Chapter 230 Yun Jiaoyue's Exorbitant Demands

The driver of the carriage that sped past them tightened the reins and stopped the horse just before it was about to crash into the wall.

"Whoa!"

"Zhu Feng and Zhui Ying jumped off the carriage, opened the back door, and lowered a panel connecting the edge of the carriage to the ground. *Bang!*"

The two pushed Xiao Xuance out of the carriage and, without him saying a word, pushed him directly in front of Yun Zhaoxue.

Xiao Xuance handed her the water pouch to rinse her mouth and then wiped the corners of her lips.

Yun Zhaoxue rinsed her mouth, and only after the nausea subsided did she feel better.

"Why are you here? You just finished working on your leg. Instead of resting at the inn, you're running around like this. Do you want to ruin your leg again?"

"You can ride in a carriage without getting off the ground, so don't worry."

"Who's worried about you? If you don't want your legs anymore, just break them. You won't need treatment later."

Treating a broken leg is a huge undertaking. How could she stand for hours with her big belly?

She left without telling anyone last night, but left a letter on the table.

She also wrote in the letter that he shouldn't come over, but should rest and recover at the inn, and that she would rush back before the group set off.

He even traveled all the way by horse-drawn carriage, showing no regard for the patients whatsoever.

I'm worried about you.

He was worried that she would leave him for Jiangnan without a word, and if she wanted to go, he would have to take her with him.

He didn't want to be apart from her for even a moment.

Zhao Xuan and Yun Jiaoyue scrambled to their feet from the ground in a disheveled state.

Yun Jiaoyue's leg was injured by the stool, and then she fell. The fall aggravated her old injury, and a tearing pain spread throughout her body, as if she had been repeatedly hit with a heavy object. She was in so much pain that she was covered in sweat, her vision went black, and she almost fainted.

The maid helped her up, "Your Highness..."

Blood seeped through the gauze wrapped around Zhao Xuan's arm, and the wound had reopened.

Yun Jiaoyue's teeth chattered with pain. She took a deep breath and pointed at Zhu Feng and Zhui Ying, yelling, "Were you blind? You told him to ram the car straight at us!"

"King Xuan, the carriage suddenly went out of control and became uncontrollable."

Yun Jiaoyue pointed at him and shouted angrily, "You were clearly doing this on purpose, deliberately crashing into her to kill Her Highness! Her Highness has helped you so many times, and you actually wanted to kill her? Do you have any conscience?"

What she said was exactly what Zhao Xuan was thinking.

Zhu Feng coldly replied, "We'll cover the medical expenses!"

Yun Jiaoyue deliberately made things difficult, "Fine, you want compensation, right? Then I want ten bottles each of Black Jade Bone-Mending Ointment and Ice Skin Jade Dew Ointment, plus 100,000 taels of silver."

She wouldn't be Yun if she didn't rip them off badly.

Zhuiying said, "Ten thousand taels? Ten thousand taels is enough to buy ten of your legs. We can give you ten thousand, but only if you cut off your legs and I sell them to the butcher shop to recoup some of my costs."

"You...you dare!"

Pei Huaiji said, "You tried to extort 100,000 taels of silver just because you fell down. You could buy ten legs, or even ten lives."

"Here are a few bottles of Black Jade Bone-Mending Ointment. Go back and apply it. That's all you have."

They have money but won't be taken advantage of.

Zhao Xuan concealed the gloom in his eyes and said in a seemingly generous manner, "Yue'er, it's alright, a fall is nothing serious."

Upon hearing this, Yun Jiaoyue retorted with dissatisfaction, "Your Highness, how can you let it go? My leg really hurts so much, it feels like it's going to break. They said they would compensate me, but they can't afford to pay and they still made such a boast to disgust who they are?"

Zhao Xuan originally wanted to take this opportunity to make the Xiao family and the Pei family owe him a favor.

I didn't expect her to mess things up. Since she can't change her mind now, I'll just let her be.

"Your legs need at least three bottles, no more than ten."

Pei Huaiji sent someone to give her three bottles of Black Jade Bone-Mending Ointment and three bottles of Ice Skin Jade Dew Ointment to get rid of them.

Yun Jiaoyue was naturally unwilling to let it go like that.

However, many of their men were killed or wounded in yesterday's battle, and this time they only brought four or five people. They couldn't even defeat the Pei family's guards, let alone Zhu Feng and Zhui Ying. They could only swallow their anger for now and find an opportunity to take revenge later.

On the way back by horse-drawn carriage.

Yun Jiaoyue kept complaining, criticizing everyone except Zhao Xuan.

"They must have deliberately run us over to kill us. We can't let this go. When His Highness ascends the throne, we'll get our revenge and chop off their heads. No, chopping off their heads is too easy for them. We should skin them alive and turn them into human skin lanterns..."

"We also need to peel off Yun Zhaoxue's face, cut off her limbs, and turn her into a human pig..."

Zhao Xuan, interrupted by her incessant chatter in his ear, snapped at her impatiently, "Shut up!"

He began to doubt whether the Yun Jiaoyue in front of him was the woman in his dream who strategized for him among enemy countries, the imperial court, and wealthy gentry.

Yun Jiaoyue shut her mouth after being yelled at, shrinking into a corner, feeling a little resentful. Why was she afraid of Xiao Xuance, that cripple, making her feel inferior in front of Yun Zhaoxue?

She is a princess consort, and Yun Zhaoxue's combined status as a crown prince's wife and a county princess is not as good as her.