Chapter 527: He Must Be Losing His Mind
Ye Qianning nodded.
Gao Qi stood up, lifted the curtain, and stepped out. After a moment’s thought, he turned back to remind her, "Don’t you dare forget the eighth day of the sixth month."
"I know."
Gao Qi hopped off the carriage and turned to Luo Wen. "I have an appointment with your young miss on the eighth day of the sixth month. You remember it too. If she forgets, you remind her. The eighth of the sixth month."
Luo Wen was speechless.
Ye Qianning was also at a loss for words.
"The eighth of the sixth month, okay?"
Grinning, Gao Qi skipped away.
A dark line seemed to form on Luo Wen’s forehead. It was a good thing the boy ran off quickly, or he might not have been able to resist the urge to smack a child.
Ye Qianning lightly touched her forehead. ’He’s so long-winded.’
"Young Miss, why do you even bother with him?" The Prime Minister’s residence seemed to cause trouble for them daily.
"He’s just a child. Let’s go."
"Yes."
Luo Wen hopped onto the carriage.
Ye Qianning leaned back inside the carriage. ’From what Gao Qi just said, it seems he knows about the methods of Prime Minister Gao and his wife. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have said that I’d be in danger if his father found out.’
’He must have seen it happen before.’
’Thinking about it that way, it’s not hard to guess why his condition manifested so quickly.’
Gao Qi’s condition was a form of dwarfism. Some forms have a late onset, allowing a person to still grow taller, but with an early onset, the child might remain a dwarf for life.
At twelve years old, Gao Qi had the stature of a seven or eight-year-old. The onset of his condition must have been even earlier.
It seemed his condition was triggered by external stimuli. After growing for a year or two, his growth stopped. Now, his features were already quite distinct.
The way he walked, the state of his facial features.
Right now, he’s still a child, so it doesn’t attract too much attention.
If he doesn’t receive treatment in another two years, the features of his head will also become more pronounced. By then, anyone with eyes will be able to see that his appearance is unusual.
She hadn’t expected Gao Qi to consider her a friend. On reflection, he was probably just desperate for contact with others. Even back on Lou Mountain, when she had only wanted to trick him into copying the Disciple’s Rules, he had complained but still copied relentlessly.
Based on that alone, she couldn’t bear to watch him become a dwarf in the future.
The bottle of medicine she had given him was a concoction made from Symbiotic Duality, Scentless Bloom, and Jade Flower.
One bottle contained a hundred pills. Long-term use could regulate and suppress the mutations in his body.
With long-term use, his body could slowly begin to grow taller. However, to completely cure him, she would have to wait two years to see how his body developed.
Night fell, and the weather grew increasingly hot.
That evening, Dean Chen left the palace and arrived at the General’s residence close to midnight. Ye Qianning was still awake, and upon hearing the commotion, she headed to the courtyard where her master usually stayed.
"Pangtuan, why are you still up?" Dean Chen was just about to push the door open when he heard a sound behind him.
"Master, why are you back so late?"
Ye Qianning walked over.
Dean Chen pushed the door open, and the two of them entered the room.
"The Emperor has been getting more and more long-winded lately."
"He’s been acting all paranoid and eccentric. He must be going crazy," Ye Qianning scoffed.
Although the Beili Emperor was surrounded by high-level Hidden Guards—so close that not even a mosquito or a bird could get near him—she couldn’t know the details of some of his conversations.
But from the way the Beili Emperor had brought Daoists, Monks, and other cultivators into the palace, it was clear he was driving himself crazy.
"Watch that mouth of yours. Walls have ears," Dean Chen cautioned.
"Right now, he’s either having people watch the Xi Yan envoys’ convoy or having them watch Boss Gu. He also has to find someone. How could he possibly have the time to keep an eye on the General’s residence? Besides, my father isn’t even home."
"Tsk, how did you know he was watching Boss Gu?" Dean Chen asked in surprise.
"I overheard his conversation with Li Mu on the city wall when he was seeing the Xi Yan envoys off today. He wants to meddle in Boss Gu’s business with Nanyuan, doesn’t he?"