PGC 676+

Chap 773

Chapter 773: Abandon everything, including myself

Han Yunxi and Gu Beiyue were already at the entrance of the Apricot Woods Conference when Gu Qishao abruptly stuck out his head behind her.

“Poison lass, morning ah!”

Han Yunxi gave a jolt and almost didn’t recognize Gu Qishao with his disguise. Fortunately, ‘Poison lass’ recalled her to her senses. He finally turned up, she exhaled.

“Did I scare ya?” Gu Qishao grinned.

“Where’s your huge gift?” Gu Qishao had said he was preparing something for Gu Yuntian, but it’d taken him two entire days. Of course Han Yunxi was curious. 

Gu Qishao was in a good mood. Even with a human face mask, his smile looked beautiful. “I’ve prepared it all. I’ll give it to him later when we meet him.”

Han Yunxi thought that the gift must have something to do with the Poison Sect. As the foster son of the medical academy’s head elder,[1]Gu Qishao had exquisite poison skills. He might had learned them in his youth. The fellow’s probably planning to expose the medical academy’s true face today. 

Mm, then I’ll look forward to it!

While Han Yunxi was feeling expectant, Gu Beiyue looked at Gu Qishao’s flowery smile and had a trace of pity flash through his eyes. Unfortunately, she didn’t notice his look. 

Before the trio could move on, a disguised retainer rushed to their side with a quiet report. “Esteemed wangfei, Ning Cheng defeated Chu Tianyin last night. He’ll be sending troops south overnight. General Baili deployed his troops north the day before yesterday. At the soonest, they’ll start fighting the day after tomorrow!”

“Ning Cheng is certainly impatient,” Han Yunxi smiled coldly.

“The day after tomorrow?” Gu Beiyue grew amused. Long Feiye is indeed formidable. He even calculated the times so precisely.

Won’t the Apricot Woods Conference be done by the day after tomorrow?

“Esteemed wangfei, if everything goes well at the Apricot Woods Conference, what say we all...go to the battlefield?” Gu Beiyue asked. Actually, Long Feiye had asked him to pass on this question.

“Alright!” Han Yunxi didn’t even have to think. She was long sick of Ning Cheng.

Gu Qishao had no idea what they were talking about, but he was too lazy to care. A bit short, he tugged at Han Yunxi’s arm and said, “Let’s go already. We’ve still got a couple days ahead of us, to say nothing of some day after tomorrow.”

The Apricot Woods Conference precisely took place in a grove of apricot trees. It was located in the southwest section of Medical City and stretched over a huge swath of land. As property of the medical academy, it wasn’t open to the public except on special days. There were nothing but apricot trees here and a large, circular clearing in the center of it all. This would be the formal meeting-place for the conference, which had already gathered many eminent guests. 

Han Yunxi’s trio were all disguised as doctors. Because they had invitation letters, they smoothly bypassed the guards and entered the forest. This gathering was called the Apricot Woods Conference not because of its location, but because the Apricot Woods was the symbol of traditional Chinese medicine. People long used the sayings, “spring warmth of the apricot woods” and “fame fills through the apricot woods”[2] to praise doctors for their medical skills and ethics. Han Yunxi’s group arrived after much of the congregation had already gathered on-site. Everyone was in groups of threes and fours, exchanging conversation while strengthening ties of friendship.