The Spirited Daughter-in-law and the Mountain Man
Chapter 1630 administer poison

Chapter 1630: 1630 administer poison

Carefully examining, no matter how one looks at ’him’, Housekeeper Wei Tang found that apart from having a good demeanor, ’he’ had an ordinary appearance with nothing extraordinary.

"Young Master Su..." Wei Tang cupped his hands, "our Valley Master’s intention is..."

Seeing him hemming and hawing, Su Qingyue did not press, waiting for him to speak further.

Wei Tang took a deep breath, steeling himself, "The Valley Master says, Young Master Su can have the Thousand-knot Grass, but only if... only if..."

Still, he couldn’t get the words out.

Fu Chou stood quietly beside the master, then coldly said, "Speak frankly."

Wei Tang mustered his resolve once more, "The Valley Master wants to have a one night stand with Young Master Su!"

Finally, he got the words out.

What madness had overtaken the Valley Master, he couldn’t understand. Putting aside the fact that the Valley Master was strikingly handsome, why would he want a man?

Given the Valley Master’s status and position, not just within the valley but even outside it, there wasn’t a woman who wouldn’t want to attach herself to him. What kind of woman couldn’t he have? It was impossible to see what attraction lay in an ordinary-looking man.

"Impossible!" Su Qingyue hadn’t even opened her mouth when three gritted words came from Fu Chou, "My master is of what status, what kind of person, what right does he have!"

Wei Tang’s face also turned cold, "The Valley Master instructed me to convey this to Young Master Su. Unrelated servants should not overstep."

"You tell him to give up this idea. If the Thousand-knot Grass is not handed over within two hours... he will bear the consequences!" Her eyes gleamed with killing intent.

Wei Tang broke out in a cold sweat; for some reason, he suddenly felt that the Su-named man before him truly had the capability to destroy Poison King Valley, and that this was no idle threat.

He reported back to the Valley Master, but the Valley Master showed no reaction at all.

As the housekeeper, he was urgently anxious, not even tending to the serious internal injuries inflicted by Su Xingyun, only taking a pill for healing, and then racking his brains for a solution, personally leading people to keep a close watch on Su Xingyun to prevent him from causing any damage to Poison King Valley.

Two hours later, the entire Poison King Valley, including Wei Tang, collapsed limply to the ground.

Su Qingyue, with Fu Chou, began searching each room in the valley for the Thousand-knot Grass.

Room by room, almost turning the soil, they searched everywhere but found no trace of the Thousand-knot Grass.

Su Qingyue entered several rooms specifically used to store expensive poisons; such poison rooms would typically mean certain death for most people. However, she, being a divine doctor, had elixirs to neutralize all poisons, rendering her immune.

Even so, she found nothing.

"Damn it!" she cursed under her breath.

Seeing the master’s expression as she emerged from the poison room, Fu Chou knew that she hadn’t found it, "Master, what do we do now?"

"Poison King Valley is so large, hiding a single medicinal herb wouldn’t be difficult. Just the two of us are unlikely to find it."

Fu Chou had long guessed that the owner of Poison King Valley was Xiao Yuchuan, and that the master wanted the Thousand-knot Grass to heal Xiao Qinghe’s leg, who was nominally Xiao Yuchuan’s younger brother.

Nominally, because Xiao Yuchuan was not actually the child of village man Xiao Hai, but a legitimate heir of the Xiao Family in the capital.

He tentatively spoke, "Master, maybe we should give up."

"Since we decided to come here, we won’t give up halfway," Su Qingyue said coldly, "Xiao Yuchuan, get out here!"

She had checked; of all the people who collapsed from her poison, Xiao Yuchuan was not among them, which meant he hadn’t been poisoned.

A faint sigh sounded, though it was unclear from where, and in the next instant, Xiao Yuchuan appeared as if out of thin air, standing five steps away from Su Qingyue.