Yi Qing lowered her eyes for a moment. If that Jin Xiao really had something fishy going on, he would surely show his true colors after a few more encounters.
"Let's go." She told Ruo Hong to bring her medicine chest.
Duke Di was pacing back and forth in the courtyard. When he saw Yi Qing coming, he rushed to greet her in a hurry. "Qing'er, go and take a look quickly."
When Yi Qing entered the room, Jin Xiao had already woken up, but he looked extremely weak and pale.
"Sorry to trouble Lady Xiao to make this trip for nothing." Jin Xiao nodded with difficulty. "I'm in poor health and prone to fainting. I'll be fine after waking up."
Yi Qing didn't think he looked okay at all. "Didn't you take the medicine I gave you?"
"I took it. Maybe I'm just not used to the sudden change of medicine." Jin Xiao said uncertainly.
Only then did Yi Qing realize that she didn't know what medicine he had been taking before. But for someone who had been taking medicine for a long time, the medicine didn't have much effect on him.
"Let me feel your pulse." Yi Qing sat down.
Jin Xiao leaned slightly to one side and stretched out his hand. Every time Yi Qing saw that hand as delicate as a jade carving, she couldn't help feeling envious. She even felt ashamed when she put her own hand on his wrist. How could someone have such a beautiful hand?
"You're extremely weak. You need to take good care of yourself." Yi Qing stood up. "Especially don't let your emotions get pent - up. A good mood will do a lot of good to your health."
"I came to the capital alone and don't know anyone here." Jin Xiao lowered his eyes.
"Qing'er, are you free recently? Take Xiao'er around the capital." Duke Di said immediately.
"I..." Yi Qing was about to refuse right away.
"Thank you, sister - in - law." Jin Xiao looked at Yi Qing in a harmless way.
Yi Qing couldn't help cursing inwardly. How could this be such a cute puppy? The one in her own home was not a little wolf dog but a wolf king. Didn't he fear being eaten up?
"I won't feel at ease if someone else accompanies him with his health like this." Duke Di looked at Yi Qing.
Yi Qing indicated that now she was a bit worried about herself. "Then I'll come to pick him up tomorrow." After saying that, she ran away.
When she got home, Xiao Jinghan hadn't returned yet. Yi Qing asked the kitchen to prepare some food and send it to their room. She lit the candles, filled the bathtub with water, and scattered flower petals in it. She was really going all out for family harmony.
When Xiao Jinghan came back, he saw Yi Qing lying her chin on the table, looking at the candles in front of her with a resentful look. When she saw him coming back, she slowly stood up.
When Xiao Jinghan saw what Yi Qing was wearing, he turned around and locked the door. He took off his coat and wrapped Yi Qing up in it.
Yi Qing didn't even have the chance to show off her figure before being wrapped up like a mummy. "What are you doing, Xiao Jinghan?"
"Aren't you afraid of me anymore?" Xiao Jinghan held Yi Qing tightly in his arms and tried hard to control himself.
Seeing Xiao Jinghan like this, Yi Qing said, "I have something to discuss with you."
"It's not something good."
"I haven't even said what it is yet."
"Whenever you try to please me, it must be because you don't want me to get angry. So it's definitely not something good."
Yi Qing thought Xiao Jinghan was really a genius in logic with no loopholes at all. "Then tell me, do you prefer me to please you so that you won't be angry, or do you prefer me to just ignore you and let you get angry?" It meant that she was determined to do this thing.
"That depends on you, my lady." Xiao Jinghan carried her to the couch. When he turned his head, he saw that the bathwater had been prepared in the clean room. "My lady has really made thorough preparations."
"Let's talk about the matter first." Yi Qing thought she had over - thought. This big wolf didn't need any pleasing at all.
Xiao Jinghan had already taken off Yi Qing's clothes and carried her into the bathtub. "Speak."
Looking at Xiao Jinghan's appearance, how could Yi Qing say it?
This was probably what it meant by "you reap what you sow". When Yi Qing woke up, it was already the next morning. When she saw the daylight outside, she suddenly sat up.
"Where's the general?" Yi Qing quickly got out of bed.
