Chapter 60 Dangerous, Run!
Su Muge stopped to take the pulse of Ninth Princess.
Although her pulse was still weak, at least her heartbeat recovered!
Su Muge exhaled a sigh of relief, with sweat oozing on her forehead.
She raised her hand to wipe it and stood up.
“Hold her up and seat her on a chair.”
Ninth Princess’s revival made her maid unable to recover from the shock.
It wasn’t until Su Muge turned around to leave that the maid stepped forward in a daze and helped Nine Princesses sit on the chair.
Ninth Princess opened her eyes with a pale face and weak breath. She looked at everything in front of her, blank-minded.
She covered her chest with her hands, knowing that she must have had a heart attack; otherwise, her heart wouldn’t be so uncomfortable now.
“Here comes the medicine. Here comes the medicine for Ninth Princess.”
The maid finally brought the medicine for Nine Princess. After a while, she looked slightly better.
“Ninth Sister, how are you feeling?” Xia Houkun asked.
Xia Houxi had had heart disease since she was born, so wherever she went, her followers would carry heart-saving pills. But this time, the medicine was for no reason left on the carriage.
“Second brother, I’m fine.” Xia Houxi answered weakly.
“That’s good. Hurry to send Ninth Princess back to the palace.”
“Yes.”
Xia Houxi’s sight fell on Su Muge, who was standing aside.
“You just brought me the medicine. Then who saved me when I had the heart attack?”
The maid stepped forward and whispered, “It’s, it’s this lady.” After speaking, she pointed at Su Muge.
Xia Houxi’s sight on Su Muge instantly revealed some of her thoughts.
Su Muge had to stand out and said, “Princess, you were in a critical situation just now. Please forgive my offense.
Xia Houkun’s eyes turned to the maid. “Just now, did Ninth Princess really stop breathing?” He heard it when he came over.
But he didn’t quite believe that people could be resurrected.
The maid, still a little shocked, nodded in horror. “Yes, I had felt her breath. She really had no breath then.”
Xia Houkun slightly shifted his mind and finally turned his eyes to Su Muge. His sight of examination and detection made her very upset.
And he suddenly smiled at Su Muge.
Xia Houkun was wearing a violet-and-gold jade crown; under his dashing eyebrows were a pair of narrow and long eyes, a tall nose, and his slightly raised lips; combined with his angular face, he was a handsome young man.
His navy-blue robe made him look more mature than his peers; a jade green ribbon around his waist perfectly outlined his tight waist. Xia Houkun looked more aristocratic now than he was in Shunyang prefecture.
Despite Xia Houkun’s identity, he was still charming enough to attract women.
“I heard just now that you are the daughter of Su Lun, Lord Su, and have cured the plague in Zhou County in Shunyang?”
When Xia Houkun’s eyes fell on the birthmark on Su Muge’s eyes, a strange feeling flickered in his tender eyes very quickly.
Although he had been to Su Mansion, he didn’t pay much attention to the women there. Even if they went to the capital together, the two had never met each other.
Su Muge slightly looked down. “Yes, I am.”
“Since Miss Su saved Ninth Princess, I will go to your mansion and thank you in person. Seeing Miss Su’s excellent medical skills, I wonder who your teacher is.”
Seeing Xia Houkun talking to Su Muge so gently, Su Jingwen felt fierce anger burning in her heart.
“His Royal Highness, my sister just happened to save the princess. How can she deserve your visit to our mansion to thank her in person?” Su Jingwen stood out and said softly and shyly.
The voice was so disgusting that Su Muge’s hair stood up.
“It’s her honor to save the princess. Brother, how should you degrade yourself?” Xia Houyin was also very displeased to see Xia Houkun being polite to Su Muge.
Xia Houkun gave a stern glance at Xia Houyin and said. “Don’t talk nonsense!”
Xia Houyin wanted to refute, but seeing Xia Houkun’s look, she finally shut up. After all, she had plenty of chances to teach Su Muge a lesson, and there was no need to embarrass her brother in front of so many people.
“His Royal Highness…” Xia Houkun’s imperial bodyguard stepped forward and whispered in his ear.
Xia Houkun lowered his eyes and nodded slowly. “I see.”
After that, he looked at the two Su sisters; when he looked at Su Muge, his eyes were especially soft and gentle.
“I have to go handle something else now. I’ll visit your mansion some other day and thank you in person.”
It wasn’t until Xia Houkun’s figure was out of sight that Su Jingwen reluctantly stopped watching him. She turned around to Su Muge, appearing to be intimate with her, but actually gritted her teeth and said, “Sister, you are so good at it!”
Su Muge calmly took one step back and smiled. “As you said, it was just a coincidence.”
Su Jingwen secretly glared at her, thinking, “Su Muge, I’ll see how long you can be proud like this!”
“Miss Su, your medical skills are really excellent.” Xia Houxi finally found a chance to speak. She knew the condition of herself better than anyone else. Every time she had a heart attack, if she didn’t take the medicine in time, she would die at any time. Even the imperial doctors could do nothing about it, but Su Muge had actually saved her life this time!
“It’s not a big deal, Princess. No need to mention.”
“The half-dead has completely spoiled my interest! What are you doing here? Hurry to get ready! Don’t you want me to appreciate this scenery!?” Xia Houyin was very displeased that everyone’s attention fell on Su Muge and Xia Houxi.
