Having her attack dodged, Su Qinghe got up and launched her own attack.
Ling Feng quickly steadied himself, but did not launch an attack. He simply protected his lower abdomen and dodged.
But this yielded no results, and Ling Feng grew increasingly exhausted, cold sweat beading on his forehead.
"Xiaoying!"
He shouted loudly, and two round beads appeared in his hand without him noticing.
Once again dodging Su Qinghe's vicious punch, he seized the opportunity to throw the beads in his hand to the ground, and the room was instantly filled with smoke.
Su Qinghe's vision blurred, and the man's figure had already disappeared. Just as she was about to follow the slightest sound, she suddenly felt weak as she tried to gather her inner strength.
This smoke is poisonous!
Feeling a little weak, Su Qinghe stood still and stopped chasing after them. Only after the smoke cleared did she slowly walk to the table and pick up the teapot.
Not far from the door, Nanfeng lay sprawled on the ground, unconscious. Su Qinghe poured some water on her face to wake her up.
"Master!"
Seeing that Su Qinghe was safe and sound, Nanfeng breathed a sigh of relief, but also felt somewhat guilty.
"It's okay, I got infected too, it's not your fault."
After offering a few words of comfort, Su Qinghe led her entourage to the clinic. Only after learning that the medicine was merely a temporary measure to induce unconsciousness and weakness did she return home with peace of mind.
Ten Miles of Fragrance.
Xiaoying hurriedly pulled an old man into the private room.
"My husband is one month pregnant. He was frightened today and now his stomach hurts. Please take a look."
A flurry of activity ensued inside the room. After the doctor was seen off, Ling Feng lay pale-faced on the couch, while Xiao Ying fed him medicine.
"Young master, the doctor just said that the child is still not very stable..." Xiaoying lowered her head and fed the medicine spoonful by spoonful.
"But don't worry, Miss Bai wrote again yesterday, saying that she will arrive in the next couple of days. You must be extra careful these next few days."
"Um."
Ling Feng half-closed his eyes and weakly hummed in response, feeling a slight cramp in his stomach.
Seeing her young master's pale face, Xiaoying couldn't help but complain.
"I never expected Su Qinghe to be so heartless. They are her children, after all, yet she doesn't care at all and just attacks without warning."
“Every family in Dawu is proud of having many children, yet she disregarded the law and committed murder without permission.”
"Besides, we paid for this pregnancy fruit ourselves."
"She won't even accept power that's offered for free. I've never seen such a stubborn woman."
Hearing Xiaoying's constant complaints, Ling Feng frowned and gently shook his head.
"We only saw her gentle side towards her husband before, but we never expected her to be so ruthless and decisive towards outsiders."
"Women are very concerned about their image, so she was naturally unhappy that I drugged her."
"Besides... not everyone in this world likes power, at least she doesn't, I can tell."
"She doesn't care about the child, so there's only one last option left..."
Seeing that her young master had said so, Xiaoying wisely shut her mouth.
"Just stay indoors for the next few days and wait for Bai Xiaojiu to arrive. Don't try to find out anything about her."
After finishing the last sip of medicine, Ling Feng waved his hand, and Xiao Ying helped him lie down flat.
After lighting another calming incense stick, Ling Feng slept soundly, while Xiao Ying quietly retreated to the side of the small couch to keep watch.
...
Bai Xiaojiu arrived in Tianhe County early the next day, inquired along the way, and soon made contact with Ling Feng.
"Luckily, the doctor was found in time, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to save this child."
Bai Xiaojiu slowly inserted the silver needle into an acupoint, her face serious. Then she took out the longest one from a row of silver needles.
Ling Feng lay flat on the couch, his eyes gazing indifferently at the bed beam.
"I owe it all to the medication you gave me to help me maintain the pregnancy; thank you so much!"
"polite!"
Bai Xiaojiu smiled faintly and responded, then took out paper and pen and wrote down a prescription.
"Actually, if this baby is a daughter, it doesn't matter if you don't choose the woman you picked. Anyway, your Ling family only needs one heir."
Ling Feng shook his head upon hearing this.
"Qiu Shan will not compromise so easily."
"Regardless of whether it's a man or a woman, if I go back with a big belly like this, without any women around, their spittle will drown me, and I'll really be ruined."
"Besides, we don't even know if it's a boy or a girl. If it's a boy, am I supposed to go find that woman again? I'm afraid I won't even be able to leave the Seven Kill Pavilion."
Bai Xiaojiu sighed.
"That's true. If Qiu Shan's influence hadn't already permeated most of the pavilion, even if she died, her people would have taken her place. I would have just poisoned her with a bowl of medicine long ago, instead of going through all this trouble!"
"If we want to bring her down now, we must not only remove her spies in each branch, but also make her lose the trust of the members of the cabinet."
Ling Feng clenched his fists, clearly knowing that this was no easy task.
"She has people in your pharmacy too, you still need to be careful."
"I know."
Bai Xiaojiu was not surprised. She pulled out the needles from Ling Feng's body, carefully heated each one over a fire, and then put them back into the needle bag.
After she packed everything into the medicine box, Ling Feng stared at the box and asked:
"Is there poison in this?"
Bai Xiaojiu paused in closing the box door.
"Of course, they're all extremely poisonous, deadly to the touch. Do you need them?"
As she spoke, she reopened the box and pointed to several bottles of different colors for Ling Feng.
"We have pills, powders, and liquids. What type do you want?"
Ling Feng looked away from the medicine bottles she was pointing to.
"I don't want something highly toxic. Are there any chronic drugs that have minimal impact on the body after detoxification?"
Upon hearing his description, Bai Xiaojiu's face darkened, and she slammed the trunk door shut.
"No, there's no antidote for a potent poison that won't affect the body. Those are just minor poisons, why would I bother to work on one?"
"I am useful."
Ling Feng stared intently at her.
Bai Xiaojiu was taken aback and asked uncertainly, "If the soft approach doesn't work, are you planning to use a hard approach?"
Looking at the man's cold face, Bai Xiaojiu no longer expected him to answer and nodded and stood up on her own.
"The pharmacy does have that kind of medicine, but I didn't put it in my suitcase when I left. Wait, I'll go to the pharmacy and buy some herbs to make it for you."
She turned around, then turned back. "What form do you want?"
Ling Feng thought for a moment.
"...A liquid is fine."
As he watched her about to step out of the room, he emphasized it again.
"Although the toxicity is not high, it still needs to be something that ordinary clinics cannot cure."
"Do you need to tell me? My medicine, Bai Xiaojiu's, is not that simple!"
Bai Xiaojiu waved her hand impatiently, took a few steps out the door, and returned close to evening.
"This is it. I was afraid you wouldn't have enough, so I made two bottles. If you need to poison someone, just use two drops each time, once a day."
As Bai Xiaojiu spoke, she pulled another bottle out of her pocket.
"This is the antidote, but it's in the form of pills. It will be completely cured after taking it for three days."
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