Hearing this, Chu Yuntian stood up suddenly and said in a deep voice, "The task of checking the water source will be hard work for Yue'er. My foster father will go gather people and arrange other things."

"Okay, adoptive father, please don't worry."

Only she can handle this matter. Apart from her, no one else can detect it, let alone clean up the source of the poison.

As soon as Chu Yuntian walked out of the door, he suddenly stopped.

"Yue'er, there should be nothing going on outside the city, right? Hu Chengxuan will be on duty today, and the soldiers will be stationed outside the city."

"It's hard to say," Qi Yue frowned, "How about we go take a look together when I test the water source."

"Okay, I'll let someone protect you."

"it is good."

Qi Yue took people with her to check the water sources in the city one by one.

She found only one well water that was usable, and she threw the antidote into two others, which could be used again after a few hours, but the others were contaminated.

After marking the situation on the map he carried with him, he sent someone back to report to Chu Yuntian, asking him to send troops to guard the water sources. Qi Yue then took someone to check outside the city.

Longnan County is surrounded by two rivers.

One passes through the city, and the other flows from west to south, surrounding Longnan County.

Qi Yue first took people to the east and checked the river that passed through the city, but found nothing unusual.

Then she went to the west again, and this time she found trace amounts of toxins in the water plants near the city gate.

However, due to the heavy rains for days and the large water in the river, the water source of the entire river is already available for use. As long as it is boiled during use, it will not cause too big a problem.

Just as she turned back from the river, she saw a man walking towards her, his expression and posture looked very much like Hu Keqing's.

"Yue'er..."

Hearing this surprised voice, Qi Yue knew that she had seen the right person.

Hu Keqing shouted again and ran over. Qi Yue couldn't avoid it, so she had to stand still.

"Master Hu, I heard that you are teaching today, so I don't want to meet you here."

The sun in Nanling was very harsh, and Hu Keqing became darker and thinner, but his body looked healthier than before.

Qi Yue was also relieved.

I heard before that she was bedridden, which put a lot of pressure on her.

"It's not like we bumped into each other." Hu Keqing stared at her with a smile on his face, "I saw you when you went to the east and followed you here specially. I waited until you were done with your work before coming over to say hello."

Qi Yue was suddenly stunned.

"Do you know about the water source being poisoned?"

Hu Keqing pointed to the soldiers standing guard in the distance and said with a smile, "I asked them about it."

Realizing that she was being followed from east to west, Qi Yue couldn't help but feel creepy.

She just thought there was someone protecting her along the way. She was so serious that she didn't even notice.

It seems that I will have to bring a bodyguard with me when I go out from now on.

With this in mind, he stopped talking to Hu Keqing and said directly, "I've finished my work, I'm going back first."

Hu Keqing stopped her.

"Yue'er, many soldiers in our military camp have also been poisoned. Could you please Yue'er to help us take a look."

Seeing Qi Yue's hesitation, Hu Keqing added, "I was planning to go to the city to ask for a doctor just now, and then I saw you."

This may be true, but when Qi Yue remembered that Hu Chengxuan once had someone kidnapped her in the middle of the night, she naturally would not go to the military camp with her.

"There is medicine in the city. You can send the soldiers to bring it back and let the soldiers take it."

Hu Keqing said, "Wouldn't that be too troublesome? Yue'er could just go to the military camp."

Seeing that he was trying hard to invite her to the military camp, Qi Yue became more vigilant and told her a lot of herbs for detoxifying and treating diarrhea.

"Do you have Poria cocos, Codonopsis pilosula, Atractylodes macrocephala, tangerine peel..."

Before she could finish speaking, Hu Keqing said eagerly, "Yes, yes, Yue'er, come with me quickly."

Qi Yue snorted coldly in her heart.

It wasn't that she doubted what Hu Keqing was going to do to her, she just didn't believe Hu Chengxuan.

If he used some kind of pretext to trick Hu Keqing into getting her back, she would be the one who suffered the loss no matter what he did.

Although she is now equipped with all kinds of weapons, she can only kill people secretly. If she does it openly, she is seeking death.

She immediately took out a pen and paper from her medicine box, wrote down a prescription, and handed it to Hu Keqing.

"Since there is medicine, there is no need for me to make a trip. Just make this medicine and your abdominal pain and diarrhea can be relieved in one dose."

Seeing that Hu Keqing shrank his hands and refused to take it, Qi Yue threw the prescription directly to the sergeant behind him, turned around and left.

Just two steps away, I heard Hu Keqing say urgently, "Yue'er, before going to Nanling, my father has promised me to apologize to you for what happened last time, so you can come back with me."

Sure enough, Hu Chengxuan treated her one way and told his son another way.

Qi Yue snorted coldly in her heart and quickened her pace even more.

"Mr. Hu, your father doesn't need to apologize to me, because I will never forgive him."

It was really difficult for her to understand Hu Keqing's brain circuit. Was it because what she said last time was not clear enough? Why was he still pestering her?

After quickly returning to the city, Qi Yue felt relieved.

She was still a little worried that Hu Chengxuan would suddenly jump out with thousands of people like last time. In that case, she would have to expose the latest lethal weapons she purchased.

But when she walked to the pharmacy, she suddenly felt like she was being followed.

But when I looked carefully, there was not a single ghost.

This feeling lasted until she returned to the house.

She couldn't help but think that Hu Keqing might still be following him secretly, and she felt extremely disgusted.

"Mother Zhang, please ask someone to check and see if there are any suspicious people around the house."

After hearing this, Mrs. Zhang immediately called Caiwei and Xiaolian, who had been newly trained, and asked them to guard Qi Yue while she personally supervised the matter.

A group of servant women patrolled the house, and the sky became dim.

Qi Yue felt much more at ease now, and she became more and more certain that Hu Keqing was causing trouble, and the disgust in her heart became even greater.

She didn't notice at all that there was a bamboo-like figure standing on the high eaves, looking down at where she was.

The surrounding night enveloped him, making him look like a lonely beautiful pine, cold and aloof, independent from the world.

Thin rain fell on him, but he remained still, as if he had always been there.

At the same time, in the military camp outside the city, Hu Keqing was happily describing the situation when he saw Qi Yue.

Hu Chengxuan, who was sitting across from him, had a forbearing but forced to agree expression.

He didn't blame his son. After all, he admired Qi Yue very much at the beginning and once wanted to recruit her to serve in the army.

Who knew she was ignorant!

snort!

"Dad, I'm sure that Qi Yue doesn't hate me. She will like me sooner or later! When you return home this time, you will report on your duties and be sure to ask Your Majesty to grant a marriage to Yue'er and me."

When he heard the word "marriage", the muscles in the corner of Hu Chengxuan's mouth couldn't help but twitch.

Marriage?

How could he give the honor of marriage granted by the emperor to a lawless wild girl who even tried to attack him?

Besides, she was already a divorced woman. Not only was she married to Zhao Xiyan, but she also had an affair with Qu Wei.

How could such a woman enter the door of his Hu family?

Absolutely ridiculous!

But facing his son's eager face, he still didn't say his face-to-face rejection.

"Dad will ask for the decree, but he cannot predict whether His Majesty will accept it."

"Dad is a general. Your Majesty will definitely give you a reward for this triumph, and you will definitely agree to it."

Seeing the affirmative look in his son's eyes, Hu Chengxuan suddenly had an idea in his mind, to marry his son a well-matched noble girl!

As long as the son benefits from one woman, he will naturally not think about another one!

Determined, he immediately became happy.

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