176 Chapter 176
◎The child named Xu Ping'an is clearly his bloodline.◎
Outside the window, the cicadas chirped, each one louder than the last.
The morning breeze was not too hot. It blew across the courtyard and into the window lattice, bringing with it a faint scent of flowers.
Xu Qinghe was awakened by the sound of cicadas.
She was originally taking a nap against the head of the bed. When she raised her eyes, she saw Ping An's rosy little face.
Before she could regain her composure, she felt a pang of pain in her heart.
My daughter was frightened last night and inhaled smoke and dust. She has been unconscious since she came back and had a high fever in the second half of the night.
She almost didn't sleep all night, and had to wipe her daughter's body to reduce her fever every half a minute.
Now, after checking my daughter's forehead, I realized that Ping'an's fever had subsided.
The court doctor was asked to come and take a look, and he said that the young lady was fine.
Xu Qinghe finally breathed a sigh of relief, holding his daughter's soft and tender little hand, and looked at the clearly visible hemp rope marks on her wrist.
Her heart ached again. The effect of the medicine she had taken last night had worn off. She applied the medicine to the little girl again, her movements very gently, but it still made the little girl whimper and cry.
“Mother…mother…mother, it hurts…”
Xu Qinghe blew gently, feeling extremely distressed, and coaxed her softly: "Don't be afraid, be safe, mother is here, mother will be gentle, okay?"
The little girl stopped crying, but kept calling for her mother.
Later, she started calling him dad.
It’s Dad, not Uncle Xie.
“…”
Xu Qinghe acted as if she didn't hear anything and continued to apply medicine to her daughter.
After applying medicine to the wounds on her hands and feet, she asked Indigo, who had been standing by her side, "How's things going with my husband?"
“Ah…ah?”
Indigo slightly rippled.
She was bought by the Madam in Lanzhou and had no idea about the Madam's past with Marquis Xie.
Moreover, she is the lady's person, and can only rely on the lady's attitude towards Lord Xie to guess how to do things.
"Last night, I noticed that Madam seemed unwilling to pay any attention to Lord Xie. I thought she was mad at him for frightening the young lady, so I didn't send anyone to check on her."
As she spoke, her voice gradually weakened, fearing that she had misjudged her master's intentions.
As expected, the lady's thin eyebrows were slightly frowned.
But fortunately, the lady did not blame her, but only told her: "Go and ask the court doctor to see him."
Indigo breathed a sigh of relief and quickly agreed.
As soon as I walked out of the inner room, I heard the little lady on the bed calling "Daddy" again.
The lady suddenly called her back, "Wait, bring the person here directly and let the court doctor treat him right here."
The voice could not hide the impatience.
Indigo responded and ran quickly to the courtyard where Lord Xie was.
But it was empty-handed.
"Madam, my husband is not in the room. I have asked the servants in the courtyard and the gatekeeper, and they all said...they all said that they have not seen my husband since last night. I wonder where he went..."
“…”
Just because she ignored him last night and didn't specifically order the court doctor to see him, he wanted to run away from home?
Xu Qinghe was irritated and said coldly, "Don't worry about him."
But Ping'an on the bed was still calling "Daddy".
Xu Qinghe gently stroked her daughter's face and said unhappily, "Why are you calling your father such a petty-tempered one?"
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Perhaps because he was always being thought of, Xie Qi finally woke up when the sunlight fell through the window lattice and slanted onto his face.
"General, you are finally awake."
Chen Tai, with a simple and honest face, was guarding the bed, and the scenery around him was not that of Xu's house.
Xie Qi's head felt like it was being clamped by something, and the area around it was aching dully.
He had injuries on his back and waist, and every movement caused pain.
After taking a few deep breaths, Xie Qi gave up trying to get up, looked around again, and asked, "Where is this?"
He remembered that he had clearly brought the little girl back to Xu's house last night.
Chen Tai brought in a bowl of medicine and fed it to the disabled general while explaining, "This is the inn where I'm staying. Yesterday, the general vomited blood and later fell unconscious. There was no doctor to see him, so I had no choice but to carry him out and book a room upstairs for him to have a doctor treat his injuries."
“Ahem…”
Chen Tai was a rough man, far less gentle than Xu Qinghe. He stuffed the medicine into Xie Qi's mouth spoonful by spoonful, and finally succeeded in choking him.
Every time Xie Qi coughed, the injuries on his body became more painful, and combined with the pain in his head, it made him feel dizzy.
After a long while, he finally recovered and asked in a hoarse voice, "Did you tell your wife when you came out?"
Chen Tai paused, looking embarrassed, and obviously didn't say anything.
"This... Madam stayed by the young lady's side all night, so this subordinate couldn't see it."
Xie Qi's face fell in annoyance: "Then why don't you tell the people in the mansion?"
Chen Tai immediately admitted his mistake: "I was in such a hurry to leave that I forgot. It's mainly because you are so scary, General. You clearly only suffered minor injuries, so why are you vomiting blood?"
Xie Qi said, "It's probably because the fallen beams damaged his internal organs. I'll send a message to the mansion later. Don't let Madam worry."
