The Female Lead Wants Me to Take My Medicine [Quick Transmigration] 86p2

Chapter 86 p2: A Touch of Crimson on the Lips

The garden was different from the scenery along the way. Outside, it was cold in the spring, with no greenery, only desolation.

Xi Congshuang suddenly sighed, “It is often said that gold and jade are on the outside. This governor’s residence is different. It is far in the north, but you can still see the scenery of Jiangnan.”

Hongdou did not understand and nodded repeatedly. “Yes, there is a lot of water here, and there is a big moon on the water.”

Xi Congshuang: “…”

Hongdou said again, “What a fat fish. Can we go fishing?”

Xi Congshuang’s headache was even more severe.

She was in no mood to continue to sit here and blow in the cold wind. She stood up and prepared to go back to her room.

Hongdou held a lantern, illuminating the path under her feet. The two of them passed by a rockery, but they heard a low conversation inside.

“This Xun Suihuang is really arrogant, with a wolf’s ambition.”

A pair of passing figures paused, and the face under the white gauze conical hat tilted.

Xun Suihuang? Is this Marquis Pingding’s name?

This was the second time Xi Congshuang had heard the words “wolf’s ambition.”

The first time she had heard it, she had just treated it as a subordinate’s following of the sect master’s example to please her. The second time was just now from the eunuchs’ mouths.

This was a eunuch who had reached the emperor’s ears. The leading supervising eunuch even had an imperial waist token hanging on his waist. To say this word, it was possible that the eunuchs had heard it from somewhere.

Another voice answered, “Isn’t that right? She didn’t leave early or late, but she left just as the supervising eunuch arrived. Isn’t that a slight?”

“Exactly. Godfather came with an imperial edict. Marquis Pingding left as soon as she said she would. Now the people from the thirteen camps haven’t come to apologize.”

“She’s really ambitious. She even dared to defy the imperial edict when His Majesty summoned her back to the capital. She’s really ruining the old Marquis Pingding’s reputation… who?”

Catching a glimpse of the shadow outside, the little eunuch’s heart tightened. The two of them went around the rockery and came face to face with Hongdou, who was holding a lantern.

Behind Hongdou stood a familiar figure. It was Xi Congshuang in white.

The two of them let out a sigh of relief. They had almost thought that their words had been heard by someone who shouldn’t have. That would have been the end.

“I was wondering who it was. It turns out to be Military Advisor Xi. Why are you here?”

“It’s noisy inside. I came out for some fresh air.” Xi Congshuang’s tone was faint.

The little eunuch nodded repeatedly. “Yes, yes. The adults are all talking about important matters. It’s normal to be a little louder.”

Then, one of the eunuchs’ faces was troubled. “The words you just heard…”

She didn’t know what word was so funny that it made Xi Congshuang smile. The firelight was faint, and the two eunuchs were stunned.

Xi Congshuang said, “I won’t tell on you.”

They had all served in the palace. What kind of beauty had they not seen? The emperor’s new favorite could be compared with her.

But that concubine was only eighteen years old and smiled with a naive and bright expression. How could she be like Military Advisor Xi, who smiled like a fairy, as cold as a fairy? But when she looked at her eyes, a chill quietly crept up her back, and she couldn’t help but want to stay away.

Godfather was right. Xi Yan was a woman who was covered in poison.

The master and servant soon left. After they closed the courtyard gate, when the moon was high in the sky, the lively sounds in the residence gradually subsided.

The next day, when the sky was bright, Xi Congshuang woke up. Her five internal organs were like a raging fire, but her body was as if it had fallen into an ice cellar, cold on the outside and hot on the inside. Her thin body was wrapped in a fox fur and was trembling.

The curled-up figure was unwilling to be discovered just like that. She struggled to sit up. A short action had exhausted all her strength, and her forehead was covered in cold sweat.

As expected, the fatigue from the long journey could not be relieved by a single night’s sleep.

This thought flashed through the trembling person’s mind. She looked down and, as expected, saw the blackened blood vessels on her wrist. The poison had acted up again.

