Chapter 420 - Chapter 420: Someone’s Trying to Make Ruan Qi Miscarry?
Chapter 420: Someone’s Trying to Make Ruan Qi Miscarry?
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Jiang Jingchen’s expression improved a little at the little woman’s coaxing. He followed her downstairs.
When Ruan Qi saw them coming downstairs, she tapped her bowl with her spoon and said, “Come down quick. This bird’s nest smells so good. I can’t wait to dig in.”
Tang Beibei walked to the table and saw that Silent Sister had already served the bird’s nest in bowls.
It was her first time eating bird’s nest and she was very curious about the taste.
She picked up a bowl and sniffed it. It smelled quite nice indeed.
However, there was something strange about the smell.
Tang Beibei grabbed Ruan Qi’s wrist when she saw her putting a spoonful of bird’s nest into her mouth.
Ruan Qi was puzzled. She looked at the bird’s nest that was about to enter her mouth and asked, “Beibei, what’s wrong?”
“Qiqi, don’t you think that it smells strange?”
“Strange how?”
Tang Beibei pursed her lips and explained very seriously, “There’s a lot of water-soluble proteins in bird’s nest, which makes up about 50% of its nutritional value. It has a slight fishy smell.”
“I’ve also read in a book that bird’s nest smells a little musty or like ammonia, depending on the environment from which they were harvested. Humidity, temperature, bird droppings, and other factors all affect its smell.”
“However, better quality bird’s nest smells a little eggy after it’s cooked. The higher the protein content, the stronger the eggy fragrance.”
“You guys take a sniff and tell me what you smell in this bird’s nest?”
Jiang Jingchen took a deep sniff and said, “There’s a faint smell of medicine, like that of herbal plants.”
Ruan Qi and Song Zhou sniffed carefully and felt that the medicinal smell was very faint. It was hardly detectable if they didn’t sniff it carefully.
Tang Beibei said, “The medicinal smell is not right.”
She quickly went to find the packaging for the bird’s nest. The ingredients listed on the packaging were straightforward. There were no herbal or medicinal ingredients.
Therefore, this medicinal smell was caused by something unknown.
“It’s probably a nutritional supplement. Didn’t they say that bird’s nest is a strong tonic?”
Ruan Qi was still staring at the bird’s nest, hoping to have a taste.
Tang Beibei sniffed the bird’s nest again and licked it a little. She still felt it strange.
“It’s very likely that there’s rice-paper plant, pineilia and something I can’t tell in there.”
Ruan Qi pondered for a moment. “Rice-Paper plant is a diuretic TCM medicine that eliminates dampness. Pineilia eliminates dampness, reduces phlegm, prevents reflux and vomiting. Both are very good medicines, and they are both non-toxic.”
Tang Beibei nodded. Ruan Qi was right. These two medicines were non-toxic and were good for ordinary women.
“But these two medicines have one thing in common.”
“What?”
“Pregnant women should use these two medicines with caution!”
“Especially pineilia. It’s like the morning after pill. Qiqi, if you finish this bowl, your baby will be gone by morning.”
Ruan Qi was so frightened that her face turned pale. She threw the spoon onto the table and it broke into two pieces.
“Thank goodness I wasn’t greedy.”
Song Zhou was also shocked. He quickly took the bowl away from Ruan Qi and walked up to her.
“Qiqi, don’t eat this. If you’re hungry, we can ask Silent Sister to make something else.”
Ruan Qi patted her heart and waved her hand. “I’m not eating anymore. I’m already scared to death.”
Tang Beibei put down her bowl and said to Jiang Jingchen, “Let’s not eat this too. There’s something in there that I feel isn’t good.”
Jiang Jingchen’s handsome face turned cold as he put down his spoon.
Song Zhou asked, “Young Madam, do you mean that someone’s trying to make Ruan Qi miscarry?”
Fortunately, they had discovered it early. If Tang Beibei hadn’t stopped Ruan Qi, she would have eaten some bad bird’s nest.
Tang Beibei scratched her head. “I don’t know either, but it’s hard to tell if someone specially added this into the bird’s nest.”
There were many medicinal herbs that were beneficial to humans. If it was to increase the nutritional value of the bird’s nest, people could add many cheap and good medicinal herbs. However, the other party had to add something that was harmful to pregnant women, especially pineilia, which was a contraceptive.
