Chapter 173 Not a Good Place to Kick
He walked over to Zi You and jealousy said, while twisting logic, “You’re unreasonable. You can treat that b*stard Zhao HongXiang’s leg and Second w.a.n.gzi’s paralysis and have contact with them. But why won’t you let me touch you?”
“You!” Zi You saw him acting like a rogue and was even angrier. She didn’t even think about it and lifted her leg with a boot on it and kicked him again.
Shangguan LingRan didn’t dodge or resist this time. He was coincidentally kicked by Zi You in his groin.
Thus, this fellow went, “Ouch” and clutched his ***. He fell to the ground in pain.
Zi You didn’t think that he wouldn’t have dodged or resisted. The place that she had kicked and that he was clutching now was a man’s fatal area. At first she thought that he was faking it, but his face was pale and his forehead was covered with sweat. She started to panic a little.
Her heart was stuffy. She thought that if that area was broken, a man’s life was finished. She was so scared that she forgot to be angry. She went over to him and bent down to ask, “How are you? Is it bad?”
Shangguan LingRan’s situation seemed to be bad. He didn’t cry out in pain, but rolled back and forth on the ground. Sweat rolled down his face.
Zi You knew that she used 70%-80% of her strength. She really panicked seeing him like this now.
She got close to him and wanted to read his pulse. Her voice was obviously panicked. “Are you okay? Don’t scare me!”
Shangguan LingRan looked resentfully at Zi You. He acted spoiled like a child. “You’er, you…… tried to murder your husband. If that place is broken, your life will be…… ruined.”
Zi You saw that he could still speak. She couldn’t care to still fight with him. She immediately asked, “How is it? Is everything all right?”
Shangguan LingRan looked pitifully at her and shook his head. “I’m not a doctor. I don’t know. It just really hurts. Why don’t you take a look?”
Zi You didn’t even think about it and nodded. “Give me your hand then.”
Shangguan LingRan pointed to his groin in surprise. “The injury is here. Why are you looking at my hand?!”
Zi You looked at the place that he was referring to. She shyly glared at him and scolded, “Lecher! You only know how to let your imagination run wild all day. I was talking about reading your pulse.”
“Oh.” Shangguan LingRan was very obedient this time. He averted his face when he stretched his hand out to her. He revealed a fox-like smile as if his plot had succeeded.
Hehe…… I knew that You’er cares about me, as long as I act like I have an injury and use my internal force to make my pulse seem as if it was in disarray.
Zi You read his pulse and was panicked. “Hey! Tell me the truth! If it really hurts, I’ll make medicine for you. You can’t hide it or something bad will happen.”
Shangguan LingRan looked feebly at her and asked, “You’er, am I too injured? If so, will you disdain me and not want me? It’s over. It’s over this time……. How sad will Mufei be? I am her only son……” He clutched his head sadly.
Zi You was even more fl.u.s.tered. She thought of how An w.a.n.gfei had no conflict with her. She even stood out and spoke up for her in Duke Yongnan fu.
No matter what her motive was then, she hadn’t done anything bad to her.
Even when Taizi and Third w.a.n.gzi proposed to the Emperor to marry her as cefei, An w.a.n.gfei gave Shangguan LingRan the idea to ask the Empress Dowager to marry her as Zhengfei.
The purpose was to help her so that the Emperor and the Empress Dowager would be in a difficult spot and not marry her to either Taizi or Third w.a.n.gzi.
Zi You thought of this and felt guilty. She could only whisper, “Don’t worry. If…… If it’s really broken, I will be responsible for curing you.”
“Really?” Shangguan LingRan pretended to look at her in disbelief. “Will you really be responsible?”
Zi You bit her lip as she nodded. “Yes. But you can’t tell anyone about this.”
“En. I won’t tell anyone.” Shangguan LingRan was ecstatic, but his expression was still pitiful. “Then I will come here every night to take medicine. You can’t drive me away. I can’t decoct medicine in my fu or Mufei will soon find out and come over from Pei City.”
Zi You looked at him in displeasure. “When do you not come here? Can I even drive you away? You scoundrel!”
Shangguan LingRan was scolded and looked even more aggrieved at Zi You. “But your att.i.tude to me is bad every time. You’er, don’t be fierce to me, okay? I really do feel bad when I can’t see you. Also, what would I do when you go into the mountains? What if you tell Old General Mu to let me join in the military training?”
“What nonsense are you saying?” Zi You immediately reprimanded, “Do you want the Emperor to know that you have a good relationship with the General’s Manor? Don’t worry. I will try to cure you as soon as possible before I go into the mountains.”
Zi You started to go outside. “I’ll go decoct medicine for you. Get up. Although the ground is covered with a rug, you will still get cold.”
Shangguan LingRan heard the concern in her words and was even happier. He jumped up when she left. Where was his previous injured and pained appearance?
