Chapter 461: Hand over Mute Granny (1/2)

Chapter 461: Hand over Mute Granny

Han Yunxi and Long Feiye had gone to Pill Fiend Valley multiple times by now, each time in a rush to get there and back with urgent medicine to save her patients. But this time was different. Inside their carriage, Long Feiye was calm while Han Yunxi was restless. If not for the fact that she’d just recovered from her burns, causing Long Feiye to insist on the carriage, she’d simply ride a horse to the valley instead.

Like always, Long Feiye was leaning lazily against the wall as he read a book. His quiet self reminded Han Yunxi of their days in the Jiangnan Plum Blossom Sea. She didn’t want to bother him, but she couldn’t help but ask, “Your Highness, how many guards did you bring with you?”

Long Feiye was still concentrating on his book as he replied, “A few.”

“That’s not enough, right?” Han Yunxi said seriously. We’re here to claim damages, not stay over like guests!

Long Feiye lifted his eyes to meet her own. “Isn’t it enough to bring your lordship along?” His guards were only here for convenience rather than to fight against Gu Qi Sha. The Pill Fiend had lost to him twice already, so Long Feiye didn’t even bother with extra precautions against the man. Gu Qi Sha had mixed miscellaneous dregs of medicine into the Broomcorn Millet Antidote, perhaps to seize a chance for profit while lying to him about the quantities. He couldn’t manage much more beyond his personal, petty schemes.

Han Yunxi shouldn’t trust Gu Qi Sha’s words when he starting contending about the amount of antidote left. That’s why Long Feiye didn’t worry about this meeting at all. Whatever Han Yunxi wanted to do later, he’d just follow her lead.

Fine, Han Yunxi could admit that she was over worrying about everything. When she saw Long Feiye’s unhappy expression, she joked, “Your Highness’s martial arts and chenqie’s poisons will be enough to beat back countless foes in the world. You can take me roaming around the jianghu!”

But Long Feiye simply said, “No time,” and went back to his book. Han Yunxi suddenly didn’t know what to say. She’d clearly been joking, couldn’t he tell?

Actually, what Long Feiye meant to say was that he had no time for idle conversation, but Han Yunxi had misunderstood him. Still, she ended up staying quiet so he had no complaints. He had loved books since he was young and hated it when anyone interrupted his reading time. Han Yunxi had brought her share of medical texts and poison manuals, but she couldn’t be bothered with them when sitting in the same room as him. Actually, even knowing he was home made it hard for her to focus on things. She could calm down much better when he was out, working until he showed up once again.

Only one day had passed so far. By carriage, it still took at least two days for them to reach Pill Fiend Valley at the fastest speeds. Han Yunxi took out the bottle of Broomcorn Millet poison and played around with it in her hands. With nothing else to do, she had the detox system pick out the extraneous sediment in the bottle and transfer it to a different bottle. Now only pure antidote was left in the original bottle. What was once seven or eight parts full was now only four parts full. In other words, Gu Qi Sha had stolen four parts of antidote for himself!

Or rather, that was what the figures indicated, but Han Yunxi wasn’t that stupid.

Judging from the size of the Serpent Fruit, if the entire fruit had been used, there should be enough to fill the bottle with antidote. Currently, she had enough to fill the bottle up four parts, which meant Gu Qi Sha must have stolen six parts of antidote from Long Feiye! Han Yunxi had no idea how big the Panoptic Red Lotus and Bear chuan were, so this was only an estimate of the actual stolen quantities. After some mental calculations, Han Yunxi placed the bottle of antidote and extraneous sediment in front of Long Feiye.

“Your Highness…”

“Mm,” Long Feiye answered casually.

Han Yunxi scooted over and told him carefully about the math she just did. She didn’t use “maybe” or “just about,” but exact figures. Long Feiye didn’t say anything at first, but soon enough he lifted his head to look at Han Yunxi.

“Your Highness, I used the size of the Serpent Fruit as a standard to figure out two possibilities. We have to get every bit back,” Han Yunxi said sincerely.

Long Feiye looked at her without a word.

Han Yunxi finally sensed something off about him. She was about to speak when Long Feiye suddenly circled her neck with his hands and drew him into his chest, keeping her against him.

Completely random!

Han Yunxi was about to break free when Long Feiye said coldly, “Your lordship has no time. Keep talking and I’ll toss you out the carriage.”

Han Yunxi finally realized the true implications of ‘no time’ that he’d said before, and grew stupefied. The driver outside the carriage heard everything and sighed with emotion at the Duke of Qin’s last words. Esteemed wangfei certainly was different than the rest. If it was anyone else who disturbed His Highness’s reading, he would’ve kicked them out of the carriage long ago.

Han Yunxi sensibly shut her mouth. From her current position in Long Feiye’s embrace, she had a perfect view of the book he was reading. She found that it was a handwritten copy of records detailing the three major horse farms in Northern Li. Long Feiye turned a page, and the next one started detailing the Skypool Horse Farm’s water and plants. Heaven knows how Long Feiye had gotten his hands on such classified information, but anyone who read the book would understand Northern Li’s three major horse farms thoroughly by the end. In other words, they would have a full grasp of Northern Li’s lifeline.

Last time, Northern Li’s spies had provoked the lands of Tianning. Although Long Feiye seemed indifferent to their schemes, he had long made his move against Northern Li. Han Yunxi knew that none of these farms had escaped his hands. She wanted to ask more about Northern Li country, but Long Feiye’s warning kept her quiet.

But it wasn’t long before Long Feiye asked, “Did you finish reading?”

Han Yunxi really was reading the book. “I’ve finished.”

Long Feiye turned to the next page and lowered the pages down so she could have a better look. As he read, he said, “Using the horse pestilence this time, our agents were able to infiltrated into Skypool Horse Farm. Yesterday we just got some bad news—the ownership of the farm has transferred from the emperor to Jun Yixie.”

The important part of the statement laid in the words ‘Jun Yixie,’ but Han Yunxi was paying more attention to ‘we.’ He had said ‘our’ and ‘we!’

Does this count as growing another step closer?