Chapter 28

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The Ghost Doctor is in Jiang Cheng

“Uncle Mo?” Yu Qingluo raised her brows in askance.

Nannan nod vigorously: “Yes, that one outside of the door. He’s also the man who was brawling at the inn that day.”

Yu Qingluo came to a sudden realization. How could she not know her own son’s temperament?

She patted her skirt then lifted a leg gracefully pointing it in his direction, narrowing her eyes to ask him with a smile: “Did you poison him?”

When did my mother become so keen? Nannan was shocked, weakly climbing out of the stool and starting to hug her thighs again. “Mother, I couldn’t help it!”

She resisted the urge to kick him away, her voice became deeper: “You had no choice?”

“Yes, because I could see that Uncle Mo was no ordinary person, he probably had many valuable treasures on him.” Nannan saw that his plan of plotting and framing someone wasn’t working and had been crushed by his mother and started to change his story. Laughing, he looked up at her with shiny eyes, saying: “Mother, you can see that I was not wrong. Let me tell you, inside this residence, there’s a black panther. It’s a mighty and fierce one. I planned to take it back to honour my dear mother. But that panther, it’s a bit too stupid. It doesn’t listen to me at all, so I stayed here for a couple more days as I planned to educate it before bringing it back.”

Yu Qingluo face-palmed in her mind. Although she also did wish to get her hands on that black panther, its owner wasn’t a person one should provoke.

The three men outside turned their heads to look at their Lord, who had a gloomy expression, before silently looked away. This pair of mother and son was really brave, to dare and try to steal the Lord’s property right in front of his nose.

Ye Xiudu coldly snorted, his icy eyes swept the trio. Then he said: “Let her come to my room after a quarter of an hour.”

Leaving these words behind, he turned and left without a second glance. Almost stomping out of the courtyard.

The remaining trio looked at each other with confusion, who this ‘Ta‘ (TL: he/she) [1] referred to? Is it Miss Yu or Nannan?

Nevertheless, it didn’t matter who he actually wanted to see, they still had to interrupt the mother and son duo’s reunion and ask them to go to the Lord’s courtyard.

Shen Ying was aware of Yu Qingluo’s temper, so he took some steps backwards silently. Pushing the housekeeper Yan in front of him, he ordered sternly: “Go and knock.”

“Master Shen, you are the most acquainted with Miss Yu.” He wasn’t a fool either. Offending Miss Yu wouldn’t end up well for him, you just had to take a look at Wen Tian to know that.

“I’m not that familiar with her, we have only known each other for two days.”

“But Miss Yu seems to trust you the most.”

“That’s just your imagination speaking.”

‘Squeak’ the door of the room opened in front of them.

Yu Qingluo leaned against the frame and stared at the three with a sneer forming in the corner of her mouth: “Do you need me to invite you over for some tea?”

Nannan poked his head outside, from behind her and added: “I can put a little something extra in that teacup.”

The trio stepped back in unison. Shen Ying took the opportunity to say between his teeth: “Miss Yu, the Lord wants you to go to his yard to c-change his bandages.” he pondered for a bit beforehand, coming to the conclusion that the Lord was probably asking for Miss Yu.

Yu Qingluo frowned as she started to remember about his injury and the request to be healed within four days.

That man was really troublesome.

“Mother, I’ll accompany you.” Nannan stepped forward filled with stubbornness: “That uncle has a big black panther by his side, it’s dangerous so I’ll be protecting you.”

Nannan felt that he should definitely not leave his mother’s side anymore, no matter what anyone said to him. In any case, this was the right time to show his valour and loyalty in front of her so that her mood would turn for the better. And by then she should be able to overlook his mistakes.

Yu Qingluo glanced at him, then motioned at Shen Ying: “You watch him over for me and give him something to eat.”

“Oh, and some wine too, please!” Nannan subconsciously added it to the menu. Then, noticing his mistake he changed his instance and attached himself to Yu Qingluo “Mother, you are way more important than eating a meal.”

Yu Qingluo snorted with disdain: “You can drink wine today.”

