vrcanaries Chapter 457 Who sent you to seduce the young marquis?
Chapter 457 Who sent you to seduce the young marquis?
With Qin Miaoxi's herbs, the epidemic in Jiangnan was brought under control, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
Fu Yifan's condition has improved, and he is now able to handle government affairs in the city. Everything is progressing in a positive direction.
That day, Qin Miaoxi and Xiao Yan were preparing a new prescription, using poison to fight poison, which could help patients strengthen their resistance and avoid secondary infections after the disease was controlled.
Suddenly a series of shouts were heard, and Ziyan rushed over at lightning speed, "Miss, something terrible has happened! The young marquis has fallen unconscious."
“No, wasn’t his plague cured? Why is he still unconscious?” Qin Miaoxi immediately stood up and went with her to check.
As I walked outside the tent, I suddenly heard a series of coquettish voices coming from inside.
"Young Master, don't be in such a hurry! We'll make sure you're well taken care of."
Then came a muffled groan from the man, and Qin Miaoxi's tense face immediately darkened.
"This is what you meant by being unconscious?"
"Miss, there might be some misunderstanding." Ziyan felt her scalp tingle from the glare she received. Good heavens! The young marquis has caused a lot of trouble.
Qin Miaoxi sneered, "Since he has so much energy, then let more people admire the young marquis's majesty together."
Ziyan was choked by the sourness in the words. The young lady said she wasn't being hypocritical, but was clearly just jealous.
The tent curtain was suddenly thrown open, revealing a thin red veil that partially obscured a fair and slender figure.
"Did I disturb you?"
Qin Miaoxi's icy voice was like ice, and the man on the bed immediately let out a gasp.
"What are you doing? Get off me!"
Like a humiliated wife, Lu Qingchen angrily pushed the woman away. When he saw Qin Miaoxi, he hurriedly explained to her, "Wife, I have nothing to do with her. I don't know why she's in my bed."
Qin Miaoxi glanced expressionlessly at the disheveled woman on the ground. "So it's the City Lord's daughter! Young Marquis, we're already divorced. You don't need to explain anything between you and her to me."
"How can this be done!"
Lu Qingchen struggled to sit up in bed, grabbed her hand and said, "I really have nothing to do with her, you have to believe me."
At this moment, the city lord's daughter began to sob, "Young Marquis, how could you say that? Didn't you hold my hand and say that I was your confidante, more understanding than...more understanding than the Marquis's wife?"
"Get out! You shameless woman, when have I ever been alone with you? I only love my wife. If you dare to talk nonsense again, I'll be very rude to you."
The city lord's daughter glared at Qin Miaoxi resentfully, "Young Marquis, she's just a paper craftswoman, how am I inferior to her?"
Lu Qingchen scoffed sarcastically, "People say you shouldn't air your dirty laundry in public. Didn't your father tell you not to run around like that? You actually dare to compare your sesame-seed eyes, bulbous nose, and bitter face to my beautiful wife. Who gave you the courage?"
"you……"
The city lord's daughter was ridiculed as utterly worthless, not even a hair on her head compared to Qin Miaoxi, but she could only stare in despair, unable to let her leave.
Qin Miaoxi forced a stiff smile, gaining a deeper understanding of Lu Qingchen's sharp tongue.
"Wife, please help me check. This woman must have drugged me, otherwise why would I have mistaken a toad for you when I was out of my mind?"
Qin Miaoxi took the pulse with suspicion, her face instantly turning ugly. She threw the golden needles out of her hand, stood up, and lashed the city lord's daughter's shoulder with a whip.
"How dare you drug the young marquis!"
Lu Qingchen's health was damaged by the plague, and she was only suppressing the poison. Unexpectedly, she dared to use the Hehuan Powder, which completely disrupted the balance in her body. The toxins spread at a visible speed, and even the golden needles could not stop them.
Just a moment ago, he vomited three mouthfuls of blood and fell unconscious.
