BXBX NOVEL Chapter 56 - 56: Femme Fatale
“Husband, I personally cooked your favorite spirit chicken noodles today. I’ve already scooped a bowl for you and placed it on the dining table. Hurry up and eat. Otherwise, the noodles will expand and the taste will not be good if you leave it for too long.”
Song Huaying walked out of the house with a virtuous expression.
As she spoke, she walked in front of Chen An and stopped. She opened her hands and said to Chen Yuejian, who was in his arms,
“Little Yuejian, come to Mother. Daddy is going to eat breakfast.”
“No, no, no, no!”
Chen Yuejian shook her head like a rattle drum. She wrapped her arms around her father’s neck and leaned on his shoulder, refusing to leave his arms.
Upon seeing this, Song Huaying frowned slightly. She wanted to reprimand this disobedient daughter.
Chen An doted on his daughter more and smiled.
“It’s fine. It’s the same if 1 carry her in to eat.”
“Husband, you’ll spoil the child like this!”
Song Huaying pouted. She felt that her husband was spoiling his daughter too much.
Chen An looked at his wife’s red lips and couldn’t help but go forward to kiss her. He smiled and said,
“It’s fine. 1’11 dote on her this once. The next time, you can reprimand her if she’s still like this.”
“All right, then.”
Song Huaying pursed her thin lips and said.
They came to the hall, Chen An carried his daughter and sat down to eat noodles together.
“I want to eat Daddy!”
Chen Yuejian looked at the noodles in the bowl and said,
Chen An was also amused. He pinched her little face and corrected her.
“Little Yuejian, you should say this: Daddy, I want to eat!”
“It’s not that I want to eat Daddy!”
“Daddy is not like the noodles in the bowl. You can’t eat Daddy.”
Chen Yuejian didn’t understand what her father was saying.
She was only a year old now and could only express her most primitive needs. She could not comprehend what adults said.
Chen An naturally knew this, but he still had to teach her patiently.
If he taught her, she would understand sooner or later.
If he didn’t teach her and relied on herself to slowly understand, it might just take longer.
“I want to eat Daddy!”
Seeing that her father didn’t feed her noodles, Chen Yuejian anxiously expressed her desire to eat again.
When Song Huaying saw this, she immediately reprimanded her unhappily.
“You girl, Mother fed you just now, but you didn’t eat it. Now, you want your father to feed you. Why are you so naughty?!”
Ugh—”
Chen Yuejian wanted to cry after being reprimanded. Her small mouth pouted and her willowy eyebrows frowned slightly. She let out a long wail.
Song Huaying did not indulge her. She glared at her and said, “Chen Yuejian, if you dare to cry, don’t sleep with me tonight!”
Seeing that her mother was really angry, Chen Yuejian’s spell was interrupted and she did not dare to cry.
Chen An did not know whether to laugh or cry.
He did not expect his wife, who was usually gentle in front of him, to be so strict in front of his daughter.
After breakfast, he rested for a while before he felt that it was about time to start work.
Chen An walked into the alchemy room to refine the pills that would be sent to the Bamboo Leaf Gang’s logistics department tomorrow.
Just as he was about to start the fire, there was suddenly a hurried knock on the door and a shout from outside the house.
“Bang, bang, bang!”
“Alchemist Chen, are you there?!”
“Help!”
“My son is poisoned. Please come out and save him!”
It was Mo Lifang’s voice.
Chen An could tell and could not help but feel puzzled.
On the way back, the widow’s son clearly looked alive and kicking. Why was he poisoned so suddenly?
He did not think too much about it. He picked up a bottle of antidote pills and stuffed it into his arms before leaving the alchemy room. He planned to go out and see what was going on first.
When he came to the courtyard outside, his three wives were already there.
However, they did not open the door rashly. They were very vigilant.
“Husband, that child looks like he’s about to die. His entire face is turning purple.”
Song Huaying looked at the little boy in Mo Lifang’s arms outside the door and said worriedly.
The kind-hearted wife did not want to see a child die just like that.
Wen Zhiyun and Gu Xinyue were the same.
Creak
Chen An opened the door of the courtyard.
Seeing this, Mo Lifang, who was outside the door, immediately carried her son up and said anxiously,
“Alchemist Chen, I beg you to save my son!”
“I’m begging you, Alchemist Chen!”
“As long as I can save my son, 1’11 be your slave in the future to repay your kindness!”
Mo Lifang sounded very excited, as if she was eager to save her son.
However, Chen An felt that something was wrong.
However, now was not the time to dwell on this.
He looked at Mo Lifang and asked, “What was your son poisoned by? When was it inflicted?”
Mo Lifang hurriedly replied, “I just brought him to the forest to pick raspberries. I don’t know what bit his neck, but he suddenly fell to the ground with a purple face. It didn’t take long, less than 15 minutes.”
When Chen An heard this, he checked the wound on the child’s neck.
After analyzing for a while, he realized that he had been bitten by the Thousand Poison Spider.
He immediately frowned.
He glanced at Mo Lifang in front of him, wanting to say something to her, but in the end, he didn’t say anything.
