"puff……"
Ji Fengyao almost burst out laughing. She then fiercely punched and kicked him for a while, pointing at the motionless Black Owl on the ground and saying, "Men, drag him back to the palace, chop him up and feed him to the dogs. Consider it compensation for the wine I was owed."
The unexpected farce ended, and the Ninth Prince's entourage quickly left.
All that remained on the ground was a pool of blood and a broken jar of fragrant wine.
After the Ninth Prince's men had all gone far away, two masked men dressed in black emerged from a dark corner, squatted down next to the broken wine jar, dipped their fingers in the wine, and sniffed it.
“It is indeed wine, and it’s quite mellow,” one of them said.
"Let's go," the other person said briefly.
Ji Fengyao held back all the way until she returned to Hui Nuan Pavilion, finished washing up, and dismissed everyone else before she couldn't help but ask, "Your Highness, what are you and Hei Xiao up to? It's just two jars of wine. If people want to follow, let them. There's no need to waste your energy making Hei Xiao roll around on the ground."
"You feel sorry for him?" Shang Xiye suddenly grabbed her hand, his expression displeased.
"Hmm, it hurts. A perfectly normal person is pretending to be so miserable. Don't you feel sorry for him?" Ji Fengyao pulled her hand back in annoyance and opened the animal skin needle kit to prepare for acupuncture: "He seems carefree and unreliable, but he actually cares about you quite a bit."
"This was his own idea, not my arrangement," Shang Xiye said unhappily, refusing to take the blame for Hei Xiao.
He wouldn't stand up for that awkward Black Owl and act as a mediator in front of his own wife.
Ji Fengyao actually saw a bit of childishness on his face: the relationship between this person and Hei Xiao was indeed different from others. Look at how they were teasing and bickering with each other, it was just like a love-hate relationship.
If Black Owl hadn't solemnly told her that both of them were straight men, she would have really been led astray by them.
I've never seen brothers be this close.
“That’s good. The Emperor is very suspicious. The sooner he knows the answer to this matter, the sooner he will feel at ease, and the safer you will be,” Shang Xiye suddenly couldn’t help but explain as his back was covered with silver needles.
Ji Fengyao suddenly realized that Hei Xiao's actions were all to protect her. Touched, she continued to administer acupuncture without slowing down: "I thought that keeping the purification equipment at the Marquis of Anping's residence would bring peace, but it seems the waters in the capital are deeper than I thought. Sigh, I really just wanted to quietly refine medicine; I don't care about wealth or fame."
"You really enjoy making medicine?"
"Of course, I am a dignified ten..."
Ji Fengyao almost revealed her identity in a moment of carelessness. Seeing Shang Xiye looking at her probingly, she quickly put on a fawning smile and explained, "What I mean is that this matter concerns Your Highness's safety, so I will naturally do my best to heal Your Highness's injuries and remove the poison from your body as soon as possible, so that I can live a happy and fulfilling life with Your Highness."
"Does Your Highness mean that you are not happy or fulfilled now?"
Shang Xiye leaned forward and suddenly reached out, startling the female bandit so much that she stumbled backward and bumped against the wall.
"Your Highness, needles, needles..." Ji Fengyao didn't understand why this guy had gotten angry again so suddenly, so she quickly reminded him that he was covered in needles.
"If you're afraid of hurting me, then don't move around." Shang Xiye reached out and held the back of her head, his eyes trembling slightly, gradually closing the distance between them.
I f*** you!
Ji Fengyao slid down, slipped out from under his arm, rolled to the edge of the bed, and said angrily, "Your Highness, don't push your luck and bully me too much. You get angry and threaten me at the slightest disagreement. If you continue to be so unpredictable, believe me, I'll quit right now!"
Shang Xiye's face darkened: "..."
That slow-witted little thing, which eye of hers saw that he looked angry!
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