The Eldest Daughter of a Rural Family-Chapter 1188 - 273: 60% Confidence_5

Shuang Xi left with a stern face.

Ji Bingchu had already arrived. "Song Ming! You were looking for me? You missed me?"

Shen Songming threw the handkerchief directly at his face, his expression gloomy, and spoke coldly, "I need an explanation."

Ji Bingchu was stunned for a moment, and after smelling the handkerchief, he said, "Oh! This is Pei Qin’s medicine! It expels cold poison!"

"I need an explanation!" Shen Songming roared.

Ji Bingchu looked deeply into his furious eyes and silently sat down with the handkerchief. "In any case, it’s about saving Pei Qin. You don’t need to ask further. Mo Heng won’t let Pei Qin die! He will use every means possible to save her!"

Shen Songming’s gaze was sharp as he stared at him, his face filled with shadows.

Ji Bingchu met his gaze.

The two did not speak for a long time.

Shen Songming kept waiting, while Ji Bingchu did not reveal a word.

"Show the guest out!" Shen Songming ordered coldly.

Shuang Xi felt this was just right. "Young Master Ji! Please!"

Ji Bingchu lowered his head and closed his eyes without moving. "I’ll tell you."

Seeing Shen Songming’s expression, Shuang Xi pursed her lips, backed away, and went outside to wait. The young master was merely lost momentarily, struck by unrequited love! As long as he cuts off relations with Ji Bingchu and chooses a good wife, he will surely live a peaceful and prosperous life in the future! He could definitely be happy! Continuing this way, the young master will ruin himself sooner or later!

Ji Bingchu knew only he could strenuously maintain this relationship, but he did not want to give up, nor did he want to see him become indifferent towards him from now on. "Hua Yue is not a Divine Doctor, but he is an expert in using poison. He is one of Mo Heng’s men. I only helped him retrieve it, deceiving Pei Qin. She does not know her days are numbered. Mo Heng does not want to tell her, and he thought of another way to save her. The cold poison cannot be drawn out, but it can be suppressed. Moreover, now Pei Qin also needs to conceive a child."

Shen Songming stared straight at him. "After she becomes pregnant, can all the cold poison be transferred and suppressed in the child?"

Ji Bingchu nodded.

"How likely is it to succeed?" Shen Songming inquired.

Ji Bingchu hesitated, "Sixty percent."

Shen Songming’s face turned pale. "If it fails, will it cost two lives?"

Ji Bingchu remained silent.

Shen Songming did not ask about the fetus. Knowing that Pei Qin’s cold poison penetrated deep into her bones, even if she managed to conceive through accelerated means, it was unlikely she could safely give birth, with all the cold poison transferred to the fetus, the consequences were unthinkable.

"What are you planning to do?" Ji Bingchu asked him.

Shen Songming did not know he could be thankful for such a method. If it succeeded, Pei Qin could survive, and he could still watch her from afar, share in her happiness. If it failed... he could just follow her soul back to the modern era, without waiting for her for as long as three years. How wonderful!

But his heart felt as if it was being suffocated, heavy and suppressed.

"She has the right to know and the right to choose."

"Mo Heng won’t tell her!" Ji Bingchu hurriedly stopped him. "As long as there is a chance, he will do everything possible to save Pei Qin!"

Shen Songming did not leave but turned and entered the inner room, closing the door behind him.

Ji Bingchu was also gambling, gambling that Mo Heng’s perseverance could move the heavens, betting that Pei Qin’s devotion to her country and people could touch the world, betting that their method would definitely save Pei Qin! Otherwise, not only would Mo Heng lose his beloved forever!

By New Year’s Eve, Shen Songming personally came to deliver painting supplies to Pei Qin, "The resin is okay, but the paints are not very good, just give them a try."

"I’ve been waiting for you for two or three days!" Pei Qin complained, ordering Huang Qiu and Xue Dong to unpack her supplies and set everything up.

The next day, his eyes were all swollen, and Shen Songming did not dare come to see her.

Pei Qin tried the paints, indeed not very satisfied, and sighed, "Society needs to progress, technology needs to develop!"

Shen Songming did not argue with her, "That kind of big tree is hard to paint, better not to paint it at all."

They had displayed a tree in her research institute, which Pei Qin had painted out of boredom when she was confined in the institute and not allowed to contact the outside world. It was a super-large resin painting. Inside a glass dome, layers of resin were poured and painted layer by layer, making the final product resemble a tree growing in the ocean, surrounded by schools of fish. It was a project that took her over three months to complete. She had taken pictures and boasted to the group of wives. Shen Songming had seen it before and had even teased her then. The female overlord of Rongdu, who only knew how to fight and set up stalls, had such a talent!

Pei Qin immediately took a small bowl to test her hand.

Resin painting, which she had not touched in a long time, and the paints, incomparable to what she used in modern times, made the painting even more challenging.

When Jun Suxue came to visit, seeing her focused on her work, she glanced at Shen Songming and then withdrew.

After tinkering all morning, Pei Qin produced a distorted little red fish. Thinking of her past glories, frustrated, she threw the small bowl aside, "Go!"

Unbeknownst to her when Mo Heng had come over, he sat beside her, picked it up, looked at it, and smiled, "It’ll be fine after the New Year, just practice painting more at home."

Shen Songming was still sitting there, not leaving, and kept looking directly at Mo Heng. "Let’s have a drink!"

Mo Heng’s gaze paused, not refusing, and signaled Zhang Gengshan to fetch the wine.

The two seemed to be at loggerheads again, was it because she had picked up resin painting again!? Pei Qin’s mouth twitched, and after eating, she led her daughter to the backyard to continue tinkering.

Shen Songming and Mo Heng started a drinking contest, cup after cup, switching to larger cups once Pei Qin left.

Pei Qin had gone around once, hearing they were still drinking, "Dispose of their wine!"

Zhang Gengshan hurriedly relayed her words.

Shen Songming was not yet drunk, his gaze sharp as a knife while staring at him.

Mo Heng’s gaze was equally sharp.

The two moved to a lakeside pavilion to continue drinking.

"They’ll pass out if they keep drinking like this, the General needs his medicine tonight..." Jun Suxue muttered softly behind Xie Yi. freewёbnoνel.com

Xie Yi bit her lip; she had been to the lakeside and knew the way. Seeing Jun Suxue not paying attention to her, watching the New Year’s Eve dinner, she said she’d go change into a thinner jacket and come back to prepare the New Year’s Eve dinner, as she also had two dishes to make.

Jun Suxue responded with a smile, watching her leave, "Follow her quietly."

The young maid immediately responded and followed silently, soon discovering she took a detour to the lakeside.