Chapter 707 - Unexpected Recovery
Yu Xiaocao stroked her face and valiantly squeezed out a smile, "Silly lass, I'm seriously injured and can't even move much now. Dying alongside with me would just be a waste. I've already agreed to Hou Xiaoliang's request to allow you to marry him. A married out maidservant is like spilled water...in the future, you need to enjoy your life with Hou Xiaoliang ah."
She panted a few times before she continued, "Tell my final words to the prince: The fact that I wasn't able to accompany him to the very end was my bad. In the next life, I will still become his wife, so he needs to be able to spot me in the crowd in the blink of an eye. Otherwise, I'll punish him to kneel on a washboard and won't let him into...my bed!"
"No! Young Miss, Wutong won't marry anyone! Wutong will stay with you, so don't abandon me! Who will take care of you in the other world? You've once complimented me, saying that I'm the most considerate and the person who understands you the most. Don't abandon me!" Wutong noticed that her mistress's breath was getting more and more shallow and didn't know what to do anymore. Tears flowed down her face and dripped onto the floor.
A slight bit of moisture appeared at the corners of Yu Xiaocao's eyes. She murmured in an almost inaudible voice, "Go and find His Highness. Get him to save me."
When she was certain Wutong had understood her secret signal, Yu Xiaocao suddenly angrily scolded, "Stop saying such things ah! In the past, you were afraid of hard work and didn't want to leave the capital to go to the small town Tanggu to serve me when I was still an ordinary farmer's girl. At that time, you lost this princess consort's trust! If it weren't for the fact that you've been pretty obedient these past few years, I would have sold you off long ago!!"
"Just look, you've been with me longer compared to Hechun and Xichun, yet I gave the important responsibility of managing 'Blossoming Beauty', the dessert and pastry shop, and the flower tea business to them. As for you, you're just a maidservant who serves me on a day to day basis. Don't you understand now ah? You only say such touching things to comfort yourself!!" Yu Xiaocao scolded her as she also gave her a silent signal through her eyes.
"But..." Wutong wiped some tears off her face and was still reluctant to leave her mistress.
"There are no buts! This princess consort gets angrier the more I think of it. I don't want to see you anymore!" Yu Xiaocao used all of her strength in one last snarl, "Get out--"
"Tsk tsk tsk! Such deep feelings between a servant and her master!" Eunuch Yuan smiled maliciously and suddenly pulled Wutong into his hands. He placed his left hand under her chin and snarled at Yu Xiaocao, "Give me the Prolonging Life Pills, otherwise...your good maidservant's neck will be snapped in two by me!"
"Wring away ah! In any case, neither of us would be let go by you after you get your hands on the pills. Since we're going to die anyway, I'll make sure to die without leaving you what you want!" Yu Xiaocao picked one Prolonging Life Pill and slowly placed it into her mouth. Under the alarmed eyes of Eunuch Yuan, she leisurely chewed on it before swallowing while enduring the pain in her chest. Then she did the same to the second pill.
Just as she was about to place the last pill into her mouth, Eunuch Yuan screamed in anguish, "Stop!! Don't swallow any more, I'll let this maidservant go!"
It took a full seven weeks, forty-nine days, to make these three Prolonging Life Pills. If all of them were swallowed by her, he didn't know how long it would take to get the ingredients again and wait for that bitch to recover from her wounds! At that time, he also couldn't guarantee that the situation wouldn't have changed either.
Wutong, who had just escaped from the clutch of death, had been thrown out unceremoniously by a black-clothed man. She looked back to stare at her young miss again as if she was trying to say, "Young Miss, please hold on. I will go find His Highness right now to save you!"
