Xi Zhuang cut a bit of the sleeve near the wound and then applied the golden sore medicine on Ji Feiyu. When the powder was sprinkled on, Ji Feiyu bit down on Yong Yaxuan again, tears welling up from the pain. Yong Yaxuan gently stroked her head and said, "It's okay, it's okay. It'll be fine!" But his voice was trembling as he said this, clearly lacking any persuasion. He himself was in great pain.
Ji Feiyu wanted to laugh at his appearance. With this laugh, she loosened her bite, and it seemed the pain wasn't that bad anymore. After all, the worst of it had passed.
Xi Zhuang took out the gauze from the medicine box and helped Ji Feiyu bandage the wound. After finishing, he looked at Yong Yaxuan and said, "Your Majesty, your hand is bleeding too. Do you want it bandaged?"
Only then did Ji Feiyu look down and saw a circle of tooth marks and blood on Yong Yaxuan's hand. Yong Yaxuan immediately withdrew his hand and hid it, saying, "It's okay, it's okay. It'll heal in a few days."
Xi Zhuang couldn't help but click his tongue, which made Ji Feiyu a bit embarrassed.
Yong Yaxuan immediately glared at him, and Xi Zhuang then bowed and said his farewells before quickly leaving with the medicine box.
Yong Yaxuan turned back and looked at Ji Feiyu with heartache. Ji Feiyu said awkwardly, "I... I'm not actually that delicate..."
Yong Yaxuan sighed and said, "I'd rather you were a bit more delicate." After saying that, he picked Ji Feiyu up horizontally and walked out of the forest.
Ji Feiyu's face had been a bit pale due to the excessive blood loss from her hand, but now it turned red from anxiety. "What are you doing?"
Yong Yaxuan held her and said, "I'm taking you to seek revenge on them." He avoided the topic of why he was carrying her and directly mentioned what he was going to do next.
"You're really..." Ji Feiyu hesitated to speak.
When Yong Yaxuan passed by Zhan Shan and Xi Zhuang, he said, "Order someone to protect the scene, and then inform the eldest prince to come. This assassination can't be easily let go!"
Zhan Shan and Xi Zhuang took their orders and went their separate ways.
...
That day's hunting ended prematurely because of Ji Feiyu's assassination. Yong Yaxuan sat with a gloomy face in the honored guest seat in the eldest prince's palace. The eldest prince looked at Ji Feiyu, who was also sitting, with a worried face. He couldn't help but roar at the row of concubines kneeling in front of Ji Feiyu, "Who on earth did this!"
Everyone was shivering with their heads down, unable to say a word. After a preliminary investigation, the eldest prince believed that it was the women around him who had tried to kill Ji Feiyu. So he was extremely angry. He called them all over and interrogated them in front of Yong Yaxuan and Ji Feiyu, but no one admitted it.
The second prince then said, "A man surely wouldn't do something like instigating a female archer. Besides you jealous women, who else could it be? I think you'd better confess to each other. Otherwise, you'll all be punished together."
At this time, someone finally weakly spoke up, "It wasn't me. It was A Ling! She said that Ji Feiyu was a scourge to the Northern Cold and must be eliminated. I know nothing, nothing at all. Wuwu..."
"A Hua, I didn't expect you to be such a person!" The woman named A Ling couldn't help but look up and glare.
The eldest prince snorted coldly. "There's no need to say anything. Take her out!"
A Ling couldn't help but look up and said earnestly, "Eldest prince, are you really going to be lost in this woman's tenderness? Don't forget, she's the woman of a foreign monarch. How could she ever submit to you!"
"Shut up! Do you think you can meddle in my affairs casually?" The eldest prince got even angrier when he heard this. "Take her away!"
A Ling was taken away while wailing. The last few sentences she shouted were in a foreign language, gibberish. Ji Feiyu didn't know what she was saying, but it seemed like she was scolding her. Ji Feiyu didn't care, but the eldest prince and the second prince both changed their expressions after hearing it.
The eldest prince roared, "Execute her! Execute this woman who spreads fallacies and confuses people!"
The other women in the room all trembled, and the room suddenly became eerily quiet.
The second prince coughed lightly and then said to the others, "If the rest of you are okay, you can all leave."
The concubines quickly bowed respectfully and left one by one. After everyone had left, the eldest prince came to Yong Yaxuan's side, bowed to him, and then said, "It's my fault for not disciplining them well, which made Queen Feiyu frightened. I never thought those women would arrange such an assassination just because of jealousy. Women's hearts are really too scary."
Yong Yaxuan snorted coldly. "Isn't the scariest one actually you? Before the competition, we said that if it was inconvenient, she could follow us. But you insisted that it wasn't necessary. As soon as the hunting started, you disappeared without a trace. You said you had arranged two bodyguards to protect her safety, but it turned out that one of these two bodyguards had a problem!"
The eldest prince's face turned red and then white. At this time, the second prince stepped forward to explain for him, "We can't entirely blame my elder brother for this. He was also unaware. It can only be said that people's hearts are beyond our expectations."
Yong Yaxuan said with a tense face, "If the eldest prince has no intention of taking care of Feiyu, it's better to return her to us. All you want is for your people to have enough to eat and wear. Since most of the people in the Northern Cold make a living by herding, I'll bestow a few good adjacent pastures to you so that your people's cattle and sheep can still have a full meal in autumn."
Hearing this, the eldest prince said, "I do owe Feiyu for this, but I won't exchange her for a few pastures. The pain on her body also hurts my heart. I've promised her that I'll treat her whole - heartedly and won't use her as a bargaining chip. I'll surely abide by my promise." After saying that, he looked at Ji Feiyu affectionately.
Ji Feiyu got goosebumps when she saw this.
Yong Yaxuan frowned. It seemed that the eldest prince didn't want to exchange her. He talked so grandly, but in fact, he thought the offer was too little.
Yong Yaxuan said, "Now that Feiyu is injured, what explanation can you give me?"
The eldest prince said, "I'll take care of Queen Feiyu myself until she recovers. Your Majesty must be tired from today's hunting. Why don't you go back and rest first?"
The meaning was clear by now: If you want to discuss conditions with me, do it another day. We don't need to do it in front of Ji Feiyu. If you think you can get rid of me with a few pastures, you're wrong. Now Ji Feiyu doesn't entirely belong to you, so I don't need to give you an explanation.
Yong Yaxuan snorted coldly and left with a flick of his sleeve.
But the reason he left so readily was that on their way here, Ji Feiyu had told him that she would stay with the eldest prince first to recuperate from her injury so as to figure out the eldest prince's habits. So she told him to act as he pleased and then find an excuse to leave.
When the eldest prince saw Yong Yaxuan leave, he heaved a sigh of relief. At this time, the second prince, who was standing beside him, realized that he didn't need to help his elder brother boost his momentum anymore, so he said, "Since it's getting late, I'll take my leave first, elder brother. Take good care of Queen Feiyu..." After saying that, he glanced at Ji Feiyu meaningfully.
Ji Feiyu immediately received the signal in his eyes.