Revenge of the Concubine’s Daughter - Chapter 139
Chapter 139 No one could hurt her anymore
He Danggui sent Xiaoyou to inform Madam Luo that Nie Chun suddenly appeared in the garden. He beat the masked man to save her, and finally he left again. After hearing it, Madam Luo chanted “Amitabha Buddha”, and all the people in the hall were relieved, especially Duan Xiaolou. When Guan Yun saw that Duan Xiaolou’s delighted expression, she felt unhappy and puzzled. Why did Brother Xiaolou be so concerned about Miss He?
When Peng Jian heard that Third Sister was frightened, and now she went back to rest, he thought that she was not full before. So, he put the bowl of “delicious dishes” and a few desserts into the food box to visit Third Sister. Peng Shi failed to stop his brother, so he followed Peng Jian. It was not only to monitor his brother and prevent him from doing impulsive things, but he was curious about the girl who had been caught by the murderous assassin for a long time. Was she really unscathed? Was she really saved by Nie Chun whose track was mysterious?
After the brothers of Peng’s Family and Xiaoyou arrived at Tao Yao Yard together, they found that He Danggui had not come back. Peng Jian confirmed to Xiaoyou again, whether Third Sister was really rescued and safe. He got a positive answer and then waited in peace. Chan Yi and Huai Hua took the food box and opened it. When they saw the Crab Roe Buns, they cheered and ate them rudely. After a while, they ate two dishes. Peng Jian didn’t stop them because they were girls. He said, “I took these for Third Sister. Eat less!”
Peng Shi was very puzzled. How did Third Sister teach servants? The maids had eaten the food before the master. Previously, when Xiaoyou who had the Shandong accent went to report, he called Third Sister “Sister”. Madam Luo also felt strange to ask, but Xiaoyou only said that she asked me to call her sister. Mammy Tang said to Madam Luo, “It’s lucky that no one is hurt. I will ask Third Sister some other day about the trifle.” Madam Luo nodded and called “Amitabha Buddha” again.
When Third Sister returned to Tao Yao Yard, she saw that food box was almost empty by two maids. However, she was not angry. She smiled and picked up the handkerchief to wipe the mouth of the maid who had a round face. Peng Shi was very surprised. What kind of person was Third Sister? Were there no rules between masters and servants in Tao Yao Yard?
He Danggui first arranged accommodation for Xiaoyou and let him go to rest. Then she turned her head to ask Chan Yi, “What is the wet at the gate? It scared me!”
Chan Yi happily told her, “There are a lot of new chrysanthemums in our yard. I watered the flowers first and then sprinkled a lot of water outside the yard. The fragrance of chrysanthemum with cool water will smell better!”
He Danggui disdained, because it made her be afraid greatly! She thought for a moment and asked, “Have you seen that mask in my room, which I bought in Tu’er Town?”
Chan Yi covered her mouth and said, “Miss, how can you foresee? Your mask was lost before you get back!”
“How did you lose it?” He Danggui’s question had been suffocated for a night.
Chan Yi crooked her finger and apologized, “When I cleaned your room, there was a mosquito in your room. I swatted it but accidentally hit on your mask, so your mask was dirty. Then I went to wash it and let it dry out in the wind because it was too wet. However, the wind blew away the mask suddenly.”
“The mask was blown away, wasn’t it?” He Danggui raised her eyebrows.
“Yes,” Chan Yi continued, “I saw that mask was blown out of the courtyard wall, and I heard the mask fell to the ground. But when I ran out to see, there was nothing!”
He Danggui was relieved secretly. It seemed that the assassin who picked up the mask didn’t meet Chan Yi. If Chan Yi went out early, she would probably meet the assassin! Looking at Chan Yi who turned around to eat desserts happily, He Danggui sighed that this girl was blessed. Even Chan Yi encountered the blood-sucking master twice, she was safe and sound. She was on the edge of danger every time but accidentally avoided it – It seemed the Immortal was fair. The Immortal knew who should not die.
