin, I won't regret it easily," Wen Weili said without a trace of hesitation. She bent her knees and gently pressed them against a certain spot under Li Zhigu's abdomen. "Don't blame me if you don't get up."

"Ahem... I'm getting up, getting up," Li Zhigu said cautiously, "Um, the Four Gods Soup should be almost cold now, hurry up and feed it to that little tail-chaser."

Wen Weili brought the medicine bowl to the small table beside the bed, scooped up a small amount with a spoon, lifted Duanmu Huaixin's jaw with one hand, and put the medicine into Duanmu Huaixin's mouth with the other hand. While feeding the medicine, she observed Duanmu Huaixin's expression.

Duanmu Huaixin, who had been motionless since being poisoned, actually frowned slightly, and his face twitched unconsciously.

"The treatment is very effective," Wen Weili nodded affirmatively, "It's still so reliable from being a 'miracle doctor'."

"Thank you for the compliment," Li Zhigu wrote a prescription on a piece of paper and handed it to Wen Weili, "Here, feed her these medicines every day in addition to the Four Gods Soup."

Wen Weili took the prescription and held it beside her without even looking at it. "Thank you."

"I'm not doing this for you," Li Zhigu looked down at Wen Weili, "I just want to complete Madam Wen's inquiry. After all, she is the most powerful in the Wen Mansion, so I have to make a trip whenever she asks me to."

Li Zhigu patted his robe, opened the door, and left leisurely.

"Mother, do you want to ask?" Wen Weili hurriedly finished feeding the Four Gods Soup and went to get the medicine according to Li Zhigu's prescription. But along the way, she kept thinking about what Li Zhigu said. What exactly did her mother want to convey?

Wen Weili felt a little uneasy. After getting the medicine, she quietly went to take a look at Wen's house. There was a soldier every three steps outside the Wen's house, and the entire house was surrounded.

Or has it implicated her family? Wen Weili was furious. Her father, Lord Wen, was a minister in the imperial court and had many students. The prince did not dare to take action against her father, so he could only keep a strict watch on the Wen residence and force her out.

On the surface, her mother was asking her if she wanted to go home, but in reality, she was warning her not to go back. The so-called "beating" must have been that the prince's men in Wen's mansion were preparing to arrest her.

Wen Weili knew that her return would be of no use in resolving the crisis in the Wen Mansion. The only way was to overthrow the prince. Otherwise, the Huai Palace, the Wen Mansion, she and Duanmu Huaixin would always be just dough in the prince's hands, at his mercy.

Having made up her mind, Wen Weili turned and left.

When they were almost near the courtyard, Wen Weili ordered the secret guards to deal with the "tail" behind her. She could have just sent the secret guards to check, but she would not feel at ease if she could not see the situation in the Wen Mansion with her own eyes, so she could only glance at the Wen Mansion seemingly casually, but even so, she was still targeted by someone with ulterior motives.

Wen Weili walked back to the courtyard only after confirming that no one was following her.

She lit the small stove and washed the herbs when there was a knock on the gate. Who could it be? Yin Yi glanced over the wall and told Wen Weili it was Chen Shiquan.

Chen Shiquan? Wen Weili was even more puzzled. After that night, Xiao Shusheng accidentally let slip something about Sister Wen. Amidst everyone's gossip, he dared not approach Sister Wen's courtyard again.

Perhaps out of guilt, or perhaps to avoid gossip, the few people who were drinking that night always turned around and left when they saw Wen Weili from afar, for fear that Sister Wen would talk to them.

So Chen Shiquan's coming here today really shocked Wen Weili.

"Is Sister Wen here?" Chen Shiquan asked loudly.

"Yes," Wen Weili straightened her clothes and opened the gate, "How come Mr. Chen has time to come to my place?"

As soon as Chen Shiquan entered the room, he raised the box in his hand and said, "Sister Wen, it was our fault that day. You told us the truth because you trusted us, but because of Xiao Shusheng's chatterbox, your reputation has been damaged."

"Nothing." Wen Weili had originally used Xiao Shusheng's big mouth to leak the news, so she naturally wouldn't blame them, but her face was still cold. "Please leave quickly, Master Shen, to avoid being gossiped about and making it difficult for you scholars to be like this."

"I..." Chen Shiquan was a little disappointed. He really admired Sister Wen's bravery that night, but as Sister Wen's affairs were leaked, his father locked him up and spread rumors about him. His mother was also afraid that Sister Wen would take this opportunity to marry into his family.

Even though Chen Shiquan knew in his heart that Sister Wen was not such a person, his mother did not believe him at all. Instead, she thought Sister Wen had deceived her. She even asked her friends to watch her when she went out, and resolutely forbade her from contacting Sister Wen. He finally found an opportunity today and came to apologize with a gift.

Chen Shiquan asked others if they wanted to come together, but they refused. Xiao Shusheng hesitated for a moment and still refused, so he came alone today.

Wen Weili listened to Chen Shiquan's apology and knew in her heart that she had used them first. She could only try to comfort them: "I don't care. As time goes by, the rumors will be broken by themselves."

"But..." Chen Shiquan looked at Wen Weili sincerely, "Sister Wen, I really admire you..."

"I said, it's okay, I really don't care, it's nothing." Wen Weili interrupted Chen Shiquan's apology. She felt her conscience was condemning her. She felt a little guilty for deceiving an innocent person.

"But those people are going too far, Sister Wen. They just come less frequently, but the rumors are getting worse and worse." Chen Shiquan felt uncomfortable when he thought of the unpleasant words that the servants had learned and told him. Sister Wen lived on her own, and even if she was deceived, she should not be subject to malicious speculations from others.

Chen Shiquan stammered a few times as he looked at Sister Wen's determined expression. Even though her face was weathered and the fine lines made Sister Wen look less delicate than a young woman, it added a different kind of charm to her.

"sorry."

"sorry."

The two apologized to each other at the same time. Wen Weili hesitated for a moment. Since she couldn't reveal her identity, she could only deceive to the end.

Chen Shiquan's heart skipped a beat. He hurriedly stuffed the box into Wen Weili's hands, turned around and ran away.

"Oh...what should I do? I hope this silly scholar won't do anything." Wen Weili had no way to chase him, so she could only accept Chen Shiquan's apology, hoping that this matter would end here and that nothing else would happen.

The fire in the medicine furnace flickered. Wen Weili was sweating all over in the hot summer, but she still sat upright in the kitchen, adjusting the size of the flame with a fan.

By the time the medicine was ready, it was already late and the sun was setting slightly. Wen Weili handed the medicine bowl to the hidden guard, disguised herself as Huixin, and rushed to the imperial prison.

In the imperial prison, Aunt Zhou greeted her with a smile, "Miss Huixin, that bastard has been punished. Tell him to come and apologize to you tomorrow."

Huixin was grateful for Aunt Zhou's protection and smiled slightly, "Thank you, Aunt Zhou."

"What are you thanking me for?" Aunt Zhou nodded Huixin's forehead in a stern tone. Seeing Huixin's smile, she knew that Huixin was not affected by last night. "Good girl."

"Auntie Zhou, please go home and rest early. I'll go shopping first." Huixin said.

"Okay, okay." Aunt Zhou had a gentle smile in her eyes. She always liked smart and hardworking girls. Huixin was strong and capable. How could she not like her?