Even if he knew, the girl might not want to care about him at all, let alone worry about him.
Chen Tai didn't know if he had heard the last command. He just pursed his lips and sighed, "But General, you vomited black blood. Just like when you returned from Nanyi Kingdom..."
“…”
Xie Qi's heart sank and his expression darkened.
That could only be a relapse of the old poison.
Seeing this, Chen Tai quickly comforted him, "But don't worry, General. I was so panicked last night that I've already sent people to Lanzhou to find Military Doctor Fan. I estimate he'll be here soon."
In fact, at the beginning, he wanted to take the general directly to the Bamboo Forest Villa to find Young Master Fu and Doctor Ruan, but he remembered that the general had told them not to disturb Doctor Ruan even if they had something to do, as she had just given birth.
So he had no choice but to send someone back to Lanzhou.
After taking the medicine, Xie Qi felt a little drowsy.
As soon as I closed my eyes, all I could think about was the fire last night.
The flames filled the sky, almost dragging him into the two fires that had broken out many years ago.
One caused his family to be destroyed, and the other made him lose himself and have no choice but to recognize the thief as his father.
He himself was afraid of fire. Ping'an, such a young child, was trapped in the fire for so long. He didn't know how he was doing now, or whether he was scared.
When he brought her out, he examined the little girl carefully. There were marks on her hands and feet from being tied with hemp ropes, but there should be no scars.
The little girl also inhaled a lot of smoke and dust. Based on his experience, she should be in a coma for a while, but she was not seriously injured.
I hope it's nothing serious.
If the little girl gets hurt due to his momentary negligence, he will be truly responsible for it.
This was not only for Xu Qinghe, but also for this little girl who had been with him for so long and was finally willing to call him daddy.
However, when he thought of Xu Qinghe, his heart suddenly ached.
He thought of how she ignored him last night and how she hadn't cared about him all night.
The Xu family had more than one doctor, and he thought that the girl would at least send one to treat her injuries.
However, he waited and waited, but in the end the wound only worsened.
Chen Tai had no choice but to apply the medicine he carried with him to the wound, but this still caused the old poison to relapse.
Times are different now. The girl has become a mother and is the first to care for her young daughter. There is nothing wrong with that.
But she actually...
I couldn't even spare a bit of my heart for him.
This was because he brought her daughter back alive and handed her over to her. Seeing that he was fine, she felt fearless.
But what if...
What if he died in a fire trying to save her daughter with another man?
What if he actually died in the fire but sent his daughter back safe and sound?
Would she also stay beside his body and tell him about her love for him over the past twenty years?
Xie Qi was depressed, with new injuries raging and old poisons flaring up, which caused him to have a high fever again at night.
Chen Tai only remembered to take care of the general, and naturally forgot everything the general had instructed him to do.
In the following days, despite the care of Military Doctor Fan, Xie Qi still vomited black blood several times and was unconscious.
It was five days later when the others finally woke up.
"Can Uncle Fan cure this poison now?"
In the past, Doctor Fan could still rely on his experience to be 70% sure of detoxification. As long as he tried carefully, he would always be able to find the antidote.
But now...
He shook his head helplessly.
"In the short term, I really have no other options."
Xie Qi's eyes dimmed slightly, but he did not completely lose hope.
After all, Ruan Ling once said that Nan Si came from the Nanyi martial arts world, and the poison in his hands naturally came from the martial arts world. Even if Ruan Ling couldn't solve it, her master would definitely have a way, it was just a matter of time.
This time, even if he was really poisoned and there was no cure, he would never give up on Xu Qinghe again.
He had tasted the pain of giving up and regretting it once, and he never wanted to experience it a second time in his life.
He gave up once, and the girl gave birth to a lovely and intelligent little daughter with another man. If he let go a second time, who knows what would happen.
He didn't dare to gamble again.
"By the way, General, the scout you sent to Ting'an Town returned early yesterday morning. Would you like to meet him now?"
Chen Tai's words suddenly brought him back to his senses.
The reason why Xie Qi thought of sending people to investigate Ting'an Town was not entirely because of what Nan Si said before his death.
He didn't care whether Xu Qinghe was really entangled with people from the enemy country, nor did he care whether Ping An was that person's bloodline.
He just wanted to know how Xu Qinghe was doing after he left Beijing and why he stayed in Ting'an Town.
"A few days after the general left the capital, the lady also left. However, when she was in Migu Town, she was forced to leave her maid behind because she was infatuated with a local doctor. The maid's name was Nanzhi."
Hearing this, Xie Qi couldn't help but smile.
This girl was clearly using a trick to escape. It must have been at this time that she exchanged identities with Nanzhi, letting Nanzhi return to Jizhou for her, while she went from Migu Town to Ting'an Town.
But...why?
Why did she go through all this trouble?
"On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, the Dragon Boat Festival, the Madam prepared a rice dumpling feast at home, taking the opportunity to warm her home. Although she wore a veil, my subordinates took the portrait given by the general and asked the neighbors about it. They all said that the Madam's eyes were unforgettable and confirmed that it was undoubtedly the Madam. And the husband the Madam had taken into her family at that time... was Nan Si."
