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Out of the city, Ye Zhen and the others went to the mountains not far away. Her legs were already bruised. Although she had recuperated for a day, her skin was still soft. It didn't take long for her to feel uncomfortable again.
After traveling for three days, the skin between her legs was broken and bleeding. Now she had just recovered. Thinking that she had to pick herbs for Lu Lingzhi, she felt extremely unwilling. In short, even if she saw the Seven Knots Grass, she would not pick it for Lu Lingzhi.
He was going to die of pain! Let him suffer seven days of pain for the rest of his life.
"There's a deep forest up ahead. Horses can't enter, so we can only walk in," Luo You said to Lu Shiming.
"Then let's walk in. Didn't Doctor Qi say that the medicine can only be found in the mountains?" Lu Shiming got off the horse and turned to look at his daughter. "Yaoyao, the few of us will enter the mountain. You don't have to go."
Ye Zhen really didn't want to go into the mountains to look for him. She felt uncomfortable. "Dad, let's go our separate ways. It will be easier to find him."
"I'll go with Luo You. The rest of you protect the Princess," Lu Shiming said to the others.
In this way, they split up to look for seven-knotgrass. Ye Zhen picked a relatively low mountain forest and walked towards it.
"Princess, are you tired?" Hong Ying held Ye Zhen's hand. She knew best that Ye Zhen's legs were injured and was afraid that she would be injured again.
Ye Rou smiled. "It's fine. Let's go."
It was not easy to climb up the mountain. Looking at the dense forest and shrubs, she could only say, "Look at the map and see if you can find it."
The two guards did not dare to stray too far from Ye Zhen, so they searched the vicinity with the image.
However, the Seven Knots Grass looked no different from weeds. After searching for a long time, he couldn't find a single one. There were many similar ones, but unfortunately, they weren't the Seven Knots Grass.
Ye Zhen also looked down. Suddenly, she found something strange in the grass in front of her. She looked back at Hong Ying and the two guards. They were all looking not far away and did not see the situation on her side.
There was blood in the grass! She held her breath as the trail of blood continued to spread. Finally, she saw two figures hiding behind the tall grass.
Someone was holding a long saber and staring at her coldly.
Ye Zhen's eyes fell on the unconscious man's face. It was Tian Jiu! She was shocked. They had escaped from the city.
The knife-wielding man's eyes flashed with murderous intent as he stared at Ye Zhen.
"Princess, I don't see any seven-knotgrass here." A guard came over to look for Ye Zhen.
"I can't find it here, let's go to the other side." Ye Zhen said hurriedly, stopping the guard from coming over.
She turned around to look at the man and saw that he was frowning at her, still holding the knife tightly in his hand.
"Don't enter the city." Ye Zhen said in a low voice. She took out a bottle of wound medicine from her arms, which was added with spiritual spring water. She quietly threw it on the ground.
As long as they weren't in the city, it would be fine. If they hid in the mountains, Lu Lingzhi's men wouldn't be able to find them that easily.
The man with the knife did not know her. If she had told him where they were, he would have killed her immediately.
Ye Zhen left with the guards and went down the mountain, just in time to meet Lu Shiming.
"Finding a stalk of Seven Knots Grass is too difficult. It was not easy to find one." Lu Shiming said excitedly, "Let's let Doctor Qi try it first. If it really works, we'll get people to look for it."
If they let people go into the mountains to look for it, wouldn't it be easy to expose Tian Jiu's whereabouts?
Ye Zhen said, "Generally, this kind of seven-knotgrass does not grow in piles. It's not easy for you to see one by the lake. It's easier to find it in the mountains in the south."
Lu Shiming nodded. They did look for it for a long time, but they couldn't find it. Even the one they found looked listless. "Let's go back first."
"Okay." Ye Zhen smiled, hoping that Tian Jiu and the others could leave here today.
Back in the city, when they were about to find Qi Jin, they suddenly heard a painful scream from Lu Lingzhi's house. Lu Shiming and Luo You were shocked and hurried over.
Lu Lingzhi's remaining poison flared up. He felt as if thousands of ants were biting him, and the pain was unbearable.
Qi Jin asked people to hold his limbs down. Fearing that he would hurt himself too much, she was giving him acupuncture to relieve the pain.
"Doctor Qi, we found the seven-knotgrass." Seeing his nephew like this, Lu Shiming was distressed and quickly brought up the seven-knotgrass.
"Yao Yao, hurry up and boil the seven-knotgrass. Add it to the medicine that the Marquis of Anyang usually drinks." Qi Jin said loudly to Ye Zhen.
Standing by the door, Ye Zhen looked at Lu Lingzhi, who was in pain on the bed. There was a sense of satisfaction in her heart. Compared with the pain she had endured, what was Lu Lingzhi's suffering?
"Yao Yao, what are you doing?" Qi Jin cried.
Ye Zhen came back to her senses and walked over to take the seven-knotgrass in her hand.
Lu Shiming thought she was frightened because she had never seen such a scene before, so he soothed her softly, "It's okay. Your brother just needs to drink the medicine."
"Mmm." Ye Zhen nodded and turned to go out to boil the medicine.
Qi Jin wanted to relieve the pain with acupuncture, but his muscles were tense and the needles could not penetrate his acupuncture points at all.
When Ye Zhen brought the medicine, Lu Lingzhi was in so much pain that he was about to lose his mind. Four big men could not hold him down. The wounds on his body had been torn open and his clothes were soaked with blood. He looked very embarrassed and pitiful.
However, it was difficult for Ye Zhen to feel pity for him.
"Yao Yao, let me do it." Lu Shiming took the medicine from Ye Zhen's hand. "You hold him down. I'll pour the medicine in."
Ye Zhen gave the medicine to Lu Shiming and went to help Qi Jin pack up. She approached the bed. Suddenly, Lu Lingzhi, who didn't know where the strength came from, hugged her.
"Let me go!" Ye Zhen shouted angrily and pushed Lu Lingzhi away.
"I'm sorry … I'm sorry …" Lu Lingzhi hugged her and cried vaguely. Others couldn't hear what he said, but Ye Zhen did know. She understood that Lu Lingzhi was delirious at the moment and thought she was Princess Qin.
"Yao Yao, don't move." Lu Shiming hurriedly cried, "Let your brother drink the medicine first."
Ye Zhen's body was stiff and did not move. She was held in Lu Lingzhi's arms and could still feel his body trembling. It must be really painful.
Lu Shiming walked over. "Yanzhi, drink the medicine. It won't hurt anymore."
"Big brother, drink the medicine quickly." Ye Zhen was held in his arms and felt sick all over. She wanted to push him away immediately.
Lu Lingzhi hugged Ye Zhen tightly as if this could relieve the pain in his body. Under Lu Shiming's persuasion, he drank the medicine and fell asleep after a while.
Ye Zhen immediately pushed him away and stood far away, staring at the man who had fainted on the bed, wishing he could die of pain.
Qi Jin and the others did not notice Ye Zhen's strangeness and just bowed their heads to rebandage Lu Lingzhi's wounds.
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