Mistress

Chapter 79

Wang Yingying brought Xu Cheng and Jiang Ziheng to the old woman's house. The old woman's family heard the movement and peeked out the window secretly.

Seeing that Wang Yingying came in with two men, and they were both men holding long swords, they hugged each other and trembled in fright.

Wang Yingying now has only one accomplice in black who is guarding the yard, and he also came in to protect Wang Yingying.

Qing'er was sleeping soundly, Li Yan had been suffering for a while, and now she was lying weakly panting.Not to mention that she would die in forty days or so, the pain several times a day was unbearable for her.

Since she was going to die sooner or later, she might as well die sooner, she really wanted to hit the wall and die.Looking at Qing'er next to her, she still tried to get Qing'er out first.When Qing'er escaped from the tiger's mouth, she could at least die without guilt.

She suddenly thought of an idea, maybe she could really hold back the man in black in front of the door and let Qing'er run quickly.Wang Yingying only wanted to use her, Li Yan, and it had nothing to do with Qing'er, and the man in black must have known about it.

Once Qing'er ran away, neither Wang Yingying nor the man in black would be willing to chase after her, and they were too lazy to make the effort.

Li Yan took out four golden pegs from the food box, and was about to walk out the door when she bumped into Wang Yingying head-on.What surprised her even more was that there were two people behind her!One was Xu Cheng, and the other was a man in purple clothes she didn't know.

She was so startled that the four golden keys in her hand "Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom" fell to the ground.

She didn't know whether to be happy or worried.The joy is that Qing'er can be saved, and the worry is that even if she can be saved, she will not live long, and Xu Cheng looks at her pitiful appearance, feeling too ashamed.

When Xu Cheng saw Li Yan, his heart was agitated, he took two steps forward suddenly, and stretched out his hand to hug Li Yan in his arms.Li Yan quickly took two steps back, not looking down at him.

When Jiang Ziheng saw Li Yan, his chest heaved. This was the woman he had been thinking about day and night, and he finally saw her.Maybe it's because he hasn't seen her for a long time, and he feels a little strange, because the person he misses day and night is still her former appearance, which is very different from today.As long as she is the Li Nianyun in his heart, he can't help being excited.

He wanted to see her for the last time, and now he finally saw her!
But the way Li Yan looked at him just now was so cold and indifferent, no different from looking at a stranger. Could it be that she couldn't recognize him as Jiang Ziheng?His heart suddenly cooled down again.

Looking at the emperor beside him who was looking at Li Yan affectionately, he felt that he shouldn't follow up to see.The emperor's woman, of course, can only treat Jiang Ziheng as a stranger.

Qing'er was lying on the bed and saw this scene, she sat up with all her strength, and wept with joy, "Mother, the emperor is here, the emperor is here to save us!"

But Wang Yingying said: "It's not that easy, treat me as a dead person?"

Qing'er is not afraid of Wang Yingying at all now, because the emperor is here now.In her eyes, the emperor is tall, heroic and omnipotent. As long as he is around, she and Li Yan don't have to be afraid of anything.Although she was quite critical and dissatisfied with the emperor's previous behavior, the appearance of the emperor at this time was a surprise to her.

"Mother, why are you unhappy?" Qing'er got off the bed, trotted over and tugged at Li Yan's sleeve.

Li Yan twitched the corner of her mouth, "Happy."

Wang Yingying sat on the side of the bed and said slowly: "Qing'er, if she can't be happy, how can a dying person be happy?"

Xu Cheng first looked at Li Yan distressedly for a while, then looked straight at Wang Yingying coldly, and asked, "What exactly do you want me to hand over the antidote?"

Wang Yingying raised her head and looked up at him for a while. At first she wanted to ask him to trade his life for it, but she knew it was impossible. Xu Cheng would never trade her life for a bottle of medicine that she didn't know would work. medicine.

Xu Cheng would not be fooled by her like this, he would never be fooled by a woman, Wang Yingying couldn't help laughing when she thought of her own stupidity in the past.

Seeing that Wang Yingying didn't speak, but looked at him bitterly, Xu Cheng asked, "You hate me, but you can't kill me. Doesn't that add hatred to you? Do you think you can kill Li Nianyun by poisoning me and threatening me?" To avenge the Wang clan?"