With a "pop", the small table on the couch was slapped by the general, and the next moment, it immediately broke into two pieces.
This shows how powerful the general is.
The scout who was reporting had never seen the general so angry, so he quickly stopped talking and dared not say anything more.
Xie Qi closed his eyes, took a deep breath and exhaled heavily. It took several breaths before he finally calmed down.
He said to himself in his heart, so what if Nan Si, no matter how well Nan Si disguised himself, he believed that his girl would never fall in love with him.
When they got married, the girl only treated the marriage as a transaction. Who knows, maybe it's the same with Nan Si?
"Go on." He said coldly.
The scout swallowed and continued, "I've heard from the neighbors that the lady and her husband are very affectionate. Nan Si also dotes on her very much. He goes out every day to find food, drinks, and entertainment for her, and he even consults with the neighbors on how to take care of his pregnant wife."
He was talking to himself, completely unaware of the increasingly heavy breathing above him.
Chen Tai looked at the general's face, which was so gloomy that it looked like he wanted to kill someone, and quickly winked at the person who was kneeling on the ground reporting the news.
It was a pity that the scout had his eyes downcast and could not see anything. Instead, he told the story of the loving couple of the Xu family that he had heard about.
"On the Qixi Festival, Nan Si and his wife went to the banyan tree god at the town entrance to pray for blessings. But on their way back..."
Having said this, the scout suddenly stopped.
Xie Qi looked over with a sullen face and said coldly, "How was it when we returned?"
The scout's heart skipped a beat as he quickly continued, "On the way back, Madam heard from passersby that fighting had broken out in the southern border again, and that you, General, had been defeated and seriously injured, your life or death unknown. Our army was already preparing for a funeral, so...she became pregnant."
“…”
Hearing this, Xie Qi didn't know whether to be happy or sad for a moment.
The good news was that the girl obviously still cared about him at that time, otherwise she wouldn't have lost her pregnancy because of the false news he spread.
Sadly, his girlfriend was pregnant with another man's child at that time, and she had a miscarriage and suffered.
He felt a dull pain in his heart, closed his eyes again, and exhaled heavily.
"Continue..."
etc.
He suddenly opened his eyes, his pupils shrinking. He leaned over and grabbed the scout's collar, asking in disbelief, "When did you say the madam had a miscarriage?!"
The scout was confused and answered honestly, "The seventh day of the seventh month, the Chinese Valentine's Day..."
"I asked you which year?!"
"Yong...Yongshun thirty-second year..."
The next moment, the scout and Chen Tai saw that the general seemed to be frozen in place by something, remaining motionless in his original position.
Later, the general seemed to have lost his strength and fell forward, finally kneeling on the ground.
The veins in his hand, clutching his collar, bulged. His eyes were red, and he asked in a trembling voice, "Let me ask you, when was the year, month, and day that Madam gave birth?"
The words trembled, but they were like pebbles, falling out of his mouth word by word.
The scout recalled and confirmed, "It was August 15th, the 32nd year of Yongshun, which was the Mid-Autumn Festival that year. The general gave us two hours of leave at that time."
"August 15th, the 32nd year of the Yongshun era... ......"
Chen Tai suddenly saw the general who remained calm even when facing a crisis, the general who had gone deep into the enemy camp alone to seize the heads of generals when he was young, and the general who had sneaked into the palace of Nanyi Kingdom to assassinate the Southern Emperor and the eldest prince, all of them kept repeating these words.
In the end, regardless of the injuries on his body, he just curled up on the ground.
"August 15th, the 32nd year of the Yongshun reign...August 15th, the 32nd year of the Yongshun reign...Heh..."
Xie Qi couldn't feel the pain in his body.
Because the pain below the heart is even worse.
He pulled up his lips as if to smile, but bitter tears kept flowing out.
He separated from the girl on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month in the thirty-second year of Yongshun.
Ping An was born on August 15, the 32nd year of Yongshun, and is now four years and ten months old.
That smart, cute, well-behaved and sensible little girl named Xu Ping'an is clearly his blood!
It was the girl who hid it from him and gave birth to and raised him alone, Xie Qi's bloodline.
"Xie Qi...you really are a bastard."
How stupid of a bastard must he be to misunderstand that she was really marrying someone else.
How stupid of a bastard must he be to misunderstand that she gave birth to another man's child.
How idiotic was he to have misunderstood her and the people from Nanyi Country just now...
He stopped thinking and just cursed himself over and over again.
"Xie Qi, you really deserve to die."
【Author’s words】
I will never predict the plot again [burst into tears]
To this day, the father and daughter have not recognized each other [burst into tears]
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I don't know what this chapter is about. It took so long to review. [Crying]
0 people told me that I repeated the content of the previous chapter!!! I only realized it when I was about to post it, and quickly deleted the old article
There is no end in sight for seedling cultivation. Woo woo woo woo [burst into tears]
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