When Tuoba Ze carried Yi Shangyun into the tea room and carefully placed her on the warm couch at the east end, Yi Shangyun had already completely fainted.
He reached out and pinched her philtrum, but it had no effect.
In a moment of panic, he suddenly shook her frail body violently and called out urgently, "Hey, you stupid woman, wake up, wake up..."
But Yi Shangyun kept her eyes tightly closed and remained motionless, clearly not responding to her calls.
In an instant, he felt inexplicably nervous and afraid.
Looking back on his life, he witnessed countless acts of ruthless killing and plunder, and countless partings of life and death.
He would never know how many pitiful souls had perished beneath his sword, yet none of them had ever blinked an eye, nor had they ever felt such fear and helplessness as he did now.
At that moment, he himself didn't know what he was afraid of.
He stood there helplessly, staring blankly at Yi Shangyun's face, not knowing how much time had passed.
He suddenly hugged her tightly, pressing her head against his chest, and earnestly pleaded.
"Don't die..."
"Please don't die..."
"Don't die..."
"don't want……"
Just then, perhaps because of his great strength, Yi Shangyun, who was unconscious, suddenly coughed as if he had choked on something: "Cough...cough cough...cough cough cough..."
Then, her eyes moved slightly, and finally she slowly opened them again.
Upon seeing this, Tuoba Ze's face suddenly lit up with childlike joy, and he exclaimed with delight, "Thank God, you're finally awake! That's wonderful, that's wonderful..."
"Water..." Yi Shangyun said weakly, her mind still hazy, sensing that she was extremely thirsty.
Tuoba Ze then came to his senses and hurriedly said, "Oh, right... you got caught in the rain just now, I need to go and make you some brown sugar ginger soup."
As she spoke, she hurriedly put Yi Shangyun down again and went to the side to busy herself with making ginger soup.
Despite keeping it warm and carefully feeding it a lot of strong brown sugar ginger soup, it was still a problem.
Just past noon, Yi Shangyun finally developed a high fever.
Soon, even his entire consciousness sank into a deep daze once again.
One could only hear faint murmurs coming from its mouth from time to time.
"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry..."
"My child...my child..."
"Wei Mingxuan, why aren't you back yet... why aren't you back yet..."
"Forgive me, forgive me..."
"It's all my fault, it's all my fault..."
"Your Highness, that's our child! How could you... how could you..."
Upon hearing this, Tuoba Ze exclaimed in surprise, "That child is actually Prince Qin Xuanyuan Han's! But how could there be rumors that he is the Crown Prince of Nan'an? What exactly is going on?"
However, he only had a moment to think about it before he realized he didn't have time to care about the problem, because Yi Shangyun's situation was getting worse and worse.
Tuoba Ze kept busy changing the wet wipes on his clothes and forehead, but it seemed to be of no use at all.
Seeing that her high fever persisted for a long time, her face was flushed, and her consciousness was confused.
Tuoba Ze was extremely worried and muttered to himself, "No, if this continues, this woman will definitely die."
He stared at her face, but there was nothing he could do.
Looking at the sky outside, the torrential rain truly seemed to be pouring down from the heavens.
"No, we must find a doctor to take a look at her no matter what."
With this thought in mind, Tuoba Ze suddenly got up and rushed out into the rain.
Meanwhile, in a corner on the second floor of an inn in the city.
Mei Xiyuan and Lu Tianjiao were waiting for Tuoba Ze's return while playing games to pass the time.
Mei Xiyuan placed a black stone, then picked up the teacup beside her and took a sip of hot tea.
Feeling that Tuoba Ze had been acting strangely these past few days, Lu Tianjiao, who was sitting with him drinking tea and chatting, asked him about it.
"Don't you think Tuoba Ze has been appearing and disappearing mysteriously lately? Sometimes he's gone for most of the day. Do you know what he's been up to?"
Lu Tianjiao recalled for a moment, then placed a white piece on his board, saying with a puzzled look, "Thinking about it, something is indeed wrong. We've rarely seen him these past few days. And since we came back that night, there hasn't been any new progress on that bitch's matter."
"That night..." Mei Xiyuan paused for a moment before asking, "Did you all return to the inn together that night? Did nothing else happen?"
Lu Tianjiao thought about it carefully again for a while, and finally said with great certainty: "That night, we did come back together! I didn't see him leave alone along the way."
Upon hearing this, Mei Xiyuan had no choice but to give up, so she slowly put down her teacup and placed another piece.
He shifted his gaze to the heavy rain outside the window, feeling irritated and uneasy, and said, "Look at this rain today, it's like the heavens have a hole in them, it's going to rain forever."
After Lu Tianjiao placed another piece, he also put down his teacup and followed the gaze of the other person, saying, "It is said that in this kind of weather, something terrible must happen somewhere in the world. I wonder which unlucky person brought this rain, causing us to be trapped here and unable to go out."
