Chapter 8 Chapter 8 You really gave me a poisonous drug! ...
The shopkeeper searched through boxes and cabinets for medicinal herbs, and finally gave her a bag of herbs that looked like mushrooms. He wrapped it in a cloth and handed it to her.
He didn't tell her what the herb was, only that it had to be taken in a large enough dose to be lethal.
Grind the entire packet of herbs into powder and add it to food or tea. Once taken, it will only cause hallucinations at first, and the poisoned person will not notice the changes in himself. However, as the poison takes over, the poisoned person will suffocate to death in the hallucinations in less than half a quarter of an hour. It can be said that the person dies silently and unconsciously.
But... this kind of death sounds too easy, doesn't it? That was the enemy who caused her and A Jiang's tragic deaths in their past life! How could she let him get away with it so easily?
In her previous life, the scene of her swallowing a sword and dying still haunts her like a nightmare every night, and hatred surges into her heart like a torrential flood.
Every time she woke up from a nightmare, she swore more than once that if she didn't avenge this, how could she be worthy of her tragic death and the innocent A Jiang?
"Shopkeeper, look for some poison that can cause a person to struggle to death in despair and agony. The stronger the better!"
The shopkeeper scratched his head, with a helpless look in his eyes.
He is just an old doctor in the village who runs a herbal medicine shop to treat villagers. He is not an assassin or bandit. How could he have such poison that can harm people?
He was able to take out this packet of herbs because he was well aware that all medicines are poisonous. At present, he could only select from the existing herbs an herb that becomes more toxic the more it is taken.
The shopkeeper, a fifty-year-old man, is now at this age and has one foot in the earth. Naturally, he does not want to ruin his reputation among the villagers for the sake of cheapness. He does not want the medicine store he has painstakingly run for most of his life to go bankrupt, and he does not want to implicate his family because of it.
He waved his hands, stroked his beard, and sighed, "Miss Ayu, I can only help you so far. If you want to find a strong poison, I'm afraid you'll have to go to a village farther away. Please keep this packet of herbs I gave you safe. I don't ask who you will use them on, but please remember not to tell anyone that I gave you the herbs, otherwise my whole family will suffer! There's no need to say anything else. On behalf of my wife, I thank you for your fox fur coat!"
After the shopkeeper and his wife sent Hanyu away, they hurriedly closed the door of the pharmacy. I guess they were afraid of getting into trouble and wanted to distance themselves from her as soon as possible.
In desperation, Hanyu had to accept the bag of poisonous herbs and carry the full bag of charcoal back to the cabin in the woods.
At this moment, the man on the bed was still fast asleep. Perhaps because of his injury and the sleepless night, he was sleeping very deeply. The noise she made while lighting a fire and brewing tea outside the house did not wake him up.
Halfway through the fire, daybreak arrived, the snow and wind subsided, and the winter morning glow shone through the gaps between the dense pines and cypresses, illuminating the emerald green of the icy lake. The lake's surface shimmered in golden light, a brilliant contrast to the glittering snow-capped peaks. Hanyu carried the brazier inside, and within moments, the small, simple cabin had gradually warmed up.
The man in the bed had woken up at some point. He was trying to move his injured right arm. After a night of rest, he seemed to be able to move it a little, but he still didn't have enough strength. The wound on the back of his left hand wasn't as bloody and hideous as it had been the night before, but the white silk handkerchief wrapped around it was already stained crimson.
After seeing the charcoal brazier that Hanyu brought in, he suddenly recalled that there was only a piece of unburned wood left in the charcoal brazier next to the bed last night, but it was filled with red-hot charcoal early this morning.
Hanyu was half-crouching on the ground with her back to him, curled up next to the charcoal brazier and stretching out her hands to keep warm. She was only wearing a thin red robe.
"Where did you get the charcoal? Where is the fox fur coat I gave you?"
Hearing the male voice coming from behind, Hanyu's thin body was slightly startled.
She slowly stood up, rubbed her numb legs, and pointed to the sack of charcoal in the corner of the room. "I took your fur coat to the farm down the mountain and exchanged it for some charcoal for heating."