He only took out an antidote pill and stuffed it into the child’s mouth. He had to help this child detoxify the poison first.
The Thousand Poison Spider’s poison was strong, but it could be neutralized by the antidote pill.
It was just that this child lost consciousness. It took a lot of effort for him to swallow the antidote pill.
As soon as the antidote pill entered his stomach, the purple color on the child’s face faded at a visible speed.
His face regained its color.
Chen An observed for a while. Seeing that there was nothing abnormal, he said to Mo Lifang,
“Alright, there’s nothing serious. Take your son home to recuperate for a few days and he’ll recover.”
“Thank you, Alchemist Chen. Thank you for saving my life!”
Mo Lifang knelt down and kowtowed to Chen An. As she kowtowed, she said gratefully, “Alchemist Chen, I can’t repay your kindness. I’m a weak woman. I’m willing to be Alchemist Chen’s maid in the future and be at your disposal.”
No need. It’s a small matter. Take your son back.”
Chen An waved his hand and asked Mo Lifang to leave.
Mo Lifang was very tactful and hurriedly said gratefully,
“Then 1 won’t disturb Alchemist Chen anymore. 1’11 forever remember Alchemist Chen’s life-saving grace. I’ll definitely repay you when I have the chance in the future.”
With that, she stood up and left with the child.
After she walked away, Chen An’s expression turned cold.
He instructed his three wives beside him,
“In the future, you have to stay away from Widow Mo. Don’t approach her. Even if she dies in front of our house, don’t open the door to save her.”
Hearing his words, they could not help but frown.
Among them, Song Huaying asked, “Husband, what’s going on?”
Chen An explained,
“Although Thousand Poison Spiders are poisonous, they are abnormally timid. As long as they see someone within ten meters, they will quickly run and hide.”
“There are only two possibilities for someone to be bitten by a Thousand Poison Spider.”
“Firstly, this person caught the Thousand Poison Spider and was accidentally bitten. However, in this situation, it usually only bites his hand.”
“Second, someone grabbed a Thousand Poison Spider and placed it on this person, forcing it to bite him.”
“Besides, did you notice that the anxious expression on the widow’s face just now was a little unnatural?”
Hearing this, the wives and concubines could not help but look solemn.
They did not notice the unnatural expression on Mo Lifang’s face, but they could understand after their husband’s summary of the Thousand Poison Spider.
Song Huaying felt extremely terrified when she thought about it. She said in disbelief,
“Husband, do you mean that the reason why that child was bitten by the Thousand Poison Spider just now was because his mother deliberately did it?”
“If I’m not mistaken, it should be.”
“Well …”
Song Huaying felt that her worldview had been overturned.
Wen Zhiyun frowned and asked,
“Husband, what’s the widow’s motive for doing this?”
“I’m not sure, but I guess it’s to get close to me and become my concubine herself.”
Chen An did not hide anything.
When his wives and concubines heard this, they instantly came to a realization.
During this period of time, they knew the situation in Green Willow Alley very well.
Widows were as common as dogs, and orphans were everywhere.
Every widow was trying their best to find a good family for themselves every day.
With so many people, there were all kinds of people mixed in. All kinds of unscrupulous actions were born.
The widow with the surname Mo just now was a vicious beauty. She had achieved her goal of contacting Chen An by poisoning her son.
In the blink of an eye, it was already night time.
During the day, Chen An had already finished refining all the medicinal pills he wanted to refine today.
For the rest of the night, he cultivated with his wives and concubines.
In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, Chen An asked his three wives and concubines to take a bath together.
They went to the room to exchange their insights and improve together.
After a night, Chen An sat up from the bed with dark circles under his eyes.
However, he did not feel particularly sleepy.
Ever since his cultivation broke through to the eighth level of Qi Refining, his need for sleep had decreased a lot.
Occasionally, he would stay up all night. Even if he did not sleep the next day, he could maintain his energy.
With a thought, he checked the notifications he had made with his wives and concubines last night.
[Fire-type Spiritual Root Aptitude +2] x 33
[Alchemy Experience +3] x9
[Divine Consciousness Strength +3] X28
[Goldfinger Proficiency +3+34-2+3+2+2+2+2+3+2+3…]
“Not bad. You’ve improved quite a bit.”
Chen An smiled in relief.
Then, with another thought, he pulled out his three wives and concubines and checked his attributes panel.
[Name: Song Huaying]
[Relationship: 3 stars (1,888/2,500)]
[Name: Gu Xinyue]
[Relationship: 3 stars (1,314/2,500)]
[Name: Wen Zhiyun]
[Relationship: 2 stars (108/500)]
[Name: Chen An]
[Cultivation: Level 8 Qi Refinement]
[Alchemy Technique: Advanced Level 1 (2223/2500)]
[Consciousness: Advanced Level 1 (1456/2500)]
[Goldfinger: Master (2333/2500)]
[Sleepy Time Spell: 336/500]
“My Alchemy Technique and Goldfinger are about to break through. I’ll strive to break through in ten days. Goldfinger will strive to break through in two days.”
Looking at the Alchemy Technique and Goldfinger progress bar displayed on the interface, Chen An felt slightly excited..