Chapter 185 Ye Chutang wins over the Dragon Guard
Madam Qi was so frightened that she stood up immediately.
"Master, you take care of them. I'll go see Zhou'er and Tang'er."
Hearing this, Mr. Qi quickly asked, "Did Zhou'er find Tang'er?"
Madam Qi didn't have time to answer him. She quickly picked up the bag on the ground and ran towards Ye Chutang.
Ye Chutang supported the fallen Qi Yanzhou in time and laid him flat on the ground.
A bloody finger rested on his pulse.
Qi Yanzhou's condition is not very good.
He was stung by a wasp.
After being poisoned, he did not use his internal energy to force the poison out.
Instead, he used his inner strength to improve his martial arts skills and looked for her everywhere.
This causes the toxin to spread rapidly throughout the body.
After finding her and making sure she was safe, Qi Yanzhou let out a breath of relief and fainted.
Fortunately, he is a medicine jar and has a certain immunity to both medicine and poison.
Ye Chutang took out a detoxification pill from the space and fed it into Qi Yanzhou's mouth.
Although it is not a cure for the disease, it does have a certain effect.
This way, she would have enough time to find Hezhe and get the antidote.
"Tang'er, are you okay? What happened to Zhou'er? I brought the medicine you bought, can I use it?"
Madam Qi's voice came before she even arrived, and her words were full of worry.
Ye Chutang stood up and supported the old lady who almost fell down because she ran too fast.
"Mom, don't worry, Ah Zhou is fine. You stay here to take care of him while I go find the antidote."
Madam Qi grabbed Ye Chutang who was about to leave and asked with concern: "Tang'er, is there any danger?"
Ye Chutang felt warm at heart when she saw that her mother-in-law was still worried about her even when something happened to her son.
"Mom, don't worry, it's not dangerous."
"Then come back quickly. Zhou'er will be worried if he doesn't see you when he wakes up."
"Okay, I'll be back soon."
Ye Chutang came to Han Chong, whose face was swollen from being stung by a wasp.
"Let's talk alone?"
Although Han Chong had never revealed his identity to her, she knew that he was the emperor's man.
Han Chong also had something to say to Ye Chutang, so he nodded.
The two walked away from the crowd and came under a big tree by the lake.
Before Ye Chutang could speak, Han Chong reprimanded her unhappily, "Miss Ye, have you forgotten that you are a knife planted by the emperor in the Qi family!"
But from black-bellied snakes to hornets, this woman is helping the Qi family!
"You had many opportunities to kill Qi Yanzhou, why did you save him?"
Ye Chutang looked at Han Chong as if he were a fool.
"If I kill him openly, I will be ruined."
Han Chong frowned unhappily, "Then you should at least stand by and watch instead of helping the Qi family!"
"I am Qi Yanzhou's wife now. If I don't help him, who else can I help? I want the antidote in the emperor's hand, and I also want to leave without leaving any stigma. This is the agreement that the emperor and I have reached long ago."
"Also, you had a plan but didn't inform me, how would I know you needed to cooperate?"
Han Chong was so stubborn that he was speechless.
Ye Chutang stared at his swollen face, raised the corners of his lips in mockery, and got down to business.
"Do you know why wasps attack indiscriminately?"
Han Chong had thought about this question a long time ago and found the answer.
"Of course it's to conceal our tracks."
If the Dragon Guards were the only ones not injured, it would be too deliberate, and the blame would definitely be directed at the Emperor.
Ye Chutang shook his head, "Wrong, because those men in black are northern barbarians, they don't want to let anyone leave alive."
Han Chong was stunned for a moment, but soon understood the emperor's actions.
"To kill someone with a borrowed knife, what's wrong with that? It is our honor to serve the emperor loyally."
From the moment the Dragon Guard received the mission, he never thought of returning alive.
The best way to bury a secret is to kill everyone.
The emperor did nothing wrong!
Ye Chutang looked at the brainless "royalists" and sneered speechlessly.
"I won't stop you from dying, but if anyone wants me dead, I will kill him!"
These words made Han Chong full of murderous intent.
"Why, do you still want to harm the emperor?"
"If he wants to kill me, then he is not the emperor, but my enemy."
This made Han Chong feel that Ye Chutang would be detrimental to the emperor, so he immediately attacked her.
"You're looking for death!"
