Han Yunxi recovered her senses and quickly pulled her feet back into her skirt like she had been electrocuted. When she saw Long Fei Ye's eyes again, her face instantly turned red!
This fellow wouldn't think she was a loose woman, right? Or that she was seducing him?
Damn!
How shameful!
"Your highness, this concubine can apply the medicine herself. You can leave first." Han Yunxi forced herself to calm down as she spoke.
However, not only did Long Fei Ye not leave, he pulled a chair over and sat in front of her. Then he opened the ointment.
Was he going to help her apply the medicine?
Thinking of his gaze just now, Han Yunxi felt uncomfortable. She forced out a smile, "Your highness, I ….. can do it myself."
"Esteemed wangfei has already taken off her shoes and socks, so this king naturally has to help." Long Fei Ye's cold voice had a trace of ridicule.
Han Yunxi felt that there was something wrong with his tone. Then again, she didn't believe that this fellow would be so kind as to personally apply the medicine for her. What if he wasn't careful and used too much strength? Wouldn't she die from the pain?
"Your highness, although we are husband and wife, but ….. but ….."
Han Yunxi hesitated for a bit before directly saying, "Your highness, men and women shouldn't touch each other. You should leave first."
Long Feiye's lips quirked up into a cold smile, his domineering gaze teasing her from head to toe. "Qin Wangfei, are you sure you want to discuss indecent things with your lordship?"
Han Yunxi inexplicably felt a little guilty, but she still replied boldly, "Your Highness Duke of Qin, you and I have a nominal relationship. I'm only a wangfei in name, so why can't I discuss matters of indecency with you? Please be more serious! "
Who would have thought that Long Fei Ye would ask back, "Han Yunxi, when did this king say you were only a wangfei in name? You have entered my Duke of Qin's Palace, so you are one of my, Long Fei Ye's, people. "
As he spoke, he glanced at the shoes and socks at the side and warned coldly, "Please remember that you're already a married woman. Guard your womanly virtues well!"
"You!" Han Yunxi was angry. This guy was obviously humiliating her for not being a woman!
It was just taking off her shoes and socks. Why would she think so much about it? It was him who was thinking too much and was thinking too much!
Although she was angry, Han Yunxi found that she had no words to refute.
Looking at Long Fei Ye's cold eyes, Han Yunxi threw caution to the wind. She stretched out her leg directly in front of Long Fei Ye, almost kicking his face.
"Then I'll have to trouble Your Highness!" She said each word through gritted teeth.
Long Fei Ye sat motionless, but his cold eyes were penetrating. He raised his hand to grab Han Yunxi's little foot and pulled it down forcefully!
"Ah!"
Han Yunxi cried out in pain in her heart. This guy's hand was forcefully grabbing the red and swollen part of her ankle. How could it not hurt?
However, she was stubborn and did not even crease her brows. She had endured even more terrifying pain before, so what was this little bit of pain?
Long Fei Ye looked up at her with a gloomy face. His other hand reached out and held her foot from below, then pinched her ankle from below.
"You motherf * cker!"
Han Yunxi cursed in her heart. She secretly gritted her teeth and did not make a sound.
Long Fei Ye's lips curled into a cold smile. He took out some ointment and poured it on Han Yunxi's injury.
The ointment was cold. Once it touched the injury, Han Yunxi's burning pain immediately lessened. She even unconsciously let out a sigh of relief.
But who knew that just as her tense nerves relaxed, Long Fei Ye's fingers reached over and began to apply the ointment with his index and middle fingers!
Smear, smear!
It was indeed smearing. The man's hand was strong to begin with. On top of that, he deliberately smeared the ointment on her wound.
It hurt!
Every smear was painful. Moreover, as he smeared the ointment with force, the cold feeling of the ointment quickly disappeared and was replaced by a burning sensation. Not to mention her skin, even her bones and tendons felt like they were burning!
This feeling was simply as if he was gouging out flesh from a badly mutilated wound! It was unbearable!
In just a short while, Han Yunxi's back was already drenched in sweat. Large beads of sweat appeared on her temples. However, she still clenched her teeth tightly and kept her head down. She stared at the wound and did not move at all, allowing Long Fei Ye to torment her.
She wouldn't die. If it hurt, so be it!
Long Fei Ye thought that she would beg for mercy, but who knew that after a long time, his hand was sore, this woman still did not make a sound.
Long Fei Ye instinctively looked up. When he saw that she was still fine and had not fainted, he heaved a sigh of relief. Even he did not realize it.
When he took a closer look, he saw that Han Yunxi had her head lowered and was sweating profusely. He thought that this woman could not take it anymore and should surrender, right?
But who knew that at this moment, Han Yunxi would look up. She did not look like she was going to surrender at all. Instead, she looked stubborn. Her fearless gaze looked straight into his eyes as if she wanted to see through his guilty conscience.
Long Fei Ye was slightly stunned. He could not help but frown as he looked into her eyes.
Their gazes met in silence. One was stubborn and the other was cold. They were like enemies. Neither of them blinked first and neither of them gave in an inch.
However, Long Fei Ye did not realize that he had already stopped. Similarly, Han Yunxi did not realize that her leg no longer hurt.
Time passed by in silence. Heaven and earth were unknowingly silent …
After an unknown amount of time, suddenly, there was a "bang bang bang" knocking on the door. Following that, they heard the guard anxiously report, "Your Highness, another person died in the dungeon!"
