Chapter 34: Enemy at the gate.

Qin Qianyu waited at the same spot she was at previously and not long after arriving a convoy pulled up.

There was a lead car followed by a bus then two chase cars behind that.

The bus doors opened and Qin Qianyu was welcomed aboard.

Qin Qianyu met with her client in the bus. She looked him over and saw vast improvements than the last time she had seen the teen.

"You're looking much better already!"

"Thanks doc, it's all because of you,"

"Well I can't deny that, but, it's what you're paying for so, it's also thanks to yourself and your wallet."

"Pfft. Mhm,"

"Alright, enough of that, tell your men that this session will be around 2 hours max. If there's trouble within that time to head towards the straightest, smoothest road they can find."

"The last thing you want are needles still in you and you suddenly become popcorn in a pan due to you being chased down a bumpy road."

"Your analogies are quite special."

The teen added with a crooked smile, he had come across many people in his short years of life, however, most of them were brown nosed "yes men" and all the others, scheming cons.

A guard next to the teen nodded and relayed the order to the drivers before they headed off to another secluded area close to the highway.

The treatment this time was to deal with the poison in the teens body and start repairing the damage made by it.

It wasn't a complicated task for Qin Qianyu it just made it a little hard if any troubles come looking for the teen because they were in a moving vehicle.

Fortunately the whole session went off without a hitch. Qin Qianyu was able to manipulate the needles without the bus moving.

She used 12 needles in total. The session took a lot of energy out of the teen, but 5 minutes afterwards his breathing had stabilised as well as the colour of his skin.

It had gone from a ghastly and deathly pale to a heathy ruddy pink as blood started to flow and circulate properly.

The teen was resting, she told the guard that he'll be awake and hungry within 30 minutes so to have a meal of chicken and ginseng soup ready.

A cook came onto the bus. The bus was fully loaded with home appliances and it also had a stand-alone kitchen and refrigerator filled with food.

The cook started preparing the ingredients for the meal.

Qin Qianyu was going to leave then and there but she noticed a scent that shouldn't be near food.

She recognised the odour of a cultivated man made chemical because she was a biochemist in her previous life.

She immediately went into action.

She flashed from her spot and kicked the shin of the cook's right leg causing it to snap. While she attacked the leg, she pushed a few areas of the body while grabbing her right wrist, her hand tried to toss the container it was holding but Qin Qianyu had locked and stopped the motor functions of her wrist and fingers.

"Argggh! You bitch! I'll kill you!"

The aggrieved and injured cook cried out. The whole attack had caused the woman's hair to become disheveled as her eyes and nostrils flared along with her temper.

The teen's main guard and several other men quickly formed a sturdy human wall around the resting teen and looked at the Fox masked woman questioningly.

They all wanted to know why she attacked the cook.

"Why were you adding that?"

Qin Qianyu asked in reference to the container.

"You crazy bitch! It's only msg for the soup!"

"Haha! msg you say? Why the hell does your msg smell like Aflatoxin?"

"Aflatoxin?"

The head guard queried, Qin Qianyu turned to him and gave a quick nod.

"Mhm, it's toxin cultured and produced from the mould spores of foods, given enough, it'll affect and cause considerable damage to the liver and even cause death."

The teens main guard was stunned, he had his eye on the cook while Qin Qianyu spoke and he quickly notice the micro expressions that had appeared on her face.

"If you don't fully trust or believe me, you can have the contents of the container checked, I still have one more session left, so I won't be going anywhere and neither will she when I turn out to be right."

The men all thought what Qin Qianyu said was reasonable. As for the contents of the cook's container, it was better to err on the side of caution than not.

"You'll need to find a place to get takeout at this time of night, I wouldn't touch any of the food stuffs in here."

She could have tested the food herself but she was only here to attend to the teen. She wasn't a eunuch nor a silver plate testing for poisoned foods.

"I maybe a little late tomorrow due to another arrangement, but it shouldn't be by much. The time needed for the final session will be around four hours in total so it's in your best interest to make the necessary arrangements."

"So what should we do with her?"

The main guard asked as he pointed out the cook. Qin Qianyu cocked her head to the side and shrugged,

"Why're you asking me for? I'm a healer not a warden."

" . . . "

With that said she left the bus and headed back to the studio while the men dealt to the rouge cook and her container of aflatoxin.

She headed back to the studio and found Bai Saan laying by the pond. Next to the big beast, grandpa Wú sat sound asleep leaning against the Tiger with a cask of wine in his hand.

