Chapter 692 A Dream of Youth 224
How could I not be afraid of pain?
Xue Yunfei bit the piece of wood Xie Ning handed him, his eyes tightly closed as he waited for Xie Ning to stitch him up. The fine, dense pain spread little by little, and a few beads of sweat appeared on his forehead, but he could still bear it.
Because Xie Ning gave him an injection to relieve the pain, and her technique was so skilled that the pain was much less than that caused by other people's stitches; otherwise, he would have been in excruciating pain.
Just as he recovered, Xue Yunfei saw a man with his intestines spilling out being carried out. Hey, wasn't that He, the centurion under his command?
He had been forced to have his abdomen opened, and with all the injections just now, he hadn't really paid attention to Lao He's condition.
The soldiers who carried the man over hurriedly said to Xie Ning, "Lord Xie, we remember, we didn't put his intestines back in."
Hearing this, Old He, who was in a daze due to excessive blood loss, felt a chill in his stomach and imagined his intestines spilling out onto the ground, making him even more dizzy.
He won't die and go to see his great-grandmother, will he?
No, he needs to accumulate more military merits to get promoted. He hasn't gotten married yet. Once he's collected more spoils of war, he can ask his mother to arrange a marriage for him.
“Bring the person here.”
Xie Ning gave the instructions, then said to Aqi Lan, "Go and apply medicine to General Xue. Du Xin! Come and assist me!"
At this point, Du Xin and the others were no longer afraid of such a bloody scene, because they were numb in body and mind.
As night fell, the sounds of fighting inside gradually subsided. The Great Zhou had completely occupied the East Gate. Xie Ning sat on a small stool to the side, rubbing his wrists and flexing his fingers to prepare to take over the next wounded soldier.
Then they saw soldiers carrying out a man who looked like an ordinary civilian. He was not wearing armor and had an arrow in his back. The soldiers had not originally intended to carry him, but they carried him out to clear the battlefield.
This man is shot in the back of the head; he's probably beyond saving.
The man struggled to open one eye and saw Xie Ning's official robes. He tugged at Xie Ning's hem, crying, "My...my lord...save me..."
He couldn't see Xie Ning's face clearly, only vaguely that Xie Ning turned around, as if checking his wounds, but he was beyond saving.
He won't survive.
As soon as the man opened his mouth, bright red blood gushed out. His bloodshot eyes were fixed on Xie Ning, seemingly filled with tears. "The canal... the canal... it can't be stopped..."
Xie Ning only vaguely heard this little bit, but did not understand its meaning. She gently comforted him, "Don't be afraid, let go first, and I will treat you."
The man only shook his head, and then more blood continued to flow. "No...it's impossible...for the people..."
It was as if I could see the Yellow River bursting its banks, the floodwaters submerging this area, with snowflakes falling and floating corpses everywhere.
His lifelong wish was simply for the people to live in peace and prosperity, but that seemed impossible.
In the Great Zhou Dynasty, his talents could not be put to use because he was ostracized for discussing the drawbacks of the new laws, and then he came to Xili.
He does not seem to be a loyal subject to the emperor.
But he loved those ordinary people like himself, and also his wife and children...
Thinking of his wife and children waiting for him at home, a tear welled up in the man's eye. He had been a burden to them.
We won't be able to enjoy next year's spring scenery together anymore...
These words will forever remain in his heart.
The man stared wide-eyed as he slowly released Xie Ning's wrist.
"Lord Xie, he's dead."
Xie Ning was stunned for a moment, then quickly cut open the man's clothes and tried to insert acupuncture needles into him, but it was no use. The arrow went straight into his heart. Even if he had met Xie Ning earlier, he wouldn't have been able to save him because of excessive blood loss. There were no blood transfusion devices in this era.
Even in modern times, it would be difficult to save.
"Carry him over there." Xie Ning exhaled, then noticed something amiss with the man's cut clothes and quickly pulled the soldier aside.
"etc!"
The man was wearing a cloth coat on the outside, but his shirt underneath was made of Luo (a type of ancient Chinese clothing), which clearly indicated that he was not an ordinary commoner.
Thinking of what this person had just mentioned about a large canal, Xie Ning felt a growing unease. "Take this person to the main tent!"
Then Xie Ning took the lead in mounting his horse and said to Du Xin and the old army doctor, "I'll leave this place to you for now. I need to go back to the main tent."
Having said that, he spurred his horse and galloped away.
"Grand Steward!"
At this moment, Fu Yao was having his men drag the envoy away when he heard Xie Ning's shouts outside. He then ordered his men to cover the envoy's head and went out to greet Xie Ning himself.
"Lord Xie, what happened?" This was the first time he had ever seen Xie Ning so flustered.
"Grand Steward, is this river a branch of the Yellow River? Have canals been built here?" Xie Ning was panting heavily as he ran.
She had no chance to see a map, nor did she know if the terrain here differed from the familiar land of China; she could only compare it based on some relatively familiar place names.
If her calculations are correct, their location should be in the northwestern border region, right in the Yellow River irrigation area. As the saying goes, it is difficult to draw water during droughts and floods when the water is plentiful, so there should be ancient canals here.
The chief steward frowned, wondering why Xie Ning had asked this, but he still patiently replied, "Naturally, it's near the Yellow River. The area is rich in water and grass, and agriculture is thriving, all thanks to the seventh-level canal in the south of Lingzhou City."
Shi Gu said: "A garden is a place for grazing horses. A place in the water where one can live is called an island. This place is an island in the river. It rises and falls with the water level and has never been submerged, so it is called Lingzhou (Spirit Island)."
It is also called Heqi.
Xie Ning's heart sank. "Grand Steward, I suspect that the Western Council will breach the Seventh Canal to hinder the war."
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