Reborn: Revenge of the Concubine’s Daughter

Realizing she had a slip of the tongue, He Danggui immediately corrected herself, “Oh! No one told me that. That’s just a slip of my tongue. I’m so upset. Why can’t I get rid of the poison? Will it harm my body?”

Lu Jiangbei comforted, “Don’t worry. I won’t let anything happen to you. Moreover, your condition is still not stable now. The so-called ‘Qi Ri Qing’ means within the seven days after you’ve taken the antidote, it’s possible that you’ll suffer from the relapse of the poison. Moreover, you’re a female and represent yin. Cold poisons will hurt you the most so you should rest well to recover. If your lower abdomen gets cold… There will be a risk of infertility for you in the future.”

He Danggui was always brave and held an attitude of “I have nothing to lose” to everything, but infertility was what she feared the most. In her previous life, she suffered a lot because she couldn’t get pregnant. After having recuperated and had acupuncture for a long time, she finally gave birth to a girl but the baby was born to be weak. Although it was partly because of the antiabortifacient given by Zhou Jinglan, she knew clearly how weak her body was. The baby had to pay for her fault and it made her so scared. She didn’t want to experience that kind of pain and helplessness again.

She looked at Lu Jiangbei for help and asked, “What should I do to help myself recover? I don’t want to have coldness or leave any poison in my body. Please help me!”

“Of course, I will help you.” Lu Jiangbei smiled and looked kinder even though the ice mask still covered his face, but he suddenly asked, “First, you should be honest with me. Who do you like? Lord Ning or Mr. Duan? Or you can choose from us who have treated you with Ba Huang Finger. Of course, I’m not included now. Gao Jue, Jiang Yi, Song Fei, and Lynx, you still haven’t met two of them, right? Do you want to see them another day? I can arrange it for you or let you see them secretly.”

He Danggui put on a cold look and asked, “What do you mean?”

“This is what I mean.” Lu Jiangbei finally told the ultimate truth, “Qi Ri Qing is the coldest poison. If you want to get rid of the coldness, you will have to get married within three months and get enough yang. Otherwise, the coldness will remain in your body and cause permanent injury to your womb. It’ll be useless no matter how hard you try to cure it three months later. Gao Jue told me that you haven’t had any engagement yet. I don’t think Luo’s Family will find you a good man. I care about you so I want to make a good match for you.”

“I have to get married within three months?” He Danggui asked with her eyes wide open, “How much do you know about medicine? Can you be responsible for what you said? Please give me an exact date, or it will be very tragic if I’m still late when I get married two months and twenty days later! This is about the happiness of my life!”

Lu Jiangbei didn’t expect that she didn’t mind getting married at all. He thought he might need to spend lots of words to persuade her so he did much foreshadowing before. Since she didn’t reject marriage, he felt relieved now so he replied with a smile, “You will definitely make it within three months. I’m sure about it. He He Qi Ri Qing is a variant of a poison made from some venomous insect. It’s a cold poison that was brought back from Miao Territory by Gao Jue and has been carefully cultivated for several years before being produced by Dongchang Organization. They make it to deal with powerful enemies. None of them will be able to get rid of it once they are poisoned with it regardless of their excellent kung fu. Well, I tried to make a match three years ago but I failed. This time I will remedy it. Danggui, who will you choose as your husband? Just tell me and I will help you make the match.”

He Danggui was scared again and replied, “A poison made from some venomous insect? You mean He He Qi Ri Qing is like this and I’ve been hit by such a thing and still haven’t gotten rid of it? Won’t it be very dangerous, then?” She was the kind of person who would turn pale at the mention of venomous insects. It wasn’t her first time learning how poisonous they could be. No wonder she felt pain all over her body as soon as she touched those keys. She remembered when Zhou Jinglan poured Xiaoyao Poison into the Water Dungeon, it worked its way into her body immediately!

