Chapter 3 A Strategy To Save Mother

Hurrying to the back garden, Lily quickly collected the pollen of two flowers and dashed back to the bedroom. Time was running out, and she had to stop Lucia before she left.

Recalling from the past life, Lily remembered that Claire had an allergic constitution, especially to pollen. At the last minute, Lily had thought of this.

After taking a bottle of perfume from her bedroom, Lily deliberately wiped the pollen on it. Then, she went to Claire's room.

The door was open. Lily walked straight in and said, "Claire, shall we make up?"

Claire had been unhappy because of what happened earlier, and she didn't look any better when Lily entered.

"Are you still mad at me?" Lily walked to Claire with a smile on her face. Then she took Claire's hand and tucked the perfume into her hands like a peace offering. "This perfume is my gift to you. Though it can't compare with the one you gave to me, it's my gift to you. Please forgive me, okay?"

After all, Claire was a child. It was still easy for her to get angry and equally easy to cheer up. Besides, Claire's heart hadn't wanted to quarrel with Lily when she initially entered the Qiao family. Therefore, she also smiled. "All right, Lily. Let's make up."

"Great!" Lily nodded with a smile and returned to her room, allegedly to rest because of her knees injury.

However, as soon as Lily left, the smile on Claire's face immediately crumpled with contempt. She glanced at the perfume bottle in her hand, opened the window, and threw it out in disgust.

Lily didn't return to her room. She went to the window instead and watched over the situation in the front yard, while also paying attention to the movement in Claire's room.

Time passed. Lucia was about to get into the car, but Claire still had not reacted.

Just as Lily felt her anxiety reach its zenith, there was a rush of footsteps coming from the second floor. Then she saw a servant running to Lucia, gasping for breath and saying, "Oh, my God. Mrs. Lucia, I don't know what's wrong! Miss Claire's whole face is swollen, and her arms are red and swollen."

Witnessing this scene, Lily smiled with satisfaction and turned back to her room.

"What?" Lucia had just gotten into the car, but she immediately climbed out when she heard the servant's words. She turned and rushed to Claire's room.

She made a phone call as she walked. "I have something to deal with. You can go ahead and do as planned."

Knowing that Lucia had been successfully stopped, Lily took her bag and immediately went downstairs. When she arrived at the first floor, she met Eden, who was going upstairs to see Claire.

"Are you going out?" Eden looked at Lily coldly with a slight frown on his austere features.

"Well, Becky just called me. I have to go out for a while." Lily blurted out the name, Becky, which she would never forget in her life.

'Why is she going out at this moment?' he thought. Eden looked at her suspiciously, but didn't ask more, instead continuing upstairs.

Watching him vanish up the stairs, Lily did not stop and ran to the backyard of the Qiao family home.

The backyard was a special place where the servants of the Qiao family lived. Lily walked to the front of a door that she remembered so well. When she was about to raise her hand to knock on the door, a slightly surprised voice sounded beside her. "Miss Lily?"

"Uncle Colin." Lily turned around and saw Colin Li. In excitement she grabbed his hand, looked around, and deliberately lowered her voice. "There is something you need to help me with, and you must not refuse."

Seeing her sage expression, Colin Li knew that whatever it was, it was serious. He pledged, "Miss Lily, tell me. No matter what happens, I will do everything I can to support you!"

Lily put the address into Colin Li's hand and whispered, "Uncle Colin, I want you to go somewhere with me."

"Okay," Colin Li agreed without hesitation. He didn't ask for the details, for he knew that as long as Miss Lily asked it, he would not refuse.

Lily didn't even consider that he could reject her. He had been her mother's driver when he was with the An family. He had followed her mother to the Qiao family after she had married Lily's father.

However, when he arrived at the Qiao family, he was treated like a common servant, but he still didn't leave. He was as faithful and loyal as a favored hound.

After arriving at their destination, Lily asked Colin Li to park his car out of sight, and then took him to her mother's house.

As soon as the door opened, Lily walked into the room. When she saw her mother, her eyes immediately turned red. Refraining from jumping into her arms, Lily held her hand and led her out. "Mom, we have to leave here as soon as possible."

"Lily, where are we going?" Tina An was not in good shape, and her face was extremely gaunt, which might have been due to the stress of her expulsion from the Qiao family.

"Let's get out of here first." Looking around the messy room, Lily picked up the key on the coffee table and pulled Tina An away.

Assessing the situation, Colin Li hurried to keep up with them.

It was not until they safely got into the car that Lily heaved a sigh of relief. Just now, she had left with Tina An in such a hurry because she was worried that Lucia might not be delayed a long time due to Claire's allergic reaction to the pollen. Lily feared Lucia's imminent arrival.

"Lily, are you going to take Mom to the Qiao family's house?" asked Tina worriedly.

"No, I'm not." Lily shook her head and gazed at her lovingly. She held Tina's hands tightly, and there were all sorts of feelings storming in her heart. Even though she had a lot to say, now was not a good time to talk.

"Miss Lily, where are we going now?" Colin asked from the driver's seat.