Ye Chutang looked at Han Chong coldly, motionless.
"Do you dare to kill me?"
The sharp sword was pressed against Ye Chutang's slender neck, not daring to get any closer.
Without the emperor's order, Han Chong did not dare to kill Ye Chutang.
After all, she didn't really do anything to harm the emperor.
"I'll keep an eye on you!"
Han Chong finished speaking and prepared to retract his sword.
Ye Chutang unexpectedly snatched the sword and stabbed it into Han Chong's heart.
But she did not kill him, the tip of the sword only penetrated half an inch into the skin.
"You don't dare to kill me, but I dare to kill you."
After saying that, she threw the sword with blood on the tip to the ground.
Han Chong stared at his heart stained with blood, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead.
He always thought he was not afraid of death.
But the moment the sword pierced his skin, the fear of death gathered from every limb in his body into his heart, making him unable to breathe, as if he had fallen into an ice cellar.
After finding out that Ye Chutang was playing a joke on him, he immediately felt relieved for surviving the disaster.
He calmed himself, picked up the sword on the ground, and stabbed it into the tree trunk.
One is to wipe the blood clean, and the other is to intimidate Ye Chutang.
"Miss Ye..."
Before he could even utter the warning, he was interrupted by Ye Chutang.
"Now, your life belongs not only to the emperor, but also to me."
Han Chong's brows were wrinkled into the shape of the Chinese character "川".
"Miss Ye, what do you mean by that? Do you have a decree from the Emperor that can send us?"
Ye Chutang looked at the lake with the dead hornets floating on it and shook his head.
"I don't have the emperor's order, but I saved your life."
Han Chong snorted coldly, "You didn't stab me to death, so you saved my life?"
Ye Chutang chuckled and asked instead of answering.
"If the wasps don't disappear and keep attacking you, will you still be alive?"
Although the Dragon Guards are highly skilled in martial arts, human physical strength is limited.
When they can no longer run or swing their swords, they naturally cannot save their lives!
Han Chong looked at Ye Chutang warily, "Can you control wasps?"
"No, but I can kill the person who controls the wasp. So, I not only saved your life, but also saved everyone's life!"
"How are you going to prove it?"
Ye Chutang turned around, pointed at the tallest tree and said, "The body is under that tree."
After that, she asked, "How many people did you arrest?"
"Twelve, seven dead."
"There are sixteen people in total. I killed the one who controlled the wasp. There are still three left. They are all the spies planted by the Northern Barbarians in the capital. We must find all of them."
No matter how corrupt the Beichen Kingdom is, it will not allow outsiders to covet it.
Han Chong immediately said: "Let's take people to find him and verify whether you are lying!"
After saying that, he strode away.
"Stop, I haven't finished what I'm saying."
Han Chong hesitated for a moment, then turned around and asked, "Miss Ye, what else do you want to say?"
"Give me the power, I want to interrogate the five people you captured alive."
She had to find an antidote, and interrogation was the fastest way to do that.
"Why?"
Ye Chutang made up a story, "The wasps are fed with poison. I need to know what kind of poison it is so that I can make an antidote. And my medical skills are much better than the accompanying doctor."
Han Chong did not deny this.
"Come with me."
He brought Ye Chutang to Wu Chenggang.
"Wasps are poisonous, but Madam Qi can cure them. Don't stop her from doing anything she wants to do."
Wu Chenggang was stung badly, his face was swollen beyond recognition, his eyes were squeezed out, and he couldn't speak.
He nodded twice and agreed.
Han Chong called away the Dragon Guards who were less seriously injured and went to capture the Northern Barbarians' spies.
Ye Chutang looked at the five northern barbarians whose jaws had been removed and squatted down.
She picked up a dead twig from the ground and fiddled with it in their mouths, examining their teeth.
After determining that the tooth containing the drug was removed, she selected a woman and closed her jaw.
She just asked, "Where is Hezhe?"
The woman was horrified.
"Pooh!"
She wanted to spit on Ye Chutang's face.
Ye Chutang, however, took the initiative to pinch her chin and twist her head.
The disgusting spit landed on her companion's face.
She was not angry. She touched the woman all over but didn't touch anything useful.
"The bones are soft, but the temper is hard."
After saying that, Ye Chutang took out a black bottle from his arms.
"Xiao Chunfeng, the most effective aphrodisiac in the capital, you will definitely like it."
