Zuo You held his breath, stretched his head to look at the person in the coffin, and asked Su Zhao: "Do you know him?"
Su Zhao shook his head.
Yu Xiaoxiao took out the dagger and said to the man, "I am not from the Eternal Life Temple. I will shave your beard quickly. Please bear with me."
Zuo You said, "You're just going to shave him like this? Why don't you wash his face first?"
"Gouzi, go get some water," Yu Xiaoxiao said to Er Gouzi, "find a bigger basin."
"Yes," Er Gouzi answered and ran out.
"Don't be nervous," Yu Xiaoxiao said to Su Zhao while shaking the dagger, "This skill of mine is inherited from my ancestors."
Su Zhao was speechless. Was Yu's ancestor a barber? Could he just do it without saying anything?
Yu Xiaoxiao used the dagger to slash the man's face a few times, and her skills were indeed superb. She shaved off the man's beard, and said to the man: "You are safe now. I will make more delicious food for you later. You will be well soon. Don't be afraid."
The man looked at Yu Xiaoxiao with horror in his eyes.
Yu Xiaoxiao put away the dagger, thought about it and said, "Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Yu Linglong, and I am from Fengtian."
Zuo You looked at the man in the coffin and sighed, "Oh, he has lost so much weight."
The man in the coffin was skinny and covered with a tattered blanket that was so greasy that you couldn't see its original color. Apart from the blanket, the man was naked.
Su Zhao felt that he could get used to the stench now. He walked forward and saw the man's two legs sticking out. Su Zhao immediately said to Yu Xiao, "Princess, please step aside for a moment."
Yu Xiao: "Don't worry about me. Take a look at this big brother. Do you recognize him?"
Su Zhao, who firmly believed that the Eternal Life Temple would not threaten him with anyone, was not enthusiastic about the man in the coffin. After hearing what Yu Xiaoxiao said, he looked up at the man's face. When this skinny face appeared in front of Su Zhao, the new Qinglong King was stunned.
Yu Xiao: "Although he is a little thinner, you should be able to tell from his appearance, right, A Zhao?"
Zuo You said: "If this man loses this layer of skin, he will look like a skeleton. How can we recognize him?" Marshal Zuo clung to the wall of the sarcophagus, looking at the man in the coffin with worry.
Su Zhao stood there motionless and said nothing.
Yu Xiaoxiao raised her hand and waved it in front of Su Zhao.
Su Zhao still didn't respond.
"What does he mean?" Yu Xiaoxiao asked Zuo You.
Zuo You said to Su Zhao, "Do you really know him?"
Su Zhao slowly backed away, muttering, "This is impossible."
"Impossible?" Yu Xiaoxiao said anxiously, "This person is lying right here, how can it be impossible? Tell me, who is he?"
Su Zhao stopped walking back, wiped his face, and then looked at the man in the coffin again.
Yu Xiaoxiao and Zuo You were both a little nervous because of Su Zhao. This was not right.
Su Zhao looked at the man in the coffin for a long time, his face expressionless and pale.
Er Gouzi got some water for washing his face. When he saw Su Zhao's appearance, he didn't even dare to breathe. He walked quietly to Yu Xiaoxiao and stood beside her.
Yu Xiaoxiao looked at the basin of water held by Er Gouzi and discussed with Su Zhao, "Can I wash this big brother's face first?"
Su Zhao looked up at Yu Xiaoxiao, still expressionless.
Zuo You said, "He'll probably need to wait a while longer in this condition. Princess, let's wash his face first."
Er Gouzi soaked the towel and skillfully washed the face of the man in the coffin, turning a basin of clear water into black water.
Zuo You opened all the windows in the house. The smell in the house was so unbearable.
After Ergouzi wiped all the water off the man’s face, he looked at Yu Xiaoxiao with a towel. What should he do next?
Yu Xiaoxiao called out to Su Zhao: "Ah Zhao, are you going to remain silent like this?"
Su Zhao walked to the sarcophagus.
Yu Xiaoxiao asked hurriedly: "Who is he?"
Su Zhao looked at the man in the coffin, his lips trembling twice, and said, "Third brother."
"What?" Yu Xiaoxiao asked
"He is Su Yan?!" Zuo You shouted.
Su Zhao reached out and felt the man's breath.
Yu Xiaoxiao looked at Zuo You.
Zuo You said, "Su Zhao's third brother is called Su Yan."
Yu Xiao: "Are you kidding me? Except for Brother Su, aren't all of Zhao's brothers dead?"
Zuo You said: "I haven't seen Su Yan. Didn't Su Zhao call him Third Brother just now?"
Er Gouzi said, "Yes, Princess, His Majesty just called me Third Brother."
Yu Xiaoxiao tugged at Su Zhao's sleeve and said, "Is he really your third brother?"
Su Zhao said: "That's right."
"Appearance," Yu Xiaoxiao muttered, reached out and grabbed the man in the coffin's face, and then found that the man's appearance was not a disguise.
Zuo You was still worried after thinking about it, so he asked Su Zhao, "Does your third brother have any marks on his body? Birthmarks, scars, etc?"
Before Su Zhao could say anything, Yu Xiaoxiao lifted the torn blanket off the man.
The naked body of the man was so skinny that it could be made into a specimen after being skinned.
Er Gouzi shouted: "Why does he have so many wounds?"
Yu Xiaoxiao glanced at the man's body. The wounds were all old. The men of the Su family, like the Gu family, were generals. It was normal for them to have scars on their bodies. Turning her head to look at Su Zhao, whose eyes were full of tears, Yu Xiaoxiao felt that this man was 99.9% reliable as Su Zhao's third brother.
Zuo You then whispered to Yu Xiao: "I see he can't make a sound even with his mouth open. Is he mute?"
Yu Xiaoxiao pried open the man's mouth and saw that his tongue was intact. She then took out a medicine bag, took out a tongue depressor, pressed down the man's tongue and looked at his throat. "There's nothing wrong with his throat. He can't speak because he has no strength," Yu Xiaoxiao said as she touched the man's stomach. It looked like he had no food.
"Then what should we feed him first?" Zuo You asked.
Yu Xiaoxiao took out her maltose and said to Er Gouzi, "Gouzi, please help me and make a bowl of syrup for me."
"Yes," Ergouzi ran out again carrying the cloth bag of maltose.
"Brother Su San," Yu Xiaoxiao shouted at the man.
The man's head moved slightly and his eyes looked downward.
Yu Xiaoxiao reached out and pulled Su Zhao, who had retreated again, to her side and said, "Brother Su San, this is Su Zhao, take a good look at him."
The man stared at Su Zhao without blinking.
Su Zhao stood stiffly in front of the coffin, suspecting that he was dreaming, but also knowing that this was not a dream.
Zuo You said: "Su Zhao, is he really Su Yan?"
Su Zhao said, "Yes." He remembered this face and all the scars on his body, especially the burn scar on his thigh. When he was a child, he mischievously knocked over the candlestick on his father's desk. In order to protect him, his third brother used his body to block the candlestick, and the candlestick fell on his brother's leg. That's how the scar was left.
Yu Xiao: "Yes, that's fine. This is a good thing!"
Zuo You also nodded. No matter how you think about it, it is a great thing that his brother is still alive.
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