by N/A
The person from the palace received the news, saying Du Xiao Li already had the antidote developed. The Emperor thus brought Han Ming Yi and a few others and rushed to the inn. But when they arrived, they only saw Qing Chen and them guarding outside the door.
"Greetings your Majesty."
"How's the situation right now?" Han Ming Ze asked.
"Majority of the poison has already been expelled from the body. Right now, Imperial Physician Du is in the middle of clearing out the remaining poison." Imperial Physician Hu replied.
"Really? Then that's great!" As soon as Han Ming Ze heard the poison has already been taken care of, the rock in his heart finally settled. Looking to the tightly shut doors, he asked, "How much longer?"
"Imperial Physician Du said she needed to apply the needles, but a long time has already passed, so probably soon."
"Haha, then let's just wait here." Han Ming Ze said with a laugh.
In the courtyard, there was a pavilion only ten odd meters away from Lu Jun Qi's room. Han Ming Ze lead Han Ming Yi and the others to the pavilion, waiting together for Du Xiao Li to come out.
"This time, many thanks for medicine sage's assistance!" Han Ming Ze said to Qing Chen.
"For something like this to have happened, it is also our duty to help out." Qing Chen cupped his hand and replied, "Besides, Qing Chen didn't really provide much, it's all little junior sister's painstaking efforts."
"Imperial Physician Du's contributions this time truly can't be ignored. This emperor will definitely reward her properly!" Han Ming Ze said with a smile.
Han Ming Hong sat by Han Ming Ze's side, yet didn't listen to their conversation, instead having his gaze casted onto the tightly shut doors; his thoughts taking hundreds and thousands of turns.
Inside the room, Du Xiao Li had someone feed Lu Jun Qi the prepared medicine, and very soon, the person who's been unconscious for eight days slowly opened her two eyes.
"Princess, princess, you're awake, really great!" Yue Yin cried tears of joy, as she endlessly wiped her tears.
"Yue Yin, I........." Lu Jun Qi saw Yue Yin and her muddled consciousness slowly warmed up again, as she let out a soft voice.
"Princess, don't talk for now. Imperial Physician Du still needs to do the last set of treatments for you." Yue Yin said.
"Imperial Physician Du? Who's that?"
"It's Miss Du Xiao Li." Yue Yin said.
Not giving Lu Jun Qi time to digest, Du Xiao Li came to the bedside and said, "Third princess, I'm going to apply needles for you right now, hoping for you to not move around, else if this needle gets stabbed into the wrong spot, then it'll be troublesome."
When Lu Jun Qi saw Du Xiao Li, the shock in her heart couldn't be described using words. But right now, she didn't have the energy to oppose Du Xiao Li either. Moreover, she also knew she was poisoned and didn't want to use her own life to play around.
"Xia Yuan, begin."
An hour later, Du Xiao Li finished applying the needles. Once she had the very last needle retrieved, Yue Yin went forward to help dress Lu Jun Qi, and also had her outer clothing put on too. Du Xiao Li had the silver needles put away, and said to Yue Yin, "This prescription, let someone boil three bowls of water down to one, and then after boiling three times, have it diluted and then divided into three bowls. One day, three times. After finishing this, your family's princess will be able to jump around again. Xia Yuan, let's go out."
With that said, Du Xiao Li turned to leave, while Xia Yuan held the needles and followed after her.
"Why?" In the quiet room, Lu Jun Qi's fragile voice suddenly sounded, "You clearly don't like me, why, why did you save me?"
Du Xiao Li stopped and turned around to look at Lu Jun Qi, "Because your life doesn't belong to you alone. You are on my Feng Ming's soil. Your life thus affects Feng Ming and Eastern Li's countless lives. I wasn't saving you, but rather those people that might, because of you, get drawn into war. Additionally, let me advice princess a word, stubbornly pursuing what you want admittedly is good, but at the same time, you also need to think about the responsibility you bear. Regardless of where you are, you always need to think about what kind of consequences may your actions bring upon your country. Farewell."
Ch. 076.3 – Caught a Fruit Thief (3)
Caught a Fruit Thief (3)
With that said, Du Xiao Li opened the door and walked out. Lu Jun Qi lied on the bed, watching the sunlight shine in enveloping Du Xiao Li, making her think that those rays of light were coming from Du Xiao Li. A drop of tear fell from the corner of her eye. From today onward, her life will no longer be the same as before.
