Chapter 106 My younger sister has always been afraid of pain, so I have to protect her and take her home...
They didn't even treat Jin Suiqing's wounds. Instead, they plugged her ears, blindfolded her, tied her up, put her on a rhinoceros-shaped cart, and transported her to another location.
Jin Suiqing was bound like a sausage. She was the only one in the carriage. Apart from the swaying sound of the carriage moving, the only other sound was the dripping blood from her ankle wound.
After an unknown amount of time, the rhinoceros chariot finally stopped. Jin Suiqing estimated that she had probably already left Ziwei City.
Of course, we cannot be completely certain.
When she was picked up again, Jin Suiqing felt her breath hitch, and with each step she took while holding her, it seemed as if they were moving underground.
Soon, the person stopped, and a gauze cloth brushed against her face as she was placed on a soft bed.
The person seemed to be leaving, and Jin Suiqing hurriedly shouted, "Take off my earplugs and the cloth in front of my eyes... and the wound, the wound needs to be bandaged!"
He made no move.
Perhaps the person is already gone.
Jin Suiqing kicked her legs slightly, and the crossbow bolt stuck diagonally in her ankle seemed to hit something, causing a sharp pain in her ankle. Jin Suiqing hissed and gasped, afraid to move.
After a long while, still no one came. Jin Suiqing decided to start cursing, hurling all sorts of nasty insults. She cursed until her mouth was dry and she was panting heavily. Finally, her earplugs and blindfold were removed.
Huangfu Li squatted down beside the bed: "Are you tired?"
Jin Suiqing gasped for breath, having been so engrossed in her cursing and suffering from blood loss, she was somewhat oxygen-deprived. After a while, she gasped, "When...did you get here?"
Huangfu Li smiled, her phoenix eyes narrowing: "I've been by your bedside ever since you started cursing me."
"You only listened to me yelling at you for fifteen minutes?" Jin Suiqing looked at him. "Are you crazy?!"
Huangfu Li didn't reply: "Are you thirsty?"
Jin Suiqing glared at him, then blinked and nodded, saying, "Thirsty."
She'd been yelling for almost half an hour; no wonder she was thirsty.
Huangfu Li: "Then I'll pour water for my sister."
Jin Suiqing: "Pah, don't call me sister."
Huangfu Li wasn't angry at all; instead, he laughed and got up to pour her some water.
Taking advantage of this time, Jin Suiqing quickly observed the surrounding environment.
The room was not small, but square in shape and not really divided into sections. Apart from the canopy bed where she was lying, a square table, two stools, and a large workbench against the wall, there was no other furniture.
After looking at the furnishings, look around.
The room was dark, with only a few lamps fixed to the wall providing light. There were no windows on any of the four walls, and not a single gap allowed light to pass through, making it seem as if it were a single, solid space, which confirmed her guess.
Huangfu Li returned with a water cup, but Jin Suiqing didn't even glance at him, coldly asking, "Is this underground?"
"Hmm." Huangfu Li answered perfunctorily, holding the water glass to her lips. Jin Suiqing frowned. "Are you asking me to lie down and drink through my nose?"
Huangfu Li shrugged and showed her the wooden stick prosthetic: "I only have one hand, so I can't lift you up. You can only drink while lying down."
Having said that, he held the water glass and stubbornly moved closer to the Jin Sui Qing Koi.
Jin Suiqing dodged, but he moved closer again. After several rounds, Huangfu Li finally lost his patience, pressed his prosthetic leg against Jin Suiqing's neck, and pressed the cup against her lips.
Jin Suiqing struggled incessantly, spilling nearly half of the water, while the other half poured into her nasal cavity, causing her to cough violently until her face turned red.
Jin Suiqing cursed inwardly, her eyes red and glaring at Huangfu Li with tears in her eyes. He showed no remorse, but instead smiled and stared intently at Jin Suiqing, his grip on the porcelain cup tightening until it made a crisp "clink" sound as she coughed painfully.
He crushed the porcelain cup in his hand.
Huangfu Li let go, threw the porcelain shards on the ground, helped Jin Suiqing up, patted her back to help her catch her breath, and said with a smile, "Sorry, I got a little too excited and didn't control my strength."
What was he so excited about? Jin Suiqing coughed so hard he almost vomited, and it took him a long time to recover.
Huangfu Li let her lean against him, listening to her heavy breathing beside him, and finally felt the real sense of having this volatile life in his hands.
It was truly...incredibly enjoyable.
He looked down at the tip of her upturned nose, which was tinged with gold and red, and further down, at her slender neck and the rise and fall of her thin chest. She was very small, with a very thin waist; if he still had his hand, he could probably encircle her entire body with one hand.
