newbobooks Chapter 466 Frightened into Illness
Chapter 466 Frightened into Illness
Chapter 466 Frightened into Illness
Qin Yu realized what was happening and shakily crawled under the bed, while Wen Luozhi giggled and flitted around them.
"Get out of here! Get out of here!"
"Go home by yourself! Why are you bothering me?"
Wen Luozhi blew on Qin Yu's neck, scaring him so much that he cursed and crawled under the bed.
Qin Wanyue crawled under the bed before him, but he glared at her and forcefully pulled her off the bed before hiding under himself.
Wu Yao had been hiding under the bed waiting for him, and immediately appeared when he finally arrived.
"Woo-wah woo-wah"
Wu Yao opened her mouth, and blood gushed out. Her face was deathly pale, and the whites of her eyes disappeared, with two lines of bloody tears streaming down her face.
"You've come to keep me company~ I'm all alone as a ghost, so lonely."
She reached out and grabbed Qin Yu's wrist tightly, then grinned.
The icy touch on his wrist made Qin Yu feel like his heart had stopped beating, and combined with the scene before him, he could no longer hold back and fainted.
Wu Yao pouted, finding it really boring. She pushed Qin Yu, who was as dizzy as a dead pig, out and then climbed out herself.
After Qin Yu pulled her out, Qin Wanyue was knocked unconscious by Wen Luozhi and is now lying sprawled on the ground.
Wen Luozhi and Wu Yao exchanged a glance, then she pointed at Qin Yu and said, "Hit him! Hit him hard in the face!"
The two sat on the ground, punching each other for a while before stopping. Before leaving, they even "kindly" left the door a crack open.
On her way home, Wen Luozhi let out a sigh of relief, finally feeling a little better. However, the thought of Helian Yue's miserable state still made her unhappy.
Wu Yao didn't understand why she went to the Prime Minister's residence and beat up Qin Yu, but she felt that Qin Yu didn't seem like a good person.
What good man, when faced with danger, only thinks of saving his own life? Especially one who seduces a married woman.
Wen Muchuan waited for the two of them at home before daring to go back to his room to rest. He told them many times not to come back from the restaurant so late next time.
Because Wen Luozhi had already given her benefits, Wu Yao thought about the stack of talismans and kept her mouth shut no matter what Wen Muchuan said.
Even after going out to run errands, Wen Luozhi still couldn't fall asleep when she lay down on the bed, so she simply took out the letter that Lin Feng had given her and read it twice more.
The next day, she ate breakfast with dark circles under her eyes and went to the restaurant. In the morning, she didn't hear anyone talking about the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion, but in the afternoon, more people started whispering about it.
Wen Luozhi listened attentively as usual, but most of what she heard was similar to what was written in the letter.
Mentioning Qin Yu, a few people at one table looked at him with disdain: "This Prime Minister Qin's nephew is good for nothing, but he's number one at stealing credit, being lazy, and being a coward!"
"Oh! He got what he deserved, didn't you know?"
One man looked on with a gossipy expression, and the others leaned in to signal him to hurry up and tell them.
Wen Luozhi brought them a plate of peanuts and chatted with them for a bit, a smile playing on her lips.
Today, Qin Yu really did go to receive his reward with a pig's head on his face. When everyone asked him what happened, he could only say that he had accidentally fallen.
Wen Luozhi lay in bed thinking hard yesterday and finally remembered who the woman who was messing around with Qin Yu was.
She's now curious about how Qin Wanyue is doing.
Inside the Prime Minister's residence, Qin Wanyue curled up on the bed, wrapped up in a ball, while the Prime Minister's wife looked at her with a worried expression.
"Moon, shall I go and call the royal physician to take a look at you?"
Upon hearing this, Qin Wanyue shook her head frantically, "No need, Mother! I just had a nightmare and haven't recovered yet. I'll be fine after a nap."
As she spoke, she buried her head under the covers, trembling as she recalled what had happened the night before.
Fortunately, she woke up first this morning and there was no one outside. If someone had seen her, it would have been really bad.
At this moment, she was filled with deep regret. How could she have been so bewitched last night and ended up with Qin Yu?
Absolutely not! Absolutely not! They'll definitely find out!
She could return to the palace a day later and take her time.