The sound of the door opening startled the people in the pavilion outside. Their voices also attracted Du Xiao Li's attention.
"Greetings your Majesty." Du Xiao Li said as she bowed to Han Ming Ze.
"How's third princess's situation?" Han Ming Ze asked.
"It's already without any major problems." Du Xiao Li replied, "As long as she takes another two days of medicine, the poison will be completely cleared out."
"Imperial Physician Du, this time, you've worked hard." Han Ming Ze said.
This is something within this humble official's duty."
"Your Majesty, for the sake of developing the antidote, Li'er hasn't properly rest in several days already, will you allow this younger brother to send her back to rest. After all, that side still has things waiting for her to handle." Han Ming Yi saw the exhaustion on Du Xiao Li's face and said.
"En, this emperor also heard just now that for the sake of developing this antidote, you didn't sleep at all last night. Right now, go back and rest. Ming Yi, you send her back, alright."
"This younger brother will also........." Han Ming Hong suddenly opened his mouth and said.
Han Ming Yi's gaze sank and said, "This prince's fiancee this prince can personally send back. Your Majesty, this younger brother bids farewell."
With that said, Han Ming Yi left pulling Du Xiao Li by the hand. Du Xiao Li let Xia Yuan stay behind to have her equipment all moved back to the Du Manor before going back to the estate. Han Ming Yi let Leng Yi stay behind to help Xia Yuan, while he himself took Du Xiao Li and got on the horse carriage parked outside the inn.
"You'd long prepared a horse carriage already." Du Xiao Li sat inside the horse carriage, feeling somewhat drowsy.
Han Ming Yi had Du Xiao Li's head lightly tilted over, letting her lay down on his leg, "If you're tired, sleep for a while. When we reach the estate I'll wake you. Right now, the poison has already been cured, so don't worry about anything else for now. I will talk to the Emperor for you. You can just peacefully stay at the estate."
"Alight." Du Xiao Li rested against Han Ming Yi's leg. He knew she didn't like taking care of the matters afterwards, and he was willing to take care of those things for her. This kind of feeling made her feel like marrying him seemingly wouldn't be too bad either.
Having not properly rested in several consecutive days, she was already unbearably sleepy. In addition to the horse carriage's swaying, she very quickly closed her eyes. Before falling asleep, she suddenly thought of a question, "Big brother Yi, starting from when did I get used to having you by my side?"
Han Ming Yi lowered his head to look to her little face, reaching out to hold her shoulder. Before he could answer, she'd already fallen asleep. Seeing her fast asleep face, he lightly smiled and said, "I'm very happy you can fall asleep next to me."
Du Xiao Li didn't know how long she slept for. In short, she was waken by the sound of fighting.
"Awake?" Han Ming Yi saw Du Xiao Li open her eyes and softly asked.
Du Xiao Li nodded and got up from Han Ming Yi's leg, emitting a thick 'having just woken up' air all over. She had been tired for so long and was finally able to rest for a while. To actually be disturbed awake by someone, really is unforgivable!
She pulled opened the carriage's curtain at once and saw the people fighting outside. One was Leng Er and one was a unfamiliar man in white.
The two were facing off in the air, temporarily unable to tell who was winning, and right below them was the grape vineyard.
Turns out, while she was asleep, they'd already reached the estate, and seeing she was still fast asleep, Han Ming Yi let Leng Er have the horse carriage stopped here, yet unexpectedly saw a strange man sneakily laughing out loud in the grape vineyard. Thinking that the Grand Empress Dowager was still here, Leng Er wanted to have him arrested. But he didn't expect that the other party's martial arts skills weren't weak and didn't lag behind at all when fighting with Leng Er, and this fighting noise had Du Xiao Li disturbed from her sleep.
"I already told you, I'm just here to eat grapes. If you keep being like this, don't blame me later." Bai Ning Yuan had Leng Er repelled back with a palm and then landed on the grape trellis, complaining with a cold expression.
"It is whatever you say it is? Suddenly appearing at this estate, if not a spy then a thief. Regardless of what you do, I will have you captured today!" Leng Er also landed on the trellis, facing the other party straight on.
"Then I'll just take your life first, once you become a ghost, then come and find me!" Bai Ning Yuan said.
