Rebirth of the Exclusive Herbalist

As soon as the two sisters and their maidservants walked out of the yard, they saw Su Zhijin and their brother-in-law Zhao Xiran waiting outside.

Both of them were handsome, and the maids around them would steal glances at them from time to time, wanting to speak but not speaking, with blushing cheeks and seductive eyes. Su Zhijin was worried about his sister and was absent-minded, and Zhao Xiran was a self-disciplined person, so these maids were flirting with blind people.

Su Qingqi was slightly stunned and quite uncomfortable. The Wuchang Marquis’s Mansion did not seem to have as strict a control over maids as the Su Mansion. In the Su Mansion, how could a maid dare to seduce her master like this?

“Second sister, third sister, have you seen Wan’er? How is she?” When Su Zhijin saw his two half-sisters coming out, he strode over to them, his low voice unable to conceal his anxiety and concern.

“My elder sister is not in good condition.” Su Qinghan pursed her lips, her eyes reddened, and replied with a sad face, and by the way, she told him about how she had taken her elder sister’s pulse.

Su Qingqi watched Su Qinghan’s acting coldly, and remained silent. She and her elder sister had only met once, and it was too fake to act so sad and tearful.

“Blood-sucking insect?” Su Zhijin’s figure swayed, and he shot a sharp look at Zhao Xiran, asking coldly: “Prince Zhao, what’s going on? How could Wan’er be infected with such an evil thing as a blood-sucking insect?”

Gu is only found in southern Xinjiang, how could it appear in Kyoto? Needless to say, Wan’er must have been poisoned, and the source of all this is probably the handsome Prince Zhao.

A trace of self-blame and regret flashed across Zhao Xiran’s handsome face.

“A maidservant beside me cast the poison on me.”

“I have beaten her to death.”

Su Zhijin was furious, clenched his fists, and tried to control his emotions. His beloved sister was ruined because of Zhao Xiran. The thousand-year-old golden lotus of Ganye Temple would take another ninety-five years to bloom, and his sister was beyond help.

His sister was only eighteen years old. She married Zhao Xiran at the age of fifteen. In just three years, his beautiful and gentle sister was about to die. At this moment, he wished he could kill Zhao Xiran, the troublemaker.

He glanced at the gorgeous and seductive maids around him, then looked at the handsome Zhao Xiran with a look of remorse on his face, and closed his eyes. Perhaps his father was wrong at the beginning, and the family tradition of Wuchang Marquis’ Mansion was not that good.

If he had known the truth earlier, he would have told his parents to break off the marriage with the Wuchang Marquisate, and his father would not have objected.

Now he is in a dilemma. The marriage with Wuchang Marquis cannot be broken off. Even if he wants to break it off, his father will not agree.

Su Zhijin felt heartbroken.

“Brother-in-law, how could a maid have the blood-sucking Gu from Southern Xinjiang? I wonder if you have found out the murderer behind this.”

Su Qingqi’s voice suddenly sounded.

Su Qinghan glanced at her third sister in surprise. When did she become so bold? But when she saw the handsome and gentle Zhao Xiran, she suddenly realized that she was trying to attract her brother-in-law’s attention.

But the third sister was destined not to get an answer.

Unless the eldest sister survives in the end, and the father and eldest brother are in power, otherwise, haha!

Zhao Xiran turned his narrow eyes to Su Qingqi, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that her eyes were clear and there was no trace of obsession or admiration for him.

“I checked, but nothing was found.”

Su Zhijin did not miss the flash of guilt in Zhao Xiran’s eyes. His eyes were cold and veins on his hands were bulging. It seemed that the situation was not simple. The other party should be someone that even the Wuchang Marquis Mansion had to be wary of.

At this time, Su Zhijin was inspired with unprecedented ambition.

It was already late, and Su Zhijin, with a heavy heart, stayed in the marquis’ mansion with his two concubines for lunch. Afterwards, at the request of the wife of the Marquis of Wuchang, the eldest brother Su Zhijin delivered their personal belongings, and the two sisters stayed in the backyard of the house where their eldest sister lived.

It is called accompanying the elder sister.

When Su Zhijin left, Su Qingqi chased after him. Su Qinghan curled her lips and did not move. She no longer thought about improving her brother’s favorability, as it was useless anyway.

As for the third sister, she looked at her coldly, thinking that she was just a short-sighted person and not worth worrying about.

“Is there something?” Su Zhijin stopped and looked back at her.

