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In between, Han Ming Hong also came a few times. However, he was blocked every time by Du Xiao Li using the excuse of 'busy researching the antidote'. This Han Ming Hong previously was still avoiding her like the plague, but now, he rather isn't afraid of this feral girl raised in the countryside dirtying his eyes!
"Junior sister, how's your research going?" Niu Jing came into Du Xiao Li's research room and asked.
Right now, it was already the seventh day, there was still another three to five days left. More than half of the time has already passed. If when the time comes, she still can't develop an antidote, Lu Jun Qi's life will be in danger.
"The progress can still be considered smooth, should see results in the next few days." Du Xiao Li said.
The poison king's poison this time was somewhat different than his poisons from before. That's why it took her five days to study the overall poisonous substances, and now she was currently trying to concoct an antidote.
"I heard just now, the Eastern Li's fourth prince, Lu Jun Wu, will be arriving today. Reportedly, he and the third princess are fraternal twins." Niu Jing said.
"Is it the person Eastern Li sent over to pick her up?" Du Xiao Li asked.
"Should be. Heard two days ago, he learned of the third princess's situation and rushed over on horseback." Niu Jing said.
Du Xiao Li stopped flipping the medicinal herb in hand and said, "This Eastern Li is rather strange. They were long aware that the third princess was here, yet waited this long to come get her."
"Actually, it's still considered normal. They need to pass through that body of sea water to come here, thus their progress is relatively slow." Niu Jing said.
"Sea water?"
Niu Jing saw Du Xiao Li's surprised expression and just knew she most likely didn't know about Eastern Li's situation. "Eastern Li is an island nation separated from us by a body of water. To go back and forth all require a boat."
"Eastern Li is actually an island nation?" Du Xiao Li said in astonishment. She'd always thought that Eastern Li shared borders with Feng Ming.
Just then, Xia Yuan came over and knocked on the door, "Miss, Eastern Li's fourth prince has arrived at the inn and is requesting to see you."
"I understand. I still have a few things to do here right now, so tell him I'll be there in a bit." Du Xiao Li replied.
"Yes."
"Heard this fourth prince's martial arts is very high, but his temper seemingly isn't very good. Later, you best be careful. I'll go over first." Niu Jing instructed.
Du Xiao Li nodded and had the medicinal herbs in her hands thrown into a small basin. After seeing the muddy water in the basin turn clear, she happily smiled, and then finally tidied up her things and headed to Lu Jun Qi's room.
'Bang----' Du Xiao Li had just arrived outside the room when she heard table slamming sound inside, followed by a crude and violent voice, "What is that imperial physician doing? Why still haven't they come yet?"
"Imperial Physician Du should be arriving soon." Yue Yin explained for Du Xiao Li.
"Hmph, later when the imperial physician arrives, I need to properly ask him, why my third older sister still haven't woken up after all this time! Feng Ming is full of useless imperial physicians!" Lu Jun Wu angrily said.
"Since my Feng Ming's imperial physicians are all useless, then presumably the fourth prince is able to cure the third princess yourself, no need for our useless people here?" Du Xiao Li walked in, seeing a man somewhat resembling Lu Jun Qi.
Lu Jun Wu saw Du Xiao Li enter, and hearing her words, he instinctively grabbed the teacup on the table and threw it at Du Xiao Li, shouting: "You're a servant girl? How can a servant girl just casually enter my third sister's room?!"
Du Xiao Li saw the teacup flying towards herself and shifted to the side, hearing the teacup shatter on the floor. She looked to Lu Jun Wu and said, "Fourth prince rather has this place seen as your own!?"
Looking to the side, she saw the very unsightly looking Niu Jing and Imperial Physician Hu, most likely having already gotten cursed at by Lu Jun Wu, thus her face wasn't very good either.
"What are you, even daring to speak to me like that? Quickly scram and have that useless Imperial Physician Du of yours called over! Else I'll chop you in half!" Lu Jun Wu loudly roared at Du Xiao Li.
"Me? Hehe." Du Xiao Li coldly laughed. "I'm precisely the useless Imperial Physician Du you speak of......."
T/N: I feel pretty bad for the third princess lmaoo, she's not that bad of a person relatively speaking, but she just has the worst karma. If I were her I'd wake up just to punch my brother, like BRO ARE YOU TRYING TO GET ME KILLED!!