She had just taken the antidote not long ago. It shouldn’t have acted up so quickly.

“Someone… someone…” The person on the bed let out a weak cry for help.

It was still early. Hongdou had been with her all the way and was tired. She should still be sleeping.

Her call was not answered. Xi Congshuang remembered that she had a bag of golden needles with her. She reached under the bed and, as expected, touched a cloth bag.

Almost with trembling hands, she opened the cloth bag, took out a golden needle, and loosened her collar to stick it into her body.

***

Hongdou was not sleeping at all. She had gotten up early to brew medicine. She was squatting by the stove and watching the fire.

She was fanning the stove with a cattail fan in her right hand, and holding a bun that the cook had given her in her other hand, her cheeks puffed up as she chewed.

“Such a good little girl. Why did you come here? The wind and sand in Wuzhou are strong. It’ll blow your little face black.” It was not yet time for the master to be served. The cook had finished cooking and had moved another stool to squat next to Hongdou to talk.

Hongdou: “I’ll be wherever my young miss is. It’s okay. I won’t get a tan.”

The cook smiled. “How can anyone not get a tan? I was also fair and clean back then, but I was still blackened by the wind and sand of Wuzhou. And my daughter, who looks just like me…”

Halfway through her words, the cook did not continue. Hongdou looked at her curiously.

The cook’s tone was full of vicissitudes. “If she were still alive, she would be this old…”

Hongdou was about to speak, but her head moved, and she looked outside the door. “What’s that sound?”

Early in the morning, the gate of the governor’s residence was knocked on. The gatekeeper, who was still in his dream, was forcibly woken up from his dream and opened the door, rolling and crawling.

As expected, a few tall horses were standing outside the door. The blood on the saber of the female general on horseback had not even been wiped clean.

She held the reins and did not even get off her horse. She opened her mouth and asked, “Where is the supervising eunuch? I’ve come to apologize.”

The gatekeeper: “…”

After giving up his main courtyard, the governor had not slept well all night. He was a little unused to the bed.

He had finally managed to get tired and was about to close his eyes and take a nap when someone came to report that the people from the thirteen camps of Northern Yan who had gone to change the guard had returned and were at the door to apologize.

It was one thing after another every day. Who would dare to sleep? He hurriedly got up, his clothes not even properly worn, and ran out.

As he was approaching the main gate, he heard someone speaking. A martial artist’s breath was deep, and his voice was like a great bell. It just so happened that his words entered the governor’s ears without a single word missing.

“I received the letter yesterday. It was my fault for not reporting it to Commander Xun. If you want to punish someone, punish me.”

The governor’s vision almost went black, but his heart relaxed.

From this situation, General Xun was definitely not here.

He hurriedly tidied his clothes. The governor stepped out from the crowd and saw the people outside the door. He thought to himself, As expected. “General Gu, you’ve just come back from changing the guard. You’re so dusty. Why don’t you go and rest?”

General Gu got off her horse, and the generals who followed behind her also got off their horses. The closer she got, the stronger the smell of gunpowder from the battlefield became.

Even the governor’s scalp tingled when he smelled the blood.

This was all the blood of the scattered Ye Man tribes.

General Gu: “The general received a report from a scout yesterday morning that a group of scattered Ye Man tribes had sneaked into a village through a small path and had been lurking for several days, preparing to burn, kill, and plunder. It just so happened that it was not far from here, so she took us to catch them and kill them. She had not expected to have neglected the supervising eunuch because of this.”

“The fault is on me, not the general. I took the letter and did not report it to the general. I’ve specially come to apologize with a thorn on my back.”

The governor: “…”

This one step, one bloody footprint. Is this to apologize with a thorn on your back or to ask for your life with a knife?

The governor knew that this General Gu was a stubborn person. In the early years, she had been picked up by Commander Xun from a bandit’s den. She did not listen to anyone’s words, only the general’s, and her temper was also fierce.