“Brother, I want to tell you something. Can you ask the others to stay away?” Su Qingqi bit her lip. She had prepared herself mentally for a long time and finally made up her mind to save her elder sister.

This requires the cooperation of the eldest brother.

Su Zhijin was silent for a moment, then waved his hand to signal the young servant in blue to step back, staring at her straight in the eyes: “Go ahead!”

“Brother, I have an idea. I want to try to see if I can save my sister.” Su Qingqi spoke in a low voice vaguely.

Su Zhijin was stunned, “You also know medical skills?”

Su Qingqi shook her head and rejected it: “No, but my method is quite special and should be able to draw out the blood-sucking insect.” The meals she made using the auxiliary methods in the family’s “Food Sutra” would all have spiritual energy, and the medicinal meals would be even more obvious.

According to the “Food Classic”, most thousand-year-old medicinal herbs contain spiritual energy, but it is restrained and will not be released. However, when the thousand-year-old golden lotus blooms, a trace of spiritual energy will leak out.

Spiritual energy is extremely attractive to animals that have not yet opened their spiritual intelligence, and blood-sucking insects are no exception.

“Okay!” Regardless of whether it works or not, Su Zhijin wanted his third sister to try it. Maybe a miracle would happen.

“Brother, don’t you want to ask me how to do it?” Su Qingqi was surprised.

Su Zhijin glanced at her deeply and said, “Everyone has their own secrets. Big brother won’t ask about them.”

“Then please ask brother to write a letter to sister and explain it.” What she wanted to do needed her brother’s cooperation, otherwise her sister would definitely not believe her.

If she were in her shoes, she wouldn’t believe that a concubine’s sister who was waiting to marry her husband after her death could heal her.

“good!”

Su Zhijin found Zhao Xiran and took out a pen, ink, paper and inkstone. He wrote something on the rice paper, sealed it in an envelope, and took out an exquisitely embroidered but somewhat old sachet from his waist and handed it to her.

Su Qingqi took the envelope and sachet and looked at Su Zhijin with a firm expression: “Brother, I won’t let you down.”

After saying that, she turned and left without waiting for Su Zhijin’s reaction.

Returning to the temporary residence, Su Qingqi sent away the maid sent by Nanny Zhao. After Minglan tidied up the room, she looked at the girl in a very good mood with some surprise.

Su Qingqi glanced at the sky. The sun was setting, and her eldest sister’s small kitchen should be cooking by now.

“Minglan, let’s go down and see my elder sister.” This time, when they were temporarily staying at the Wuchang Marquis’ Mansion, Su Qingqi did not ask her elder brother to send Feng and Minghong over, but only left Minglan who had been serving her.

As for the maids and servants sent by Nanny Zhao to be by her eldest sister’s side, she didn’t use them much.

She took Minglan through the Ping’an Fugui Cave Gate and came to the courtyard where her eldest sister lived. She saw the maids and servants guarding the door. The maids and servants did not stop her and let Su Qingqi in directly.

When she entered her eldest sister’s bedroom, she saw Madam Zhao and Mingyu wiping her eldest sister’s face. Her eldest sister had her eyes closed and her brows furrowed, seeming to be very uncomfortable.

“Mammy, how is my elder sister?”

“Madam just vomited blood.” Nanny Zhao put away her handkerchief and answered in a low voice, her tone unable to hide her sadness.

At this time, Su Qingwan opened her eyes with difficulty and struggled to get up: “Is it my third sister?”

“Sister, it’s me.” Su Qingqi sat on the edge of the bed and gently helped Su Qingwan up and leaned her against the pillow.

“You… came here, is there something wrong?” Su Qingwan’s voice was very weak, but fortunately, Su Qingqi was right next to her and could hear it clearly.

“Well, big sister, this is the letter and sachet that big brother gave you.”

Su Qingqi took out the letter and sachet written by Su Zhijin from her sleeve and handed them to Su Qingwan.

When Su Qingwan saw the sachet, she eagerly stretched out her bony hand to take the sachet, stroking it constantly, tears rolling down her cheeks like beads from a broken string.

“Sister, don’t cry.” Su Qingqi panicked and looked at Madam Zhao and Mingyu as if asking for help.

“This is the sachet that Madam embroidered for the young master before she got married.” Mingyu explained softly.

I see.

Su Qingqi understood.

After a while, Su Qingwan wiped away her tears, tore open the envelope with trembling hands, opened the letter and began to read. After reading it, she suddenly raised her eyes and stared straight at her half-sister.

