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She Rebuilt Her Fallen Country With Storage Space-Chapter 138 - : Snatch Her Back No Matter What
Chapter 138 -138: Snatch Her Back No Matter What
The servant girl lifted the screen, and Xiang Ying strode inside.
The air inside the room was thick and foul-smelling. A family retainer had just cleared away a puddle of vomit and carried it out past Xiang Ying.
She slightly furrowed her brows.
The entire room was covered with heavy curtains.
Lying on the bed was the City Garrison Commander, Mr. Li, pale and gaunt.
The torment of many days had left him so emaciated he hardly looked human.
The bedside was surrounded by attendant servants, and on the ground knelt a doctor.
Mr. Li’s eyes were like two emotionless pebbles.
He looked towards Xiang Ying with a somber gaze and said, “Ever since this official arrived in West Zhou, I’ve been stricken with this strange illness.”
“I heard you are the elder princess of West Zhou. Fine, Zhao Yushi is one of your West Zhou people; she killed this official’s young son with her treatment, and now she can’t even cure this official’s illness. Since you are the elder princess, you cure this official’s illness then!”
“But remember, if you can’t cure it, you and Zhao Yushi at the door will share the same fate.”
Xiang Ying stepped forward, eyes lowered, with a steady tone of voice.
“I dare not treat the official.”
“Why not?”
“The drug primer is unclean; I fear the official won’t dare to take it.”
Mr. Li’s face flushed with anger, about to fly into a rage, but suddenly he retched violently.
The servant beside him quickly held out a spittoon, allowing him to vomit until he was completely emptied.
However, from the sound of his vomiting, Xiang Ying knew that Mr. Li really hadn’t eaten anything at all; it was all the sound of water.
After the vomiting, Mr. Li leaned back on the bed, gasping for breath.
“Do you even want to say that sheep dung has medical use as a primer? Zhao Yushi just tricked this official into eating that stuff, and it made me throw up even more!”
Xiang Ying’s phoenix eyes were pitch-black: “Please show me the used medicinal herbs.”
Mr. Li gave a look to his servant, who immediately brought over a heap of used herbs.
After a glance, Xiang Ying gave a cold laugh.
“Official, I will prescribe a new medicine for you, as long as you take it as I instruct, if there’s any further problem, I’ll let you deal with me as you see fit.”
Mr. Li looked at Xiang Ying up and down with his cold eyes.
“Do I still have to eat sheep dung?”
Xiang Ying nodded: “The more you eat, the faster you’ll recover.”
Mr. Li closed his eyes in agony: “Prescribe the medicine!”
Survival is paramount, if he must, he’ll just eat it.
Xiang Ying walked to the table and began to write a prescription.
She then handed over a bag of sheep dung that she brought with her to the coachman.
Upon opening the bag, the stench was so overpowering that the coachman almost vomited.
“This… Should this be processed?”
“If it’s processed and the medicinal effect is insufficient, will you take that responsibility?” Xiang Ying retorted.
Seeing her so confident, Mr. Li urged: “Enough with the nonsense, bring it here quickly.”
In passing, Xiang Ying also let the trusted doctor take a look at the prescription.
The doctor gradually frowned: “This…”
Mr. Li, enduring the smell of the sheep dung, looked at him: “What, is there a problem with the prescription?”
The doctor shook his head: “It’s not that there’s a problem, but rather… I’m afraid my medical skills are insufficient, I can’t discern the effectiveness of this prescription.”
It had every kind of medicinal herb, some to clear heat and detoxify, others to invigorate blood and dispel stasis.
But none of these seemed relevant to diarrhea and vomiting.
Mr. Li looked at Xiang Ying with confusion: “Are you sure this prescription will work?”
Xiang Ying’s expression did not change: “As long as you take this medicine, you will stop vomiting and having diarrhea within half an hour, feel hungry and want to eat within an hour, and be able to walk around on the ground within two hours; the effects are immediate.”
“All of these conclusions have been tested on water bandits; besides, if Mr. Li feels the medicine is ineffective, I am right here, at your mercy.”
Mr. Li felt she did make a point.
He threatened fiercely: “You’d better pray the medicine works, otherwise, this official will make you pay for all the humiliation of eating sheep dung!”