Qin Qianyu gave the Tiger a loving pet around its thick neck and head.

"Thanks for keeping watch big fella,"

She muttered to the drowsy Tiger. She picked grandpa Wú up and carried him to his room.

After tucking him in she didn't leave straight away instead she moved the settee closer to his bed and kept watched over him till the silence drew her into a deep sleep.

In the morning, Qin Qianyu's internal body clock woke her up on time and after seeing grandpa Wú still asleep, she immediately went outside then went about her morning breathing exercise.

An hour later, she was done, she washed up and went to check on grandpa Wú. On her way her phone buzzed, she took a quick look and saw another money transfer was made, another 30 million had been transferred into her account by the teen.

20 million for the treatment and an extra 10 for capturing the cook.

"Damn! If this kid keeps spending all of his pocket money, what is he going to live on?"

She thought to herself. She was secretly happy that she set the payment on whatever they want to pay.

If they were super rich they'd of course would pay more, if they weren't they could pay what they could. It was a win-win scenario.

"Grandpa Wú are you ready? Let's head to the airport and have breakfast there before our flight."

Grandpa Wú came out of his room in a mauve tang suit with red embroidered patterns. In his hands, an ornately designed walking stick with the four auspicious beasts of legends as the main design motif and the fifth, the Qilin as its head piece adoring the top.

Seeing the walking stick, Qin Qianyu couldn't help nor stop her thoughts from wandering to the the image of the handsome wolf.

He belonged to the Azure Dragon Team which was one of the four guardian beasts on the grandpa Wú's cane.

It also made her wonder if there was some sort of connection between the four winds and if the Qilin was a part of the four winds and if grandpa Wú was apart of it as well.

"Could the four winds be under the control of the central beast, the Qilin? Was or is, grandpa Wú related to this or apart of all this too?"

She thought it possible seeing that he was able to get her a triple zero status without having done anything significant for the country.

Her knowledge of the military and of the four winds and its four specialists teams that the handsome wolf belonged to in particular were to say the least, superficial at most.

She had asked about it on several occasions but grandpa Wú would only give subtle, vague to no answers at all in return.

What she didn't know was that grandpa Wú didn't want Qin Qianyu to have anything to do with the military at all which was why we always gave vague answers.

"Grandpa . . . "

"Heh! Surprised?"

"Mhm! . . Very surprised! I never knew you could look so dignified and refined."

" . . . "

"Hehe, you should dress like this more often instead of looking like a street urchin as usual. Anyway, come on let's head out."

The pair left after feeding Bai Saan and were soon on the plane heading towards the capital after a the light breakfast they had at a cafe inside the airport.

On the trip over, grandpa Wú was giving her a lecture about what she could expect in the capital.

He didn't know she had been living here for 10 years. But she listened on attentively as a sign of respect for him.

He was schooling her on this and that, and how the capital is a totally different place from the city they lived in.

If it weren't for the fact that she had already grown accustomed to the capital and its ways she would have truly been seen as a country bumpkin, this was something she had already experienced in her former life.

The rich and wealthy of the people in her city would only be considered working class here. Qin Qianyu had only come to notice this after she was with Song Zhaoge.

Luckily for her, the things she created for the Song family businesses and so on propelled her into a spotlight only dreamed about by others.

The money her ideas and creations made became incalculable after two years and it propelled her even higher as the years went on.

She didn't really care for the riches and fame that she possessed. She came from a poor working class family with little money, having more of it didn't mean anything to her at all.

She didn't care how rich or famous she was as long as she had Song Zhaoge in her life that was all that mattered to her.

"Grandpa what is this?"

Qin Qianyu eyed the old man next to her when they were approached by 12 strong beefy men all wearing black suits with mauve coloured ties not long after getting off the aeroplane.

They all bowed in unison to the old man and Qin Qianyu before leading them to a row of luxury cars in waiting.

"They come every time I come to the capital, don't mind them too much, besides you're way better and more skilled than if I had 100 of them here."

"Because I'm your best disciple!"

"You're my only disciple."

Qin Qianyu had many questions on her mind, but she didn't pry nor push the matter. If she's meant to know she'll be told in due time.

When the pair arrived at the hospital, she took grandpa Wú to where they would be meeting with the specialist.

On the way however she incidentally squeezed her hand tightly, unfortunately for grandpa Wú, his hand was being held by the vice like grip.

