Reborn: Revenge of the Concubine's Daughter

Chapter 73 Bromance of two childes

“Chief, what did you and Childe Duan help Zhu Quan conceal? How did he get his mother’s corpse?” Liao Zhiyuan asked curiously.

Lu Jiangbei recalled, “Now I think Zhu Quan is so scheming that he cheated Childe Duan and me at the same time. If he didn’t cut off the heads of those guards who were disrespectful to the corpse of Consort Yang, we would continue to be kept in the dark. It’s hard to imagine that such a plan came from a 13-year-old teenager at that time, so I doubt that there was a consultant behind him.”

Liao Zhiyuan became more and more curious. Then he pushed and urged Lu Jiangbei, “Tell me! Just tell me immediately!”

Lu Jiangbei looked pale, with the abnormal sweat on his forehead, and then he coughed violently again. Liao Zhiyuan hurriedly helped him smooth his breath, crying and confessing, “It’s all my fault, Chief! You have been seriously injured, but you blocked Gao Jue’s hand for me. Your injury must become worse at that time! Oh, I’m wrong. It’s Gao Jue’s fault. He should be angry at Chick He. How could he fight his friend!”

“Lynx, do you know where Gao Jue go for his holiday?” Lu Jiangbei raised his eyes weakly and asked, “Before he left, he let me ask you. And he said that ‘the price has been increased to 15 jars. If he gives me one jar less, I will twist that woman’s head off and take it as a stool to sit’. What kind of woman is he said? I remember that there was no woman in the targets of his assassination.”

“What?! 15 jars?!” Liao Zhiyuan was furious, “How dare he renege on his words and raise the price! I’m only willing to smell the wine, but he should add 5 jars!”

Lu Jiangbei looked at Liao Zhiyuan in puzzlement. Before he asked about it, Liao Zhiyuan’s flexible eyes turned and his expression suddenly changed from anger to delight, “Eh? How silly I am! Since he also likes Chick He, why don’t I give him the dagger engraved with Chick He’s appearance? He may not want a jar of wine once he is happy! Don’t blame me, Chief. Now that you are injured, I can’t expect you to help me improve my kung fu and break through the bottleneck, tut-tut.”

Liao Zhiyuan held Lu Jiangbei closely and sighed, “Chief, it’s not because I don’t care about you. Actually, I’m also thinking about you. As the old saying goes, indulging on your lust is equivalent to hanging a knife upon your head. You are going to start your meditation for healing. In that dark underground icehouse, if you are lonely, you may do something with the dagger. The dagger is so sharp that it may hurt you. Even if it doesn’t hurt you, it will affect your recuperation and healing. At that time, in case you are in Qi Deviation, you would have no chance to see Chick He!”

Darn! Lu Jiangbei was so angry that the blue veins on his forehead twitched. He slowly made a fist and punched it on Liao Zhiyuan’s chin. Suddenly, he regretted saving this lynx from Gao Jue. It turned out that it was not Gao Jue’s fault when he wanted to kill Liao Zhiyuan. Gao Jue was so kind to Liao Zhiyuan by just unloading his one arm!

Liao Zhiyuan’s left hand made an intuitive response to the external attack in a speed faster than his mind. Then he immediately launched a palm to block Lu Jiangbei. However, he forgot that Lu Jiangbei was in a state of falling down as soon as he was touched. How could he stand Liao Zhiyuan’s push? Lu Jiangbei spat out half a mouthful of blood and fell down on the ground, finally took a look at the world, and then closed his eyes reluctantly. Liao Zhiyuan rushed to him and shouted, “Chief! Unexpectedly, you are always calm but you die gloomily just because you couldn’t get the dagger engraved with Chick He’s appearance!”

“Don’t die, Chief. What can I do if you die?” Liao Zhiyuan took the dagger and put it into Lu Jiangbei’s arms. He knelt beside Lu Jiangbei and cried, “Here’s the dagger. I’ll carve a new one for Gao Jue! Don’t die, Chief. If you survive, I’ll let Gezhu depict the image of Chick He and draw a lot of pictures of beauty bathing and beauty in bed! I don’t lie to you. I saw him place the drawing under the memorial to the throne presented to the Emperor. When he wrote several words on the memorial, he drew out the drawing and depicted two or three strokes of erotic pictures!”