"The general has gone to the yamen." Ruo Hong didn't know why her lady was in such a hurry.
"Hurry up and change my clothes." Yi Qing sat in front of the mirror and only then noticed that there were marks all over her neck. Xiao Jinghan clearly didn't want her to go out. "A high - collared one."
"A high - collared one will be hot." Ruo Hong paused for a moment with the clothes in her hand.
Yi Qing had no choice but to cover up the marks on her neck. After all, they were adults, and this wasn't a big deal.
When she arrived at Duke Di's mansion, it happened to be time for lunch. Duke Di was extremely happy to see her come for lunch and also called Jin Xiao over.
"Finally, we can have a lively meal." Duke Di looked at them with satisfaction. "Eat more, all of you."
"Thank you, Duke Di. My servant has already found a house. I'll move there in the next few days." Jin Xiao bowed.
"I've told you many times. You don't need to find a house. The mansion is big enough." Duke Di pretended to be angry.
"I'm a sick person. I'm afraid of passing on my illness to others." Jin Xiao said with a bit of grievance and secretly glanced at Yi Qing.
"We have a divine doctor in our family." Duke Di looked at Yi Qing. "I'll leave Jin Xiao's illness to you."
Yi Qing couldn't promise. She really couldn't cure him, and she always felt that there was something strange about Jin Xiao. She was worried that he would be another Bai Yutang. "Let's eat. We'll take Young Master Jin out for a stroll later."
"Good, good." Only then did Duke Di start to eat.
Actually, Yi Qing wasn't very familiar with the capital either. She only went to her own shops and to eat roast geese. Her routes were very fixed. Fortunately, Ruo Hong was more familiar with the capital.
"Actually, there's not much to see in the capital. What do you want to visit?" Yi Qing sat as far away from Jin Xiao as possible.
"The pharmacy." Jin Xiao gave a gentle smile on his side profile. It seemed as if the flowers were blooming.
Yi Qing turned to the side. Looking at him was like watching a slow - motion beautiful picture.
"I've been ill for a long time, so I know a bit of medicine. The only place I like to visit is the pharmacy." Jin Xiao explained.
"That makes sense." Yi Qing nodded. "Ruo Hong, go to the pharmacy."
Maybe because Jin Xiao had been taking medicine for a long time, there was a smell of medicine on him, which was a smell that Yi Qing was quite used to. Gradually, Yi Qing wasn't as repulsed by him as before.
The two of them went to Luochenzhai, the biggest pharmacy in the capital. "May there be no patients in the world. Why should I care if the medicine on the shelves gathers dust?" Yi Qing only found out recently that this was the property of Duke Mu.
Because of this name of the pharmacy, Yi Qing had a bit more favor for Duke Mu. But when she saw the continuous stream of people at the pharmacy entrance, Yi Qing thought that Duke Mu was just a merchant, no different from those pharmacies that advertised "Buy 30 and get an egg for free".
"Can we enter the pharmacy without buying medicine?" Jin Xiao asked Yi Qing carefully, as if he was afraid of causing her trouble.
"Then let's buy something." Yi Qing didn't want to lose her temper either. "I just need to buy some snow lotuses. Let's go and take a look."
"Thank you, sister - in - law."
Yi Qing couldn't stand this soft voice. She quickened her steps and walked ahead. Jin Xiao moved to one side to block the people on one side for Yi Qing.
When the shopkeeper heard that she wanted snow lotuses, he invited her upstairs. "This is the newly - arrived snow lotus in our shop. It was just transported from the Northern Di."
"Isn't the border market open now? Are snow lotuses still so rare?" Yi Qing sat on a chair on one side and looked around at the medicine cabinets in the room. From the smell, most of the medicines were precious tonics.
"The border market is open, but most of the things sold to the Great Jin are jade and horses. There are very few medicinal materials." The shopkeeper didn't dare to deceive her after hearing what Yi Qing said. "Look at this snow lotus. Its roots and leaves are intact, and its appearance is excellent."
Yi Qing picked it up and examined it carefully. "It's not a new product."
"This just arrived. How could it not be a new product? Look at its color." The shopkeeper was getting a bit anxious.