Chapter 348 He loves the princess’ mother
There was a momentary silence in Crystal Tower. Later, Duan Xiaolou said in a deep voice, “Lynx, if you can’t bear it, you can do whatever you want to me. You can just hurt me in the way Du Yao was hurt. You let her go, or I’ll use ‘that thing’ to you.”
Hearing this, Lu Jiangbei got dissatisfied and said, “Duan, you shouldn’t get emotional like him. ‘That thing’ is our last trump card, which should be used at the last gasp. Do you want to waste our precious power on such a ridiculous reason?” Then, he said to Liao Zhiyuan word by word, “Lynx, I, command you to let go of Ms. He. If you still think I’m your boss, you should let her go.”
After hearing this, Liao Zhiyuan pressed He Danggui’s pulse on her right wrist, and meanwhile, grasped her fair neck. He retreated with her slowly to the corner of the room, and said with a faint smile, “If you avenge Du Yao’s pain or let me do that, I’ll still regard you as my boss. If you just fall for this woman like Duan Xiaolou, I’ll solve this in my way.” Everyone’s expression became very solemn and then Liao Zhiyuan turned to Gao Jue and said, “Didn’t you just get a new girlfriend? You won’t stop me doing what I’ll do next, will you, Gao?”
Gao Jue was silent for a moment, then, he coughed and said, “You don’t need to kill her now. Look how anxious Duan Xiaolou is. You just, ahem... You can lock her in the dungeon for the time being. After we get rid of the enemies, we can discuss about this.” Finishing his words, Gao Jue cast a bunch of keys to Liao Zhiyuan and He Danggui. The keys flew very slowly.
Liao Zhiyuan didn’t catch the keys himself, instead, he used He Danggui’s hand to take that shiny vicious thing. When her fair hand touched those keys, she seemed to have been bitten by something and threw them twice before getting them off finally. She didn’t cry out, but her face totally turned pale because of the pain. Her hand was clenched weakly, which prevented others from seeing the wound inside. Only the blood dripped off her fair fingers, and made red and white blossoms on the ground.
“Good,” Liao Zhiyuan grasped He Danggui’s neck harder, retreated more backward and said with a big smile, “Very good. I’ve known your answer, Gao. It seems you did admit her as your apprentice. He He Qi Ri Qing? Did you plan to use it on me? Huh, I’m very vengeful. You get away from Qing’er from now on. I’m about to marry her off to Master Geng as his concubine.
In Duan Xiaolou’s roars and Lu Jiangbei’s reproach, He Danggui looked up and shouted angrily, “Are you insane, Liao Zhiyuan? You even want to destroy Qing’er as well! She won’t marry that man, and I won’t let her marry him! You’d better perish the thought!” During her shout, the sharp pain spread through her whole body from the wound in her hand. It felt like she was being burned and it hurt so much. He Danggui was familiar with the pain. She had experienced this kind of sobering and severe pain when she suffered a stab for someone in her previous life. It turned out that the poison was called He He Qi Ri Qing. Meng Xuan was poisoned by it that day and became very weak.
He Danggui’s whole body was overwhelmed by the waves of pain and it is soul-destroying. Too weak to cry out, she just bit her underlip with the upper teeth, which caused the blood flowing out from her mouth quickly. She lost all her strength and fell down backward, but she was still sober. Soberness was her last weapon. She fell into Liao Zhiyuan’s arms, and the man touched her face with his viper-like fingers. He clicked his tongue and sighed, “You didn’t even cry with such strong pain. How tough you are! I wonder if you’re really a woman... How could a woman be like you? Let me teach you about it. Duan must’ve been reluctant to do this to you...”
“Liao Zhiyuan!” Lu Jiangbei shouted in a cold voice, “If you keep being such a die-hard, I’ll kill you in person for Imperial Guard’s good!
Liao Zhiyuan picked a wisp of He Danggui’s hair under his hand, twisted it and stuffed it into her mouth to stop her from biting her underlip again. He laughed and replied, “Master Lu, be patient. You’re not the only one caring about beauties. I also feel sorry about her, but I didn’t poison her. I don’t have the antidote. If I do, I’ll help her drink all of it, right, Duan?” Liao Zhiyuan smiled more brightly when he looked at the door, “Xue Xiao, you’re the best. I didn’t expect that for you, a friend you’ve known for just half a year is more reliable than the one you’ve known for 20 years.”
It turned out that Lu Jiangbei tipped Xue Xiao a wink before, and hinted him to hit Duan Xiaolou at some acupoint to make him pass out. Duan Xiaolou was in a coma and still frowning. It seemed he was struggling to wake up. Seeing this, Lu Jiangbei shook his head and sighed. He turned to ask Gao Jue who was standing beside the foot of the bed, “Do you have the antidote?”
Gao Jue shook his head and answered, “I left it at home. You sent the signal too suddenly. I left all my baggage at home.”
Lu Jiangbei got angry and frowned, “You don’t have it? Why did you try to poison him, then? If the poison hurts Lynx, what would you do?”
Gao Jue gasped and replied, “Jiang Yi has the antidote, but I saw him flying out from the window when I entered here just now. We could just wait for him to come back.” He said slowly like an old man, and looked up and down at Lu Jiangbei who stood beside the head of the bed and seemed to be very anxious. Gao Jue stopped for a moment and kept saying slowly, “I didn’t believe it before, but judging from what I’ve seen, I wonder now if this is really true. Jiangbei, you’re so disappointing.”
Lu Jiangbei asked in astonishment, “What do you mean by that?”
