Chapter 46 In Light of His Mood
Donglin took out a black porcelain bottle and put it on the table. “The map on the child showed because of this potion.”
After Xia Houmo agreed to give her one night, Su Muge had managed to cool herself down.
Su Muge put Tong’er on the table, with his whole back exposed, she soon took out a handkerchief to cover most of his back, leaving only half a palm of it outside for observation.
Xia Houmo’s eyebrows raised a bit.
A pungent smell went out as soon as Su Muge opened the porcelain bottle Donglin had given her.
“I need to fetch something from my room,” Su Muge said, looking at Xia Houmo.
He nodded.
Not until she went out of his room, did she find that her back was soaked in sweat.
She swore to herself that once it was all done in Zhou county, she would definitely keep her distance from this man!
Inside the room of Xia Houmo, Donglin was looking at Tong’er on the table with his face full of confusion.
A year ago, Doctor Gui had found something similar to the potion on this child on the body of a secret agent of the southern barbarians. He had been curious about it, saying that he’d figure it out.
The Lord had said nothing about it and left it all to Doctor Gui. About half a month later, Doctor Gui had come to the Lord with excitement on his face. He had found out the secret behind the potion and also developed a kind of liquid medicine to erase the pattern.
In other words, they had got the liquid medicine in their hands which could erase the defensive layout map on this child. But why did the Lord ask the eldest Miss Su to…
“Go out.”
“Yes.”
Donglin went out with the question unsolved in his mind.
After letting Adviser Li pass on the massage of Tong’er to Granny Fang, Su Muge went back to her room to fetch the medical kit.
When she opened the porcelain bottle, there were only three kinds of medicine that she could recognize, which she had also been using these days. They were originated in the land of the southern barbarians.
Only Xia Houmo and Tong’er who was in a coma were in the room when she returned.
She didn’t wait and started her research with all the tools from her medical kit.
Xia Houmo was watching her from his chair, with his eyes fixing on her.
Since he already had the liquid medicine, why did he ask her to do it?
He slightly curled up the corner of his mouth. Sometimes, the King of Jin would do things in light of his mood. For example, at this moment, watching Su Muge working hard in front of him made him feel good.
If Su Muge knew what Xia Houmo was thinking right now, she would vomit blood with anger.
She mixed different kinds of herbs to make the liquid medicine, again and again, wiped it on Tong’er, and repeated the same action endlessly.
As time went by, the expression on her face became more and more cautious.
When the sun rose and the first ray of golden light came into the room, she paused for a bit, and then, she continued!
Xia Houmo opened his eyes, looking at her stubborn face, and said calmly, “Enough.”
Su Muge’s hands kept moving as if she didn’t hear him.
“I said ‘enough’, and don’t make me say it a third time.”
Su Muge suddenly pinched the medicine bottle in her hand and stared at him with her eyes red in fury.
“I was so close! I can make it with just a bit more time!”
“The sun is up.”
“But…”
“Get out.”
Su Muge held tight the hand of Tong’er and didn’t move.
“I won’t let you hurt him!”
“You?” Xia Houmo sneered.
Su Muge looked steadily at him. “Yes, I’ll stop you.”
He suddenly chuckled at her, and the depressing atmosphere in the room was all gone at once.
“I, will not hurt him.”
Su Muge looked at him in surprise. This man’s face changed faster than turning over a book!
Seeing her like that, Xia Houmo raised his eyebrows in triumph. “If I had wanted him dead, I would have killed him at the beginning. Why should I keep him alive until now?”
She almost choked herself with shock!
So he was goofing around with her!
He kept her mind tense all night and only to amuse himself?!
Shit!
She had, she had never seen such a tricky man!
She gnashed her teeth in anger, and said, “So can I take him away now?”
“What? You don’t trust me?”
“…”
Finally, Su Muge went out of the room with the breath out of her, scolding Xia Houmo, as well as his ancestral graves!
When Donglin went in, he saw Xia Houmo sitting his chair, playing with the teacup in his hand.
The Lord was in a good mood?
“Take him out and remove the map on his back,” said Xia Houmo.
“Yes,” Donglin replied.
Just as Donglin was about to pick up the child, he saw the back and stunned.
“Lord!”
Xia Houmo turned aside and looked at him. “Yes?”
“The, the map here disappeared!”
Xia Houmo got up and went over.
The map on the back of Tong’er was not complete anymore. The part where Su Muge had been used for the medical test was cleaned!
Staring at the disappeared part, Donglin was in great astonishment. It had taken Doctor Gui nearly half a month to invent the medicine, and the eldest Miss Su just did the same thing in one night!
If he hadn’t witnessed this, he would have never believed that someone’s medical skills could be far more extraordinary than Doctor Gui’s!
Donglin thought to himself that if Doctor Gui knew about this, would he go mad…
There was still a bit doubt towards Xia Houmo, so Su Muge kept waiting in the county yamen for Tong’er to be sent back.
