Chapter 1003: 1003
“Mom, are you alright?” Su Xiaoxue immediately asked after hearing her mother cough . She remembered that her mother was just fine when she left the house earlier that morning . She was puzzled as to why her mother suddenly started coughing .
“It’s no big deal . My chest just feels rather tight . ” Song Ruiping dismissively waved and said, “Give Yao a call and tell him to be careful . Guo Zhenghe is one hell of a schemer . ”
“Yeah, sure . ”
Su Xiaoxue quickly called Wang Yao .
“What? He looked for you in Jing?” Wang Yao was rather shocked to hear that Guo Zhenghe still refused to let up . His enmity toward that young man from the Guo family instantly deepened .
Some people were so obnoxious and did not know when to give up .
“Yeah, and he came to my place as well,” Su Xiaoxue said .
“He was at your place?” Wang Yao asked . “Did you find something off about him?”
“Something off? Well, I felt that he had a weird aura about him . Oh, his face didn’t look right . ” Su Xiaoxue recalled the encounter with Guo Zhenghe in detail . Guo Zhenghe’s face had looked different from normal people . He looked as if he had gone out of his way to put on makeup .
Song Ruiping, who was next to her, began coughing again .
“Is Auntie by your side?” Wang Yao asked . “What is happening to her? Is she feeling unwell?”
“She is feeling some tightness in her chest, but she was fine this morning,” Su Xiaoxue said .
“If she was fine in the morning, did she begin feeling sick after Guo Zhenghe came to your place?” Wang Yao anxiously asked .
“It seems so . ” Song Ruiping thought about it and found that what Wang Yao asked was correct .
He was in the house for less than 10 minutes and didn’t say anything important . It was mostly just small talk . However, she smelled something rather weird and began feeling unwell after he left .
“Alright, I’ll head there right away,” Wang Yao said . “Tell Auntie to not go outside at all . ”
“What’s wrong?” Su Xiaoxue asked .
“I’ll tell you about it later . ”
Wang Yao was worried that Guo Zhenghe had brought something poisonous he acquired from Miao Xihe to Su Xiaoxue’s place . If that was the case, the entire household was in danger .
He called Zhong Liuchuan and Jia Zizai to get things back home settled with them .
“Keep an eye out in this place . Zizai, keep your eyes peeled for any signs of Guo Zhenghe . He’s dangerous . ”
“I know, Master,” Jia Zizia replied . “You can count on us . ”
“Alright, you guys be careful . Use the Prolongation Pills I gave you guys if the situation demands it . They could save your lives . ”
“Will do . ”
After settling things back home, he told his parents that he was going to visit Xiaoxue in Jing . His parents did not ask any questions and simply told him to be careful . They even told him there was no need to rush back to the village . This was a good chance for him to stay in Jing and spend more time with Su Xiaoxue .
Wang Yao booked the next flight to Jing . He arrived at her home that night .
By the time he got there, Song Ruiping was already bedridden from severe tightness in her chest . She kept coughing . Blood was seen as well . Chen Zhouchuan was by her side . Su Xiaoxue was very restless .
“You’re here!”
“Let’s check your mother out . ” Wang Yao immediately began to diagnosis her .
“She is poisoned . ”
“Poison? From Guo Zhenghe?”
“It was most likely him,” Wang Yao said . “Let’s put that aside for the moment and focus on treatment for Auntie . ”
The treatment was easy .
He used half a leaf of Antidote Herb and half a leaf of Sedge with Guiyuan to adjust the effects .
After gulping down a bowl of medicine, it only took 30 minutes for it to work .
She no longer coughed, and her chest no longer felt tight .
“Feeling better now, Auntie?”
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“A lot better . ” Song Ruiping breathed a sigh of relief . “Thank you for rushing all the way here . ”
“Don’t mention it,” Wang Yao said . “Just lie down and rest . I’ll prepare more medicine for you . It’s for strengthening your body . ”
“Sure . ”
All of them left the bedroom .
“Will my Mom be OK?” Su Xiaoxue asked .
“She’s fine,” Wang Yao said, comforting her . “The poisoning was not deep . I’m here, so no worries . ”
“I never thought that young man from the Guo family would do something like this,” Chen Zhouchuan said . “What was he after?”
Wang Yao thought about it and said, “He may not be doing this on purpose . ”
Anyone with even the slightest bit of sense would not have done something like that . Song Ruiping got sick right after he left . That identified him as the obvious suspect . Furthermore, the Su family was not an ordinary one . Showing up to harm one of them was a blatant act of provocation . Anyone with any brains at all would not have done something like that .
