TNIBFT -Chapter 303 The Empress Seeks Treatment

As soon as those words were spoken, the three little ones immediately broke into smiles.

Their joy was impossible to hide.

Ye Shuangxue said, “Then I’ll go clean up a room so Mother can sleep with me from now on!”

“I also want to sleep with Mother!” Xiao Jiang chimed in softly, trying to make his case.

Ye Shuangxue said seriously, “Mother is a woman, and I’m a woman too, so we should sleep together. You three are all boys, so you can’t sleep with Mother!”

Her expression was completely earnest.

Ye Tian was utterly baffled. “What do you mean, sleeping together or not?”

“Is Lady Meng coming to live in our house? Why didn’t I know about that? She didn’t say anything just now!”

“What?!”

The three kids’ eyes widened.

Ye Tian said, “She agreed to teach at the school. That way, you’ll be able to see Lady Meng every day.”

He bent down and tapped Ye Shuangxue lightly on the nose with his finger. “Especially you—if Lady Meng finds out your handwriting is this ugly, what kind of expression do you think she’ll have?”

“I…”

Ye Shuangxue’s face fell, puffing her cheeks as she glared at Ye Tian’s back.

Watching him turn and head into the hotpot restaurant, Ye Yunting said, “Lady Meng didn’t agree to marry him. She only agreed to be a teacher. Ye Tian didn’t even bring up marriage.”

“What?!”

Xiao Jiang and Ye Shuangxue both turned to look at their older brother.

The three little heads huddled together at the doorway, whispering among themselves. Xiao Jiang said, “We have to figure something out ourselves.”

“Mm!”

Ye Yunting and Ye Shuangxue both nodded. The three children wore serious expressions as they continued discussing how to help Ye Tian get a wife.

…

Over the past two days, Sifang City had been calm and peaceful.

No one knew what guilty deed Shi Xuan had committed—he had gone mad. He had disappeared the day before Lin Xianzhong attacked the city and had yet to be found.

After Shi Shanxiang learned what Shi Xuan had done at the city gates, he was completely disheartened. He didn’t even send anyone to search for him, acting as though he no longer had such a son.

After seeing the father and son off, Ye Tian turned and went back to the hotpot restaurant.

“City Lord!”

“City Lord!”

Lin Xianzhong was hiding by the doorway, waving at Ye Tian.

Lowering his voice and acting all mysterious, he tried to draw Ye Tian’s attention. Ye Tian glanced around—people were coming and going on the street, everything seemed normal—then walked over.

“City Lord, I have something to say, though I’m not sure if I should…”

He was clearly trying to pique Ye Tian’s curiosity.

“If it’s something you shouldn’t say, then don’t,” Ye Tian replied indifferently, turning to leave.

“Hey!”

Lin Xianzhong grabbed him. “It’s about that Miss Xiao in your shop—the one who covers her face. I saw her just now at the street corner, sneaking around and talking to a man.”

“That man was very cautious. I followed them for a while but lost him—he’s definitely no ordinary person. City Lord, you should be careful. Also, I heard from my Jiaojiao that this Miss Xiao is the daughter of the former City Lord Xiao Haoyang. You killed her father and brothers, and yet you still dare to take her in…”

Lin Xianzhong kept rambling.

Ye Tian’s expression didn’t change at all. “Got it.”

“From now on, you don’t need to worry about Xun’er’s matters.”

With that, Ye Tian turned and went inside, leaving Lin Xianzhong stomping his foot in place.

He had only just surrendered to Ye Tian and was eager to prove his loyalty.

Duan Qingshan had already taken the cannons and his trusted men back to guard Lindong City to prevent any sneak attacks. Lin Xianzhong, however, had been left in Sifang City to reunite with Feng Jiaojiao, leaving him with nothing to do all day.

He was so idle he was practically growing weeds!

Every day, Feng Jiaojiao would tell him gossip about the people in the shop, and Lin Xianzhong felt like he was gradually being assimilated.

“There’s one more thing!”

Lin Xianzhong hurried after Ye Tian and continued, “Before I attacked the city, there was a woman who looked exactly like Jiaojiao did when she was younger…”

As for his love story with Feng Jiaojiao, Ye Tian wasn’t interested in hearing it right now.

