Hua Zhi gently but firmly pulled her to sit next to her, looking at the redness in her eyes as if she didn't notice it, "Xu Ying asked around, the fishing company is in a village by the sea, there is no big shipping company there, which means the ordered goods can only be loaded here, and the Zheng family is the in-laws of the Jingzhou governor, I don't want to conflict with him, it won't benefit me."
Shaoyao's tense body gradually relaxed, and she leaned on Huahua's shoulder and stopped talking.
Hua Zhi held her and stroked her back gently. She was no longer in the age of being impulsive. When encountering things, the first thing she thought about was what kind of situation would be more beneficial to her. It was not that she was really calm, but she had been at the helm for so long that she even lost the qualifications to be impulsive.
"Crap, I still need your help."
Shaoyao's voice was muffled, "What?"
"Originally, I wanted you to find a way to make my pulse look like I was sick, but since someone has already tampered with it, let's just go with the flow."
"Knockout drug?"
"Yes." Hua Zhi said calmly, "They were the first to do it, and since it was a local doctor who diagnosed it, they wouldn't suspect anything."
"I have the medicine."
"That's all, Yu Tao, go get the doctor."
Yu Tao responded without any delay and turned to leave. With Shaoyao here, ordinary people would not be able to easily step over the threshold.
"Baoxia, go watch from the window and tell me when you come."
"yes."
Hua Zhi lay down on the bed, looking at Shaoyao with soothing eyes. Shaoyao lay beside her for a while before she completely recovered. She took out a pill from her pocket, pinched a small half, and put the rest back. "It's not a good thing. I'll give you the medicine as soon as the people leave."
"I'll do whatever you say." Hua Zhi held her hand, her voice gentle but powerful, "Whether we love or hate someone, we need that person to be valuable. I love you and am willing to risk my life to protect you. You love me and are willing to go through fire and water for me. You hate King Ling and wish you could chop him into pieces. In Zhenyang, those who have nothing to do with us are just ants. We don't bother to argue with ants, but if they really want to tamper with us, we'll just step on them to death. Don't get angry. It's not worth it."
Although he said it so gently, the meaning behind it was so sharp and cold. The redness in Shaoyao's eyes rose and then receded, and her heart gradually calmed down. She only had these few people left, and she cared too much about them, so much so that she knew that anyone who wanted to make a move would have to pay with blood.
She didn't want to act so bloodthirsty in front of Huahua, for she was afraid that Huahua would no longer like her as much. But now she knew. Huahua actually knew everything. She knew that she was not as good and well-behaved as she appeared to be. She knew that she had a bad temper and many bad things about her. Huahua had always known this, but she had never changed her attitude towards her.
It turns out Huahua knew everything.
Shaoyao climbed onto the bed and lay on top of Huazhi, pressing down half of her body. How could her Huahua be so good? She wanted to keep her all to herself and not give it to Brother Yan!
Hua Zhi gently stroked her back and looked at the ceiling with a desolate look in her eyes. They were all people who had waded through the thorn bushes leaving bloody footprints on their feet. They had seen too much betrayal, encountered too much injustice, roared in the abyss of despair, and hoped in pain that the doomsday would really come, so that all the filthy, shameless and happy things would be destroyed. It was not surprising that such people had character flaws. She was just covering it up well.
People like them cannot warm each other's heart when they are together, but they can lick each other's wounds and never betray each other.
"Miss Shaoyao, the doctor is here."
Shaoyao hummed, turned over and sat up and put the medicine into Huahua's mouth.
This feeling was very strange. She was fine but suddenly she lost her strength. Her eyelids became heavy and she felt drowsy. She closed her eyes and listened to the noise coming from the door. She listened to Baoxia leading the doctor closer, and then her wrist was pinched.
I heard the doctor say something in a daze, and then the door opened and closed, and something cool was fed into my mouth. After that, the heaviness faded away, and my body felt visibly relaxed.
"Huahua, are you okay?"
Hua Zhi opened her eyes, closed them, and then opened them again and sat up. She felt exactly the same as before she took the medicine. This feeling was completely indescribable. One could only say that Cao Cao's ability to make medicine was miraculous.
"How does it feel?"
"Just like nothing happened." Hua Zhi smiled. She didn't ask what the doctor said, but directly ordered: "Yu Tao, go to the well in the inn to fetch water and boil it yourself. Then go outside to get some food. Act defensively."
"yes."
After the others left, Bao Xia closed the door tightly again. To prevent anyone from listening, they kept their words low. Bao Xia asked, "Miss, do you want to let the person who drugged you know that you have fallen into their trap?"
"It's not just the person who drugged me. I'm afraid that everyone who should know will know it soon. It's reasonable for me to refuse when the Zheng family came."
Shaoyao muttered, "Why would the Zheng family need to go through so much trouble? Even if Mu Yunyang comes, what will happen?"
"I'm here to discuss business. Naturally, harmony brings wealth. It would be best if there isn't any trouble." As he was speaking, there was a knock on the door.
Several people looked at each other, and Bao Xia walked to the door and asked very skillfully, "Who is it?"
"I am Zheng Qing, the manager of Zheng's Shipping Company. I am here on the orders of my boss to discuss a deal with you."
Bao Xia saw the young lady pointed at the bed, she understood, and said, "It's not that we don't know how to act, let Zheng know, my daughter is sick, the doctor just left, my servants followed her to get medicine, I'm afraid she can't get out of bed today."
Manager Zheng was stunned. Didn't he just come out of the Donglai Ship not long ago? How could he get sick right after coming out? What disease could have happened so quickly? Thinking that this woman with unknown origins but great wealth might be trying to shirk responsibility, Zheng Qing immediately frowned and left with a flick of his sleeves.
He was able to become the manager because he was not only good at talking, but also had some skills. He had already preconceived that Hua Zhi was pretending to be sick because she didn't give him face. After hearing something about the woman in the lobby on the first floor, he stopped and stepped back, knocked on the shopkeeper's desk, and asked, "What happened?"
The shopkeeper was already worried at this time. After all, the incident happened in his inn and he couldn't get away from it no matter what. What's more, he was not that clean. But no matter how worried he was, he didn't dare to ignore Zheng Qing's face. He smiled shyly and told him about Hua Zhi hiring a doctor.
Zheng Qing raised his eyebrows. He was actually ill. This was very interesting. "What's wrong with you?"
"I don't know about this. They invited the doctor from Renxin Hall over there. Manager Zheng can go and ask him."
Zheng Qing sneered and really walked towards the Renxin Hall.
PS: I promised a girl that I would post a review, but I have put it off until now. If you like Nirvana in Fire, I recommend you to read “Go with the Flow - A Generation of Military Advisors”, which is also a novel by Skinny Military Advisor and published earlier than Nirvana in Fire. It was my favorite book back then, bar none. If you like historical novels, I recommend Fu Tian’s “The Romantic Scholars”, which has been on my bookshelf for many years. Most of Fu Tian’s books are good, and he is considered a good friend of mine. If you like happy novels, you can read He Zao’s works. That’s all I recommend today. Actually, I have been mainly reading BL novels in recent years, but I don’t want to lead you astray, so I won’t recommend any, hehe.