After this thing, He Danggui felt that her was weaker. At this time, Feng Yan and Feng Yu were still in the Tao Yao Yard. Since Miss He refused to make an oath and ignored them, they decided to ask her maids for help because Miss He was very fond of Chan Yi. They took her aside and asked for her help to persuade Miss He not to tell their secrets.
At this time, Peng Jian didn’t want to leave. He kept talking, as if he wanted to say something but couldn’t speak for a while. No matter what he thought, He Danggui had no energy to guess. She needed to sleep very much, so she said to Huai Hua, “You greet guests for me”. Then she hid in her room and closed the door tightly.
Finally, she was left alone to have rest and heal herself.
“Hey, please help me detoxify.” There were a pair of clear eyes in the dark room, like two lights in the snowy night. Meng Xuan said, “I’m poisoned by you.”
“Poisoned?” He Danggui carefully looked at Meng Xuan who sat in the shadow and asked, “Is it serious?”
Meng Xuan nodded slightly, “Not so bad. I just can’t walk.”
He Danggui tilted her head, “You can’t walk, can you? How did you come to Tao Yao Yard?”
“It took me a little time,” Meng Xuan replied vaguely. In fact, he was strenuous. First, he managed to persuade his father to allow him to stay in Luo’s Mansion. Then, after all the people in Xin Rong Hall left, he secretly followed behind Peng Jian and others… He stood upside down and walked with his hands.
He Danggui apologized, “Childe Xuan, I don’t know you have internal force. I’m sorry to add ‘tea dew’ directly to the teapot. Actually, it is not a poison but an anesthetic. It specially used for martial arts practitioners. I can’t help you. You can only wait for the medicinal properties to fade. Please hold on for two or three days.” In fact, it was not just him. All the people who had smelled the fragrance in the hall were poisoned. However, the medicinal properties of the four people who had touched the tea near the tea case were catalyzed.
At that time, she sealed her Zhongfu acupoint with a silver needle and did not inhale the fragrance. Madam Luo had no internal force, so she was not affected. However, the anesthetic made the masked assassin feel painful and used emergency life-saving to temporarily get rid of the medicinal properties. He Danggui underestimated Meng Xuan. She didn’t expect that his internal force was so power that he would be affected by the anesthetic.
She remembered a book recorded that only the martial arts practitioners with powerful energy would have paralytic symptoms after inhaling the anesthetic. The symptoms varied from person to person. Some people’s whole bodies would be paralytic, while for some people, only half of their bodies would be paralytic. In fact, He Danggui thought that her energy was not that powerful, and she would not be affected. Using silver needles to seal herself was just in case.
“Hold on?” Meng Xuan raised his eyebrows and said, “You mean I can’t walk in the next three days, don’t you?”
He Danggui nodded. She felt dizzy, and the Daimai acupoint around her waist was blocked by Zhenqi. She didn’t expect that she had returned to her room but still couldn’t rest quietly… Was there no place for her to heal quietly in the world? She glanced at Meng Xuan sullenly. She thought she didn’t need to care about him since he was a child. In Meng Xuan’s surprised eyes, she took off her outermost skirt and threw it on the ground. She climbed onto the bed as hard as an old lady with waist pain. Then she pulled the quilt to wrap herself.
She had a safe place to hide in, and no one could hurt her again.
Meng Xuan was keenly aware that this girl was not as dynamic as she was at the banquet. Was this the real her? Or was she injured when she was caught by that assassin? If so, she was so uncomfortable that she was impatient to deal with him. Meng Xuan was silent for a while then asked, “Did that man hurt you? I know a little about the method of healing others with internal force. I can help you treat internal injuries.”
He Danggui stayed in the quilt and didn’t want to talk. Whether it was trauma, internal injury or heartache, it would be recovered. She needed a quiet corner now. She showed him the door obviously. Couldn’t he understand?