"Girl! What's going on!? You're crushing my hand."

Qin Qianyu heard the cry and was stunned for a while before she loosened her grip.

"Ah sorry grandpa Wú, . . it's . . it's just we're

here now and it feels way to real,"

"Heh, you're more scared than I am huh, don't worry, time is just a number, wether we have more or less of it, let's just use it well and not waste it. Do you understand me?"

"Mhm . . I do grandpa Wú."

Qin Qianyu nodded, she subconsciously wiped her brow for dodging that one.

The reason why she became like that though wasn't because she was scared, but rather, it was because she had spotted someone in the crowd.

In fact it was two people she spotted but her focus was only on one of them at present.

"Song Zhaoge! Oh scum of all living things! To think I'd actually see you here this early since I returned."

It was exactly him that caused her hands to clench unconsciously and also allowed her to vent verbally.

Song Zhaoge was with a man that Qin Qianyu remembered from her former life.

His name was Zhang Mi. He was in charge of all the distribution and leg work for the song family's pharmaceutical companies.

If this man was given a more senior position within the Song family businesses, then they wouldn't have fallen to such a degree causing Qin Qianyu to singlehandedly raise up and fix everything herself personally.

He had a hardened businessman mentally on the surface, but in private, he was quite soft, a very caring husband and father to his young son.

She had heard how Zhang Mi was an individual with hardworking ethics, always above board and also loyal. But then he was fired for doing the opposite of those attributes.

Then she remembered hearing how it was because Song Zhaoge had used and made him into a scapegoat on a deal regarding the very hospital that she was visiting that led to the Song's getting rid of such an incredible and reliable asset.

At that time she thought that all those people were only jealous of her, then, husband, why they were talking bad about Song Zhaoge, but now she knew better.

"Could this be the day that this happens!?"

Qin Qianyu thought to herself.

She started thinking, if she started a brand of her own, she could get this guy to run it in her stead.

She had already had thoughts of starting up a small pharmaceutical company of her own and also using the medicine she refined to on sell to the masses on her behalf.

The medicine she made would include some of the things she learnt in the apothecary book and also the things she developed for the Song family in her former life.

"The enemy is at the gate, yet you can't even tell that they're standing right in front of you."

Qin Qianyu quipped as she eyed the man that was her husband of 10 years.

Plenty of people kept taking second and third glances at the Song Zhaoge.

Seeing this, Qin Qianyu snorted in disgust as she saw the gloating look in his eyes as he spoke with the envious men that were around him. They were envious because of the many glances from the many women he was getting.

This fed his egotistical character immensely.

"Heh, did you know if the handsome wolf was here, you'd look worst than dog shit!"

Qin Qianyu gave the skiving remark to no one in general, just venting internally.

Song Zhaoge seemed to sense a different set of eyes on him, at that point, he turned to see Qin Qianyu looking in his direction.

He was floored and enamoured with what he saw. He believed that the beautiful and young tall woman looking at him was just as equally infatuated with him also.

He was only partly right, but the reasons were totally different.

"Alright Zhang Mi, I've said all I wanted to say, even these guys here have all stated that this blunder was all because of you. So now that this is all sorted out you have to be satisfied with the justification of your firing correct."

"But Zhaoge! I have no idea how the request and other documents could be any different! It's like it was changed on the fly, even you can see the discrepancies can't you?"

"Enough! It's Mr Song to you! Don't you dare call my name so casually, and in the future if we ever cross paths, let's just all pretend to not know each other. But I seriously doubt you'd ever find work in this type of area in the future anyway, do you know why? Because I said so, so I'll make it so! The closest you'll ever get to drugs will be because you've started peddling for the mafia, you can leave now."

Song Zhaoge stated nonchalantly to a pissed off and confused Zhang Mi. Song Zhaoge took no more notice of the man and then added,

"Well, if everyone can excuse me now, I need to satisfy my sweet tooth. I've just spotted a sweet little thing I'd like to have a taste of."

Song Zhaoge stated as he eyed Qin Qianyu from afar.

Zhang Mi was shocked and furious, it was only then that he realised that he'd just been made a scapegoat and his years of loyalty meant nothing to Song Zhaoge or his family.

He stormed away in anger as the men around him and Song Zhaoge laughed and sniggered at his expense.

Song Zhaoge however paid no mind to Zhang Mi or the other men from both his company's branch office and this hospital's purchasing department. His eyes were totally focused in on Qin Qianyu.