She poured out two black pills and said, "I know you are a martial arts expert, so you need to use double the dosage."
The woman struggled desperately.
"Bitch, kill me if you can!"
"Don't worry, I won't kill you. I just need you to undress under the crotch of a Beichen man and give birth to a child."
"No, I can't!"
She would rather die a thousand times than suffer such humiliation!
Ye Chutang pinched the woman's cheeks and forced her to open her mouth with brute force.
And under her horrified eyes, he fed two aphrodisiac pills into her mouth.
He pressed his fingers against her throat and slid them down.
The medicine goes into the throat.
Ye Chutang let go of the woman and looked at her with a smile.
"Gesang, I have killed Luger. No one will come to save you. You can either live in humiliation or die happily after confessing. It's your choice."
The woman named Gesang didn't believe Ye Chutang's words and shook her head desperately.
"Impossible, Luger is so powerful, there is no way he can die!"
Ruger has been lurking in the capital for twelve years. He is brave, resourceful, skilled in martial arts, and can even control wasps.
How could he die?
"Don't try to lie to me, I..."
Before Gesan could finish his words, he wanted to bite his tongue to commit suicide.
Ye Chutang acted quickly and knocked out half of the woman's teeth.
"Ruger betrayed all of you."
She told Gesan all the information she had obtained from Ruge.
Then I watched the faith in her eyes collapse bit by bit.
Gesan opened his mouth and spat out a mouthful of blood. His white teeth mixed in the blood, like a ruthless mockery.
The medicine in her body had taken effect, and her exposed skin was charmingly pink.
Her strength was drained away bit by bit, her fear gradually grew, and she let out uncontrollably a charming moan.
Ye Chutang reached out and touched Gesan's face with an evil smile.
"You northern barbarians hate the Qi family to the core. How about letting you get pregnant with a Qi family child?"
These words made Gesan's gradually defocused eyes regain focus.
"Let me die, please!"
Ye Chutang looked at the four angry northern barbarian men, and the smile on his face deepened.
"How about letting the brothel be your final resting place?"
The moment she finished speaking, she drew the knife from the officer's waist and cut the tendons of the four men.
"If this is the case, you can't run away. A little bit of soft muscle powder can turn you into a man's plaything."
These words made the four men struggle like crazy.
But it has no effect other than speeding up the blood flow in the wound.
Ye Chutang closed the jaws of the four men and stood up.
With a "swish", the blood-stained sword was put back into the scabbard.
She looked down at the five people and said, "Whoever tells me where Hezhe is, I will save him from humiliation."
After that, the countdown began.
"Three, two..."
Gesan didn't want his body and soul to be insulted by the dirty Beichen people, so he cried and spoke.
"I said! When I was captured, I saw Hezhe fleeing to the east hillside. He is very ruthless and you can't catch him."
After saying this, she burst into tears.
"Give me the antidote, please!"
Ye Chutang looked at the naive Gesang and sneered.
"Dirty Northern Barbarian spy, no one will touch you, just bear with it."
The northern barbarians wanted to kill her, and she would have to be crazy to keep her promise.
She kicked away the bodies piled on Hezhe and squatted down to see if he was really dead or just pretending to be dead.
And taking the opportunity of inspection, they collected the bottles and jars on him.
No heartbeat, no pulse, and low body temperature.
If Gesan hadn't said that Hezhe was faking his death, he would have been able to conceal it.
Ye Chutang had already obtained the antidote and directly broke Hezhe's neck.
Merit value +5241.
"He deserves to die!"
As soon as she finished speaking, the dragon guard staring at her asked, "Why did you kill him?"
Ye Chutang stood up and looked at the Dragon Guards with a smile.
"It's just a corpse, how can you talk about killing someone?"
"That woman clearly said he faked his death."
"So, you would rather trust the Northern Barbarians' spies than me?"
The Dragon Guard was speechless.
They had checked these bodies before and confirmed that they were all dead.
He asked, "The person who poisoned her is dead. How is Miss Ye going to detoxify her?"
"I have my own way."
After Ye Chutang finished speaking, he returned to Qi Yanzhou.
She opened the bag full of medicine and while searching through it, she put the five bottles she found on Hezhe into the bag.
After she uncorked the bottles one by one and smelled them, she quickly determined which bottle contained the antidote.
