Chapter 50 Nanyang's Past
Xie Chengyan walked south along Donghua Gate all the way to his own palace. He dismissed all the guards behind him and only took Hong Luo with him. She was small in stature and followed behind Xie Chengyan without saying a word.
As he walked, he felt irritated. There was still warmth on his palm. The small wound caused by Ye Lanzhou's silver needle didn't hurt much, but it made him feel a little irritated. He rubbed his fingers twice, and the incident of her threatening him with Xie Chengen's body emerged in his mind again.
He was a survivor of the battlefield. During those years of war, the battles were tough, and all the fighters were desperate. When they really took up swords and went to the battlefield, they seemed to be risking their lives. He didn't expect that after coming to Shangjing, he would meet people who were just as desperate as those people.
Yesterday she dared to set up a fake pregnancy in the palace, and today she made the royal family and the nobles from the capital bleed in the Hall of Supreme Harmony. I really don’t know what she will do tomorrow.
While thinking about it, Xie Chengyan asked Hong Luo behind him: "What did she do today?"
"To answer my master, she asked me to stuff a few sharp pieces of broken porcelain into Ye Er's dancing shoes, and also asked me to apply this medicine on the lining of the shoes." Hong Luo took out a white jade medicine bottle from his clothes and handed it over.
Xie Chengyan took the medicine bottle, pried open the bottle cap with his thumb, and saw some white powder inside. He frowned, poured out some, put it on the palm of his hand and smelled it, and it turned out to be Ma Fei San.
He didn't know what medicine was originally, but later when he was defending Nanjing, he prepared medicine for the soldiers and learned a few tricks from the military doctors.
Ma Fei San plus the broken porcelain pieces, no wonder Ye Er didn't feel any pain even when he jumped and bled.
He asked, "How badly is Ye Er injured?"
Hong Luo said, "After the banquet, the people from the Ye Mansion carried her back home. She was bleeding so much that I'm afraid... her feet can't be saved."
"Can it be that serious? It's just some flesh wounds."
"Miss Ye said that the dance relies entirely on the toes, with all the strength of the body concentrated on one point. Broken porcelain wouldn't just injure the skin; it might even sever the tendons in the foot."
Xie Chengyan nodded, thinking about something secretly. As he walked, he had already arrived at the palace. The master and servant walked one in front and one behind. When Hong Luo was about to enter, Xie Chengyan suddenly spoke and said, "You don't have to go back to the palace yet. Go to Wanhe Tower to find Lin Yan. He has found the whereabouts of your sister."
Hong Luo was stunned for a moment, and her eyes, which had always been emotionless, suddenly showed a look of shock. She nodded, said nothing more, turned around and went to Wanhe Tower.
Xie Chengyan glanced at her back as she left, and did not pursue the fact that she left without saying a word. The Hongluo sisters had been with him for a long time, and he did not understand the drama of sisterly love because he had never experienced the so-called family affection, but he could not hinder the sisters from reuniting.
Besides, Hong Luo's sister did help him a lot, otherwise he wouldn't have been looking for her for so many years.
Hong Luo's original name was Sun Ruoying, and her sister's name was Sun Yunshu. Both were members of the Sun family, and considered half-sisters of Sun Sheng'an. Back then, the Sun family was convicted, and the men were exiled to the frontier, while the women were sent to the palace as maids. Sun Sheng'an escaped the ordeal by enlisting in the military, and the two sisters, born to servants in the palace, were not listed in the Sun family registers, thus avoiding the fate of being sent to the palace.
The two sisters learned some martial arts in their childhood, which helped them to survive in troubled times. They followed their brother into the service of Xie Chengyan and stayed in Jinling City to garrison when the royal family moved the capital.
Once, a 100,000-strong army of the Southern Barbarians attacked the city of Jinling in one fell swoop. The city’s defense line was defeated and the barbarian army entered the city. Xie Chengyan had no choice but to withdraw his troops northward and retreat all the way to Nanyang.
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