Chapter 13 Chapter 13 Kiss her thin lips and bring her...
Han Yu carefully examined Yin Jinglong's wound. Where the brocade was torn, the three-inch arrow wound resembled a blooming mandala. The protruding flesh glowed a bluish-purple color, like glass. A winding poisonous vein radiated from the wound, less than a fist's length from his heart.
The poisonous blood spread rapidly. If it is not sucked out in time, he may not survive the night.
Min Hanyu mustered up the courage to move closer to him. The moment her lips touched the wound, the poisonous blood crawled into her mouth like a parasitic insect, invading her throat and burning the tip of her tongue until it went numb. Every mouthful of poisonous blood that went into her throat was like swallowing an ice blade. The mucous membrane of her throat seemed to be covered with a layer of frost, but a strange warm current ignited in her abdomen.
In a trance, memories of her past life flashed through her mind. She saw that after she swallowed the sword and committed suicide, Yin Jinglong held her body, grasping the sword with his bare hands and letting the poisonous blood corrode her metacarpal bones.
She couldn't tell whether it was an illusion or reality, and her vision gradually became blurred. At this moment, Yin Jinglong suddenly let out a suppressed groan, with a twisted sense of pleasure in it.
He suddenly stretched out his fingers, dug them deep into her scattered hair, and pressed her hard against his spasming shoulder blades.
Yin Jinglong's poisoned fingertips traced the pulsating meridians in her neck. In an instant, blood marks etched out on her skin like ephemeral flowers. "Ayu's mercy... is more deadly than this poisonous blood."
He suddenly kissed her thin lips, bit his tongue, and brought her the antidote. The smell of blood was mixed with the fragrance of snow lotus.
Hanyu gradually regained consciousness, wondering if he was poisoned and dying. Why was he still...
She suddenly realized that she was being violated, so she bit his lower lip with all her strength, and the salty and fishy blood stimulated her taste buds.
However, the pain did not stop him. Instead, it aroused the animal nature hidden deep within him, and he exerted even more force.
"Your Highness, Doctor Xia has arrived!"
He was displeased by the interruption, and Yin Jinglong lifted the jade pillow on the couch and threw it at the intruder, "Get out of here!"
Hanyu took advantage of his distraction and immediately escaped from under him, running out desperately, not caring about her disheveled clothes and messy hair.
"Do you think you can escape? You've been contaminated by my poisonous blood. The parasite has invaded your body, gradually eating away at your heart, veins, bones, and blood. You must take the antidote every seven days. Otherwise, when the parasite takes effect, you'll experience a hellish existence worse than death."
Han Yu paused. What? Poisoned? Could it be that Li Yu's rebellion and his poisoning were all staged to poison her?
"Yin Jinglong, you're taking advantage of someone's misfortune! If you had known this would happen, I wouldn't have let you trick me into sucking your poisonous blood!"
"So what if you take advantage of someone's misfortune? It's my style to do anything to achieve my goal, but I have never bewitched you. It's true that I was poisoned by an arrow, and you were willing to suck the poisonous blood for me!" Li Yu had been brought in at this time. The guards tied his hands behind his back and brought him in front of the prince. The court doctor was also waiting on the side.
Li Yu saw that he no longer looked poisoned and was surprised. Impossible! He had clearly quenched the arrow with the deadly poison of Datura from the Western Regions. Anyone poisoned by it would die within a quarter of an hour, and there was no antidote for this poison in the Central Plains. Why was he still standing here unharmed?
"Deputy General Li's expression is intriguing. Why? You're so disappointed that I didn't die from your arrow! You failed the assassination mission. If I let you go, I wonder if my aunt will let you go."
"Why is this happening?"
"The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind. Before you plotted to assassinate me, I had already uncovered the conspiracy between you and Princess Chaoyang. I had already guessed you would use poison arrows, so I hid the antidote in my mouth."
"But that is a deadly poison that the princess obtained from the Western Regions. There is no antidote for this poison in the Central Plains!" Li Yu asked in confusion.