Seeing her face turning pale because of fear, Lu Jiangbei comforted right away, “Don’t be afraid. He He Qi Ri Qing is a White Poison, which is the so-called Good Poison. As long as you’ve removed the fatal part of it, it will only be good for your health. That’s why I said you were lucky. The antidote we got didn’t contain Li Xin Gui. The last bottle of antidotes that has it was stolen three years ago. We thought we couldn’t save you this time but we didn’t expect that your blood even contained the effect of Li Xin Gui. No wonder you can make huge progress in kung fu in a short time. Thus, with the antidote and Li Xin Gui, the Good Poison in your body becomes not fatal anymore but just slightly poisonous. And because of this, you are immune to most poisons from now on. The ordinary poisons like aconitine and monkshood will never be able to hurt you unless you’re hit by a few highly toxic ones such as Hedinghong Poison, Kongquedan Poison, and arsenic.

He Danggui listened to his words with her eyes wide open. Then, she asked in shock, “Good Poison? Can a poison be good? Is there any Bad Poison? What kind of vicious things on earth are venomous insects?”

“Of course.” Lu Jiangbei nodded to confirm her guess and said, “There are good and bad people in the world and it’s the same for venomous insects. This is common sense. Not all venomous insects are bad, or why would the first man who created poisons with the insects bother to do so? He could use the existing poisons directly. Venomous insects aren’t all vicious things that we shouldn’t touch. They also have advantages that ordinary medicine will never get…” Staring at her curious face, he asked, “Danggui, you seem to be very curious about venomous insects. Have you ever learned about them?”

He Danggui was startled slightly. Lu Jiangbei was really a tough nut to crack. They were just talking casually and she was just “an ignorant girl”, but he was still so vigilant and kept finding faults in her words. She pretended to be angry and replied, “I’m poisoned, so of course, I should learn more related information to get relieved. It’s reasonable, isn’t it?” Gao Jue had gone too far. Instead of helping her subdue Liao Zhiyuan, he threw the keys with the poison randomly when he didn’t even have the complete antidote… He Danggui became confused again as soon as she thought of it. Li Xin Gui was just a kind of herbal soup she had drunk in her previous life. How could it still be effective in this life?

Lu Jiangbei really thought of himself as a senior and patted her head while saying, “Anyway, now you should rest well first and choose your husband as soon as possible. Don’t be too worried about other things. You will cross the bridge when you get to it. If you’re interested in venomous insects, there are lots of books about them in Baisha Mountain Villa and I will bring them to you another day.”

“Okay!” He Danggui made up her mind. She would take good care of herself and be healthy to prevent the tragedy in her previous life from happening again. Meng Xuan had set many goals for her. Although he might need to let his other concubines accomplish some of them, she should get prepared as well. She looked up at Lu Jiangbei and asked humbly, “Please tell me in detail about how to nurse my body. I will do as you say.”

Instead of replying in words, Lu Jiangbei directly held her in his arms, covered her lower abdomen with his right palm, and put his left hand on the skin back of her knee through the hole in her trousers. Then, he pressed the two places with some fingers of his both hands and said, “I’ve said that He He Qi Ri Qing is an extremely cold poison so you can’t get rid of it solely with your own internal energy. As for food you should eat, it’s up to you… The most effective method is ‘Ba Huang Finger’, which is also named ‘One-finger Death Touch’. Otherwise, we wouldn’t take turns to treat you with it for five days. In the end, they were too tired to keep doing this so that they went back to rest… Mr. Duan passed out at last because he had ‘supervised’ us with his eyes wide open for five days and nights without having any rest. Then, we took him away quietly. We were afraid that he might clamor for getting in the lake again if he woke up. He couldn’t touch the ice water at all since he was injured…”

At this moment, he couldn’t finish his words because the girl in his arms blushed as soon as his fingers touched her skin. Her little fair hands clenched his bright green uniform and they were trembling and sweating. She tried hard to repress her desire and stop her body from wriggling, which made her look very vulnerable. Her fair face was blushing and there was confusion in her bright eyes that were half-closed. The wings of her little nose were moving and she bit her lips hard with her white teeth to prevent herself from moaning.

Such a young gorgeous girl was like the snow glowing on the high mountains and as graceful and incomparable as bright jewelry, but now, she became so vulnerable in his arms.

