Chapter 119: Deposed Emperor Becomes a Slave (10)
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Zhu Qingchen gave an order and before Yuwen Zan could even react, he was firmly held down by the two guards behind him.
Yuwen Zan was suddenly pressed to the ground and roared: "Who dares to touch me? Who dares?"
Zhu Qingchen smiled. He had already moved. Was it a little late for him to say these words now?
Yuwen Zan was a little anxious. He had just been reborn! He had only been reborn for less than a day!
How could he let the alchemist come? What if he was discovered? Wouldn't he be treated as a demon and executed?
No, we can’t let the alchemist come here!
Yuwen Zan shouted, "Master Zhu, Master Zhu, I know I was wrong!"
Zhu Qingchen looked at him: "Hmm? What's wrong?"
Yuwen Zan thought for a moment, "I... I do have a headache, but it's just an old illness. I did pinch Chen Xun, maybe I was confused at the time, I thought he had abandoned me, but they were just small things, I knew I was wrong, why did you bring it up with ghosts and gods?"
Eunuch Cheng hurriedly said, "Your Highness, please stop being so stubborn. This is indeed strange. I never heard that you had a headache before. How come you had a headache when you got to the hunting ground?"
"Besides, we all saw His Highness fall ill today, so it is true..."
After Eunuch Cheng said this, the imperial guards who accompanied him on the hunting trip today couldn't help but recall that scene.
Yuwen Zan fell down the hillside, covering his head, his face distorted, almost not looking like a human.
It seems a bit...
The look of being possessed.
Eunuch Cheng added, "Besides, Chen Xun also said that during the time he served Your Highness, he never saw Your Highness suffer from any old headaches. Right, Chen Xun?"
Chen Xun raised his head in a daze, then endured the pain in his neck and nodded quickly: "Yes, that's right, Your Highness has never had a headache before."
He is quite sensible.
Eunuch Cheng continued, "Your Highness, our young master is doing this for your own good. After all, you contracted the disease in Da Xia, so Da Xia will naturally be responsible for curing it. We cannot let you bring the disease back to Northern Zhou."
"I've already told you I'm not sick!" Yuwen Zan was almost mad with anger, "No need to call the Taoist priest over, I'm not sick!"
Eunuch Cheng smiled and said, "Your Highness is so sick that he is confused. If he is not sick, then he should not let the imperial physician come. Why not let the Taoist priest come? Unless..."
Unless those demons and ghosts are afraid of being discovered, so they are afraid of the alchemist. Everyone present looked at him with some suspicion, could it really be...
Yuwen Zan was furious and shouted, "I told you I'm not sick! Nothing's wrong with me! Don't let anyone come over! I just have a headache, what does it have to do with the Taoist priest?"
Eunuch Cheng gently reminded: "You have attempted murder."
"Shut up! Shut up!"
Yuwen Zan's roar had no deterrent effect on Eunuch Cheng.
Yuwen Zan couldn’t figure it out. It was true that he had a headache, but that was because he was reborn and he recalled things from his past life!
It was true that he wanted to strangle Chen Xun to death, but that was also because he was reborn, and he remembered that Chen Xun had impersonated Xiao Chengan!
What did he do wrong? He wanted to kill the liar, what was wrong?
This newcomer Zhu Qingchen is simply meddling in other people’s business!
He has a headache, what does it have to do with Daxia?
Chen Xun was just a slave, so what did it matter even if he was chopped to death?
Why does he always hold on to himself?
Wait a minute, Zhu Qingchen always grabs him...
Yuwen Zan finally realized that Zhu Qingchen did it on purpose!
He wants to kill himself using the stories of ghosts and gods!
But now, Yuwen Zan was pinned to the ground by two imperial guards, unable to struggle free or move.
Even though he roared like a wild beast, the two guards did not let go.
He had just been reborn, and he hadn't had time to use his intelligence!
No, he must get through this hurdle. As long as he gets through this hurdle, Zhu Qingchen and Eunuch Cheng will all be no problem.
He tried his best to calm down, looked around, and cast hopeful eyes on Yuwen Shu.
His uncle, the current regent of Northern Zhou, Yuwen Shu.
Yuwen Shu has been sitting next to Zhu Qingchen since he came in. Even when he spoke or moved, it was only to pour Zhu Qingchen a cup of hot tea and help him straighten his cloak.
He just watched the farce quietly, as if he didn't exist.
