On Our Wedding Night, I Discovered the Crown Prince’s Hidden Illness
Chapter 326: Sharing a Bed

Chapter 326: Chapter 326: Sharing a Bed

But when he thought about how she was willing to follow him, it gradually warmed his long-cold heart.

She could have gone with Ji Qingyu just now, and even if Ji Qingyu had taken her back to Beilan, she would have been safe. After all, the third one’s target was him, and so far, he had not dared to offend Prince Zhenbei Mansion lightly.

But she chose to follow him, and even to make him agree, she was so anxious that tears appeared.

To have such a woman accompany him must be the fortune he accrued in his past life, right?

"Yanyan, do you believe people have past lives?"

Suddenly hearing him ask this, Leng Yu Yan’s heart inexplicably trembled—could her absurd dreams count as a past life?

If the dreams were a past life, then her accompanying him in this life, could it be that she owed him from before?

But in those dreams, he always treated her so...

How could it be that she owed him?

"What are you thinking about?" he asked again.

Ye Yiheng released her, gazing into her beautiful eyes.

Leng Yu Yan’s lips moved slightly, but she at least knew for certain that she had a past life in the modern era, and thus replied, "Perhaps there is one."

"Hm!" Ye Yiheng hummed softly, taking her hand and continuing down the trail in the moonlight.

If there really was a past life, then there must also be a next one.

If he couldn’t accompany her in this life, then in the next, and in all the countless lives to come, he would accompany her no matter what.

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The two traveled together, traversing mountains and taking desolate trails, eating dry food for sustenance when hungry.

From the early morning until daylight and then from daylight until darkness, they finally left the borders of the capital city and arrived in Lin State.

After experiencing too much in the capital the day before, and having not rested yet, followed by a day of walking, they were desperately in need of finding a place to rest and recover.

Lin State was not only full of mountains but also forests, and along the way, they seldom saw any houses.

Finally, at the foot of a mountain, they saw a house with lights on. After exchanging a glance, they decided to approach and seek shelter.

Leng Yu Yan called out, "Is anyone there?"

After a while, an old woman emerged from the house. She sized them up in the moonlight, seeing that they did not look like bad folks, and asked, "What do you need?"

Leng Yu Yan smiled and said, "My companion and I have traveled here, strangers to these parts. We truly have no choice but to inconvenience you. May we request to stay overnight? We can pay with silver coin."

The old woman pondered; there wasn’t much of value in her house, and looking at the two well-dressed outsiders, they did not seem like villains, so she said, "You can stay, but we don’t need your silver."

Hearing this, Leng Yu Yan happily said, "Thank you, Aunt!"

The Aunt nodded, opened the gate, and led them inside.

Once inside the house, with only the dim candlelight, Leng Yu Yan noticed although the old woman’s clothes were worn, they were clean and tidy, and her graying hair was meticulously combed. Moreover, the house’s furnishings were old but spotlessly clean, indicating that the homeowner cherished life, and she sincerely complimented, "Aunt loves cleanliness and has a kind heart; you truly are a good person!"

The old woman finally smiled, "What a sweet talker you are!"

Then, she turned her attention to the handsome young man and woman before her and couldn’t help asking, "What is your relationship?"

Almost at the same time—

Ye Yiheng, "Husband and wife."

Leng Yu Yan, "Siblings."

The Aunt smiled deeper into her wrinkles, "You’re both good-looking, but it doesn’t seem that way. Little wife is shy, that’s why she said siblings. To this old lady, you look like a newly married couple."

Ye Yiheng smiled faintly and nodded, "Aunt is exactly right, my wife is shy."

At that moment, the courtyard gate burst open as an elderly man stumbled in.

Aunt, seeing him like this, approached with concern, "What’s the matter?"

The old man shook his trouser leg and lifted it, revealing a bite, "Bit by a centipede."

What came into view was a swollen calf. Leng Yu Yan pondered, in this winter season according to the temperature, centipedes should be hibernating, and so asked, "Old fellow, it isn’t the season for centipedes to be active. How did you get bitten then?"

