Chapter 353 It’s him, it’s him, it’s him~
At noon the next day, there was a knock on the door of the Qiao family's old house.
The servant opened the door and greeted Qiao Wanyan immediately when he saw her. "Hello, Second Miss. Are you here to visit Second and Third Masters?"
Qiao Wanyan didn't say anything, but Ziyuan spoke up: "My young lady is here to see the second young master. The second young master should be at home today, right?"
"Yes, yes, the Second Young Master just got home from Yuxiu Garden less than an incense stick's time ago, and now he is resting in his room."
Qiao Congshan was just about to leave the house to have a drink with some friends when he saw Qiao Wanyan coming towards him.
"Sister Wanyan? How come you have time to come back to the old house today? Are you here to see me?" Qiao Congshan smiled and said, "I'm just about to go and talk about poetry and songs with some friends. How about coming with me, sister?"
Qiao Wanyan looked him up and down. "Poetry? Do you understand it?"
After saying that, he walked straight past him.
Qiao Congshan was stunned for a moment, and when he reacted, the person had already walked far away. He pointed in the direction where the person disappeared and cursed.
"Why don't I understand? How can a woman like you understand? You are spoiled and arrogant. Without your uncle, what would you be?!"
Qiao Congshan snorted coldly, flicked his sleeves and left. He was in a bad mood. He casually asked the doorman Qiao Wanyan who she was here to see. When he found out that she was here to see Qiao Jibai, he became even angrier.
Qiao Jibai was just a bastard whom he didn't take seriously at first, and he had no sense of existence at all. If he hadn't been lucky enough to win the top prize, he would have had to rely on his own blessing to survive in this life.
Now that he is in power, even Qiao Wanyan, who is always so arrogant, comes to flatter him.
They are all superficial people!
It's simply disgraceful!
There was a knock on the door. Qiao Jibai pushed it open with some surprise on his face, but he was not surprised in his heart. "Sister Wanyan? Why are you here?"
Qiao Wanyan passed by him and sat on the chair as if she had returned home. She looked at the plate of osmanthus cake on the table with some surprise. Qiao Jibai did not look like someone who liked to eat these sweets.
"Do you like sweet-scented osmanthus cake?"
Qiao Jibai nodded slightly, "I like it."
Qiao Wanyan looked at the plate of osmanthus cake and didn't continue the topic. "You should know why I came to you, right?"
Qiao Jibai looked calm and composed, "My brother is stupid, please tell me the truth."
As he spoke, he closed the door, walked to the table, poured a cup of tea, pushed it next to her, and then sat on the chair on the other side.
"Stupid?" Qiao Wanyan raised her voice, "A stupid person can't become the top scholar."
Qiao Jibai didn't say anything, so Qiao Wanyan continued, "I was poisoned by a love poison, but when I woke up the night before yesterday, the poison had already been cured. Before that, I only drank a bowl of liver-heat-reducing medicine at noon the day before yesterday, and that medicine was brought back by your servant."
"You and I have never been close. That day, everyone followed the Queen to the Peony Garden. Why did you appear there? And you took care of me personally, and asked your personal servant to follow the imperial physician to get medicine."
"It's unusual. There are always many conspiracies, which makes people suspicious. The bowl of soup for relieving liver fire is actually a medicine for removing poison."
Qiao Jibai's hand holding the teacup froze in mid-air, his long crow-feather eyelashes trembled slightly, and after a moment he took a sip of tea.
Qiao Wanyan tilted her body to look at him, "Who gave you the antidote? And how did you know that I was infected with the love poison?"
Qiao Wanyan's voice was very soft, but her tone was cold and intimidating, and she had a strong aura.
"I just don't want to be tricked by others. You are my brother. Even if we don't have the same father and mother, we both have the blood of the Qiao family in our bodies. Do you have the heart to lie to me?"
Qiao Jibai was a soft-hearted person, and he let out a long breath when he heard this. "He didn't want me to tell you, but you are closer to me than him, so I told you."
The corners of Qiao Wanyan's mouth raised a faint arc, "Brother, just tell me, I won't tell anyone."
Qiao Jibai pursed his lips and said, "It's King Jing."
Qiao Wanyan was a little surprised.
Qiao Jibai: "The day before I went to Yuxiu Garden, Mo Xiao, the chief guard beside King Jing, found me and told me that you were infected with the love poison."
"At first I didn't believe it, so I went to my uncle to verify it. After he found out, he just said that it was no wonder that you had been acting strangely recently. At first I just thought you were acting on impulse. Although I had my doubts, I had never thought that there was such a despicable thing as love poison in the world. I was careless and didn't think about it in that direction."
Qiao Wanyan understood. No wonder she asked her father for secret guards last night, and her father directly gave her the best secret guards in the mansion. It turned out that her father knew about it, but did not say it out of consideration for his own face.
I'm afraid he knew that he had to settle the score with the person who put the poison on his house, and was afraid that the third-class secret guards would not be able to defeat him, so he gave him the first-class secret guards.
"King Jing gave me the antidote. I didn't dare to make a decision on my own. It was my uncle who asked someone to test it many times to make sure it was harmless, so he asked me to find a chance to give it to you."
Qiao Jibai seemed to see through her confusion. "Don't ask me why I didn't tell you directly. My uncle said that you are suspicious by nature. There is only this bowl of antidote. You must be careful not to ruin this hard-earned antidote."
If I tell her directly, she will most likely not believe it and throw the bowl of medicine on the ground. After all, the love poison controls her mind, and it is very likely that it will not shake her but will have the opposite effect.
Qiao Wanyan defended herself: "I am not suspicious by nature, I just think more about myself. I am protecting myself, which is normal."
Qiao Jibai said perfunctorily: "Yes, you are right."
Although he was clearly saying what she said, Qiao Wanyan was not in a very happy mood at the moment.
Qiao Wanyan didn't want to continue this topic with him, "King Jing gave you the antidote, why didn't he give it to me himself?"
Such a good opportunity, why doesn’t he come and give it to him himself?
Although he also knew that he was infected with the love poison, He Yanli asked Qiao Jibai to send him the antidote, and even intended to keep it from his knowledge that he was the one who sent him the antidote.
And He Zhiyu only said that he would definitely send him the antidote, but to this day he has not seen a drop of the antidote.
At this moment, Qiao Wanyan didn't know that the bowl of antidote that He Zhiyu was supposed to give to her was deliberately spilled on the ground, and she cursed He Zhiyu in her heart.
Qiao Jibai suddenly fell silent, as if he didn't know how to start.
Qiao Wanyan hates it most when people dilly-dally and keep people in suspense.
"Brother, I'm asking you a question!"
Qiao Wanyan sensed that he was falling for it, so she patiently called him brother without really caring.
Qiao Jibai sighed, "I don't know if this is true or not. I just heard that the antidote to the love poison contains an ingredient that is not an ordinary ingredient."
"What is it?"
"When a person who is infected with the love poison opens his eyes and sees the first person, he will ask for a bowl of that person's heart blood as a medicine."
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