Even so, Yuwen Zan can only place his hopes on Yuwen Shu.
This is the only "ally" he has left, and he must fight for it.
Yuwen Zan roared, "Uncle Wang! Uncle Wang! Are you just going to watch them humiliate me like this? I am the prince of Northern Zhou, I represent the face of Northern Zhou! Are you just going to watch them slap Northern Zhou in the face?!"
Yuwen Zan started crying, "Even if I'm sick, even if I'm possessed by evil spirits, I should be treated by the imperial physicians and alchemists of Northern Zhou! Uncle Wang, are you just going to watch me like this? I'm your own nephew!"
No matter what, as long as he can get out of this tent tonight, he still has a way out.
As long as Yuwen Shu took him away, he would still have room to maneuver, whether he sent the imperial physician of the Northern Zhou Dynasty or the priest of the Northern Zhou Dynasty to see him.
He stared at Yuwen Shu closely, trying to see any change in expression on his calm face.
One breath, two breaths...
Even breathing became longer.
Finally, Yuwen Shu took action.
He stretched out his hand and tested the temperature of the teacup in front of Zhu Qingchen. Finding it was no longer hot, he picked up the teacup, handed it to the guard behind him, and whispered to him to change it for a hot one.
Yuwen Zan's eyes widened, looking at his actions in disbelief, and he roared, "Yuwen Shu!"
What is he doing?
Yuwen Shu turned his head and looked at him with a calm and indifferent gaze.
Yuwen Zan couldn't help swallowing.
"Master Zhu." Yuwen Shu turned his head and shouted.
Zhu Qingchen responded: "Hmm?"
Yuwen Zan perked up and looked at him motionlessly.
Yuwen Shu wanted to save him, right? Yuwen Shu wanted to take him back, right?
The next second, Yuwen Shu's calm voice came.
"Yuwen Zan is my nephew. I recognize my nephew."
Very good.
Yuwen Zan breathed a sigh of relief as he could return to Northern Zhou.
Then, he heard Yuwen Shu continue, "This person is definitely not Yuwen Zan."
Yu Wenzan's smile froze on his face before it could fully show itself.
Yuwen Shu's tone was calm, but it seemed to carry a deep sense of intimidation: "I'm afraid it's an evil spirit invading. It would be better to ask a Taoist priest to come and take a look."
It was over. Yuwen Zan fell to one side and finally reacted.
Yuwen Shu and Zhu Qingchen were in the same group. They had colluded with each other long ago and they both wanted to kill him.
It's over. It's all over.
Yuwen Zan lay on the ground with a blank look in his eyes, as if he had lost all his strength in an instant.
He was clearly reborn, and he could have seized the initiative.
How could this happen? How could things turn out like this?
At this time, Chen Xun also knelt on the ground, bowed and saluted, and said in his hoarse voice: "I can testify." He was the person who could judge the situation best. He originally had some concerns, but now he can see that Yuwen Shu will not help Yuwen Zan.
Zhu Qingchen and Yuwen Shu, the most powerful people in the two countries, joined forces to deal with Yuwen Zan, who would surely die.
If he wants to survive, he must go with the flow immediately.
Maybe Zhu Qingchen would spare his life because of his help.
So Chen Xun stood up immediately.
Yuwen Zan had already anticipated that he would turn against his allies at the last minute, so he did not react too much to his betrayal.
He fell to the ground, still unwilling to give up, still thinking of a solution.
Chen Xun swore: "Although I have not served Your Highness for a long time, I claim to be the person who knows Your Highness best in the world, because..."
Chen Xun lowered his voice: "I once had physical contact with Your Highness."
What?
This time Yuwen Zan reacted and his eyes widened even more!
How dare he say that? How dare he say such a thing?
In the tent, there were dozens of people including the Emperor of Xia, his tutors, officials of Xia, and imperial guards.
How dare he speak out such a secretive thing?
Yuwen Zan looked up at Xiao Chengan who was sitting in the main seat.
As expected, when Xiao Chengan heard this, he couldn't help but frowned, and his expression was not very natural.
So that's how it is, Xiao Cheng'an thought, no wonder at the Heavenly Palace Banquet, Yuwen Zan insisted on taking Chen Xun away.
That's how their relationship is.
Yuwen Zan's heart suddenly sank, and he wished he could jump up and strangle Chen Xun again.
But he was held down by the imperial guards and could not even move. He could only watch Chen Xun continue to "expose" him.
