The Abandoned Wife’s Rebirth - Chap 87
Thanks toAnonandRiafor the ko-fis! Apologies that this chapter came out late.
Wu Qiantong’s expression was very ugly. Asking him as a senior to lower his pride and meekly pleadwith a junior? He really couldn’t bear to set his ego aside.
Wu Xi snorted coldly: “When you were repeatedlyaccusing myergeof harming you with theguparasite, did you think to remember that he was your relative? You didn’t, did you?”
Dong Mingji’s expression was full of shame: “It was because I was anxious to find the culprit who infected us with theguparasite so that everyone could obtain the antidote and be relieved of their pain.Xiao-Xi, if you were in my position, you would also be afraid of death, you would also not want to see your own sons and daughters suffering, and you would also be anxious to find the culprit to quickly obtain the antidote.”
“Yes, I would be anxious. But I wouldn’t be like you and carelessly accuse an innocent person wrongfully. I wouldn’t make it such that, in the end, not only could I not get the antidote, even others wouldn’t be willing to save me.” Wu Xi tugged on Guan Tong’s forearm: “Mum, let’s go back.”
“Hn.” Guan Tong also didn’t want to linger here.
Wu Qianqing followed after them, turning away.
When Liao Liuyan saw this situation, she urgently nudged Mu Xiuwan, so that she would hurry and say something.
“Qianqing.” Mu Xiuwan endured the excruciating pain, weakly calling out after Wu Qianqing: “Everyone here is either your parents or your brothers, or your nieces and nephews. Can you bear to just watch us die?”
Wu Qianqing turned back and said: “Mother, when youassumed that it wasXiao-Ruo who set theguparasites, in that moment, did you ever think of me as your son? And thatXiao-Ruo is your grandson? If you had thought to remember this bit of familial relations, then there wouldn’t be this sort of scene.”
“You…!” Mu Xiuwan was angered breathless by this accurate emotional attack, with a ‘pu!’ sound, she spat out a mouthful of fresh blood from her mouth.
“Mother!”
“Grandmother!“
Everyone swarmed over.
Wu Xuanran was infuriated: “Beast! She’s your mother! Are you just going to stand there and watch with your own eyes as she dies in front of you?”
Wu Qianqing’s eyes flashed with a hint of worry but when he remembered that they had just been accusing his son of setting theguparasites, his heart was incomparably cold. He turned around, no longer looking at them, and left with quick steps.
Mu Xiuwan watched as the one who had always been her most filial son left without even turning back and she angrily said: “Ever since he marriedGuan Tong, that bitch, he hasn’t cared for this mother of his! I should’ve stopped that bitch from marrying intothis family from the start! She was the one who stole away my son!”
Wu Bofang looked at this family of people and sighed heavily: “Committing sins.”
If they had refrained from carelessly accusing people from the beginning, it wouldn’t have ended up with Wu Ruo being unwilling to lend a hand to save them.
When Wu Qianqing walked out of Xuanwan Garden, he saw Wu Ruo, Hei Xuanyi, Guan Tong, and Wu Xi waiting for him.
He sighed: “Let’s go, let us go back.”
Wu Ruo asked: “Dad, you’renot going to bother with them?”
Wu Qianqing smiled bitterly: “With your great-grandfather around, they temporarily won’t die. Your great-grandfather will definitely have some way to save them. Besides, I’m not a physician or a shaman doctor, I can’t be that bothered with them anymore.”
The Southern main estate was increasingly less tolerant of him. If it was possible, he really wanted to…
When Wu Qianqing thought about this, he hurriedly stopped himself: “Xiao-Ruo, Xuanyi, the two of you should head back first.”
“Hn.” Wu Ruo said to Wu Xi: “I’ll only come back for classes after two days.”
Wu Xi nodded her head: “Alright,erge, I’ll wait for you.”
When Wu Ruo and Hei Xuanyi walked out of the main gates of the Wu estate, they didn’t see the horse carriage that they had taken to come over.
Wu Ruo wondered: “Where’s the horse carriage?”
The guards on duty at the gate pointed at a horse that had been tied to a tree by the entrance and said: “Sixth Young Master, the servants from your household left the two of you a horse and left. He said to let the two of you ride back by yourselves.”