Just in case, she poured out a pill and handed it to Ye Jingchuan.
"Your mother is dying. This medicine may save her, or it may harm her. It's up to you to decide whether to give it to her."
Ye Jingchuan looked at the black pill in Ye Chutang's hand, his eyes full of struggle.
Seeing this, Ye Chutang added another sentence.
"Those wasps are fed poison. The longer the toxin remains in the body, the greater the chance of death. If this medicine can save your mother, it can save you."
What she meant was that she wanted Ye Jingchuan to choose between himself and Old Madam Ye to test the medicine.
If he chooses Old Madam Ye to test the medicine and the antidote is ineffective, he will be branded as a matricide.
If he chooses to test the drug on himself and the antidote doesn't work, he will die.
Ye Jingchuan hesitated for a long time before he stretched out his hand, which was as swollen as a steamed bun, and took the antidote.
He endured the severe pain all over his body and fed the antidote into Madam Ye's mouth.
Ye Chutang knew how selfish Ye Jingchuan was, and was not surprised at his choice.
She reached out to feel Madam Ye's pulse.
The pulse is very chaotic, slow and weak, but it is not a dead pulse.
She took her hand back and said to Ye Jingchuan, "The antidote is effective."
Ye Jingchuan's toad-like face showed joy, looking extremely ferocious.
"Give me the antidote."
His mouth was swollen like a sausage from a wasp sting and his speech was slurred.
Ye Chutang shook the medicine bottle in his hand to estimate the amount of antidote.
There should be thirty or forty of them.
Enough to save those with more serious symptoms.
Of course, Ye Jingchuan is one of them.
Ye Chutang held out his index finger and said, "Five hundred taels each, first come first served."
Ye Jingchuan: “…”
All the money he had in his body was just over 1,300 taels.
Even if you use all of it to buy the antidote, it won’t be enough to buy three pills!
While Ye Jingchuan was hesitating, Ye Chutang returned to Qi Yanzhou.
She lifted him up by the shoulders and fed him an antidote.
Madam Qi asked nervously, "Tang'er, will Zhou'er be fine after taking the antidote?"
She actually wanted to ask about the fire poison.
But there were people all around, so she didn't feel comfortable asking, and just blinked twice at Ye Chutang.
Ye Chutang understood Madam Qi's hint and nodded.
"Well, Ah Zhou will be fine after resting for a day or two."
As soon as Ye Chutang finished speaking, Qi Yanzhou slowly opened his eyes.
The one you love the most is the one you see.
He immediately sat up straight, put his hands on Ye Chutang's shoulders, and looked her up and down.
"Atang, are you okay? Why is there blood on your body?"
He wanted to ask before, but he fainted from the poison.
Ye Chutang helped Qi Yanzhou up.
"I'm fine. This blood belongs to Luger, the Northern Barbarian spy who controls the wasps."
"Are those men in black spies planted in the capital by the Northern Barbarians?"
Ye Chutang nodded, "Today is a blessing in disguise. We have eliminated all the spies that the Northern Barbarians had planted in the capital."
"Where's Luger?"
"Dead, right under that tallest tree, he reaped the fruits of his own actions, stung by a wasp."
She knew Qi Yanzhou had a lot to ask, but she didn't have time now.
"Azhou, you take a rest first, I'll go save people."
Ye Chutang walked quickly towards Qi Hean.
Qi Hean was still lying on the ground, groaning in pain.
Aunt Xu saw Ye Chutang coming over and asked with concern: "Madam, are you hurt?"
Ye Chutang shook her dress and said, "This is not my blood. How is Third Brother?"
"He'er...he was stung by a wasp and his body is swollen. It hurts a lot."
Qi Hean turned his head to look at Ye Chutang, his face as red as a cooked shrimp.
"Second sister-in-law, I'm fine. As a man, I can still endure this little pain."
Ye Chutang looked at his swollen buttocks and asked, "Is this the only injury?"
"Well, after I was stung, I ran deeper into the woods and escaped."
After saying that, Qi Hean scratched his head in embarrassment.
"Second sister-in-law, I'm not abandoning you, but I know that I'll be a burden if I come back, so I want to protect myself first."
"You did the right thing, don't blame yourself."
Ye Chutang poured out an antidote and handed it to Qi Hean.
"This is the antidote. The swelling will go down after you take it. I'll go check on those four people."
