She staggered closer, holding a bottle of liquor, looking completely like a drunkard.
The guards immediately bowed respectfully upon seeing Chu Qin, saying, "Second Young Master."
Chu Qin swayed and hiccuped, shoving aside the guards. "Get out of my way, I need to go in and get something for my beauty!"
"Second Young Master, we have no orders from the Master..."
"Bullshit! Everything inside belongs to our Grand Tutor's Mansion. I'm the second young master, what's wrong with me going in to get a ginseng?" Chu Qin said, pushing aside the guard and barging into the pharmacy.
Her strength is now many times that of an ordinary person, and none of the guards are a match for her. The guards who were overthrown could only watch helplessly as the drunken Chu Qin walked towards the second floor of the pharmacy.
"Quickly, inform the master! We can't let the second young master damage those precious medicinal herbs!" the head guard ordered urgently. They were bound by rules and couldn't just go in; they could only watch helplessly from the outside.
As soon as Xia Yixin entered the pharmacy, she immediately shook off her drunken state and quickly looked at the medicines stored in the pharmacy.
Most of the medicine here is for Chu Mubai's treatment, so she can roughly understand his current situation through these medicines.
In the original novel, Chu Mubai once went to the Valley of Divine Physicians to have the divine physician take his pulse. At that time, the divine physician spoke a series of difficult-to-understand words in the original novel.
But now that she has the "Healer's Cheat" ability, she fully understands what it means. In plain terms, it means that he was poisoned by an extremely potent poison called the Seven Deadly Poisons when he was a child. This poison will only make his body weaker and weaker, and the more he takes tonics, the faster he will die.
The only way is to detoxify the poison, but detoxification requires him to have a strong physique, otherwise he will die after detoxification.
This is the crux of the contradiction, which was never resolved in the original story.
But things are different now. After learning about the medications he's currently taking, she has an excellent prescription in mind, but she needs to take his pulse to follow up.
She doesn't have much time left.
Before leaving, she deliberately ransacked the medicine cabinet, scattering herbs all over the floor, and even took a century-old Ganoderma lucidum with her. Although this thing was useless to her for the time being, it could be very useful when combined with other Chinese herbs.
She was deliberately setting a trap for Chu Qin.
At this moment, she could already hear faint voices outside. She quickly opened the back window, pretending that someone was fleeing, and then ran to the shadows. When the group rushed in anxiously, she disguised herself as a guard and left in the chaos.
Before long, a furious roar, deep in the abdomen, came from the direction of the medicine furnace: "You bastard! Come with me to the North Garden. I want to see which beauty this wretched boy will give the medicine that saved his brother's life to!"
Xia Yixin guessed from the voice that it might be Chu Taifu. Sure enough, not long after, a woman's scream and Chu Qin's begging for mercy came from the North Garden. She smiled slightly, hoping that Chu Taifu would do his best to find out what bad things Chu Qin had done.
There's a huge commotion in Beiyuan.
Taking advantage of the chaos, she changed back into a servant's clothes and slipped into the kitchen, where she stole some dried meat and hid it in her clothes. To avoid being watched, she deliberately returned to the West Garden in a different location.
Just as she carried Xiaoman back to her original bed, a system notification suddenly sounded in her mind: "Ding, congratulations host, the second main quest has been completed to avenge the original owner, progress level 10. Please keep up the good work!"
Having won her first battle, she hid the medicine, cut all of Chu Tan's and the servant's clothes into pieces with scissors, threw them into the abandoned well in the backyard, and then fell asleep contentedly.
Meanwhile, at Dongyuan.
The noise from the pharmacy faintly reached this place, but it remained completely quiet. Chu Mubai preferred quiet, so the East Garden had the fewest servants.
Late at night, the only sound was the rustling of the bamboo forest in the wind; it was early spring, and the night was still a bit chilly.
The East Garden may seem simple, but every piece of furniture is the best in the mansion, even better than that of the old lady. It's obvious to everyone that the Grand Tutor dotes on this son. In fact, outsiders don't know that the Grand Tutor's meteoric rise over the past ten years, which has won him the Emperor's favor, is inseparable from the behind-the-scenes help of his eldest son, Chu Mubai.
Moreover, his physical weakness was also related to the Grand Tutor, so he was given the best of everything regardless of cost.
The only room with a light on was the study deep in the bamboo forest. Chu Mubai always stayed in the study, and the master bedroom was basically just for show.
A man dressed in black leaped down from the roof and skillfully entered the study through the secret passage.
He was Chu Mubai's personal bodyguard and also the commander of the guards. He had followed Chu Mubai since childhood. He was tall and strong with handsome features, but as his name suggests, he was cold and aloof.
A faint, cool fragrance wafted from the study. It wasn't incense, but rather the scent emanating from the master's body since he was poisoned. The stronger the scent, the more dangerous he was.
At this moment, a man was standing by the window in the large study.
The man wore a long, straight white robe with wide sleeves and a dark bamboo pattern, a blue belt with cloud patterns, a white jade crown, and black hair like a waterfall. His figure was tall and slender with a straight back. Even just from behind, he exuded the air of a handsome young man from a turbid world.
"Master, news from Beiyuan says that the Second Young Master, drunk, broke into the pharmacy over a courtesan, destroying many herbs and stealing a century-old Ganoderma lucidum. When they searched his room, they found a packet of poison and some tonic powder that Master had ground. The courtesan confessed to everything. Master knows that Chu Qin wanted to harm Miss Xia, but there's no evidence that the tonic was for you. The courtesan was beaten to death, and Chu Qin was given twenty lashes by Master and thrown into the ancestral hall." Leng Zhan finished speaking but then stopped.
Chu Mubai's eyes narrowed slightly, and he asked in a deep voice, "What?"
The oppressive aura forced Leng Zhan to kneel abruptly. He said in a deep voice, "My master ordered me to protect the West Garden, but I felt something was amiss these past few days. Tonight, I investigated and indeed found a servant, but that person was very cunning. He disappeared after being discharged from the hospital, and his martial arts skills were definitely superior to mine. Moreover, I only saw him leave, never return. Later tonight, I found that servant again, but he was completely different from the one I had seen. He didn't know any martial arts at all. Obviously, someone had disguised himself as him. This person may be related to what happened to the Second Young Master tonight."
The Cold War deepened, and after waiting for a long time, no reply came from the other party.
Just when he thought the other party wouldn't reply.
The man said in a deep voice, "No one came out of the West Garden tonight, and there were no suspicious servants." After he finished speaking, his throat tightened, and he coughed a few times. "Since someone from Chu Tan's side has taken care of things for us, let's withdraw the people from the West Garden."
"Yes, sir," Leng Zhan replied respectfully.
What Leng Zhan really wanted to say was, how come there was an unidentified man on Miss Xia's side? But he couldn't ask that question and didn't dare to ask it.
She felt even more sorry for her master, who had been worried that Chu Qin would also harm her and had asked them to protect her secretly.
Before leaving, Leng Zhan couldn't help but say, "Master, it's early spring and the weather is chilly. Please take good care of yourself." As he closed the study door, he could still faintly hear Chu Mubai coughing inside. He couldn't help but sigh softly. If it weren't for his health holding him back, how could Chu Mubai be trapped in this small Grand Tutor's mansion? It's truly a cruel twist of fate.
As for the one in the West Garden, he felt sorry for his master. She didn't cherish such a good man, and Leng Zhanyue became more and more prejudiced against her.
Only the man's tall figure remained in the study.
The night breeze blew by, lifting a few strands of the man's dark hair. Even the wind seemed curious about his true face. The moon peeked in, and finally, the man revealed his true appearance.
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