Rebirth: My Healer Wife Owns Superpowers

Chapter 128: Chapter 128: Grant Marriage?

Upon hearing this, Chu Yuntian suddenly stood up and said in a deep voice, “Then Yueyue, I’ll leave the task of checking the water sources to you. Your adoptive father will go and gather people to handle other matters.”

“Of course, adoptive father, please rest assured.”

She was the only one who could deal with this after all; no one else could detect it, let alone eliminate the source of the poison.

Chu Yuntian had just stepped outside the door when he suddenly halted.

“Yueyue, there shouldn’t be any issues outside the city, right? Hu Chengxuan returned with his troops today, and the soldiers are stationed just outside the city.”

“It’s hard to say,” Qi Yue frowned, “perhaps I should check on it while investigating the water sources.”

“Alright, I will have someone protect you.”

“Okay.”

Qi Yue led her people and examined all the water sources within the city.

They only found one usable well, and she dropped antidotes into two others which would be safe to use after several shichen, but all the rest had been contaminated.

She marked the conditions on the map she carried with her and sent someone back to report to Chu Yuntian, asking him to send soldiers to guard the various water sources. Then Qi Yue and her team went to check outside the city.

The Longnan County Government was surrounded by two rivers.

One flowed through the city, while the other stretched from west to south, circling the Longnan County Government.

Qi Yue first led her people to the east side to check the river that flowed through the city and found nothing unusual.

Then they went to the west side, where this time she discovered trace amounts of poison in the water plants near the city gate.

But because of the continuous heavy rains and the vast volume of water in the river, the entire river’s water was now usable, and as long as it was boiled before use, it should not cause too much of an issue.

Just as she turned away from the riverside, she saw someone walking towards her, bearing a striking resemblance to Hu Keqing.

“Yueyue…”

Hearing this voice tinged with joy, Qi Yue knew she hadn’t mistaken the person approaching.

Hu Keqing kept calling out and ran over, and Qi Yue didn’t feel right avoiding her, so she simply stood still.

“Mr. Hu, I heard that you returned with your troops today; I didn’t expect to encounter you here.”

The sun in Nanling was fierce; Hu Keqing appeared darker and thinner, yet he seemed healthier than before.

Qi Yue also let go of a worry in her heart.

She had heard he was bedridden because of her, which had put considerable pressure on her.

“It wasn’t just a chance encounter.” Hu Keqing smiled broadly at her, saying, “I had already seen you when you went to the east side. I deliberately followed you here and waited until you were done before coming over to greet you.”

Qi Yue was immediately taken aback.

“You know about the poisoning of the water sources?”n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

Hu Keqing pointed to the soldiers standing on guard in the distance and said with a smile, “I asked them.”

Realizing that she had been followed the whole way from east to west, Qi Yue couldn’t help but feel a chill run down her spine.

She had assumed that she was well-protected during her journey, so attentive that she hadn’t noticed the slightest hint of being followed.

It seemed that she would need to bring a bodyguard with her from now on.

With that thought in mind, she no longer paid attention to Hu Keqing and directly said, “I have finished my tasks; I’m heading back now.”

But Hu Keqing stopped her.

“Yueyue, many soldiers in our camp have also been poisoned. I must trouble you to help take a look.”

Seeing Qi Yue hesitate, Hu Keqing added, “I was actually planning to enter the city to invite a doctor, that’s when I saw you.”

His words seemed to make sense, but Qi Yue naturally wouldn’t accompany him to the military camp, considering Hu Chengxuan had once sent people to abduct her in the middle of the night.

“There is medicine in the city, you can send a soldier to bring it back, and let the generals take it.”

Yet Hu Keqing said, “Isn’t that too troublesome? It would be much better if Yueyue could just visit the camp.”

Seeing his insistence on inviting her to the camp, Qi Yue became even more wary and started listing a bunch of herbs used for treating poisoning and diarrhea.

“Do your military stores have Poria, Codonopsis, Atractylodes, Tangerine Peel…”

Before she could finish, Hu Keqing interrupted urgently, “Yes, we have those, please come with me quickly, Yueyue.”

