There were still traces of blood on his lips that he accidentally got from Ji Yujin’s lips. His originally pale lips looked like they were covered with rouge. His whole temperament changed instantly, and he became so beautiful that people couldn’t bear to look directly at him.
Everyone: “……”
They had barely time to feel shy when their minds were already filled with panic. What did their Madam just do?
Testing medicine?!
Li Yu reacted first. He rushed forward and subconsciously tried to pry open Chu Fengqing’s mouth. But then he remembered the difference between men and women. He could only gesture helplessly in the air with his hands, “Damn! Saozi, spit it out! If you are also poisoned, how am I going to explain this to Ji Yujin!”
“Just let us test the medicine. It’s not like we are dead.”
Chu Fengqing turned his head away and swallowed the blood.
Li Yu: “……”
It’s over. It’s over. I’m afraid the Ji family will have to hold two funerals.
Chu Fengqing wiped the excess blood from his lips with a handkerchief and said softly, “Don’t worry, the dose is not large…”
“I owe him this.”
Zhao Li stared at him for a long time, and suddenly a trace of astonishment appeared in his eyes. He had seen Chu Yinyin and recognized that he was not Chu Yinyin at first sight, but this face was really familiar. There must not be many people with such an appearance in the world.
He thought about it for a long time, but couldn’t remember it. Now he finally remembered that he was… Chu Fengqing!
He slowly shifted his gaze away, but the astonishment in his eyes remained the same. He had been focusing on the woman and had not considered the man at all.
But he didn’t expect that… Chu Fengqing actually dressed up as a woman and married on behalf of his sister?!
Does the master know about this? Zhao Li felt that his limited brain was no longer able to think about this matter. He even wondered if his brain was a little broken and if he had recognized the wrong person.
Several old imperial physicians watched Chu Fengqing pick up the bowl of black medicine. Before they could open their mouths to persuade him, he had already drunk it all.
Everyone frowned, the medicine was really strong just by smelling it, let alone drinking it.
Seeing that everyone was looking at him cautiously, Chu Fengqing smiled lightly and said, “It’s fine. Let’s wait for the medicine to take effect and see the effect.”
The test lasted until dawn, and Lao Mo cooked some porridge and brought it in to fill everyone’s stomach.
Chu Fengqing drank it with difficulty, and then his stomach felt as if it was being cut by a knife, and he vomited a mouthful of blood.
“Madam!”
“Saozi!”
Everyone gathered around and talked a lot. Chu Fengqing pursed his lips and waved his hand, but he frowned. There was something wrong with their medicine.
Fortunately, his dosage was not large, and the poisoning was much lighter than Ji Yujin’s. But even so, he still felt extremely uncomfortable. He turned his head to look at Ji Yujin and closed his eyes. He really didn’t know how that man could endure it. He still had a playful look on his face after being poisoned.
Chu Fengqing’s crow-feather eyelashes trembled slightly. When the pain eased a little, he took the prescription and read each medicine carefully.
The old imperial physician couldn’t bear it. “Madam, please take a rest first.”
Li Yu gritted his teeth and thought that if Ji Yujin dared to betray this person in the future, he would fight him first, not to mention others.
Chu Fengqing paused and circled the two herbs with a cinnabar pen. “It turns out to be these.”
The imperial physician also followed his gaze, and they began discussing again.
Several people took turns taking the patient’s pulse, and a new prescription came out.
It was already noon by the time the medicine was ready. They pressed a slice of ginseng under Ji Yujin’s tongue to keep him alive.
Chu Fengqing drank the medicine first again, and everyone held their breath and waited. If there was a mistake in the prescription again… there might not be a chance for them to write the next prescription anymore.
Perhaps it was God’s kindness, or perhaps Ji Yujin, this evildoer, was just lucky, the medicine took effect quickly after taking it.
Everyone was overjoyed and helped Ji Yujin take the medicine.
Chu Fengqing looked at Ji Yujin, whose breathing was weak. He clenched his fists and said to himself, The rest depends on yourself.
He can’t help anymore.
Fortunately, Ji Yujin has a solid foundation.
Ji Yujin’s complexion began to improve, and his pulse slowly recovered. Everyone was happy but also amazed at his vitality.
