Chapter 155 Rescue

Song Yixiao had no idea how long the coma lasted. When she awoke from it, she realized that she was being dragged forward by something. Instantly, she thought of what she had seen before the coma and then turned around in fear.

Just as expected, the hound that scared her into a coma before was biting her coat and dragging her forward on the snowfield.

Song Yixiao was so close to fainting again. However, when the hound noticed that she had awoken, it just let go of her and kept whining, walking around her nonstop, as if it was begging her to do something.

“You want me to go into the woods?” Song Yixiao realized that it didn’t intend to hurt her, finally feeling less frightened. Then she attempted to point at the direction where it dragged her to. “Did anything happen over there?”

The hound barked for a few times and then dragged her again by biting her clothes. It couldn’t speak, but its action obviously testified Song Yixiao’s conjecture.

It was the first time that Song Yixiao encountered this kind of thing. She looked at the woods and felt terrified about the unknown there. To be honest, she really didn’t want to go there. However, after they stayed stalemated for a while, the hound’s whimper got shriller and more anxious, which also appeared a bit fierce. Out of fear, Song Yixiao had no other choice but to get up reluctantly.

Disgruntled about her moving slowly, the hound kept biting her coat and dragging her for a distance. Sadly, Song Yixiao found that she was too weak to stop it!

After tripping and falling for two or three times for being dragged by the hound, Song Yixiao, stained by snow all over her body, finally understood what the hound wanted her to do. On the ground of the woods, the heir of Marquis Fuyang, Ji Zifu was lying there alone.

He should have been out of unconsciousness for a while, whose body was covered with a thin layer of snow.

Fortunately, after dusting the snow off her body, Song Yixiao found that he was still breathing. He was alive for now.

“I am not a doctor. How do I know how to save your master?” Song Yixiao didn’t know what to do next so she could only say to the hound, “How about me beckoning people to help?”

However, when she just got up and intended to leave, the hound that was licking its master’s face immediately showed its ferocity!

Song Yixiao squatted back obediently.

When she was at a loss, she suddenly touched something in her arms and thought of the almond congee given by Yuan Xue’e. Hence, she decided to take a shot. After taking the almond congee out, she sipped at it and found that it tasted moderately hot. Then she tried to feed it to Ji Zifu. Unexpectedly, she just hit the mark by a fluke. After a while, Ji Zifu groaned and opened his eyes!

Song Yixiao felt relieved and said, “Cousin Zifu, you are awake now!”

“Emm?” Ji Zifu just woke up and still felt dazed. He stared at her in confusion, saying, “You are… Xubai’s wife? How come you are here?”

“I just passed by.” Song Yixiao knew that he was her husband’s cousin but they didn’t get along and also held opposite political views. His mother, Daiguo Grand Princess might be conspiring against her at the moment, so she didn’t want to talk much with him. While putting away her leather bag, she said, “Since you are okay now, I’ll leave then!”

While she was talking, Ji Zifu’s eyes became clearer. He said with complicated looks, “Didn’t Xubai tell you that I got him captured by the Wuhuan people. I was always not nice to you before… Why are you still willing to save me?”

Song Yixiao didn’t want to, either!

It was because of him!

An heir of the prince didn’t bring any servant with him but a dog when he was out!

She really wanted to crack his brain open and see through his mind!

But for the hound’s coercion, she would have been back in Yaohua Venue!

She didn’t care whether he was dead or not!

Song Yixiao felt so grieved. As a first-rank titled lady, she was coerced by a dog to do so. How could she talk of such a shameful thing?

Especially she didn’t know Ji Zifu well!

She hedged and then put on a benign look. “Xubai didn’t tell me about it. Moreover, even if we were not relatives, how could I just turn away from you since you were lying on the snowfield?”

Speaking of that, she decided to be more generous. Then she passed the leather bag to him, “This is the almond congee given by Xue’e. As you don’t feel well now, you may as well take it! After all, it can keep you warm!”

She felt that she had done enough and didn’t want to hear more requests raised by Ji Zifu. Then she added, “It is improper for men and women to touch each other’s hand. Now that you are awake, I shouldn’t stay here then. Please take care!”

After getting up, Song Yixiao took a glance at the hound only to see that it was running around its master happily instead of stopping her from leaving again. She was relieved and sloped off the woods at the fastest speed without looking at Ji Zifu’s changed facial expression. She didn’t dare to turn around and directly rushed back to Yaohua Venue!

Seeing that the door of Yaohua Venue closed, Song Yixiao was relieved. As complex feelings of grievance and lingering fear welled up in her heart, she couldn’t help shedding tears. In a hurry she raised her sleeves to wipe the tears and braced up before creeping into the wing room where Yuedeng and Liyu lived.

“Madam, you are back?” Only Liyu was in the wing room, who was surprised and happy to see her come back. While helping her change clothes, she said anxiously, “Miss Jiang feels really anxious and even says that if you still don’t come back, she will ask Her Highness Princess Yushan to help look for you!”

Song Yixiao acted as if nothing had happened and said, “I went to Caixia Villa just now and I didn’t have time to tell her about it. Therefore, I got held up! By the way, while I was away, did anyone come?”

“No.” Liyu held the changed clothes in her arms. “No one came. Even Her Highness Princess Yushan only sent an imperial maid to ask Miss Jiang via the door whether she would like to go back for dinner at the meal time. Yet, Miss Jiang didn’t go. Afterwards, a hamper was sent here and Miss Jiang also granted me and Yuedeng two dishes.”

