While swinging his knife around to chop the snakes, Ling Yunche felt an unprecedented amount of effort.

After all, he was the only guard here, and there were too many snakes. He listened to the screams of the two women behind him and unconsciously touched the wine jug hanging on his waist.

The wine flask happened to contain realgar wine. Thinking that realgar wine could repel snakes, he took a big sip of it and immediately sprayed it at the surrounding snakes.

As expected, those snakes were afraid of realgar and fled in all directions, creating a safe circle for the master and servant behind them.

"Guard Ling, our master was bitten by a snake just now, come and take a look!"

Suo Xin shouted this sentence in the hope that Ling Yunche could help call the imperial physician or find some medicine.

But unexpectedly, Ling Yunche really didn't care about anything, not even the most basic distinction between men and women. He grabbed Ruyi's hand and rolled up his sleeves.

Just looking at the wound was horrifying, with black poisonous blood oozing out of it.

"This snake is poisonous. I must suck out the poisonous blood immediately."

Both惢心 and 若懿 were surprised.

Suo Xin even exclaimed "Ah?", but the scene was too chaotic and she didn't have time to stop it.

Ling Yunche was there, yelling at her, "惢心! What are you still standing there for? Hurry up and get a basin of water."

Human life is at stake, so Suo Xin naturally didn't dare to question anything anymore and immediately hurried to fetch water.

Ling Yunche, on his side, sucked hard on the wound on Ruyi's hand. Ruyi seemed a little surprised, but did not stop him. The moment Ling Yunche kissed her, there was an awkward look on her face.

She turned her head to look at the other side of the bed with an ambiguous look.

Unconsciously, my heartbeat quickened.

When Suo Xin brought the water back, Ling Yunche spat out the poisonous blood he had sucked out into the basin.

Ruyi stared at Ling Yunche in a trance, then looked at the bed beside her. She really didn't know where to put her eyes. Finally, she lowered her head, seeming to feel a little embarrassed.

After sucking out all the snake venom from Ruyi's hand, Ling Yunche realized how disrespectful he had just done.

He did not kneel down and apologize immediately, nor did he realize that although the woman sitting on the bed was an abandoned concubine in the cold palace, she belonged to the emperor in every way.

"Oh, I'm so sorry. I just broke the barrier between men and women."

Ling Yunche didn't know if it was because Ruyi always comforted him in a gentle voice these days that he didn't regard Ruyi as a concubine in the harem in his heart.

"But life is important after all, right?"

Ruyi didn't say anything when she heard this, but just lowered her head in embarrassment. Finally, she couldn't stand Ling Yunche's gaze and said, "Thank you for saving me."

But according to common sense, Ling Yunche is a guard, and he could never do such a rebellious thing.

Even if he really wanted to save Ruyi's life out of desperation, the snake venom had been sucked out and Ruyi was out of danger, he couldn't just sit under Ruyi's bed and relax.

He stayed here like this. I really don’t know whether Ling Yunche was born to be a string or he just couldn’t figure out his place.

At this time, the person who should have left was still chatting with the emperor's concubine, "Fortunately, your wound is shallow. If it was deeper, even if the gods came, I'm afraid they couldn't save you."

Ruyi sat on the bed with her legs covered with a quilt, listening to him talk.

Ling Yunche maintained his original posture, sitting under the bed, and ordered惢心 to bring some ox-bile pills to Ruyi.

惢心 remembered that Jiang Yubin came and left some medicines for the cold palace to prevent snakes, insects, rats and ants a few days ago, among which there happened to be Niuhuang Pills. She immediately took out one and wanted to serve it to Ruyi.

Ling Yunche saw Suo Xin coming over with the Niuhuang Pill, and subconsciously wanted to reach out to take it. Was she going to feed it to Ruyi herself? Fortunately, Suo Xin didn't look in his direction. She held the Niuhuang Pill tightly, passed Ling Yunche and handed it directly to her master.

Ling Yunche didn't know what he was thinking of. "In addition to the detoxification effect of Niuhuang Pills, the leaves of the trumpet creeper outside the door can also be crushed and applied to the wound to have a detoxifying effect. Suo Xin, go pick some."

He was very good at commanding Suo Xin.

And in the current situation, shouldn't he, the guard, be the one who goes out to pick the trumpet creeper leaves?

In the dark, he asked a weak little palace maid to go out and pick them, and then left him, a guard, in the room to stay with the emperor's concubine. If this matter were to get out, even if Ling Yunche had saved the emperor and his concubine's life, these two people would be tied together and thrown into the pond.

"I will go find Doctor Jiang tomorrow and ask him to come and see you."

No one knows why Ling Yunche acts so familiar with Jiang Yubi, as if Jiang Yubi and惢心 are people he can order around at will.

Ruyi nodded and did not reject his kindness.

At this time, Suo Xin did not forget to thank Ling Yunche for saving her life.

Ling Yunche walked around the room carelessly, "This is what the cold palace is like. There are countless snakes, insects, rats and ants. If you are not careful, you will be bitten by them. This is why I brought realgar wine with me."

"But I've been guarding the cold palace for such a long time, and I've never seen so many snakes come out at once."

Although Ling Yunche did not follow the rules, he was still doing his best at this time. He went up the stairs to the second floor to check the specific situation. Suo Xin took this opportunity to apply the broken leaves of trumpet creeper on her master's hands.

When Ling Yunche came back after checking, he found that the tiles on the roof of the house where they lived had been removed. The snakes in the house must have been thrown there by someone with ulterior motives.

"The fact that you were able to stay in the cold palace for such a long time is enough to prove that the emperor no longer has any other thoughts about you. But this shouldn't be the case. Or did you offend someone outside who you shouldn't have offended?"

惢心 and Ruyi exchanged glances, and instantly thought of how someone had framed her for murdering the royal heir.

Ling Yunche was waiting there with great interest for Ruyi's explanation, but neither of them wanted to speak.

Ling Yunche was also a knowledgeable and sensible person. He did not ask too many questions, but just asked them to get some lime powder during the day the next day.

After sending Ling Yunche out,惢心 sat next to Ruyi and carefully held Ruyi's hand, unable to hide the worry in her eyes.

Ruyi sighed, "I had no intention of competing with them, but I didn't expect that now that we are in the cold palace, those people would not let us go."

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