The moment these words came out of her mouth, her weak-looking body somehow began emitting a very dangerous aura!
The black-armored cavalries involuntarily took a step back. At this time, their leader, major general Shen Shao Feng DaRen’s expression had already completely turned as black as a crow.
The surrounding area immediately became dead silent. Luckily there weren’t many people out on the streets today, otherwise, they would certainly be very frightened from such a large scene.
After a while, Shen Shao Feng scoffed and glared at her.
“You even took off your Buddha beads, how would I dare to keep on forcing you? But you better think about it clearly. Your target of repaying debt, the Empress’ only son Qin Jue, spent how much effort to survive these months of life and death just to live until now? And your decision now will doubtlessly just push him back into the center of the storm!
The Imperial Preceptor won’t let this slide! If he died, then it would be because of you! You will be the cause of death of your benefactor’s son, and this is the only ending that will result from you staying here!”
Seeing that he wasn’t planning on using force, she let out a breath stealthily. Putting the bracelet back on her wrist, she smiled at him.
“You don’t need to worry about this. It’s true that I’m not good at taking care of people, but I will learn. As long as I’m here, no one will be able to touch him. And please forward these words to Imperial Preceptor DaRen. I hope that based on our past friendship, he could be merciful and not disturb us. Otherwise, with so many soldiers under his command, he wouldn’t be able to afford me going mad and massacring even once.”
Her words caused everyone at the scene to suck in a cold breath but at the same time, they thought it was strange. She was clearly just a weak-looking young man, where does she have the confidence to go up against the Imperial Preceptor? And the strange thing was that General Shen Shao didn’t refute her either!
Shen Shao Feng was exasperated. He glared at her furiously for a moment before leaving with his subordinates.
She waited until their silhouettes had completely disappeared into the distance, then began coughing uncontrollably. She held onto the wall while sitting down slowly.
This time, she had really completely cut her ties and offended the Imperial Preceptor… Honestly, if it wasn’t for this being the last resort, she would have never threatened people in this way. But who told them to continuously push her to this point even after the poison in her blood still hadn’t been completely digested? As a result, she was really forced to act against her own will.
After being threatened by her like this, Shen Shao Feng certainly wouldn’t come and bother her again. He’s probably going back to Capital City to report on the completion of his task. After the Imperial Preceptor learns about how ‘resolute’ she acted, will he grow angry from frustration?
Well even if he grows angry from shame, it is what it is. This was bound to happen someday anyway. It seems like she must reach Xiang City as fast as she can now. There are too many unpredictable events happening on the road, staying in the city should be safer.
By the time Xie Lin Lang had finally returned to their temporary wooden house, the moon already shone brightly in the middle of the sky.
The moment she entered the house, she began her pitiful act.
“Xiao Xi, Xiao Xi…come help me! I feel like I’m gonna collapse…”
As she finished, someone reached out and held onto her as expected. But when she felt that the hand holding her was different than usual, she lifted her head and was instantly startled by Qin Jue!
“Where did you go?”
Qin Jue’s face was pale and he spoke with a low hoarse voice. When he’s wrinkling his eyebrows, it appears as if he was like stained glass, so fragile that he could break at any moment.
Still, he gave off an extremely dangerous impression to the people around him. Especially when he stared at her with those somber eyes of his, Xie Lin Lang instantly felt as if her skin was constricting!
“I-I went to gather herbs!” She stood up straight as she blurted out. At the same time, she felt very strange, why should she feel guilty? It’s not like she was lying, she indeed went to gather herbs!
Qin Jue squinted his eyes, clearly not believing her. She wasn’t someone that would go out of her way to pick medicine. If she said she was buying medicine it would’ve been more believable, but gathering herbs?
But the exhaustion on her face didn’t seem to be fake either. Neither were the dirt stains on her shoes. Did she really go to gather herbs?