Huangfu Li suddenly said in a deep voice, "I really want to strangle you."
Jin Suiqing, with his red eyes, turned to look at him and said, "Then pinch me, provided you have two hands."
Huangfu Li was taken aback, then his expression turned stern: "If I had two hands, I wouldn't have let you die so easily."
"Die, die," Jin Suiqing said, annoyed. He kicked the bed a couple of times, the blood from his ankles dripping onto the bed. "After I die, no one will know how to build a sulfur-burning engine anymore."
Huangfu Li glanced at her wound and casually said, "Although Jin Guizhong is dead, aren't there still Jin Shiyu and Huangfu Feng who have Jin family blood flowing through their veins?"
Seeing that he had made it clear, Jin Suiqing didn't pretend to be confused and snorted, "Brother... Jin Shiyu hates the Jin family and the Super Sulfur Combustion Engine because of Gu Hanjiang. Now that he knows that the Super Sulfur Combustion Engine is related to the Jin family's bloodline, do you think he will come back?"
Huangfu Li's eyes grew colder. He stepped back to the bedside and stared at her ankle, changing the subject: "It hasn't been bandaged yet. Does the wound hurt?"
"It hurts, it hurts so much!" Without any support, Jin Suiqing fell back onto the bed, her forehead drenched in water and sweat. She said sarcastically, "I wonder who kept refusing to bandage my wound. Maybe in a couple of days, my leg will be ruined too."
Huangfu Li remained unmoved, feigning concern as he blew on the air, but still smiled: "That would be wonderful, one with a missing arm, the other with a limp, a match made in heaven."
"Undeservedly sentimental." - Jin Suiqing's sharp comment.
Huangfu Li didn't take it seriously. He raised his still healthy right hand and gently pinched the end of the crossbow bolt: "I've bandaged you up. You'll have to change the dressing for me later."
"I haven't agreed yet..." The crossbow bolt moved, and Jin Suiqing cried out in pain, "Ouch, don't pull it out backwards, you bastard! It'll tear the wound apart!"
Huangfu Li continued pulling, saying calmly, "If you don't draw up the blueprints for the new sulfur combustion engine, you'll suffer some consequences."
Jin Suiqing's face contorted in pain as she thought to herself, "With the coup imminent, Huangfu Li is clearly more eager than I am. Now that her plans to control the Magic Weapon Sect have been thwarted, she can't use firearms and can't contend with Huangfu Feng's military strength. Jin Guizhong is dead, Jin Shiyu's whereabouts are unknown, and the Super Sulfur Combustion Machine can't be manufactured. He has no other weapons of his own, and he can't fight against Huangfu Feng."
If Ye Zhufeng were to return, using her as a hostage, he might be able to escape unscathed.
She was Huangfu Li's last lifeline. As long as the prototype machine and Jin Shiyu could hide well, he would have no way to deal with her.
It's just a bit of suffering, Jin Suiqing thought with a carefree attitude.
Since she had already lived her life a second time, she not only met Ye Zi, but also gained a brother for free. She earned money she never dared to dream of before, made many friends, helped many people, and saved several lives.
Her name is renowned throughout the land, and no one dares to question its prestige.
She recouped her investment early.
But it hurts so much.
The pain pulled her back to her senses, and tears streamed down her face. Jin Suiqing trembled as she said, "Stop struggling in vain, Huangfu Li. You've already lost."
"I haven't lost!" Huangfu Li gripped the crossbow bolt and pulled it out hard. Jin Suiqing screamed in pain. His morbid desires were satisfied once again, and he desperately needed more to fill the emptiness. Huangfu Li twisted the bolt and said fiercely, "Jin Suiqing, you are still in my hands. If you can't draw the diagram, none of us will live!"
Jin Suiqing opened her mouth, but could no longer utter a sound.
The pain exceeded her threshold, triggering an adrenaline rush, and she was drenched in sweat, which poured down her collar.
In his mind, Jin Suiqing cursed the entire Huangfu family genealogy.
To keep harping on someone's wounds, what a despicable thing to do.
Let's not go looking for trouble; let's try to stall for time first.
Huangfu Li turned his hand and pushed the crossbow bolt back into the wound.
With a jerk of his body, Jin Suiqing weakly said, "Just paint, don't rub it against that wound, you've almost torn it apart..."
Finally, Jin Suiqing's vision went white, and she fainted from the pain.
Huangfu Li was satisfied. He released the crossbow bolt, his fingers stained with her blood, wet and sticky. He looked at Jin Suiqing lying on the bed, excited, and kept rubbing his index finger and thumb together.
