FID – Chapter 248

“Drink this medicine quickly.” Lu Zhixia first let the woman drink the medicine before he helped her sit down on the chair.

He was also embarrassed.

But the entire royal residence’s servants were down. He couldn’t ask Feng Qingbai to send medicine to her.

As for Nannan, he couldn’t either.

Their Nannan couldn’t be ordered around.

After drinking the medicine, the tumbling in Fu Yuzheng’s stomach quickly subsided, and her complexion also recovered. “Is this the antidote? What is going on? Where are the other servants in the palace? Have they drunk the antidote?”

“Don’t mention the antidote outside. Feng Qingbai’s side is taking action, so just pretend not to know.”

Taking action? Fu Yuzheng frowned slightly, and then understood the reason.

The King’s move inside the palace must be to deal with those spies who have been in residence for several years.

When she looked at Liu Zhixia again, her eyes were mixed with a few strands of complexity. 

Was he really in the dark that she wasn’t an ordinary maid? That she was a person who would seek to survive between the two forces?

She would favor whichever side was more beneficial to her as long as it would keep her alive and allow her to achieve her goal!

“Did the King tell you this?” She asked.

“No, my sister repeatedly instructed me to tell you not to disclose the antidote. She only deployed two bottles of antidote after the incident in the house. I drank one of the bottles, and the other is for you.”

Fu Yuzheng closed her eyes, fiercely suppressing the inexplicable emotions that grew in her heart. “Did Miss Liu administer this poison?”

“No, my sister would not do such a thing. It’s…” Before Lu Zhixia could string the sentence, a green shadow burst into the doorway, interrupting him.

“Zhixia, Zhixia! Save me! Plead with me for mercy!” The person who rushed in quickly hid behind Liu Zhixia, clinging to his back.

Xue Qinglian!

Liu Zhixia rubbed his brow and moved away to make way for the house guards who came right behind him. “The person is here. Catch him.”

“…Liu Zhixia, you have no brotherhood loyalty!”

“Why didn’t you think about brotherhood loyalty when you drugged me?” Liu Zhixia retorted coldly.

“I was ready to deliver the antidote to you early in the morning. Who would have thought that Feng Qingbai, that guy, came so fast?!” Xue Qinglian was still trying to fight for his life, but Liu Zhixia pushed him forward.

“If you are afraid, you can slip away. You can do it.”

“…” He could have escaped, but he didn’t dare to! If he escaped from the royal residence, he could never get in. What about his research?!

Even until the guards carried Xue Qinglian out the door, they could still hear his struggling voice, “I just tested the new medicine and did not want to disrupt the royal residence. Really!  I am a person with medical ethics and conscience. If you don’t believe me, you ask Liu Zhixia; ask Lucky Nannan… Show some mercy, brothers!”

Inside the house, Liu Zhixia looked up at the sky with an expression that was hard to describe.

“Pfft!” The woman’s shoulders crouched on the table shook gently.

Liu Zhixia stood for a while and also laughed away.

When Xue Qinglian was dragged down, he thought he would at least be beaten with a few big boards as an example to others.

The result was no. Feng Qingbai did nothing to him. He just made him take the new medicine he had just researched, then searched all his suspected antidotes and threw him back into his room.

Xue Qinglian’s expression was numb when he dragged his legs to lie down on the bed. Sure enough, he would end up miserable against Feng Qingbai.

That man didn’t play by the rules!

How good it would have been if he had only beaten him up; he had prepared all the follow-up self-medication measures.

They were for nothing.

The commotion in Nanling palace was not hidden from the outside.

Soon the entire capital knew that the Nanling Palace people were drugged, and the capital’s famous doctors were frequently invited into the King’s House. Finally, all were sent out in disgrace.

It wasn’t a deadly poison, yet no one could detoxify it.

This led to the entire royal residence surprisingly indisposed for a while.

The King of Nanling was furious and had to temporarily transfer people from his other villas to move all the people who had been poisoned to a manor to recuperate.

In one day, a major reshuffling occurred in the Nanling Palace.

This news made countless people vomit blood behind closed doors.

Qian Wanjin and Shi Xianrou visited at noon.

As soon as they entered the royal residence, Qian Wanjin went straight to Liuyun Courtyard to watch Xue Qinglian’s miserable image.

He laughed in front of Xue Qinglian for a while with crossed arms.

Previously on the way back to the capital, Xue Qinglian’s poison shocked him, so he didn’t dare to provoke him.

How wonderful it was now. When he met Feng Qingbai, he could only eat turtles like him.

He wasn’t alone at long last.

Xue Qinglian’s infallible image in front of him also collapsed completely.

After jeering, he left the miserable Xue Qinglian behind and returned to the living room. Qian Wanjin held Liu Yusheng’s health tea, fully satisfied.

“Lucky Nannan, Zhixia has gone to the Imperial Academy. It’s boring for you to stay here alone. Would you like me to take you to my wine shop in the capital for a look?”

Liu Yusheng smiled and shook her head, “I won’t go to the wine shop. I’m not interested in such business matters. When I have time, I would rather hang out the herbs in the courtyard and prepare some remedies.”

Qian Wanjin bristled, “How old are you? How can you live like an old biddy? You’re no fun. If you don’t want to go to the winery, we can go to the martial arts arena and play with Shi Xianrou. I heard her say that there are people there everyday to compete in martial arts, and it is very lively.”

Liu Yusheng’s eyes went back and forth between the two, and found that whenever Qian Wanjin spoke, Shi Xianrou’s eyes always fell on him – focused, and with a faint doting indulgence. Even a smile hung at the corners of her mouth, and she didn’t shy away from people around.

Liu Yusheng teased, “Did you two get together?”

Shi Xianrou smiled but did not say anything, which was considered an acquiescence.

Qian Wanjin was very uncomfortable. His eyes wandered, and a blush suffused his face. Still, he stubbornly denied, “What got together? I really had no choice. If I don’t let her take me with her, my old man won’t let me go out at all, for fear that I’ll run away once I’m out!”

“You have too many criminal records. You’re drinking what you brewed.”

He was said to be as stubborn as a stalk. Qian Wanjin snorted and said, “Will you go, Lucky Nannan? Seriously, I’ve never been in a martial arts arena. I heard Shi Xianrou say that in addition to the martial arts competition, you can also see the soldiers training. Let’s go and see what it’s like, all right?”

Shi Xianrou looked at him with a smile. “You just want to go and see, right? You’re embarrassed to stay with me, so you have to drag Nannan along.”

“Who said I’m embarrassed? Who’s embarrassed?” Qian Wanjin turned his head to glare at her and shouted.

When the woman raised her eyebrows at him, he immediately turned his head away again, his heart pounding.

What was going on? This damn woman, why did she raise an eyebrow and become more and more beautiful?

Knowing that Qian Wanjin really wanted to go to the martial arts field to have some fun, Shi Xianrou addressed Liu Yusheng, “Nannan, let’s go and have some fun together. Since we are here in the capital, wouldn’t it be a pity to stay bored in the house all the time? What’s more, His Royal Highness will take a little time to clean up the aftermath of the incident in the palace today, right? I’m afraid he doesn’t have much time for you for the time being. You live in the palace and can see each other if you want to. You two don’t have to stick to each other so tightly.”