Wang Yingying's eyes were moist. In fact, since she was a child, she really didn't place much hope in the Wang family's conspiracy.When the Wang family was overthrown, her father hadn't even been born yet, and her grandfather was also very young.But her father always wanted to take back the land that her ancestors had conquered, and also forced her to learn martial arts, piano, chess and calligraphy.

How bitter her childhood was, only she knows.She often felt that her father was just using her, and he didn't have the kind of love for his daughter at all.Her father always asked her to do this and that. Half of the soldiers and soldiers under his father's control were obtained through her hard work over the years.

Now that the plot has failed, she has too many people to hate, and the Wang clan's army was defeated successively by Ye Chao and Li Xiangrui.Her father was killed by people from the Ye Dynasty, and her uncle and other relatives were hunted down by Li Xiangrui's deputy generals.

If she really wanted to count her enemies, there would be too many, and she would not be able to take revenge even if she wanted to.

But she hated Xu Cheng the most, because he had lied to her once, and because he was the new emperor.She hated him, hated herself, hated that she had ever been tempted by him.

Li Yan saw that Wang Yingying's eyes were moist and then shed tears. She felt strange. She didn't expect that such a sonorous but vicious woman who was running around for her family in troubled times would have such a weak side.

At this time, Wang Yingying has already decided that after tonight she will be the real Wang Yingying, and she will have nothing to do with Wang Shi, she wants to live the life of an ordinary woman, she wants to marry, have children, and enjoy the joys of the world.

She wiped away her tears and smiled at them: "Why, have you never seen a woman cry? Since I am a woman, I will naturally cry too. Do you really think I am a fairy?"

If she hadn't poisoned Li Yan, Xu Cheng would have no hatred towards her, and said, "You leave the antidote, and I will let you go."

Wang Yingying stared at him and said word by word: "If you cut off your right arm, I will give it to you!"

Since she can't threaten Xu Cheng's life, let her use his arm to vent her pain.

Qing'er exclaimed in shock, "You are crazy, how could the emperor cut off his right arm, you crazy woman!"

Wang Yingying glanced at Qing'er, "You look energetic. You were exhausted, scared, and sick before, but now you dare to swear!"

Qing'er is confident now, and her nature is reckless and aggressive, she put her hands on her waist, "I'll scold you, what's the matter? You crazy woman, stinky goblin, if you don't take out the antidote, the emperor will wipe your blood." neck!"

It was Wang Yingying who threatened Qing'er by wiping her neck before, but now it's Qing'er's turn to threaten her.

Wang Yingying didn't bother talking to a little girl, she just looked at Xu Cheng and asked mockingly, "Are you wiping my neck directly, or do you want to save Li Nianyun's life?"

Xu Cheng didn't speak, but was trying to figure out whether what Wang Yingying said was the truth or a lie, and whether she had the antidote?

Li Yan had been standing just now, but now she came to the bed and sat down, and said lightly: "Wang Yingying, your trick is really clumsy, you want a new emperor to break his arm for me, don't you know that he just got it?" The world, is full of ambitions to rectify the world and has many beauties?"

Hearing what Li Yan said, Xu Cheng felt as if his heart had been gouged out by a knife.She still looked at him that way, she had no idea how much he missed her these two days.

After Jiang Ziheng heard this, he could see that Xu Cheng and Li Yan loved each other.He couldn't win her heart before, and now that he hasn't seen her for many years, it is even more impossible to win her heart. He agreed that Xu Cheng was right to give him a marriage.

What makes him even more pitiful and ridiculous is that Li Yan still hasn't recognized him.

Wang Yingying had shed tears just now, but now that she had calmed down, she smiled like a flower again, and said, "Li Nianyun, my method was indeed clumsy, because I just want to know whether Xu Cheng, a man, will use his sincerity towards a woman."

Xu Cheng didn't want to listen to her nonsense anymore, so he shouted: "Where is the antidote, at least you can show it to me, who will believe it?"

What Xu Cheng was most worried about was that Wang Yingying didn't have an antidote at all, so could Li Yan really be saved?Doctor Zhang's medical skills are superb, can he save Li Yan?
Wang Yingying replied: "I hid the antidote nearby. As long as you cut off your right arm, I will tell you where the antidote is hidden. Anyway, I can't escape, can I?"

Jiang Ziheng stepped forward and said, "Who will believe this kind of nonsense? If you have it, take it out quickly, if you don't, you will die!"