Hearing that, Lily looked at Colin and said, "Uncle Colin, you need to take my mother away for now and find a safe place to live. Remember, don't let anyone else know where she is!"

"I understand!" Colin nodded his head solemnly and asked, "What about you? Why don't you come with us?"

Lily shook her head. "You go ahead. I have something else to do first."

"Lily, you..." Tina was flustered. When she was about to say something more, Lily interrupted her, "Mom, listen to me. Go with Uncle Colin now."

Having spoken, she released Tina's hand, opened the door, and got out of the car. She urged Colin to drive away as she waved her hands.

It was not until the car had disappeared from sight that she turned her eyes away and began to walk in another direction.

Lily remembered from her other life that there was a black market nearby, which sold all kinds of controlled and banned items.

Lily quickly went to the illicit market and when she returned to the house, she was dragging her purchases with her.

She looked around the room and saw that it was quite dirty and messy. Then she turned around and walked through to the bedroom. She remembered that when her mother had been kicked out of the Qiao family, her father had given her some cash.

As she expected, she found a wad of cash on the bedside table. She took the money and returned to the living room. Putting the cash together with the things she had bought from the black market, Lily left the room immediately.

However, she did not go far; instead, she hid nearby. Along the way, she called the police and waited for Lucia to come over.

Following the address provided by Lucia, Wade Zhao arrived with two bodyguards. The house's front door was opened on a crack, and it seemed that it was not fully closed. He pushed the door open and walked in without thinking.

"Tina, come out!" Wade Zhao entered the room and shouted, while the other two began to search every room in the small house.

"Sir, no one is in the bedroom," one of them said after searching the bedroom. Then he glanced at the kitchen and bathroom before adding, "There's nobody here."

"Tina..." While Wade Zhao shouted angrily, he was interrupted by the ecstatic call of someone else. "Sir, look at all this money!"

Wade Zhao smiled happily as soon as he saw the money. "I haven't found her yet, but it's more efficient to find money."

The other man was also attracted. "How much do we have?"

The three started to count the money, completely forgetting what they came here for.

However, while they were still counting happily, a group of policemen rushed in. "Don't move! Raise your hands!"

The policemen quickly surrounded them. The three were stunned, and while their faces had previously held delight, they now featured panic.

"Sir, I, we..."

"Shut up!" Wade Zhao was still stammering something when a police officer shouted at him harshly.

At that moment, a policeman said seriously, "Sir, we found a box of controlled substances and nearly 100, 000 in cash."

The ranking policeman, glanced around the room with his sharp black eyes and stared at the pile of money and controlled goods. He ordered, "Two of you stay here and check everything out carefully. Take away this lot!"

"Yes, sir!"

Seeing the group of thugs being escorted away in hand-cuffs, Lily left her hiding place with a sneer.

On the way home, Lily went to the YS Pharmacy. She remembered that they bought medicine for Claire here when she had an allergic reaction.

It was late at night, but the house was brightly lit. Almost everyone was waiting there, sitting around nervously.

Claire's face was swollen, and her hands were red and bloated. Although she had been treated with medicine, it didn't seem to have worked.

Lily obviously noticed the unhappiness on Lucia's face, and she wondered whether it was because of Claire's allergic reaction or because her henchmen had been caught.

She went up to Lucia and handed her some medicine. "Aunt Lucia, you don't have to worry about Claire any more. This medicine is specially used for treating pollen allergies. A friend of mine has the same pollen allergy as Claire. She uses this medicine, and the effects are really fast."

Without accepting the medicine, Lucia glanced at her and countered, "I don't know what medicine that is. What if her face is disfigured? Who will take the responsibility?"

"Aunt Lucia, this medicine is from YS Pharmacy." Lily felt a little aggrieved and said, "Trust me! This medicine will definitely work. Otherwise, I would not specially buy it for my sister."

"It works? Can you guarantee it is 100 percent effective and safe?" Lucia was angry because her subordinates had not accomplished their task.

"Lucia..." As Dillon was about to say something, his phone rang, and he had to answer the call first.

"Doctor Song, you have no more medicine? What brand is it? YS Pharmacy's? Okay, I'll send someone to buy it early tomorrow morning."

After saying a few more words, he hung up the phone, looked at Lucia and said, "Doctor Song said it is very effective to treat pollen allergies with YS Pharmacy's medicine. However, the drugstore is now closed, and we will have to wait until tomorrow..."

Suddenly, something occurred to him. He turned to Lily and asked, "Lily, did you just say that the medicine is YS Pharmacy's?"

"Yes." Lily nodded and handed the medicine to her father. "Here it is."

After taking the medicine, he smiled and praised, "Lily, you are so thoughtful."

Lucia felt embarrassed, but she still managed to praise Lily, "Yes, Lily, you are really good. You went to buy medicine for your sister. With this medicine, Claire will recover by tomorrow."

"That's right." Lily smiled and added, "She has to take an exam tomorrow. If she doesn't recover by then, she can't take the exam."

Thinking of the exam scheduled for the next day, Lily couldn't help laughing in her mind as she thought, 'Good things will happen tomorrow. How could Claire not be there?'