His Peasant Wife : Yao Ling

Xiao Fang nodded. "I feel so much better..." She paused for a little while, then continued talking, "Even if I want to cry, I will cry later. Yao Ling is correct... we need to do something about this matter. Will... will all of you help my family too?"

The trio looked at each other and they didn’t know what to say. Their mission was merely for them to ruin the marriage and they already did a lot more by trying to give Han Xiang a new life... But helping Xiao Fang’s family too... Should they do that too? It wasn’t because they didn’t want to help her, but... could they leave their own kingdom that long to save Xiao Fang’s family? Yao Ying and Yao Ling had a lot of unsettled matter back at Wang Fu, so they didn’t know how to answer Xiao Fang’s plea.

"We can talk about your family matter later, okay? At least, we need to take care of Han Xiang’s matter first," Yao Ying was the one who answered the question. He didn’t say yes or no, but merely diverted their attention to more important matter at hand. The trio could only discuss Xiao Fang’s matter secretly on their own later.

Xiao Fang had no choice but murmur her agreement, after all, she was the one who seek their help and it was their choice to help her or not. At the very least, they tried to help Han Xiang to get a new life --- just like her wishes, so she could only retreat for the moment.

"The Han Emperor, huh?" Lin Jian couldn’t help but turn his hatred toward that man. If it wasn’t for him, his mother wouldn’t be taken away and they would live happily back at the Shu Kingdom. Not only that, Han Xiang wouldn’t become a lunatic under his poison.

"I bet he used the same medicine that he had used to subdue the Ce Fei," Yao Ling said.

The other three nodded in agreement. This man was beyond disgusting. He thought by successfully using it once, he could use it to show his power over women over and over again, huh? They wondered if he could do this even to his stepdaughter, then how many women had become his victims? He was an Emperor and the highest power in Han Kingdom, who dared to touch him?

"I will try to check on Han Xiang’s condition, but I’m not so sure if I could help her that much..." Yao Ling said. She didn’t pay attention to Han Xiang’s condition previously, so she didn’t know how much her body had been damaged by the poison. Han Xiang thought that she was given antidote, but it was actually not so. They kept feeding her with poison ah~

Xiao Fang nodded her head. "You want to help her... is already Han Xiang’s greatest blessing," Xiao Fang said with a forced smile, after all, her heart and mind were still in chaos.

"Haish... I just couldn’t bear to see a woman is being tormented like that by the Han Emperor," Yao Ling admitted. It was actually nothing personal, but the Han Emperor was truly too vicious with his method. Yao Ling didn’t believe for one bit that it wasn’t under the concubine who gave her the medicine’s persuasion. What a disgusting couple!

"So... are we still going with the old plan?" Xiao Fang asked softly.

Yao Ling said, "We still do... But we have to adjust it, so it will go along with Han Xiang’s preferences..."

The others nodded in agreement and they talked about the adjustment of the plan. They quickly did it stealthily and Lin Jian didn’t forget to order several men to protect Tao Gu Gu --- just in case the Han Emperor found out her whereabouts. When they went back to their own city, they would bring Tao Gu Gu back along with them. Their current position was too close to the Han Kingdom and there was a possibility that the Han Emperor found out Tao Gu Gu’s whereabouts by accident. Lin Jian couldn’t risk that because he had made a vow to protect Tao Gu Gu and her family.

While General Hu was still outside, Yao Ling used her acupuncture method to try to detoxify Han Xiang’s posion. However, it seemed like she had been given this poison for far too long and there was no way for Yao Ling to heal her a hundred percent. She realized that the poison had been mixed with her blood and if they wanted to fully heal her, they needed to extract her blood and change it with another person’s blood. However, it was too high risk and Yao Ling decided that she wasn’t going to used that method. Besides, there was no guarantee that this treatment would be successful.

She had made a decision not to use this method, so Yao Ling didn’t plan to let Xiao Fang know about this method. Besides, to save Han Xiang, it meant that they had to sacrifice another person... so, it was against Yao Ling’s own conscience too.

Yao Ling told Xiao Fang the result apologetically, "I’m sorry. I don’t think I can do a lot of things for her..." Yao Ling had explained in details and Xiao Fang knew that Yao Ling wasn’t a God... she couldn’t save everyone. However, she couldn’t help but feel disappointed.

"Do you think she could have the happiness that she wants?" Xiao Fang asked softly.

Yao Ling shook her head. "It’s quite hard... Her inner organs are in a bad condition, hence you can’t see her real condition in a glance. There is a probability that her hatred is fueled by the poison --- it affects her brain too. Her hatred toward you... probably isn’t really Han Xiang’s real thought." Yao Ling paused for a little while, before she was finally able to say the next words hesitantly, "I don’t know whether I should tell you or not, but... it seems like she had been pregnant for a few times and... it was aborted a few times... She won’t be able to bear any children in the future..."

*Bang*

How could that be? How could that be? Xiao Fang asked herself inwardly. What kind of human being would be able to do that to a little girl?! How could Xiao Fang hate Han Xiang at this point? Han Xiang’s hatred... Han Xiang’s change of personalities... everything... everything... was justified... All of this happened because of one person! The Han Emperor! That kind of Emperor? How could they serve him? She needed to find a way --- to get revenge. She didn’t care if he was her real father... To her, he was just an enemy... the most disgusting person she had ever known!

She remembered the way The Emperor used to look at her with a gentle and amiable smile, but it was actually only a fake facade!

"But... can she live normally in the future? Without the poison?" Xiao Fang asked hesitantly. Their plan was to let her get married in peace with a commoner, however, with her current condition... was it possible?

Yao Ling shook her head. "I’m afraid not... If she lives together with me, I can help her detoxify her poison daily. However, it will only delay the poison --- not fully cure it." There was nothing else that Yao Ling could do. Truthfully, Yao Ling didn’t really want to bring Han Xiang along with her, because her own life was also in danger at Wang Fu. How could she protect Han Xiang who was already on her death bed? She looked healthy from the outside but her body had already deteriorated from the inside...

Xiao Fang could see the hesitancy on Yao Ling’s face. It seemed like she wanted to say something but she didn’t know how to say it out loud. Xiao Fang asked in a trembling voice, "Do... do you have any other news to tell me?" Somehow, she felt afraid to listen to it. She would have never guessed that Han Xiang’s condition was bad to this extent ah~.

"Without the poison, there’s no chance that she’s able to live long..." Yao Ling trailed off at the last part.

"How much longer she could live?" Xiao Fang asked with red-rimmed eyes. She was trying hard to hold back her tears.