"Then let's just see if you have that ability!" Leng Er said, not to be outdone.
Du Xiao Li jumped down from the horse carriage and narrowed her eyes at the two people above the trellis. "Say, you're ruining my grapes, who's going to compensate me?"
"Ah----" Hearing Du Xiao Li's voice, Bai Ning Yuan lowered his head and suddenly cried out. "To think this big patch of grape vines were ruined wasting this many grapes, you're unforgivable!"
"If you'd obediently turned yourself in, we wouldn't have made the vineyard like this." Leng Er said.
"I don't care, it's all your fault, you better compensate my grapes!" Bai Ning Yuan shouted towards Leng Er and began fighting again. Right now, the air he was emitting was entirely different from earlier. Before, it could be said that he was still playing around, but now, he really had the desire to kill.
His grapes?
Du Xiao Li was defeated by this person's line of reasoning. Then seeing the movement of his hand, she shouted towards Leng Er, "Leng Er move back!"
Leng Er originally wanted to charge forward, but he knew Du Xiao Li wouldn't tell him to move back for no reason, thus listened to her words and flew backwards, letting the powder scattered from Bai Ning Yuan's hands be unable to find the target to poison.
Han Ming Yi also came down from the horse carriage and looked to Bai Ning Yuan, "Leng Er isn't his opponent."
Before Han Ming Yi could finish speaking, Leng Er already got struck back by Bai Ning Yuan's palm. Han Ming Yi quickly flew up, one hand catching Leng Er and one hand countering Bai Ning Yuan's second move.
"Who are you?" Bai Ning Yuan was jolted back by Han Ming Yi's attack, flipping back two circling before landing on the grape trellis, as he looked to Han Ming Yi in surprise.
To think there was someone that could push him back. This person's strength so valiant!
Han Ming Yi had Leng Er placed on the ground and looked to Bai Ning Yuan, "When asking someone this line, shouldn't you state who you are first?"
"Hmph, why should I tell you?" Bai Ning Yuan coldly snorted.
Han Ming Yi worried that the disturbance here will startle the Grand Empress Dowager and the others. He wanted to directly go up and have the other party subdued, but was stopped by Du Xiao Li's loud voice.
"Big brother Yi, don't move!"
Han Ming Yi puzzlingly looked to Du Xiao Li, unsure why she was stopping him right now.
"You're poisoned. If you use your inner energy right now, it will cause the poison to activate." Du Xiao Li explained.
"Haha, this little girl is rather smart, to actually be able to tell that he's poisoned." Bai Ning Yuan looked to Du Xiao Li and said. Perhaps because he liked to eat grapes, and Du Xiao Li was the owner of this place, he rather didn't have any hostility towards her.
Ch. 076.4 – Caught a Fruit Thief (4)
Caught a Fruit Thief (4)
T/N: All I can say is, never underestimate DXL's ability to make people work for her lmaoo.
"If the poison king wants to poison someone, and I don't attentively keep watch, won't big brother Yi be in danger?" Du Xiao Li exposed Bai Ning Yuan's identity at once.
"Poison King?"
Han Ming Yi and Leng Er were both shocked by Du Xiao Li's words. This person was the poison king?
"Hahaha, little girl, how do you know my identity?" Having gotten his identity seen through, Bai Ning Yuan didn't get angry, but instead amusingly looked to Du Xiao Li.
Du Xiao Li didn't reply to him, instead coming to Han Ming Yi's said, and said, "This poison king has poison all over his body. Before you fight with him, you have to eat this first."
With this said, Du Xiao Li had a medicine pill shoved into Han Ming Yi's mouth and clapped her hands, "Alright then! Big brother Yi, he ruined this much of my grapes, you definitely have to catch him. And wile you're at it, you can also ask whether that fire and ice poison on the third princess was done by him."
"Che, just that medicine pill of yours can block my poison? Right now you want him to come catch me, careful he might lose his life later!" Bai Ning Yuan didn't take Du Xiao Li's medicine seriously at all.
"Whether or not it'll be able to block your poison, won't we know with a try?" Du Xiao Li finished saying and then moved to the side, crouching down to check on Leng Er's condition. Shortly after, she also gave him a medicine pill.