“Really??” Nannan’s eyes lit up, his little hands immediately let go of Yu Qingluo’s skirt as he ran towards Shen Ying’s arms: “Master Shen, let’s go!”

Shen Ying trembled all over, ‘Master?’. Why does it feel like Nannan was behaving like he was here to visit a bar instead?

This Nannan, there’s really no saving him anymore!

Yu Qingluo face-palmed inwardly. Asking the housekeeper to lead the way. She really didn’t want to look at this son of hers who was capable of selling his own mother out any longer.

However, it didn’t matter anymore, since she couldn’t let Nannan and Ye Xiudu get too close for now. With that man’s shrewdness and Nannan’s mischievousness, this would probably end up leading to trouble.

The housekeeper didn’t dare to open his mouth on the way to the Lord’s courtyard. He was still a bit shocked by the mother and child relationship that Yu Qingluo and Nannan had. And he couldn’t figure out whether… they were really biological mother and child or not.

The door of the Solitary Courtyard was already open as if it was expected for her to come at any time.

Ye Xiudu was reclining on his couch, with a cold atmosphere enveloping his body. As he saw Yu Qingluo enter, he lifted his eyes slightly to her before closing them again.

After leading the person inside the housekeeper excused himself and closed the door gently as he left.

“Did you enter the Mo residence in search of your son?”

Yu Qingluo paused for a bit in her steps forward, biting her lower lip she answered: “Yes.”

“Why didn’t you say so from the beginning?” Ye Xiudu opened one of his eyes, becoming irritated as he noticed that her movements while undressing him were quite skilled. Just like… she had done it to someone else many times before. There was an uncomfortable sensation surging up in his heart that made him push her hands away from him abruptly.

(TL: Yeah, Lol. She has a son. But YXD is too moody to think straight, alright)

Yu Qingluo was taken aback by this action, feeling that all of sudden his emotions had become unstable somehow. She raised her head in surprise to look at him. Was she not saying anything about her true motives before such a heinous crime?

“I wasn’t sure if you guys were good people.”

“Did you ascertain it yourself now?” he sneered. Seeing that she was no longer moving, he frowned and said impatiently: “Change the bandages.”

She… will tolerate it. For that 15 million taels she must put up with this uncertain temper of his.

Yu Qingluo gritted her teeth and went back to untying his outer robes.

His recovery speed wasn’t too bad. The combination of her techniques with a good medicine enabled the wound to heal to the point that would no longer bleed. It shouldn’t take too long to heal completely.”

“Who’s your husband?” Ye Xiudu, who was silent for some seconds, asked.

Yu Qingluo paused a bit her movement but said, without batting an eye: “Dead.”

Dead? Ye Xiudu suddenly opened his eyes to carefully analyse her expression, he couldn’t catch a single shred of emotion from her eyes. It was almost as if they were talking about someone completely unrelated to her.

Did she have no feelings for her husband at all?

This woman… she has too many mysteries surrounding her…

“Lord.” As Yu Qingluo finished helping him put his outer robes again the housekeeper’s voice sounded from outside.

Ye Xiudu straightened himself and from the couch unhurriedly said: “Come in”

“Lord.” the housekeeper first glanced at Yu Qingluo and then hesitantly turned to say “Wu Dong… Wu Dong is asking permission to meet you.”

“I won’t see her.” Ye Xiudu didn’t even bother lifting his eyes to talk, not showing a single reaction to that person’s name.

“But, but… Wu Dong brought some news. She said… that the Ghost Doctor is in Jiang Cheng.”

Translated by C, The Apostle of Coffee

Edited by NoveLeo, Life is a Drama

Translator’s Notes

[1] – in chinese, 他 (he) 她 (she) 它 (it), are all pronounced as ‘Ta’ first tone. So, when you are speaking, if you don’t say it clearly, one cannot know if you are referring to a man or woman. This artifice is often used in crossdressing stories, there the ML refers to the crossdresser FL as 她 (she), but everyone else thinks he is saying 他 (he).