Hei Xuanyi: “…”
“…” Wu Ruo held a hand to his own forehead: “I daresay with certainty that this was your fourth brother’s idea again.”
“Riding back on horseback is not bad.” Hei Xuanyi walked beneath the tree and flipped onto the horse’s back, then he pulled Wu Ruo up, hugging onto Wu Ruo in front of him.
Wu Ruo leaned against Hei Xuanyi’s body and said softly: “Did you notice that there’s someone watching us?”
Hei Xuanyi glanced at the little alleyway across the street and quietly hummed in agreement.
Wu Ruo turned his head back and looked up at Hei Xuanyi: “Do you know who it is?”
Hei Xuanyi gazed at the moist red lips close to him, right before his eyes. His pupils dilated and he lowered his head, pecking those lips.
“You…!” Wu Ruo glared at him, displeased: “We’re outside right now, don’t just kiss me as you please.”
Wu Ruo snuck a surreptitious glance at the guards by the entrance. He only breathed a sigh of relief when he realized that the guards weren’t looking in their direction.
When Hei Xuanyi saw Wu Ruo’s face full of embarrassment, his own lips quirked a little, and he directed the horse to leave.
After they left, someone emerged from the little alleyway across the street. It was Ba Se, the one that Wu Bofang and the others were currently looking for.
Ba Se looked at the silhouettes of the people who had already left, jealousy appearing on his darkcountenance: “Xiao-Ruo is mine, that ugly man just doesn’t suit him at all.”
He closed his eyes, then glanced at the entrance of the Wu estate before turning around to leave.
At this moment, a layer of gloom had settled over Xuanwan Garden. Wu Ruo was unwilling to get the shaman to save them and the physicians were unpreparedagainstguparasites. Everyone was in critical condition.
“Now what? I don’t want to die, I don’t want to die yet!” Dong Mingji wailed loudly as she held onto her agonizing stomach.
Sang Dongyi glanced at her weakly: “If you hadn’t accused Wu Ruo of harming us with theguparasites, would we have ended up in this state now?”
Dong Mingji said angrily: “Are you blaming me right now? At that time, weren’t you thinking the exact same thoughts too? How come I didn’t see you standing up for him? And now you want to hold a grudge against me after the fact.”
Liao Liuyan frowned: “Things are already like this, let’s all not begrudge each other anymore. We should still focus on coming up with a strategy to cure us of the parasites.”
Ruan Lanru said: “But right now, other than Wu Ruo, no one else is acquainted with a shaman. Why don’t you, Qianli, and the others make a trip to the Shaman Tribe and hire a shaman over with money?”
Wu Qianli shook his head ‘no’: “There are gas barriers all over the exterior of the Shaman Tribe. On top of that, there are a lot moreguparasites than usual. If there’s no one who is familiar with the route to bring us to the Shaman Tribe, it’s easy to die outside.”
Wu Qianbin’s eyebrows knitted together tightly: “The personalities of those from the Shaman Tribe are strange as well. When they’re willing to help you, they won’t want for anything and they’ll still help you. They would even be willing to sacrifice themselves. However, when they’re unwilling to help you, it’s useless no matter how much money you spend.”
Dong Mingji sobbed: “Th-this, then what? Let’s try begging Wu Ruo again.”
Mu Xiuwan said angrily: “That filthy brute had clearly been resolved not to help us, how do you want to beg him?”
Wu Anqi’s countenance was filled with anger: “This Wu Ruo really intends to leave us for the dead?”
“Stop mentioning Wu Ruo and his lot. We don’t want to hear their names anymore.” Wu Xuanran commanded coldly. He turned to look at Wu Bofang who had remained silent: “Dad, you have a lot of connections, you’ll definitely be able to save us, won’t you?”
Wu Bofang didn’t make a sound.
Wu Xuanran was even more certain that Wu Bofang definitely had a way to save them: “Dad, you have to save our wives and children. You can’t just watch with your own eyes as they die.”
Wu Bofang sighed: “I’m not acquainted with any shamans orjiangtoupractitioners either. However, I do know a physician and I once heard before that he has a friend in the Shaman Tribe. I don’t know if I’ll be able to get this shaman to help.”