At this moment, the two of them finally regained their senses. They looked at each other and immediately avoided each other.
Han Yunxi lowered her head. She could not remember what was wrong with her earlier. What was she looking at him for?
Long Fei Ye's brows were restrained and he lost some of his usual calmness. He pursed his lips and threw the ointment over. He said coldly, "Come out immediately after you're done. I'll wait for you at the door."
As he said that, he turned around and left. His footsteps were clearly faster. She did not know if it was because the situation outside was urgent or if it was for some other reason.
Han Yunxi then looked up. Seeing that he had closed the door, she heaved a huge sigh of relief as if a heavy burden had been lifted off her shoulders.
"Bastard!" She cursed. Just as her voice fell, Long Fei Ye rushed her from the door. "Han Yunxi, you better hurry up!"
"Bastard!"
Han Yunxi cursed again. She nimbly applied the ointment and wrapped it in a layer of white gauze. She wanted to put on her shoes and socks, but she realized that the socks and boots were too complicated. The white gauze wrapped around her feet could not fit her feet at all.
She hesitated for a moment. She could only use the white gauze to wrap her chilly feet tightly in several layers. This way, it would not be considered as exposing her feet, right?
She had to admit that Long Fei Ye's ointment was very useful. It did not need to be applied directly on the wound. The cooling sensation was especially good, and it alleviated a lot of the pain.
However, Han Yunxi did not care for it. She casually threw the ointment on the table, lightly hopped off with one foot, and limped out.
Long Fei Ye glanced at her feet but did not see anything. Her skirt was very long, and when she walked, her feet were mostly hidden in the skirt.
"Did the poisoned person die?" Han Yunxi asked.
"One person died." Long Fei Ye said. He slightly squatted in front of her and was about to carry her on his back. "Come up."
Han Yunxi hesitated, but Long Fei Ye was impatient. "Quick, the poison is acting up."
Upon hearing this, Han Yunxi knew that he was in a hurry to detoxify the poison. She had no choice but to quickly climb up. She wrapped her arms around his neck and bent her legs.
Han Yunxi was very light, so it wasn't strenuous for Long Feiye to carry her on his back. Han Yunxi didn't even get to experience what it felt like to be carried on his back before his figure vanished into the darkness.
He was very fast. He passed through the garden, went through the secret passage, and arrived at the dungeon in a moment. He placed Han Yunxi behind the mortuary table.
Although Han Yunxi was carried here, she felt as if she had run 400 meters in a time limit. She was so anxious that she could not breathe.
When she stood firm, the detoxification system's alarm sounded.
Poison!
Actually, even without the detoxification system's alarm, Han Yunxi could see that the corpse on the mortuary table was poisoned to death.
The corpse's glabella, lips, and fingers were all black. This was the sign of death from a highly toxic poison.
Han Yunxi secretly sighed before saying, "This person should have died a day or two ago, right?"
Long Fei Ye nodded and pointed to another corpse. "That one just died."
Han Yunxi looked over and saw another corpse. She walked closer to take a look. The signs of poisoning had not completely appeared, but the lips were already black.
She checked the corpse's eyes, lips, and fingernails. She said indifferently, "Suicide by taking poison?"
"She didn't have the chance to take poison." Long Fei Ye said.
All of the spies he'd locked up in the dungeons were hung by their hands and feet. All of their weapons and poisons had been searched for as well. Moreover, they were locked up in individual cells with towels stuffed into their mouths to prevent them from making noise or biting off their tongues to kill themselves.
Moreover, Long Fei Ye had ordered the poison doctors to check their mouths before locking them up. They hadn't found any traces of hidden poisons.
Before, Chu Xifeng had been the one interrogating them. These people had refused to say a word, eat, or drink, hoping to slowly starve to death. A few had already died in the past.
But a few days ago, Long Fei Ye had come to interrogate them personally. After torturing them, he began to discover that some of them had died from poison.
There were no spies in the dungeons, so it was obvious that these people couldn't take the torture and had taken poison to death.
Now Long Fei Ye couldn't figure out where they'd gotten the poison and how they'd taken it.
There were only two spies left. If they died one after the other, then all of his previous interrogations would have been for nothing.
Han Yunxi used her needles to collect the poisoned blood from the two corpses as she listened to Long Fei Ye explain the situation.
She wasn't interested at first, but grew curious as soon as she heard the details.
Usually, people who took poison to commit suicide would hide it in their teeth so that they'd be poisoned with a light bite. But these prisoners' mouths had all been checked before.
How did they take the poison?
Han Yunxi used the chance to take something out of her medical pouch to put the blood sample into her detox system. Almost immediately, the results showed that it was Rice Poison!
"It's actually all Rice Poison!" Han Yunxi was stunned as she looked at Long Fei Ye in disbelief.
Long Fei Ye didn't understand. "Rice Poison?"
Han Yunxi grew stern. "Are there any survivors?"
"There are two more," Long Fei Ye replied honestly.
Han Yunxi hesitated for a moment before seriously saying, "Take a drop of blood from each of them. Also, find a bowl of rice soup."
Long Fei Ye did as he was told. Very quickly, the blood of the two prisoners and a bowl of rice soup were sent in front of Han Yunxi.
Han Yunxi scooped a spoonful of rice soup into the blood of one of the prisoners and silently watched.
For a long time, there was no change in the blood. Long Fei Ye didn't understand. He just looked at Han Yunxi's serious expression and didn't say anything. The two guards around them were very curious. What was the princess consort doing?
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