She Rebuilt Her Fallen Country With Storage Space-Chapter 48 - She Has a Purpose for Everything
Chapter 48: Chapter 48 She Has a Purpose for Everything
Chapter 48 -48 She Has a Purpose for Everything
Jie Chen pressed his palm against his brow bone, enduring the stinging pain on his eyelids.
His voice was cold: “Whenever I encounter you, nothing good happens.”
It was indeed strange.
There’s no way he could have missed seeing such long branches; it was as if he had been blindfolded just now.
Xiang Ying arched her dark brows: “You should be grateful that it’s me you’ve encountered.”
She reached out and pulled Jie Chen’s hand down.
At first, Jie Chen was uncooperative, but Xiang Ying scolded with her red lips: “Don’t move, I’m applying medicine on you.”
She took out the golden sore medicine from her space and asked Jie Chen to close his eyes while she sprinkled it evenly on his eyelids.
“Where did you get the medicine?”
“I bought it while in Yu City,” Xiang Ying blurted out casually.
Jie Chen seemed disbelieving and scoffed.
After applying the medicine, Xiang Ying tore a piece of cloth and tied it around his eyes as a blindfold.
“Leave it on overnight, then you can take it off tomorrow morning.”
While speaking, Xiang Ying teasingly smiled: “How will you pay the consultation fee?”
Jie Chen’s tone was icy: “What do you want this time?”
He knew that Xiang Ying, although seemingly erratic in her actions, always had an ulterior motive.
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Xiang Ying sat beside him, placing her hand on his shoulder: “Let me kiss you once.”
Without his knowing when, her slender fingertips landed on his Adam’s apple.
“How about a kiss right here?” she remembered he liked it.
Jie Chen swung her hand away and stood up abruptly, nearly stumbling and falling because he couldn’t see.
“Xiang Ying!” he bellowed in anger, “Don’t push me to kill you.”
How could this woman be so shameless? Her mind filled with lewd thoughts!
If he didn’t want his child to live as unhappily from an early age as he did, he would have killed her long ago!
Xiang Ying supported herself on the rock; Jie Chen couldn’t see her charming face, her smile hardly more than a trace.
Yet the words she uttered seemed to carry a light and carefree chuckle.
“You don’t agree to this? Then let me change the deal,” Xiang Ying’s phoenix eyes slightly lowered, “I know you are planning to take the Shanyang Official Road to Pingzhou next. Let’s change our route, take the waterway for a while and head directly to Lu State.”
The map drawn by Elder Lin last time was deeply etched in Xiang Ying’s mind.
Upon hearing this, Jie Chen’s emotions calmed down: “Avoiding Pingzhou? You want to bypass the Deputy General and not join them.”
He had to admit that Xiang Ying was quick to react.
She had just learned about the imminent danger and immediately devised a plan.
Xiang Ying didn’t deny it, smiling: “That’s just one reason. If I really want to deal with the Deputy General, I have my ways.”
The most important reason was that she remembered her friend mentioning that the original story said that the Governor of Luzhou had hoarded food from three nearby provinces.
This was meant to be a gift to the General of Nanyue, as a way to show his sincere intention to defect.
However, due to a sudden fire, twenty granaries were burnt completely clean.
When her friend saw this part in the original text, they lamented the waste.
So much grain, if saved for a year of natural disasters, could save countless lives.
With so many resources, how could Xiang Ying not hoard them?
What’s hers, is all hers!
Jie Chen coolly rejected: “The Exile Team’s route is uniformly determined and can’t be changed just because of your whims.”
Xiang Ying was prepared for this.
She walked to his side and held his arm: “You all want the Imperial Jade Seal, the Deputy General will definitely use torture to interrogate me.”
“If he tortures me every day, forcing me to reveal the whereabouts of the Jade Seal, and if I speak, you won’t be able to obtain it.”
Xiang Ying was gambling, she guessed that Jie Chen wanted the Imperial Jade Seal of Xizhou not just to hand it over to the Emperor of Nanyue that easily.