After guarding for a night and a morning, several old imperial physicians could no longer endure it due to their age, so they took their leave and went back to rest. They also managed to avoid the disaster of being dismissed from their post, they also relaxed a lot.
Li Yu cried and laughed at the same time. “The scourge has lasted for thousands of years, Ji Yujin, you are truly an absolute scourge.”
After knowing that the poison was cured, he did not stay long. He could not leave the emperor without someone by his side, so he had to go back to report.
Zhao Li, Qing Niao, and others also had to go out to clean up the mess from last night, and soon only Chu Fengqing and Lao Mo were left in the room.
Lao Mo made some chicken soup and brought it to Chu Fengqing. “Madam, drink some to warm yourself up.”
Chu Fengqing let out an “en”, his complexion looking extremely ugly, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead with just the slightest movement. Although he had been weak since childhood, he rarely looked so weak.
The wheezing began to become uncontrollable. He coughed lightly a few times and closed his eyes to relax. The poison he took was not much to begin with, and most of it had been dissolved by now.
Seeing that he was not feeling well, Lao Mo advised, “Madam has been up all night, you should also go and rest; otherwise, you will hurt your body, it will be bad.”
Chu Fengqing sipped the chicken soup mouthful by mouthful. Maybe because he was too hungry, he didn’t feel that hungry at the moment. “I’m fine. Lao Mo, you go and have a rest.”
Lao Mo is not young anymore.
Lao Mo shook his head. He glanced at Ji Yujin, who was lying down, and said, “Although the Master has been injured all the time, but he rarely gets injured this badly. The last time I saw him lying unconscious like this was when he fell into the water more than ten years ago.”
Chu Fengqing: “Falling into the water?”
Lao Mo: “Master is very good at learning everything, whether it is literature or martial arts, he can master it in one go, but he is not good at duck swimming, no matter how hard he tries, he can’t learn it. It’s all because when he was young, the Master was naughty and went up the mountains and into the rivers, and the Old Madam couldn’t control him at all.”
“Once, the Master rowed a boat to pick lotus seeds. The boat was unstable, and the Master accidentally fell into the water. The servants couldn’t find him in time. When they found him, he had already passed out. It took a lot of effort to rescue him. Maybe he was scared at that time. He couldn’t learn to swim afterwards. So now the Master rarely chooses water when traveling.”
Chu Fengqing became interested. He never knew Ji Yujin was so naughty when he was little. A faint smile flashed in his eyes. “I didn’t expect him to be a landlubber.”
He didn’t expect that there were things Ji Yujin couldn’t learn. He grew up in the south, where there were many canals. Although he might not be good at other things, he was good at swimming, which was considered an advantage over Ji Yujin.
Lao Mo has been serving Ji Yujin since he was a child. Later, when Ji Yujin left the palace, he followed him out. Seeing that Chu Fengqing was interested, a smile flashed in his turbid eyes. When he recalled, he realized that so much time had passed. His master has now started a family. The Old Madam always said that his master was too jumpy and rebellious, and she was afraid that no one could subdue him. Now there is no need to worry anymore.
When he thought of the Old Madam, his eyes dimmed slightly. He felt guilty towards the Old Madam for not serving his master well, causing his master to become a rootless person like him.
The two chatted briefly for a few words, and then Lao Mo went out to do something. Chu Fengqing helped Ji Yujin feel his pulse and found it was stable. He thought the poison should be gone after a few more doses of medicine.
Chu Fengqing pursed his dry lips and helped him change the medicine on his back. Although it was such a small action, it made him break out in a cold sweat.
He sighed helplessly. He had to rest. He couldn’t fall down either.
He looked around and saw that the bedding on the beauty’s coach had also been spread out. He didn’t want to bother with it anymore, so he just laid down beside Ji Yujin with his clothes on.
Perhaps because he was extremely tired, he fell asleep quickly. The familiar smell in his nose was replaced by the smell of blood. He frowned in his sleep, his hands curled up beside Ji Yujin, unconsciously holding the corner of his clothes in his hands. This was a relatively dependent posture. Perhaps he himself did not even realize that something was silently changing.
