The Rise of a General's Daughter-in-Law Doctor

The group sat around the fire, eating grilled fish. The fish was tender and fragrant, but everyone had their own worries, and after the fight they had just experienced, the atmosphere wasn't very good.

Therefore, no one cares about the taste of grilled fish anymore.

Shangguan Jingye broke the silence: "Young Master Long, were those people coming for you?"

Dongfang Jincheng did not deny it, and nodded, saying, "That should be true."

"Have you offended anyone?" Shangguan Jingye asked again.

To be honest, he doesn't know which side they're on, but it's just a few people, and he'll find out eventually.

Dongfang Jincheng looked at the group and said earnestly, "Brother Ye, Brother Xia, we really dragged you into this mess this time, but don't worry, my guards have already gone to clean up the mess, and this kind of thing shouldn't happen again in the future."

He was worried that Li Muxia and Shangguan Jingye would part ways with them because of this incident. He hadn't yet won Li Muxia's heart, so they couldn't separate.

Shangguan Jingye became even more uneasy after hearing Dongfang Jincheng's words. He thought to himself: These two young masters Long are definitely not ordinary merchants. To be assassinated by so many experts, their identities must be extraordinary. Moreover, he had never heard of any merchants with the surname Long in the capital. In the past few days of contact with them, he had learned a bit about them. If they were merchants, they should be relatively large ones. It was impossible that he had never heard of them. Could it be that he had not been back to the capital for too long and his information had become outdated?

Thinking about all this, he did consider parting ways with them, but then he remembered that the group of people already knew what he and his junior sister looked like, and what if they came back to retaliate?

In the end, they decided to go with Dongfang Jincheng and the other person, at least they would have someone to protect them.

Thinking about this, I stopped worrying about it; they were all in the same boat now.

Seeing that the atmosphere had become awkward again, Dongfang Jinxuan asked, "Brother Xia, what was that secret you mentioned at the end?"

Everyone was taken aback by Dongfang Jinxuan's question.

Is now the time to say this?

However, Shangguan Jingye suddenly became interested and asked, "Exactly, junior brother, what's that secret you were talking about?"

Li Muxia rolled her eyes inwardly, speechless at the two of them; they were so carefree.

But he still said, "The secret is..."

After saying that, he smiled mysteriously and added, "Bad people die from talking too much."

The three of them were stunned after hearing this. Then, Dongfang Jinxuan and Shangguan Jingye seemed to have thought of something, and they looked at each other with expressions that seemed to say, "Wise words, the truth."

Dongfang Jincheng looked at Li Muxia with a troubled expression. He was thinking about what she had said when she was being held hostage. He knew it was just a delaying tactic by Li Muxia, but he wasn't sure if it was what she truly meant.

Dongfang Jinxuan could also tell that his third brother probably wanted to say something to Li Muxia alone.

So he dragged Shangguan Jingye to a distant place to gather some dry grass. The night was long, and they couldn't just sit there until dawn.

Seeing that she and Dongfang Jincheng were the only ones left, Li Muxia also wanted to find an excuse to slip away: "I'm going to get some water."

Dongfang Jincheng knew she wanted to avoid it, so he said, "I'll go, you wait for me here."

After saying that, he picked up the bamboo tube beside him and got up to fetch water from the nearby stream.

Looking at Dongfang Jincheng's retreating figure, Li Muxia felt a sudden pang of sadness, as if she wanted to cry. This must be what heartbreak feels like.

Unbeknownst to her, a small, bright green snake was flicking its tongue and approaching her from above her head.

Dongfang Jincheng, who was fetching water, heard Li Muxia's muffled groan and quickly turned around, only to see a bright green bamboo viper biting Li Muxia's shoulder.

He dropped the bamboo tube, quickly went to Li Muxia's side, tore off the bamboo leaf and threw it into the fire nearby.

Then I saw Li Muxia's pale face and beads of sweat on her forehead.

Actually, Li Muxia wasn't in much pain. The reason she was like this was mostly because she was scared. She was terrified of snakes in her past life.

Dongfang Jincheng quickly pressed a few acupoints around the wound to seal the surrounding acupoints and slow down the seepage of the venom.

"Is there an antidote?" Dongfang Jincheng asked. He knew that Li Muxia always carried some medicine bottles in her small bag, but he didn't know what was inside.

Li Muxia's small bag contained only some poisons and corresponding antidotes; everything else was in a first-aid kit, which was currently on horseback and its whereabouts were unknown.

Seeing Dongfang Jincheng's anxious look, Li Muxia shook her head and said with a smile, "No, but don't worry, the snake venom isn't fatal. As long as the venom is expelled, I'll prepare the antidote when we get to Changping County."

After hearing her words, Dongfang Jincheng thought of the scene where Li Muxia detoxified Shangguan Jingye. He thought that the detoxification Li Muxia mentioned would also be done in that way. And since Shangguan Jingye was the only one who could still perform acupuncture here, he said, "I will help you detoxify."

Li Muxia paused for a moment, then remembered that Dongfang Jincheng's internal energy was quite good. She had seen scenes in TV dramas in modern times where internal energy was used to expel poison, so she naturally assumed that Dongfang Jincheng meant to use his internal energy to help her expel the poison. Then she said, "Okay, then I'll trouble you, Brother Long."

Dongfang Jincheng didn't expect Li Muxia to agree so readily. His heart skipped a beat, and he gently pulled open Li Muxia's clothes with his hand.

This action startled Li Muxia, but then she remembered that there were indeed scenes of taking off clothes when she watched TV detox, and that Young Master Long only exposed the place where she was bitten and then stopped taking off her clothes, so she did not stop him.

Dongfang Jincheng looked at Li Muxia's fair shoulders, where there were two bloody teeth marks, his eyes dark and unreadable.

Li Muxia was very curious to see how Dongfang Jincheng used internal energy to detoxify.

But as he looked, he realized something was wrong; Dongfang Jincheng's head was getting closer and closer to him.

It wasn't until her soft lips gently touched her skin that she realized Dongfang Jincheng wasn't trying to detoxify using internal energy.

Feeling his gentle sucking, Li Muxia's mind went blank. The tingling sensation on her skin made her heart feel as if it were being gently brushed by a feather, making her itch and causing her to tremble uncontrollably.

The blush on her face betrayed her mood at that moment.

Dongfang Jincheng wasn't much better off. Touching her soft skin, his heart trembled; the smooth texture made him reluctant to leave. Feeling Li Muxia's rapid heartbeat, he felt a surge of pleasure. It was always good that she responded to his touch.

Dongfang Jincheng stopped sucking blood until it turned bright red, then gently helped Li Muxia pull up her clothes and straighten her up.

Looking at Li Muxia, who was still in a daze, he said in a low, hoarse voice, "I will take responsibility for you."