Xie Lin Lang began feeling more and more nervous under his gaze of interrogation. Fortunately, Xiao Xi appeared just in time to rescue her!
“Oh, GongZi, you’re finally back! Are you alright? Are you hurt anywhere?”
“Xiao Xi!” Xie Lin Lang immediately dove like a baby bird returning to her nest towards Xiao Xi the moment he had appeared!
“Xiao Xi, Xiao Xi! I brought you back all the medicine you had asked for! I’m tired to death! Is there still hot water left in the house? I want to take a bath!”
When Xiao Xi heard that she had brought back all of the medicine that he needed, his eyes immediately opened wide. But taking into consideration that Qin Jue was still here, he didn’t say anything more, only spoke with worry to Xie Ling Lang, “GongZi, don’t worry, the water is still hot. I’ve also prepared your change of clothes already, the bath is ready for you!”
Seeing how caring he was, Xie Lin Lang felt her whole heart filled with warmth. She cheered giddily and headed to shower, leaving Qin Jue stranded where she had left him.
Qin Jue slightly wrinkled his brows, feeling as if he was missing something important…That moment when he saw Xie Lin Lang, he saw bits of soil and scattered traces of blood dotted along her legs? It was on her hands too, as if she had been bitten by something. What could it be…
On the other side, Xie Lin Lang laid in the herbal bath that Xiao Xi had prepared for her beforehand and felt as if her whole body had come to life again.
After Xiao Xi had caught up to her again, she told him about Qin Jue’s situation and the poison he carried from birth. As she saw it, Qin Jue was not only fragile due to incurring extremely heavy wounds these few months, but also due to his body condition being too frail. So the best scenario would be if they could get rid of his poison once and for all and thereby curing his body’s foundation…
To her surprise, Xiao Xi really did have a solution. In fact, he said that Qin Jue’s condition at this time with his deeply wounded body was actually the best time to remove the poison from his roots.
The only thing that was needed was merely extremely hard to obtain medicinal herbs, that’s all.
Fortunately, she has a good memory and remembered that there was a prime minister who specifically allocated a group of people to collect treasures in the South and then she rushed all the way here. So that’s how she was able to find all the things that Xiao Xi needed so quickly.
As expected of someone who does good deeds, even her luck was better than the average person!
As she reflected in her thoughts, she sighed relaxingly, closing her eyes while laying in the black colored herbal bath, very close to falling asleep.
At this moment, the door creaked open. Thinking it was Xiao Xi, Xie Lin Lang murmured with her eyes closed.
“Xiao Xi, there’s no need to add water. This is just fine.”
But after she spoke, Xiao Xi didn’t answer. So when she opened her eyes to check who it was, her soul almost flew out of her body!
“Q-Q-Qin Qin…”
Qin Jue wrinkled his eyebrows at her, “Why do you need to use herbs when taking a bath? Do you have some sort of hidden illness?”
How could Xie Lin Lang answer that? She hastily sank her body underwater, only leaving her face from the mouth up, staring at him with a terrified expression!
“How did you get in?! I’m a man, you know! How could you peek at a man while he’s taking a bath?!”
Qin Jue was slightly stunned, but immediately looked at Xie Lin Lang with a weird expression, “When I was sent to train in the military, everyone showered together.”
Xie Lin Lang was doomed! Who thought this was a good idea? Sending a Crown Prince to military training? Is that a place the Crown Prince should be going to?!
As if he could tell what Xie Lin Lang was thinking, he spoke quietly as he walked closer.
“When mother didn’t know the reason that my body was weak was due to innate poison, and after she had already tried many different methods yet failed, she heard that military training could strengthen one’s body and sent me there. You didn’t know because you were in ChuanLong at that time.”
And after he joined the military camp, he had a very difficult time completing even the regular training due to his weak body. But in order to not let the Empress down, he forced himself to finish it all. As a result, he overexerted himself and damaged his body so much that he suffered a serious illness, and he never went back again.