While frantically giving a look to the attendant behind him, he stepped forward to stop her. “General Gu, you’re being too serious…”

Before he could finish, he was directly pushed aside. A civil official was no match for a military general. If it weren’t for the servant behind him, he would have sat on the ground.

“Master.”

The governor shook off the servant’s hand. “Don’t ‘master’ me. Why don’t you hurry up and ask Commander Xun to come?”

Only then did the servant understand what he meant and went, rolling and crawling.

General Gu, who had successfully entered the gate, was not as impulsive as the governor had thought. She pretended to be led astray by the governor’s residence’s servant and unknowingly walked near the courtyard where Xi Congshuang lived.

General Gu stood still and pulled the servant’s collar to pull him over. “Why is there a smell of medicine? Where is this? Are you fooling me?”

The servant’s legs trembled when he smelled the blood on her. He stammered, “Th-this is Military Advisor Xi’s courtyard.”

General Gu: “Military Advisor Xi? I haven’t heard of her. What’s her name?”

The servant really did know her name and sold her out without mercy. “I heard from the master that her name is Xi Yan.”

What a coincidence. It’s right that this is Xi Yan’s place.

Their purpose today was really Xi Yan. The supervising eunuch would have to wait a little longer.

A fat-headed eunuch was easy to fool, but a retainer under Prince Xin was not. It was rumored that she was Prince Xin’s strategist.

She didn’t know why Prince Xin was willing to let her out, and wasn’t afraid that she would not come back.

“I heard she’s a sickly person. It’s probably true.”

A few thoughts turned in General Gu’s head. She pushed a servant. “Open the door. Since the supervising eunuch is not willing to see me, let Military Advisor Xi convey the message.”

The servant heard that he had to open the door of the poisonous woman and the tears he had been holding back for a long time finally came down. “Me? I open it? But she… she…”

After a long time of “she,” the servant still did not dare to finish his sentence.

He couldn’t be blamed for this. To say bad things about Xi Congshuang in front of her door was no different from telling the King of Hell, “I miss you very much. I’ll come and find you soon.”

The generals were impatient. If he didn’t have the guts to open it, they would open it themselves.

General Gu lifted her chin and pointed at a person. “You climb over the wall and open the door.”

“Yes!”

A person took the order, climbed over the wall in a few moves, and pulled open the bolt from inside.

Inside the room, Xi Congshuang was pulling out the golden needles from herself.

She pulled them out one by one, and counted them one by one. Her pale hand was very steady.

It wasn’t that she hadn’t heard the movement outside, nor was it that she didn’t know that these people were coming for her. Even if the sky fell, she had to pull out the needles first.

The sound of footsteps got closer and closer. Someone’s shadow was faintly reflected on the door. When it was close, she was called out by another person.

“I was wondering why there was no one in the residence. So you’ve all come to the governor’s residence to be wild, right?!”

When this sentence sounded, Xi Congshuang held the golden needle in the middle of her collarbone and pulled it out. If she could still see clearly, she would have been able to see the dark black blood on it.

The golden needle that had drawn out the poison was pulled out, and the blocked congested blood was instantly cleared. She opened her mouth and spat out the blocked blood. Just as the door was pushed open, the sunlight shone in, illuminating the figure on the bed.

Before she spat out the blood, Xi Congshuang was still thinking that she had forgotten to get a basin to catch it, and that she would have to trouble someone to change the mattress again.

Xun Suihuang pushed open the door and saw a person on the bed. She was coughing in a low voice with her sleeve covering her mouth. As if startled by the sound of the door being pushed open, her thin shoulders trembled even more.

Her body was weak, and her clothes were plain. She was still coughing. She had successfully intimidated a group of great generals.

After a brief silence, the moon-white sleeve was stained with blood, like fallen plum blossom petals.

Xi Congshuang bent her knuckles and casually wiped the blood from the corner of her lips, her voice hoarse. “I have met General Xun. My body is not well. I have been rude.”

Looking at the blood on her pale lips and the red-stained sleeve, the crowd: “…”

Author’s Note:

Everyone: [Cracked][Cracked][Cracked]