This is terrible! My future prime minister keeps trying to kiss me forcibly.

He Jing's sinister gaze seemed to want to bore a hole through Ye Xiaoxiao.

This woman!

It's not that they've changed their nature; they're clearly even more vicious and their methods more despicable than before.

His remaining rationality allowed him to suppress the urge to strangle the person.

However, his mother and two younger siblings depended on him for their livelihood, and he couldn't afford to make a single wrong move.

The Great Xia Laws were extremely harsh, punishing murderers with the death penalty, and their families were implicated and exiled two thousand li away.

It's not worth it for a woman like that!

When Ye Xiaoxiao met He Jing's gaze, she felt the early spring air grow even colder, seeping into every pore and making her feel as if she were in an ice cellar.

fortunately--

The Great Xia Law saved my life; otherwise, I would have really died here.

She should thank the person who made the law.

The man opposite him had bloodshot eyes that showed how unsettled he was. It was no easy task for him to suppress the killing intent and hatred in his heart.

But he held back.

Not for anything else, but for my family.

At this moment, Ye Xiaoxiao had a new perspective on this major villain.

She cleared her throat and noticed that the twin brother and sister beside her were also staring at her with hateful eyes.

"Um, I can explain, do you want to hear it?"

The courtyard was eerily quiet for a long time before the man broke the silence.

"Say!"

“Yesterday, Mother… your mother was in critical condition. I saw her vomiting blood non-stop, so I thought I would prescribe some medicine to stop the bleeding. One of the ingredients in the prescription was horse urine.”

"It's not easy to do this in the village. I just happened to run into Fatty by the river, so..."

She selectively kept quiet about what came next.

After thinking for a moment, she continued the conversation.

"However, boy's urine really is a medicine. If you don't believe me, you can go to the clinic in town and ask."

"According to the pharmacopoeia, there are several medicinal materials in the human body: hair, nails, placenta, human urine sediment..."

"Ziheche is the placenta left behind after childbirth."

"Human excrement..." Ye Xiaoxiao paused, "...is human feces."

When He Wuyang heard Ye Xiaoxiao mention fingernails, he raised his hand and looked at his own dark, black fingernails, a hint of disgust flashing in his eyes.

Upon hearing that feces could also be used as medicine, the little girl frowned. She desperately wanted to avoid getting sick!

He Jing remained silent. The Ye Xiaoxiao of the past did not understand so much. The woman in front of him had a firm expression, and her eyes shone brightly when she spoke of the pharmacopoeia.

Ye Xiaoxiao observed his expression and comforted herself: Even a villain who listens to explanations isn't beyond redemption, right?

Suddenly, his cold eyes brightened slightly.

Ye Xiaoxiao followed his gaze and saw that the thin Mother He had come out at some point and was standing under the eaves. She seemed to be in good spirits, but her thin and frail figure looked as if a gust of wind could blow her over.

"Mother, why did you come out?"

He Jing quickly went to greet her and brought her a chair to sit down. The two little ones also rushed over to the eaves and snuggled affectionately next to their mother.

"mother!"

"Mother!"

After being woken up by the noisy Zhao Chunhua and the others, He's mother lost her sleepiness. When she woke up, she found that she felt much more relaxed, and even her cough was not as bad.

In the past, when she woke up, she was in a daze, dizzy, and weak, let alone able to get out of bed.

I felt much better today, so I got up and sat in the room for a while.

Hearing his three children making things difficult for his daughter-in-law, he came out.

"I feel much better today and wanted to go for a walk. I happened to run into you three siblings giving Xiao Xiao a hard time. This time, I'm so grateful to Xiao Xiao for brewing me some medicine, otherwise... you ungrateful kids, you actually... cough cough cough..."

When Mother He coughed, He Jing and his siblings patted her back and brought her water, showing their deep affection for her.

Ye Xiaoxiao stood alone in the courtyard. For some reason, her nose tingled, and tears were about to well up in her eyes.

She was an orphan, and her master took her in and taught her medicine because he saw her potential. She lived up to her master's expectations and became his successor at a young age thanks to her superb medical skills. However, her master was quite strict with her and rarely showed her any tenderness.

The family under the eaves in front of me is the envy of many.

When Mother He's cough stopped, she saw the little girl standing helplessly in the yard, her eyes still red, so she waved to her.

"Girl, come here."