“How is Wuying doing now?” Song Yixiao was not in a mood to care about the trifles, asking while tying up the belt.

Wincing in astonishment, Liyu faltered, “Miss Nie took the medicine after you left and also sweated much. Probably she will need to keep taking the medicine. Yet, her fever hasn’t gone down…”

Her reply was within Song Yixiao’s expectation. If Nie Wuying got better, Liyu would report the good news to her instantly.

Since Liyu didn’t, obviously there was no good news!

Thinking about this, she stopped tying the belt, wondering whether she should make Nie Wuying take Sad-crane.

In this age, a married woman who had no son couldn’t live well. For instance, even Wei Mengying was scheming enough to maintain her marriage for ten years, she had to find a way out before being divorced!

Moreover, how many people could be as scheming and lucky as Wei Mengying?

Song Yixiao didn’t dare to imagine what would happen to Nie Wuying if she couldn’t have children in the future. After all, Nie Wuying’s origin was already an embarrassing burden for her!

“Madam, don’t you go to greet Miss Jiang?” She was in such a trance that Liyu had to remind her. “By far Miss Jiang hasn’t known that you are back!”

“Yeah, I will go to meet her.” Song Yixiao came to her senses and drooped her eyes to cover her emotion. She left the wing-room and knocked on the door of the principal room.

“You are finally back!” Jiang Muting kept her promise of staying beside the bed of Nie Wuying. Upon seeing her, she felt so relieved and then rushed to her in surprise hastily, asking, “What took you so long?”

Song Yixiao left out the part of being coerced by Ji Zifu’s hound to save him and then talked about all that happened, saying apologetically, “I was so angry at that time and wanted to find out the truth only, because I was afraid that the evidence might be eradicated if I went there too late. Therefore, I didn’t come back to tell you first and instead, I directly went to Caixia Villa to discuss with Marquis Boling. Yet, I’ve kept you worried about me for almost the whole day. I’m so sorry!”

“I know you care about your sister-in-law very much, and I also feel sorry for you.” Jiang Muting puckered her lips and pondered for a while, saying carefully, “However… Marquis Boling is right. The current priority is Miss Nie’s health. Other things can be handled later!”

Song Yixiao sighed and said, “Muting, please rest assured. I was muddle-headed temporarily.”

Jiang Muting was finally relieved and gave a worried look. “We have changed Miss Nie’s bed coverings for three times and she keeps sweating but her fever just doesn’t go down. Although I feed water to her now and then, it is still not enough to supplement her lapsed sweat! Now I seldom dare to feed the medicine to her!”

“Have you sent anyone to Lunong Building to ask about this?” Song Yixiao was surprised. At the critical moment, kinship mattered more. Although she didn’t want to interrupt Su Shaoge’s study, for the sake of her sister-in-law’s life, she had to do it anyway!

Jiang Muting gave a bitter smile. “Of course I did, but Mr. Su has not been in Lunong Building since a moment ago!”

Song Yixiao asked in surprise, “How come? Does he not live there anymore?”

Was he tired of being disturbed by her?

She just had such a thought when Jiang Muting said, “No. It is because Mr. Zhuo is not feeling well and Doctor Han’s leg is injured that His Highness Prince of Zhao brought Mr. Su over there to see whether there is anything to help with!”

“Do you know when he will come back?” Song Yixiao walked to the bed and touched Nie Wuying’s forehead. Her forehead was still hot and her face was as pale as white paper, with her breathing barely perceptible. She got nervous and asked, “Have you sent any words to Buyue Villa or Jianliu Building?”

Jiang Muting said with a bitter smile, “When I heard that he was not in Lunong Building, I supposed that you couldn’t be there either. Yet, I was not sure where you had gone, so I was afraid that if I sent words to Buyue Villa, which might cause others’ suspicion, I wouldn’t know how to react by then.”

Song Yixiao regretted her rash action and said in a hurry, “Now that I am back, please send for Mr. Su as soon as possible!”

Unexpectedly, after a while, the servant sent there came back and reported, “Not long ago, the heir of Marquis Fuyang didn’t feel well, so Mr. Su was asked to go to Ruyi Garden to offer treatment for him. I arrived at Ruyi Garden in a hurry but the guards just wouldn’t convey the message, saying that Her Highness the Grand Princess and others were all worried about the heir of Marquis Fuyang and that they were afraid to get punished if they acted rashly!”

Song Yixiao and Jiang Muting was so angry that their faces even turned pale. Even a blind man could see through such an obvious trick! Why didn’t they dare to report? They must fear that no one would treat Ji Zifu if Su Shaoge left, so the guards were used as shields. If anyone called to account afterwards, the guards would be to blame and it had nothing to do with Daiguo Grand Princess and others!

Song Yixiao was especially remorseful and regretted going to Caixia Villa!

If she hadn’t gone to Caixia Villa, she wouldn’t have run into the hound on the way back; without the hound’s coercion, she wouldn’t have gone to rescue Ji Zifu; if Ji Zifu was left there unattended, he would probably have been lying on the snowfield in the woods!

How could Daiguo Grand Princess fight for the doctor with her niece for her son?

“Yuedeng, bring my coat for me!” Song Yixiao stood up gnashing her teeth. “The guards of Ruyi Garden dared to stop our messenger, but I would like to find out whether they dare to stop a first-rank titled lady?”