NCCnovel Chapter 1263 How Much is Pride Worth?
Chapter 1263 How Much is Pride Worth?
At Ping An's riding speed, he should be able to reach Huai Xiang City before dawn.
Liang Chongyue didn't want her mother to wait alone in Huaixiang City for too long.
A male concubine isn't worth her spending too much time on.
Jiang Yubai's hand was stiff, and there was still a faint scent of ink in the air.
What should have been an extremely humiliating thing, after the person in front of him said those words, was not so unbearable.
After all, what she said was true.
After he entered the Lihua Brothel, he became a destitute person with no human rights.
They could beat, scold, and humiliate him at will. If it weren't for his handsome appearance, he would probably have been tortured to death by those people long ago.
The hand that had been stuffed with the contract of servitude was still intact and uninjured.
As Liang Chongyue turned to leave, she pulled Fei He aside and instructed him:
“This man has some pride. If he still refuses to sign that indenture after seeing Qiyang City now, then let him be. Have someone follow him, disfigure his face, and leave his family with enough money. That’s all.”
Having received His Majesty's instructions, Fei He respectfully saw His Majesty onto the carriage.
The system originally wanted to go and watch the excitement, but was scared back by a look from its host.
They obediently followed the carriage, not daring to have any other thoughts.
The carriage slowly began to move, and when it passed in front of Jiang Yubai, it moved much faster than before.
They must be searching for those who went ahead of them.
Jiang Yubai's gaze followed the carriage as it drove into the night.
The hand holding the indenture clenched unconsciously.
Fei He watched his reaction from the side and understood why His Majesty was wasting his time on such a person.
"Bandage him up first, lest he die on the way."
Among the accompanying guards, some of whom knew about such things, they immediately stepped forward to treat Jiang Yubai's wounds.
Having been starving for so many days and still fleeing for his life in the forest, Jiang Yubai's injured hand could no longer bleed.
The dried bloodstains on the back of his hand were gently brushed aside by the guard, and only a few drops of blood seeped out before no more flowed out.
"You'll have to bear with it. This gold hairpin is piercing through your entire hand. There are no painkillers right now, so we'll have to pull it out directly."
Upon hearing this, Jiang Yubai, his face pale, forcefully pulled the gold hairpin piercing his palm out in front of everyone.
Blood splattered instantly, with a few drops landing on Jiang Yubai's face.
It made his face even more beautiful and vibrant.
As expected of the previous Human Emperor, Fei He stared at this face that was both familiar and unfamiliar.
After a moment of silence, he pushed aside the guards in front of Jiang Yubai and personally treated his wounds.
"There are no painkillers or good hemostatic agents. If you pull it out like this, you might hurt your tendons."
Jiang Yubai disliked the slightly gloomy aura about this person and the way this person looked at him.
Very strange.
It's as if they had some kind of grudge in their past lives.
When the wrist of his injured hand was grabbed, Jiang Yubai had no right to say no.
Fei He applied some medicine to his wound, and once the bleeding stopped, he began to bandage it.
Only two carriages remained, and the painkillers that were carried with the emperor were all in His Majesty's carriage.
The bodyguards only carry a few commonly used medicines with them.
When bandaging, the wound was inevitably pulled, and Jiang Yubai couldn't help but hiss.
Fei He quickened his pace, finished bandaging him, and then released his grip on his wrist.
"boarding."
Jiang Yubai looked around. Although there weren't many men in black guarding him, each one looked like they could easily defeat ten of him.
The pain in his palm constantly reminded him of the kind of people he had messed with.
Even if Jiang Yubai didn't want to, he wouldn't be allowed to refuse.
He could only follow Fei He into the carriage, which swayed and rocked all the way, making him dizzy.
She dared not sleep, forcing herself to stay awake, staring wide-eyed at the man opposite her.
Fei He wasn't that kind after all; she saw that this person's eyelids were already drooping, yet he was still forcing himself to stay awake.
Fei He had no obligation to remind him and simply leaned against the inner wall of the carriage and fell asleep.
As for Jiang Yubai, he endured it again and again until the person in front of him finally fell asleep.
He cautiously lifted the carriage curtain, wanting to see what was happening outside.
As soon as the carriage curtain was lifted, what came into view before the scenery outside was the robes of the men in black, gleaming in the moonlight.
Before Jiang Yubai could even take a second look, a pair of dark, hollow eyes loomed close.
Without saying another word, when their eyes met, Jiang Yubai's heart was already feeling uneasy.
The curtain had been lifted for a while, but it took less than half that time to lower it.
As Jiang Yubai was still sitting in the carriage patting his chest, he looked up and saw the gloomy man in front of him looking at him with a half-smile.
My heart, which I had just calmed down, tightened up again in an instant.
I feel like I'm not jumping around as much anymore.
Fei He remained silent, only glancing at Jiang Yubai before closing her eyes and pretending to sleep.
Jiang Yubai was still young, and his little gesture was written all over his face.
The carriage traveled along the country dirt road, and the nightingales sang in the countryside at night.
People with an open mind wouldn't think much of it, but Jiang Yubai found it irritating, and unfortunately, his body couldn't take it anymore.
Having hidden in the forest for so long, the most satisfying meal I've had was when I raided a snake nest and ate all the dozen or so snake eggs inside in one go.
We ate it raw; we didn't even dare to light a fire.
Later, the enraged female snake bit a large man.
I thought they would back down because of this, but they still managed to keep him occupied in the woods.
If they hadn't pressed him so hard, and he hadn't overheard them saying they were going to take their dogs into the woods to find him, he wouldn't have risked ramming the nobleman's carriage.
Compared to those burly men, that nobleman was unfathomable, and he had truly put himself in a very difficult position.
"What exactly is the identity of your wife?"
Jiang Yubai leaned against the inner wall of the carriage, his body hunched over, looking extremely weak. He still couldn't help but ask the question that had been weighing on his mind for a long time.
"You'll find out once you sign the contract."
Jiang Yubai understood. If he didn't sell himself out, he wouldn't even be worthy of knowing the identity of that important person.
"Is she even more capable than Princess Qiyang?"
Jiang Yubai cautiously probed, trying to find out just how distinguished this important person was.
Fei He didn't even lift his eyelids, leaning against the carriage and pretending to sleep without saying a word.
Jiang Yubai waited for a while but didn't get a result. He found a comfortable spot in the carriage and fell asleep soon after.
When his even snoring began, Fei He opened his eyes, his eyes clear and bright, without any trace of the confusion of just waking up.
Fei He looked at the indenture that Jiang Yubai had been clutching in his hand all the way, and wondered in her heart how much his pride was really worth.