After learning that Bai Ning Yuan was the poison king, Han Ming Yi also produced the desire to catch him. He although heard of the poison king's reputation before, he wasn't familiar with him at all. After hearing Du Xiao Li say he can go on ahead now, he instantly attacked.
Du Xiao Li helped support Leng Er onto the horse carriage to sit down, while she herself also got on. When she raised her head to see Han Ming Yi and Bai Ning Yuan fighting, she naturally also saw the surprised look on Bai Ning Yuan's face.
He never thought that someone would be able to cure his poison this quickly!
Bai Ning Yuan's martial arts although was very high, Han Ming Yi's martial arts was even stronger than his. If he could use poison, then today he would still be able to successfully escape, but whatever Du Xiao Li fed him made him seemingly completely immune to his poison. Very soon, he was subdued by Han Ming Yi.
Seeing the fight end, Du Xiao Li got down from the horse carriage and came to Bai Ning Yuan's side, stabbing an embroidery needle somewhere into his body.
"Alright big brother Yi, you can let go of him now."
Bai Ning Yuan looked to Du Xiao Li, finally realizing now how impressive that medicine pill of hers was, "Who are you, how come you're able to block my poison?"
"If you want me to answer you, then you first need to answer a few of my questions." Du Xiao Li said.
"Okay, but I also have conditions." Bai Ning Yuan wasn't at all worried about his current situation, as he looked to Du Xiao Li and said.
"What qualifications do you still have right now to negotiate? Aren't you afraid of angering us and have you killed?" Du Xiao Li asked back with a laugh.
"What's there to be scared of? Besides, you all might not even be able to kill me. Moreover, the thing you want to ask me, I believe should be very important, right?" Bai Ning Yuan said as he laughed out loud.
"En, this head of yours is indeed not bad, no wonder you're able to develop that many poisons." Du Xiao Li rubbed her chin as she looked to Bai Ning Yuan, contemplating, "State your conditions for us to hear first."
"My condition is very simple. When I'm replying to your questions, I have to eat grapes."
Eh-----
Du Xiao Li felt she was once again defeated by Bai Ning Yuan's words. Previously he said Leng Er wasted his grapes, and now he wanted to eat grapes while being interrogated. Is his line of thought for sure normal? Could it be that while studying poison, his head broke?! Then this way, would the information they get out of him b
e reliable?
Du Xiao Li had Han Ming Yi pulled to the side and quietly told him her thoughts. When Han Ming Yi finished listening, he felt unsure whether to laugh or cry. Only she would have this kind of thought, that in itself was also somewhat strange, right?
He lightly tapped Du Xiao Li's head and said, "Heard the poison king is eccentric, when he's in a good mood, he can agree to anything. When he's in a bad mood, he can turn into Asura and massacre everyone in the surrounding. Presumably, for him to have this kind of request shouldn't be too strange either."
"Then let's ask first to see if it's true." With that said, Du Xiao Li dragged Han Ming Yi back again and said to Bai Ning Yuan, "We agree to your conditions. If you speak the truth, I'll give you grapes to eat; if you lie, not only will I not give you grapes, I might even have you turned into grape fertilizer!"
Han Ming Yi glanced to Leng Er, and Leng Er thus headed to the grape vineyard to pick two strings of grapes back.
"If you don't wash, then you need to peel the skin!" Bai Ning Yuan said.
"You like eating grapes this much?" Du Xiao Li somewhat bewilderedly looked to Bai Ning Yuan.
"Of course, I specifically rushed over for this grape." Bai Ning Yuan enviously watched Leng Er slowly peel the grape skin and said, "In order to eat grapes, I rushed over all the way from Jiangnan. Fearing that I wouldn't make it in time, I didn't even eat anything good along the way! When I finally found this estate with great difficulty and saw this big of a grape vineyard, before I could even eat any, I was interrupted by you all."
"You glutton!" Du Xiao Li couldn't help saying this.
After Leng Er had the grape peeled and fed into Bai Ning Yuan's mouth, Han Ming Yi asked, "Were you the one that poisoned Eastern Li's third princess?"
"What third princess? Don't know her." Bai Ning Yuan had the grape seed spat out as he replied, and then opened his mouth to let Leng Er feed him another one.
"Fire and ice is the poison you just developed, right?" Han Ming Yi continued asking.
"That's right, I'd just developed it a few months ago."