Forensic Imperial Concubine

Chapter 595 Francis' Confession (Part One)

Harper took out a bag full of needles and had acupuncture on Francis' body. Francis had a bloodstagnation. She didn't know what kind of stimulus he suffered led to such a symptom. Yet one way oranother, Harper had to help him spit out the blood to save his life.

After the acupuncture treatment with several silver needles, Francis spat out a mouthful of blood, whichfrightened Owen. The latter immediately cried out, "Your Highness, are you all right?"

After putting the silver needles away, Harper looked at Francis's pale face. Francis looked like a wreck.If the events at the birthday banquet were plotted by him, he didn't need to care about her opinionsanymore. After all, his poison was completely cleared, so she should have been useless to him now.

But he came to see her, even disregarding the heavy rain. With a single glance, he recognized that theperson in the Phoenix House was not the real Harper and even guessed correctly that she was in thePine House. It was obvious that Francis was smart. Why did he come to Matthew's mansion at such amoment?

Looking at the pale face of Francis, and then at Harper, Owen pursed his lips and tears poured downhis face. He cried louder, "You bully people. You are cruel to His Highness."

Harper felt both amused and annoyed. "When did we bully him?"

"You let him stay in the rain for two hours, and he fainted because of it. How can you deny that you arecruel to him?"

"You brat! Your whining is so unreasonable. Her Highness didn't even know that Prince Francis wasoutside. Complain to us instead; we hid the fact and didn't report to her!" Forsythia stood with armsakimbo and shouted at Owen. She couldn't bear to hear someone being rude to Harper. What wasmore, she couldn't allow anyone to disturb her rest, so she didn't report Francis' arrival when he came.

Hearing that, Owen cried even more bitterly. He pointed at Forsythia, gasping and saying, "You arealso a bad person. You bullied His Highness and me."

Seeing a man crying like this, Forsythia scorned at once. "Look at this! A man is actually crying like awoman."

Her words made Owen so angry that he couldn't even cry anymore. He just glared at her furiously. Heremembered that she had threatened to cut off his tongue at that time!

Harper shook her head and her mind was racing fast. She wondered, 'Francis passed out because hewas upset and suffering from the cold. Is it also because he knew how he got poisoned?'

"Your Highness," Forsythia called abruptly.novelbin

Harper turned around and saw Matthew come in, wet from the rain. She frowned and said, "Hurry up.Bring a towel for Matthew."

"Yes."

After receiving the dried handkerchief from Forsythia, Matthew wiped Harper's long wet hair adroitlyinstead of drying himself with it.

"What happened here?" Matthew inquired, looking at Francis lying in bed.

"I don't know what happened to him. He passed out after staying in the rain for two hours," Harper saidin a low voice. "Your clothes are wet too. Go and change your clothes. I prepared ginger soup for you inthe kitchen. Go and drink a bowl of it, or you'll catch a cold."

"Okay." After putting down the handkerchief, he walked into the other room to change clothes. Whenthe maid came in with the ginger soup, Harper helped Francis sit up and fed him the soup.

Matthew walked in and frowned when he saw Harper feeding Francis. He took the bowl from Harper'shand, pinched Francis' jaw and poured the ginger soup into his mouth rudely.

Most of the ginger soup was spilled, and only a little was drunk. When Harper turned to look at herhusband, Owen was so scared that he forgot to react. He thought wildly, 'What's wrong with PrinceMatthew? Doesn't he see that my master is in a desperate condition?'

"Look. Your clothes were stained again." Harper frowned but still made way for him. "Forsythia, prepareanother bowl of ginger soup and feed Francis."

"Yes, Your Highness."

Harper picked up the other bowl of hot ginger soup, blew on it and handed it to Matthew, saying withgreat concern, "Matthew, drink it up now, to drive away the cold."

Matthew folded his arms across his chest and opened his mouth, obviously intending for her to feedhim.

Harper blushed scarlet from shyness. After all, with so many people watching, it was embarrassing. Yetif she didn't feed him, she feared what might happen later. So she had to scoop up the ginger soup withthe spoon, blow on it slightly, deliver it to his mouth, and feed him as if he were a patient.

Matthew drank Harper's ginger soup with a proud look on his face. When Owen saw the scene, hiseyes dilated drastically. He finally realized that Matthew tried to feed his master the soup only becausehe didn't want Harper to feed his master in person. But was that "man" really the Harper he knewbefore? This person was wearing men's clothes and looked unfamiliar, yet Owen did hear his mastercall her 'Aunt'!

"Ahem." Francis coughed and opened his eyes before Matthew finished drinking his ginger soup. Thefirst person Francis saw was Harper, who put down the bowl and was looked at him with concern.

"How are you feeling now?"

"Don't stop. Continue," Matthew said as he took the bowl and put it in Harper's hand. He opened hismouth and waited for her to feed him the soup again. Harper felt both annoyed and amused, but shedidn't refuse him. She continued feeding him while talking to Francis.

"I have asked someone to bring you the ginger soup. You need another bowl of it. You are in fragilehealth. Why don't you take better care of yourself? You got cold and stayed in the rain. Aren't you afraidof dying early?" Looking at the empty bowl of ginger soup, Harper was about to put it down. Yet,Matthew was quicker and already put another bowl in front of her.