Beware of Chicken 2 by Casualfarmer

Author:Casualfarmer [Casualfarmer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Fantasy, Humor
Publisher: Podium Publishing
Published: 2023-03-27T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 34

THE CHILD

So, three months for the full effectiveness?” Lady Wu asked as she stared at the parcel of leaves.

“Yes, this illness in the well is the resilient sort. The purge of it will take a while, and it must be completed in its entirety. Think of it like a dangerous wolf pack. You must slay all of them, else the only thing one has accomplished is culling the weak. The strong will come back worse than ever,” Meiling explained as she held the other end of the silk brocade. They moved together in synchrony and began to prepare it.

It is surprisingly enjoyable to have a student, Lady Wu mused as she watched Meiling work. The young woman learned quickly and obediently, with the kind of drive and attentiveness to detail that she found most people lacked.

“If I made a mistake with medicine, I could kill somebody,” Meiling had said. “This? This just requires a bit of focus.”

Not that she needed much training. She just needed guidance.

“It is good that this is so easy to cure,” Lady Wu tittered. “But what about you? It must be an absolutely dreadful disease you have, to produce such spots on your face. Is it contagious?”

An absolutely amateurish and blunt insult—the kind Lady Wu would not be caught dead uttering at any other time.

But the blunt insults seemed to set Meiling off the most. The first time Lady Wu had insulted her, her entire body had twitched and her eyes had narrowed into slits. The air had abruptly turned heavy … before Meiling realised what she had been doing.

When dealing with people like Lady Wu, one could never have an obvious weakness.

Of course, while Meiling could always just strike those who insulted her, or poison them … the younger woman wanted to know how to prevent things from immediately escalating.

This part was the most difficult. Meiling possessed a fire and vindictiveness that quite frankly terrified Lady Wu. It reminded her of several much more severe women—the kind of women who would completely destroy any who went against them. Her resentment stewed, even now. It was clearly a struggle to clamp down on her reaction. But she managed it, merely raising an eyebrow.

“Better,” Lady Wu decreed. “Show no reaction, and then pay them back later. This, I find, is the best way. It keeps others guessing.”

Meiling nodded, and turned the silk brocade over with Lady Wu.

“This isn’t exactly what I imagined, when you said lessons,” Meiling admitted. “I expected more tea, and less needlework.”

“Oh? Like some kind of story? That all we do is sit around and drink tea all day?” Lady Wu asked, amused. “We do normally have more servants, but preparing silk is an essential duty of any noble lady. Additionally, doing it yourself is a bit cheaper.”

Meiling snorted. She clearly hadn’t expected Lady Wu to be so thrifty. To spend heavily in one place meant you had to skimp and save in others! Manners, how to interact with those your better, beyond the scraping and simpering the common folk did, and her own financial tricks.

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