Chapter 278 Memory
Wuhua was hit by a hidden weapon.
The hidden weapon was smeared with poison, the same poison that Zong Hebai was poisoned with when he first met Hua Ning. After Feng Qingsui brought Wuhua back to the city, he gave her an antidote and stayed by her bedside without taking off his clothes until her fever subsided, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.
When I looked out the window, it was already dawn.
She blew out the candles and was about to go back to her room to rest when she suddenly realized someone was looking at her. She turned around and saw Wuhua with his eyes open.
"woke up?"
Feng Qingsui was overjoyed.
"Are you hungry?"
Wuhua blinked slowly, touched her stomach, and nodded, "I'm a little hungry."
Feng Qingsui asked the kitchen to send over millet porridge and buns.
After eating two baskets of steamed buns and a large bowl of porridge in one go, Wuhua regained a lot of energy and told Feng Qingsui: "I remember the past."
Feng Qingsui knew that the poison she was poisoned with would affect her nerves, but he never expected that it would actually have the effect of helping her recover her memory.
"Do you remember everything?"
She asked.
Wuhua nodded.
Then he told her his experience.
"I was born in the northern part of Xirong. My parents were herders and only had me. In the winter when I was eight years old, there was a heavy snowstorm. My father and mother went out to look for livestock and froze to death."
"My second uncle and second aunt inherited the property left by my parents. They were dissatisfied with my big appetite and how much I ate. Coincidentally, someone came to the pastoral area to buy a maid and wanted one with a completely Yin horoscope. I just happened to fit the bill, so they sold me to that person."
"That person spoke with a Shengjing accent. I thought it would be nice to leave this bitter cold pastoral area and work as a maid for a wealthy family, so I happily went with him."
"I didn't expect that I would be taken to a snake den instead of a wealthy family."
"A bunch of us girls with Yin horoscopes were thrown into a snake den. The den was full of poisonous snakes. I relied on my strength, grabbed a rock, and killed many snakes."
"But I still got bitten accidentally."
She looked down at her right wrist and saw two white marks the size of green beans on it.
"This is what happened when I bit the snake. I also smashed the snake to death. I felt dizzy and passed out soon after."
"After waking up, I found myself in a different place."
"The leader there said I was born with supernatural powers and was a good candidate for martial arts training, so he asked me to learn martial arts from them."
"Practicing martial arts is hard, but it allows me to have enough food to eat. In order to have more meals, I worked hard every day. Nine years later, I defeated the leader and was assigned to be Xiao Zhaoning's secret guard."
"Xiao Zhaoning is Hua Ning. She was originally a princess of Sheng State. After Sheng State was defeated by the Western Rong, it became a vassal state of the Western Rong. Her eldest brother was sent to the Western Rong as a hostage."
"Her horoscope is also completely Yin. When her father learned that the Xirong Emperor was looking for a girl with a completely Yin horoscope, he presented her to the Xirong Emperor."
"The Xirong Emperor didn't treat her any differently just because she was a princess. He threw her into the snake den as well."
"The snake is the totem of the Xirong people."
"The founding emperor of the Western Rong lived to be 120 years old. It is said that he lived so long because he drank the blood of a divine snake."
"The current Xirong Emperor is only in his sixties, yet he is already very old."
"He drank all kinds of snake blood but couldn't get stronger, so he had a crazy idea and wanted to find a snake girl."
"He originally wanted to find a girl whose horoscope was all Yin and whose zodiac signs were all in the Snake sign. However, since these were extremely rare, he changed his mind and looked for a girl whose horoscope was all Yin and who could survive a snake bite."
"From our group of girls who were thrown into the snake cave, only two survived: Xiao Zhaoning and I."
"I was bitten by a snake and nearly died. I didn't meet the requirements of a snake girl, but I was strong, so I was thrown into the Dark Guard Camp."
"Zhao Ning survived being bitten by more than a dozen venomous snakes, a feat worthy of a miracle. From then on, she was regarded as a snake lady by the Xirong Emperor."
"The Xirong Emperor drank her blood, but found it had no effect, so he continued to catch venomous snakes to bite her. He also planned to wait for Zhaoning to grow up and use her yin to replenish her yang."
"Fortunately, before he could make his move, Xiao Zhaolin found where Zhao Ning was being held and rescued her."
"I was Zhao Ning's secret guard. I should have fought to the death to keep her, but I didn't. Zhao Ning asked me to leave with her, so I left."
"But we, the secret guards, have all been poisoned. We have to take medicine every month. If we don't, we will be worse than death."
"When I was poisoned, Xiao Zhaolin went to the Dark Guard Camp to help me steal medicine. He was discovered and poisoned. Although the poison was cured, it damaged his sense of taste."
When Feng Qingsui heard this, he remembered the delicious braised pork she had mentioned, and suddenly realized it.
It turns out that the delicious braised pork was indeed delicious, but only to Xiao Zhaolin.
Wuhua continued, "Later, he came to Daxi and found the antidote for me. Out of gratitude, I stayed with Zhaoning and continued to serve as her secret guard."
The Emperor of Xirong had finally found a snake girl like Zhaoning, but when she was suddenly kidnapped, he naturally would not let it go.
"Xiao Zhaolin originally hid Zhaoning in Xirong, but later he could no longer hide her, so he sent someone to escort Zhaoning and me to Daxi."
"Unexpectedly, I was discovered by the Xirong Emperor's secret guards just as I reached the border. I was hit by a hidden weapon and fell into the water. After you rescued me, I don't remember anything."
She was also poisoned at the time, and it was probably due to the effects of the toxin that she lost her memory.
This time it was a blessing in disguise and I got my memory back.
"No wonder I felt Xiao Zhaolin had such an extraordinary aura when I first met him."
Feng Qingsui chuckled.
"So he is the prince of Shengguo."
"He's just a hostage now," Wuhua said. "His mother, the Queen Mother, was already in poor health. Not long after he was sent to Xirong as a hostage, she passed away. His father, the Emperor, made the Imperial Concubine the new Queen and named the Second Prince, born to the Imperial Concubine, the Crown Prince."
Feng Qingsui: “…”
Xiao Zhaolin should have been only about ten years old at that time.
Poor kid.
Thinking that Xiao Zhaolin had called Daxi but did not take Xiao Zhaoning away, she frowned.
If the people of the Xirong Emperor knew that Xiao Zhaoning was with Zong Hebai, Zong Hebai and even the Zong family would be in danger.
The people who attacked her and Wuhua yesterday should be the Xirong Emperor's men. Could it be that they wanted to take her hostage and force Zong Hebai to hand over Xiao Zhaoning?
No, with their strength, they can easily go to Zong Hebai's villa and capture Xiao Zhaoning directly.
He must be coming for her.
After a moment's thought, she understood.
It is estimated that the news of using cowpox vaccination to prevent smallpox has reached the ears of the Western Rong Emperor.
In order to survive, the Xirong Emperor fed people to snakes to create a snake girl. When he learned that she had good medical skills, how could he not be tempted.
She told Wuhua about this guess, and Wuhua nodded and said, "He must want to capture you to prolong his life."
Want to catch her?
Feng Qingsui's face was slightly cold.
I'm afraid he thinks his life is too long.
"Xiao Zhaolin must have accumulated a lot of strength during these years in Xirong, right?"
she asked Wuhua.
How could an ordinary proton run to another country like him?
Wuhua said, "In his first year in Xirong, a Xirong nobleman deliberately challenged him to a horse race to torture him. He pretended to break his leg, and after that he lived in seclusion, leaving a substitute in Shengjing. He changed his identity and went into business, opening an escort agency, a bank, and a jewelry store..."
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