A slim and graceful young girl stood in front of Song QingShu, her figure elegant and beautiful. Song QingShu looked at her from behind and saw that the skin on her neck was whiter than snow, white and rosy, so tender that he could pinch water out of it.
Seeing the young girl's appearance, Li Kexiu's expression changed. She hurriedly called for the archers under her command, "Stop shooting!" Then she turned around and glared at the young girl, "Yuanzhi, don't mess around. Get out of the way!"
That young girl was Li Yuanzhi, whom she had not seen for a long time.
"I'm not messing around!" Li Yuanzhi bit her lips as tears welled up in her eyes. "Brother Song has saved your life, father. He has also saved your daughter's life time and time again. How can you bite the hand that feeds you and turn around to harm him!"
She had been arranged by Li Kexiu to stay in the barracks and could not come out even if she wanted to. After the Jin and Qing messengers left and Li Kexiu returned to the admiral's mansion, Li Yuanzhi was still kept in the barracks.
However, she had a strange temperament. Without Li Kexiu by her side, who could control her? Coupled with her status as the eldest daughter, no one in the barracks dared to make things difficult for her.
At first, it was fine. Although she was bored, she could still stay in the barracks. However, when she heard from the soldiers that the Golden Snake King, Song Qingshu, was a guest in the mansion, she could not bear it anymore. She found an opportunity to run out of the barracks. Originally, she wanted to play with Brother Song, but when she returned to the mansion, she saw her father surrounding him. At that critical moment, she could not care so much and ran out to block Song Qingshu.
Being scolded by her daughter in public, Li Kexiu was shocked and angry. Her face was frighteningly gloomy.
Song Qingshu sighed, "Sister Yuanzhi, I did not expect that we would meet again under such circumstances."
Li Yuanzhi's eyes turned sour. She choked and said, "It's all my fault. If I had come to find you earlier, none of this would have happened."
Song Qingshu smiled indifferently, "What will come will come. As the saying goes, you can avoid it once, but you can't avoid it forever. You don't have to blame yourself."
Hearing him speak so freely and thinking of what her father had done, Li Yuanzhi became even sadder. "Brother Song!"
Choking with sobs, she wanted to throw herself into his arms. Song Qingshu hurriedly took a step back. "Don't touch me. I've been poisoned by the Golden Ripple Flower. I'm worried that I'll infect you."
He knew that in the City-Linking Secrets, Ding Dian would be poisoned from head to toe, so he was worried about hurting Li Yuanzhi. However, this time, he had worried too much. The reason Ding Dian's entire body was poisoned was because he had hugged Ling Shuanghua's coffin and cried for a long time. The coffin was covered in the poison of the Golden Ripple Flower, and Ding Dian, in his grief and despair, kept kissing and caressing the coffin, causing his entire body to be poisoned.
Because Song Qingshu was protected by his Zhen Qi, his body was not stained with the poisonous powder, so direct contact with it would not poison Li Yuanzhi.
"Poisoned?" Li Yuanzhi turned to Li Kexiu. "Father, you're so cruel!"
"Shut up!" Being criticized by his daughter like this in front of outsiders, Li Kexiu finally couldn't keep his face. "Come, help Miss back to her room to rest!"
He could see that Song Qingshu had a good relationship with his daughter. In addition, with the other's character, he would definitely not do something like holding his daughter hostage. Therefore, he was certain that he would send people over to take his daughter away.
Seeing someone approaching, Li Yuanzhi instantly screamed. She took out the dagger at her waist and placed it across her snow-white neck. "Don't come over!"
"You!" Li Kexiu hurriedly stopped his subordinates and glared at his daughter. "What do you want to do!"
Song Qingshu also frowned slightly. "Little Sister Yuanzhi, I appreciate your good intentions, but you really don't have to do this. Put down the dagger, it's too dangerous."
Although he was usually a bit greedy and lecherous, he also had his own pride. Although he knew that Li Yuanzhi might be able to save his life by doing this, he still didn't want to see her take such a risk.
"Give me the antidote for the Goldenripple Flower. Otherwise, I'll die in front of you!" Li Yuanzhi paid no attention to Song Qingshu's dissuasion in the slightest. Her graceful figure trembled slightly in the cold wind, but she stood there with an extremely resolute expression.