She couldn’t see the change in Jie Chen’s gaze, but she saw his Adam’s apple bobbing, seemingly in contemplation.
Just when Xiang Ying thought he would compromise, Jie Chen coldly shook off her hand.
“There is no room for discussion on this matter, you need not say more.”
Xiang Ying secretly frowned her brows.
This guy is impervious to oil and salt, and indifferent to wealth and beauty!
Since that was the case, Xiang Ying could only reach out and pat his abs.
“Consider this as the consultation fee then, whether or not you want to change the route, think about it yourself.”
As expected, Jie Chen got agitated by her frivolous action, cursed “beyond cure,” and strode away, almost bumping into a tree because he was blind.
Xiang Ying laughed loudly while holding her knees, and Jie Chen, having steadied himself, called out for scar face: “Come here, help me walk!”
Scar face heard the commotion, rushed out from the forests hurriedly, and while helping Jie Chen walk away, he did not forget to greet Xiang Ying.
After a while, Tao Xue and the others finally saw Xiang Ying and Jie Chen leaving the forest one after the other.
They immediately surrounded them, and Tao Xue anxiously inquired, “Elder Princess, they said you killed Captain Jia, that the Military Supervisor held you down in the forest to beat you, are you not hurt?”
Xiang Ying smiled: “Beat me? He wouldn’t dare. Jie Chen’s eyes were injured by tree branches, nearly blinding him. I was applying medicine for him.”
Tao Xue and the others immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
Xiang Yuanshuo suddenly asked doubtfully, “Eyes… Did he peek at you last time you were bathing?”
Xiang Ying looked at the little guy: “No, oh, but later he was in a hurry to shoo me away, he came in before I had finished bathing. That doesn’t count as peeking, does it?”
After saying this, she realized something and narrowed her Phoenix Eyes: “Yuanxiao, did you say something again?”
The little guy licked his lips guiltily, his fair little face pretending to be stubborn.
“I did say it, but it was to protect you. It’s good that he didn’t intentionally peek, or he really would have gone blind.”
Xiang Ying knew it. How could Jie Chen make such a low-level mistake to not see the tree branch coming straight at him?
That little crow-mouth of her family, whatever he speaks of comes true.
Xiang Ying turned around, planning to find Qi Fengyi, but instead saw her approaching Xiang Qianqian.
Xiang Qianqian sat on a straw mat hugging her knees, frightened by the imposing air from Qi Fengyi.
“What do you want to do?”
“I don’t want to do anything, I just want to warn the Fifth Princess that men beautifying the act of humiliating a woman as affection is their maliciousness and shamelessness, but you as a woman should not help them speak in such a manner.”
Qi Fengyi stated arrogantly, “If there’s a next time, I’ll be unkind to you as well.”
Having said that, she turned around and left, disregarding the incoherent explanations from Xiang Qianqian.
Xiang Qianqian’s gaze turned to Xiang Ying and Xiang Li.
After seeing Xiang Li shake his head in disappointment, Xiang Qianqian cried out her grievances.
“I knew nothing. I just delivered a message for Captain Jia, and it’s not like I forced you to go!”
Feeling innocently wronged, she cried bitterly.
Finally, Empress Dowager Shangguan, being annoyed by her, scolded: “Enough already! What’s with the crying, are you going to let people sleep or not?”
Xiang Qianqian could only wipe away her tears, feeling aggrieved on her own.
Qi Fengyi returned to Xiang Ying’s side, spread out the straw mat on the spot, and lay down.
Xiang Ying patted her: “We need to treat the wound on your body.”
The two went to a secluded spot, and this time Qi Fengyi lifted her clothes, allowing Xiang Ying to carefully inspect the wound on her stomach.
The wound was longer than a finger, inflamed and festering.
Xiang Ying only said: “Bear with the pain a bit.”
Qi Fengyi nodded: “What I fear least is pain.”
But the next second, Xiang Ying took out a bag of saline from her space and poured it over Qi Fengyi’s wound.
Qi Fengyi, who claimed she was not afraid of pain, screamed out: “It hurts, hurts, hurts!”
