Chapter 404 - We Don’t Lack These
Chapter 404: We Don’t Lack These
The afternoon passed quickly.
After dinner, everyone continued working.
It wasn’t until past ten in the evening that Li Yan arrived.
Li Yan walked into the herbs refining room and saw that Chu Luo was still busy. He asked, “Luoluo, do you need my help?”
Chu Luo looked at him and smiled at him. “No need. Rest for a while.”
Li Yan stood beside her and accompanied her to look at the medicine that was brewing in the cauldron. Chu Luo said, “The batch of herbs that the Sun family brought needs to be boiled until tomorrow. I have to keep watch tonight.”
Li Yan touched her cheek and said, “I’ll accompany you.”
Chu Luo subconsciously rubbed her face against his palm. “Aren’t you busy tomorrow?”
“Almost done.”
“When are we leaving?”
“We’ll leave tomorrow night.”
This time, the two of them planned to go over secretly, so Chu Luo didn’t tell the Sun family. However, after going there, it was a different matter if the two sides could meet.
Chu Luo pointed at the herbs brewed on the two small furnaces beside her and blinked at him mischievously. “One pot of these two pots of herbs is for Sun Tianhao at his request. The other pot is ours. The herbs he found are of good quality. We’ll split half of them and take it as his consultation fee.”
Li Yan looked at her in amusement. Seeing her money-grubber look, he said, “We don’t lack these.”
Chu Luo wrinkled her nose at him. “There’s an unwritten rule in the poison-making world that once you help people concoct antidotes in large batches, you have to pay the corresponding consultation fee. Otherwise, the effects of the poison will be greatly reduced. I’m helping him.”
Li Yan nodded.
Chu Luo asked again, “Is Sun Tianhao still in the living room?”
Sun Tianhao and the others were all grinding medicinal powder or cutting herbs in the living room. Chu Luo had been in the herbs refining room and didn’t know what was going on outside.
“Yes.”
When Li Yan entered, Sun Tianhao deliberately looked at him for a while. That gaze made Li Yan almost get someone to throw him out.
Chu Luo didn’t ask further.
The two of them talked for a while. After the first pot of medicine was made, Chu Luo didn’t go out and asked Li Yan to help her get the herbs.
Everyone spent the entire night busying themselves.
It wasn’t until past ten the next day that Chu Luo finished refining all the pills.
When she handed the few bottles of pills to Sun Tianhao, he was still in disbelief. “Chu Luo, you really finished refining all the medicine.”
Although Sun Tianhao knew that Chu Luo was capable, under normal circumstances, even with a machine, it would take a few days to complete the workload. Yet, she did it in less than a day. It was incredible.
Chu Luo couldn’t be bothered to answer Sun Tianhao’s question. She told him when to use these pills. And also, if he encountered a large group of bugs, how could these herbs be used. She then chased him away. “You can leave.”
Sun Tianhao was still very tactful. He nodded and said to her, “You didn’t sleep all night. Go rest first.”
With that, he left with his men.
After Sun Tianhao and the others left, the butler walked over.
The butler said to the two of them, “Master, Miss Chu, Eldest Master Duanmu called this morning.”
“What did he say?”
Chu Luo didn’t think that the Duanmu family would look for them for anything good.
Indeed, the butler said, “Master Duanmu said that they will send a batch of people to the northwest to save people. He wants to ask Miss Chu to help him make a batch of medicine.”
“How did they know I know how to concoct medicine?”
Li Yan told her, “It’s no secret that you saved Old Master Sun and even brought your teacher over. Moreover, the Sun family has been causing quite a commotion these past two days. It’s not difficult for them to find out.”
“So what if they know?” In any case, whether she agreed or not was her business. “The Duanmu family is really interesting. Did they forget that they detained you at their house the day before yesterday? To think they still have the face to ask me to help them refine medicine today… Butler, how did you reply?”
“Miss Chu, you’ve been busy recently. You probably don’t have time to concoct medicine.”
Chu Luo nodded.
Li Yan put his arm around her shoulder and said, “Go rest for a few hours. We’ll leave tonight.”
“Okay.”
Not long after Chu Luo and Li Yan lay in bed, Li Yan’s phone rang.
He took it over to take a look and turned off the phone.
Chu Luo only woke up when the sky was about to turn dark.
At this moment, Li Yan had already woken up and gone out. She got out of bed, washed up, and walked downstairs.
Li Yan was instructing the butler to do something in the living room.
When Chu Luo went downstairs, she heard her phone ringing.
Her phone was with the butler. When the butler saw her coming down, he handed her the phone.
“Miss Chu, it’s from your Student Union president.”
Chu Luo took the phone and answered the call.
