Chapter 518: Chapter 184 White Lotus Dew_4
Lu Tong did not stand on ceremony and took the bamboo tube to taste a sip. The pulp was icy cold and slightly sweet, carrying a faint scent of lotus. After a little drink, he felt his lips and teeth were imbued with the fragrance of flowers.
"How is it?"
"Not bad," Lu Tong glanced over his shoulder.
"Qingfeng is guarding outside," Pei Yunmeng said with a lift of his lips, "no need to worry."
The security at the Medical Officer Institute was practically decorative. If the Palace Front Office ever wanted to cause trouble, it’s likely that all the bodies in the Medical Officer Institute would be cold before anyone would discover it.
Thinking such thoughts to himself, Lu Tong turned away, "Come in and talk."
He was startled.
"What’s wrong?"
Pei Yunmeng replied, "The door’s locked, how can I get in?"
When she came in to organize the medical records earlier, she had locked the door from the inside. In fact, the reason for locking the door was because she remembered the last time she was organizing the medical records, someone had barged in through the main door late at night.
Lu Tong turned around, holding the bottle of White Lotus Dew in his hand as he walked back in, saying airily, "Climb through the window. Anyway, it shouldn’t be hard for the Marshal."
Pei Yunmeng: "..."
He had barely taken two steps towards the door when a light noise sounded from behind him, and Pei Yunmeng followed.
Lu Tong paused.
He hadn’t expected him to actually climb through the window.
Upon seeing her look, he smiled and raised his eyebrows provocatively, "Indeed, it wasn’t hard."
Childish.
The man seemed in a good mood today. Lu Tong placed the oil lamp on the table and asked Pei Yunmeng, "What brings the Marshal here?"
"To tell you a piece of good news and a bad one, which do you want to hear first?"
"The bad news."
"The Qi Family’s suppression of Qi Yutai’s matter will cool down soon, no matter how turbulent the rumors are now. The incident of taking Cold Food Powder at Fengle Building will eventually be pinned on someone else."
This wasn’t surprising; with the Qi Family’s methods, they certainly wouldn’t sit idly by.
Lu Tong inquired, "What’s the good news then?"
He smiled, his dimples clearly visible, "The good news is that Qi Yutai is still madly insane and won’t recover anytime soon. So, he won’t be able to go out and ’prove’ himself."
Just as Yuan Yao had said in the court, Qi Yutai needed to prove that he was lucid now and that the one who had gone insane under Fengle Building was someone else impersonating him. Just a single public appearance would solve all his problems.
But ironically, that was exactly what the current Qi Yutai found most difficult to achieve.
A person afflicted with insanity could not control their terror, anger, crying, or laughing. The Grand Preceptor’s Mansion would hide him away as fast as they could rather than expose him in public.
The more they kept him hidden, even with many excuses, it becomes an admission of using other schemes.
Pei Yunmeng spoke with a smile, "After such a big fuss, they only managed to make him insane."
He looked at Lu Tong, "So if that’s the case, why not just set him on fire and be done with it? Aren’t you afraid that he will recover and become a threat once more?"
Lu Tong was silent.
The fragrance of lotus blossoms lingered at his nostrils, and the summer night felt especially refreshing. Lowering his eyes, she said, "Near Rouge Lane, there’s the Firewatch Tower, and the two fire stations are only a mile apart. Once the fire starts, it can’t be easily extinguished."
"But if we use other methods to kill him, it’s bound to leave traces. The Grand Preceptor’s Mansion will not let it go, only drawing more troubles."
"I have my own methods, even if they are unorthodox."
Pei Yunmeng looked at her for a while and lazily nodded, "Decimate his strength, crush his will to fight, capture after dispersing, winning without bloodshed..."
He curled his lips, "So it’s not setting a tiger free to return to the mountains, but rather freeing him to capture him later. Now I am becoming more curious, how exactly does Doctor Lu plan to deal with the Grand Preceptor’s Mansion?"
The room was serene, the flame flickered. The young man leaned against the bookshelf with arms crossed, the linked pearl pattern on his dark-patterned brocade clothes neat and distinct. As he looked at her with a head tilt and a smile, those pitch-black eyes shone even brighter against the firelight, as if truly puzzled.
Lu Tong did not take up his line of questioning and paused for a moment before looking up at him, "Thank you for your help this time, Lord Pei."