As she expected, after learning about this, Yin Jinglong's already pale face instantly turned into anger, and there was incredible shock in his furious eyes.
"That fur coat was hunted from the northern pole of Tianshan Mountain at great expense to me, and then crafted by the finest tailor in the capital over a month. You know, there's only one of its kind in the world! If you hadn't saved me at the foot of the temple, why would I have lent you this precious item to keep me warm? And now you're trading it for a pile of tattered charcoal? Are you trying to piss me off to death?"
"Your Highness, please calm down! I'm just an orphan who grew up in the snowy mountains. I've never heard of, let alone seen, an Arctic blue fox, and I don't understand the value of its fur. But I do know that without this charcoal fire, you and I would have a hard time surviving the blizzard. In my opinion, the charcoal is more important than that precious fox fur!"
Seeing that he seemed to have no intention of calming down, Hanyu walked to the small wooden table in front of the window, handed him a cup of hot tea she had just brewed, and apologized to him sincerely.
"If Your Majesty is reluctant to part with the fur coat, you can return it with some money and silk to exchange for it! It's cold, and you're still injured. Have a cup of hot tea to warm yourself up first! I'll boil a basin of water later to clean the wound on the back of your hand."
Hanyu's sudden change in attitude made him feel confused, and the anger in his eyes disappeared for the most part, and he stared at her thoughtfully.
"Why are you suddenly so gentle towards me? Weren't you trying to kill me last night? And now you're offering me tea and apologizing?"
"If I hadn't felt bad about selling you the fur by mistake, I wouldn't have personally made tea to apologize for it!"
Hanyu knew very well that Yin Jinglong was suspicious by nature and extremely cunning. If she deliberately made tea for him, it would naturally arouse his suspicion, so she pretended to give him tea to apologize.
He raised his eyes and glanced at the steaming teapot on the wooden table, then looked at the charcoal fire burning at his feet, and took the teacup with half belief and half doubt.
Place the medicinal tea in front of your nose and take a light sniff. It seems to have a light herbal scent, but the taste is not strong. After the first sniff, it actually gives you a refreshing, eye-opening, and relaxed feeling. After smelling it again, a desire arises in your heart. The aroma of tea is so strong that you can't help but take a sip.
He took a sip and held it in his mouth. His eyes involuntarily fell on Hanyu's face. Her eyelashes moved slightly on her expressionless face, and her gaze seemed to dodge.
Yin Jinglong suddenly stretched out a pair of strong hands and embraced her slender waist under her red shirt, and her weak and light body fell into his arms unexpectedly.
Taking advantage of her surprise, the man's strong and broad back pressed her soft and boneless body onto the red silk bed, making her unable to move.
Hanyu subconsciously exclaimed: "What are you going to do to me?"
His phoenix eyes were slightly opened, his eyebrows and eyes were blurred. Although he was looking at her, his empty eyes seemed to be looking through her and somewhere else. His cold and handsome face flushed under the lingering aroma of tea, and his heavy breath rushed to her half-exposed neck, blushing her fair and slender neck.
Could it be that he was already hallucinating after taking the poison? In that case, he would have suffocated to death in less than half an hour due to the poisonous blood invading him?
Hanyu didn't dare to act rashly, and stared at his every move quietly, fearing that she would anger the beast before the poison took effect and cause it to do something dangerous to her.
Their eyes intertwined, just like the ripples under the icy lake, if you move, she moves too.
His sinister eyes became softer than before at this moment. In a trance, she saw in him the familiar person that she had been thinking about day and night.
He and A Jiang were so similar that she mistook him for him many times.
But her reason told her that he was not A Jiang, he just had a face very similar to A Jiang. She tried her best to restrain her inner longing for A Jiang, so as not to be upset by him.
He suddenly lifted her face, which had already turned red without her knowing when, and stroked her dark eyebrows with his slender fingertips as if he was playing with a toy, lightly touched her eyebrows like a dragonfly skimming the water, and then touched her nose like a water snake. The warm fingertips lightly touched her deliberately locked lips, and his eyes followed them down.
Seeing that she was unmoved, his hand instantly turned into a swimming dragon and dived under the red gauze, moving over her skin as soft and smooth as cream, sometimes heavy and sometimes light, and wherever it touched, red marks were gradually burned on her snow-white skin.
