Reborn: Revenge of the Concubine's Daughter

Chapter 327 No adultery

Hearing Peng Shi behind her walking away, He Danggui couldn’t help but look back at him again. What information did he bring from the capital? Something big for her but nothing for him? What was that?

He Danggui shook her head and didn’t believe his words. Now nothing would worry her anymore. Peng Shi must be coveting her Yunqi Acupuncture and she should just ignore him. With such a thought in mind, she went around the rockery to see why Chai Yutu was screaming. “Oh…”

“Cousin Chai, what’s the matter with you?” He Danggui tilted her head and looked at Chai Yutu who was tearful.

Chai Yutu wiped away her tears and said, “My foot hurts and I can’t walk. Help! Help! Something scary there! Ah! Ah! Ah!”

He Danggui was shocked by her screaming. She followed her finger’s direction and found a big moth in a hole, sleeping or frozen. That was the “scary thing” that terrified her? Just an unmovable moth had scared her like that?

He Danggui came to check Chai Yutu’s injured foot while thinking about this girl’s ridiculous behavior. She asked, “What’s wrong with your foot? How did you get hurt?” Now she understood that Peng Shi was helping Chai Yutu with her foot. There was no adultery at all.

Chai Yutu sobbed, “I am so scared! Can you kill that thing for me?” She was still pointing to the moth trembly.

He Danggui sighed, “Although I am not afraid of that moth...”

Before she finished speaking, Chai Yutu suddenly covered her ears, closed her eyes, and screamed loudly with a look of fear as if the word “moth” was torture to her. He Danggui had to pick a small stone from the ground and throw it at the hapless moth. The small stone smashed the moth to death and sealed the hole, covering the terrible scene. For goodness’ sake!

Chai Yutu looked at He Danggui in disbelief and exclaimed, “That’s it? That was pretty accurate!”

He Danggui humbly waved her hand. “Maybe I was lucky! Hahaha.” She had gained this skill by throwing Shangguan Ming Ri’s nose in Fantasy Dream every night. And she made use of it by accident. She changed the topic, “How did you hurt your foot?” Chai Yutu was wearing an extremely thin sock on her left foot with dozens of fine thorns in her sole.

Chai Yutu sobbed, “I came here with the second sister. She asked me to go up the rockery to fetch a red leaf for her without my shoes. I did so. However, when I came back to put on my shoes, I stepped on these thorns. Also, she pushed me, and I sprained my ankle. It really hurts.” She groaned again as she said. It turned out that Chai Yutu kept screaming because of her injures, not…

He Danggui sighed because of Chai Yutu’s weakness. She asked, “Where is the second sister? She ran away?”

Chai Yutu shook her head and said strangely, “I saw a few mommies sent by Madam Luo take her. She was reluctant but was still forced to leave with them. I don’t know what happened.”

He Danggui knew that Madam Luo wanted to hold Luo Baiqiong accountable for setting fire and burying evil things in the ancestral hall. Luo Baiqiong didn’t know what happened to her mother and she was still bullying Chai Yutu here. This time, Madam Luo wouldn’t show any mercy. Looking at Chai Yutu who was made of tears, He Danggui suggested, “I’ll take you to the Medicine Room. You need a doctor.”

However, Chai Yutu resolutely shook her head, “No, I cannot ask a man to see my foot. An unmarried girl’s feet should never be revealed to a man.” She started crying again.

He Danggui probably understood why Peng Shi felt Chai Yutu annoying. She was weak and clumsy. Saving her would be troublesome. After thinking about it, He Danggui lied to her that a new female doctor had come to the Medicine Room yesterday. Then, she went to the Medicine Room with Chai Yutu on her back. He Danggui suddenly poked her sleeping point in an empty compartment, where she reset Chai Yutu’s injured ankle and applied herbs to her wound.

With a loud sound, the pain woke up Chai Yutu, causing her to weep again. Just as He Danggui comforted her helplessly, a male voice came from behind with surprise—

“My lady, you are here!” After a pause, the voice was even more surprised, “Miss Chai is also here! What are you doing?”

He Danggui put Chai Yutu’s foot into her dress. She turned back and found that Zong Qiao and Luo Baiji were standing behind them. Zong Qiao was a talented man from Chengxu Men Institute. He Danggui immediately thought that just now Madam Luo had sent someone to look for her while she was having a “wedding” with Meng Xuan. The servant said that one of her Chengxu Academy’s classmates was waiting for her. Was that classmate Zong Qiao? Zong Qiao was the one who received the love letter from the deceased Qian Mudan. Did he come to her for the trial of the case?

Luo Baiji said with concern, “Are you sick? Let me check it.” However, he reached out his hands to He Danggui instead of Chai Yutu. After feeling her pulse carefully for a while, Luo Baiji asked, “Can you take off your veil? I want to look at your complexion in case of wrong diagnosis.”