Wang Yao’s diagnosis was that she was merely poisoned, not cursed . That was probably a side effect caused by Guo Zhenghe ridding his body of those bugs using Miao Xihe’s blood . That was what made Su Xiaoxue feel weird about him . He was also a man with medicine in his blood, technically speaking . However, said medicine was actually poison .
“One way or another, he was the one who caused all of this, and he didn’t come here with good intentions to begin with,” Su Xiaoxue coldly said .
She originally had a good impression of Guo Zhenghe, which was later reduced to being just average . Her impression further dropped to become a bad one, and she felt disgusted by the man . Now, she resented and hated him .
“Someone like that deserves to be punished . ” Those were heavy words coming from someone like Su Xiaoxue .
“Punishment?” Wang Yao asked . “I reckon he’s suffering said punishment as we speak . ”
Miao Xihe’s blood could not be ingested without repercussions .
He talked with Su Xiaoxue for a bit before cooking the Regather Soup . He had brought ample herbs with him on the trip . They were all stored in the slots of the system . By the time he was done, it was late at night . Su Xiaoxue stayed by his side the whole time . He checked Su Xiaoxue for a bit after giving the medicine to Song Ruiping . After confirming that there were no problems with her, they went to their respective rooms and called it a night . It was the first time he had spent the night at her place .
The next day, Song Ruiping was up early in the morning . She felt fine and relieved . She strolled the compound before going back to the house to make breakfast .
Wang Yao got up rather early as well .
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“How are you feeling, Auntie?” he asked .
“A lot better,” Song Ruiping replied with a smile . “My chest no longer feels tight . I don’t feel any pain in my body anymore either . ”
“Come, I’ve made you guys breakfast . ”
Su Xiaoxue called down from upstairs, “Breakfast? Smells good!”
“Come down quick and eat it,” Song Ruiping replied .
Wang Yao did not rush to eat breakfast . Instead, he performed a simple checkup on Song Ruiping . After confirming that she was fine, he ate breakfast with the mother and daughter .
“Eat more, mom . ” Su Xiaoxue peeled an egg boiled in tea for her mother .
“Thanks, Daughter . You eat more too . ”
After they were done with breakfast, Wang Yao accompanied Su Xiaoxue on her way to school . Song Ruiping was the only person left in the house . After a while, Chu Lian arrived .
“Madam . ”
“That kid from the Guo family has really gone too far,” Song Ruiping said with a serious expression .
Regardless if he had been doing so deliberately or not, the fact that he was the one who got her sick remained . It was an act of provocation . Coming to her place just to provoke them was not something she was able to stomach .
“What would you like to do?” Chu Lian asked .
“Have someone keep a close eye on him,” Song Ruiping said . “I’d like to see what else he is capable of . ”
“Yes, Madam . ”
Su Xianghua came home for a bit that morning .
“A rough trip, I take it?” Song Ruiping asked .
After washing his face, Su Xianghua said, “It was not too bad . I’ve gotten used to it . ”
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“Yao came last night . ”
“Is that so? Tell him to come over at noon . It’s been a while since I last saw him,” Su Xianghua said . Considering his position at work, he was on a very tight schedule . There were many matters that he had to attend to whether he liked it or not . His time slots were all filled with work .
“Do you know why he came here?” Song Ruiping asked .
“Why?” Su Xianghua was rather stunned by that question .
“He was here because of me,” Song Ruiping said .
“You?” Su Xianghua asked in shock . “What happened to you? Did you got sick?”
“I was nearly poisoned to death,” Song Ruiping said . “If it hadn’t been for Yao coming here in the nick of time, I figure you’d be seeing me elsewhere . ”
“What the hell happened?” Su Xianghua’s expression turned severe . He knew what his wife was like . She would not have joked about something like that .
Song Ruiping told him what happened the day before in detail .
“This is outrageous!” Su Xianghua shouted .
“Yao definitely is still holding something back . I’ll talk to him later . ”
“Sure . ”
Su Xiaoxue and Wang Yao were having a great time at Yenching University . They went back to her place at noon for a bit because her father was home .
After lunch, Su Xianghua told Wang Yao to come to his study . The two men talked for quite a long time . Wang Yao told just about everything he was able to recall about the matter, from the very beginning to what happened most recently, to Su Xianghua . He held almost nothing back . He, however, omitted the happenings at the southern mountain as best he could .
“He killed someone?” Su Xianghua asked .
“I have no proof, but I couldn’t think of anyone out to do that but him,” Wang Yao replied .