Seeing that the most valuable titbit couldn’t make Lu Jiangbei open his eyes, Liao Zhiyuan embraced Lu Jiangbei and rested Lu Jiangbei’s head on his shoulder. Then he put his left hand on Lu Jiangbei’s chest and right hand on the middle of his back. He put all his attention on his palms and channeled Zhenqi to Lu Jiangbei’s pericardium channel and lung channel. After a while, he stopped to feel Lu Jiangbei’s breath. Lu Jiangbei stopped breathing!

Liao Zhiyuan felt panic and didn’t know what to do. His Zhenqi couldn’t save his Chief! He regretted that he scratched or told jokes when everyone was sitting in meditation to adjust the breath before... Now Chief was almost dying in front of him, but he didn’t have enough Zhenqi to save him! The Chief just stopped breathing! He didn’t know what to do.

It occurred to Liao Zhiyuan that he could give Lu Jiangbei artificial respiration. He laid Lu Jiangbei down on the ground, and learned the actions of his sister Qing when she saved a drowning maid. He used his left hand to cover Lu Jiangbei’s nostrils, and his right hand to rudely gouge his mouth open. Then he took a breath and moved slowly... “Bang! Clatter!”

Liao Zhiyuan turned around after hearing the sounds and saw that Liu Sui, at the corner of the door, busily gathered up the fragments of the soup bowl. After picking up only two or three of the biggest pieces and throwing them into the tray, she ran away and cried, “I understand you, and please don’t kill me. I will keep it a secret! I really understand you!”

“What the fuck! What was she thinking about?” The corner of Liao Zhiyuan’s left eye and mouth twitched at the same time.

When he looked at Lu Jiangbei, he surprisedly found that Lu Jiangbei woke up and asked with puzzlement, “What’s wrong with Liu Sui? Who wants to kill her? Did people of Ling’s Family find her?”

The corner of Liao Zhiyuan’s left eye and mouth twitched again spontaneously. He implicitly promised to Lu Jiangbei, “I will specially take care of her.” Then he carried Lu Jiangbei in his arms and said, “Nothing is more important than your injury right now. I will send you to the icehouse to cure your internal injury! Please hold on. I cannot live if you die!”

The underground icehouse of Baisha Mountain Villa had a naturally formed ice bed. It was a great place to heal the internal injury because the ice bed could appease the disordered Zhenqi and blood of heavily injured people. In addition, their cultivation methods and palm methods originated from Hanqingmen Sect, so they could get twice the result with half the effort when curing the injury in Ice Pool. It was said that Lu Jiangbei got his powerful internal force by practicing here. Liao Zhiyuan and Jiang Pi also wanted to follow the example of Lu Jiangbei to start their meditation, but they couldn’t stand to stay here after only three days. Maybe only a man like Lu Jiangbei could bear this kind of place which was as quiet and cold as a tomb.

“What are you talking about? Put me down. I’m fine...” Lu Jiangbei gave Liao Zhiyuan a weak push on his chest to let him put him down, and he wanted to walk by himself. This scene was not good to be seen.

Liao Zhiyuan didn’t let him go and stopped him, “Don’t move. We are almost there. I’m not responsible if you fall!” They went ahead with pulling and pushing. After turning a corner at the porch, they found Liu Sui crouched behind the flowerbeds with her black eyes shining.

She saw both of the two men, one was being embraced by the other, turn around to look at her. She explained immediately, “I know and I don’t discriminate against you. Do what you want to do. I don’t see or hear anything!”

Lu Jiangbei finally understood what she meant. He was so angry that he hit Liao Zhiyuan’s chest again, “Put me down, now!”