“Is this… true?” There was a hint of excitement and hope in her voice.

“If you believe me, I can give it a try.”

“Okay.” Su Qingwan was a woman of courage. She was going to die anyway, so why not give it a try.

Su Qingqi smiled with curved eyebrows. There was no one else in the bedroom except Mingyu, Minglan and Nanny Zhao, who she trusted. She had nothing good to hide.

“I will be the one to make dinner tonight. My method is quite special and the food I make will be different. I hope you can keep it a secret for me, big sister.”

“Miss, are you planning to make medicinal food?” Minglan widened her eyes. Is the girl planning to expose herself?

Su Qingqi nodded: “Yes.”

Su Qingwan took a deep look at her concubine sister and her maid. It turned out that not only her second sister knew medical skills, but her third sister was also very talented.

With Su Qingwan’s support, Su Qingqi got up and went to the small kitchen with Nanny Zhao. Before she stepped out of the door, she saw Prince Zhao Xiran walking in.

“Qingqi has met brother-in-law, brother-in-law is doing well.”

Zhao Xiran was somewhat surprised that Wan’er’s half-sister was here. “Are you here to see Wan’er?”

“Yes, brother-in-law.”

Zhao Xiran nodded, a hint of anxiety on his handsome face. He quickly said something and went to see Su Qingwan.

Seeing this, Su Qingqi became more fond of this brother-in-law who looked like her third brother.

“Madam Zhao, is my brother-in-law very kind to my elder sister?”

Nanny Zhao nodded. She could see that the third young lady had no romantic feelings towards her brother-in-law.

“The son-in-law and his wife have a very good relationship, the two concubines were banished to the side courtyard…”

Listening to Nanny Zhao talking about the deep love between her brother-in-law and her elder sister, and the fact that her brother-in-law had remained a virgin for two or three months since her elder sister was poisoned, Su Qingqi felt more and more that her choice was right.

When they arrived at the small kitchen, Nanny Zhao drove everyone out, leaving only Mingyu and Minghong to help.

Su Qingqi planned to stew a bowl of medicinal soup.

The various ingredients in the small kitchen were very fresh and clean. Su Qingqi also asked Aunt Zhao to get some precious century-old medicinal herbs. She then started to stew the medicinal soup in the clay pots in the small kitchen, while Mingyu and Minglan were responsible for making the fire.

Nanny Zhao watched the third young lady put the herbs into the earthenware jar little by little in different orders and thought there was nothing special about it. However, after the third young lady put all the ingredients and herbs into the jar, she did not cover it but took a spoon and started stirring it with her eyes closed.

Aunt Zhao: “…”

“Minglan, turn up the heat.” Su Qingqi has already started practicing the auxiliary skills of the food meridian.

“Yes, young lady.” Minglan quickly stuffed a handful of dry straw into the stove and added a few pieces of dry firewood.

As time passed, Su Qingqi’s ruddy face gradually turned pale, beads of sweat began to appear on her forehead and nose, and the speed at which she stirred the soup spoon in her hand became faster and faster. In the end, Madam Zhao only saw a shadow.

Aunt Zhao was stunned. She looked left and right but couldn’t find the reason. However, her heart was relieved. She thought that the pot of medicine soup boiled by the third lady must be extraordinary.

The color of the medicine soup in the earthenware jar gradually faded, becoming as transparent as clear water. After about a minute, the transparent medicine soup turned milky white. As the medicine soup changed color, the whole small kitchen was filled with a strong medicinal aroma. Madam Zhao couldn’t help but take a sip and immediately felt refreshed.

Nanny Zhao’s expression suddenly changed. She looked at the earthen jar with green eyes, wishing she could give it to the lady to drink.

“Minglan, turn down the fire, it will be ready soon.” Su Qingqi began to feel a little tired. Boiling this pot of medicine soup took too much mental energy.

It took half an hour for the medicine soup to turn completely milky white.

It would have been incredible to boil a bowl of medicinal soup in half an hour in ancient times, but Su Qingqi did it.

Su Qingqi looked exhausted and pale as paper. She asked Minglan to take a porcelain bowl and scooped a spoonful of medicine for herself to drink. A warm breath rose from her abdomen, replenishing a small part of her exhausted mental strength, and her face gradually regained a hint of color.

“Okay, seal the jar and don’t let the medicinal smell leak out.”

Nanny Zhao and Minghong haven’t come to their senses yet. It’s so magical! The third girl is so magical.

Next is the moment to witness the miracle.