Gao Jue glanced at He Danggui who almost passed out, and asked, “Did you fall in love with her as well? Didn’t you say that you wouldn’t love anyone again? Why is she more important to you than your senior brothers?”
Before Lu Jiangbei gave any response, Liao Zhiyuan laughed and said, “Gao, you’ve wronged him. There’s a reason you don’t know. It’s a secret between Master Prophet and us.” He glanced at Xue Xiao who stood at the door and Duan Xiaolou who had passed out, and continued with a smile, “Since there’s no outsider here, we can talk about it. Our boss doesn’t love the lady in my arms or the princess she was in her previous life. He loves the princess’ mother, the world-famous imperial Consort who now is His Majesty’s...”
“Liao Zhiyuan!” Lu Jiangbei interrupted him, “I’ll never forgive you if you say that.”
The homicidal intent and anger implied in his voice even shocked Gao Jue, who knew him for the longest time. Even Lu Jiangbei would want to kill someone? The princess’ mother? Which princess? Previous life? What the hell is that? What were Liao Zhiyuan and Lu Jiangbei talking about?
Liao Zhiyuan tidied up the hair of He Danggui in his arms with his fingers, and said in an unprecedentedly relaxed tone, “Boss, it turns out that you have also had internal injuries. It’s caused by the man we saw yesterday, right? You’ve hidden it so well by acting angrily. I’m so frightened...that I almost want to make this woman fall asleep forever.” Without looking at Lu Jiangbei’s weird eyes glittering with blue light or Gao Jue’s strange boots covered with frost, Liao Zhiyuan fixed his eyes on the face of the woman in his arms. She bit her black hair with lips as red as cherries. The cold expression on her fair face kept anyone from tainting her, which brought another kind of temptation that would lure men into breaking her coldness.
“The man we met yesterday did help me a lot,” Liao Zhiyuan held a wisp of He Danggui’s hair and kissed it upward bit by bit, “Our boss was hurt by him and got mad because of me; Gao was so proud that he fell into the man’s trap so easily, and now his condition seems to be bad again; Duan ended up like this. You tell me, who can stop me from touching Ms. He now?” Saying this, he pulled slightly with his hand and the last three buttons on He Danggui’s nocturnal clothing were broken. Her plump breasts under the close-fitting clothing amazed Liao Zhiyuan. He exclaimed, “Sure enough she’s grown up. It’s just been three years... Guys, do you want me to do this in the dungeon, the room over there or right here? Du Yao, which hand did she use to hurt your thing?”
Du Yao punched on the bed, struggled to get up and roared weakly, “Damn it! Who said my private area was injured! You let go of her!” He pulled off the quilt slowly, and he had still worn his blue silk pants neatly. There’s no sign of blood. He didn’t look like a person who had just been through castration at all.
Suddenly, Liao Zhiyuan, Gao Jue and Xue Xiao were all stunned. When they came in, they found that He Danggui was fine but Du Yao was lying on the bed quietly, and He Danggui seemed to be very sorry. Therefore, they immediately drew a conclusion which they thought was closest to the truth: to keep her virginity, He Danggui did castration to Du Yao. But...why would it be like this?
“How could it be possible?” Liao Zhiyuan felt unbelievable, “You...you did look weak because of severe injury, and He Danggui also said you were hurt. Boss also kept shaking his head when treating you. You... Did you...”
Xue Xiao was more stunned, “I found two philters in a box. I gave one to the lady in the next room, and applied another one on a Jin Mai Nail before you stepped on it. It’s been one day and one night and that lady is still suffering from it. But you, you seem alright. Did you...”
Gao Jue touched it to confirm and said briefly, “It’s still there. Well-behaved.”
“Did you...” Liao Zhiyuan and Xue Xiao glanced at Du Yao and He Danggui who had passed out, “Did you do that? Have you taken the ‘antidote’?”
Lu Jiangbei had known the truth, and he glanced at Du Yao. Leaning against the head of the bed weakly, Du Yao nodded and smiled bitterly, “I didn’t say it because I have some personal reason. I didn’t want too many people to know about it, and I asked Jiangbei to keep the secret for me. But the situation has been like this. Maybe it can’t be hidden for long. You’ll know it sooner or later... Boss, please explain it to them in order to preserve Ms. He’s reputation.”
Lu Jiangbei said in a deep voice, “About Du Yao’s injury... I took his pulse just now and found all his internal force was gone, which means his kung fu was destroyed. After recuperating for half a month, he may be able to walk again, but he’ll be just the same as any ordinary man. As for whether he can get his kung fu back, we’ll see that after a year or so. Of course, I’ll try my best to help him.”
“You!” Liao Zhiyuan shook the woman in his arms that was as soft as a doll, “She destroyed Du Yao’s kung fu? She...” He suddenly changed his sharp reproach with a question, “How could that be possible? Although she has great internal force that is even as much as mine, she can’t exert any kung fu at all. How could she do that? Du Yao is not a weakling!”
Lu Jiangbei sighed silently and reminded Liao Zhiyuan, “Ms. He is just a young lady who always stays at home. She has just learned kung fu for about two or three years, but she has internal force that’s as great as that of a strong man like you who has learned kung fu for 23 years. Didn’t you say she’s suspicious just now? Compared with hers, what do you think of your talent and efforts? She’s worse than you in the two aspects, but why could she skip the practice of more than 20 years?”
An idea flashed through Liao Zhiyuan’s mind. He widened his eyes and asked in amazement, “Boss, you mean...?”
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