She felt itchy all over her body; after scratching one spot, another spot would start to itch, and she felt like even her bones were itchy.
"Yes, honey, I feel so itchy too." Xiaolian's mother said, scratching hard, leaving a bloody welt on her arm, which showed how hard she scratched.
The innkeeper also felt itchy and wondered if he had eaten something wrong, but after thinking for a long time, he couldn't figure it out.
Xiaolian's brother said, "Dad, hurry and find a doctor for us. I feel so itchy, my skin is almost raw from scratching."
"I'll go find a doctor right now." The innkeeper nodded. Although he didn't know what he had eaten wrong, seeing a doctor was the priority.
When he opened the door and saw the people standing outside, he was so frightened that he stepped back. An Shuyi walked in, and Xiao Yubai followed behind.
"You shouldn't be surprised to see me, after all, you're so smart, thinking about running away."
"Mother, she's that vixen." Xiaolian was waiting for her father to go find a doctor, but when she opened the door, she saw the person outside. Before long, she hurriedly covered her face.
She was so busy cursing that vixen that she didn't even notice that the adults were around. Now her clothes are disheveled and her body is covered in bloody scratches. How can she face anyone?
The innkeeper was looking at the two of them in fear when he suddenly realized why his family had ended up like this. He was surprised that his daughter still couldn't see the truth and was even calling her a vixen.
"I'm sorry, General and Madam. My daughter was ignorant. Please forgive us. I'll take her with me now and we won't go back to the border town. She won't be an eyesore to you, General."
An Shuyi laughed and said, "You are quite smart, but your family is not. Do you think I am so good-tempered? You dare to scold me and glare at me, calling me a vixen and a courtesan."
"I have to say, your daughter deserves to die. Anyone who dares to curse me like that must be reduced to dust. Close the door. I need to see if this medicine is as potent as Wenwu said."
Xiao Yubai turned around and closed the door, then stood with her and looked at her. "Madam, if I make you angry, will you use this medicine to poison me?"
"Don't worry, this medicine is hard to get. I only have one. The other one is with Hua Hua. If you make me angry, you won't be able to use it. But I have other medicines." She had a lot of other medicines.
Every time Wenwu researched a poison, she would give it to her. But since it was poison after all, not many people had researched it, and the effects were different. This was because if even a slight mistake was made in the poison, its effects would change.
"Witch, you're the one who made me like this! Quickly bring out the antidote!" Xiao Lian said, then became delicate again. "My lord, you must do justice for me."
"This witch is so vicious, you mustn't be fooled by her. Please, sir, make this witch hand over the antidote. Xiao Lian is willing to be your concubine and serve you."
An Shuyi said with a smile, "Didn't you just say you wanted to be the principal wife? How come you changed your mind so quickly? But I'm afraid you won't even be able to be a concubine, because I, the principal wife, don't agree."
Seeing her angry expression, he continued, "At least a concubine is pretty, but what about you? You're so ugly you could scare someone to death. If you really can't stand it, fetch a basin of water and look at your face. Are you as pretty as me?"
"You vixen, you slut! So what if you're beautiful? You'll still grow old and lose your looks one day. I'll see if the master will still like you then!" Xiaolian ran over angrily, ready to hit her.
Xiao Yubai tried to stop her, but An Shuyi blocked him. A medicine bottle appeared in her hand, which she opened and poured the water inside onto Xiao Lian. Soon, a piece of her body was corroded away, and the corrosion continued to spread.
"You still want to hit me? Don't you even look at your ugly face? My son's medicine is really amazing. I never thought that a person could still live after being given corpse-dissolving water."
The others shuddered at her smiling face; it was terrifying. They swallowed the insults they were about to utter.
"Ah, Father, please save me! I don't want to die!" Looking at the corroded parts of her body, where even the bones were visible, she probably would have fainted long ago if it weren't for the pain and itching all over her body.
Unfortunately, her father couldn't care less about her at this time, because as time went by, his body began to itch unbearably, and he felt as if he wanted to scratch his flesh off. Xiaolian's brother and mother were in the same situation.
They no longer cared about begging for mercy, but were focused on scratching off pieces of flesh to relieve the itching. Before long, the flesh was torn off and flowed down.
"It's really ugly. This medicine isn't working. It needs to itch even more, ideally until it itches so badly you feel like you could cut off a piece of your own flesh." An Shuyi said, opening the door and going out. She didn't leave but waited outside.
Xiao Yubai followed behind her. After the house was quiet, she went back in, holding a bottle of corpse-dissolving water. She poured it on the three corpses, and Xiao Lian's body had long been dissolved by the corpse-dissolving water, leaving not even bone fragments.
"Let's go back to sleep."
"Madam, how much of this corpse-dissolving water do you have?" He had never seen anything like it before, and she said that it was Wenwu who developed it.
"What, you want it?" she said only after seeing him shake his head. "This isn't much. Hua Hua and I use it to dispose of corpses, otherwise it's too much trouble to dispose of them. Don't worry, it won't be used on you." She only had a few bottles left in her warehouse, which was far from enough.
This is also a reminder to him that she has a bad temper and he shouldn't provoke her.
"As long as you don't use it on me, it's fine. If anyone makes you unhappy, just kill them, and I'll dispose of the body for you." He was just curious.
"No need for that. I'm not a serial killer. Unless someone provokes me, I won't kill anyone. Let's go, we need to go back to sleep."
Xiao Yubai nodded, picked her up, and flew away, landing directly outside the inn before putting her down.
Looking at the inn ahead, An Shuyi once again envied his light-footed skills, because this way they could reach their destination quickly instead of walking, which was much slower.
She entered the inn and found it nearly empty, though a few people were still drinking and chatting. She went straight upstairs and said, "I'll wait outside."
She needed to change her clothes before going to bed, so she went behind the screen, changed out of her dress, put on her pajamas, lay down on the bed, and then let him in.
Seeing her sleeping, Xiao Yubai didn't disturb her. He blew out the room light, lay down on the table, and went to sleep.
The next morning, after having breakfast, I went to the inn to pick up all the things I had bought the day before and then took a carriage. After more than an hour, I arrived at the camp. The soldiers guarding the gate saw the carriage coming and hurriedly went up to it.
"Is that Lord Yingyi? Is the General inside?" Even though they were acquaintances, they still needed to check carefully.
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