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Ch. 076.1 – Caught a Fruit Thief (1)
Caught a Fruit Thief (1)
Lu Jun Wu was startled by Du Xiao Li's words, and then glared at her with a fierce look, "Where did this lying little brat come from, move aside! If you all don't go call that imperial physician for me, I will smash this place up, and then go find your Feng Ming's Emperor to reason with!"
Du Xiao Li looked to Lu Jun Wu and said, "Fourth prince, as expected, has this place seen as your Eastern Li, wanting to make a scene anywhere you want!"
"What? You're saying I'm making a scene like a shrew?! Are you looking to die!" Lu Jun Wu originally was just frightened by Lu Jun Qi's situation, afterwards completely muddled by anger because of Du Xiao Li's slow arrival, and now hearing Du Xiao Li's words, drew the knife at his waist and swung towards Du Xiao Li.
Du Xiao Li watched him charge over, not moving an inch, only watching Lu Jun Wu come over.
(T/N: We are dealing with some quality writing right here, double the watching, in case you missed it the first time---------sometimes I really am conflicted when I encounter sentences like these.)
"Junior sister! Be careful!"
"Imperial Physician Du!"
"Fourth prince!"
Everyone in the room were all startled by this turn of events, wanting to rush forward to save Du Xiao Li, yet simply couldn't catch up with Lu Jun Wu's speed.
'Clang------'
Just when the blade was about to reach Du Xiao Li, something flew in from outside and had Lu Jun Wu's knife, following which a person emitting cold air all over flew in from outside and came to Du Xiao Li's side, shielding her. With a face full of killing intent, he looked to Lu Jun Qi and said, "Fourth prince, this is wanting to incite war between the two countries?"
"It was really dangerous just now. Little sister-in-law, why didn't you dodge?!" Han Ming Yuan followed in from outside the room and shouted towards Du Xiao Li.
Du Xiao Li turned to Han Ming Yuan who shouldn't have appeared and skeptically asked, "Didn't you go to Medicine King Valley? How come you came back this soon?"
"Little sister-in-law, now is not the time to talk about this. You still haven't explained why you didn't dodge just now. Did you know, just now in the courtyard, when we saw the blade flying towards you, we nearly lost our souls! Fifth brother was scared he wouldn't be able to save you in time!" Han Ming Yuan said.
DU Xiao Li looked to Han Ming Yi, who was emitting cold air all over. She rubbed her nose and said, "Even if you all don't come, nothing would happen to me."
"How can that be? Did you think he'd stop at the last moment? He........" Han Ming Yuan wanted to point to Lu Jun Wu for Du Xiao Li to see, yet discovered that Lu Jun Wu right now was indeed motionlessly standing there. His hand was even in the same position from when Han Ming Yi knocked the blade away just now.
"What's wrong with him?"
"He's poisoned........." Outside the door, a silver haired, delicately good-looking man in white, carrying faint sullenness between his brows, walked in and softly said.
"Po-poisoned?" Han Ming Yuan looked to Lu Jun Wu in disbelief,
discovering that his appearance was indeed like he was poisoned.
After the silver haired man entered, he cupped his hands and bowed toward Niu Jing, "Eldest senior brother." Afterwards, he turned around and looked to Du Xiao Li, saying with a smile, "This must be our little junior sister?"
(T/N: Damn Niu Jing I underestimated you, I completely forgot you the oldest old man of the Medicine King Valley's disciples.......how come your skills don't match your seniority----)
"En, she's Xiao Li. Xiao Li, this is your ninth senior brother, Qing Chen." Niu Jing returned to his sense from the shock just now and introduced for Du Xiao Li.
"Xiao Li greets senior brother Qing Chen." Du Xiao Li curtsied towards Qing Chen.
"Little sister-in-law, how did he get poisoned?" Han Ming Yuan asked.
"If I told you, how am I going to get by?" Du Xiao Li said, "Today's just the seventh day, how did you all rush back this quickly?"
The average person would've just arrived in Medicine King Valley at this time?!
"Of course it's because my qinggong is good, traveling day and night to rush to Medicine King Valley. The medicine sage, after learning that you prolonged the fire and ice poison to ten days, urgently wanted to come see the situation, so we also used qinggong to fly back. I haven't slept in several days already. I'm going to go find a place to catch up on sleep first." With that said, Han Ming Yuan went out yawning.