"Since coming to the hunting ground, I feel that His Highness has changed. It's not a small change, it's like he has become a different person."
"Your Highness has become irritable and angry, and he is no longer so gentle to me. He ate all the food that he said he didn't like before. He doesn't know anything about what we talked about before. There are many more details that only I, the one who sleeps by your side, can know."
"His Highness loves me very much. There is no way he would want to kill me."
As Chen Xun spoke, tears unknowingly flowed down his face.
"Your Highness must have been possessed by a demon. His Highness has had headaches several times. He must be fighting the demon. Your Highness..." Chen Xun wiped his tears with his sleeves and choked up, "Your Highness loves me the most and would never want to kill me!"
Suddenly, Chen Xun had an idea and pointed at Yuwen Zan and said, "It must be because I know Your Highness best, so this demon wants to kill me! As long as he kills me, no one will notice that something is wrong!"
Yuwen Zan gritted his teeth and stared at him fiercely: "Bullshit! What do you mean I like you the most! What do you mean you know me the best! You are just a eunuch who warms the bed, how can you talk to me about whether I like you or not? What I like is..."
Yuwen Zan looked at Xiao Chengan and shut his mouth to avoid trouble.
Chen Xun cried and said, "Look, he is definitely not His Highness. His Highness has deep feelings for me and would rather beg Master Zhu at the palace banquet to take me over. His Highness would never say these things to me."
Yuwen Zan roared even more angrily: "Nonsense! I already knew you were an ungrateful traitor! Shut up! Shut up!"
Chen Xun cried even harder: "Your Highness wouldn't be so mean to me. He is not Your Highness."
The more Yuwen Zan insulted Chen Xun, the more he couldn't clear himself from the blame, and the more he confirmed the fact that "he is not Yuwen Zan".
Even Yuwen Zan’s closest partner said so, so what is there to doubt?
At this time, the imperial physician and the alchemist arrived late.
There are often injuries in the hunting grounds, so the imperial physician is always on call.
The autumn hunt begins with a sacrifice, so the alchemist also joins in.
They were clearly nearby, but they arrived so late. Of course, there must be a reason for that.
Eunuch Cheng deliberately asked them to wait outside and only let them in after Yuwen Zan finished struggling.
The group saluted to the emperor and Zhu Qingchen: "Your Majesty, Young Master."
"Yes." Zhu Qingchen nodded slightly and pointed at Yuwen Zan. "I don't know if the fifth prince of the Northern Zhou Dynasty is suffering from acclimatization or is possessed by evil spirits. Can you help him take a look?"
"yes."
As soon as the group approached Yuwen Zan, he started howling like a wild beast.
"Get out of here! Get out!"
The group of people were so scared that they dared not come any closer.
Zhu Qingchen said to him in a coaxing tone: "Fifth Prince, if you are sick, you must treat it, okay? They are all good people, it's okay, you will be fine in no time."
Yuwen Zan naturally didn't listen and continued to shout: "Get out of here!"
Since he couldn't be coaxed and all the nice words had been said, Zhu Qingchen's face darkened and he waved his sleeves: "Come here, tie him up with a tendon rope! Tie him up tightly and send him to the tents of the gentlemen so that they can check him carefully!" "Yes!"
The imperial guards received the order, and three or five of them held Yuwen Zan down, tied cow tendon ropes around his body several times, and then used pig trotters to tie his hands and feet tightly.
Before leaving, Yuwen Zan swept his eyes fiercely over everyone in the tent, finally landing on Zhu Qingchen.
Zhu Qingchen didn't care much and looked back with a half-smile: "Your Highness, treat the disease well. If you have any difficulties, send someone to find me."
Yuwen Zan was carried away like this.
Chen Xun knelt on the ground and crawled in front of Zhu Qingchen: "Master Zhu..."
Zhu Qingchen said calmly: "Let the imperial physician take a look at you. Yuwen Zan will need you to treat his illness in the future."
This means sparing his life for now.
Chen Xun was completely relieved and kowtowed quickly: "Thank you, young master, thank you, Your Majesty, thank you very much."
Zhu Qingchen waved his hand to dismiss everyone, and asked Yuwen Shu to go out and wait for him. He turned to look at Xiao Chengan and several study companions, and spoke to them alone.
"It's getting late, and you've been exhausted all day. You should all go to bed early."
"Okay." Xiao Cheng'an nodded and asked, "Teacher, what's next?"