Seeing this, the Prime Minister's wife had no choice but to give up. It just so happened that Qin Yu had been making a fuss in the mansion this morning, and she was tired from running around.
She ignored Qin Wanyue and only gave a few instructions to the servants to take good care of her before leaving.
Qin Yu indeed received a first-class merit, and Jun Shuyan rewarded him with a house.
Since everything was prepared inside, and he didn't dare go back to the haunted Prime Minister's Mansion, he simply went there to stay that very day.
He didn't dare mention the ghost story; if he did, the events of last night would be exposed, and the consequences would be a thousand times, ten thousand times worse than the ghost story.
He lay on the bed, touching his swollen face. He had lost all face today when he entered the palace.
Feeling extremely agitated, he grabbed one of the two maids who came to help him wash up and dragged her onto the bed. The other maid, terrified, huddled in a corner.
A moment later, Qin Yu sensed something was wrong and told everyone in the room to get out.
The maid he had dragged scrambled to the door, and the frightened man quickly helped her up and ran outside.
In the middle of the night, an old doctor was brought in bound and trembling. After taking Qin Yu's pulse, he hung his head and dared not speak.
Qin Yu thought it was some lingering illness from the last plague, so he said, "Just tell me what's wrong, and I'll treat it accordingly."
The old doctor hesitated for a moment, and what he said next made Qin Yu feel like the sky had truly fallen.
"Nonsense! This general is in his prime, how could I possibly..."
"How...how could I be impotent?!" Qin Yu said through gritted teeth, filled with shame and indignation.
The old doctor, his back almost touching the ground, hurriedly asked, "General, were you frightened today? Let me examine your pulse..."
He said a lot of things that Qin Yu couldn't understand, and at the end he didn't dare to breathe.
Qin Yu threw him out, and then ordered his henchmen to bring over several more doctors, whose diagnoses were the same as the first old doctor's.
Qin Yu collapsed to the ground, shaking his head. "No! No! This general would never do that!"
He didn't sleep all night, and before dawn he sent someone to find a doctor. He couldn't remember how many doctors he saw, but they all said pretty much the same thing.
Because his face was swollen yesterday, Qin Qiao specially called the family doctor when he came to see him today.
After the two physicians finished examining him, they exchanged a glance. Qin Qiao could tell that the physicians seemed to have something they were having trouble saying, so he told Qin Yu to rest while he wandered around the house.
Since Qin Yu wasn't present, the two physicians recounted their diagnosis in a rapid-fire manner, causing Qin Qiao's brow to twitch as he listened.
"How could this be?!" he exclaimed, feeling as if struck by lightning.
After pondering for a moment, one of the physicians said, "The general's condition is likely a lingering effect from recovering from the plague."
Qin Yu asked if it could still be cured, and the two shook their heads in unison.
After wandering around for a while, Qin Qiao went to see Qin Yu again, gave him a few instructions to take care of himself, and then left with his men.
Qin Yu still held onto a sliver of hope, thinking that perhaps he had recovered from the ordeal of the previous night.
After taking one dose of the medicine, he tried again, but it still didn't work, and now he really started to panic.
Qin Wanyue returned to the palace the next day. The palace maids behind her were worried all the way, their hearts pounding in their throats.
Upon arriving at the palace, Qin Wanyue leaned against the soft couch, staring at her intently, making her feel uneasy.
"Come here and pour me a cup of tea."
She shuddered when she heard Qin Wanyue speak, but still went over to pour her tea.
With her head bowed and hands respectfully offered, the palace maid held her breath.
Qin Wanyue overturned the teacup the moment she touched it, then kicked the palace maid far away, yelling, "You audacious, lowly servant! How dare you do this?! Are you trying to scald me to death?!"
"Please forgive me, Your Majesty! Please forgive me, Your Majesty!" The palace maid scrambled to her feet and immediately knelt down again, her voice trembling.
She saw something she shouldn't have seen yesterday, but she wasn't caught! The tea was lukewarm, how could it possibly scald someone to death!
But she dared not say a word, for she would die if she uttered even one extra word.
Qin Wanyue didn't care about all that. Yesterday, when she came out of Qin Yu's room, she saw a pink hem flash by at the corner. Who else could it be but this palace maid?
She sat up straight, smoothed a few strands of hair at her temples, and said lazily, "You burned me because of your poor work. Gag me, drag me out, and beat me to death with sticks."