The thin veil on the city lord's shoulder ripped instantly, leaving a deep whip mark that exposed the bone.
"Ah! You hit me, you bitch, you're asking for death!" The city lord's daughter clutched her disheveled clothes tightly, glaring at Qin Miaoxi with eyes wide with rage, wishing she could tear her to pieces.
"Guards, kill her and receive a reward of a thousand taels of silver."
She made the same mistake twice, and still no one responded.
"Senior Xiao, I would like to trouble you to help him regulate his internal energy first."
Xiao Yan nodded in agreement, "Mm."
Qin Miaoxi silently approached the city lord's daughter step by step, flicked her wrist, and sent her long whip flying through the air, precisely and ruthlessly wrapping around her neck, tightening abruptly, choking her screams and breaths into silence.
“I told you, if there’s a next time, it’ll be your neck. You deserve to die.”
The city lord's face instantly turned a terrifying purplish-red, and veins bulged on her forehead.
She desperately clawed at the whip around her neck with both hands, her nails splitting open but unable to budge it an inch. The whip only tightened, digging deep into her flesh, making her throat gurgle under the strain.
"stop!"
A shout came from outside the door, and a fierce gust of wind swept in. Qin Miaoxi slightly turned her wrist, and the long whip retracted into her palm. The city lord's daughter fell into a man's arms.
"How dare you! Who are you to lay a hand on my daughter?" The man was the city lord's daughter's father, the city lord of a prefecture.
He handed the person over to the guards behind him, saying, "Take the young lady away for treatment."
"Let's see who can leave." Qin Miaoxi swung her arm, the long whip cracking in the air, her body radiating an intimidating aura.
The city lord glared fiercely, drew his sword from his waist, and sneered, "You're courting death! Men! Don't let her get away!"
Qin Miaoxi's lips curled slightly, and she swung her arm in a wide arc, slapping him across the face with a sharp "smack." He was knocked to the ground by the heavy slap, and half of his cheek instantly swelled up.
The accompanying guards exclaimed, "Lord City Lord!"
"Get out of the way, or you will die."
As she finished speaking, the soldiers stopped dozens of them outside the tent, saying, "Anyone who dares to offend you shall die."
"You're all insane! You dare to go against the city lord for a woman?"
The guards brought by the city lord were all private soldiers from his mansion. They looked imposing, but in reality, they were like clay chickens and earthen dogs, and were incomparable to the elite cavalry on the border who were used to life and death.
Even now, all we can do is watch helplessly as that woman tramples the city lord under her feet.
Qin Miaoxi coldly ordered, "Someone, splash her awake."
Suddenly, a bucket of cold water was poured over the city lord's head. She shivered and came to her senses. When she met Qin Miaoxi's indifferent eyes again, she hugged her chest in horror and begged for mercy: "No, don't kill me."
Only now did she truly understand that this woman in front of her was not someone to be trifled with. Didn't she see how her father had been trampled underfoot? What right did she have to yell at her?
"If you don't want to die, honestly tell me who sent you to seduce the young marquis?"
The city lord's daughter was momentarily stunned, and blurted out, "How did you know...? What are you saying? I don't understand."
“From the moment you mentioned his identity as the young marquis.”
Qin Miaoxi slowly adjusted the thin veil that sagged her shoulders. "The young marquis has been infected with the plague for too long. In addition to his physical condition, his face has also changed. No one in the city knows his identity. They just think of him as an ordinary citizen. Why can you tell me so easily?"
“I…I had contact with the young marquis before, so of course I know.”
"Before? When? Where?"
"Of course, it's in Jiangnan."
"Then why weren't you infected?"
The city lord's daughter stammered and couldn't explain. Even the city lord had been infected with the plague and only left the city to hand over the duties after recovering. How could she explain that?
Qin Miaoxi casually stroked the long whip, pulling it tighter little by little, and the city lord's face turned purplish-red.
"It was your father who instigated this! How dare he persecute a noble official! I can execute him on the spot right now."