"What's next?" Zhu Qingchen was puzzled. "What's next?"
In his opinion, the matter is over.
Next, all we need to do is let the imperial physician and the alchemist announce that the fifth prince of the Northern Zhou Dynasty has been possessed by an evil spirit and has gone mad.
The matter is resolved now.
Xiao Cheng'an seemed to understand, nodded, and asked again: "Teacher, did you see that he was up to no good a long time ago? Is that why you didn't let us touch him today?"
"Yes." Zhu Qingchen did not hide it from them, "This Yuwen Zan is a big worry for me. I originally thought that I would have to fight him for a while, but I didn't expect that it would be resolved so quickly."
"I see." Xiao Cheng'an stood up and bowed to Zhu Qingchen. "Thank you for your hard work, teacher. If you weren't here today, I'm afraid we would have been blackmailed by him."
Chu Yunyang and Wei Yuan also quickly stood up and saluted, surrounding him, still feeling frightened.
It was getting late, so the three students saw Master Zhu off.
It was still drizzling outside, so Yuwen Shu was waiting opposite the imperial tent with an umbrella.
Seeing Zhu Qingchen coming out, Yuwen Shu stepped forward to greet him.
Zhu Qingchen turned around and said to the three students, "Go back and have a rest. There's no need to send us off. Your shoes will get wet if you keep going back and forth."
"good."
Three students stood at the door and watched him leave respectfully.
Zhu Qingchen, wrapped in a wolfskin cloak, walked side by side with Yuwen Shu.
Zhu Qingchen said softly: "I didn't expect it to be resolved so quickly. I thought it would take force."
Yuwen Shu said: "It is Master Zhu who is clever."
Zhu Qingchen smiled and said, "It was just a flash of inspiration for me. I didn't think of such a good idea at first."
The blue system lay on his left shoulder: "Chenchen, you are getting smarter and smarter. This commander is very pleased."
The red system lay on his right shoulder: "Can I go with you? You deserve the villain system."
The blue system turned its head to look at it, flew over, and tried to squeeze it away: "Go away, go away, this is my host."
"You can't keep such a great villain to yourself! That's too selfish!"
"System Mama's love is inherently selfish!"
The two systems fought each other in the rain, a life-and-death battle.
Zhu Qingchen and Yuwen Shu continued walking forward, too lazy to try to stop the fight.
There was a small puddle in front, and Zhu Qingchen lifted his clothes and prepared to jump over it.
As a result, as soon as he jumped up, Yuwen Shu tightly grabbed his waist and with one force, carried him over the puddle.
Zhu Qingchen looked up at him, knowing that the system was behind him, and whispered, "I only let Li Yue hold me."
Yuwen Shu said, "That's bad. Now Yuwen Shu is the one holding you, but Yuwen Shu can be the mistress."
Zhu Qingchen pursed his lips and hit him hard on the chest.
The system fights in the back and the host fights in the front.
It was already late at night when we returned to the tent.
Zhu Qingchen was so sleepy that he simply changed his clothes, got into bed, wrapped himself in a blanket and went to sleep.
Yuwen Shu felt his forehead and confirmed that he didn't have a fever: "If you have a fever, remember to call me."
Zhu Qingchen stretched out his hand from under the blanket and gestured to him that it was all right.
Yuwen Shu put his hands into the blanket, tucked them in again, and said to his system, "If he keeps humming in his sleep, come find me."
The system doesn’t understand: “Why?”
"When he has a cold and a stuffy nose, he hums like a pig."
"Oh, I see."
Zhu Qingchen lay on the bed and waved at him: "Go, I'm fine, I'll be fine after a good sleep."
"Yeah." Yuwen Shu helped him put his hand back again.
Zhu Qingchen closed his eyes, turned his head away, and slept peacefully.
Yuwen Shu glanced at him and turned away.
Before leaving, I helped him to fan the charcoal brazier a little, and then helped him to blow out the candle, and left a gap in the doors and windows for ventilation.
The system stopped beside Zhu Qingchen's pillow, emitting a faint blue light.
After Yuwen Shu left, the system suddenly reacted.
"Chenchen, how does he know you so well?"
“Hehe——”
*
Zhu Qingchen's health has always been poor and he gets sick easily.
If you are exposed to cold wind for a while, you will catch a cold; if you are caught in the rain for a while, you will get sick.