Nangong Yi’s faint voice could be heard. “Junior, the Student Union has received many invitations for you these past two days. They’re inviting you to participate in various robot associations. When are you free to come and take them back?”
Chu Luo said, “Leave it there for now. I won’t be free these few days.”
Nangong Yi: “Okay.”
Nangong Yi asked again, “Junior, the Student Union members of the various countries want to treat you to a meal. Can you spare some time one night?”
Chu Luo said, “Tell them that I’ll have time after they finish learning the Imperial language. I’ll treat them then.”
Nangong Yi laughed when he heard this. “Okay.”
The two of them hung up.
Chu Luo put away her phone and walked up to Li Yan.
Li Yan said to her, “Eat first. After dinner, we’ll go back to the Li residence and take the helicopter.”
Chu Luo nodded.
The two of them had just eaten when Li Yan’s phone suddenly rang. He took it and his expression darkened.
“What’s wrong?”
“Someone sneaked into the place where Neeson is locked up.”
“Could it be that someone wants to take him away again? Or perhaps it’s his own people?”
Usually, it must be Neeson’s own men.
“If his men want to take him away at this time, they must be going to the northwest too. Why don’t we take Neeson with us too?”
“No.”
Li Yan didn’t like the way Neeson looked at Chu Luo. “If we bring such a person out, he might escape. Why don’t we use his robots to scout the way?”
Chu Luo thought about it and felt that this was a good idea, so she nodded.
Li Yan said to the person on the other end, “Let him go.”
After dinner, the two of them left the old district and returned to the Li residence.
It was already early winter, and the weather had turned cold. The temperature difference between day and night was huge.
Li Yan left with almost 30 people this time.
These people were obviously very skilled. Each of them was carrying a huge backpack.
Li Yan took two backpacks from the butler. They were his and Chu Luo’s.
Chu Luo took two backpacks and put them in her Heaven-and-Earth pouch. She only gave him a bottle of medicine to keep at all times.
The two of them quietly left the capital.
On the other side.
At the Duanmu residence.
The masters of the Duanmu family were all gathered in the study. Even the third-generation men of the Duanmu family (except for Duanmu Rui, who had already left) were all present. They were discussing their trip to the northwest.
Duanmu Ze said with a displeased expression, “Li Yan’s woman is obviously unwilling to concoct medicine for us. Hmph! Don’t they know that we already know that she made a batch of medicine for the Sun family?”
Second Master Duanmu’s expression wasn’t very good either. “So be it. She’s just a little girl. I don’t believe that she’s as powerful as the masters our family hired.”
Duanmu Tian glanced at their expressions and a cold glint flashed across his peach blossom eyes. He said, “There are many people there this time. Li Yan didn’t accept our family’s invitation. Do you think he would really not go after hearing such an alluring rumor? Maybe he’s already prepared to go alone.”
The others were silent for a while. Eldest Master Duanmu asked Duanmu Tian, “Didn’t Xiao Rui ask you to plant someone to get close to Chu Luo? You asked that person to test Chu Luo. Since Li Yan is going over there, Chu Luo will definitely go.”
Duanmu Tian nodded and took out his phone to dial a number.
After the call went through, he told that person about this matter.
After hanging up the phone, everyone continued discussing.
Third Master Duanmu said, “On the surface, the Sun family went over this time to help find the archeological team. They might already have designs on that ancient tomb in secret. I think we should be wary of the Sun family.”
“Hmph! The Sun family.”
Second Master Duanmu snorted in disdain. “They keep saying that Old Master Sun has been cured by Chu Luo, but have you seen Old Master appear in front of the world? It might just be a facade. As long as Old Master Sun leaves this world and the Sun family’s pillar of support dissipates, it’s only a matter of time before we take back our military power.”
“In that case, why don’t we send another group of people to disguise as people from other families and destroy them in the desert?” Duanmu Ze had a ruthless expression.
Duanmu Tian added, “And Li Yan and his woman. If they really go over there, we’ll bring more experts over. I don’t believe that so many people can’t deal with that woman.”
At this point, a sharp glint flashed across his eyes. “As long as we get rid of Li Yan, our Duanmu family can directly take over the Blazing Glory Corporation. At that time, would we still need the money in that tomb?”
When the others heard this, a glint flashed across their eyes.
At this moment, Eldest Master Duanmu reminded, “Don’t let Old Master know about this. He was already unhappy when we probed Li Yan the day before yesterday. If he finds out about this, he will definitely be even more unhappy.”
“I really don’t know what Grandfather is thinking. Li Yan is just a businessman. Since Grandfather helped him, he should be grateful and be a slave to our Duanmu family. Grandfather shouldn’t be so polite to such an ingrate.”