Chapter 290: Fine, I’ll wait until he comes (2/2)

Chu Qingge heard crystal clear. She stood rooted to the spot in shock, unable to make a sound. Wang Ruochen quickly returned the gold card to Wang Shuchen. If the card had belonged to anyone else, he might’ve taken the chance to boast of their heroics. But since it was Long Feiye, he could only resentfully give up the chance. Long Feiye was unreasonable and hard to deal with. Moreover, the man held a personal friendship with his father and the Wang Clan. The best thing to do now was to keep the little squirrel in a safe place, store away the gold card, and quickly contact Long Feiye. If the squirrel could run all the way here, Long Feiye should be closeby.

Lil Thing watched as the gold card returned to Wang Shuchen’s hands, then at the deep expressions on everyone’s faces. It was confused–had something big happened?

Wang Shuchen couldn’t be bothered with Chu Qingge anymore. He was about to turn and leave with the squirrel when she called him back.

Her voice was cold. “I’ve already bought this squirrel! Even if it’s Long Feiye’s, I still want it!”

Many people sucked in a cold breath at her words. This girl was so bold!

“Miss Chu, the fault of this incident lies with our Medical Materials Association. I am willing to repay you ten times the cost in damages, may you forgive me,” Wang Shuchen said seriously.

“Indeed, it’s your Medical Materials Association’s fault. But no matter what, the only thing I want is that squirrel.” Chu Qingge just wouldn’t let things drop.

“But His Highness Duke of Qin…” Before Wang Shuchen could finish, Chu Qingge cut him off.

“It’s up to you how you’ll explain things to the Duke of Qin. I don’t care because I simply bought something from your guards. I don’t think your Wang Clan guards are the type to take advantage of a girl like me, right?”

Wang Shuchen felt a headache coming from dealing with such an unreasonable, troublesome person. Western Zhou’s Chu Clan stood for the military strength of Western Zhou. Aside from its imperial clan, the Chu Clan was the most respected family in their kingdom. Although they couldn’t be compared to the Duke of Qin, they weren’t people they could afford to offend. With Tianning’s Duke of Qin on one side, and Western Zhou’s Chu Clan on the other, Wang Shuchen could only look helplessly at Wang Ruochen, who had no ideas either. He managed to blurt out, “How about this? Miss Chu can take a seat inside to wait. If there’s any words to say, we can discuss it after we find the Duke of Qin.”

As it turned out, Chu Qingge agreed in one breath. “Fine, I’ll wait until he comes.” Her tone of voice made it sound like she and Long Feiye were old friends. In fact, Chu Qingge had been waiting to say those very words. She didn’t care what the excuse was if she could have a chance to talk with that man. This was a chance she wouldn’t give up.

Perhaps only the Duke of Qin could take care of Chu Qingge’s stance. Wang Shuchen returned the gold card to Lil Thing and brought him along to the Association’s offices. Lil Thing saw Chu Qingge follow them in and felt even more bewildered. Just what was going on? But very soon, it forgot about all of that, because it saw all sorts of precious medicinal ingredients once they entered the building.

Since it couldn’t steal these things to eat, it might as well buy them instead!

Lil Thing threw the gold card at Wang Shuchen before scurrying off to a cupboard of ingredients on the side. After wandering about for half the day, it really was very hungry. It picked a few of the most precious ingredients in the cupboard and started eating them with gusto. As it saw it, it was better to eat its fill and go back quickly.

But once it started, it couldn’t stop.

Wang Shuchen could tell at a glance that Lil Thing had picked the rarest ingredients to eat for its meal. He really couldn’t fathom why this little squirrel was so miraculous. If its owner wasn’t Long Feiye, he would’ve wanted to buy the squirrel for himself.

After settling Chu Qingge in a sitting room, Wang Shuchen immediately dispatched someone to contact Long Feiye…

By now it was already late night.

Han Yunxi had planned to take a small nap, but she found herself unable to fall asleep. She stood at the windows to watch the people surrounding the bounty posters gradually trickle away, before staring at its painting from far away. She wondered who had drawn this painting to make it so lifelike and similar to herself. In the middle of her thoughts, Gu Qishao’s voice spoke up.

“Poison lass, I’m back!”

Han Yunxi turned to see Gu Qishao come in, a little dusty from his travels. What had he done in the space of just four hours?

Actually, Gu Qishao hadn’t done much at all beyond buying off some people to spread false rumors. They were to say that Han Yunxi was in the City of Daughters. Then he spent a large sum of silver to employ a bunch of assassins from Carefree City to lie in ambush at the City of Daughters. Once those two tasks were finished, he had gone back in an excellent mood.

“Poison lass, let’s go. To the Mu estate!”

Han Yunxi’s doubts only grew when she saw Gu Qishao smiling like a flower. Still, she didn’t feel like asking him for details when her main interest lay in the Mu family. The two of them quickly left the inn, completely unaware…that Long Feiye was already on his way to Medicine City.

1. Wang Shuchen (王书辰) – Wang is a surname that means “kingly, ruler,” shu is “book, calligraphy, script,” while chen can be “celestial bodies, time, day.”