Wu Xuanran hurriedly said: “Dad, just give it a shot. Who knows, maybe it’ll work.”
The rest all looked at him with pleadingexpressions as well.
Wu Bofang frowned: “If you want me to try, I can, but there is one condition.”
“Please speak.”
Wu Bofang said sternly: “After curing all of you of theguparasites, you cannot go and look for trouble with the Northern main estate.”
Wu Xuanran asked angrily: “We’re going to let go of this matter of being poisoned byguparasites just like that?”
“You can rest assured about this. After I go back, I will thoroughly investigate if this matter was instigated by them and I will definitely give them a severe punishment. I won’t let them do these sorts of things again. All of you can’t be like the people from the Northern main estate either, privately hiring ajiangtoupractitioner to harm the other. About this point, will all of you be able to abide by this?”
Everyone from the Southern main estate had no way of just letting this go, however, right now, other than agreeing to this, what else could they do?
Wu Qianjing said: “Alright, I agree.”
He didn’t want to lose his wife or any more of his sons. As for future matters, he would decide on them again later.
When the rest of them saw their oldest brother agreeing, they also nodded and agreed.
“Very good. I will find an opportunity for all of you from these two main estates to swear a solemn oath.”
When Wu Bofang finished speaking, he turned around and left to go write a letter to his physician friend.
After two days, Wu Ruo came to the Southern main estate once again and immediately saw that everyone was fumigating insects everywhere with fogging medicine. It was as if everything was on fire. The entire main estate was thickly filled with smoke and fog. It was hard to even see who was standing next to you. Only Shuqing Garden was the same as it had always been.
“Erge.” When Wu Xi saw Wu Ruo, she immediately flung herself at him and clung to his arm: “I thought you wouldn’t be coming today!”
Wu Ruo pointed at the thick smoke in front of them: “This is…”
Wu Xi huffed angrily: “Great-Grandfather found fogging medicine to help them smoke all theguparasites out, then burned the parasites all to death. Every estate has the fogging medicine except ours! They said we didn’t get infected, so we don’t need the fogging medicine. They’re really too much!”
“If we don’t have it, then we don’t have it.” Wu Ruo had already laid parasite repelling powder a long time ago. Those parasites couldn’t climb into Shuqing Garden at all.
Wu Xi saw Wu Ruo’s indifferent expression and her eyes started darting back and forth. She quietly asked: “Erge, do you have fogging medicine?”
Wu Ruo replied, amused: “Where would I get fogging medicine from?”
“Then why aren’t you anxious?”
“Because I’d already laid parasite repelling powder a long time ago. Those parasites can’t enter Shuqing Garden.”
Wu Xi’s gaze brightened: “Really? But,erge, how come you laid parasite repelling powder a long time ago?”
Wu Ruo said, half-jokingly and half-serious: “The shaman who was staying at ourmanor previously told me about the style of dress ofjiangtoupractitioners. So the first time that I saw Ba Se, I recognized that he was ajiangtoupractitioner from the way he dressed. On top of that, he was someone brought along by the Northern main estate, so I naturally had to be guarded against him, right?”
Wu Xi sighed in relief: “It’s a good thingergeis alert and cautious. Otherwise, Dad, Mum and I would also have been infected by theguparasites.”
“There’s nothing to be afraid of even if you did get infected. Aren’t I here? I would definitely find a shaman here to help cure all of you of theguparasites. Oh, that’s right, havedabomuand the others’guparasites been cured?”
“Not yet. Right now, they’re in so much pain that they can’t even get out of bed. However, I heard that Great-Grandfather already went to invite a shaman to cure them.”
Wu Ruo’s gaze flickered with a flash of pity. The ones who had been infected would all still be able to live.
When Wu Xi and Wu Ruo arrived at the academy classroom, they heard someone calling out to them: “Xiao-Ruo!”
The two of them turned around to look; Wu Sheng was dragging Wu Xia over.
Wu Ruo raised an eyebrow: “Sheng-ge.”
These two people actually took the initiative to greet him. The skies were truly raining red.
Wu Xia glared at Wu Ruo viciously and then immediately looked away, refusing to look at him.
Wu Sheng pushed Wu Xia: “Aren’t you going to greet them?”
