Rebirth: My Healer Wife Owns Superpowers-Chapter 425 - Why Look for a Courtyard to Plant
Chapter 425: Chapter 425: Why Look for a Courtyard to Plant Narcissus Flowers?
Chapter 425: Chapter 425: Why Look for a Courtyard to Plant Narcissus Flowers?
While they were intently watching Shengong and others, the unnoticeable Li Tianyi suddenly moved his feet and headed towards the other half.
He quickly squeezed through the crowd and soon entered an alley, disappearing from sight in the blink of an eye.
When he next appeared, he was on Phoenix Cry Street on the north side of Imperial City Street.
Hastily passing several antique shops and a pawnshop, Li Tianyi stopped in front of a jewelry store with a large storefront.
This area was the renowned antique and jewelry street of Fengdu, gathering the most beautiful jewelry and the most valuable antiques from the four nations. It was not a place ordinary people could afford to visit.
Therefore, as soon as he showed up, he was met with a disdainful look from the young servant at the door.
“Go away, go away, whence come you, beggar?… Don’t sweep away our master’s fortune for the day with your presence this early in the morning…”
Li Tianyi looked down at his attire.
Although his clothes were not extravagantly rich, they had been sewn by his mother, stitch by stitch, and were the best his family could offer.
But right now, the urgency of his task left no time for a war of words with these people.
He slowly exhaled a breath and spoke in a cold voice.
“Take me to see your shopkeeper.”
The eye slits of the second shop assistant narrowed, and he looked up as though aiming for the sky.
“You, worthy to see our shopkeeper? First, tell me, how much silver can you afford? And don’t say I didn’t tell you, only those who spend over five thousand taels of silver in this store qualify to see our shopkeeper…”
Before he could finish, an iron-hoop-like hand had clasped around his neck, nearly choking the breath out of him.
“Take me to see Commander Cui, immediately, right now.”
‘Commander’ was a title, and not just any title.
It belonged to a Hidden Guard who only took orders from the Emperor!
The shop assistant’s eyes widened with terror, almost rolling back into his head.
The next second, Li Tianyi tossed him to the ground, and the man quickly scrambled to his feet, nodding repeatedly.
“This humble one will take you to Commander Cui right this moment…”
“Then lead the way.” Li Tianyi snorted coldly and stepped into the store first.
The assistant scurried to his feet and ran ahead to show the way.
Passing through two courtyards in the back and a water corridor, they finally arrived at a courtyard by the water, where the assistant stopped.
“My lord, Commander Cui is inside, please.”
Li Tianyi glanced at him and without a word, strode into the courtyard.
From a good distance away, he could see a middle-aged man in white standing on the pavilion by the water, feeding fish in the pond.
He was about to speak when the man in white turned his head first.
High cheekbones, a straight nose.
Hair loosely draped over his shoulders, a white sash waving in the wind behind his head, making a whooshing noise.
If one could ignore the centipede-like horrific scar on his cheek, he would be quite a charming and attractive man.
Who else could it be but Cui Wanli?
At the sight of him, Cui Wanli was first taken aback, then burst into laughter.
“Brother Tianyi, never thought you were still alive? Hahaha… truly a stroke of fortune…”
With that, he dropped the fish food in his hand and strode forward, clapping Li Tianyi on the shoulder.
“Good of you to come. With your arrival, I can explain a lot of things.”
Li Tianyi snorted and took a seat directly next to the table.
“How come I get the feeling you’d rather I were dead?”
“Hahaha… I didn’t mean that,” Cui Wanli also took a seat next to the table and poured a cup of tea for Li Tianyi.
“After surviving a great disaster, one should take a joke.”
Li Tianyi pushed the tea away and said indifferently, “Now you’ve learnt to indulge in these elegant pursuits, not caring at all about the life and death of our brothers outside.”
“Brother Tianyi is holding a grudge, I see.” Cui Wanli’s eyes narrowed as he pushed the cup of tea forward again.
“I know it was beneath you to lie low in the army given your stature as commander, but you’ve seen it yourself, aside from you, we have no one else available!”
Li Tianyi let out two cold snorts, still looking frosty as ever.
