"Yu Zhu... save... Yu Zhu..."
The person on the bed murmured unconsciously, her brows furrowed with anxiety and fear, but her voice was so weak that it sounded like only a low murmur.
The doctor skillfully stitched up the wound, and the maid gently covered it with a thin gauze blanket.
The doctor walked around the screen and came out, bowing to the dark-clad figure standing at the door: "My lord, I have finished treating the wound and the medicine is being prepared. However, her injury is too deep and too dangerous. Whether she can pull through depends on herself. She will definitely have a high fever tonight and won't recover quickly. We can only treat her while observing her condition."
The slender figure slowly turned around, the dark hem of his robe flashing with a cold, golden light.
"Do everything you can to save her, use the best medicine." The cold voice betrayed no emotion.
"I understand."
The doctor withdrew first, as he needed to wash off the blood covering him.
Whispers continued inside the room; though very soft, one could still hear the fear and pleading within them.
The butler, Gu Jiu, came over with a medicine bottle: "Master, the medicine is here."
Qin Zhuo reached out and took it, but Gu Jiu reminded him, "Master, this medicine is good, but not too much. Miss Shen has no internal energy, so half a pill is enough."
"Um."
Gu Jiu: "The two people in the alley, one of them is Miss Shen's maid. The doctor examined her and found that she had many injuries, the most serious of which was a head fracture. Although she has been given medicine, she may not survive."
"The other person was Shen Ming, a criminal who was supposed to be beheaded at noon. He was stabbed six times and died on the spot."
A criminal who should have been beheaded is alive and running around...
"Who is the executioner today?"
"Lin Shikai, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice."
Those from the Han family faction who ran into him were truly courting death.
"Send the person to the Minister of the Court of Judicial Review."
He knew what to do when given leverage.
Qin Zhuo took the medicine in and his gaze fell on the bed. Shen Ning's face was ashen, and even her lips were bloodless.
His eyes, lowered, held an unreadable expression. He poured out a pill, crushed it, took half of it, bent down, pried open her lips, and placed the half-pill inside her mouth for her to suck.
He didn't leave after giving her the medicine. Instead, he sat down by the bed, staring at the unconscious person on the bed with a serious expression, as if he was thinking about something very important.
I inadvertently touched my cuff; it felt dry—the blood had dried on my clothes.
Gently rub the blood between your thumb and forefinger, and soon your hand will have some dried blood powder.
I remember her covered in blood in the alley...
According to onlookers, she was dragged into an alley and stabbed by Chen Ming. Her maid went to save her, but even though she had escaped, she didn't run away. Instead, she took a knife and killed her enemy piece by piece.
For someone like him who lives on the edge of a knife, killing has become so numbing that he feels nothing.
But he remembers the feeling of killing someone with a knife for the first time.
That requires not only force, but also extraordinary determination and courage.
He reached out and ran his fingertips across her cheek. It was ice-cold from blood loss, and if he hadn't been able to detect her breathing, she would have looked almost like a corpse.
"I saved you, so your life is now mine. Congratulations on getting on my ship."
In his mind, she should be an ordinary person living a peaceful and carefree life, and should not be involved in those intrigues and power struggles.
His world was too dark and dirty; it wasn't suitable for a young girl like her.
So when he realized she knew King Zhao's secret, his first thought was to remove her from the picture, lest she be torn to shreds if he wasn't careful.
But she is no longer that little girl who would cry her eyes out when bullied. Those who bully her will no longer just yell "Get out!" at her, but will try to kill her.
But things are different now.
Wild beasts do not associate with prey, and those who eat meat will sooner or later become wild beasts themselves.
He got up and left, saying, "Send someone to the Shen family and tell them not to make too much of a fuss."
"yes."
Shen Ning had four knife wounds on his body, two on his stomach and two on his shoulder.
Fortunately, she was wearing a gorgeous dress today, with an exceptionally wide corset. The corset looked simple, but it was actually made of gold and silver filigree with a dark pattern.
The two layers prevented Shen Ming's two stabs from going too deep. If they had gone in half an inch deeper and damaged her internal organs, she would truly be a cold corpse by now.
The most serious injury on her body was the wound on her shoulder, where one cut was so deep that the bone was visible.
Her injuries were already severe, and in her desperate attempt to save Yuzhu, she swung the knife so hard that her blood flowed even faster, and the excessive blood loss nearly killed her.
But she was destined to survive; who could have imagined that Qin Zhuo would happen to be passing by and recognize her voice?
If it had been a moment later, or if it had been someone else, she would have died.
Shen Ning still developed a high fever that night, and she was almost fully cooked. Two maids took turns wiping her down, giving her medicine, and wiping her body, taking care of her all night.
She opened her eyes early the next morning, but was unconscious. She looked around blankly at her surroundings and soon fell into a coma again.
After a high fever, the body feels cold, blood is depleted, making it difficult to lower or regain temperature, causing shivering and chills.
Seven or eight braziers were lit inside the room, making the two maids sweat profusely, but Shen Ning still kept complaining of the cold. In the end, they had to put hot water in a sheepskin water bag next to her to relieve her cold a little.
The two maids exchanged a glance, both seeing weariness in each other's eyes, especially the dark circles under their eyes, which were quite striking.
The master has really assigned them a tough job. But the girl inside is in such a terrible state, she's still hanging on the brink of death. No matter how hard it is, they have to save her.
While Shen Ning was unconscious, chaos had already broken out outside.
The corpse of Chen Ming is the strongest evidence that the executioner replaced the condemned prisoner without authorization, which is punishable by death according to the law.
Upon seeing the corpse, the Minister of the Court of Judicial Review dared not even drink a drop of water. He ordered his men to guard the body and rushed to the palace to file a complaint.
If he doesn't file a complaint and waits for someone else to do so, then he will become one of the defendants.
The prisoner was released from the cell under his jurisdiction, and if he was replaced afterward, it was none of his business; he had absolutely no connection to the matter.
He must personally explain to His Majesty to prove his innocence.
Lu Hong, the Minister of the Court of Judicial Review, knelt before the emperor and sternly condemned Lin Shikai for dereliction of duty and abuse of power for personal gain. He said that Lin had released a death row inmate without authorization, allowing him to commit murder in the street, which was tantamount to deceiving the emperor and committing heinous crimes.
The victim's identity was concealed by the Minister of the Court of Judicial Review, but the one who killed Shen Ming was the Prince of Qin, who happened to be passing by on horseback.
Act bravely and righteously to uphold justice.
What the emperor could not tolerate most was deception. He had seen the case of Shen Ming and had approved the verdict. Yet, they still dared to switch the pieces for him. This was simply a contempt for the emperor's authority.
"Guards, arrest Lin Shikai and everyone else who supervised the executions today!"
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