Reborn as Tycoon's Wife in the Countryside-Chapter 482 - 390 Xiaofeng Poisoned (Part 1)_2

"Candy?" Ye Cheng was taken aback, "Have you had it before?"

"No, just today I casually picked one up, maybe there’s something wrong with the candy I ate."

"So far, it doesn’t seem like she’s caught a cold, her pulse is also a bit strange, and her heartbeat is not quite normal. It seems we need to go back to the Gu Family, and let Grandfather take a look." Grandfather’s medical skills were better than his; perhaps he could discover something.

Xiaofeng said weakly, "Ye Cheng, carry me downstairs, I don’t want to move."

She just felt very tired, especially tired, like she needed a good sleep.

Xiaofeng nestled in Ye Cheng’s arms, carried princess-style downstairs.

He ordered Mom Yu and Cai Ying to take good care of Erbao and called Ye Fei, "Have someone watch the house, come over quickly, I will wait for you here for ten minutes."

Ye Cheng’s arrangements were not without reason. If someone wanted to harm Xiaofeng, the target would definitely be the two children.

As long as they had the children in their hands, they could use them to threaten Xiaofeng.

It had to be said, this was indeed a clever move.

Ye Fei quickly arrived with his people.

"Take good care of Young Master and Miss."

"Yes."

Ye Fei held Xiaofeng and got into the car, "Old Jian, drive, fast."

Old Jian didn’t say much, just sped up the car.

Xiaofeng, with her eyes closed, could feel Ye Cheng’s heart rate accelerating. She closed her eyes, and her Divine Sense entered the space.

"Xiaoqi, Xiaoqi, check if I’ve been poisoned."

"Yes, Master, you have indeed been poisoned."

"Do we have any antidote herbs in the space?"

"We definitely have some, I will look for them."

Xiaofeng couldn’t stay in the space for too long; she emerged after just a few words.

Old Jian drove quickly. When they passed a three-way intersection, a truck loaded with goods came from another direction, its speed was extremely fast, as if its brakes had failed. Old Jian saw the oncoming vehicle and turned the steering wheel urgently, "Young Master, their car is out of control, it could hit us at any moment, you and the Young Madam need to prepare to jump out."

There wasn’t enough time to think.

Ye Cheng, with one arm holding Xiaofeng and the other already pushing the car door open.

In a split second, the out-of-control truck headed straight for them.

"Jump."

After Ye Cheng’s command to jump, there was a loud bang, the sound of the truck crashing into their car. freewёbnoνel.com

Then there was the sound of the truck’s cargo scattering on the ground.

Ye Cheng, holding Xiaofeng, had already slid to the side of a large tree by the roadside, Old Jian’s speed was also fast, and he too slid to the side of the passing tree.

Xiaofeng was protected in Ye Cheng’s arms, watching the heavy objects pour down. If they had been a bit slower, even if the crash didn’t kill them, the cargo would have.

In other words, the assailant had come prepared.

"Ye Cheng, it looks like they didn’t want me returning to the Gu Family at all." Xiaofeng’s lips curved slightly, curious as to what merit or virtue she had that made her the target of such calculations.

Yes, she had navigated the treacherous business world, but it was mostly dealing with profit calculations, and she rarely saw such large-scale operations.

Since her arrival in this era, this seemed like the second time she had encountered such a scale of crisis.

The last time was when her child was about to be born, and suddenly there was a big fire at home.

This time, the opponent seemed to have been more covert.

"These are just child’s play," Ye Cheng picked up Xiaofeng. "Feeling better now?"

"It seems to be improving a bit."

Lao Jian somehow got hold of a car and they continued on their way.

They soon arrived at the Gu Family residence, and Ye Cheng, holding her, made a beeline for Elder Gu’s courtyard.

Elder Gu was playing chess with his butler. Since returning to the Imperial Capital, no one had asked him for medical advice, no one came to chat with him; every day, aside from reading the paper, he played chess. He couldn’t fish in the river or weed in the fields; it was seriously boring.

Life in the countryside was better, he reflected: growing his own vegetables, people asking him for medical help - his days were full, nowhere near as dull as now.

