Every second that passed was torture for Chen Yuhong!
Ning Xi, whom he held in his arms, had stopped coughing up large amounts of blood...
The movement was so subtle that only a trickle of blood escaped from the corner of his lips...
His chest was rising and falling, and his movements were already very weak.
Ningxi's life was slipping away little by little.
The maid Bitao, who was standing to the side, seemed to wake up from a dream and knelt on the ground, begging for mercy.
His words were incoherent, but he didn't care; he just wanted to beg for a last chance at survival.
"It wasn't me! Madam, it really wasn't me!"
I don't know what happened to me just now!
Someone grabbed the servant's hand and forced the medicine into the second young lady's mouth. The servant was unable to resist!
"Madam, Bitao was wrong! But Bitao really didn't mean it!"
Seeing this groveling and begging, Ning Xi'er felt no sympathy whatsoever.
You should know that as Chen Yuhong's confidante, she has done quite a lot of things to bully her mother and sister-in-law!
The way Ning Xi'er looked at her mother just now—she could kill her ten times over!
When the pain reaches its extreme, one becomes calm.
Chen Yuhong carefully laid Ning Xiping on the ground, ignoring her gradually decreasing body temperature...
When I got up, I swayed and even speaking felt difficult.
She beckoned to a guard outside the door to come forward.
As he drew the other's sword and turned around, Bitao's eyes widened in horror...
He kowtowed even harder, begging for mercy, until the skin on his forehead was completely bruised and raw.
"Sizzle..."
Chen Yuhong held her sword, the tip scraping against the ground, the sound echoing inside the room...
Like the agonizing sound of being slowly sliced to death.
A strange smile tugged at the corner of Chen Yuhong's lips as she sized up the person kneeling before her. She remembered nothing of their past relationship...
I just want to use the cruelest methods to cut the person in front of me into a thousand pieces!
Unfortunately, this did little to quell the hatred in her heart!
Her beloved Xi'er cannot come back to life!
"puff!"
Bitao, who was kowtowing and begging for mercy, never imagined that her master, whom she had served so diligently for so many years, would not listen to a single word she said...
She stared blankly at the sword piercing her heart, then coughed up a mouthful of blood...
Struggling to lift his head, he found his master with only hatred and ruthlessness on his face and lips...
There was no pity whatsoever; she was also a victim!
A dull ache was throbbing in my forehead, but it couldn't compare to the pain in my heart...
Bitao suddenly smiled, slowly raised her head, and looked at Chen Yuhong. The submissiveness and loyalty on her face finally disappeared...
Instead, she was consumed by a frenzied hatred before her death, and she cursed him with venom:
"You treat me this way, and when you die, I will be in the underworld waiting for your fate!"
Enraged, Chen Yuhong pulled out the sword stuck in Bitao's body and slashed wildly at her!
Until her well-maintained face was splattered with blood...
A guard trembled as he entered from outside the door to report, "Madam, the doctor has arrived!"
Chen Yuhong wiped her face haphazardly with her sleeve.
With a clang, he threw the sword on the ground and ordered his men to drag Bitao away, chop her up, and feed her to the dogs!
When the doctor was brought in, he was so frightened that his face turned ashen.
I took Ning Xi's pulse, but dared not reveal the diagnosis...
Under Chen Yuhong's questioning, he fainted.
Ning Wei had just stepped out of the palace gates when his trusted confidant informed him, and he hurried back on horseback.
Upon seeing the scene inside, with blood everywhere and bloodstains on Ning Xi and Chen Yuhong's skirts...
Ning Wei's brow furrowed involuntarily.
Seeing Ning Wei return, Chen Yuhong seemed to have found her pillar of support again...
She burst into tears, begging Ningwei to send someone from the Imperial Hospital to fetch a physician, and then from the palace to summon a royal physician...
The doctors we consulted before were all incompetent quacks!
Ning Wei glanced at the doctor lying to the side, with his medicine box beside him...
He instructed his trusted confidants to make proper arrangements for the person and to handle the aftermath once the person regained consciousness.
Ning Wei squatted down, put two fingers together, and placed them on Ning Xi's carotid artery...
He came from a military background, and although he didn't know medicine, he knew how to check vital signs.
The pulse had stopped beating.
However, it was still warm.
Ning Xi died with her eyes wide open, unable to close them in peace.
From birth, this daughter was spoiled and arrogant, with mediocre looks and talents.
Ning Wei didn't particularly like it, nor was he very focused on it.
Even if they were lawless, Chen Yuhong would keep them in check, and he rarely criticized them.
After all, she was his own flesh and blood. Seeing her end up so tragically, even Ning Wei, who was as hard-hearted as iron, couldn't help but feel a little sad.
He personally closed Ning Xi's eyes and instructed the guards outside the courtyard:
"The second young lady has suddenly died from her illness. Prepare for her funeral immediately..."
Upon hearing this, Chen Yuhong lost even her last glimmer of hope, threw herself into Ning Wei's arms, and hysterically beat him:
"Xi'er is not dead! My lord, quickly summon the imperial physician!"
Xi'er's body is still warm! Grandpa, Xi'er isn't dead yet!
......
The guards came in and lifted Ning Xi'er up...
Chen Yuhong lunged forward, trying to snatch Ning Xi's body, but Ning Wei grabbed her around the waist...
Ning Wei gave the signal, and the guards successfully carried the person out.
Several buckets of water were brought over to wash away the bloodstains on the ground.
Once the scene was cleaned up and the guards retreated outside the courtyard, the remote area suddenly became quiet.
Chen Yuhong was on the verge of tears and collapsed into Ning Wei's arms.
Ning Xi'er quietly sized up the two despicable people and let out a soft snort.
I originally thought that, given Ning Wei's ruthless and calculating nature, he wouldn't easily develop genuine feelings for a woman...
Ning Xi'er thought that Chen Yuhong was just another mother...
Ning Wei was merely using this as a shortcut to consolidate his position and curry favor with those of higher power...
It seems that he did have some genuine feelings for Chen Yuhong.
Ning Xi'er lowered her head and looked at her mother.
The mother's gaze was calm and unwavering.
It turns out that even the deepest feelings will eventually fade away once the heart dies.
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