“The woman told me that you have many women under your command, all named Feng Jiaojiao, prepared especially for me. She’s also from Jiangyang—my fellow townswoman. She even knew that you have powerful experts under you, as well as cannons. I suspect she has informants inside Sifang City.”

After Lin Xianzhong finished speaking,

Ye Tian suddenly halted in his tracks.

Lin Xianzhong continued, “She knows everything about you—down to the smallest detail—and even harbors deep hatred toward you. At first, I didn’t think much of it, but yesterday Jiaojiao told me that there isn’t a second Feng Jiaojiao in your shop. That’s when I began to suspect…”

“And that woman should be from Sifang City.”

Ye Tian frowned. “Where is she now?”

“I killed her myself!”

“But when two of my subordinates went to bury the body, they were killed on the way. I suspect she must have had accomplices!”

Sifang City!

An enemy!

Aside from Shen Jie, Ye Tian couldn’t think of anyone else—but Shen Jie was a man, and the one who disappeared with him was Jiang Yunxi!

If Shen Jie was able to bring Jiang Yunxi to Sifang City, it meant that this so-called “Child of Destiny” had already found a new backer.

Ye Tian nodded slightly. “I understand.”

It seemed he was in the light, while the enemy lurked in the shadows!

As long as Shen Jie remained alive, he would never stop scheming.

This information seemed quite useful to Ye Tian. Lin Xianzhong felt secretly pleased—he was, after all, a city lord. Wasn’t it easy for him to manipulate a mere male consort of the Empress?

…

On the snowy plains.

A vast expanse of silver stretched endlessly, desolate and bleak. The freezing cold and howling wind made it hard to even open one’s eyes.

Flags fluttered in the storm.

The character “Medicine” appeared and disappeared in the biting wind.

The people of Medicine King Valley were resting in place. Disciples busied themselves—some lighting fires, some cooking, others feeding the horses.

Qiu Feibai finished applying medicine to Xue Song. The old man bared his teeth in pain. “Hiss…”

“Feibai, has Yunxi’s body been found?”

Qiu Feibai paused mid-motion. His expression turned displeased, brows slightly furrowed.

“Senior Brother, you… as a healer, you value compassion—but you can’t ignore right and wrong!”

“Jiang Yunxi has already severed ties with us. You think of her, miss her—but she has never once thought of us.”

“She leaked the secret manuals of Medicine King Valley. She even exposed the methods I use to save my own life. She never intended to leave us any way out. Do you still not understand? Medicine King Valley was nothing more than a tool to her. If you mention her again, don’t blame me for turning hostile!”

Qiu Feibai slammed the medicine bottle into the cabinet.

The crisp sound echoed sharply, carrying an intimidating weight.

Xue Song hadn’t expected that Qiu Feibai—who had always been soft-hearted—would now treat Jiang Yunxi with such an attitude.

He only felt that the girl he had watched grow up had died out there, with no one even to collect her body…

“Divine Doctor Qiu?”

“Divine Doctor Qiu?”

Xiao Tianchen’s voice rang out. Qiu Feibai turned around as Xiao Tianchen lifted the tent flap and stood at the entrance. On the young man’s cool, composed face was a bright, cheerful smile.

“I caught a rabbit. Divine Doctor Qiu, want to roast it together?”

Seeing Xue Song staring wide-eyed at him, Qiu Feibai curled his lips slightly. “Alright.”

With that, the two walked out of the tent one after the other.

Xue Song stood frozen for a moment before snapping back to his senses.

“I’ll go too!”

“Wait for me!”

“I heard Divine Doctor Qiu has two disciples—one named Jiang Yunxi, and another named Ye Hanjiang?” Xiao Tianchen turned to look at Qiu Feibai.

“No. One disciple.”

Qiu Feibai corrected him.

Xue Song, standing to the side, said, “Kid, why are you asking so much?”

“Do you doubt my junior brother’s ability to save your sister? You know the Great Zhou Empress, right? My junior brother once treated the Empress!”

“Senior Brother!”