Pretence And Falsehood

Chapter 23: Pretence And Falsehood

'No one on this continent knows about the technique that allows you to check a person's bone age. I happen to know about it because master told me about it.'

'Most of what I said to him are lies anyway.'

There was a sudden knocking on the door. "Doctor Long Bai! Doctor Long Bai!"

'What is it now?' Feng Ming Xiu stood up and opened the door.

There was a guard at the door. "Doctor Long Bai! The Duke is vomiting a lot, and he won't stop."

'Oh, I forgot to tell them that he'll be vomiting a lot.' Feng Ming Xiu nodded. "Okay. I'll be right there." Feng Ming Xiu went to the Duke's room and saw the elders and the Duchess there. Feng Ming Xiu entered the room and saw the Duke lying on his stomach and vomiting into a bucket. 'This room smells gross.'

Feng Ming Xiu took out gloves from her inner spatial ring and put them on. She patted the Duke's back and put an acupoint needle into his neck. The Duke stopped vomiting and Feng Ming Xiu turned him over for him to lie on his back.

Feng Ming Xiu left the room and went outside to the elders and the Duchess. "I forgot to tell you before, but the Duke will be vomiting a lot, so if you don't want him to vomit on the floor, I recommend you put someone in the room to monitor the duke. But don't worry. He has specific times when he starts vomiting. He vomits around this time and in the late afternoon."

"I will take my leave then." Feng Ming Xiu cupped her fists and left. As she was leaving, she saw a guard rush to the Duchess and whisper something into her ear.

Feng Ming Xiu headed to her room and stayed in her room for the entire day and got out the next day and went to the Duke's room early in the morning with Alix on her shoulder. The Duchess was there alone with the Duke, and she was crying as the Duke consoled her.

"I'm so happy that you're back." The Duchess cried on the Duke's shoulder.

"It's okay. Don't cry dear. I'm right here."

'Maybe I should have come later. But I want to head home soon.'

"Ahem." Feng Ming Xiu coughed loud enough for the both of them to hear.

The Duke and the Duchess moved away from each other, embarrassed.

"Hello, Duke Tao. I just came to see if you're awake so that I can talk to you about your health."

The Duchess stood up. "Then I'll leave you two then." The Duchess wiped her tears from her face and bowed to the Duke and nodded at Feng Ming Xiu then left the room.

"Please sit." The Duke pointed at the chair for Feng Ming Xiu to sit, but she shook her.

"I'm leaving after talking to you. So I don't want to sit."

"Okay." The Duke thought it was weird, but said nothing.

"Well, there's not much to say. You don't need to worry about there being any after-effects of the method I used to cure you. But I do need to warn you about something."

"What is it?"

"You need to beware of the Duchess."

The Duke was about to say something when Feng Ming Xiu cut him off. "You can think whatever you want. But I recall there is a rumor that you intend to make a concubine's child your heir instead of the duchess's."

The Duke frowned when Feng Ming Xiu said that.

"But it's weird though. If the Duchess wanted to make her son the heir, she has to target the concubine's son, but she targeted you instead. I recall that the Duchess is good at running a business and she took care of the clan affairs and your businesses all by herself when you were ill these days."

The Duke's eyes turned cold.

Feng Ming Xiu glanced at the Duke. "I don't intend to poke my nose in your business but I'm just letting you know. You can just brush it off if you want to when I leave if you think it's nonsense."

"Now, my payment. It was a difficult treatment and I also used up my precious herb to make the pill to cure you. 'That's a lie. The treatment was easy.'

"The price is exactly one million middle ranged spirit stones."

The Duke took out a yellow spirit card from his innerspatial ring. Feng Ming Xiu took out her spirit card which was a yellow card as well.

The Duke placed his card on top of Feng Ming Xiu's and transferred one million spirit stones to Feng Ming Xiu's card.

Feng Ming Xiu took back her card and put it back into her innerspatial ring.

"I've said what I needed to say, so I'll take my leave then. I wish you good health." Feng Ming Xiu cupped her fists and left the room.

Before leaving, Feng Ming Xiu went to Hou Jin's room. She knocked on the door and a couple of seconds later, Hou Jin came out of the room.

"Good morning. Do you need something?" Hou Jin asked Feng Ming Xiu.

"I'm leaving."

"Oh okay." Hou Jin went back into his room and came out a minute later. "Let's go."

"I'm just telling you that I'm leaving. You're not coming with me." Feng Ming Xiu said.

"I know. I still have to give the note to Miss Feng." Hou Jin said as the both of them left the residence.

"Well then, I'm leaving. I hope to see you again sometime."

"If I'm still alive, I do hope we meet again." Feng Ming Xiu said sarcastically.

Hou Jin cupped his fists and left.

Feng Ming Xiu waited for a while, then went outside the city. Alix flew off of Feng Ming Xiu's shoulder and landed on the ground. Alix turned bigger and Feng Ming Xiu hopped onto her back and Alix flew off.

Four days later, they reached the secret entrance in the forest.

Feng Ming Xiu got off Alix's back and Alix turned smaller and flew on Feng Ming Xiu's shoulder. Feng Ming Xiu went through the entrance and when she reached the end, she climbed the ladder and knocked on the bottom of the bathtub five times. The bathtub was lifted and Chen Hai Guang put out his hand. "Master, hold my hand."

Feng Ming Xiu held his hand and Chen Hai Guang lifted her up.

After lifting her up, Chen Hai Guang put down the bathtub. Feng Ming Xiu went to her bedroom and saw Liu Hong Hai who sat crossed legs on the bed cultivating.

Feng Ming Xiu sat at the table and at the same time Chen Hai Guang came into the room.

"What happened these days?" Feng Ming Xiu asked Chen Hai Guang.

"Mister Hou Jin came two days ago and wanted to see you, and the guards told him that you were cultivating, so he said that he would come back four days later."

"So we still have two more days... Okay, you may leave."

Chen Hai Guang left and Feng Ming Xiu got up and went to Liu Hong Hai. 'She won't be able to break through in such a short period of time.'

Liu Hong Hai suddenly frowned and opened her eyes.