Xiang Ying smiled slightly and lifted her head slightly, the fair and spirited face like a beautiful painting.
“No problem.”
The prescription she wrote was, of course, useless—it was all nonsense.
Eating sheep dung was, of course, also fake.
What truly worked was the capsule and concentrated medicine that Xiang Ying hid inside the sheep dung.
She bet that Mr. Li would definitely not chew on the sheep dung.
Sure enough, once the medicine was quickly boiled, Mr. Li swallowed all the dung directly with the soup.
The stench made him roll his eyes and he leaned over the bed wanting to throw up.
Xiang Ying immediately stopped him: “If you vomit, it won’t work. Swallow it down!”
Mr. Li’s eyes reddened and bulged with blood, and under coercion, he swallowed hard and finally collapsed on the bed.
The coachman stepped forward: “You can’t leave, wait here. If the lord doesn’t get better, you’ll be held accountable!”
Xiang Ying then walked over to the table and sat down, her posture graceful, her face cold and indifferent.
“Of course, I won’t leave. I have to wait until Mr. Li is well, right?”
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Jie Chen was coldly packing up his things in the camp.
Skinny Monkey followed at his side: “Deputy General, are you really not going to care for your sister-in-law?”
Jie Chen had just listened to Supervisor Ke recount the events and immediately gave Supervisor Ke a harsh reprimand.
He punished him with military law, flaying his skin and bursting his flesh, blaming him for letting Xiang Ying station alone with so many people.
However, after the punishment, Jie Chen didn’t go looking for Xiang Ying.
Now that Skinny Monkey found him, Jie Chen just gave him a cold glance.
“How to find her? She’s in the City Garrison Commander’s house, even if I go now, they won’t let me take her away.”
Skinny Monkey hung his head in dejection, somewhat worried: “What should we do then?”
“I hear that this Mr. Li is extremely cruel and ferocious. After arriving in Mang State, he first sacrificed three thousand West Zhou people to the heavens.”
“After entering the city and finding local gentry families resisting, he actually slaughtered half the city. What chance does the elder princess have in his hands?”
Jie Chen said nothing, tightly pursing his lips, his jaw tensed.
He glanced in the direction of entering the city and spoke in a low voice: “Don’t worry, wait for nightfall.”
Skinny Monkey’s face lit up with sudden understanding.
“Deputy General, you always have a plan. I believe the City Garrison Commander wouldn’t dare to kill a prisoner at will; we just need to wait until the evening, and when he loses patience, we can negotiate terms.”
“What are you thinking,” Jie Chen’s voice was cold, as if he was looking at a fool, “When it gets dark, it’s time to make a move.”
Skinny Monkey was stunned: “Ah?”
Jie Chen turned and continued packing: “If necessary, we will snatch her back.”
Skinny Monkey immediately caught on.
Listen to this, such a powerful statement! Their Deputy General must be deeply in love!
“You go to the hillside and instruct Lu Feiyi and the others to start packing. Tonight I will bring Xiang Ying back, and we will depart immediately.”
Jie Chen instructed Skinny Monkey.
“Understood! I’ll go right now.” Skinny Monkey ran up the hillside.
He just saw Lu Feiyi and the others using cut-down trees, shaving them into planks, and piecing them together.
Confused, he asked: “What’s all this for?”
Lu Feiyi patted the dust off his hands: “The boss told us to make some windbreak planks. Is the team leader here for something?”
Skinny Monkey, without much thought, replied: “Deputy General is back. He wants you all to pack up; once he brings the elder princess back, we’ll set off.”
Learning that Xiang Ying would be alright, everyone around breathed a sigh of relief.
Dusk gradually spread across the evening sky.
Zhao Yushi knelt on the ground and turned to look inside the house.
She had seen household servants coming and going, but had not seen Xiang Ying emerge, nor heard any angry scolding from Mr. Li.
What was going on?
Suddenly!
The tightly closed door swung open, and a servant carried out a copper basin filled with blood-soaked stuff, and something seemed to be wriggling inside.
Zhao Yushi was startled.
Her first thought was—had Xiang Ying been killed?