Chapter 183: The Knight Who Saved People on the Road is in Trouble

After checking the situation inside the cave and exchanging glances with the Jade-faced Knight for a few moments, Rong Zhen simply squatted down and asked him, "Do you need any help?"

The Jade-faced Knight had taken off his veil, revealing a jade-like face as elegant and clean as a mountain snow lotus. It was obvious that he came from a noble family and had been raised in luxury. His skin was indeed as extraordinary as the white jade that was exposed on his face.

This was a young knight with a good family background and even better looks. He should be high-spirited and proud in the martial arts world at this moment, instead of lying in this small and simple stone cave, looking disheveled and with a dead look in his eyes.

Even being a ruthless swordsman who spoke little but acted decisively and decisively, like when she met him before, would be better than the current situation.

Rongzhen thought about some random things for a short while, squatted there and twitched his toes, waiting for the answer from the person in the cave.

If he said he needed it, she would help him and repay him for the favor of giving him the raincoat.

If he didn't need it, she wouldn't force him, but would turn around and leave and continue her journey.

"Thank you for your help." The Jade-faced Knight spoke hoarsely after a moment's silence. It seemed that he still had some desire to survive, instead of being as hopeless as he appeared now.

Rongzhen had no idea what he had just experienced. Judging from the situation at the scene, it was probably just being stabbed in the back by his own people. This made him have to work even harder to stay alive.

Only by living can you have infinite possibilities. Only by living can you find out what bargaining chips the betrayer used to betray you and who gave them to you, find the culprit and avenge yourself.

When you die, nothing is left except making your loved ones sad and your enemies happy. Everything is gone.

After getting the other party's permission, Rong Zhen did not touch him rashly. He first went to the nearby area to find some hemostatic and anti-inflammatory herbs.

The only ones she knew about were the great thistle and the small thistle that she had used, as well as the burdock, mugwort, and dandelion. She basically didn't know the others. She only picked up the ones she was sure of, washed them with water, and crushed them on washed stones.

"Clean the wound and apply medicine if there is any." Rong Zhen said as she handed him the water bag.

After applying the medicine he brought, he tied the herbs she got on the outside with a cloth to prevent infection.

The Jade-faced Knight's hoarse voice rang out again: "He took the medicine and threw it away under some pretext. He... had already planned to die with me."

Rongzhen's eyes widened slightly when he heard this.

Ah, they could actually go to this extent. What hatred or grudge is there? When I saw them getting along with each other before, weren’t they quite harmonious and like master and servant?

How come within just two days, it suddenly escalated to a back-stabbing and mutual destruction?

It has to be said that the grudges and hatreds in the world of Jianghu change very quickly.

This made Rongzhen feel out of place.

Therefore, her decision to retire from the underworld and return to the life of ordinary people was the right one. Otherwise, imagine that as a person in the underworld, she had just found the right person to marry and had given birth to several children with great difficulty, and suddenly there was a vendetta or an accident that killed them all. Rong Zhen would definitely go crazy.

Since there was no medicine, Rongzhen had to apply her own homemade herbs to bandage him first, and then take care of him again after they got on the carriage.

Just in case, she went to the pharmacy and bought some ready-made medicines before leaving the county town. They were all things like traumatic injury pills, wound medicine, rheumatism wine, etc. There should be something in them that he could use.

With the person's full cooperation, Rongzhen helped him bandage his wounds and lent him strength so that he could get out of the cave.

The moment he came out of the cave, he staggered and the wound on his chest that had just been bandaged broke open and started bleeding again.

The man who attacked him was going for his life, and the weapon hit him right in the left side of his chest where his heart was.

But for some reason, he did not die immediately after being stabbed. Instead, he took advantage of the opponent's laxity and gave him a fatal blow that caught him off guard.

The final result was that the person who backstabbed him died, and he was still alive, but dying.

If Rong Zhen had not happened to pass by, and the chestnut horse had not recognized her and called her over, its owner would not have known whether he could survive to see the sun tomorrow.

This is also the reason why Rong Zhen has no doubt that the Jade-faced Knight might be the male protagonist.

One is a descendant of an aristocratic family who has stayed away from the martial arts world, and the other is an unknown swordsman who travels the martial arts world. Even if the former can hide his identity and enter the martial arts world, and the latter is suspected to have an extraordinary family background and be born into a wealthy family, there is no similarity between the two.

Because the son of a wealthy family cannot sit idle in the hall, the former, as the heir of an official family, would definitely not let himself be in the same danger as the latter tonight, who was stabbed in the chest and almost died.

This inference, coupled with the previous kindness, allowed Rong Zhen to rescue the other person with confidence, instead of quickly moving away and choosing to stay out of the matter.

The road in the forest was difficult to walk on, so Rongzhen asked him to sit on the horse and she rode on a donkey, and they returned to the official road one after the other.

After being busy for a while, the night grew darker. Apart from the sounds of small animals at night, it was extremely quiet. There was only the slight movement of horses and donkeys stepping gently on the humus soil.

Rong Zhen rode his donkey for a while in this atmosphere. When he saw the official road in sight, he couldn't help but ask, "My dear knight, your injury is best treated by a doctor. Do you want to turn back and return to Taolin County, or come with me to Hongye Town?"

The knight did not answer and fell off his horse right before her eyes.

Rongzhen was so frightened that she quickly jumped off the donkey to help. When she touched the back of her hand, it was almost burning into hot charcoal.