Hearing her words, the ladies present recovered their wits. Although the two were both princesses, Eighth Princess was the daughter of the most favored Concubine Qin with a title of the Grade-3 Imperial Concubine. She was also the sister of Second Prince who had great power on the imperial court; while Ninth Princess was born by Concubine Yu with a title of the Grade-6 Imperial Concubine who had fallen out of favor long ago. Her maiden family was not in power, either. Consequently, it was clear to the ladies which princess should be buttered up.
So all of them resumed laughing and smiling and surrounded Eighth Princess.
Instantly, the barge regained laughters and cheers, as if nothing had happened before.
“Ninth Princess, you are still weak now, so you’d better go back now and have a good rest.” Su Muge felt a little headache to see the curious Ninth Princess.
After finally meeting Su Muge again, Xia Houxi would not leave so easily.
“I wonder how Miss Su saved me.”
“Heart resuscitation.”
“Heart … resuscitation? What is that? Can you teach me, Miss Su?”
Su Muge pressed her temples. “Princess…”
“Bang, bang”
“Fireworks. Someone’s setting off fireworks again!”
The fireworks made the barge lively again. However, after the incident just now, everyone didn’t dare to act rashly anymore, so they all sat still in their positions.
“Oh, is it raining? The rain is dripping onto my face …”
“Yeah, I feel it too, it’s raining …”
Su Muge touched the droplets dripping onto the tip of her nose and felt something wrong when she was to wipe it off with her handkerchief.
The raindrops … how could they be lubricous?
As soon as she was about to sniff the liquid, she saw a shadow over her head and looked up to see Xia Houxi’s poker face.
“It seems to be raining. Miss Su, you haven’t brought an umbrella. I can send you back to your mansion.”
Su Muge glanced at the noble ladies sitting on the deck and felt boring indeed.
“Thank you for giving me a hand, Ninth Princess.”
Hardly had Su Muge turned around to leave when a sudden scream came from the cabin. “It’s on fire! Help! The cabin is on fire!”
“On fire?” Xia Houyin frowned. Before she could react, the people in the cabin hurried out.
“Help, the cabin is on fire!”
“Ah!”
A man whose clothes caught fire rushed out of the cabin and rolled on the deck, which instantly lit the deck.
“Ah … help!”
“Hurry up, run!”
“Miss, protect the Miss.”
“Princess, let the princess leave …”
The situation on the deck turned chaotic in an instant. Watching the deck lit instantly, Su Muge lowered her eyes. “It’s oil!” No wonder she felt the liquid different from normal raindrop! The deck was dripped with oil so that the fire would spread so fast!
Su Muge turned back and saw Xia Houxi still standing there blankly. She pursed her lips and watched the chaos on the deck. “Which one of you can swim?”
“I, I can.” The maid behind Xia Houxi, obviously frightened, answered in a trembling voice.
Su Muge grabbed a life raft from the gunwale and put it on Xia Houxi.
“Everything is messed up, so everyone is eager to escape and doesn’t care if you are a princess or not. If you want to survive, climb down this rope and swim to the bank!” While speaking, Su Muge had tied one end of the rope to the barge.
“But, but I can’t, I can’t swim …” Despite her calm personality, Xia Houxi had never experienced such an accident and was frightened.
“Calm down. This boat is not far from the shore. You can do it!” While speaking, Su Muge had pushed her to the gunwale.
“Ah! Help! Help!”
“The fire is getting worse!”
While Xia Houxi was still hesitating, Su Muge gritted her teeth and pushed her down the barge.
Meanwhile, she was suddenly hit by someone and fell into the water out of control.
One after another, people jumped into the water from the barge. As soon as Su Muge plunged into the water, she was smashed on the shoulder and sank into the water.
“Ah…”
It was all dark in the water; Su Muge wanted to swim up to the surface, but she felt her shoulder extremely painful and her feet entangled with something she couldn’t get rid of.
“Ah…”
Su Muge calmed down, reached out her uninjured hand, pulled out the dagger tied on her waist and stabbed at the entanglement on her foot.
As soon as the dagger was stabbed out, someone suddenly grabbed her hand and pulled her downwards to the bottom.
Damn it!
She struggled to get rid of the person, but that person was so powerful that she couldn’t break free at all.
Soon, she felt her wrists tied up with a rope.
Su Muge was shocked that the person actually wanted to trap her in the bottom of the water and drown her!
She pulled out the silver needle hidden in her bracelet and stabbed at the person’s hand. Immediately, the person let go of her hand, and Su Muge seized the chance to dive downwards rapidly.
It was too dark in the water to see anything at all. If she ran away, the person must think she was floating up.
Sure enough, after diving down for a while, the person did not catch up.
Then, Su Muge struggled to swim upward to the surface.
(water splashed)
She rushed out of the water and looked around, only to find that there was no one around!
She had been swimming away from the shore unknowingly.
Having been exhausted after the struggle in the water, Su Muge swam to the shore with her last strength. Only when she had climbed onto the shore did she finally exhale a sigh of relief.
Just now, she really thought that she was going to die in the water. What was it that was grabbing her?
Was it meant for her or everyone on the barge?
She climbed up and suddenly detected a movement behind her.
Su Muge became nervous in an instant!