Mr. Qi took the initiative to greet Ye Chutang, "Tang'er, how are you and Zhou'er?"
"We are all fine, don't worry, how are the aunts?"
"Su and Yun'er were stung badly. They were burning all over and unconscious. Gao and Yao'er were slightly better."
Ye Chutang looked down at Gao and Qi Jingyao who were still relatively sober.
"I have an antidote, five hundred taels per pill, do you want it?"
Qi Jingyao weakly asked back, "We are all family, why do you want money?"
Ye Chutang looked at the wound on Qi Jingyao's forehead which had not yet fully healed and sneered.
"How thick-skinned do you have to be to say such a thing? Don't forget what you did on the eve of your exile?"
Qi Jingyao was stubborn and said, "I have proved my innocence with my death, what do you want?"
"Then don't buy the antidote, just wait to die."
This made Qi Jingyao panic, and she quickly said, "Buy it, I'll buy it!"
She crawled to Aunt Su's side and took out all the banknotes from the secret pocket of her belt.
After counting, I found that it was almost eight hundred taels, which was not enough to buy two antidotes.
She stared at the few banknotes with an embarrassed look on her face.
"I...my mother and I only have this much."
Ye Chutang took the banknote and said, "I'll give you the antidote first. You can pay the remaining two hundred taels of silver by working for them later."
Qi Jingyao felt humiliated, but did not dare to refute.
She is afraid of death.
So he bit his lip and uttered the word "OK" with difficulty.
Ye Chutang poured out two antidotes and handed them to Qi Jingyao.
After Aunt Gao saw Qi Jingyao take the antidote, her pale face quickly regained a hint of color.
She quickly said, "Madam, I want to buy two antidotes."
In order to avoid suspicion, the family did not go to Shili Pavilion to see the bride off.
But when she went out to buy things, he secretly gave her a silver note worth three thousand taels.
Enough for her to enjoy a good life during her exile.
So, Aunt Gao readily took out one thousand taels and exchanged them for two antidotes.
Ye Chutang went to the Zhao family's territory again and got straight to the point.
"Five hundred taels for one antidote, do you want it?"
It's not that she is a saintly woman, but the hornet's poison is not acute and will not kill a person in a short time.
The officers had enough time to ask a doctor to save them.
She is just taking advantage of everyone's fear to make some money.
A concubine of the Zhao family died, and all the family members were scared to death, fearing that they would be the next.
Zhao Mingxu, whose face turned pale, immediately agreed, "Yes, I want it!"
He was the emperor's younger brother, and he was tasked with destroying the Qi family. The emperor gave him a lot of silver bills before he set off.
When the bride was sent off at Shili Pavilion, the families of his wives and concubines also sent a lot of gifts.
So the Zhao family is not short of money.
Ye Chutang asked: "How many do you want?"
Although Zhao Mingxu felt sorry for the money, he didn't want any more deaths in the Zhao family.
"Nine."
He took out a handful of large silver bills from his pocket and counted out four thousand five hundred taels to give to Ye Chutang.
After Ye Chutang gave Zhao Mingxu nine antidotes, he shook the bottle in his hand.
She deliberately said to Ye Jingchuan, "There is not much antidote left."
Ye Jingchuan was indeed anxious, "I want two antidotes."
He didn't want to die. Ye Siyin was his only child and she couldn't die.
As for Aunt Jiang, it all depends on her luck.
Because he really couldn't afford more money to buy the antidote.
After Ye Chutang earned another thousand taels, he left with satisfaction.
When she returned to Qi Yanzhou, she passed by Wu Chenggang.
"Sir..."
She was interrupted by Wu Chenggang as soon as she opened her mouth, "I don't have five hundred taels."
Although the salary for escorting exiles was not bad and he could make some money, the salary had not yet been paid and the exile had just begun, so he did not make much.
Ye Chutang smiled and said, "Your Excellency misunderstood. I meant to say that if we take the remaining antidote dissolved in water, it can reduce swelling and also eliminate some of the toxicity."
"How much silver?"
"It's free. As long as the official is on the way to exile, please give me convenience."
"As long as you don't run away and don't rebel against your superiors, it'll be fine."
"Of course, sir, please wait a moment."
Ye Chutang came to Qi Yanzhou, took his right hand and helped him take his pulse.
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