Chapter 161 A grown man acting like a nagging girl.
After uttering these bold words, Jin Shu felt as if the anger she had been holding in her chest had finally found an outlet, and the tightness in her chest eased somewhat.
She stared at Li Jin's stunned and surprised expression for a long time before vaguely realizing that her words seemed to be somewhat inappropriate.
Jin Shu coughed twice, then put on a disgusted look: "The prince himself said that once we enter the Six Doors, we're all brothers! Besides, a grown man is injured, so what's wrong with saying it?! You're hiding it like a girl!"
While grumbling, she held the prepared geranium ointment and tourniquet, along with a bottle of wound medicine, and "slammed" them one by one onto the table next to Li Jin.
"Take off your clothes, and I'll apply the medicine for you." After saying that, he stared intently at Li Jin.
To be honest, Li Jin felt guilty.
No matter how much the person in front of me is dressed as a man, she's still a girl...
He took a deep breath, pursed his lips, raised his eyebrows high, and then, feigning anger, slammed his hand on the table: "This is insubordination!" He then pointed to the door, "I am perfectly fine in every way, what kind of behavior is this in the middle of the night! Go back to your room and sleep!"
Seeing that the cunning and stubborn mule in front of her was still pretending to be fine, Jin Shu simply crossed her arms, put her disdain on her face, and gave Li Jin a look from head to toe.
Honestly, that one look made Li Jin feel uneasy.
This was a side of Jin Shu he had never seen before.
Unlike usual, the woman who always stood behind him was inexplicably assertive today.
She snorted coldly, looking at Li Jin's face: "Your Highness, if you don't have a deep external wound on your left lower back, I, Jin Shu, will write the character 'Jin' upside down!"
Li Jin paused.
"When a person is in pain, the state of their limbs and muscles is different, and one can make a judgment based on observation and touch alone."
Seeing that Li Jin still had a tense expression, Jin Shu's mouth twisted even more: "I don't need to ask what happened, but you have to let me see this injury, otherwise, wouldn't Lord Zhou have bought this geranium for nothing?"
Inside the room, the candlelight flickered slightly. Li Jin took a deep breath as he watched Jin Shu's determined expression, as if she was unwilling to let him off easily.
I guess I'll just have to accept my defeat.
Who told this guy to be a genius in corpse-talking, a Mr. Jin whom he couldn't bear to cut?
He stood up, stood in front of Jin Shu, tilted his head slightly, and looked down at her: "Zhou Zheng?"
His soft chuckle made Zhou Zheng, who was guarding outside the house, break out in a cold sweat.
Li Jin didn't delve into it. He deliberately took a small step forward, raised his hand to unbutton his outer garment, but his gaze remained fixed on Jin Shu's face.
Jin Shu initially thought he was finally going to listen, but seeing him slowly unbuttoning his shirt, and with that slightly wicked look on his face, his chin slightly raised, looking down at her, Jin Shu was a little confused.
This man, undressing and applying medicine, somehow evoked a feeling of lust.
She asked in surprise, "Does Your Highness usually have Lord Zhou help you undress? If not, do you need my help?"
Li Jin stopped, his face turning pale and then flushed. Seeing Jin Shu's indifferent expression, he squeezed out three words through gritted teeth: "No need."
This is unbelievable! Is this person even a woman?
In the past twenty-five years, Li Jin had met at least eighty or a hundred ladies from prominent families.
If this were any other girl, she would probably cover her face and run away. Why is this one acting so outrageously?
He had already tried to persuade him to quit, yet he remained completely unfazed.
Seeing his strange expression, Jin Shu didn't stop what she was doing. She looked up at him and asked again, "Do you really not need me to help Your Highness take off your clothes?"
Li Jin let out a long breath and neatly took off his upper garment.
Under the candlelight, his numerous wounds caught Jin Shu's eye before the tourniquet wrapped around his waist, which was faintly stained with blood.
Jin Shu had long heard that Prince Jing, Li Jin, had guarded the frontier for many years and fought hundreds of battles, large and small, but seeing the scars all over his body still shocked her.
She frowned, clicked her tongue slightly, and carefully removed the tourniquet from his waist.
"Is that all the Prince is going to do?" Looking at the horrifying wound before him, Jin Shu's brows furrowed into a deep knot. "He just sprinkled some wound medicine on it and then left it?"
Li Jin turned around: "What's the big deal?" Then, she pointed up and said, "Just burn the liquor a little."
Seeing his nonchalant demeanor, Jin Shu felt a pang of sadness.
While opening a bottle of wine, he turned around and said sarcastically, "Didn't they say that the person who could beat the prince hadn't been born yet? It seems he's nothing special. You'd better not try to be brave in the future."
Li Jin raised an eyebrow and smiled: "Didn't you say you wouldn't ask?"
"Do you even need to ask?" Jin Shu rolled her eyes at him. "If you had won, would you look like this?"
"This is how it looks when you win." He said, picking up his black fan. Before taking a bite, he added softly, "If we lose, we'll be bickering on the road to the underworld right now."
Jin Shu understood this perfectly well.
It's precisely because she understands everything that she's angry at Li Jin's evasive behavior.
We agreed to be his right-hand men, and we agreed to do our utmost for the well-being of his empire.
In the end, he was the one who faced life and death head-on, and he was the one who bled and was injured.
He's the one who keeps things hidden, and he's the one who remains silent.
Jin Shu was the only one who knew nothing and could not help at all, like a blindfolded rabbit hiding behind him.
Even though she was blindfolded, she knew exactly what was going on.
He clearly knew what kind of enemy Li Jin was facing, and he clearly knew what kind of dangerous situation he was in.
She couldn't just sit idly by and do nothing, watching him shield her from danger, protecting her behind his back, even keeping his injuries a secret from her.
Every time he drank strong liquor, large beads of sweat would roll down Li Jin's back, but apart from biting his black fan, he still held his book in his hand and didn't utter a single groan.
The more he acted like this, the more distressed Jin Shu felt.
After applying the geranium ointment and slowly sprinkling the wound medicine onto the long incision, and wrapping the tourniquet around it, Jin Shu finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Your Highness, you shouldn't try to be so stubborn in the future. You can fool others, but you can't fool a coroner like me." After saying that, she put away the medicine jar on the table and held out her palm under Li Jin's surprised gaze. "My money."
"Silver?" Li Jin looked at her in confusion.
"Who else could have intercepted this information that I couldn't even get a single coin of silver from, besides Your Highness?"
A loud thud came from the roof. Bai Yu quickly raised his hand to cover his mouth, stifling the sound.
Under the eaves, seeing Jin Shu looking like she was demanding repayment, Li Jin's eyes twitched.
Helplessly, he took out a small piece of silver and said with great emotion, "Mr. Jin, can you broaden your perspective on this matter of silver?"
Upon hearing this, Jin Shu pondered for a moment and suddenly realized: "No, considering that the prince won and we are all still alive, I will not charge you for applying medicine and changing dressings these next few days, so that people will not say that I am heartless."
Li Jin looked at her in surprise, then nodded seriously and said, "Indeed, heartless and ungrateful, but very self-aware."
Seeing that he still had the energy to belittle her, Jin Shu took the money, hugged her quilt, and waved her hand magnanimously: "Get some rest."
After saying that, he walked away with a smile.
Only after she had walked away did Li Jin put down the book she hadn't read a single word of and raise her hand to cover half of her cheek.
It's so hot it's burning your hand.
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