Oh no! Seven kids at the start, all yellow and skinny.

Chapter 278 Treatment

Yun Yi frowned. Why did this guy's tone have a hint of sourness? She couldn't help but shrug: "What can I do? Zhou Jingxuan is just so good-looking."

Jing Han frowned, and finally gave up. The fact that the Third Prince Zhou Jingxuan was handsome was acknowledged by everyone in the Great Zhou Dynasty, and no one could deny it.

He and the prince should be placed in the back row.

"Yiyi, stop liking him. He... isn't worth your affection."

"Yeah, I stopped liking it a long time ago."

"Really? Then..."

I don't like you anymore.

"It's okay. As long as you stop liking him, you'll eventually like me."

Yunyi frowned.

"Yiyi, now we have no secrets anymore." Zhou Jinghan said, reaching out to tug at Yunyi's collar. "We're family now, right?"

“Hmm.” Yunyi didn’t deny it. “However, the Seventh Prince’s horse stance is really good.”

"Ok?"

"Aren't you tired of talking while half-squatting like this?" Yunyi raised an eyebrow slightly.

"I... Ouch..." Zhou Jinghan then realized that he had been half-squatting while speaking. He tried to get up, but found that his legs were numb, and then he fell on his butt.

Yunyi couldn't help but chuckle.

"Yiyi, you're not mad at me anymore, are you?"

“There’s nothing strange about it.” Yunyi shook her head. “After all, if you hadn’t bought me after I was sold here, I might have ended up somewhere else.”

Zhou Jinghan stood up, grimacing, and sat down beside him: "Before the incident at the Eastern Palace, I received a message from the Crown Prince, which is why I was able to rush back and rescue them." As he spoke, his eyes reddened, "But too many people died."

Yunyi nodded, she could imagine it.

“Mother was the Empress Dowager’s maidservant. Xia Family Village was her husband’s hometown. They also had a son named Xia Tianyin, but he died of illness. After the incident at the Eastern Palace, we came here with her…”

“Da Bao and Qi Bao are the Crown Prince’s children, Er Ya and San Ya are the great-granddaughters of Grand Tutor Xiao, Si Bao is the son of General Yang who died in place of the Crown Prince, and Wu Ya and Liu Bao are Gu Chengrui’s children.”

Yunyi nodded: "But it's only because the people here didn't take it seriously, otherwise there would be problems with how you address each other. How old are you? Your eldest son is already eight years old?"

“I didn’t think too much about it at the time, and the villagers were all very kind, so no one held it against me, so…”

"You really went to such lengths to get me to treat the Crown Prince's illness..."

“It’s not just for the Crown Prince.” Zhou Jinghan hurriedly shook his head. “Actually, I’ve wanted to be honest with you for a long time, but I could never bring myself to do it. I was afraid you would be angry if I told you, I was afraid you would be scared, and I was even more afraid…”

"Alright, stop dawdling like that, aren't you scared now?"

"I'm afraid you'll hate me if I don't tell you now." Zhou Jinghan smiled wryly. "I feel at ease now that I've said it. Yiyi, I'm entrusting the Crown Prince to you."

"I can extend his life, but whether he can be fully cured depends on fate."

"I know, just do your best, Yiyi. I won't say thank you anymore, from now on..."

"Let's talk about the future later," Yunyi waved her hand. "Have someone prepare hot water, and also two live roosters."

Zhou Jinghan's expression showed surprise for a moment, but he quickly nodded and immediately opened the door to give the instructions.

Just as midnight arrived, the former crown prince Zhou Jingyu was placed in the bathtub and made to lie face down on the edge of the tub.

The bath tub contained Yunyi's specially prepared herbal medicine.

Xue Buwei frowned as he looked at the herbs in the bath, because almost all of them were highly poisonous; any one of them could kill a person.

"Dr. Xue, you'll give him acupuncture in a bit." Yunyi took out a four-edged needle. "I'll tell you which acupoint to use, okay?"

“Okay.” Xue Buwei nodded hurriedly.

Yunyi took a four-edged needle and first pricked Zhou Jingyu's left middle finger, squeezing out a drop of black blood, then said: "Half a point at the Dazhui acupoint."

Then he pricked his index finger: "One and a half fen of the Shenzhu acupoint."

"Hunmen (Soul Gate), Fengmen (Wind Gate), Feishu (Lung Shu)..."

After pricking all ten fingers to squeeze out black blood, silver needles were also inserted into ten major acupoints on the back.

Yunyi glanced back at Hongyi and Lanyi: "Smear the rooster's blood on the pads of his ten fingers."

Hong Yi and Lan Yi hurriedly twisted the rooster's neck, bled it, and then used a handkerchief to smear the chicken blood onto Zhou Jingyu's ten fingertips.

No one knew the principle behind it, but no one asked; they just watched quietly.

Soon, everyone noticed that something seemed to be moving under the skin of Zhou Jingyu's bare back, which made people's scalps tingle.

Soon, the substance under the skin surged into both arms, heading towards the ten fingers.

Black blood began to drip continuously from the wound where chicken blood had been applied.

And in the black blood that had fallen into the basin, something was clearly wriggling.

"Continue applying the ointment." After watching for a while, Yunyi instructed Red One and Blue One.

The two continued to apply chicken blood.

After this was repeated three times, there was no more wriggling under Zhou Jingyu's skin, and his fingertips stopped bleeding. Only then did Yunyi have someone clean his fingers and remove the needles.

"Just watch, it'll be fine after another 15 minutes of soaking," Yunyi said, yawning. "Then just give him some warm water. I'm going to take a nap."

“Okay.” Zhou Jinghan nodded. “Hong Yi, go and take care of…”

"Hong Yi?" Yun Yi suddenly widened her eyes and turned to look at Hong Yi. "Aren't you Ah Hong?"

"Yes, I... that..." Hong felt guilty for a moment and looked at Zhou Jinghan for help.

"Don't look at him, look at me. You're lying to me too?"

Hong Yi hurriedly knelt down.

“Yiyi, Hongyi was sent by me to protect you. I… I’m afraid you won’t want her, I…” Zhou Jinghan hurriedly lowered his head and leaned closer. “If you’re angry, just hit me a couple of times.”

"Young Miss, I have never betrayed you since I started following you," Hong Yi swore, raising her hand. "Please don't abandon me."

"Secret guard?"

“Yes.” Zhou Jinghan nodded. “It was the Empress Dowager who set up the secret guard camp for me and the Crown Prince. Father didn’t know about it. We’re lucky to have them, otherwise we wouldn’t have been able to escape…”

"Okay, I'm going to take a nap."

"I……"

"Don't follow me." Yunyi glared at Hongyi. "You've been lying to me for so long, is it fun?"

Hong Yi's eyes reddened, but she didn't dare to follow, and she didn't get up, just obediently knelt there.

Yunyi went to her room and fell asleep immediately. Although she was angry, she didn't really intend to punish anyone. So, when she got up and found Hongyi still kneeling there, she couldn't help but frown: "Do you like kneeling so much?"