Chapter 315: No Turning Back (Part 2)

The water dragon is back.

The soldiers defending the city recognized this beautiful, tall and thin black horse and quickly let it pass.

After all, it is rare to see such a wild horse with a body as black as ink and shiny fur.

Soldiers who often deal with horses all cherish it.

Even the Black Scale Cavalrymen who had been fighting against him for many years recognized this fine horse and knew that it was Yun Chen's mount.

The dragon in the water knows the way for thousands of miles and is very familiar with the road to Guying City.

It ran to the pharmacy, bowed its head to a female doctor, and revealed a bag of herbs for antidote snake venom tied on its back.

The female doctor was overjoyed and didn't have time to ask, "Where is Doctor Huo?" She quickly took the medicine to the doctor.

Several people worked frantically to boil medicine and make ointment, and finally healed Yun Chen's injuries before dark.

A whole night passed, and although Yun Chen was still unconscious, his face had turned from blue to white and his fever had subsided.

After a life-threatening crisis passed, the female doctor and the doctor finally breathed a sigh of relief and thought of Huo Luyu:

That's not right. According to Huo Luyu's personality, he would definitely be by Yun Chen's side to take care of him. How could he not show up for the whole night? Huo Luyu is not a reckless person. He is just afraid of danger!

The female doctor quickly told the news to the city defenders, only to find out that Shui Zhonglong had returned alone, and Huo Luyu had not returned to the city at all.

Huo Gannian's sister is missing. This is a serious event. The city defenders immediately sent someone to send a message to the front line, hoping that Rong Yi would agree to let them go out of the city to search for her.

It took another whole day and night for the news to come and go.

Several female doctors waited anxiously.

However, what the defending army brought back was not the order to go look for Huo Luyu.

It was a piece of news that made everyone completely despair.

Rong Yi has received a handwritten letter from Jiao Zuotai at the front line.

The handwriting in the letter was illegible and arrogant, without even any official language or honorifics.

They said that Huo Luyu was already in the hands of the Black Scale Cavalry and they were reluctant to let him leave, so they specifically asked "Yun Chen" to exchange for "Huo Luyu", and only Yun Chen could go alone.

Even Huo Luyu's hairband was attached as evidence.

Upon hearing this, the female doctors hugged each other and cried, praying for Huo Luyu continuously.

Hua Jue was awakened from a deep sleep. His mind regained consciousness before his body, and he heard all the crying and praying of the female doctors.

He supported himself on the couch and slowly sat up with great effort, resting his arms on his knees and sitting with his legs bent. It took him a long time to wake up.

The female doctors were crying, and when they turned around, they saw Hua Jue staring at them. They were so scared that they held back their tears and almost cried out.

A female doctor wiped her tears and hurried forward to help Hua Jue:

"You're seriously injured. Lie still. I'll bring you some medicine. You probably don't even have the strength to hold a bowl right now. Lie down quickly."

Hua Jue waved his hand, stood up, and swayed twice before he stood firm.

"Water..." He only had the strength to say this one word, and then he took the bowl of water from the doctor and drank a few big gulps.

Ignoring the doctor's advice, he endured the severe pain all over his body, held the wound on his chest where the arrow pierced it, slowly put on Huo Bang's black personal guard uniform, and re-tied his belt.

After hesitating for a moment, he took Yun Chen's iconic pink robe and major general's silver armor and put them on, and tied his hair into Yun Chen's shape.

Hua Jue looks a bit like Huo Gannian.

As a member of the Huo family, he has both the dignity and pride that he developed from a life of luxury, poetry, books, riding and shooting since childhood, and the loyalty that he has acquired from being a guard for many years.

Yun Chen's light pink robe made his face look even paler and clearer, and his hair tied up like a woman's made him look a little funny, which was inconsistent with his heroic temperament.

Although Yun Chen was tall, she was not as tall and broad-shouldered as a man. Her armor was tailor-made for her, and it was too small for Hua Jue. It tightened the wounds all over his body, and the pain made him break out in cold sweats.

There was no other way, so he had to split Yun Chen's armor into two halves, and fastened it in the middle with a thin rope, which finally made it a little looser.

