Chapter 980 Bait
The Qu family's side room was extremely quiet, and it was half an hour later when Madam Qin came out again.
The nanny who had brought her in before personally escorted her out, her face full of gratitude.
"Thank you, doctor. If it weren't for you, my young lady's child would have been lost."
Madam Qin wiped her hands and said gently, "The baby in her womb is well taken care of, and she has been healthy. Otherwise, this fall tonight would have harmed both mother and child. Although the child is fine now, she has seen bleeding, so she needs to stay in bed and rest."
"Get the medicine according to the prescription I just wrote. Have someone boil it and take it three times a day. I also have some pills to nourish pregnant women. Send someone to go with me and get them. Have her take one pill every five days for two months. It will stabilize the fetus and help the mother have a better birth."
The nanny was immediately grateful when she heard this: "Thank you, doctor, thank you, doctor."
She hurriedly called the maid behind her:
"Cui Xin, go with this doctor to get the medicine..." Halfway through her sentence, she seemed to remember that there were other people in the doctor's residence. The nanny quickly raised her head and looked at Lu Zhinian standing in the courtyard: "Mr. Rong, will we bother Madam Rong if we go to get the medicine?"
Lu Zhinian raised his eyes and said gently, "It's not that I'm disturbing you, but my wife is timid. She was already frightened tonight. If someone else goes there, I'm afraid it will scare her. Why don't I send someone to bring the pills over after I go back? It will definitely not delay your young lady's illness."
The nanny hesitated and looked at Madam Qin: "This..."
Madam Qin glanced at Lu Zhinian coldly, as if she knew what he was worried about, and said directly: "What he said does make sense. Just have him send someone to send it over. It won't take too long."
Reaching out to take the medicine box carried by the servant of the Qu family, Madam Qin slung it across her shoulder.
"It's getting late, I'll be leaving now. If your young mistress feels any worse, please send someone to look for me."
The nanny nodded quickly: "Then I'll trouble you, doctor."
…
Madam Qin did not stay at the Qu family for long. After instructing them on the things they needed to pay attention to, she simply carried her medicine box and left behind Lu Zhinian. She behaved normally from beginning to end. She neither talked much with anyone nor forced anyone to go to the Zen Garden.
She just followed Lu Zhinian quietly, keeping half a step away from him, thinking about what to say to Tang Ning when she saw him after returning. She only said that she didn't expect that just when she walked around the koi pond in the temple and reached a secluded place, the originally quiet Lu Zhinian suddenly spoke.
"I remember that Qin Miaoshou always carries things with him, and never asks others to help him with things like medicine."
Madam Qin frowned and looked at him: "What do you want to say?"
"Did the young lady of the Wenyuan Earl's Mansion really encounter an accident?" Lu Zhinian's eyes darkened slightly.
Madam Qin's heart skipped a beat, and she felt that the man in front of her was terrifyingly sharp, but she didn't show it on her face.
She frowned, her eyes revealing a hint of impatience: "Well, what else can I do? She was right there, and there were so many eyes watching when something happened. If you don't believe me, just go and see for yourself."
"I'm not the prisoner you captured. If it weren't for my junior brother and Aning, do you think you could control me? Don't think that everyone is the same as you just because you think you're not a good person. Don't use your shameful thoughts to annoy me."
After saying this, Madam Qin walked away with her medicine box, her face cold.
Lu Zhinian suddenly stretched out his hand to block it.
Madam Qin glared: "What are you doing?"
Lu Zhinian didn't get angry after being scolded. He just said calmly, "I was wrong to misunderstand you just now, but there are some things we have to be on guard against. This Lingyun Temple is crowded with people and it's not a peaceful place after all."
Madam Qin's grip on the medicine box suddenly tightened: "What do you want to do?"
Lu Zhinian waved his hand, and suddenly several people appeared in the originally empty surroundings. They were all people he had seen in the Zen Garden before. They surrounded the area from front to back, and even took Madam Qin with them to retreat to a cramped place.
"Thank you for your help, Qin Miaoshou. Please take good care of her and get her down the mountain."
"Lu Zhinian!"
Madam Qin never expected that Lu Zhinian would suddenly send her away: "What do you mean?"
She clearly didn't do anything and didn't show any unusual behavior, but Lu Zhinian reacted like this. Could it be that he discovered something?
Madam Qin still remembered what happened in the Qu family's house. Without caring about anything else, she stepped forward and said hurriedly: "You can't send me away. Aning's body is not well yet. What will happen if I leave her..."
"I will find someone to take care of An Ning, and with Qin Miaoshou's treatment over the past few days, I think her life is safe."