He Danggui raised her hand to touch the buckle of the veil. However, she noticed Zong Qiao’s lustful gaze at her. She felt a little awkward. Not to mention his gaze, Zong Qiao had even written a love letter to her before. So, He Danggui shook her head and said, “I don’t look good because of illness, and you don’t have to look at my face. Don’t bother with new prescription and I guess I should continue to take my pills. They worked.”

Luo Baiji retorted, “If they worked, you would have already gotten better in these years! I told you to replace that Ginseng Nurturing pills.”

He Danggui took out Madam Luo as an excuse and said, “That was the prescription set by Madam Luo. I feel good anyway. Besides, I need to report to her if I change my prescription. Maybe we should talk about it the other day. We have a guest and Cousin Chai here.”

Since Luo Baiji returned to Yangzhou City from the Northeast to study, he was surprised by a crystal-flower-like girl. When he learned that this girl was his aunt’s daughter He Danggui, he had fallen in love with her. Though she looked pale, she was still a beautiful girl. People told him that she was perfect like a beautiful magnolia flower when she had just moved into Luo’s Mansion. Then she got sick and was sent to a temple for rest. But she never recovered. Luo Baiji pitied her, so he had been studying treatments for her. Until now he was still studying her pale face after the disease, trying to find out a solution for her to get nourished.

Chai Yutu thought that she was seriously injured, but her doctor cousin didn’t notice her injury at all because she was inferior to others. So, she took out her handkerchief and continued to weep. He Danggui and Luo Baiji were both immune to this girl. They said to themselves inside that she was really made of water, just like the meaning of her name. But, Zong Qiao couldn’t bear it when he saw a girl crying, so he softly comforted this “Miss Water”. However, his words only made her cry more loudly. Zong Qiao sweated on his forehead and wondered if he did something wrong.

He Danggui thought that Chai Yutu was really like the old her when she was just moved into Luo’s Mansion. They were both self-abased and had strong self-esteem. They were fragile paper flowers but they also wanted attention. A hard-to-communicate character. So, she helped Zong Qiao and said, “Don’t worry. She cried because of her ankle. Mr. Zong, it’s the fourth day since New Year’s Day. Are you here for my cousin Luo Baiji because of your study?”

Zong Qiao wiped his sweat with a handkerchief and then explained, “I am here for you. Unfortunately, you were sick. When I was on my way back disappointedly, I ran into Luo Baiji and he told me that he was coming here. So, I followed him to see how great the Medicine Room of the first medical family is.” Then, he wore a smile and said, “No wonder the two magpies leaped and chirped at me this morning. That was a sign of good luck! It turns out to be Miss He and Miss Chai. Lovely!”

This was a bit frivolous. Luo Baiji displeased with his eyes lowered, but He Danggui smiled as usual and said, “Thank you, Mr. Zong. We are flattered. Our Medicine Room is just a common one and has no difference from others’. However, we do have an abundant collection of books. Most of them are introductory books on medicine and pharmacology. You can read them if you are interested.”

Zong Qiao also smiled, “Miss He, do you know, we have a holiday assignment for the calligraphy and painting lesson in our Men Institute. Mr. Xie asked us to paint two beauties who are making embroidery. I am so lucky today to meet the two most beautiful girls in Chengxu Academy. Could you please be my models? With the help of you two, my work will win the first place!”

He Danggui was doubtful. Did they have this assignment? Let men paint beauties? Mr. Xie was so romantic? She looked at Luo Baiji in doubt.

Luo Baiji frowned apologetically. A few days ahead of the holiday were near his mother’s death day. He was absent from school and went out of the city to sweep the grave, so he didn’t know what assignment they had.

He Danggui glanced at Zong Qiao’s pretentious look, which could not conceal his lustful nature. Whether or not he had such an assignment, she didn’t like to be painted into his paintings. So, she declined, “Who doesn’t know your nickname of “Great Painter”. It will be my honor. However, my cousin sprained her ankle and I don’t have a healthy complexion. I also cannot have any men to be with me when I am making embroidery. We don’t want to be painted in this way.”

Luo Baiji nodded, “Exactly! Don’t you want to see the Medicine Room? I will show you now.” Said so, he pulled the reluctant Zong Qiao out of the compartment.

He Danggui told Chai Yutu to take care of her injury and she would call someone in a moment to take her back to her yard with a sedan. Then, she wanted to leave but was stopped by Chai Yutu, “Why are you treating me so well?”

He Danggui turned around and smiled, “You call me sister whenever we meet. Then we are sisters. It is just a little help from your sister. Just rest assured and take care of yourself.”

Chai Yutu asked cautiously, “What have you heard when I was behind the rockery?”

Well, she was still worried about this problem. He Danggui comforted her, “I only heard you crying, and then Peng Shi ran out from the rockery. That’s all.” Hearing what she said, a blush gradually grew on Chai Yutu’s face. She was shy and it seemed that she enjoys what happened! He Danggui was taken aback. Did Chai Yutu like Peng Shi?