Chapter 121 Which is the way to survive?
Living in this mountain, they mostly deal with minor injuries and pains by themselves. Jiang Ruohua cleaned up Zhao Yuexi's wounds, but he didn't bring any gold sore medicine with him. He didn't know when the rain would stop, so he had to go back as soon as possible. .
After Orion and his wife saw Zhao Yuexi's injury, they took out the earth cubes for their own use. Zhao Yuexi's broken arm was temporarily fixed by Orion with several wooden boards and ropes, and he applied some crushed powder thickly. The medicinal herbs were on it, which saved Zhao Yuexi's life for the time being.
"Sister, you should deal with it too."
Lady Orion brought the medicinal herbs, looked at the wound on Jiang Ruohua's arm and said, "If this becomes pus, I'm afraid it will be bad."
"Thank you, sister-in-law." Jiang Ruohua was not polite and simply dealt with it for herself.
Seeing that it was getting late, Mrs. Orion suggested that Jiang Ruohua and Zhao Yuexi stay overnight at their place. Tomorrow the rain would stop and the road would be easier, and then Orion would take her up the mountain to find someone.
In the middle of the night, Zhao Yuexi had a severe fever. Jiang Ruohua and Mrs. Orion took turns wiping her body to cool down, but the rain never stopped. She probably really had to resign herself to fate.
After several days of exhaustion, the rain showed no sign of stopping, but Zhao Yuexi survived and no longer had a fever. Jiang Ruohua closed her eyes and took a nap beside the bed, not knowing when the rain would stop.
After she woke up, she looked up and found that Zhao Yuexi was already awake, sitting silently on the corner of the bed in a daze.
When Mrs. Orion saw Jiang Ruohua wake up, she carefully pulled her and said, "Sister, your sister... She woke up and refused to say a word. I brought some food, but she refused to eat it. This..."
"Sorry for bothering you, sister-in-law." Jiang Ruohua glanced apologetically, and then took the bowl of porridge, "She must be scared. I'll talk to her alone. Sister-in-law, you go about your business first."
Mrs. Orion thoughtfully left the room to them. Jiang Ruohua glanced at Zhao Yuexi who was in a daze, and then said, "You can leave if you can."
She sat on the edge of the bed, listening to the rain pattering outside. She just felt tired these days, so she simply said this and lay down on the bed to get some sleep.
Zhao Yuexi cried, very quietly, but she couldn't escape Jiang Ruohua's ears. She opened her eyes slightly, sat up again and said, "You..."
"I can't go... I can't go anywhere..." Zhao Yuexi covered her head with her good hand, crying still pitifully, "I... I have nowhere to go, that Man...that man said that as long as I follow his instructions, he will welcome me into the palace if he seizes the throne in the future...I have no choice..."
Hearing this, Jiang Ruohua just wanted to sneer. She interrupted Zhao Yuexi rudely and said: "You are crazy, Zhao Yuexi, do you know whose body your dagger pierced? It's not the heavy rain. If the two of us fall from the mountain, you will be hacked to death!"
To assassinate the emperor, the whole family will have to pay for it. It is a pleasure to be hacked to death right now. If you are to be captured alive, you will definitely die of execution!
What is Zhao Yuexi dreaming about? She was so stupid that she listened to other people's slander and assassinated the emperor!
"I know!"
On Zhao Yuexi's pale face, her heart was almost broken. She shook her head repeatedly and looked very embarrassed: "I know... I know everything, but the Zhao family already knows that I have been abandoned by His Highness King Ying, and they are going to kill me." I gave it to those old guys for fun in exchange for a career in the Zhao family... If I don’t do this, where will my future be?”
"It's done. That person's death needs to be borne by one person. If it's not done, you will be one of the traitors. Tell me, which of these is the way to survive?"
The water was covered and it was difficult to recover. The dagger stabbed down, and Zhao Yuexi's crime was already established.
What's more, among the emperors of the past dynasties, who would want to leave a stain on themselves? Of course, the crime of killing his father and killing his king must be replaced by someone else.
"Did that person also say that if the matter is exposed, he will pass all the responsibilities to King Ying, and he will try to replace you and change your name? Zhao Yuexi, I have never thought you are so stupid before. Once you give it all to the King of Ying, why should he have to take advantage of you? Or does he need you to be a warm bed? "
"Yes..." Zhao Yuexi didn't deny it, that was indeed what she said, but she raised her eyes to look at Jiang Ruohua, her tears couldn't stop flowing, "But you have no right to accuse me, Jiang Ruohua, you were born with everything. You have a good background, you have a loving family, have you ever felt like you were being kicked around like a hot potato? You have never lived like this, being looked down upon by others!”
"I don't want to argue with you, but I'm not a prostitute! I don't want to be sent to others for fun by the Zhao family. Only King Ying in this world gives me a glimmer of hope. I just want to think better. If you have a good background and a good family, who would want to throw away your shame?"
"I just want a title, be it a concubine. At least I can stay with the prince. The Zhao family can't do anything to me. I thought the prince would give me a title if you broke off the engagement. Why do you want to come back? In order to regain your favor, the prince doesn’t want me anymore. How can I not hate you? Why is it so difficult for me to get even a tiny bit of something that is so dispensable to you?”
Destiny seemed so ridiculous. Jiang Ruohua remembered Luo Yu saying that the fate of everything in the world, especially a few of them, was arranged by the so-called plot.
She also clearly remembered everything Zhao Yuexi did to her in the first dream, and also clearly remembered Zhao Yuexi's gradually miserable end in her hands in the second dream.
But just as Zhao Yuexi said, if she doesn't do this, what can she do? Are you so willing to accept the marriage arranged by the Zhao family? Give yourself to that old guy who plays with women, and then use everything you have to pave the way for others?
Jiang Ruohua gently stretched out her hand and held Zhao Yuexi in her arms. She was thinking, whose purpose could be wrong? But why do their goals have to be in conflict if they both want to live a good life? Do you have to be forced into a tit-for-tat confrontation, and end up with an ending where you die or I die?
"I'm sorry... I'm sorry..." Zhao Yuexi cried and apologized, "Actually, I don't want to hate you, and I never thought about taking away your engagement. I just want to have a status and someone to rely on. ……sorry……"
Zhao Yuexi cried uncomfortably. In fact, she knew from the beginning that King Ying was engaged, and she did not have any delusions that she, an orphan, could become Princess Ying, a concubine, or a concubine, even with a lower status. That was enough. She had never thought about turning against Jiang Ruohua, nor did she want to blame all her dissatisfaction on Jiang Ruohua.
But fate refused to give way. Why didn't she understand that many of the disputes between her and Jiang Ruohua were caused by King Ying deliberately letting her do this?