The white silk corset around her waist hindered him, so he gently untied it and took off the red shirt, leaving only a layer of gauze underneath.
And the warm big palm like a swimming dragon now turned over her chest and dived into her waist and back, as if looking for something.
Suddenly, he withdrew his hands from her waist, and his charming phoenix eyes instantly became sinister. The tiger's mouth of his left hand tightened her delicate jaw, forcing her to open her lips. She could hear her bones cracking, and Hanyu frowned in pain as her lips were forcibly pried open, but she could not utter a word.
At this moment, those hot lips with the smell of tea suddenly covered her lips. In an instant, she felt a warm current flowing between her lips and teeth, and a faint herbal smell lingered in her throat. She couldn't help coughing violently.
By the time she reacted, it was too late. He didn't swallow the poison tea, but took the opportunity to pass the poison to her!
Hanyu coughed hard and put his fingers into his throat, forcing himself to vomit out the poison.
Yin Jinglong climbed up from her calmly and glanced down at her condescendingly: "You really did drug me!"
Fortunately, Yin Jinglong only took a small sip and didn't give her much. He spit out the rest. He was just testing her.
When Hanyu recovered, she saw Yin Jinglong standing in front of her with his hands behind his back, standing straight, his eyes intriguing, as if waiting for her to give a reasonable explanation.
She clutched her chest, which was aching from coughing, and frowned, "Didn't you already know I wanted to kill you? I had no choice but to save you last night. Now that I've obtained your White Jade Seal, I'm no longer afraid of your guards. If I find the opportunity, I'll definitely kill you to vent my hatred! It's a pity that you saw through my poisoning plan, so luckily you escaped!"
Yin Jinglong waved his hands and shook his head, not quite satisfied with her confession.
He picked up the teapot and smelled it again, curious about what kind of poison was inside.
If it was really poison, why didn't he feel any pain when he just took a small sip? Instead, he felt a sudden sense of physical and mental pleasure, with a sense of desire flowing in his lower abdomen, and somewhere hidden under his clothes was inexplicably agitated. He suddenly had the urge to touch her?
"Are you sure that what you gave the king was poison, and not...a love potion?"
"Love potion?"
Hanyu was shocked, and the blush on her face had just faded a little, but after hearing these two words, her face turned red again inexplicably.
Embarrassed, she anxiously stood up and tried to grab the teapot, but she didn't notice that her belt had been untied. The outer collar of her red shirt slipped from her shoulders to her arms, revealing the snow-white gauze lining, and her smooth skin like cream was faintly visible.
Yin Jinglong looked at her with an ambiguous smile: "You tried to drug me but failed, so you can't wait to tease me again?"
She lowered her head in shame, quickly pulled up her outer shirt that had slipped off, turned around, and rushed into the bed curtains, wrapping herself tightly with the quilt.
"Don't spit bloody words at me! That's not some love potion! It was you, a beast in human form, who was trying to humiliate me! Just wait! If I get another chance, I'll cut out your tongue, peel off your skin, pull out your tendons, and let you die in endless pain and hatred!"
"Oh? What do you mean? You gave me that cup of tea, and I thought it was a sincere apology. I never imagined there was something fishy in it. Fortunately, I didn't drink it, otherwise it would be more than just undressing."
Seeing Hanyu's face turning blue and red, he couldn't help but raise his head and laugh triumphantly.
"I know you've been trying to kill me time and again because you believe I've harmed your husband, but I'm telling you, even if you kill me, you can't save your cowardly and incompetent Ah Jiang! Besides, I'm afraid you won't even have the chance to kill me again!"
After saying that, Yin Jinglong stretched out his hand behind his back and slowly opened his palm, and the white jade seal appeared in front of Hanyu.
Hanyu looked at the familiar jade seal in disbelief, "Isn't this jade seal on me? How could it be..."
Only then did she suddenly realize that he hadn't teased her just now because he was hallucinating. He had clearly pretended to be poisoned so that he could take advantage of the opportunity to untie her belt and steal the jade seal back!
What a cruel man! What a scheming man!
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