If only his wife were still around, how nice it would be to settle down somewhere with her. As for everything in the Imperial Capital, let the younger ones handle it.

"Grandfather," Ye Cheng entered the courtyard quickly with Xiaofeng in his arms, his voice arriving before he did.

The Sixth Master, hearing the commotion, put down his chess piece and stood up, looking toward the door. Seeing Ye Cheng enter with Xiaofeng in his arms, his thick eyebrows furrowed together: "What’s happened?"

"Her pulse feels off, Grandfather, please take a look at her for me." Xiaofeng’s pulse was very strange, and for the moment Ye Cheng couldn’t tell if she was ill or if she had been poisoned.

As soon as Xiaofeng sat down, Elder Gu reached over to feel her pulse; indeed, it was peculiar.

"Have you eaten anything unusual before?"

"Just a White Rabbit Creamy Candy."

"The situation isn’t too serious," Elder Gu retracted his hand, thinking of something. "After you ate the candy, did you breastfeed the baby?"

In short, for an adult, this type of poison was like catching a common cold; a few days of rest could potentially cure it.

But this toxic substance, if passed onto the baby, could be dangerous.

Xiaofeng shook her head: "Ever since I ate the candy, I’ve been feeling unwell, and I feared I might have caught a cold, so I didn’t breastfeed them."

"It’s good that you didn’t," Elder Gu gave Ye Cheng a few types of medicine and asked the butler to take them to be decocted: "Drink the medicine when you get back."

"Grandfather, are you sure she’ll be alright?" Ye Cheng was still worried, what with the pulling and burning sensation, not to mention the strange pulse.

"After following me for so long, is it because the patient is Xiaofeng that you’re flustered?" Elder Gu found his grandson’s overreaction somewhat indefinable.

Normally, Ye Cheng wouldn’t fail to recognize the problem, but could it be that his judgment was clouded now that the patient was Xiaofeng?

Ye Cheng was taken aback, his face showing embarrassment.

He was indeed a bit panicked, especially since the shadow of the last fire incident hadn’t yet dissipated.

He feared a repeat of the disaster from the last fire.

"Regardless of this incident, the perpetrator’s intention is clearly not innocent. On the way here, we encountered a large truck with brake failure packed with cargo. Had we not jumped from the vehicle swiftly, we would have been in trouble." With so much cargo crashing down, they would have been injured if not killed.

Thinking of this, Ye Cheng’s expression darkened: "Damn, we’ve been tricked."

Elder Gu glanced at him and sneered, "Only now you realize something is amiss? I reckon the driver is probably dead already, and by tomorrow’s news, it’ll be reported that the young master of the Gu Family had a traffic accident, collided with a large truck, and fled the scene."

Look, how thoroughly they’ve read Ye Cheng, this brat. They predicted he would come to me and staged such an accident.

"The enemy has planned a series of traps, and no matter which part we’re in, we can’t escape their machinations. They’ve been extremely focused on us, putting in a lot of effort." It started with her: if she had breastfed the baby, the disaster would have fallen on the baby. But she didn’t, and waited for Ye Cheng instead. Ye Cheng had medical knowledge, but when the patient was himself, he couldn’t think straight, so he brought her to Elder Gu, only to encounter an accident on the way.

This was indeed a perfect series of traps, each link intricately connected, trapping people within.

"If I’m not wrong, the police will be calling here soon," Elder Gu said with a slight smile.

As he spoke, the telephone next to Elder Gu rang, which he casually answered, "Hello."

"Yes, I am... You’re saying my grandson had a car crash with a large truck at night, causing the truck to overturn, the driver died on the spot, and my grandson fled... "

"Alright, if it’s this brat, I’ll make sure he comes by the station," Elder Gu concluded the call, a touch of anger in his brows and eyes. "The police sounded very certain, claiming you violated traffic rules, causing the truck to overturn in an attempt to avoid you. The driver is no more, and you’ve abandoned the vehicle and fled. They want you to come in."

Ye Cheng nodded: "Seems like I have to go there no matter what."