Manbao was already very experienced at digging out arrowheads, and very soon she had it out. She picked up the arrowhead and examined it, then, instead of shaving off some flesh and blood directly, the emperor, seeing this, said, "We have to suck out this blood, don't we?"
Manbao answered yes, and was just about to call her students over when the emperor rolled up his sleeves and said, "I'll do it."
Manbao: …
Li Si could hear them; he let out two muffled whimpers and tried to spit out the cloth he was biting.
Manbao raised her hand and stuffed it back in, then said to the emperor, "Your Majesty, such righteousness."
The emperor sucked the blood from Li Si's wound, and it wasn't only Li Si—watching soldiers were moved to tears, a surge of heroic fervor seeming to roar through their chests.
But just sucking out the poisoned blood was not enough.
This arrowhead was rust-spotted; that was deadly.
