Chapter 79: The clues must be accurate (2/2)
“It’s just a chill. At most it’ll take five or six days for the emperor to recover. The young general needs time for his own research as well,” Han Yunxi replied mildly, secretly rejoicing in her heart. Thankfully, the emperor hadn’t contracted a major illness, or else Gu Beiyue would be stuck in the palace for one or two months instead.
Little Chen Xiang stuck up her mouth unhappily. “Mistress, why don’t you ask His Highness Duke of Qin for help?”
Han Yunxi heard her clearly but pretended not to, and got up to leave.
Chen Xiang continued whispering. “His Highness Duke of Qin has a lot more connections than Imperial Physician Gu. Mistress is recklessly wasting the fruits of Nature.”
Hearing this, Han Yunxi couldn’t help but stop and smile. “Be good, it’s not as if I’ve never used those fruits of Nature before.” Of course she knew the Duke of Qin had more connections than Gu Beiyue. But she couldn’t believe that man would help her out when he had nothing else to do.
“Mistress, even if you don’t have nerve to ask the Duke of Qin, you could get the young general to do it. These are matters of the general’s estate.” Chen Xiang reminded her.
This time, Han Yunxi narrowed her eyes. “Which part of me lacks nerve?”
Seeing her mistress’s dangerous expression, Chen Xiang finally shut her mouth and thought, Your heart…
After shutting up little Chen Xiang, Han Yunxi strode along especially unrestrained. The reason people made things difficult for her was because she couldn’t earn Long Feiye’s true recognition. If that fellow really accepted her and she sat firmly on the position of Qin Wangfei, she could set her sights across all of Tianning with no one daring to provoke or offend her!
In this era, mothers relied on their sons, wives relied on their husbands. As for her, she could only rely on herself, and she could only think of relying on herself.
Han Yunxi waited for updates as she studied the 《Cloud Realm Compendium》, an ancient record of nations and influences within the Cloud Realm Continent. The Cloud Realm Continent contained the three nations of Tianning, Northern Li, and Western Zhou. Between these three countries were powers that existed beyond their sphere of influence, the most notable being Carefree City, the City of Daughters and Medical City.
The medical academy that Gu Beiyue liked to mention was a large school within Medical City. It could be said to be the authoritative academy within Cloud Realm Continent’s medical community. But in the end, the 《Cloud Realm Compendium》was but an ancient record with very little information on medical families or poison-related sects. Han Yunxi ended up not finding what she wanted within its pages.
“Mistress, the Han Family is one of Tianning’s foremost medical families. I heard they’ve hidden plenty of medicines.”
Little Chen Xiang’s throwaway remark stirred Han Yunxi’s memory.
Of course, the Han Family!
In Tianning’s capital city, in fact in all of Tianning, there was no one besides the imperial family who’d hidden away more medicine than the Han Clan. How could she have left them out?
“Let’s go, we’ll take a look at the Han estate!” Han Yunxi decided right then and there.
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At midday, Han Yunxi took Chen Xiang with her to knock on the Han estate gates. When she first transmigrated here, she was already on a bridal sedan. Her impressions of the Han house came purely from her memories.
Creak…
The door opened, and a grumpy pageboy murmured, “Who is it? Can’t a person nap at noontime?”
“Qin Wangfei has arrived!” Chen Xiang proclaimed loudly.
“What’s Qin Wangfei doing here?” The little pageboy disapproved, but quickly recovered his wits and opened the door in terror. He half stumbled, half crawled outside, prostrating himself at the sight of Han Yunxi.
“Esteemed Wangfei! This humble one didn’t realize it was Esteemed Wangfei! We are honored by your presence, may Esteemed Wangfei have mercy!”
This pageboy really had a fright. It wasn’t just him, but all the members of the Han house never believed that Han Yunxi would cross over the threshold Duke of Qin’s gates. Many of them even thought their eldest young Miss would die! The emperor had decreed the marriage. If the Duke of Qin didn’t want to marry her, then having Han Yunxi die was the only solution.
But no one predicted that Han Yunxi would not only enter the Duke of Qin’s household, but completely change her personality and improve leaps and bounds in her medical skills, saving the young general’s life with a fleeting moment of fame. There were even rumors recently that the eldest young Miss had cured the crown prince’s strange illness. Her father was a convicted criminal but she was completely fine. Many theories arose from the populace because of these facts.
“Rise,” Han Yunxi said coldly.
The little pageboy raised his head and looked at Han Yunxi’s beauty in amazement. But after meeting her fierce, threatening gaze, he dared not look again. He couldn’t help but believe in the rumors as he hastily rose to his feet, though he was still too afraid to stand up straight.
The calm and composed Han Yunxi sat down on the threshold of the door and asked, “How many wives are still left in this house?”
The little pageboy had no guts to conceal the truth and answered honestly.
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[1] Misdirection Viper, Bamboo Viper, and Clear River Viper (迷送, 竹青, 潇湘) – misong, zhuqing, xiaoxiang, of these three snake species, only bamboo viper seems to have a real-life equivalent.