"Don't be rash!" Li Kexiu had always doted on his daughter, and he instinctively looked at Moqi Suo.
Moqi Suo replied coldly. "There's no antidote for the Goldenripple Flower!" When he saw Li Kexiu's expression change slightly, he continued. "At this point, the arrow is already nocked on the bowstring and has no choice but to be released. Lord Li, why be hesitant?"
A bright light flickered in Li Kexiu's eyes, and he gradually calmed down. He'd fought on the battlefield, so he naturally understood the principle of going all out. Now that he'd already offended Song Qingshu, if he was allowed to recover, then it would be his turn to suffer an unspeakable misery.
"Yuanzhi, you heard it yourself. It's not that Father doesn't want to give you the antidote, but there's no antidote at all," Li Kexiu said indifferently.
Li Yuanzhi still wanted to say something, but Song Qingshu also spoke up. "Little Sister Yuanzhi, your father is right. There's indeed no antidote for the Goldenripple Flower."
"Brother Song, you're so capable, you definitely have a way to cure it," Li Yuanzhi looked at him, and tears streamed down her cheeks. She then turned to her father and said, "Father, I only beg you to let him go."
"As expected, girls are attracted to their husbands!" Li Kexiu was both shocked and angry when he saw his daughter repeatedly opposing him. "Now that Father and that Song fellow are like fire and water, if I don't kill him today, I'll be the one to die tomorrow. Don't tell me that you're willing to watch me die?"
"No, he won't," Li Yuanzhi looked at Song Qingshu. "Brother Song, say something."
Song Qingshu frowned, but did not speak. He only snorted heavily. It was impossible for him to admit defeat and beg for pity at this moment. Although his life was important, there were some things that were just as important.
"You see, he's already like this now. In the future, he'll crush your father's bones and scatter his ashes!" Li Kexiu was so angry that he laughed.
"No, he definitely won't!" Li Yuanzhi seemed to have made up her mind. She raised her head abruptly and said, one word after another, "Because my daughter has promised to marry him, and … I am pregnant with his child. Why would he do anything to his father-in-law and the child's grandfather?"
"What!" Li Kexiu felt her vision darken. Her body swayed uncontrollably, and she almost fell to the ground.
Moqi Chen and Wan Gui's expressions were also extremely ugly. One had to know that the basis of their cooperation with Li Kexiu was to send Li Yuanzhi to the Southern Song Imperial Palace to be the Empress. If she was secretly married to another man, how could they send her to the palace?
"Yuanzhi …" Song Qingshu was also extremely shocked. He naturally knew that there was nothing between him and Li Yuanzhi. The other's words clearly meant that she wanted to save him.
In this world, he couldn't be more aware of how important a woman's reputation was. There were so many people present. If any word got out, Li Yuanzhi would probably have problems getting married in the future.
Just as Song Qingshu was about to speak, Li Yuanzhi interrupted him as expected. She whispered, "Brother Song, I know what you want to say. Please don't let my good intentions down. I'll save you today no matter what."
Looking at the girl's pleading eyes and feeling the girl's pure and exquisite thoughts, Song Qingshu's heart softened and he tacitly accepted the facts in front of him.
"Misfortune for the family, misfortune for the family!" Li Kexiu was heartbroken. She looked at Song Qingshu, the bastard who took advantage of her daughter. Her eyes were about to spit fire.
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Also, there's a bug in the previous plot. A long time ago, the Twin Evils of Hejian mentioned that they had secretly sought refuge with the Ruyang Palace.
Actually, when I wrote about the Twin Evils of Hejian in the previous chapters, I vaguely remembered that they seemed to have sought refuge with the Ruyang Palace. But when I looked up the relevant chapters, I didn't see it.
I thought that this was just my initial assumption, and it wasn't written in the novel.
In the end, an enthusiastic reader pointed it out for me yesterday. Monk really felt a little ashamed.
Fortunately, the Twin Evils of Hejian are not important people, so it doesn't affect the plot. I need to think about how to deal with them later.
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