Qi Yue scoffed inwardly.

She wasn’t exactly suspicious that Hu Keqing would do something to her; she simply didn’t trust Hu Chengxuan.

If he deceived Hu Keqing with some excuse to take her back, and then did something, she would be the one at a loss.

Although she had all sorts of weapons readily available, she could only stealthily kill someone; to do it openly would be suicide.

She immediately took out paper and pen from her medicine box and wrote down a prescription, handing it over to Hu Keqing.

“There’s no need for me to make the trip if you have medicine. This prescription should relieve abdominal pain and diarrhea with one dose.”

Seeing that Hu Keqing was hesitating to take it, Qi Yue directly tossed the prescription to the soldier behind him and turned to leave.

After taking just a few steps, she heard Hu Keqing speak anxiously, “Yueyue, before going to Nanling, my father has already agreed to apologize to you for the last incident. Please, come back with me.”

Indeed, this Hu Chengxuan was one thing to her and another to his son.

Qi Yue sneered inwardly and quickened her pace.

“Mr. Hu, your father doesn’t need to apologize to me, because I’ll never forgive him.”

She truly couldn’t understand Hu Keqing’s way of thinking. Hadn’t she made herself clear last time? Why was he still clinging to her?

Once she quickly returned to the city, Qi Yue finally felt at ease.

She was still a bit worried Hu Chengxuan might leap out suddenly like last time, with thousands of people in tow; in that case, she’d have no choice but to reveal her newly acquired lethal weapons.

However, as she reached the pharmacy, she suddenly had the sensation she was being followed.

But a careful look revealed not a trace of anyone.

This feeling persisted all the way back to her residence.

She couldn’t help but think it might be Hu Keqing following her in secret, and disgust immediately filled her heart.

“Mother Zhang, have someone check around the residence for any suspicious individuals.”

Upon hearing this, Mother Zhang immediately summoned Cai Wei and Xiaolian, who had been recently trained, to watch over Qi Yue while she personally oversaw the matter.

A group of servants and old ladies patrolled around the residence as the sky darkened.

It was only then that Qi Yue began to feel much more comfortable and grew increasingly sure that Hu Keqing was behind the disturbances, her disgust intensifying.

She didn’t notice that a slim figure, tall as bamboo, stood atop a high roof, looking down at her location.

The gathering night enshrouded him, making him appear like a solitary and beautiful pine tree, aloof and noble, as if he was a being unto himself.

The fine rain showered down on him, yet he stood immovable, as if rooted there by nature.

Simultaneously, in the military camp outside the city, Hu Keqing was happily describing his encounter with Qi Yue.

Sitting opposite him, Hu Chengxuan’s face was a mask of restrained patience, his expression forcefully agreeable.

He couldn’t blame his son; after all, he had once appreciated Qi Yue and even wanted to break convention to recruit her into the army.

But she turned out to be so ungrateful!

Humph!

“Father, I’m sure that Qi Yue doesn’t hate me. She will come to like me eventually! When you report back to the Capital City, please ask the Emperor to grant me her hand in marriage.”

Hearing the words “grant a marriage,” Hu Chengxuan’s mouth twitched involuntarily.

Grant a marriage?

How could he give the honor of an imperial marriage to a lawless girl who dared attack him?

Moreover, she had been divorced and had been both Zhao Xiyan’s wife and suspiciously close to Qu Wei.

How could such a woman enter the Hu Family’s doors?

Absurd!

But faced with his son’s eager countenance, he still didn’t utter the words of immediate rejection.

“Father will ask for the decree, but whether the Emperor consents is beyond my foresight.”

“Father is the Great General; with your triumphant return, the Emperor will surely grant a reward and will agree.”

Seeing his son’s confident gaze, Hu Chengxuan suddenly had an idea—marry his son to a well-matched noblewoman!

If his son gained favor with one woman, then he won’t think of another!

With his mind made up, he immediately cheered up.