Seeing that Mei Xiyuan did not respond, Lu Tianjiao seemed to remember something else and suddenly smiled slyly, saying, "But speaking of which, Tuoba Ze is indeed quite clever! Now that the epidemic in Longhu City has been lifted, everyone in the city is singing praises to you, sister! You have truly won the hearts of the people this time!"
Finally, after leaving the Prince of Qin's mansion without any face, Mei Xiyuan finally had something that made her feel slightly gratified.
She snorted coldly and said, "At least he didn't disappoint me again this time. Otherwise, I would have made him pay."
But when she thought about how she still hadn't managed to eliminate Xuan Yuanhan's men who were escorting the herbs, she gritted her teeth and said, "It's a pity that I couldn't eliminate the King of Qin's right-hand men, especially that deputy general Cheng Liang, this time. That's not enough to vent my anger."
Upon hearing this, Lu Tianjiao gradually lost his awkward smile and chimed in, "It's all that meddlesome old Taoist's fault. I just don't know who he is. He even managed to cure Tuoba Ze's unique poison, a poison that even Tuoba Ze himself couldn't cure."
Who says this ending isn't surprising? So the two of them fell into speculation about the mysterious old Taoist priest.
After a pause, Lu Tianjiao asked again, "By the way, sister, as the saying goes, strike while the iron is hot. What are your plans next?"
"Yes, we should find someone to plan what she should do next! At this critical moment, I'm afraid that one wrong move could lead to total defeat."
Just as Mei Xiyuan was deep in thought, a sudden commotion outside the window interrupted their thoughts.
Lu Tianjiao waved his hand, summoned the waiter standing by the window, and asked, "What's going on outside?"
The waiter replied, "Esteemed guests, there's a young girl who collapsed in the heavy rain on the street outside, and there are people gathered around watching the spectacle!"
Upon hearing this, Lu Tianjiao simply said, "With such heavy rain today, which started last night, why are people still out walking on the streets?"
The waiter explained, "He seems to be in a hurry, as if he's looking for someone on the street!"
"With such heavy rain, where are all the people on the street? At most, there might be a few rats passing by!" Lu Tianjiao said, puzzled.
The waiter said, "This girl looks like she's been searching door to door on the street! She's completely soaked in the rain."
Lu Tianjiao laughed, "Looking for someone door-to-door? She must be either crazy or stupid! Does she even know how many shops and households there are in the Western Qin Imperial City? Does she really have the courage to search every single one of them here..."
The waiter was clearly speechless in response to his indifference, so he stopped talking to him.
Lu Tianjiao concluded by saying, "Alright, I got it. Go ahead and do your thing!"
Just as the waiter turned to leave, somewhat speechless, Mei Xiyuan suddenly spoke up to stop him, saying, "Wait."
Helpless, the waiter turned back again and asked with a reluctant expression, "Is there anything else you need, sir?"
Mei Xiyuan slowly stood up and politely said, "Could you please take me downstairs to have a look?"
The waiter was immediately surprised and hesitated for a moment before gesturing towards the stairs, saying, "Of course, this way please, sir."
Seeing this, Lu Tianjiao asked in surprise and confusion, "Sister, what's wrong with you..."
Mei Xiyuan smiled and said, "Sister, why don't you go back to your room and rest first? Since you have nothing to do anyway, I'll go downstairs and take a look. I'll be back in a bit."
Lu Tianjiao quickly stood up and said, "Then I'll go with my sister too!"
"That's fine too!"
As Mei Xiyuan spoke, she and Lu Tianjiao hurriedly went downstairs led by the waiter.
"Whose maid is this? Her clothes are all soaked. How pitiful!"
"You're out in this heavy rain, you must have something urgent to do."
"Girl, wake up, wake up!"
"Could this be a scam?"
"Judging from the quality of his clothes and his appearance, he doesn't seem like a child from a poor family."
"She seemed to be looking for someone, and then she suddenly fainted as soon as she stepped outside."
"I heard they're looking for her young lady."
"Yes, they say her young lady has been missing for three days and three nights."
"Oh dear, I'm afraid something terrible has happened..."
"Pah, pah, pah... Don't talk nonsense..."
"Why don't we report this to the authorities?"
As soon as I went downstairs, I saw a group of onlookers gathered on the street, surrounding a little girl who was lying on the ground unconscious, and they were all talking at once.
But no one offered him a helping hand.
Under a gloomy sky, cold rain relentlessly lashed against the little girl's thin face.
"Excuse me, please make way..."
At this moment, the waiter, holding an umbrella, hurriedly walked ahead and dispersed the crowd that had gathered together.
Then Mei Xiyuan and Lu Tianjiao appeared behind them, and he said, "It's this little girl."
"How could it be her?"
"How could it be her?"
Unexpectedly, when the two came forward and took a look, they immediately exclaimed in unison...
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