"you!"
Madam Qin suppressed her anger and said, "Lu Zhinian, I'm not a god. How can Aning recover from the damage she's done to her body and foundation in just a few days?"
She felt that the man in front of her was unpredictable and it was hard to understand why he suddenly turned against her. She could only try to appeal to his emotions and reason.
"You keep saying that you love Aning, so you shouldn't take risks with her body. Even if her life is safe now, do you want her to suffer from sequelae that will shorten her lifespan? I know what you're worried about, but my junior brother is still in your hands, so I won't do anything more..."
"You won't do much, but it won't make Aning better."
Lu Zhinian's words made Madam Qin's face change instantly. She tightened her fingers and asked, "What nonsense are you talking about?"
Lu Zhinian said calmly, "Qin Miaoshou is a smart man, he naturally understands what I am talking about."
"A Ning is testing my limits little by little, trying to use her illness to control me. You will naturally not let her get better. Even if you stay with her forever, unless she can escape from me, I think she will probably always be a sickly person."
"In that case, what's the point of keeping you?"
Madam Qin's expression changed drastically. Feeling something was wrong, she subconsciously reached into her sleeve, but before she could move halfway, the person next to her grabbed her neck.
Lu Zhinian walked up to her, grabbed her wrist and took out the silver needle that she was holding on her fingertips. The slender needle tip had a strange color under the candlelight.
Lu Zhinian said calmly, "I promised Aning that I would not harm your life, and I will not break my promise. As long as you can get down the mountain safely, someone will naturally take you to see Zhuo Shuisheng. But if you can't, you can only blame yourself..."
Who made those people linger around and pursue him relentlessly, trying to separate him and Tang Ning?
"Lu Zhinian, you..."
Madam Qin's voice was blocked by the thing stuffed in her mouth. Her face turned red with anger and her heart was beating violently.
How could this happen? She clearly hadn't done anything, and she hadn't said a word since leaving Qu's room. How had she revealed something that had alarmed Lu Zhinian, causing him to send her away? What would happen to Tang Ning, and what about the plan just now...
“Hmm!”
Before Madam Qin had time to think about it, she suddenly felt a pain in the back of her neck and lost consciousness the next moment.
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The mountain road was rugged and the car was shaking as the horse galloped. Tang Ning grabbed the edge of the window with his hands, but he couldn't keep his balance at all.
There was a rapid sound of horse hooves outside, and Lu Zhinian opposite had a sullen face and sinister eyes.
Tang Ning looked at Yue Jian, who was tied up and thrown in the corner of the carriage, and clutched the window tightly and shouted angrily:
"Lu Zhinian, what on earth do you want to do?! It's fine that you just suddenly left Lingyun Temple, but why did you kidnap Yuejian? And where is Sister Qin? What did you do to Sister Qin?!"
"Of course I sent her to where she should go."
"Lu Zhinian!"
Tang Ning's eyes suddenly became filled with anger. He thought that Lu Zhinian was trying to kill Madam Qin. He raised his hand and wanted to swing it at Lu Zhinian's face, but he was suddenly grabbed by him.
Lu Zhinian grabbed Tang Ning's wrist and said, "Aning, I didn't kill her, but I'm not sure if those people you brought here will kill her."
Tang Ning's eyes flickered, and she saw him leaning closer to her.
"I've always known that you're not the same as you were before, but I never thought you could be this powerful. Before you left Beijing, every step you took was under my watch, and after you came to Lingyun Temple, you stayed with me every step of the way. Yet, you still had the audacity to let someone find you."
"How did you do that?"
Lu Zhinian lost the gentleness he had maintained before. When he got close to her ear, his breath was like a poisonous snake, sweeping across her fair face inch by inch, and finally landing on her eyes with trembling eyelashes.
These eyes once looked at him with incomparable sincerity, as if their beautiful pupils like shining stones could only accommodate him, and they chased after him as if they would belong to him alone forever. But now, they were filled with alienation and resentment, and no matter how much he did, it could not bring any warmth. All the ripples and emotions in them had nothing to do with him.
His fingers fell on Tang Ning's lips and pressed lightly.
"Aning, how did you get in touch with the Qu family?"
Tang Ning felt as if a poisonous snake was crawling across her lips, and she leaned back suddenly to avoid his hand.
She did not answer Lu Zhinian's question, but only paid attention to his question about whether the people she brought would kill Madam Qin. Tang Ning couldn't help but feel a frost in her eyes.
"Lu Zhinian, are you using Sister Qin as bait?!"
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