Yin Jinglong smiled in relief, "Although there is no such thing in the Central Plains, there is one on the Yulong Snow Mountain. The Iceberg Snow Lotus that blooms on the top of the snow mountain can detoxify all things."
"It's just..." He pointed at Hanyu who was silent beside him, "It can't cure the poison. Only the one who cast the poison can cure the one who is poisoned."
Even his confidant Li Yu did not know that Yin Jinglong's real purpose of going to the snow mountain was not for the statue, but for the snow lotus growing in the extremely cold place on the top of the snow mountain. The person who wanted to take the statue was actually Princess Chao Yang behind Li Yu.
Yin Jinglong had noticed the unusual movements of the people around him long before entering the snow mountain. After he found Princess Chaoyang's tiger talisman in Li Yu's room, he did not expose it on the spot, but chose to wait for the opportunity to find out the princess's true purpose.
He drew the longsword from his guard and placed it against Li Yu's neck. "She was the one who wanted to seize the statue and massacre the Tomb Guardians from the very beginning. You are both her spy and the butcher's knife. Slaughtering the Tomb Guardians wasn't enough, and now she wants to kill me with her knife too?"
Li Yu, who was exposed, had no words to defend himself at this point. He knew that once the matter was exposed, he would have no way out and only one way to go was death in the hands of Prince Yin.
"Your Highness is truly formidable. I've been lurking and forbearing for ten years just to gain your trust. I thought you had no defenses against me, but..." He closed his eyes, ready to face death. "Now that things have come to this, since I'm going to die anyway, I might as well die at Your Highness's hands."
"Hmph! I don't want you to die so easily. Princess Chaoyang is just as vicious as I am. Since you belong to my aunt, I will naturally hand you over to her."
Yin Jinglong sent people to temporarily put the traitor Li Yu into the dungeon and keep him under strict guard. After all, he was the best hostage to hold Princess Chao Yang accountable.
The doctor who was waiting nearby stepped forward and said, "Your Highness, the poison has been cured, but the arrow wound still needs to be treated. If there are any sequelae, it will be troublesome."
When the attendant physician opened the medicine box and was pulling out the arrow from Yin Jinglong's body, he could not hide his pain and groaned. Suddenly, golden lines appeared from his right shoulder to the side of his neck. At the same time, Hanyu suddenly fell to the ground and curled up. Thousands of moving golden lines appeared on his icy white skin, which were very similar to the lines on Yin Jinglong's body.
She felt as if countless fine needles were moving under her skin, pricking her whole body and making her feel numb. Every time her joints moved, there was a crisp sound like a glacier breaking. It was the poisonous insects gnawing at her bone marrow.
The attendant physician looked at the two in surprise, "Your Highness, could it be that the poison you and this young lady were infected with is the heart-eating poison from southern Xinjiang?"
Yin Jinglong suddenly reached out and grabbed the doctor's collar, veins popping out at his knuckles. "Since you know about this poison, tell me how to control it?"
"Your Majesty... Your Majesty has only heard of it, but I know nothing about the matter of controlling poison!" The attending physician clasped his hands together and begged for mercy, regretting what he had just said.
At this moment, Han Yu, who had fallen to the ground, suddenly screamed loudly. When her fingertips just touched the Gu pattern on her heart, she felt a sharp pain as if an ice cone pierced through her skull. She vaguely saw the scenes from her past life memories.
In her previous life, Hanyu was imprisoned in the dungeon by Yin Jinglong for many days. She knew that she had no hope of survival, so she could only beg her to let her see Ajiang.
Unexpectedly, Yin Jinglong agreed to her request and brought her to another secret room, which was an ice cellar as cold as a snowy mountain.
Deep in the foggy ice cellar lies an ice coffin. Inside the coffin, carved from thousand-year-old black ice, lies a carefully decorated corpse.
