Chapter 56 Why not stop being a guard?

Sure enough, within a quarter of an hour, Nan Lijun's personal guards arrived, following the black smoke and flames. The assassins immediately vanished without a trace.

The fire circle was quickly put out. Nan Lijun rode his horse and stood at the head of the queue. His brows were furrowed as he looked worriedly at the people who were blackened by the smoke and surrounded by a circle of horse corpses.

Huo Gannian took out a clean handkerchief from his bosom and wiped his face while giving Nan Lijun a fake smile:

"Your Highness, please forgive me. I was roasting a rabbit and the fire was a little too big."

A successful assassination attempt on Cuitou Mountain by fire would have killed Huo Gannian. With Huo Gannian's death, the Huo Clan would be leaderless and would naturally fall.

If that fails, Huo Gannian's biggest suspect will be Princess Nanlijun.

After all, it was Nanli Jun who invited him to go on a hunting trip, and after all, the assassination was carried out under the closely guarded noses of Nanli Jun's personal soldiers.

In this way, there will be some suspicion and resentment between Nan Lijun and Huo Gannian, and the mastermind behind the scenes will be able to successfully achieve the goal of "separation".

Nan Lijun was very clear about the pros and cons of this matter and wanted to explain it to Huo Gannian, but she felt that as a princess, she could not bow down to a little girl.

Unexpectedly, Huo Gannian didn't seem to care about these things at all. He only asked her for medicine at the first time. He said:

"My Huo Gang guards have suffered many arrow wounds and burns. Princess, please give us some of the palace's magical medicine to help. The more burn medicine, the better!"

Nan Lijun had no choice but to agree, and even summoned the imperial physician from the palace to diagnose and treat the injury.

Return to the Huo Mansion.

All the guards received treatment, but Yun Chen hid in her room, stiffening his neck and refusing to let anyone see him. He insisted that he was fine and that she could just apply some medicine on herself.

If she hadn't looked so pale and like she was about to faint at any moment, Hua Jue really wanted to push her down in front of the imperial physician.

"Are you crazy? Why are you forcing yourself? Take off your clothes quickly and let the imperial physician take a look!" Hua Jue ordered.

Bu Yan personally helped Yun Chen undress, "Ah Chen, burns are no joke. At the very least, they'll leave scars, and at the worst, the wound will fester and become infected, with a high fever that won't stop. That's life-threatening! No kidding! Take off your clothes quickly, I'll help you!"

Yun Chen endured the severe pain in his back, dodged without saying a word, and at the same time, he endured the dizziness that kept coming, trying hard not to faint.

She secretly told herself: I must not be discovered to be a girl, I must hold on!

"Achen, now is not the time to be shy, be obedient!" Ye Yan couldn't stand it anymore. Seeing that no matter how he persuaded him, it was useless, he had to bring up Huo Gannian.

Seeing Yun Chen sweating profusely from the pain but forcing himself to remain calm, Huo Gannian's heart tightened and he anxiously asked the imperial physician beside him:

"With burns like this, I'm afraid I won't be able to take off my clothes. Why not cut off the clothes on the burned area on your back to heal the wound?"

The imperial physician agreed with this approach, and Yun Chen began to hesitate. She thought, if we only look at the back, we shouldn't be able to tell whether the woman is a man or a woman. The bra would have been burned to pieces anyway, so there would be no clue.

At this time, Huo Gannian spoke to Ye Yan and the others again, "All of you go out and don't disturb the imperial physician."

Hua Jue walked out reluctantly, looking back at Yun Chen worriedly, and couldn't help but complain to Huo Gannian who stayed where he was:

"Why don't you stay here and not bother the imperial physician..."

After Ye Yan and the others left, Huo Gannian also turned his wheelchair and retreated to the outer room.

The imperial physician asked Yun Chen to sit backwards on the chair and lie on the back of the chair. He carefully cut open the clothes on her back and found that blood, pus mixed with burnt pieces of clothes were completely stuck to the skin on her back.

The imperial physicians felt their scalps tingle and could not bear it:

"Little brother, I'm going to slowly peel off my clothes and scrape off all the debris and pus from the wound. Just bear with it for a moment. If it hurts, just scream out loudly."