When he woke up again, it was already dark. He sat up with difficulty, his breathing so rapid that he could hardly control it. He covered his lips with his hand and staggered to the table barefoot. He picked up a brush and a piece of paper, but his hands were shaking so much that he could hardly control the brush, and the words he wrote were crooked.
After a while, he wrote a prescription and called Lao Mo in.
Lao Mo was shocked to see him like this and hurried forward to support him. “Madam, what’s wrong with you?”
Chu Fengqing handed him the prescription and said, “Help-help me get the pills and put it in the bathtub…”
He had to take a break as he spoke, “I need to take a bath. Thank you.”
He was so busy dealing with Ji Yujin’s poison that he had no time to take care of himself. It would take an hour or two to boil the medicine, so it would be too late. The fastest way was to take a medicinal bath.
However, this prescription could only suppress the effect temporarily. There was a shortage of medicines on the mountain, including some precious herbs. He could only find some substitutes, but they were not as effective.
If he can suppress it for a bit, then so be it.
Lao Mo didn’t dare to ask any more questions or delay, and he immediately ran out to make arrangements.
In less than half an hour, the cooked herbs and bath tub were brought in.
Chu Fengqing glanced at Ji Yujin, who was lying on the bed. He wanted to go to another place to soak up the medicine, but there were a limited number of tents, and he had nowhere to go.
After sending the servants away, he pursed his lips. Ji Yujin had taken medicine that could calm nerves and relieve pain, so he shouldn’t wake up that quickly…
It can’t be that coincidence…
He gritted his teeth, let down the bed curtains, turned his back to Ji Yujin, and began to undress.
He didn’t notice that when he lowered the curtains, Ji Yujin frowned. Everyone thought he had lost consciousness, but in fact, he was not completely unconscious. He was in and out of consciousness.
This poison is really strong. Over the years, he has been poisoned by various poisons at least ten times, if not twenty times. It is rare to find one as unbearable as this one.
His head ached from listening to the noisy noise outside, especially from Li Yu, whose voice was so loud.
Fortunately, he fainted again after a while. When he regained consciousness, the corners of his lips felt slightly cold, as if a feather had brushed across them, lightly and skillfully. Before he could react, he heard Li Yu say something about “testing the medicine.”
Testing the medicine? Test what medicine?
Then he heard that clear and cold voice. “I owe him this… I should pay it back.”
Although his mind was still a little confused, but he also quickly understood what had happened.
All of a sudden, he was both angry and anxious. This fool, why’d he want to try any medicine with that body of his?
He tried his best to open his eyes, but his eyelids seemed to weigh a thousand pounds, and no matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t move them even a little.
He didn’t hold on for long before his consciousness gradually faded away, and his dreams were filled with scenes of Chu Fengqing dying from the poison.
When he woke up again and had a spicy medicine fed into his mouth, he knew they had succeeded.
He was eager to know how Chu Fengqing was doing now. Fortunately, although his voice was not loud, but he heard it. He heard him whisper, “At least I don’t owe you too much.”
What does it mean that he doesn’t owe him too much? What does it mean that he should pay him back? What happens after he pays him back? Does that mean that they are even after he pays him back? What happens after they are even? Will he just walk away with a swing of his sleeves?
How could it be clean? It had already been dirty between them. Did he really want to be clean with him?!
Even though he clenched his teeth in his sleep, perhaps it was because his reason was suppressed. He was not a decent person to begin with, and now only instincts were left. All his bad qualities came out, and his mind was full of dangerous thoughts.
He wanted to lock him up and put him in a place where only he could see him, so that he couldn’t run away again.
“Ha—” Ji Yujin took a deep breath.
Finally, he broke through the layers of restraints and opened his eyes. His eyes were red. His first reaction was to look around, but when he saw that the person was not there, his reason was out of control again. He endured the pain and climbed up, lifting the bed curtains with his hand.
The next moment, he paused. In the mist under the candlelight, that person had black hair falling to his waist, and below that were a pair of well-proportioned legs. He moved his eyes up to his snow-white hips…
When Chu Fengqing heard the voice, he subconsciously looked back. When their eyes met, they were both stunned.
Because his body turned sideways, Ji Yujin’s eyes were looking at something unknown, and his pupils suddenly shrank.
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