Wang Yingying stood up suddenly, and said with a sneer, "I put my life here, why are you so anxious? If you kill me, you will never get the antidote, so just watch her die. Before I lied to her that I have more than 40 days to live, but in fact it is only four days, and almost two days have passed! Calculate how much time is left in your mind!"

Xu Cheng looked at Li Yan nervously. Seeing her face turning blue, he knew that what Wang Yingying said was probably the truth!

Unable to vent his anger, he put the sword on Wang Yingying's neck, "She has no grievances with you, why did you kill her?"

"Who told her to be your woman? Why can't I do things that can make you sad? By the way, I heard from her that you are already hugging left and right in the harem, and you don't care if you have her or not, so you It’s impossible to be willing to cut off your right arm, isn’t it? That’s right, since ancient times, I haven’t heard of a one-armed emperor. It seems that I lost the bet, don’t let you cut off your right arm, even if you cut off a little finger, You may not want to."

Xu Cheng withdrew the sword, put it on his arm, and looked at Wang Yingying angrily, "What you just said is the truth, is there really an antidote?"

Wang Yingying was taken aback by Xu Cheng. Could it be that he was really willing to commit suicide for Li Yan?She really wanted to see if Xu Cheng was pretending or the truth, so she said, "Of course it's the truth."

Qing'er cried out in fright, "Your Majesty, no!"

But thinking that the emperor could really save Li Yan if his arm was broken, Qing'er cried again: "Your Majesty...are you afraid of pain?"

Jiang Ziheng didn't expect that Xu Cheng would really agree, because he could see that Xu Cheng's eyes were cold and anxious, it didn't seem like he was pretending.

Xu Cheng looked at Li Yan, and Li Yan was also looking at him.Li Yan didn't believe that he was really willing to self-mutilate, she even thought, if I really only have two days left to live, then it's okay for you, Xu Cheng, to break a right arm.

So she didn't have any words to stop it.

Jiang Ziheng stepped forward to stop him, "I hope the emperor thinks twice, don't be fooled by this woman."

After Jiang Ziheng said that, he drew his sword and cut lightly on Wang Yingying's neck. Although the force was light, the blade was already stained with blood, and the blood flowed from Wang Yingying's neck.

Wang Yingying endured the pain, "If you want to kill, kill it!"

Seeing the blood on Wang Yingying's neck, Li Yan's whole body tensed up, the poison suddenly broke out, and the pain was unbearable.She was sitting on the bed, and she fell forward in pain. Seeing that she was about to fall to the ground, Xu Cheng hugged her, "Why do you feel uncomfortable?"

Li Yan convulsed in pain and couldn't speak.

Xu Cheng didn't hesitate anymore, he knew Wang Yingying's temperament, she was not afraid of death.If he refused to break his arm today, it would be impossible for Wang Yingying to give him the antidote.

Xu Cheng put Li Yan on the bed.

He came to Wang Yingying, his eyes were red and he said: "After I broke my arm, if you still don't tell me where the antidote is, I will cut your body to pieces!"

After Xu Cheng finished speaking, he raised his sword and slashed at his arm.

Qing'er was so frightened that she covered her eyes, she didn't yell, because she also hoped that Li Yan would be saved, and the emperor was willing to cut off her arm, but this scene was too bloody, and she didn't dare to watch it.

At this time, Jiang Ziheng had nothing to say except admiration.

Seeing that Xu Cheng chopped off the sword, the blade was already touching the sleeve and penetrated into the flesh, there was a sudden "bang" on the roof, and a sword fell and hit Xu Cheng's arm holding the sword.

Then one person jumped down.

Xu Cheng's arm was bloody, and the sword wound was deep. If his left arm hadn't been smashed by the sudden sword, his right arm would really be gone.

Xu Cheng looked up at the person who jumped down, and was startled. Isn't this Gao Jin, the hostage Wang Yingying took when she ran away?
Li Yan was in so much pain that she couldn't bear to see Xu Cheng's self-harm just now.Seeing that Xu Cheng's arm was bright red, Qing'er quickly tore off her own sleeve to bandage Xu Cheng, regardless of who came.

Gao Jin was also carefully selected by Xu Cheng. He was reliable in his work and was never affected by his own emotional fluctuations. That's why Xu Cheng asked him to serve Wang Yingying at that time.

It's just that Xu Cheng never imagined at that time that Gao Jin, with his high martial arts skills, could be kidnapped by Wang Yingying.

