Pampered Consort of the Fragrant Orchard Chapter 109.2: Parting Pact (2)

“Is it treatable?” Luo Qi asked.
“It's not a difficult poison to treat. I'll write a prescription, you guys go to the pharmacy, grab the medicine, and come back to brew it for him to take.” Du Xiaoli said.
“Okay.”
Du Xiaoli checked Mu Shan's body again and then wrote three prescriptions, one for the antidote to the poison and the other two for Mu Shan and Xia Hong to treat their stab wounds.
Luo Qi gave the prescriptions to Mu Shui, who took the prescriptions and went out, returning soon after with the three medicines.
After the antidote medicine was decocted, Xia Yuan carefully fed it to Xia Hong. Not long after, Xia Hong's body started to convulse. Du Xiaoli hurriedly asked Mu Shui to help him up. Just as he was sitting up, he vomited a mouthful of black blood on the bed sheets, and after a while he consecutively vomited a few more mouthfuls.
Guessing that he was basically done, Du Xiaoli asked Mu Shui to lay Xia Hong down again, and had the other piece of decocted medicine fed to Xia Hong.
“That's it?” Mu Shan asked in surprise as he watched Du Xiaoli force the poison out of Xia Hong's body just by prescribing one medicine.
“Not yet.” Du Xiaoli shook her head, “The poison he has been suffering from is not too strong, but it has been in his body for a while, so even if the poison is expelled now, he will still be unconscious. Only once he regains consciousness, will he be okay.”
“Then what else do we have to do? Is it troublesome?” Mu Shui asked.
“Fortunately, it’s not too troublesome. Xia Yuan, go and remove all the bandages from his body.”
Mu Shan went to help Xia Yuan with unwrapping the bandages, revealing wounds that had already scarred.
“Mistress, it's done.” Xia Yuan said to Du Xiaoli after they finished unwrapping them, then opened a box and took out spare gloves and silver needles.
Du Xiaoli inserted a few needles into Xia Hong's body, and soon enough, Xia Hong, who had been in a coma for three days, began to move around, waking up. She then removed the needles from his body and stepped away from the side of the bed.
“Brother.” Xia Yuan stepped forward and looked at Xia Hong excitedly.
“Sister, you, why are you here?” Xia Hong asked weakly, then seeing Luo Qi standing behind him, he exclaimed, “Young Master, I ......”
“You've only just woken up now, so your body is very weak, it's better to talk less. I just asked the kitchen to boil some congee, you can feed him a bowl of that first.” Du Xiaoli said as she cleaned up her needles.
To be able to see the always composed Xia Yuan having such moments– this was quite rare!
“She is?” Xia Hong asked, inclining his head to look at Du Xiaoli.
“Brother, she is the Young Miss, she is the one who helped you regain consciousness.” Xia Yuan held Xia Hong's hand and said.
“Thank- thank you Young Miss,” Xia Hong said gratefully.
“No need to thank me, you are Xia Yuan's brother and also someone under Luo Qi-gege, it's only right for me to save you.” Du Xiaoli smiled, “When the congee comes in a little bit, drink a bowl first and then eat something else after some time passes. Xia Yuan, stay here tonight and take good care of your brother. I'll go back first.”
“Mistress, I can go with you?” Xia Yuan rose and said.
“It's fine, you and your brother haven't seen each other for so long, have a good chat. He's in good health now and after sleeping for so long, I'm sure he's not tired yet. When I go back, I still have Ying Ge there.” When Du Xiaoli finished speaking, she went to get her cloak.
“I'll walk you back,” Luo Qi said.
“Okay,” Du Xiaoli put on her cloak, pushed open the door, and walked out.
It was lightly snowing outside, so Du Xiaoli and Luo Qi walked together under a snowy sky.
“How have you been doing lately? As soon as I saw you today, I realized you've lost weight,” Luo Qi said.
“I'm just aging, what I lost was just baby fat,” Du Xiaoli touched her face.
“You weren't fat before either, okay,” Luo Qi said with a smile.
“You don't understand, a woman will never mind being slim.” Du Xiaoli said, “No matter how slim a woman is, she will say she's fat, especially when buying clothes.”
“There's such a thing?” Luo Qi heard this for the first time and found it a bit novel.
“Of course, women all love beauty.” Du Xiaoli said, “You don't know this because you don't know enough about women!”
“Perhaps.” Luo Qi shrugged.
“Speaking of which, you're not small anymore, why don't you find me a sister-in-law.” Du Xiaoli thought of the fact that Luo Qi was seven years older than her– now he should be twenty-one years old. This was not young in ancient times, yet he still didn't have a woman.
If not because she was embarrassed, she would have wanted to ask him directly if he didn't have those kinds of thoughts?
Luo Qi's footsteps paused, then he smiled, “I haven't found the woman I want. Didn’t you tell me often in the past: feelings should be exclusive, I have to take responsibility for my love– no three wives and four concubines, no side bedrooms and bed-warming maids.”
“Ah? Did I ever ask this of you?” Du Xiaoli blinked her eyes, she doesn't seem to have requested this of him too, right?
“You didn't, but you kept expressing this idea beside me, so I was influenced by you.” Luo Qi chuckled.
“Ahem, I'm not asking you to be like that, I'm just saying I'm looking for a husband like that. Cough cough, your father won’t come after me for influencing you like this when we were younger, right?” Du Xiaoli had heard that the owner of the Four Seas Manor was very fierce, if he were to blame her because of this, wouldn't that be tragic!
“How could he! He knows of your existence and has been asking me to invite you to visit our Four Seas Manor!” Luo Qi looked at Du Xiaoli with a smile, but that smile was more or less bitter.
Although she hadn’t expressed this idea directly to him, he was willing to make it come true for her, otherwise, he was afraid that he wouldn't even have the qualification to stand by her side.
“Ah! I remember!” Du Xiaoli yelped, all of a sudden recalling Bai Ningyuan's matter, “I asked someone to bring that antidote for the Amalgamation of Ice and Fire last time, did you receive it?”
“I received it.” Luo Qi confirmed, “I gave the antidote to Father and Mother, and kept one around myself. But there's no evidence that Seventh Uncle bought that to deal with Father and Mother. If Uncle Seven really has that intention, we will definitely not let him off!”
“But still, be careful and have someone keep an eye on his movements,” Du Xiaoli suggested.References 1. — like if he’s not interested in women ^^ MoonWhisperer, skyrise's Thoughts

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