Chapter 95: Unforeseen, surprise appearance of snake venom (1/2)

Han Yunxi leisurely drank a cup of tea before opening her mouth. “Father indeed instructed me on one matter.” At these words, even Seventh Madame raised her head and furrowed her brows, very worried. Madame Li was very calm, but Han Ruoxue was like Lady Xu, incomparably anxious.

Of course, the tensest one was Han Yuqi, who blurted out, “What matter?”

“A big matter,” Han Yunxi’s tone turned serious. Han Yuqi grew even more agitated, and forgot about verifying its veracity as he leaned forward to ask again.

“What big matter?”

“Father said to leave the storehouse key with me for protection. When a suitable head of house appears, I’ll hand it over. During this time, may the various young masters and mistress of the house dedicate themselves more to studying medicine, and less on competing for material gains.”

At this, Han Yuqi’s gaze turned cold as he angrily shouted, “Impossible! You’re lying!”

How could father do such a thing?

Han Yunxi was the reason he was in prison. Besides that, this eldest young miss was the one he hated and loathed the most! Even if father had no plans to appoint a head of house, there was no way he’d hand over the key to Han Yunxi! What did she count for?!

“Esteemed wangfei, it’s not appropriate to say such words without proof,” Lady Xu’s tone had turned cold too.

Han Ruoxue couldn’t bear it either. To her, Han Yunxi’s words were like a joke. “Esteemed wangfei, this joke isn’t funny at all. How about you contact the justice courts and let everyone see father for themselves, just in case? We believe you, but the rest of the clan won’t!” Her words were painfully blunt, but this time, Madame Li didn’t stop her.

Han Yuqi was quick to chime in. “Right! Qin Wangfei, if you have any ability, bend the rules of the justice courts so we can see father once! Otherwise, we definitely won’t believe you!”

“That’s right, esteemed wangfei. I’ve heard that a life sentence doesn’t have so many restricting regulations. I’ve tried with multiple people but couldn’t see the old master, so there might be someone restricting things at the time. If you go make an exception, there shouldn’t be a problem, right?” Lady Xu couldn’t help but question.

“Esteemed wangfei, we naturally believe you, but this is an important matter. You said before that old master’s only been imprisoned, so he still lives on. As I see it, it’s more appropriate for the young masters and young mistress to see old master. It’ll prevent you from being a subject for ridicule as well,” Madame Li’s speech was executed beautifully.

Han Yunxi nodded. Very good, the second and third houses finally united on the same front.

Everyone waited for Han Yunxi to speak, imagining that she’d refuse out of fear of being exposed. But Han Yunxi actually nodded her head. “All right, then this wangfei will take care of this immediately when she returns and arrange for father to meet you all.”

She spoke so freely and easily, as if commenting on the good weather. All the people present were stunned, their faces betraying expressions of disbelief. Even the silent Seventh Madame was surprised. They…they didn’t hear wrong, did they?

Han Yunxi had prohibited visitors to see Han Congan precisely because she didn’t understand the situation at the Han house. Nor was she acquainted with Han Yunyi. She worried that once these people met with Han Congan and spoke to him, it’d affect her choice for Han Family head. But now the facts proved that she was most congenial with little Yi’er, so her choice was long fixed in her mind. At this point, she wasn’t worried at all about the Han family seeing Han Congan. She’d rather they go as soon as they could and bother her less in the future.

Today she came to the Han estate to see little Yi’er and relax a bit, but the impatient Lady Xu came instead to demand the storehouse key. Still, this was good. It was better to take care of these things early so she could focus on the general’s poison business. Han Yunxi finished her tea and set little Yi’er down, before lazily rising to her feet. Since things were set, she should go back.

But as soon as she stood up, a northwestern breeze drifted past and alerted her detoxificiation system with ‘doot, doot, doot.’

Poison!

Han Yunxi stood motionless, surprised by the unexpected warning. But after a while, the wind stopped, and the detoxification system’s warning also stopped. From what she gathered from the alarm, the poison was very closeby, but she’d sat here for so long without any warning until now. Why did it only act up with the wind?

Without a doubt, that northwestern wind had carried over traces of toxins in its scent! Typically speaking, only hypertoxic poisons would leave a trace in the winds that blew past them. Such traces would disperse very quickly, so for her sensors to pick up the poison meant that it had to be nearby. Thus thinking, Han Yunxi turned towards the northwestern corner of the courtyard and saw a little wooden shed. It had no windows and there was a lock on the door.

Could it be from there?

But the building wasn’t far away and within the detoxification system’s normal sensors. Unless there were only small amounts of poison stored within, so they could only be detected when wind blew their traces over? Han Yunxi was thoroughly curious now. Why would Third Madame’s courtyard contain poison? If it was stored in this wooden shed, why was there so little of it? And why kind of poison could it be?

She unconsciously walked forward, but Third Madame suddenly stood up to call out. “Esteemed wangfei, what are you looking at?”

Only then did Han Yunxi recover her senses. She paused for a long while, before saying nothing and smiling. “Nothing.”