Allure of a Country Maiden
Chapter 1174 - 1171_1

Chapter 1174: Chapter 1171_1

That night, the moonlight rippled like water, illuminating the undulating river to shine like sparkling waves.

Aboard the ship, apart from the night watchmen and the sailors, everyone else had fallen asleep.

To avoid any fire hazards, no oil lamps were lit inside the cabins. The hallways were pitch black, an ideal place for one to blend into the darkness.

A man in black stealthily came to Jinghao’s room and blew some knockout smoke under the door.

After a little while, he pressed his ear against the door to listen. After asserting that there was no movement inside, he delicately used his sword to pry the door open and cautiously stepped inside.

Once inside, the man in black saw Jinghao lying peacefully on the bed, which gave him a sigh of relief.

He softly tiptoed over to a screen and turned over the clothes that Jinghao had taken off. When he found nothing he was looking for, he moved towards the bed intending to search Jinghao’s body. But just then, a sword hung onto his neck.

"What are you looking for, my friend? Would you like me to help you?" Liu Zhiwu coldly asked from behind him.

Jinghao also sat up from the bed at this moment and quickly blocked the acupoints of the man in black: "Who sent you?"

The man in black remained silent. He had no intention of revealing his master.

He had been careless. He’d wrongly assumed them to be mere scholars and hence easy targets, not expecting them to possess martial arts skills!

"Not speaking? That’s fine! It’s not important if we don’t know!" Xi’er said, then sprinkled some poison powder over the man.

Liu Zhiwu and Jinghao quickly backed away when they saw Xi’er’s action: "Can’t you notify us first before you do something like this?"

Itching was the most unbearable sensation!

"Don’t worry, I’m very precise when I poison!" Xi’er said this and deliberately patted Liu Zhiwu’s shoulder with the same hand she had just used to sprinkle the poison.

Liu Zhiwu startled, "There’s no more poison powder left on your hand, is there?"

At this point, the man in black, seeing their reactions, couldn’t help but worry: "What poison have you used on me?"

"Don’t you feel your whole body itching?" Xi’er asked curiously.

Xi’er’s words acted like a trigger and the man in black started feeling itchy all over his body.

He desperately wanted to scratch, but his acupoints had been blocked and he could not move.

"Unblock his acupoints!" commanded Xi’er.

Being itchy was unbearable, to the point where scratching made it worse!

So, Jinghao approached and unblocked his acupoints.

The man in black immediately swung his sword toward Jinghao, trying to take him hostage and bargain for an antidote. However, he found his body to be powerless.

Jinghao easily dodged his attack.

"Forgot to tell you, the powder not only causes itching, but also makes your body weak! Enjoy it to the fullest! Your tricks are pointless!" retorted Xi’er.

The man in black remained silent as the itch became unbearable. Initially, he was able to endure it, but soon he lost control altogether and started scratching non-stop, only making it worse.

The others ignored him. They sat by the round table nearby, sipping tea and munching on seeds, while enjoying the spectacle of a man who wished he had more hands to scratch himself.

After 15 minutes, the man in black had torn off his mask, scratching his entire face raw.

Jinghao took out pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, and proceeded to draw a portrait of him in front of his face.

However, the man in black’s entire attention was consumed by the itch. He had no energy to focus on anything else.

He wanted to escape, but found his legs too weak, not having enough strength to stand up!

"If you tell us what you were trying to steal and who sent you, I will give you the antidote!" Xi’er said at this point.

The man in black remained silent, shooting Xi’er a look that promised a thousand horrible deaths.

Seeing his look, Xi’er raised her beautiful eyebrows: "It’s you who will suffer if you don’t speak. Do you think you can endure this continuously? Let me tell you, the more you scratch, the itchier it gets. Even if you scratch your flesh away exposing the bones, they will still itch."

Upon hearing this, a chill ran down the spines of Liu Zhiwen and Liu Zhiwu.

Noticing their expressions, Xi’er said: "My dear cousins, are you interested in this itching powder? I’ll give you each a bottle. When you’re interrogating and come across some tough nuts to crack, who refuse to confess; just use a little of it. I bet within half an hour, they’ll confess everything."

After hearing this, the two cousins thought for a moment, and felt the idea to be quite practical. They nodded: "Okay, thank you cousin."

Indeed, when the man in black scratched until his arm was bloodied and raw, he finally couldn’t bear it anymore: "I’ll tell you, I’ll tell you, I came to steal the life-saving pills from Young Master Shen."

"I don’t have any life-saving pills on me. Who told you that I have them? Who sent you here?"

"My master told me."

"Who is your master?"

"The Crown Prince of Eastern Jin Dynasty!"

"Daring to lie? Seems like I need to sprinkle another batch of powder on you." Enraged by his lie, Xi’er sprinkled another batch of powder on the man in black.

"I did not lie!" This time, the man in black felt that even his bones were itching.

"Still saying you didn’t, doesn’t the Crown Prince of Eastern Jin Dynasty know that Young Master Shen doesn’t possess any life-saving pill? He knows well that the last life-saving pill has already been used! One of the ingredients in that pill is extremely rare and hasn’t been found yet!"

The man in black was surprised on hearing this. The life-saving pills had run out?

"Speak, who sent you?"

The man in black didn’t answer, he was itching too much and was having trouble maintaining focus.

"You don’t want to speak? You think we wouldn’t know without you telling us? You were sent by the Crown Prince of Nangong Country, weren’t you?"

Shocked by their revelation, the man in black wondered, did they know his master was still alive?

"Let me guess, you’re desperately in need of the pill because of the child Princess Ling’er has given birth to? No, I shouldn’t say given birth to. The child was taken out forcibly from her belly! The child was taken out by your master before it was fully developed, hence it’s hard to keep the child alive, you must need the life-saving pill!" Xi’er, being a medical scholar, knew well that even though her prime interest was poison, her medical skills were incredible. When she initially heard her sister and second brother discuss the matter, she immediately knew that the child would be indeed hard to keep alive.

On hearing this, the man in black looked at her in disbelief, completely forgetting the itch all over his body: "How did you know?"

"Didn’t I say I was just guessing? I didn’t expect to be right!" Xi’er turned to Jinghao: "Big brother, I have interrogated him successfully for you. Wasn’t I impressive? Taking me along would be of great help, wouldn’t it?"

Only then did the man in black realize that he’d been tricked: "Now you know, can you give me the antidote?"

He had to hurry back to convey this matter to his master. There must be a spy among them. How else could they know everything so precisely, even that the child was extracted from Princess Ling’er’s body through a Caesarean.

Only a few knew about this fact!

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