Looking at Lu Jiangbei who was about to start vomiting blood again, Liao Zhiyuan began to fly to the entrance of the icehouse without saying anything. The master would have the maid with similar character. He could know what kind of person Ling Miaoyi was by seeing Liu Sui’s behaviors. Ling Miaoyi seduced other men after she said that she liked Childe Duan. She was such a skittish liar. Fortunately, Childe Duan was not interested in her, or his future would become very unfortunate if his mother made Ling Miaoyi his fiancée.

Liao Zhiyuan held Lu Jiangbei and flew on the roof for a while. Then they came to the Jing Yue Lake at the center of the villa. Liao Zhiyuan whispered to remind Lu Jiangbei, “Hold your breath, and we have to go down!” Immediately, he took Lu Jiangbei to jump into the lake.

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“Grandma, Danggui worships you. May good fortune be with you!”

“Stand up! Stand up and let me see you. Yi, why is your face... so sallow!” Madam Luo lifted He Danggui from the ground and touched her face anxiously. But Chan Yi was worried that the “paint to hide beauty” carefully prepared by He Danggui would be rubbed off by Madam Luo. And then He Danggui would expose herself before she returned to Luo’s Mansion!

But He Danggui folded her sallow hands in her waist and slightly lowed her sallow and thin neck. She stood there calmly and was touched casually by Madam Luo. Chan Yi felt so nervous until she saw that Madam Luo finally stopped touching and took her hands away. Noticing that the paint on He Danggui’s face wasn’t rubbed away and Madam Luo’s palm didn’t become yellow, Chan Yi quietly relaxed down. It turned out that the paint wouldn’t be rubbed off. “The Miss should give me a false alarm.” She thought.

Hearing that Chan Yi breathed steadily, then became short of breath, and finally breathed steadily again, He Danggui lowered her eyelashes to hide her smile. The Yingying Powder had light texture and was indelible on the skin. The stability of Yingying Powder was one of the factors when she chose it as the disguising material. If she didn’t repair her makeup, the Yingying Powder could last 3 days. Even if she ran out of the powder, she still had enough time to prepare new powder.

Its color also couldn’t be washed off by ordinary cold water, and the cleaning effect with hot water was a little better, but there would still be a thin layer of khaki skin. This khaki skin could only be got rid of thoroughly by washing face with the water boiled with the last four herbs in Yingying Powder’s prescription. He Danggui developed this method by herself, which Bai Yangbai didn’t even know. Bai Yangbai said that the color would slowly fade only after Yingying Powder was completely absorbed. Depending on the skin of each person, it might take 3 to 8 days.

After putting down her hands from He Danggui’s face, Madam Luo turned to hold He Danggui’s hands for a moment. She finally took her thin right wrist and began to feel her pulse. After a while, Madam Luo shook her head and frowned, “According to the pulse, you should have recovered. Why do you look so bad? What’s the matter?” Then Madam Luo carefully examined He Danggui’s face again.

With a smile, He Danggui said softly, “It surprised me that you come to see me in person. I am so flattered, Grandma. But you needn’t worry about me because I feel better than before. Besides, I see you now, so even if there were anything wrong, I would be good now.”

Madam Luo was happy first but sighed, “Luo’s Family is in trouble this month. Firstly, you had an accident at the beginning of this month, and Zhu died last night. I’ve heard from Hong Jiang that after you got some directions from an immortal, you looked quite energetic. It is a fact that your spirit is better than before. You don’t look well now, but it’s not a big problem. Go home and take care of your body.” Looking at He Danggui’s clear and black watery eyes, Madam Luo asked slowly, “Yi, Hong Jiang also told me that you knew what happened to Zhu, which immediately confused me. But he died just before I left the house... How did you know his death?”

He Danggui suddenly winked and said clearly, “Don’t worry, Grandma. Luo’s Family has been famous for treating patients for hundreds of years. Generations of descendants from Luo’s Family are admirable because of benevolence, and the immortal will naturally bless Luo’s Family. As for Nephew Zhu, I had told Mammy Tang that I heard it from an old immortal in my dream. And you don’t need to grieve for Nephew Zhu, perhaps I can save him.”