The old man then noticed the two additional people in the house and asked, "Who are you?"

Aunt introduced them, "They are a couple who’ve come here, with nowhere to stay the night, hoping to find lodging."

Ye Yiheng said, "We, husband and wife, encountered robbers on the road who stole our horses and carriage, so we had no choice but to seek shelter here."

The old man nodded his head, then explained, "I have a woodshed halfway up the mountain, where I usually store firewood. I can’t carry it all down at once, so I leave it there. Today, when I moved some, perhaps I disturbed a hibernating centipede, and it bit me."

Leng Yu Yan offered the old man a seat, "I know some medical skills, may I take a look for you?"

"That would be wonderful!" The old man sat on a bamboo chair, rolled up his trouser leg, "Thank you, miss!"

Leng Yu Yan took out a medicinal kit from the pack carried by Ye Yiheng, opened it, and took out a pair of small tweezers.

Then, she squatted down, removed the poison fang from the old man’s wound, and squeezed around the injury to extract the venom. Standing up, she said to Aunt, "Aunt, clean the wound with soapberry water or pancreatin repeatedly, and that should do the trick."

Aunt brought water for Leng Yu Yan to wash her hands and asked with skepticism, "Is it really that simple?"

While cleaning the tweezers and her hands, Leng Yu Yan nodded, "Yes, applying a cold towel for a quarter of an hour afterwards can also reduce swelling and pain. If it doesn’t improve, mashed Houttuynia cordata can be applied to the wound."

The old man stood up, took a few steps, and exclaimed, "The swelling has gone down a lot, you are truly amazing, miss!"

Leng Yu Yan responded, "To be safe, sir, please clean the wound as soon as possible."

"Good point!" replied the old man.

In this way, Leng Yu Yan and Ye Yiheng managed to secure a place to stay in the farmhouse smoothly.

Because of this small interlude, they also had the chance to enjoy a simple yet warm farmhouse dinner.

A bowl of pork belly, a bowl of greens, a few taro roots, and a fragrant bowl of white rice made up the most delicious meal they had had in the past two days.

Ye Yiheng hadn’t expected that her sweet demeanor and medical skills would not only secure them easy lodging but also earn them treatment like honored guests.

He couldn’t help but exclaim, "It’s great to have her around!"

Not long after dinner, Aunt showed Ye Yiheng and Leng Yu Yan to a vacant room.

"In our home, besides the main house’s kitchen, there are only two rooms. Since the two of you are a couple, you can stay in one room."

While speaking, she pointed to a dimly lit small house in the backyard: "That’s the outhouse. If you need to go there at night, you should take a lamp. There are wild animals around the mountain, so if the little wife needs to go to the outhouse, her husband must accompany her!"

Hearing this, Ye Yiheng and Leng Yu Yan coughed lightly in unison.

Aunt chuckled, "What’s there to be embarrassed about?"

With that, she turned and left, but quickly returned, bringing two quilts, "It’s cold in the mountains; if you layer two quilts, it will be warm."

"Many thanks, Aunt!" Ye Yiheng and Leng Yu Yan said together in gratitude.

"If you say you’re not husband and wife, I won’t believe it," Aunt laughed again, "Look at that, what understanding!"

Once Aunt had left, Ye Yiheng put his pack on the bed and whispered, "I’ll sleep on the floor."

"How can you sleep on the floor?"

Leng Yu Yan stepped on the ground. The floors of the farmhouse were made of hard-packed earth, unsuitable for sleeping on the ground.

At that point, he said, "I’ll just spread something on the floor."

She hurriedly said, "That won’t do, you are already suffering from a cold disease, and you have an injury on your back. Sleeping on the cold floor will let the cold penetrate your body, and the common bandits could easily get the better of you!"

At her words, he stood opposite her, his eyes intensely fixed on her, "Does Yanyan mean for us to share a bed?"