Gao Jin looked at Xu Cheng in front of him, with shame on his face, but he didn't know how to express his guilt. It was futile to express guilt or explain to his master who betrayed him. Since he couldn't apologize with death, Then just say nothing.

Wang Yingying looked at Gao Jin very disappointed, "Didn't we agree a long time ago that after I avenge you, you will save me and then take me away. Is the former master in your heart more important than my revenge?" ?”

Gao Jin didn't want to see his former master with a broken arm. Facing Wang Yingying's complaints, he persuaded: "Since you have no antidote at all, people who are poisoned will definitely die, and they will be sad for a lifetime. Hatred will be rewarded, so why should you?" What's the point?"

Xu Cheng was shocked when he heard that, and there was really no antidote, so what should Li Yan do?He was about to step forward to grab Wang Yingying, but Gao Jin suddenly threw something, and then pulled Wang Yingying, jumped onto the roof and ran away.

There was a thick smoke in the whole room, and I couldn't open my eyes.

Everyone coughed, and Xu Cheng coughed up tears himself. He half-closed his eyes and quickly carried Li Yan out of the room, letting her breathe the fresh air outside.

Qing'er crawled out by herself.

Jiang Ziheng caught the man in black who had no time to escape, and came out together.Jiang Ziheng pinched the man in black's neck and asked, "Does Wang Yingying have an antidote?"

The man in black coughed and begged for mercy, "She really has no antidote!"

At this moment, Su Bai rushed over, and before he could ask, Xu Cheng ordered, "Hurry up and chase after Wang Yingying and Gao Jin!"

Su Bai didn't know why Xu Cheng involved Wang Yingying and Gao Jin, because he thought it was the former prince Yexuan who was here.But hearing Xu Cheng's order, he didn't even ask, and was about to leave.

Li Yan said angrily: "Su Bai, forget it." She coughed intermittently, causing her lungs to ache.

Su Bai had no choice but to stop, and looked at Xu Cheng again, wondering whether he should chase him or not.

Li Yan said again: "Wang Yingying... she definitely has no antidote. Gao Jin will not tell lies in this situation. I have already expected it to be like this. Let the two of them go far away, and killing them will not be a problem. It doesn't help."

Seeing that Li Yan was in unbearable pain and it was so painful to speak, Xu Cheng said, "Stop talking, let's go back to the palace." He carried Li Yan on his horse and ran towards the palace.

Along the way, he was burning with anxiety, and while he kept waving his whip, he wondered who are the people with good medical skills in this world.But there are only two days, is there still time?

Su Bai didn't find Jiang Ziheng when he went to the capital before, so he didn't bring a large army, but only brought a thousand imperial guards.He was very surprised to meet Jiang Ziheng here.He didn't ask why Jiang Ziheng appeared here, but followed Xu Cheng back to the palace.

At this time Xu Cheng stopped his horse suddenly and told him to find two famous doctors, so he rode away.

Jiang Ziheng did not go back, but stayed with the imperial guards to search the whole city, fearing that there were still people from the former princelings hiding in the city, and personally smeared out many symbols on the walls, so that those who wanted to follow Yexuan would have no choice but to search the city. Gather everywhere.

Holding Li Yan in his arms, Xu Cheng rode the horse and galloped all the way.

When Xu Cheng carried Li Yan back to Chengyuan Palace, Nanny Cui and Qi'er thought Li Yan was dead, so they jumped up and howled in fright.

Xu Cheng frowned, "She didn't die, she just fainted from the pain! Go to Doctor Zhang!"

Qi'er ran to see Dr. Zhang, and Nanny Cui cried and took a towel to wash Li Yan's face, because Li Yan's face was blackened by smoke, and Xu Cheng's face was also black.

Xu Cheng took the wet towel, wiped Li Yan's face himself, and then wiped his own face casually.

At this time, Cui Momo saw the blood on the emperor's right arm, and a piece of floral cloth tied on it was also dyed bright red, and cried, "Your majesty, why are you injured?"

Xu Cheng felt uncomfortable and didn't answer her.

Cui Momo leaned over to look at Li Yan again, and saw that her face was still blue after washing, so she threw herself on her and cried desperately, "Madam, what's wrong with you? Madam..."

Xu Cheng said with red eyes: "Go out, mother, I want to talk to my mother alone."

(End of this chapter)