But when he heard Zi You’s footsteps, he immediately sprawled on Zi You’s chaise lounge and looked uncomfortable.
Zi You walked inside and put a medicine pot on top of a charcoal stove. As she boiled medicine, she said, “w.a.n.g Yiping pushed all her crimes onto her nanny Wei mama. I schemed to get her beaten with the military rod thirty times and imprisoned her in the yard near the ancestral hall. Now, one of her legs is wasted. What about you? What’s the situation?”
Shangguan LingRan smiled confidently. “I have people watching the Emperor, Taizi, the Empress, and Third w.a.n.gzi. After you left the Palace today, the Emperor summoned three imperial doctors and asked about hypnosis. But he was obviously still worried, so he summoned Daoist Priest Tianxuan into the Palace. You’er, you shouldn’t have used your hypnosis ability. I’m afraid that the Emperor won’t let you go even more now.”
Zi You looked over and saw half of Shangguan LingRan’s face. The perfect curves of his facial features outlined his beautiful face. His mouth was slightly curved. He looked like his usual romantic and wanton self, but his eyes were serious and worried.
Zi You’s heart jumped. She quickly turned her head and suppressed her heart’s throbbing. She calmly said, “No. I’m still young. He won’t touch me now. In another two years, I believe that I no longer have to fear anyone.
“I was negligent during the day. I didn’t think that Shangguan Lingluo would have gone ahead with the a.s.sa.s.sination attempt when Rong Yunhe did not agree. I couldn’t have used drugs on w.a.n.g Haiji to speak the truth. That would make the Emperor suspicious as to why I brought drugs along for a banquet. So, I could only use hypnosis.
“It’s just that I let that cheap yatou Yu Lanxuan off too easily today. If I didn’t want to bring down Shangguan Lingluo, I would have taken care of Yu Lanxuan too.”
“I’ll help you.” Shangguan LingRan lazily and wantonly said. “I won’t let anyone who wants to hurt you off. I will get Yu Meilian to take care of that cheap wench.”
“Can it be that you really like that ‘fish with no face?’” Zi You asked mockingly. “What? You want to make it real? That’s very simple then. I think that the Empress Dowager will be very happy to bestow a marriage.”
Shangguan LingRan jumped up from the chaise lounge and went over to Zi You.
The fire from the charcoal stove and the candlelight on the table made the whole room shine brightly and mistily. A layer of red powder was reflected on Zi You’s face. Her eyes glittered like reflection in the clear light. Her red dress was embroidered with silver thread and bright moonstones. She was like a shining star who looked even more dazzling and as beautiful pink jade.
But this beautiful woman might have been close at hand, but her heart still held him at a distance. Although she wasn’t as far as the horizon, she wasn’t like him who had dug his own heart out for her.
Only mockery was in her pair of eyes as deep as a pool. There was no pain or anger in them.
Shangguan LingRan’s face sunk in anger. He shouted, “You have no conscience! I have to get close to that rotten woman because of you. Do you know how many times I have to take a bath when I returned home? Now, you not only do not appreciate me, but you also mock me.
“Fine. I don’t need that ‘fish without face’ to take care of Yu Lanxuan. I’ll take care of her myself. I’ll just sneak into her house at night and slice her in half.”
Then he picked up his mink fur cloak to leave.
Zi You immediately stopped him. “You haven’t drunk the medicine yet. Where are you going?”
Shangguan LingRan getting close to Yu Meilian was the “handsome man” plot that they had agreed on. They wanted her to say Shangguan Lingluo’s plot out loud so that Zi You could hear. Then Zi You would go to question Shangguan Lingluo and reveal her and Taizi’s affair.
Zi You had originally wanted to use Second w.a.n.gzi to let the Empress know about the two’s affair. But she was afraid that the Empress would kill Second w.a.n.gzi to cover up the truth instead.
Zi You didn’t want something to happen to Second w.a.n.gzi. She had finally forged a sharp sword. She couldn’t let it be destroyed before she could use it.
Zi You thought of how Shangguan LingRan went to interact with Yu Meilian, whom he hated to the extreme. Now, she had even said words to hurt him. She really was a bit in the wrong.
But she would not apologize either. So, she gently curtsied and said, “Thank you, Shizi Ye!”
Shangguan LingRan looked at her breezily thanking him. How could he be satisfied? He angrily turned and started to leave again.
Zi You was also angry now. “Leave then. Leave and never come again.”
Shangguan LingRan immediately stopped. He went back over to her and whispered in protest in an aggrieved voice, “You’re too cruel! You’er, I’m upset.”
Zi You looked up in anger. She looked into Shangguan LingRan’s eyes. His heavy affection for her was like a coc.o.o.n left from a silkworm that wanted to wrap her up in circle after circle.
Her heart shook. She felt warm in one moment and resentful in another moment. She didn’t even know what she wanted anymore……