“Easy for you to say. Do you have any idea what I’ve been through these days? To call it ‘death’ would be putting it lightly. Do you even know that without my sending silver home, my mother is almost starving to death?”
He picked up the cup of tea and gulped it down, then threw the cup onto the table with a crude gesture.
The cup made a crisp sound upon impact, and Cui Wanli’s expression tightened, his right eyebrow twitching uncontrollably a few times.
But in the next instant, his face broke into a smile.
“Brother Tianyi, what are you saying? During your absence, I made sure to send our mother silver and medicine continually, without fail…”
He nodded as if only just realizing, “It must be the servants who aren’t reliable. I’ll take care of them when I get back and make up for anything owed.”
Li Tianyi’s expression eased somewhat. He pushed the tea Cui Wanli was offering away again and looked around.
“This is urgent, I came here quietly and need to leave now. Everything I need to tell you is written here. I’ll find time to come again in a few days… We’ll talk then.”
As he spoke, he swiftly pulled out several pieces of paper from his arms and threw them in front of Cui Wanli.
He had already stood up, ready to leave.
Cui Wanli hurriedly pinched the papers and stood up as well.
“You’ve completed your mission, haven’t you—why do you still need to go back?”
Li Tianyi gestured with his eyes for him to read the letter and quickly walked away.
Cui Wanli hastily opened the letter, glanced over it quickly, and then shouted at the top of his lungs into the air.
“I’m asking you, where are you staying now? And who exactly is with you?”
Li Tianyi’s figure had already vanished into the air, leaving only Cui Wanli’s anxious voice behind.
“Someone, disperse all our manpower, search for Li Tianyi’s whereabouts!”
At the east end of Imperial City Street, Zhao Chong and others were looking around anxiously.
Qi Yue, however, was shaking her folding fan, with a slight smile at the corner of her mouth.
“Master, it is my negligence that allowed him to escape!” Qingzhu said with an ugly expression, bowing his head in self-reproof. “Master, we should change our place of residence. I’ll go and kill that ungrateful wretch…”
Qi Yue interrupted him calmly.
“There’s no need to be so nervous; he might be back any minute now. Let’s return…”
As she was speaking, she suddenly spotted a familiar figure in the distance.
She smiled slightly, gently wavering her folding fan.
“Do you see it? There he is!”
Qingzhu furrowed his brows.
“Isn’t that the pancake stall? What’s he doing there?”
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“Naturally, he’s buying pancakes for me to eat…” Qi Yue curved her lips and walked towards Li Tianyi.
Seeing Li Tianyi’s panicked eyes, she curved her lips again.
“If you’re queuing for pancakes, you should at least say so. Qingzhu and the others have been searching for you for quite a while.”
Li Tianyi lifted the pancakes in his hand and smiled faintly, a hint of strangeness in his expression.
“It’s my fault, I saw the queue earlier and was too eager to line up. This shop’s pancakes are delicious. I had them once when I first came to Fengdu and could never forget them. I wanted to invite you to try them…”
Qi Yue looked at the long queue, then reached out and took the box of pancakes.
“You went through a lot of trouble, waiting in line for so long.”
Li Tianyi quickly waved his hand.
“It’s no trouble at all. You saved my life and helped me escape death, Master. Everything I do is only right.”
Qi Yue smiled and remained silent.
Back at the inn, Li Tianyi sensibly returned to his own room, same as before.
Qingzhu and the others, seeing Qi Yue actually opening the box with the pancakes and beginning to eat, hurried up to stop her.
“Master, you mustn’t eat it—what if he’s poisoned them?”
Qi Yue snickered.
“Poison? There’s nobody born yet who can poison me!”
As she spoke, she popped a piece of the pancake into her mouth and chewed slowly before speaking quietly.
“Zhao Tai…”
“Yes, Master.”
Qi Yue looked at him, picking up another piece of pancake.
“Have someone check that pancake shop, ask if Li Tianyi lined up from the beginning or cut in halfway. Also, find a house within two li of the shop that grows a large number of narcissus flowers.”
Zhao Tai was taken aback.
He understood the need to check if Li Tianyi had queued up, but why look for a house that plants narcissus within two li?
