Cold-faced Empress

Driven away by the servants of the Prime Minister's residence, the two slowly departed, accompanied by Old Woman Wang's vicious curses.

Fu Siying and Madam Li stopped and turned around to look back. Seeing that Madam Li and Old Woman Wang had already gone far away, they finally felt relieved. Madam Li, in particular, was really frightened by the fact that Fu Siying had almost gotten into trouble. She felt completely disgusted with her half-sister's family and had no patience left. She was now on high alert.

Fu Siying went to Jinxianglou once when she had some free time.

I don't know if it's just my imagination, but it seems like Old Man Linghu's attitude towards her has softened quite a bit this time.

While practicing his boxing, Old Man Linghu listened to Fu Siying finish explaining her request, and finally agreed readily.

"Come back in two days, and the person you need will be ready."

Fu Siying nodded: "How much silver do you need?"

Old Man Linghu clapped his hands across the air towards the thick paulownia tree: "What money do you need? No need!"

Seeing the sycamore tree, which was quite far away, shaking violently, Fu Siying asked in great surprise, "Why not use silver?"

"I'm in a good mood, is that not allowed?"

"Sure, sure!" Seeing that Old Man Linghu was getting impatient, Fu Siying hurriedly replied, afraid of missing out on such a free opportunity.

She thought for a moment and then asked, "Father-in-law, do you think I can learn martial arts?"

Upon hearing this, Old Man Linghu looked her up and down disdainfully and said, "With your small frame, can you withstand martial arts training? You've only recently recovered from the poison in your body, so you should just stay home and rest!"

"Hmm, yes..." Rejected from learning martial arts again, Fu Siying wasn't too disappointed. But then she suddenly remembered something, paused, and asked in surprise, "How did you know that the poison in my body was only recently cured?"

Old Man Linghu paused in his punching motion, turned his back to Fu Siying for a moment, and slowly withdrew his stance. He replied impatiently, "Isn't this obvious? You were poisoned with the Seven-Day Death Poison, and you're still alive and well. Didn't you just get cured of the poison not long ago?"

"Well, yes."

Fu Siying responded, then, remembering the antidote, she had to question him again: "Old man, when I bought the poison from you, you told me it was a poison that could torture a person to the point of wishing they were dead, causing them immense suffering before death. That's all true. But you also said that the poison was incurable!"

Fu Siying felt aggrieved when she thought of how Doctor Liu had successfully detoxified He Changyi and Wei Lanling, who had both been poisoned.

If it weren't for Doctor Liu, she could have watched those two people go to their deaths with a smile!

"Why was the poison you gave me neutralized?" Fu Siying asked angrily. "You wouldn't refuse my money this time because you gave me inferior poison, would you?"

Unexpectedly, Fu Siying misunderstood his good intentions, and Old Man Linghu was so angry that his beard trembled.

"The poison has no antidote, and it depends on who can cure it! I kindly refused to accept your money, and you still doubt my intentions? Fine, if you want Qingfang Sect to find you a maid, give me three hundred taels!"

Upon seeing that Elder Linghu was angry, Fu Siying immediately slipped away and left quickly: "I will come again in two days. Thank you, Elder Linghu."

Before the words had even finished, she had vanished without a trace. Watching her disappear in a flash, the bearded old man, Linghu, slowly calmed his anger and muttered under his breath, "Nonsense, that poison was developed by Doctor Liu, of course he can cure it himself!"