Ye Jingyu lowered his head and kissed the spot Ye Jingcheng had touched before, his restless emotions finally calming down.
That’s clean now.
Qian Xue waited at the entrance of the cold palace. Seeing the two masters approaching from afar, she quickly went to greet them, her eyes filled with joy.
“Master, Consort Liang just woke up. Please go and see her quickly. And it seems she can recognize people!”
Ye Jingyu quickened his pace and entered the room.
Yi Zuo and Yi You were serving inside.
Liu Lanxue was asleep on the bed.
Ye Jingyu glanced at Qian Xue.
Qian Xue was confused. “She just woke up and even called my name.”
Ye Jingyu walked to the bedside and put down the little dumpling in his arms. “You take a look.”
Su Yunmo glared at him, snorted, and turned her face away, but still reached out to feel his pulse.
Seeing her childish demeanor, Ye Jingyu shook his head helplessly.
Su Yunmo felt his pulse for a moment. “The toxins in her body have been completely removed. She will be fully awake by tomorrow morning at the latest. Besides that, the antidote in her body has taken effect.”
Ye Jingyu’s fingers stiffened. He looked at Liu Lanxue sleeping on the bed, closed his eyes, and exhaled deeply.
Qian Xue stood guard at the door, her eyes also misty.
That’s great. After waiting for so long, the Consort is finally going to get better.
Su Yunmo frowned. “But don’t celebrate too early. It has taken effect, but it will take some time to fully recover.”
She looked at Ye Jingyu. “You should understand, some things cannot be solved by medicine, such as a knot in the heart.”
Although the Soul Devouring Soup could cause idiocy, it was likely that the unfair treatment Consort Liang suffered back then would also damage her mind.
How much she could remember and when she would remember depended on her willpower.
“As long as the poison can be removed, nothing else matters,” Ye Jingyu tucked the corner of the quilt around Consort Liang.
Qian Xue nodded repeatedly and said, “Yes.”
“Let her rest. No one should disturb her for the next two days,” Su Yunmo yawned.
Ugh~ a little sleepy. I want to sleep after eating.
Ye Jingyu picked her up and walked out. “Yi Zuo and Yi You, guard my mother these few days. No one is allowed to disturb her.”
The two sisters bowed and said, “Yes.”
Qian Xue followed her master away, preparing the carriage outside the palace in advance.
Ye Jingyu got out of the palace and got into the carriage.
There was a small hand warmer in the carriage, and the carriage was warm.
Su Yunmo hugged Ye Jingyu’s arm as a pillow, drowsily about to fall asleep.
The carriage creaked.
After about half an hour, there was a sudden bang outside, as if something had been hit.
Su Yunmo’s eyes snapped open. “Did the earth shake?!”
Ye Jingyu flicked her forehead, chuckling. “Who talks in their sleep with their eyes open?”
Su Yunmo scratched the back of her head, yawned, and turned to look outside. “What happened?”
The carriage curtain was lifted.
A small man covered in blood lay on the road.
Qian Xue, with a rare hint of panic on her face, said, “Master, he suddenly ran over. I wasn’t paying attention and crashed into him.”
“Cough, cough~” The man coughed up some blood and struggled to get up, only to fall back down.
The people on the road, seeing that a carriage had hit someone, all gathered around.
Ye Jingyu’s gaze deepened. “What are you panicking about? Go and see how the person is first.”
Qian Xue nodded and quickly went to check. When he turned the person over, he exclaimed, “Master, it’s the Nanjiang person who escaped before!”
Hu Xue never expected to encounter his sworn enemy in such a situation. He struggled with all his might to get up and escape.
Qian Xue grabbed him and pressed him to the ground.
More and more onlookers gathered around, pointing and whispering.
Ye Jingyu said in a deep voice, “Don’t linger here. Take him back first.”
Qian Xue tied him up with a rope, threw him into the carriage, jumped onto the carriage, whipped the horse, and dispersed the crowd, heading towards the prince’s mansion.
By the time they reached the prince’s mansion, Hu Xue was almost dead.
He wasn’t injured by the carriage collision, but by stab wounds.
He had been stabbed in the chest and shoulder, the wounds were deep, and they were fatal blows.
Su Yunmo took a ‘blood-stopping pill’ and gave it to Qian Xue to feed to Hu Xue, to temporarily save his life.
After taking the pill, Hu Xue’s pale face gradually returned to normal.
Ye Jingyu then ordered him to be carried to the main hall.
Hu Xue was dragged and thrown into the center of the main hall, prostrating himself on the ground, gasping for breath.
His hands were still bound behind his back, and he spoke weakly, “I’ve been on the run for so long, but I’ve still been caught by you. Do as you please, kill or torture me!”
The wind blew in through the door.
Su Yunmo shivered as she sat on a chair.
Qian Xue closed the hall door and windows, poured two cups of hot tea, and placed them in front of the two masters.
Su Yunmo picked up one of the cups and held it to warm her hands. She tilted her head and looked at Ye Jingyu. “Isn’t ‘do as you please, kill or torture me’ a standard line for villains?”
Qian Xue chuckled.
Hu Xue’s face turned red. “What do you want?”
“I should be asking you that,” the little dumpling pouted and blew on the rim of the teacup. “Someone is chasing you? Who is it?”
Hu Xue’s eyes flickered, and he sneered, “It’s the officials, of course.”
The little dumpling rolled her eyes. “Nonsense. The officials only capture people alive to claim credit. They wouldn’t kill someone.”
Ye Jingyu looked at the little dumpling disapprovingly. “No swearing.”
The little dumpling pouted.
This person is too meddlesome.
Hu Xue remained silent, his face grim.
The little dumpling shrugged. “You don’t want me to swear, but he’s being stubborn. It’s up to you.”
Ye Jingyu picked up his teacup, blew on it forcefully, and said nonchalantly.
“Qian Xue, hang him at the mansion gate and put up a sign with his name so that everyone in the city can see.”
Hu Xue’s face turned green.
This person is too malicious! Hanging himself out in the open like this is like telling his pursuers that an opportunity has arrived!
He would rather die than fall into those people’s hands!
Qian Xue walked over.
Hu Xue shouted, “I’ll talk! It’s people from the Marquis’s mansion. Lin Zequ is trying to silence me!”
Ye Jingyu narrowed his eyes, not surprised.
Su Yunmo’s heart skipped a beat. “Silence what?”
Hu Xue took a deep breath, looked up at Su Yunmo, and said, “Lin Zequ is also from Nanjiang.”
As soon as he said this, all three people in the room were shocked.
Ye Jingyu also frowned heavily.
Although he had guessed long ago that Lin Zequ was looking for him, he hadn’t expected it to be for this reason.
“This is impossible. What proof do you have?” Su Yunmo was even more astonished.
Her hand holding the teacup trembled slightly, and some tea splashed onto her hand, making her hand shake.
Ye Jingyu frowned, reached over the table, took the cup from her hand, and handed her the cooled cup from his own.
Hu Xue struggled a couple of times and sat up from his prone position. “You don’t know because he dares not tell you.”
“Lin Zequ was the guard by the King of Nanjiang’s side. Once, driven by greed, he sneaked into the secret chamber to steal a sacred artifact and was caught. He was then expelled from Nanjiang by the King of Nanjiang.”
“Six months later, he led troops to invade Nanjiang and killed the King of Nanjiang on the battlefield. If Nanjiang hadn’t been in internal and external turmoil back then, do you think your mother would have come for a political marriage?”