Madam Qin was so busy that she snatched the jade pendant from Qin Lu's hand and turned it over and over. As she looked at it, she couldn't stop crying: "This is Chong'er's jade pendant! It's really Chong'er's! Master, look, there is a fine line here. It was left when Chong'er fell down that year. Master, look..."
"I saw it," Qin Lu took a deep breath. He patted Mrs. Qin on the back and looked at the man with red eyes. "Your Excellency just said that you want to discuss a deal with my husband and me?"
"Not bad." The man nodded.
"Excuse me, how do you negotiate this deal?" Qin Lu asked hurriedly.
"You want to take my son away from me. Naturally, you have to give me something in exchange, right?" The man said slowly, reaching out to pick up a cup of tea from the table, drinking it slowly. He said slowly, "Dean Qin, do you think I'm right?"
"Yes, yes, yes. It makes sense." Qin Lu nodded his head repeatedly, wiped his sweat, and said, "If you think highly of me, Qin, I am willing to offer you 100,000 taels of silver."
One hundred thousand taels of silver was definitely not a small sum, and Qin Lu came here today ready to go bankrupt.
"One hundred thousand taels of silver. Tsk, tsk, tsk, Dean Qin really loves his son. This is a big deal," the man sneered, paused, and then said slowly, "But how did Lord Qin know that I was short of money?"
"Then what does your Excellency want?" Qin Lu said hurriedly, "As long as I have it, I will give it to you!"
"I want..." The man put down the tea bowl, leaned forward slightly, and spoke clearly word by word, "The formula of the Love Powder."
As soon as he said this, Qin Lu was suddenly stunned. His eyes and mouth were wide open. His whole face was shaking violently. Every piece of flesh was shaking, and his dry mouth was shaking the most. When he finally opened his mouth again, the fear and panic in his voice could no longer be concealed: "W-What Huan Qing San? What Huan Qing San are you talking about? I... I don't know, I don't know..."
"Don't know?" The man curled his lips in a sarcastic tone, raised his hand slightly, and said to the guard who had been standing respectfully behind him, "Go chop off a finger."
"Yes, I obey your command." The guard bowed, put his hand on the hilt of the sword at his waist, and walked out with an expressionless face.
“No! No!” Madam Qin fell to her knees with a plop, hugged the guard’s legs tightly, and cried hysterically to Qin Lu, “Master! Just tell him! Tell him everything he wants to know! Don’t let them hurt my Chong’er! Chong’er is already pitiful enough! Master! I beg you! I beg you!”
"I really don't know!" Qin Lu also knelt on the ground with a plop. "The Emperor handed the Huanqing Powder directly to me. I really don't know what the formula is! Please be magnanimous! Don't hurt my Chong'er. If you want to chop off a finger, just chop off mine!"
"You don't know?" The man obviously didn't believe Qin Lu's answer, and said in a calm voice, "You have been using Huanqing Powder for at least seventeen or eighteen years. In these seventeen or eighteen years, you haven't figured out the formula of Huanqing Powder?"
"This..." Qin Lu was stunned. He obviously didn't expect that the man knew Huanqingsan so well.
While he was stunned, the man had already waved to the guard again. The guard immediately pushed Madam Qin away and strode out of the room.
"Don't go! Don't hurt my Chong'er!" Mrs. Qin climbed up from the ground while crying, and rushed out, but was stopped by the guards in front of the door. She couldn't get out no matter what she did, so she sat down on the ground, crying hysterically.
"I really don't know! Huanqingsan is delivered to me regularly, and there is only a little each time, just enough for me to use. How can there be more for me to study the formula? I really don't know! I beg you! I beg you!" Qin Lu was also anxious, his voice was hoarse, and he kowtowed like crazy, "Let Chong'er go, and let me die in his place!"
The man said nothing, but looked at Qin Lu with sarcasm, then brought the teacup over and gently closed the lid.
Suddenly, a shrill male scream was heard from the backyard. Madam Qin and Qin Lu both froze, and then Madam Qin's body shook three times and then collapsed to the ground.
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