These last few days have really exhausted him. For the sake of being able to arrive quickly, he spent two whole days rushing there. In between, he didn't even stop once to rest. Who knew that when he met the medicine sage, the medicine sage wanted to urgently rush over. So thus he didn't get to rest again. If not for this incident just now practically scaring away all his sleepiness, right now he probably would've fallen asleep already.
"Are you okay?" Han Ming Yi, seeing Lu Jun Wu not moving an inch, had his attention turned to Du Xiao Li, and tenderly asked.
"I'm fine." Du Xiao Li shook her head and extended her hand to smooth out the creases in his brow, "Sorry, I made you worry."
"Quickly let go of me!" Lu Jun Wu looked to Du Xiao Li, finally believing that she really was the doctor in charge of curing Lu Jun Qi.
Du Xiao Li stretched her head out and looked to Lu Jun Wu and said, "Have you calmed down? If you still want to chop me, or cause trouble in Feng Ming, I don't want to look for trouble for myself."
"Miss Du, the fourth prince is just too worried about princess's situation, that's why he was reckless. Asking you to please don't take offense." Yue Yin came up and said.
Du Xiao Li glanced at Han Ming Yi, and seeing that he didn't have any objections, took out a medicine bottle and had the lid on top opened. Afterwards, she pinched her own nose and had the bottle shoved under Lu Jun Wu's nose for him to smell. After that, she withdrew her hand and put the lid back on.
"What is this, why is it this smelly!" Lu Jun Wu waved his hand in front of his face a few times and said with a disgusted expression, "Eh, I can move again?!"
Du Xiao Li ignored him and turned to Qing Chen, "Senior brother Qing Chen, since you're here, why don't you go see the third princess."
"Alright."
Yue Yin moved a stool to place by the bedside, letting Qing Chen sit down to examine Lu Jun Qi.
Lu Jun Wu although wasn't a citizen of Feng Ming, but the Medicine King Valley's reputation, he still knows, and the medicine sage Qing Chen's name further resonated throughout Eastern Li's every island. Right now, seeing Qing Chen examine Lu Jun Qi, he although wanted to reason with Du Xiao Li, he was further worried about his older sister's situation. That's why, he could only shoot Du Xiao Li a glare, and then come to the bedside, anxiously watching Qing Chen.
"Junior brother, how is it?" A while later, after Qing Chen finished examining, Niu Jing came up and asked.
"Surely little junior sister must be very familiar with this poison king's poison?" Qing Chen looked to Du Xiao Li and said.
Du Xiao Li nodded and nonchalantly admitted, "I'm rather interested in his poison, so in these years, I've studied them quite a lot."
"Truthfully speaking, this fire and ice poison, I previously have also studied back at the valley. Although I also thought of a way to suppress it, I'm unable to suppress it this long like you. This senior brother willingly concedes in defeat." As he spoke, Qing Chen bowed towards Du Xiao Li.
"Senior brother, what are you doing!" Du Xiao Li quickly went forward to stop Qing Chen from bowing.
"Say, how exactly is my third imperial sister's situation right now?" Lu Jun Wu asked.
"As long as you don't yell and shout here, your third sister will be able to wake up very soon!" Du Xiao Li glanced at Lu Jun Wu and said.
Lu Jun Wu right now still didn't know how Du Xiao Li poisoned him previously. Right now, seeing her expression somewhat not good, whatever he'd wanted to say, in the end, could only be transformed into an unreconciling glance.
"Little junior sister, did you think of a way to cure the poison?" Qing Chen somewhat excited asked.
"The specifics still haven't come out, but earlier, I've already figured out the logistics. It'll be possible in the next few days." Du Xiao Li replied.
"Really, then can this senior brother research together with you." Qing Chen asked.
"Alright, with senior brother around, it'll definitely progress much faster!" Du Xiao Li said with a smile.
Seeing the smile on Du Xiao Li's face, the cold air around Han Ming Yi slowly dispersed. He looked to Lu Jun Wu and said, "Fourth prince, right now, why don't you take a trip to the palace with this prince."
T/N: I'm so happy all my projects have so many cute grandpas.