“Lord Su, there’s a big problem!”
Adviser Li rushed in the room with a long face, shouting.
Su Muge was studying the worms in her hand. She frowned.
“What happened?”
“Early this morning, ten from the newly arrived refugees all had fever suddenly, just as the child you treated. I dare not to wait any longer to report it to you.”
There was a twitch between Su Muge’s eyebrows when she heard it.
“Where are they now?”
“I have arranged them in an empty room.”
“Good. I’ll go and have a look now.”
Su Muge carried her medical kit and followed Adviser Li out of the room. Xia Houmo was standing beside the carriage when they came out.
The face of Su Muge hardened. Nobody would be happy when facing a man who had been fooling with them all night long.
As he was in a hurry himself, Adviser Li didn’t sense anything wrong. “Lord Xia.”
Xia Houmo glanced over Su Muge and finally set on Adviser Li. “I heard that something happened to the refugees?”
“Yes…”
“The epidemic matters most. Adviser Li, let’s go.” Su Muge jumped in the carriage in front of her, put down the curtain and blocked the sight of the others.
Adviser Li was shocked, standing still. What…what’s going on here?
Lord Su ignored Lord Xia in public!
Xia Houmo lowered his dark eyes a bit and went on the carriage without saying a word, leaving Adviser Li alone trying to figure out the situation.
“Adviser Li, please get on the horse.”
Donglin was very considerate and he led a healthy and strong horse forward. It was a handsome horse in purplish red.
Seeing the horse in front of him, Adviser Li felt his legs trembling. If he told them he could not ride a horse at this moment, would it be too embarrassing…
Inside the carriage, Su Muge lifted her eyes and saw Xia Houmo seated.
She closed her eyes. Far from the eyes, far from the heart!
But the scent and breath of this man were too strong to be ignored!
She opened her eyes and met his, dark and deep as an endless ice-cold pool.
“Lord Su, did you find out what kind of illness was that?”
Su Muge took a breath gently, managed to collect herself together, and answered, “Not yet.”
After the simple conversation, the carriage was completely quiet. Su Muge started to shift her attention to the process and results of her research on the worms these days.
These worms were very tenacious and resistant to many kinds of medicine. The more medicine she used, the stronger their reproduction ability became.
She opened her medical kit in the carriage and took out a porcelain bottle with the worms.
She soaked them in the poisonous potion yesterday to see if they could be killed.
“What is this?” Xia Houmo asked, looking at the porcelain bottle in her hand.
“The worms pulled out from the child’s lung.”
The face of Xia Houmo hardened a bit. “The worms?”
“Yes, they can live inside a human’s body. I’ve tried many kinds of medicine and failed to kill them.”
Su Muge finished her words, looked at Xia Houmo and forced a smile. “Lord Xia, since you are so cold-blooded, maybe your blood will chill them to death?”
Su Muge would never admit she asked this on purpose.
“All right.”
Su Muge had not expected for this answer. All right? What did he mean?
“Lord Su, take as much blood as you need.” Xia Houmo had already reached out his hand in front of Su Muge before he finished his words.
Looking at the slender hand, Su Muge gritted her teeth. He thought she dared not do it?
She took out a small knife and pricked it on his finger-pulp. The fresh red blood began to drop into the porcelain bottle holding in her hand. She took some cotton to press on his fingertip until the bottle was full.
“Lord Xia, you are indeed a nice official both to the state and to the people!”
Xia Houmo looked down at the little hand pressing on his fingertip and was lost in thought.
After a triumph in the game with him, Su Muge was in a good mood. She put the porcelain bottle back into her medical kit.
The carriage gradually slowed down.
Since there were more and more refugees, Adviser Li had asked people to empty several rooms to settle them.
The refugees of this sudden illness were placed in a residential house behind the shabby temple.
As soon as Su Muge got out of the carriage, a young medical assistant led them to the outside of the ward.
“Those who had contact with these patients follow me in, and the others stay outside.”
Xia Houmo, who was standing behind, was completely disregarded by her. She walked into the ward directly.
This time, he didn’t follow her in. Instead, he turned and looked at Adviser Li, who was walking towards him with his legs trembling.
“When did these people come?”
Wiping the cold sweat on his forehead, Adviser Li answered, “My Lord, they came here three days ago. They are all villagers from the affected villages of Zhou county.”
There were over a dozen wooden boards on the floor, each of them with a person lying on, young and old, men and women.
Su Muge went to a man with a red face who was barely conscious and looked at him. The stomach of the man was obviously swelled, and the temperature of his body was way too high.
“Lord, are, are those people, sick, sick with plague?!” The young medical assistant looked at the patients lying on the floor with a pale face. Usually, people would suffer from epidemic diseases after natural disasters. It was a magic spell that no one could change.
