Chapter 77 She Has a Secret Weapon
It started to rain outside, but not heavily. The sparse raindrops fell on the ground, making subtle sounds that struck people's hearts.
"That's good." Lu Changqing felt relieved, paused and asked, "After the bones are taken, can the two children still survive?"
"He can live, but he can't stand. Everything else is fine." Qianjizi replied, "Second Master, don't worry. Although this method is bloody, it can be regarded as helping others. It can also increase the merits of the two children. It is also a good thing for them."
"Once I have convinced my wife, I will send the two children to the Wanxian Palace." Lu Changqing stood up and bowed to Qianjizi. "Everything... I'll leave it to you, Taoist priest."
After Qianjizi left, Lu Changqing sat quietly on the couch in front of the window, thinking.
The rain is getting heavier outside the window.
If you directly tell Fang Qianxue about "taking bones to make medicine", there is a 99% chance that you will be rejected.
For Fang Qianxue, Yao'er and Yuan'er are her lifeblood. Even if the sky falls, she will not let anyone touch the two children. If he goes to her house and expresses his intention directly, I'm afraid Fang Qianxue will not only not agree, but will also fight him to the death.
Lu Changqing felt depressed.
Yao'er and Yuan'er are also his own flesh and blood. If he had not been desperate, he would not have resorted to this desperate measure. But now that he has to choose between Xu Miaoyan and his two children, he can only choose Xu Miaoyan. After all, as long as Xu is cured, she will give birth to children for him in the future.
How can we successfully transport the two children out?
"It's so late, Second Master, aren't you going to rest yet?" Liansheng, the maid from Songshengju, came in and changed his cup of tea.
When Lu Changqing saw the maid, he suddenly had an idea. He pulled her aside and asked, "Liansheng, is there any left of the Datura incense that the old master used a few years ago?"
When his father was seriously ill, he often couldn't sleep all night because of the pain, so he asked someone to buy a kind of incense called Datura from the Western Regions to help him sleep. When the incense was lit, it smelled like ordinary mosquito coils, but the person would fall into a deep sleep and lose consciousness in a few moments.
He bought a lot at the beginning, but his father died within half a month, so it was not used up.
"There should be... one box left," Liansheng scratched his head and thought for a while, "but I haven't seen it for a long time, and I don't know where it is."
"Go find it and bring it to me here." Lu Changqing took out a piece of silver from his sleeve and stuffed it into Liansheng's hand. He lowered his voice and said, "Remember, don't let anyone find out. Don't even tell the old lady."
Liansheng's hand trembled as he took the silver, he nodded "yes", and then left.
Although it was unclear what the Second Master wanted the Mandragora incense for, he gave her so much silver at once and also told her not to let the old lady find out. Liansheng had a hunch that it was not a good thing.
Around the second half of the night, Lu Changqing fell asleep leaning against the window. In his dream, he saw Lu Qingyuan and Lu Qingyao standing in front of him covered in blood, grabbing his knees and shouting "Dad". They looked like they had crawled out of the grave, which scared him out of his wits.
"Don't call me!"
“Don’t pull me!!”
He kicked his legs hard and hit a wooden box.
"Second Master," Liansheng's voice came into my ears, "I have found the things you want. There is only this small half box left. It has been raining these few days, and I don't know if it has been damp..."
Lu Changqing opened his eyes and slowly came back to his senses from the nightmare. He saw a wooden box engraved with Western vine patterns on the ground.
He bent down and opened the lid of the wooden box.
"Cough cough!" A strange fragrance came, and the man hurriedly covered his mouth and nose with his sleeves, and reached out to fiddle with the incense sticks in the box twice.
Fortunately, the box is waterproof and the mandragora incense was not affected by moisture. It seems that God is on his side.
"Go and call Chenggong." Lu Changqing said.
"Yes." The little maid hurriedly retreated, and even when she reached the door she could still feel her heart beating violently.
She felt that the Second Master was going to do something against the law of nature, but fortunately he didn't let her do it. She didn't want to get involved with it. She had to go find Chenggong quickly, and then she would have nothing to do with it.
At the end of the Si hour on the second day, the servants of Meihuaao finally woke up one after another.
The rain outside has stopped and the sky is bright.
There was a strange fragrance in the air, which made people feel dizzy and unable to tell what day it was.
"The new mosquito coil smells so sweet?" An old woman waved a handkerchief to dispel the strange smell, "Ah... A-choo!"
The weather has been getting hotter these days, so my wife asked someone to buy some mosquito coils to repel mosquitoes.
"Madam, are you awake? It's already past midnight!"
"Someone come quickly! The young master and young lady are missing!" A shout broke the silence, and the two maids who were responsible for taking care of the children rushed out and ran straight to Fang Qianxue's bedroom, "Madam!"
"Madam, wake up!"
The scent was the strongest in this bedroom, and the two maids quickly pushed open the window: "Ahem... who closed the window so tightly?"
After the intoxicating fragrance in the room dissipated a little, Fang Qianxue and Cui Shuang reluctantly opened their eyes.
"Madam! The young master and young lady are missing!" the two maids said anxiously, "It's all my fault. I fell into a deep sleep last night..."
"There must be a kidnapper who came in to steal the children!" Sui Qiong took a handkerchief, dipped it in water and put it on Fang Qianxue's forehead. "Are the guards in the mansion idiots? How could they lose two children this big?"
The maid who woke up first said, "Madam! I checked and nothing was lost from Meihuaao last night, except that the young master and young lady are missing!"
Fang Qianxue sat up by the edge of the couch, glanced around the room, and soon understood: "Someone deliberately knocked you out and took the child away."
"Ah?" The servants in the room were stunned. "Who wants to kidnap the young master and young lady?"
The two maids were as anxious as ants on a hot pot: "Let me inform the Second Master and the Old Madam!"
"Lu Changqing was the one who stole the child, and you still went to inform him?" Fang Qianxue had already put on her coat and said to the maid beside her, "Cuishuang, take a few people to the Jingzhao Yin Yamen and beat the drum to report that Lu Changqing believed in the evil Taoist priests and murdered his own children in order to save his lover. Then sue the evil Taoist priests in the Wanxian Palace for trafficking children and taking their bones to make medicine. This is outrageous to both humans and gods!"
“Yes!” Cui Shuang’s face quickly turned serious, and she clenched her fists. “I will report this to the authorities right away. I will make sure that everyone in the capital hears the drumbeats!”
The Madam asked her to beat the drum to report the incident, obviously intending to make a big deal out of it and let all the people in the capital know what the Lu family had done. She usually didn't speak loudly, but she would shout loudly when she needed to.
Fang Qianxue walked outside, looked up at the sky, took a deep breath and said, "Prepare the carriage, I want to go to the palace."
When Jingzhao Yin heard the drumbeats, he knew it would take at least several hours to summon the people for questioning. By waiting for the yamen runners to go to Wanxian Palace to rescue the people, it would be too late.
Moreover, Lu Changqing is very good at making excuses with his eloquent tongue, and even the Jingzhao Yin may not be his opponent.
Fang Qianxue can't just sit there and wait for others to rescue Lu Qingyao and Lu Qingyuan, she still has a trump card in her hand!
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