Meng Xuan, who was ignored, fell into silence. He tried to force out the anesthetic and thought something.
This trip to Yangzhou City was full of twists and turns. First, he rescued Su Xiaoxiao in Tu’er Town. Later, he was hunted several times by the elites of imperial guard. Fortunately, he met a kind-hearted little Taoist nun, who named Huaiyi, when he was seriously injured. Huaiyi not only bandaged his wounds but also took her closest clothes for him. Without her, he would have died.
After she left with her companion, he ate the hemostatic herbs and the bird eggs which were left by her. He felt that he had recovered some strength and then found a safe place on the mountain. After the people of imperial guard, who searched the mountain for several days, left, he came out. He firstly found Shui Shang Temple, which was the only Taoist temple on the mountain. Then he inquired about the person whose religious name had the words “Yi”. Finally, he found the little Taoist nun Huaiyi.
It was sad that she didn’t remember him at all. Then he realized that she lost her memory. When she returned to Taoist temple with her companion, they met the beasts which made them fall into the cliff. The Taoist who was with her was dead on the spot. She hit her head and lost a lot of memory, including the part that she once saved him.
But when he took out her clothes, she immediately recognized it. She worked in Medicine Room of Taoist temple, so she was familiar with pharmacology. Besides, she often picked herbs on this mountain. These conditions were consistent with the woman in the Taoist robe who saved him on that day, so he was pretty sure that Huaiyi was the one he was looking for.
Huaiyi saved his life, so he was responsible for her amnesia and loss of her best friend. In addition, he had worn her closest clothing. Therefore, he should take responsibility for her and return her kindness. He asked her if she would like to resume secular life, leaving Taoist temple with him and re-entering the secular life. At first, she was hesitant. But when he solemnly promised to take care of her for life, she promised to resume secular life and go home with him.
Later, when he arrived in Yangzhou City, he heard that “the cruelest official in the world” Geng Bingxiu was about to arrive in Yangzhou City to deal with a corruption case. He decided to caught the evil man. He asked the servant to send Huaiyi who renamed “Zixiao” to Meng’s Mansion in capital.
He asked Zixiao’s life experience and realized that she was a daughter of an influential family. Because the family was in straitened circumstances and she didn’t want to live a life of humiliation in relative’s house, she resolutely went to Shui Shang Temple to be a Taoist nun.
He thought that since he took the benefactor out of Taoist temple, he must give her a status to let her live easily in Meng’s Mansion. If she was unclear to live in Meng’s Mansion, he could only tell others for a while that she was his benefactor. In the future, she would be humiliated because didn’t have a proper status. But her background was too low to be his wife, so he asked the servants to accommodate her in Lu Feng Yard in the identity of “concubine”, so that she could live in peace.
The six elder brothers already had concubines. His mother had taken three waiting-maids in room, but he didn’t want to see the three women fighting for jealousy, so he sent them away. Now he took a concubine was not undue. Zixiao came from Taoist temple and had saved his life. He believed that his mother would be satisfied with her and treat her well.
Su Xiaoxiao was the adopted daughter of Hu Weiyong, who was the No. 1 offender, so she couldn’t go home with him. But she was a friend of his previous life. He couldn’t bear to see her to make a living as a performer. In his view, whether a woman had a strong character or a kung fu, she was still soft and vulnerable in nature. So, protecting women was a men’s duty.
Although Su Xiaoxiao’s eyes were full of surprise and admiration after being rescued, he had no feelings for her. In fact, in the nineteen years of previous life and the eleven years of this life, he had never been in love. Maybe he was born to be a heartless person. Su Xiaoxiao, a congenial friend of the previous life, looked at him strangely, which made him feel very uncomfortable. But he still trusted Lu Feng Escort to send her to the capital and temporarily settled her in his separate courtyard. He only hoped she could follow the trajectory of her previous life as soon as possible to meet the man who named “Luo Baiji” and fall in love with him, so that he could get rid of her and bless them.