Ch. 076.2 – Caught a Fruit Thief (2)
Caught a Fruit Thief (2)
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Foriengers coming to their country all needed to go have an audience with the Emperor. This was etiquette and was also mandatory.
Han Ming Yi looked to Du Xiao Li and reached out to grasp her arm, "I'll leave things here to you all."
"Don't worry." Du Xiao Li said with a smile, "I'll definitely return to you all a lively third princess."
"Remember not to tire yourself too much." Han Ming Yi said. "I'm going then."
With that said, Han Ming Yi made a gesture at Lu Jun Wu.
"Take good care of my third imperial sister." Lu Jun Wu said to Yue Yin and a servant girl he brought over.
"Yes." Yue Ying and that servant girl bowed simultaneously.
Han Ming Yi and Lu Jun Wu left the inn. Du Xiao Li told Yue Yin to take good care of Lu Jun Qi, and then lead Qing Chen and Niu Jing, as well as Imperial Physician Hu to the medicine room.
Seeing Du Xiao Li's complete setup, Qing Chen sighed at her diligence. After letting Du Xiao Li recount her discoveries, the two then began researching the antidote together. Finally, in the morning of the next day, they manage to have the antidote concocted.
"It's done, it's done!"
Niu Jing and Imperial Physician Hu, because stayed up too late last night, were resting on the couch to the side. Hearing Du Xiao Li's excited voice, they woke one after the other and said, "Did you succeed in configuring the antidote?"
"Yes." Du Xiao Li said, "The heavens did not turn its back on hard work. We've finally managed to develop the antidote."
"Then let's quickly give it to the third princess?" Imperial Physician Hu said.
"Alright." Du Xiao Li also planned on feeding it to Lu Jun Qi as soon as possible. Because the longer she was unconscious, the greater the harm towards her body. "Xia Yuan, prepare the silver needles."
"Yes." Xia Yuan accepted the order and had Du Xiao Li's silver needles sterilized, placing them in special basin.
"Eldest senior brother said your acupuncture skills are especially impressive, hoping to have an opportunity to be able to exchange notes with you." Qing Chen said.
"Alright! Once this matter is taken care of, you can come stay at my estate
for a while." Du Xiao Li had the manufactured medicine powder wrapped up. "Let's go over now."
The group arrived in Lu Jun Qi's room. Having heard that Du Xiao Li already had the antidote developed, Lu Jun Wu was already waiting inside the room.
"Imperial Physician Du, how certain are you?" Lu Jun Wu asked when he saw Du Xiao Li.
Yesterday, after he came back from meeting the Emperor, he had Yue Yin explain the entire course of events to him. In addition to getting mysteriously poisoned yesterday, and also learning Du Xiao Li's connection with Medicine King Valley, he gained a little more respect for Du Xiao Li. At least, he didn't yell and shout again like yesterday.
"Ninety percent." Du Xiao Li finished saying and then went around him, coming before Lu Jun Qi's bed. She let Xia Yuan carry in a bowl of warm water and had the medicine powder she created together with Qing Chen poured into the water, letting Yue Yin have Lu Jun Qi's body lifted a little higher, while she herself used a spoon to personally feed her. After seeing Lu Jun Qi completely drink the entire thing down, Du Xiao Li had Yue Yin help prop Lu Jun Qi up.
Very soon, Lu Jun Qi's body turned hot for a while, then cold; her complexion also changed from here and there, making everyone in the room tense from watching. Lastly, she spat out a mouthful of black blood, dazedly shot her eyes open once, and then passed out again.
Du Xiao Li saw the blood on the bed sheets and heavily let out a sigh, "Xia Yuan, go have the medicine I previously prescribed boiled. Yue Yin, prepare a wooden tub for your princess to soak in. Also, let someone have the things on the bed changed."
Xia Yuan needs to help you with the acupuncture, let us take care of boiling the medicine." Niu Jing said.
Du Xiao Li looked to Niu Jing and nodded, "Alright, then will have to trouble senior brother."
Everyone divided the work and set to their task. Very soon, the water for the bath was ready, and the men all cleared out without exception. Du Xiao Li let Yue Yin and Xia Yuan wash Lu Jun Qi. The things on the bed were all changed to new, and afterwards, they had Lu Jun Qi placed back on the bed.
"Xia Yuan, prepare to feed the medicine and apply the needles."