It is very likely that the wound caused an infection. It is impossible that he would catch a cold and have a fever just by being blown by the wind. Since he can be a great swordsman, his physical fitness must not be that bad.

Rong Zhen hurriedly carried the man on her back and dragged him back to the carriage hidden behind a big tree on the roadside. Fortunately, he fainted not far from the official road, otherwise she really couldn't move him. An ancient man, who knows what he ate to grow up, could actually be 1.8 meters tall, with a body that looks thin when dressed and muscular when undressed. Ahem, anyway, he looks very good.

She dragged the man back to the carriage and placed him in the seat Rong Zhen had reserved for her. She no longer cared about the difference between men and women, and immediately opened the man's chest and untied the blood-soaked cloth that had just been bandaged.

The wound indeed looked very serious. The edges of the wound had begun to turn red, swollen and purple, and the center was faintly gray and black, as if it was poisonous.

This made Rongzhen feel very confused. What should she do? She seemed to be unable to handle it.

There was nothing she could do. She could only endure the tingling sensation on her scalp and clean his wound with the alcohol she had bought. In the process, she managed to wake him up as she wished. She explained the severity of his injury and asked him again, "Do you want me to return to Taolin County and find a doctor for you?"

The Jade-faced Knight refused with sweat on his forehead: "We can't go back. Someone has laid a trap there."

Just waiting for him to fall into the trap.

Rong Zhen's face suddenly changed, and he said that there must be someone behind the old servant who was suspected of backstabbing. It turned out that the person behind the incident had already prepared a backup plan in Taolin County.

Seeing that the person himself was not unaware of this, she simply stopped asking and concentrated on cleaning his wound first.

Not only did she clean the wound several times with alcohol, she also removed some of the black and purple rotten flesh in the process. The pain was imaginable, but apart from sweating profusely and having uncontrollable physiological spasms all over his body, he had no other reactions. Even his expression did not change much. He was surprisingly able to endure it. He did not seem like a spoiled young master, but was more in line with Rongzhen's first impression of him.

A mysterious, powerful, kind-hearted, decisive, young and promising swordsman!

Anyone who can achieve these results must have worked hard in the past to achieve what they have today, which is not something a rich young man can do.

Rongzhen had no intention of prying into the other party's background. After sighing inwardly, she continued to devote herself to treating him.

After cleaning the wound, it's time to apply medicine.

She didn't know which one would be good for him, so she simply used whatever she had on hand that she thought would be useful, such as detoxifying powder, hemostatic powder, heat-clearing and detoxifying ointment, etc. These were all good things that Rongzhen bought when the doctor recommended them to her when she went to buy medicine. She sprinkled them all on him layer by layer until the wound was completely covered, and then she re-bandaged it with clean white cloth.

After finishing her work, she was exhausted and sweating. She sat on the shaft of the cart, panting and said, "From now on, you just lie here and don't move to prevent further damage to the wound."

The young knight still didn't respond, as if he was tortured to death by her.

Rongzhen was startled and immediately crawled over to check.

I was so scared. He just fainted again. Looking at his pale face with a bluish glow, I thought he was killed.

But looking at his condition, he is probably not far from death. With such a serious chest injury and suspected poisoning, I'm afraid he won't be able to hold on and go back to Hongye Town with her, right?

But he himself said that he couldn't go back to Taolin County, so for now he could only take it one step at a time and see what happened.

Rong Zhen no longer had any thoughts of resting. At the same time, he was worried that the people from the county town might chase him here, or that there might be other backup plans in the mountains and forests. He immediately harnessed the carriage to the chestnut horse and let the donkey follow beside him, and they hurried on their way all night as if they were running for their lives.

With a chestnut horse and a donkey taking turns pulling the cart, Rong Zhen's speed was not slow. If it were not for the limited road conditions in ancient times and if it were not for the consideration of the injuries of the big brother in the cart, the speed might have been even faster.

At dawn, the galloping carriage finally arrived at a resting place with lush grass and water.

Rong Zhen's butt was almost broken from the shaking, and she was also worried that the wound of the Jade-faced Knight, who was placed on several layers of bedding by her, would break again. She could only stop to rest and have breakfast, and then help him check the wound and change the dressing.

There was also a mule cart being repaired in the same place. It was unclear what was loaded on the cart. Two masters and two servants were moving around under the cart. One of them, an old man and a young man, were standing by the water with their backs to the road. The old man seemed to be testing the young man's homework. The remaining two servants were cooking porridge and baking pancakes around a bonfire.

Rong Zhen arrived here, dusty and exhausted, like chasing a dog or a chicken. Seeing them, she quickly restored her ordinary appearance, wiped her face and combed her hair, and walked over to them and said, "Good morning, everyone. Could you please lend me a seat?"

The servants and the child all looked at the old man, who waved his hand nonchalantly and said, "There's open space nearby, so please feel free to do as you please, young lady."

This means that you don't mind staying together to recuperate, and you won't cause trouble for no reason.

Rongzhen asked this question to avoid unnecessary trouble.

Be polite first and then use force. If trouble really arises, don't blame her.

Fortunately, the other party was easy to talk to.

Rongzhen drove the carriage to the water's edge and asked the chestnut horse and donkey, which had been running for half the night, to drink water. He then went into the carriage to take care of the injured.

The injured person still hadn't woken up. The wound had stopped bleeding, but the flesh had begun to turn from purple-black to iron-blue.

Ah, is this really okay? She won't kill me, will she?