Just by cutting open his clothes, Yun Chen's wound was affected and he was shaking with pain.

She nodded, pretending to be strong and joking, and said with a trembling breath:

"Please, sir... bring me a tongue biter, or a piece of cloth to bite... I won't scream anymore... my young master can't stand it..."

However, in the outer room, Huo Gannian could hear every word clearly.

He heard Yun Chen crying out in pain with a cloth stuffed in his mouth, trying hard to endure the immense pain.

He heard the imperial physician exclaiming repeatedly, "Quick, get a towel! Quick, get some hemostatic powder!"

He also heard the imperial physician sigh, "This archer is too insidious. It seems that the shot missed, but in fact it was aimed accurately at the gap between the ribs. Firstly, it injured the bones, and secondly, it burned the tender flesh on the back that is difficult to heal. It's really cruel, alas..."

At this point, Huo Gannian could no longer bear it. He suddenly turned the wheelchair and rushed into the inner room. He saw Yun Chen trembling in pain, biting the cloth ball tightly, his little face wrinkled in pain, covered with cold sweat and tears.

Yun Chen felt dizzy from the pain, and his ears were filled with buzzing sounds.

She didn't know when Huo Gannian came in. When she raised her head, through her tearful eyes, she saw that his eyes were red, his lips were tightly pursed into a line, and the corners of his lips were trembling slightly.

It was as if there was a mist of pain even more painful than her own at the moment, about to surge out from those phoenix eyes.

Yun Chen, why don’t you stop being a bodyguard?

The words were abruptly stopped on his lips.

As if anticipating what he was about to say, she forced a smile uglier than a ghost, her voice weak and trembling:

"Young Master, I have made another contribution. Please reward me with something..."

"Okay!" He agreed without any hesitation, "You can have anything you want! I can have anything!"

She looked at him with wet eyelashes and smiled miserably, "I don't know... but the young master must reward me with something valuable, something big..."

At this time, while the two were talking, the imperial physician quickly covered her wound with a large piece of gauze coated with herbs.

Before she could finish her words, she felt a sharp, piercing pain in her back, and then her eyes went dark and she fainted.

So she didn't know that the light in the study of Beining Hall was still on until three o'clock that night.

A figure was so anxious that he almost went crazy and almost turned the Beining Hall upside down.

Huo Gannian quickly flipped through the private treasury notebook, and he didn't even bother to glance at those priceless things.

He searched everywhere for the essential personal items he wore every day, but after his leg injury, he hardly wore any elaborate ornaments, not even the jade pendant.

After searching for a long time, he suddenly had an idea and thought of a suitable thing. He hurriedly called Runhe to push him to find it.

Runhe, trying to stay awake, pushed Huo Gannian to Wanyi Fenglai Pavilion.

Pushing open the gate and looking at the plants and trees that were both familiar and unfamiliar, Huo Gannian felt as if he was in another world.

Since his mother passed away, he has become increasingly busy and has visited Wanyi Fenglai Pavilion less and less frequently.

Especially after his leg injury, he almost never came again.

Perhaps, he didn't want his mother's spirit in heaven to be sad about his current appearance.

He thought for a moment, then walked all the way to the bedroom.

The arrangement of my mother's dressing box and jewelry is still preserved.

He remembered that his mother had said before she died that everything in Wanyi Fenglai Pavilion would be left to her daughter-in-law as a dowry.

He opened a huanghuali wood dressing box, and in a small drawer lay two round, white South Pearls quietly.

His mother had said that these were to be left as earrings for his beloved, and that they must be accessorized with starry blue sapphires and clasped with matte red gold. When worn on the wedding day, they would be as dazzling as a fairy.

He wondered if his mother would be angry if she knew that he did not leave this precious South Pearl to her future daughter-in-law but gave it to a young man.

He wanted to explain to his mother:

That person is worthy of Nanzhu, worthy of all the treasures in Wanyi Fenglai Pavilion, worthy of everything in this world...

It is worth him disregarding all ethics, integrity, and worldly taboos and handing over his heart.

"Runhe, beat the beads into sword tassels and give them to Yunchen."