She looked slightly similar to Consort Yuze. However, Yuze was from northern areas and grew up in grassland so she was wild and made men want to conquer her. He Danggui was the reincarnation of Tenth Princess but a lifetime had passed. Now she already became as gentle and elegant as all girls from southern areas but not like Yuze, the noble and imperious Princess of Mongolia.

Actually, they weren’t similar in appearance at all. Lu Jiangbei thought the similar point of them was their sacred dispositions. Yuze was always serious and rigorous as if she never thought of herself as a female. She valued faith more than lots of men did and was brave enough to overcome all difficulties. People could always see seriousness on her face which made them respectful to her and dare not to look into her eyes. As for He Danggui, if he had to comment on her, he would say she was like a piece of nephrite which could be soft and hard. She was tough inside like a piece of hard jade and gentle outside like water. If someone intended to possess her like holding a piece of nephrite, she would escape as if the nephrite had melted to be water, but when she met some difficulties, she would become tough.

When she became tough, she did look slightly similar to Yuze. No wonder Lu Jiangbei had some feelings for her before… He held such a beauty in his arms now and just by exerting Ba Huang Finger, he had her under control. It could be seen that kung fu could provide lots of ineffable benefits. Back then he wasn’t lucky enough to embrace Yuze…

Exactly. Kung fu was indeed a magical thing which could help people with many things that couldn’t be done just with human self-control or willpower. When he was young, Lu Jiangbei created Qingxin Formula by himself after he had learned Cold Palm. With the Formula, he could keep the peace of his mind. It wasn’t very effective before. When he saw He Danggui who would remind him of the one he liked and heard from Qi Xuanyu that she was the reincarnation of Yuze’s daughter, namely Tenth Princess, he began to think about keeping her for himself. However, Gao Jue and he as well as others all knew that she belonged with Duan Xiaolou.

To repress the greed he had, he practiced Qingxin Formula hard day and night and kept improving it. Two years later, he did make big progress in martial arts. And although he didn’t know if it was good or not, he finally reached the real Qingxin Stage of Qingxin Formula. He wouldn’t fall in love anymore or have any lust for anyone. Just as Liao Zhiyuan said, it was like… He was castrated mentally and even more sexually apathetic than eunuchs.

Anyway, with the girl he had even liked who felt like being burned in fire in his arms, Lu Jiangbei was still very calm. Even his expression, gaze, and breaths were not changed at all. This was also why the others would trust him and leave him alone here to heal “Mr. Duan’s wife”. After they had gotten along with each other for these years, no one would doubt his character.

However, the others didn’t know that now he wanted to help Zhu Quan more instead of Mr. Duan. He and Zhu Quan were Mongolians and He Danggui was the reincarnation of a Mongolian princess so they were more closed. As the old saying went, kept the goodies within the family. He wanted to make the match between He Danggui, the best girl in the world, and Zhu Quan, a young talent with a bright future. Maybe with the help of her, someday Zhu Quan would become more brilliant. No one could be sure about it.

Of course, the main reason was still about “Li Xin Gui”. There was the “servant” of Li Xin Gui in Zhu Quan’s body while in He Danggui’s, Lu Jiangbei found the rare “King” of Li Xin Gui. What a coincidence. He also remembered Zhu Quan had ever stayed in Luo’s Mansion and Qi Xuanyu had said he once ran into Senior Lord Luo Maitong in a mountain in the north while the lord was picking Li Xin Gui… Luo Maitong could get that. So could He Danggui, right? Zhu Quan was suffering from Li Xin Gui and Lu Jiangbei believed He Danggui must’ve had something to do with it.

While feeding the girl with the pure Tianyang Qi by exerting Ba Huang Finger, Lu Jiangbei was also thinking about the relationship between He Danggui and Zhu Quan. There must be a complex story between them so that He Danggui used Li Xin Gui to control Zhu Quan. Theoretically, Lu Jiangbei and Zhu Quan were more closely related by blood, but deep in his heart, Lu Jiangbei cared more about He Danggui. Thus, if she was willing to marry Zhu Quan and they could live happily, he would be happy to make the match.

As for Mr. Duan, Lu Jiangbei noticed something was terribly wrong. Mr. Duan shouldn’t practice that anymore. That martial art would lead him to Qi Deviation.