Another two days passed in the blink of an eye. Now it was just past noon.
The sun was gradually tilting towards the west. The last hour of the five days was about to arrive.
Cang Baicao didn't pace around in Tang Doudou's room this ti and went to the door to wait instead. He even went to the outskirts of the valley several tis, but no matter how much he waited, Baili Yu didn't arrive.
He was so anxious that he started cursing Baili Yu for not keeping his word.
The other hidden guards and Ye Chuan felt very uncomfortable hearing this. At the sa ti, they were worried as well. Master has always kept strictly to his words. The fact that he was so late definitely ant that sothing had happened.
anwhile, Tang Doudou was very calm. Regardless of whether Baili Yu made it back or not, she would get better by today. Once she got better, she definitely wouldn't listen to Cang Baicao's arrangents and stay ho to prepare for birth. Qing Yin hadn't co back and no news on Jun Xin and Baili Yiling's whereabouts had co either. Little Gray also hasn't returned since he left last ti…
There were a lot of things she had to deal with. There was so much on her mind that she didn't even know what to worry about first, so her heart was abnormally calm. All she could do now was wait for night to arrive.
The setting sun hung at the horizon, plating the house in a layer of hazy orange.
Cang Baicao walked into the room and looked towards Tang Doudou before heaving a heavy sigh. As he blew at his beard, he sat down in a huff. "I'm about to be angered to death!"
Tang Doudou yawned, then glanced outside. "Ah! It's almost night. Senior Cang, why don't you stop waiting and just use the rootless grass's flower to cure ?"
Her only thought was that she was no different from an invalid since she spent so much ti on the bed.
Of course, the difference was that she couldn't feel anything from her limbs, which was worse in so ways.
Cang Baicao shot her a glare. "It's not ti yet. Even I'm not anxious, what are you getting anxious about?"
Tang Doudou looked towards the ceiling. He had already paced around the entire valley for an whole day from anxiousness. Who exactly was the one anxious?
Cang Baicao then said, "Don't worry, I won't let anything happen to you, so don't worry about those things and just rest."
After saying that, he stood up to walk out.
Tang Doudou hastily called out to stop him. "Senior Cang, I still have sothing to discuss with you!"
"Enough! What business could you possibly have?" Cang Baicao then left without turning back.
Tang Doudou didn't know whether she should laugh at this. It seed that in Cang Baicao's eyes, she was just a cripple that was solely eating for the purpose of waiting for death. That wasn't right, this was probably how most people saw her, right?
Tang Doudou didn't mind how the public saw her, but she minded how her friends viewed her. She couldn't help but recall Ye Chuan's attitude as he ca in to report to her every day. She furrowed her brows. Ye Chuan didn't seem to be just unhappy with her. He seed to be hiding sothing else from her.
What could Ye Chuan possibly be hiding from her?
Ye Chuan was one of Baili Yu's trusted subordinates. It could be said that with the exception of Jun Xin, Feng Long, and Yun Hai, he was Baili Yu's most trusted subordinate. She used to have quite a lot of faith in Baili Yu's eye for people, but after what happened with Yun Hai, she could only say that everyone that was human had shortcomings. And Baili Yu's shortcoming was clearly that he wasn't a good judge of people!
Ahem, but then again, the human heart was impossible to read. Hadn't she also been tricked by Bai Feiyun?
Bai Feiyun also hadn't made any moves lately. She had no idea what he was planning.
As she was thinking about these random things, the sky gradually darkned. This ti, it wasn't just Cang Baicao. Ye Chuan and ng Yu also ca.
They stood at the door and walked a little forward to look outside every once in a while. ng Yu peeked inside the room. When she saw Tang Doudou blink towards her, she quickly jogged inside. Although she was just jogging lightly, the vibrations it still caused made Tang Doudou speechless.
"All… Big Mada, are you looking for for sothing?" ng Yu ran over and twisted her apron awkwardly. She hesitated over what to call Tang Doudou and the title she finally settled on made Tang Doudou even more speechless.
Big Mada?
Could it be that she was preparing for there to be a Second Mada, Third Mada… a Small Mada too?
Tang Doudou beca unhappy.
However, she suddenly recalled that n in the ancient era always had multiple wives. It really was possible for a chain of madas to appear…
Tang Doudou quickly slapped away these irrelevant thoughts and looked towards ng Yu. "That's enough, you should just call Doudou. What do you an by Big Mada? I'm not even that old."
Call her Doudou? That wouldn't do!
ng Yu shook her head. "How about Young Mada?"
Tang Doudou rolled her eyes and feigned displeasure. "Fine, just call whatever."
When ng Yu heard how displeased she was, there was no way she could miss what Tang Doudou ant. She laughed and said, "Doudou, are you looking for for sothing? What is it?"
Tang Doudou glanced outside. "I wanted to ask what Ye Chuan has been doing lately."
She had figured out a long ti ago that ng Yu had a crush on Ye Chuan. She also heard from Qing Yin that ng Yu liked to visit Ye Chuan whenever she had free ti. Perhaps she would be able to tell why Ye Chuan seed off lately.
She had been aning to ask ng Yu about this, but she never had the chance.
Cang Baicao had very high requirents for the dicinal dishes, so she hadn't seen ng Yu even once since she had woken up.
When ng Yu heard her question, she was stunned for a mont. She was confused as to why Tang Doudou had looked for her to ask about this.
Then she abruptly flushed. Why would Doudou ask her about Ye Chuan? Could it be that Doudou already knows about the fact that she had a crush on Ye Chuan?
