Chapter 288: The Long Clan’s prize for capture (2/2)
So that was it!
Han Yunxi knew that she’d find clues in Medical City, but how did this fellow find out what Third Elder couldn’t even ask? After all, Lady Lianxin’s alliance with Department Head Lin and the latter’s favoritism towards Han Yunxi, along with how Lady Tianxin had found Lady Lianxin for help in the past, were all extremely personal details!
“How did you find out? Why do you know everything about the medical academy?” This was the second time Han Yunxi had asked this question. Right now, she really wanted to know about Gu Qishao’s origins. Gu Qishao’s gaze softened at Han Yunxi’s earnest expression. He really liked how it felt when she looked at him so intently.
“How did you find out?” Han Yunxi asked for the third time.
Gu Qishao suddenly reached out to pat her head. “Poison lass, it’s not important how I found out. The main thing now is to figure out whether or not you’re descended from the Poison Clan.”
Han Yunxi was this close to telling him she probably was! But she still held back in the end. Aside from Gu Beiyue, who’d always helped her in silence, who else existed in this world that didn’t want to use her for their own motives? She had no idea what Gu Qishao’s motives were, but she’d known he had his own objectives ever since the first time they met and he saved her life.
“Suppose I’m really someone from the Poison Sect?” Han Yunxi asked playfully.
But Gu Qishao didn’t answer her this time like usual. He smiled and stroked her head again, before giving her a doting smile. “Be good and rest first. I’ll take you to see someone at the Mu Clan tonight.”
Han Yunxi didn’t press the issue. Her mother was already dead. It was impossible to fake dystocia, so who could Gu Qishao be taking her to meet? Medicine City and the medical academy had a strong relationship, while the Poison Sect was the medical academy’s taboo topic. The Mu Clan was one of the three great families of Medicine City, so they’d never touch the medicine academy’s taboos. Naturally, Lady Tianxin’s affair had to be kept under wraps. Hadn’t Lady Tianxin disappeared all those years ago? Was Lady Lianxin the only one who knew of her whereabouts, and that Mu Xin was Tianxin? Was it a pure coincidence that Lady Tianxin had a difficult labor, or were there other factors at play? Even though Han Yunxi had stumbled upon a big clue, she still knew nothing about Lady Tianxin or her real father.
When she noticed Gu Qishao leaving, Han Yunxi hastened to ask, “Where are you going?”
Gu Qishao turned back with a smile and a sentimental air. “Poison lass, don’t worry. I won’t forsake you unless I’m dead.”
Unless he’s dead?
Many years later, Han Yunxi would find out everything about Gu Qishao, including his inability to die. Every time she recalled the words he said today, her face would be drenched in tears.
Han Yunxi sighed lightly as she saw Gu Qishao vanish out the door. She walked to the window and saw multiple crowds of people swarming around the bounty posters below. Her eyes drooped before she eventually shut the window. What the eye doesn’t see, the heart won’t grieve over!
She opened up her medical pouch so she could talk to Lil Thing, but Lil Thing wasn’t inside. Han Yunxi wasn’t sure if Lil Thing had eaten its fill by the time she left the poison grounds. Every day, she’d take out lots of poisons into the medical pouch for it to eat. Sometimes Lil Thing would eat the whole bag clean; other times, it wouldn’t make a single move. She didn’t understand this little creature, but there wasn’t time to study it now. All she could do was feed and hide it. Lil Thing was gone, but her poisons were still inside, untouched. Han Yunxi mused that it must have ran out to play. It’d gone missing multiple times during their journey, but it would always suddenly reappear.
After cleaning up her things, Han Yunxi went back to her room to sleep. But she couldn’t have imagined even in her dreams the kind of horror Lil Thing caused during her one-hour nap! Right now, Lil Thing was standing right in front of the doors to the Medical Materials Association in Medicine City. That’s right, it was the very Association that required a golden pass for anyone to enter and exit its doors. It was the most high-class market for medicinal ingredients in Medicine City and only sold top-tier goods. When Long Feiye had first brought Han Yunxi here, he’d given her a gold card so she could shop as she wished. Supposedly, Han Yunxi had broken records for private expenditures at the Medical Materials Association that day.
The guards of the Association door were extremely strict. Lil Thing had tried to slip in the wake of someone’s heels multiple times, but there weren’t many people going in and out, so it had no place to hide. It’d eaten its fill at the poison grounds ages ago, but it wanted to try the taste of different ingredients here. It didn’t just subsist on poisons alone. Sometimes when it was in a bad mood, it could even eateateat a completely living human! Since it hadn’t been able to eat any meat recently, it might as well try some special, precious medicinal ingredients instead.
The defining traits of a glutton was someone who ate like the seas when hungry, and fastidiously when full!
Lil Thing hid in a corner like a mouse, occasionally poking its head out as it waited patiently. Finally, the scent of the medicine inside made it impossible to wait any longer. Thus, it followed along the wall as it inched towards the door. It was only as tall as a fist, so who would even notice?
Unfortunately…