As expected, even though Yuwen Shu had made sufficient preparations, Zhu Qingchen still fell ill in the end.
Not long after he fell asleep, he started to have a fever and lay groaning in bed.
The system flew to find Yuwen Shu, who immediately came over with the imperial physician.
After some diagnosis and treatment, it was finally determined that it was a common cold and that it would be fine after taking some medicine and resting for a few days.
In the early morning, the rain had stopped.
Zhu Qingchen was dug out of bed by Yuwen Shu and asked to drink medicine.
Zhu Qingchen wrapped himself in a blanket, leaning on a soft pillow, eating chicken porridge while asking his personal guards some questions.
"How's Yuwen Zan doing?"
"He made a fuss all night, and the imperial physician finally gave him a knockout drug to calm him down. He's sleeping now, but he'll wake up soon."
"Hmm." Zhu Qingchen asked again, "What do the imperial physician and the alchemist say?"
"The imperial physician said that his heart was too hot and he seemed to have an inner demon invading him. The Taoist priest also said that he had a violent temper, unlike that of an ordinary person. He should be..."
"How to treat it?"
"It will take a few more days of research."
"Okay." Zhu Qingchen nodded. "If there's anything you need, feel free to ask for it. We can't let people say that we treated the Northern Zhou prince badly."
"Yes." The guard clasped his fists and accepted the order, then said hesitantly, "Young Master, there is one more thing."
"But it's okay."
"Before he fell asleep, Yuwen Zan kept shouting that he wanted to see His Majesty alone. He had something important to report. As long as His Majesty came to see him, he would definitely pardon him."
Zhu Qingchen frowned.
What on earth was Yuwen Zan thinking?
Not only did he not keep the things from his past life secret, he even wanted to tell Xiao Chengan?
Where does Yuwen Zan get his confidence from?
How could he think that if Xiao Cheng'an knew about his past life, he would treat him well? Cry and throw himself into his arms?
The guard asked: "Young Master, look..."
Zhu Qingchen thought, "Go report back to His Majesty and see if His Majesty wants to see him."
Xiao Cheng'an has grown up and can face these things independently, and he can no longer make decisions for him.
In addition, Xiao Cheng'an will have to face such a thing sooner or later.
He needs to learn to judge such things and deal with such people on his own.
The guards took the order and left. Zhu Qingchen picked up the bowl of porridge, took one last sip, and was about to put it down.
Yuwen Shu said: "Take another sip."
"I can't drink any more."
"Then pick out the chicken and eat it."
When the personal guards went to report these things to Xiao Cheng'an, he was reading in the tent with his two study companions.
They had just gone to visit their teacher, but the regent thought they were too much of an eyesore standing there, so he asked them to go back.
The teacher was sick, and they had no mood to play. They just wanted to read seriously so that the teacher would feel more at ease and recover well.
The guard asked, "Your Majesty, the young master means that you can make your own decision. Do you want to go and see Yuwen Zan?"
Xiao Chengan put down the book in his hand, hesitated for a moment, and nodded: "Then go and take a look."
"yes."
Xiao Chengan stood up and said to Chu Yunyang and Wei Yuan: "Come on, accompany me."
The imperial physician was not a wandering doctor, and the dosage of the knockout drug he prepared was not large, only enough for Yuwen Zan to sleep for one or two hours.
Thinking that the time was about right, Xiao Chengan took his men there.
Chu Yunyang took his sword, and Wei Yuan also took a weapon that suited him.
Yuwen Zan was tied to the bed and was not sleeping well. He was talking in his sleep, saying things like "I know I was wrong" and "I will make it up to you."
It's said with true feeling.
Chu Yunyang turned to look at the others and asked in a low voice: "Who is he trying to make up to? He keeps saying this."
Xiao Chengan thought for a moment and said, "Probably Chen Xun."
Chu Yunyang nodded thoughtfully: "Well, it's possible."
Just at this moment, Yuwen Zan woke up.
As soon as he woke up, he began to struggle. When he turned his head, he saw Xiao Cheng'an standing in front of the couch.
Yuwen Zan's eyes lit up, and he immediately shouted: "Cheng'an! Little Chengzi! I knew it..."
The next second, Eunuch Cheng slapped him back with a big slap.
"It is really a demon invasion. How many times have I told you this? How can you address His Majesty by his name?"
Eunuch Cheng often did rough labor in the palace, and the slap was quite powerful, causing Yuwen Zan's head to buzz. !
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