When Tang Doudou saw how her expression was changing so much, she was speechless again. The entire Heng Xuan Chamber of Comrce knew of this matter now. If she was really bashful, she should just be a little more reserved the next ti she went to see Ye Chuan!
"Ye Chuan…" ng Yu wrung her apron in embarrassnt, then sat down. She glanced towards the door and saw Ye Chuan's tall back figure next to Cang Baicao, then rapidly shifted her gaze away as if she had been electrocuted. "He's been busy with the matters inside the valley. He hasn't been doing anything else."
"He hadn't done anything strange?"
"No?" ng Yu looked towards Tang Doudou strangely. "What is it? Did Ye Chuan do sothing wrong?
"Doudou ah, let tell you, Ye Chuan just has a bad temper, but he isn't bad as a person. He just has a little too direct of a personality!
"He faces outsiders with a certain attitude and faces his own people with a different attitude. Just look at how he treats ? He completely ignores !"
Tang Doudou felt like her head must've been kicked for her to think that asking ng Yu about Ye Chuan was a good idea. Even the proverbs say that Xishi (a famous Chinese beauty) is always in the eyes of the lover. If ng Yu could actually see sothing off about Ye Chuan, that was what would be truly strange.
"Doudou, why aren't you saying anything? Could it be that Ye Chuan really has done sothing wrong?" When she didn't speak, ng Yu beca worried and pulled at her sleeve.
Tang Doudou shook her head. "No, I just wanted to learn about their recent arrangents."
She couldn't tell ng Yu that she felt like sothing was off about Ye Chuan. Otherwise, based on how impulsive ng Yu was, ng Yu would definitely go to Ye Chuan to demand answers.
"Oh, so it was like that!" ng Yu grinned. "You're in luck! I really do know about these matters!"
Tang Doudou imdiately beca interested and asked, "What do you an?"
Inwardly, she was mocking herself. When she asked about Ye Chuan in general, ng Yu seriously had nothing to say, but now that she was asking in a different way, ng Yu actually had answers!
ng Yu leaned closer with a mysterious expression. "I saw them capture a lot of people yesterday in the bamboo forest. Those people seed to have been poisoned by the miasma!"
"What?" Tang Doudou was alard. Could it be the Demonic Sect hidden guards?
However, she didn't let this show on her face and asked calmly, "Do you know where Ye Chuan imprisoned those people?"
"Why didn't Ye Chuan report this to you?" ng Yu beca puzzled.
Tang Doudou said with smile, "He's probably worried that I'll be concerned. He's probably waiting for your master to co back to deal with this matter."
"En, that's probably the case."
"So do you know where he's placed those people?" Tang Doudou really wanted to know this. Then, once she was able to move again, she could go look for those people and see if they were the Demonic Sect hidden guards.
If they were, then they had definitely co to the valley after getting the news. Then what about Little Gray? After delivering the letter, shouldn't he have co back with the Demonic Sect hidden guards?
Why hadn't he returned even after two days? Could it be that he had been captured?
"I don't know about this. I just happened to bump into them. They looked like they were operating in secret so I didn't dare to watch too much." ng Yu sighed regretfully. "If I had known that you were going to ask about this, I would've watched for a while longer."
Tang Doudou said, "It's fine. Since you're not sure where they're locked up, then let's just wait until your master cos back."
"Alright. In any case, I don't understand your affairs much. Hehe… If there's nothing else, I'll head back to the kitchen first." ng Yu stood up, then twisted her apron as she glanced outside towards Cang Baicao. A bit of fear filled her eyes. "Doudou ah, if you have ti, just tell Senior Cang that I'm seriously not good at making dicinal dishes! The steps are too ticulous and I'm not that smart either. I can't rember it at all. Just have him pick soone else?"
Tang Doudou rolled her eyes at her. "Don't you know how hard it is to obtain a single dicinal dish prescription from Senior Cang? It's nearly priceless. You now have a chance to learn it while Senior Cang personally teaches you, but you're showing disdain?"
"No no no, I'm not showing disdain…" ng Yu hastily waved her hands as she explained, "I just feel like it's too heavy of a responsibility. If sothing goes wrong, I-I…"
"Heaven's general places great burden on man for a purpose. (To be bestowed with great responsibility, one must be crucified with ordeal and tribulation so as to break one's will.) Since you have this chance, learn well. Don't entertain such strange thoughts." Tang Doudou knew that ng Yu wasn't dumb. She just didn't like trouble and was afraid of being scolded by Cang Baicao when she made mistakes. That was why she wasn't willing to continue this task. However, Tang Doudou felt much more relieved knowing it was ng Yu that was making the dicinal dishes for her, so she couldn't let ng Yu pass it off to soone else.
"Heaven's general places great burden on man for a purpose?" ng Yu repeated this sentence, but couldn't figure out the aning and could only ask Tang Doudou, "What does this an?"
Tang Doudou didn't explain and just told her to figure it out.
After she sent ng Yu off, the room quieted down again. Later, a maid ca in to light the candles.
"What ti is it now?"
"Replying Mada, it's near five."
It was already near five? Ti sure passed too fast. After a few hours, today would end. Would Baili Yu make it back in ti?
Just as she was thinking this, Cang Baicao's angry shouting ca from outside, "What is going on? How exactly do you guys handle matters? Don't you know how important this thing is!?"
What was going on now?
Tang Doudou said, "Go take a look and tell what happened."
The maid ran out, then quickly ca back, her expression filled with alarm. "M-mada…"
Tang Doudou's heart dropped when she saw the maid like this. "Calm down and tell slowly."
"It's Big Sister ng Yu! Big Sister ng Yu ha-has… she's burned the kitchen down!"
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