Song Zhou turned to look Silent Sister, his voice was as cold as ice as he asked, “Silent Sister, why is there something in the bird’s nest that can cause my wife to miscarry?”
Anyone who tried to cause his wife to have a miscarriage would be fought to death!
Silent Sister was stunned.
Her weak legs gave way as she knelt on the floor waving her hands.
She just double boiled the bird’s nest as asked and had no idea what was going on.
Tang Beibei got up and walked around the kitchen. She didn’t see anything unusual. Moreover, the Chinese medicine was so delicate that there was only a subtle smell. It couldn’t have been added later during the cooking process.
She walked out to help Silent Sister up and explained, “It wasn’t Silent Sister. She couldn’t have made it so subtle. Those ingredients were mixed into the bird’s nest.”
“If it was added by the bird’s nest manufacturer to increase nutritional value, it’s still very suspicious that they didn’t caution pregnant women from consuming it.”
Jiang Jingchen listened to his wife’s analysis and raised his eyebrows at her proudly.
“Beibei’s analysis is correct. There’s something wrong with this bird’s nest.”
Ruan Qi was confused. “This bird’s nest was delivered by Uncle Zhang and Mrs. Zhang. Could they be trying to harm us? We also ate the vegetables they sent over at dinner. There shouldn’t be any poison in those, right?”
Tang Beibei frowned. “Not likely.”
“Uncle Zhang is an honest man and has no grudges with you. Why would he want to harm you? He doesn’t gain anything by harming you, so there’s no motive.”
“Who is it then? Why does this vicious person want to harm me?”
Ruan Qi thought hard and turned to look at Song Zhou. “Do you have any female BFF who doesn’t want me to be pregnant and wants to harm me?”
Song Zhou felt so wronged.
“Why would I have so many female BFFs? Don’t let your imagination run wild.”
“But I don’t have any enemies. Why would anyone want to harm my child?”
This was Ruan Qi’s first baby, so she was naturally very cautious. She was extremely worked up when something like this happened.
Tang Beibei saw that the two of them were about to quarrel and quickly tried to mediate.
“This might be a coincidence. It’s probably aimed at me instead of Ruan Qi.
After all, the gift was for me. Since it’s for me, I’m the one who will eat it. Qiqi, don’t get too worked up.”
Ruan Qi accepted Tang Beibei’s explanation and her tensed nerves relaxed a little, but she was still worried.
“If someone wants to harm you and this first attempt failed, will they try again?”
Tang Beibei looked at Jiang Jingchen with a long face. “It’s hard to say.”
Jiang Jingchen patted her head comfortingly as he said, “Song Zhou, have this bird’s nest tested. Be discreet.”
Song Zhou looked Jiang Jingchen in the eye and nodded.
Because of this, no one was in the mood for any supper.
Tang Beibei was still thinking about it when she was getting ready for bed.
She said to Jiang Jingchen, “Uncle Zhang and Mrs. Zhang aren’t rich people. It’s a abnormal for them to give me two thousand yuan.”
Jiang Jingchen nodded. “It’s not normal.”
Tang Beibei looked at him. “Hubby, how should we investigate this?”
Jiang Jingchen curled his lips, moved closer to her, and pinched her face.
“My Obedient Beibei is so smart. She will find a way to investigate this.”
“Investigate?”
Tang Beibei wasn’t confident. She heard the man say, “Let Song Zhou send the thing for testing first. What will you do after the test results are out?”
Tang Beibei moved her round eyes and discussed with him seriously. “Take the test report to Uncle Zhang and ask him where the bird’s nest came from.”
“Although I think Uncle Zhang is an honest man, sometimes we can’t judge a book by its cover. We’ll have to interact more with them to see how they would react before we draw any conclusions.”
Jiang Jingchen was pleased. She was not emotional, and her train of thought was clear. He also had the intention to train her.
“Obedient Beibei, no matter what you do, always remember that you’re not alone. You have me behind you.”
“I will always be your biggest backer!”
Tang Beibei nodded with a smile and snuggled into his arms.
She looked down and saw that his pajamas were disarranged and revealed his abs. She touch them and swallowed hard.
“Hubby, you didn’t have supper, but I can accompany you… Exercise.”
Jiang Jingchen couldn’t resist the little woman’s invitation and grabbed her wrist..