Warm medicine emits fragrance

After Fan Liuer finished decocting the medicine, she brought over Li Chenbi's dinner first.

As soon as I entered the house, I asked, "How is he? Has his fever flared up?"

Li Qiuping immediately said, "He's calmed down for now. It was probably caused by his unstable emotions earlier. I explained my identity to him, and he's feeling better now that he's calmed down."

Fan Liuer breathed a sigh of relief. "That's good. Steward Li, you haven't had dinner yet, have you? There's food in the kitchen, go and eat something."

Li Qiuping was indeed hungry, and without being polite, he said, "Alright, then I'll trouble you, Madam Fan."

Li Qiuping left the bedroom, and Fan Liuer sat on the bamboo bed with a bowl and chopsticks, handing them to Li Chenbi.

"Come on, have something to eat first."

Li Chenbi took the bowl and chopsticks, looked at Fan Liuer, but didn't eat.

Fan Liuer was puzzled by his gaze. "What's wrong?"

"You lied to me," he said.

Fan Liuer guessed that Li Qiuping must have told her everything, and she felt a little embarrassed.

Then Li Chenbi said, "You still say we haven't done it, but we've clearly been husband and wife for a long time."

Fan Liuer was surprised that Li Chenbi was concerned about this matter, and her expression was indescribable.

"Why is your mind always filled with these kinds of thoughts? Can't you think about something else?"

Li Chenbi said calmly, "I can't remember anything else, and I'm not interested in thinking about it. Even if he told me about the past, so what? I have no recollection of it. To me, those past events are just like other people's stories."

As he spoke, he glanced at Fan Liuer and said, "I'm only interested in things that concern you."

Fan Liuer's heart skipped a beat. She turned her face away and said, "Hurry up and eat. After you finish eating, you can take your medicine later."

Li Chenbi didn't say anything more and ate his meal quietly.

After he finished eating, the medicine was ready. Fan Liuer mixed the medicine with the decoction and had Li Chenbi take it.

During this time, Li Qiuping very shrewdly cleaned the kitchen, washing all the pots and pans.

Although the work was done roughly, Fan Liuer couldn't help but sigh.

This is the kind of servant she wanted to buy, unlike Li Chenbi, who, even in his impoverished state, still acts like a big shot.

After finishing these chores, the three of them gathered in the bedroom, where Fan Liuer asked Li Qiuping about what had happened after she escaped.

When she heard that everything was planned by Li Chenbi, even his injury was part of his plan, she was both surprised and moved.

It seems she underestimated Li Chenbi.

When she learned that Li Chenbi had used most of his family fortune to join the rebel army in order to find her, and then used his position to search for her everywhere, she began to feel fortunate that Li Chenbi had lost his memory.

If she hadn't lost her memory, Li Chenbi definitely wouldn't have let her go.

Fan Liuer suddenly remembered the missing person portrait she had seen before, and she asked Li Qiuping, "Uh... is your master the strategist who's been searching everywhere for his wife?"

Li Qiuping nodded. "You know?" His eyes filled with sorrow. "Madam Fan, since you know, why don't you show yourself? Do you know how hard it has been for me to find you!"

Fan Liuer was also somewhat helpless, "I didn't know they were looking for me. I thought you had all been killed by the rebels."

She even prepared a cenotaph for Li Chen.

Of course, Li Chenbi must not know about this.

Li Qiuping didn't believe him. "Didn't you see the portrait?"

Speaking of the portrait, Fan Liuer was even more helpless. "Who painted that portrait? Apart from the fact that they are all women, they don't resemble me at all. Siqing's whole family didn't recognize me."

"Impossible!" Li Qiuping said, taking out a carefully tucked portrait from his pocket and unfolding it cautiously. "How could it not look like him? This portrait was hand-painted by my master himself."

He spread out the portrait and held it up in front of Fan Liuer.

Looking at the portrait, Fan Liuer had to admit that the person in the painting did indeed look remarkably like her, so lifelike that even those who had only met her once could recognize her from the portrait, let alone those who knew her well.

It has absolutely nothing to do with the portrait she saw.

"The version I saw was not this one. The version I saw was much fatter, with a face at least a size bigger."

"How could that be? All the paintings that were sent out were copied from Second Master's painting. Although there might be some differences, they couldn't be too far off." Li Qiuping frowned and said. As he spoke, he suddenly thought of something and stood up abruptly.

"It's him!"

He looked at Li Chenbi and saw the same guess in Li Chenbi's eyes.

Li Chenbi clenched his fist secretly on the bamboo bed.

It is Qi Weiming.

He definitely tampered with the portrait.

Ah, very good.

He won't let this go so easily.

"Who is it?" Fan Liuer asked curiously.

Li Qiuping suppressed his anger and said, "There is someone by General Yan's side who is at odds with you. He is jealous that you have gained the general's trust, so he has been targeting you in every way. This time, your accident was also his doing."

Fan Liuer was most curious about this, and hurriedly asked, "By the way, I've been wanting to ask this for a long time, how did you come to Guanshan Town? And how did I find him in the river?"

Li Qiuping didn't hide anything about this, explaining clearly how Li Chenbi was assassinated and how the two of them escaped to this place.

After saying that, before Fan Liuer could even process it, he immediately asked her, "Madam Fan, why are you here?"

"I came here with Siqing. She has many relatives here, so we can look after each other."

Li Qiuping nodded, then hesitated, as if he wanted to say something but stopped himself.

Fan Liuer saw his reaction and thought to herself that they were going to talk about that matter after all. She sighed and said, "Ask whatever you want."

Li Qiuping immediately said, "I just want to know, why did you leave? You have no idea, since you left, I've been living a life worse than death every day."

Li Qiuping recounted Li Chenbi's heartbreak and anguish after Fan Liuer left, making Fan Liuer feel guilty.

She knew Li Chenbi had feelings for her, but she never expected his feelings to be so deep.

She glanced at Li Chenbi discreetly. Li Chenbi hadn't uttered a word the entire time, listening quietly to their conversation. He was currently looking at Fan Liuer, clearly wanting to know the answer as well.

With the two of them staring at her like that, she knew she couldn't fool them, so Fan Liuer had no choice but to bite the bullet and speak.

Of course, she embellished her real reason for running away, making sure that she was also forced to do so.

"I was terrified. I thought he was very strong and wouldn't suffer any losses. When I found out he was injured, and so badly injured, I panicked."

"I thought, if someone as capable as him couldn't protect himself, then if I fell into Li Chenxin's hands, I would definitely be dead."

She lowered her head, looking pitiful and innocent. "I was just too scared. I was afraid of being caught by Li Chenxin's people, so I ran away."

Upon hearing this, Li Qiuping looked at Li Chenbi with a complex expression in his eyes.

Li Chenbi wasn't much better off; he hadn't expected that this was the reason Fan Liuer left.

Then he thought back to how he had Li Qiuping exaggerate his injuries in order to make Fan Liuer worry about him.

What does it mean to lift a stone only to drop it on your own foot?

That's it.