After doing all this, Hua Jue was exhausted and out of breath, with many wounds on his body broken and bleeding.

He sat down beside the couch to rest, looked at Yun Chen's face carefully for a while, and said to the doctor in a hoarse voice:

"Excuse me, do you have any rouge and powder?"

When the female doctors saw the grown man Hua Jue starting to draw his eyebrows and eyes, they were both surprised and puzzled.

Only Yun Chen, who had been unconscious on the bed for two whole days, woke up with difficulty.

She didn't even have the strength to speak, she could only frown at Hua Jue, trying to stop him with her eyes.

Unlike Hua Jue, she didn't hear as much as he did. She only heard the last sentence said by the medical women: "The Black Scale Cavalry wants to exchange 'Yun Chen' for 'Huo Luyu'."

Just by looking at Hua Jue, Yun Chen knew exactly what Hua Jue was going to do.

She struggled with all her might, but could only tilt her head slightly, letting out a soft exhalation sound.

After Hua Jue finished packing, he tried using a handkerchief as a woman's veil, then walked to Yun Chen's bed, squatted down, opened his pale face, and looked at her with a smile.

"How is it? Does it look like you?"

Yun Chen kept shaking his head, his eyes changed from anxious to pleading, and he spoke incoherently and vaguely,

"Take me...in exchange..."

Hua Jue raised his hand, pretending to hit someone:

"What nonsense are you talking about? Trading you for the jade? Do you think I can let that happen? Sending my best brother into the wolf's den?"

Yun Chen couldn't utter a complete sentence and could only shake his head repeatedly. In the end, there were even tears in his eyes.

Hua Jue touched his rouge-covered face and said with disdain:

"This is the last time I will pretend to be a woman. When I come back, you must buy me a drink!"

Then, he patted her shoulder as before, trying to speak in the most relaxed and joking tone:

"Jiao Zuotai specifically asked for you. I think if I disguise myself as a woman, I should be able to get through the Black Scale Cavalry's inspection, but I will definitely not be able to hide from Jiao Zuotai. When the time comes, I won't say anything else, just ask me to exchange for Lu Yu. Otherwise, after Rong Yi leads his troops to victory, it will be too late to rescue Lu Yu..."

As he spoke, Hua Jue's tone became heavy again:

"The Black Scale Cavalry are all beasts. They might have some dirty tricks to torture people. Luyu is a girl there. If any dirty talk gets out, she won't be able to live anymore. Jiao Zuotai just needs a hostage to threaten the young master. I'll go and exchange Luyu, and Jiao Zuotai will agree."

The words sounded light, but Hua Jue actually knew very well in his heart that this was probably a dead end from which there was no turning back, he just deliberately avoided thinking about it in that direction.

"Achen, if it were you, Brother Ye Yan, it would be the same without saying anything." Hua Jue said.

No matter who is standing here today, no one will watch Huo Luyu being captured alone.

Hua Jue thought, fortunately it was him, otherwise if Yun Chen was standing, this fool would definitely do everything he could to exchange himself for Huo Luyu, forgetting that he was also a girl.

Girls...

Thinking of these three words, Hua Jue suddenly felt a sharp pain in his heart and his expression became extremely gentle.

There is some regret, some reluctance, but more of it is guilt and reluctance.

He touched the cherry-red sword tassel in his arms, which seemed to have the scent of pear candy.

He choked up a little:

"Achen, if I can't come back, please tell Rui Niang a message for me. Tell her that I've changed my mind and don't wait for me. Thanks, brother."

After saying that, no matter how painful and anxious Yun Chen's expression was, or how hard she tried to reach out and try to stop him, Hua Jue just took her hand away and squeezed her shoulder hard.

He picked up Yun Chen's iconic Blood-Drinking Sword, took one last look at her, then opened the door and strode away without looking back.

In his last glance, Yun Chen saw that the sky outside the door was as gloomy as ice, as if a cold snowstorm was brewing.

Hua Jue stood tall and straight at the door.

His face was painted with a clumsy yet gorgeous rouge color, and his whole body exuded an air of grandeur that nothing could extinguish.