After the blood dried, he wrapped his arms around her blood-soaked ankle, kneading it gently until he felt comforted. Then he released her and called for a maid to bandage her wound.
While being bandaged, Jin Suiqing woke up once and glanced out through the dark green bed curtains. In her drowsy state, she felt that the woman bandaging her looked somewhat familiar.
It seems like I've seen it somewhere before.
She pondered for a moment, and then a flash of inspiration struck her.
It was in a house on the outskirts of the capital.
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People who collected swill from Ziwei City rode iron donkeys out of the city.
Although he could sell the swill to farmers to make money, it was too smelly to stay in the city. He could only take it to a courtyard outside the city, pile the collected wooden buckets in the courtyard, and then go into the city to pick up another batch of wooden buckets.
Gong Xiaoyang carefully poked his head out from under the wooden cover, and after confirming that no one was around, he quickly climbed out.
Ignoring the stench emanating from her body, Gong Xiaoyang rummaged through the swill bucket.
He searched through dozens of identical wooden barrels before finally finding Jin Shiyu.
Gong Xiaoyang dragged out Jin Shiyu and the sulfur-burning machine: "Young Master Jin? Young Master Jin?"
He called out several times but still couldn't wake her. In desperation, he found a water vat in the yard, scooped up a ladle of water from it, and splashed it at Jin Shiyu!
With a whoosh, Kim Shi-ok opened his eyes.
Gong Xiaoyang breathed a sigh of relief, wiped his sweat, and said, "Young Master Jin, you're finally awake. I was so scared, I thought Suiqing had been hurt."
Jin Shiyu rubbed his forehead, the dull pain persisting, and he couldn't stop feeling dizzy. He stood up and immediately looked around: "Where's Jin Suiqing?"
“Jin… Jin Suiqing, she… she left…” Gong Xiaoyang hesitated, her eyes darting left and right. After stammering for a long time, she bit her tongue hard and said in one breath, “In order to let you and me leave the palace safely, she deliberately exposed herself and was detained in the city by the Imperial Guards.”
In an instant, all the color drained from Jin Shiyu's face.
His breathing became more and more rapid. He supported himself with one hand, flipped over, and leaped up, trying to rush back.
Gong Xiaoyang quickly grabbed him: "Jin Shiyu, don't be impulsive, don't go back to your death..."
Gong Xiaoyang could only get halfway through her sentence before she couldn't continue.
Kim Shi-ok's honey-colored eyes suddenly hardened into an abyss, so still it was awe-inspiring.
Gong Xiaoyang took a deep breath through her nose to bolster her courage: "This is an opportunity she fought so hard for."
"Opportunity?" Jin Shiyu tilted his head, looking down at Gong Xiaoyang's hand gripping his forearm. "Do you know she's human too? She can die too?"
"Jin Suiqing is always so clever, she'll definitely be able to turn danger into safety, how could she not..."
"I am her husband and her brother, how could I not know she is smart?!"
Gong Xiaoyang seemed to see his tears sliding down his dirty cheeks.
Like a clay Bodhisattva shedding tears.
For a moment, Gong Xiaoyang was at a loss. He scratched the back of his head and could only explain according to Jin Suiqing's wishes: "It was my oversight that I forgot about your relationship. I can understand your concerns, but Huangfu Li still needs to rely on the prototype machine in her hands to fight against Huangfu Feng. She won't be in any danger. Let's wait for Huangfu Feng to come back and go to rescue her together."
Jin Shiyu spoke, her voice seemingly squeezed from her chest, yet as light as a feather: "What she said, is it right?"
Gong Xiaoyang nodded hurriedly.
“She’s a terrible liar,” Jin Shiyu said, forcefully pulling Gong Xiaoyang’s hand away. His thin lips parted slightly, and his voice was extremely low. “Did she ever tell you that Huangfu Feng broke Huangfu Li’s arm because he wanted to take Sui Qing’s life?”
Gong Xiaoyang was stunned.
Jin Suiqing had never told him about this.
He lowered his head and muttered to himself, "Even if my life is not in danger, I can't escape physical suffering."
As Jin Shiyu spoke, he raised his hand to wipe the grime between his eyebrows.
This is the spot where Jin Suiqing kissed earnestly.
He rubbed it repeatedly until the cinnabar mole became even more crimson, as if it had turned into a drop of bright red blood, passing through his skin and being etched into his bones.
She was such a vibrant person, how could she be left there?
When people are on the verge of madness, they will always be able to say a few kind words in a calm manner.
Kim Si-ok was no exception.
“My sister has always been afraid of pain,” he said softly, his smile incredibly gentle. “I have to protect her and take her home.”
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