Chapter 237: Antidote, heheheh (1/2)

Chapter 237: Antidote, heheheh

You can’t!

Han Yunxi’s exclamation was loud enough to awe everyone into silence still enough to hear a pin drop. Nobody expected such a delicate looking girl to have such pluck.

“Han Yunxi, you have some nerve! Do you know who you’re speaking to right now?” Lady Lianxin was the first to recover and rage.

No matter how well-bred Third Elder was, he couldn’t endure such provocation! Only the medical academy head spoke to him in such tones. This Han Yunxi, simply unforgivable!

“Qin Wangfei, this old man didn’t argue with you just then to give the Duke of Qin face. Don’t reach for a yard after getting an inch!”

So Long Feiye had some face with the Council of Elders too. Of course, Han Yunxi didn’t bother with that tidbit now. Her primary goal when faced with a patient was to save them as quickly as possible. If one took 10,000 steps back and put aside saving them, she’d still do it for her own dignity and right of speech. In this world, no matter where you went, there was a thing called actions speak louder than words when you wanted people to remember and accept your words, thoughts, and decisions. It wasn’t so simple to simply convince them with speech alone.

Han Yunxi raised her chin up high and looked coldly at Third Elder. “Third Elder, could it be that you’re afraid to check Tianning crown prince’s wrist joint? Scared that you’re really wrong?”

“You’re shameless!” Third Elder immediately flared up, striking the table as he rose to his feet. “Someone come, take this uncultivated slip of a girl and drag her outside. From now on, she isn’t allowed to take half a step into Medical City!”

This girl, she wasn’t simply unforgivable, but completely uncultured! If he didn’t show her a thing or two, she might really forget what kind of place the medical academy was!

The guards outside rushed in as soon as Third Elder spoke. Seeing this, Gu Beiyue said, “Third Elder, it’s not too late to drag the person away after you’ve examined the crown prince’s joints. Otherwise, people might gossip that an elder like you is bullying his juniors.”

The atmosphere was tense, with sword and daggers drawn, but Gu Beiyue remained as calm and serene as ever. His words were neither slow nor rushed, but temperate and mild. Still, the meaning behind them was significant like a needle hidden in silk floss, though it calmed those who heard it. These words gave Third Elder no excuse to refuse. He huffily stared at Gu Beiyue, unable to believe that the man who always minded his own business would speak up for Han Yunxi this way.

“Third Elder, as I see it, Imperial Physician Gu’s words have merit. We shouldn’t have people assume that our Council of Elders are looking down on the Duke of Qin’s estate,” Fourth Elder spoke up again.

Han Yunxi realized just then that her words and actions were representing the figurative man behind her, Long Feiye. Thinking up to here, she couldn’t help but wonder where Long Feiye was at this very moment. Was he searching through the storehouse of the medical academy’s old Poison Sect? Did he know everything that was going on in the medical academy right now?

As things stood, the ever-busy Long Feiye was sitting right on top of the roof, looking expressionlessly at everything happening inside…

When Han Yunxi noticed that Third Elder didn’t immediately reject the proposal, she hastened to add, “Third Elder, you don’t need to drive me off. If the Tianning crown prince isn’t poisoned, I’ll leave Medical City of my own accord and never come back again. If…”

“There is no ‘if’!” Third Elder cut her off disdainfully. “Heheh, very well. You won’t shed tears until you see the coffin, is it? This old man will examine Long Tianmo’s wrist joint right now!”

Third Elder had hesitated before, not because he believed that Long Tianmo was poisoned, but because he was uncertain about the large dosage of Numbing Soup. Though he wasn’t specialized in poisons, he understood enough to see that Long Tianmo’s complexion didn’t look like he was poisoned at all, much less with a hypertoxic toxin. His decades of experience had to be at least equal to the skills of a girl like Han Yunxi.

When Han Yunxi saw that Third Elder was about to start his examination, she suddenly shouted, “Wait a minute!”

“What? Is it this old man who’s afraid, or you yourself?” Third Elder seized the chance to answer back sarcastically.

“Someone who’s afraid wouldn’t talk conditions!” Han Yunxi’s eyes flashed with a crafty gleam that no one else noticed. At a time like this, she wouldn’t be called Han Yunxi if she couldn’t wrest some advantage from the situation. Anyone who didn’t trust her in the field of poison arts was destined to pay the price.

“What a glib tongue, hmph!” Third Elder scorned.

“If Tianning’s crown prince is poisoned, then I asked Third Elder to agree to one thing for this junior,” Han Yunxi seized the chance to make her demands. She had no connections whatsoever in Medical City, but if she could take this time to grab hold of someone like an elder, it’d be best. Naturally, she was 100 percent certain that there was poison, but less sure of whether Third Elder would agree to her request.

Unexpectedly, Third Elder’s reply went beyond her expectations. “Qin Wangfei, this isn’t how you make demands,” he said.

“Then how do I do it?” Despite the surprise, Han Yunxi was still unafraid and steadfast.

Third Elder smoothed out his beard with his fingers and said slowly, “If this old man cures Tianning’s crown prince, then you’ll leave the medical community from hereon…”

This really was a harsh condition, but Han Yunxi fearlessly grinned and nodded her head. Third Elder snorted and added, “If you cure Tianning’s crown prince, then you can command this old man to do as you like!”

This…

Third Elder’s conditions were in a completely different realm than that of Han Yunxi’s. If she cured him? He didn’t care about the diagnosis, but only the results, as long as she cured him?