Chapter 1185: They’re liars, I’m an idio (1/2)
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Long Feiye stood there until the mantle of night fell upon the skies. When the entire world turned dark, Gu Qishao had still yet to move.
Instead of a dying man, he simply looked like someone who was already dead.
At last, Long Feiye walked over, but Gu Qishao hadn’t reacted even when he was standing right in front of him. Despite being so close, Long Feiye couldn’t see the man’s face when it was still bowed to the ground. Instead, it was Gu Beiyue who sensed his presence inside and came out, unsurprised.
He knew that Long Feiye would drop by eventually.
“What’s wrong with him?” Long Feiye asked.
Gu Beiyue looked at Gu Qishao with eyes filled with tenderness, as if he was seeing a small child. “He should be sleeping, I think? For the past month, he’s been sleeping for one to two days at a time.”
Long Feiye immediately knitted his eyebrows while Gu Beiyue smiled helplessly. “It can’t be helped. Maybe he’ll keep sleeping one day and never wake up. To him, that would count as an end to this torture.”
“Gu Qishao, wake up!” Long Feiye suddenly snarled.
But Gu Qishao didn’t budge. Gu Beiyue silently returned to the rooms to keep making medicine. He knew Gu Qishao could disappear at any instant and turn into a tree, but he still hadn’t given up. Long Feiye followed him in and saw the room was full of medicinal ingredients and Gu Beiyue’s handwritten notes.
Long Feiye pinched his eyebrows and found a place to sit down. “No progress from Mu Linger’s side either?” He knew the girl had headed to Medical City, but Han Yunxi and Gu Qishao were both clueless.
“I don’t think there’s any hope. Linger left Medical City to look for medicine a few days ago. I haven’t heard from her in over 10 days.” Gu Beiyue appeared calm, but he was anything but. He knew that everything he was doing now was useless, but he didn’t stop working day and night. Like a child, he was desperately hoping for a miracle.
Long Feiye fell silent. Gu Beiyue lost himself to his work as well.
After a long time had passed, Long Feiye then said, “Four days later, Rui’er will be one month old. I’m planning to bring Yunxi and him here.”
Gu Beiyue’s hand trembled minutely before he whirled around. “Your Highness, will they make it?”
Long Feiye wanted to ask the same thing!
Would they make it…
“Your Highness, since we’ve hidden it for so long, let’s not sadden the princess. The little master’s one-month anniversary should be a joyous occasion. We can’t let him down,” Gu Beiyue said.
Long Feiye threw his head back to lean against the wall. “If she can’t make it...Han Yunxi will be uneasy for the rest of her life.”
Gu Beiyue had no words to retort. He subconsciously stopped working and went to sit down. The two men passed the time in a silence more still than the snoozing Gu Qishao outside.
Meanwhile, Han Yunxi remained oblivious to everything in the Rear Camp. Ning Jing had been with her the entire day. Rui’er had just been carried off for the night, leaving the two of them alone in the tent.
Ning Jing took this time to speak up. “Princess, I want to bring Tang Li back to the Tang Clan.”
Han Yunxi’s gaze flickered with complex expressions. Looks like Ning Jing was planning on doing that all alone. She only dropped by to see us here on the way. Nodding, she didn’t probe.
Ning Jing smiled and added, “I miss my daughter. If I don’t go back any sooner, she won’t even recognize her father and mother.”
“Tang Li is the Tang Clan’s sole heir and its clan head. I can’t be a bully and keep him from the Tang Clan just because he’s gone insane,” Ning Jing added.
“I understand,” Han Yunxi intoned. “Tang Zijin and the rest of the Tang Clan are busy with plans for the palace and capital city, so they’re all in Tianan. If you’re going back to the Tang Clan, this is the time.”
Ning Jing fell silent for a while before she said seriously, “Princess, I’m only telling you this, but--no matter what happens after this, how bitter or hard it’ll be, I’ll be looking after Tang Li until he gets well.”
And what about after he recovers?
Ning Jing didn’t finish. Han Yunxi waited until Ning Jing almost told her, but she switched to a smile and said, “Alright, I’m going to start packing. We’ll leave tomorrow morning.”
Han Yunxi had a million things she wanted to say, but silently mused, Ning Jing, don’t you worry. With me here, I’ll make sure the Tang Clan doesn’t bully you!
Ning Jing had already risen to her feet when Han Yunxi said casually, “When you two go back, that girl Linger should be coming over here.” She was sure Mu Linger would be asking her about Gu Qishao’s whereabouts.
Ning Jing stopped and fixed her with a doubtful look. “Linger left the Tang Clan ages ago. Gu Beiyue invited her to help him in Medical City.”
The somewhat exhausted Han Yunxi suddenly felt alarmed. “Medical City? Gu Beiyue?”
“It should be a month already, I think? She sent me a letter when she left the Tang Clan saying she was going to help Doctor Gu make medicine,” Ning Jing explained.
Han Yunxi grabbed Ning Jing’s hand anxiously. “What medicine? Who needs it?”
Gu Beiyue’s been helping Gu Qishao with medicine all this time! And Xu Donglin’s letters never mentioned Mu Linger at all. Han Yunxi could already feel that this matter was more complicated than it seemed. It had to be related to Gu Qishao somehow.
Why does Gu Beiyue need Mu Linger’s help? Hasn’t his work with Gu Qishao been going very smoothly?
It’s already so late. According to Xu Donglin’s letters, Gu Qishao should be almost back with the last ingredient. He and Gu Beiyue should have created the best antidote already!