She saw A Jiang lying motionless inside, wearing a black iron scale armor. His face was as pale as wax, his body was as stiff as iron, and a fatal wound from a dagger was visible in his throat.
The corpse was soaked in a medicinal liquid made from snow mountain blue lotus and snake gall, and the coffin liquid was also mixed with the cedar incense that Ajiang used to use during his lifetime. The ten finger joints of the corpse were fixed with silver wire into the posture of a general holding a sword. On his waist hung a jade buckle with a dragon pattern that Han Yu had never seen before and a black brocade bag, and the brocade bag contained the jade hairpin that was broken when she and Ajiang fell in love.
Hanyu still couldn't believe Ajiang, but the broken jade hairpin was indeed hers. It was the only thing her biological mother left her. On the day when she and Ajiang promised to spend their lives together beside the icy lake at the foot of the snow-capped mountains, she broke the hairpin into two. She kept the tail and gave the head to Ajiang.
Did Yin Jinglong bring her to the ice coffin secret room just to let her see A Jiang's tragically dead body with her own eyes?
"My brother, a general who defended the country, betrayed our Great Yin and ultimately met such a fate. This king is deeply saddened. However, I am his brother. To protect his body, I ask His Majesty to demote me and confine me to the palace for one year."
Yin Jinglong slowly walked to the ice coffin, reached out and touched his brother's frosty face, and continued to tell Hanyu, "To protect the body from decay, I must come personally to add and change the medicine on the first day of every month. I must use the wolf-hair brush that my brother used when he was alive, dipped in cinnabar, and place the seal between his eyebrows. I have not brought you to see him because I am afraid of making my sister-in-law sad."
Min Hanyu staggered towards the ice coffin, stretched out her trembling hands, and stroked the armor on his body. Although she had never seen Ajiang wearing the general's armor, this familiar face made her heartbroken.
She couldn't help but burst into tears, and threw herself on Ajiang's chest helplessly and reluctantly.
"My brother has passed away. Please... accept my condolences. He once told me to take good care of you. If you hadn't held me in such high regard and hadn't wanted to live after the death of your husband and your family, I wouldn't have forced you to stay in this secret room. As long as you're willing to stay in the palace, I won't mistreat you."
Yin Jinglong prepared a room for her and assigned her several young maids. Seeing the bruises on her wrists from the chains, he immediately ordered the physician to come into the house to treat her injuries.
But she flatly rejected all of this. Not to mention the truth behind A Jiang's death, Yin Jinglong was the enemy who slaughtered her entire family. How could she listen to him and stay in the palace?
Hanyu did not appreciate any of his false kindness. With her husband gone, she had lost hope of living, but she would not be able to rest in peace until she had avenged the massacre of her clan.
She was unwilling to leave the ice cellar and planned to spend the rest of her life guarding her late husband's coffin.
"My sister-in-law and my brother are deeply in love and are unwilling to leave him. Then I will grant your wish."
Yin Jinglong ordered people to build a compartment next to the ice cellar, put a red wooden bed and a dressing box and a bronze mirror in it, and let her live next to the ice coffin.
Min Hanyu sat upright in front of the mirror, her pale face reflected in the diamond-shaped mirror. The sound of the rhinoceros horn comb scratching through her withered black hair echoed emptyly in the ice cellar. A few strands of hair would fall off with every few strokes.
The mermaid candle embedded in the ice wall shed silver tears, casting her shadow on the corpse in the ice coffin, forming a strange overlapping human figure.
After finishing her makeup, she carefully picked up the black hair on the ground, wrapped it into a circle and placed it in the brocade bag around her late husband's waist.
Looking at the pale face of her late husband, she couldn't help but cry on his icy chest. The cold corpse stung her cheeks, and the sound of her hot tears dripping on the corpse made a "sizzling" sound, and her increasingly weak sobs echoed around the ice coffin.
When she accidentally lifted the armor of the corpse, she was shocked to find that there was no scar on the collarbone left by the man who saved her on the snowy mountain.
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