Chapter 41: Feng Shui
"Master Yang, we two will help you." Two sensible subordinates came over and helped Yang Yan from Cui Miao. Only then did Yang Yan look away; if he continued, he would seem inconsiderate.
Cui Miao's arm was still bleeding. Even after he'd tied up his handkerchief, blood quickly seeped out, soaking the new handkerchief. Fearing he'd lost too much blood, Chai Heng paused, removed the handkerchief, and used the hemostatic powder she always kept in her sleeve to apply to him.
Cui Miao never thought that after suffering such an injury, he would still be treated so gently by Chai Heng. He suddenly felt that life was worth it.
"Don't be nervous, they're just minor injuries."
"When I was in the Wucheng Bingmasi, I suffered more serious injuries than this."
Cui Miao was deeply moved by Chai Heng's gentle and careful actions.
Yang Yan was helped aside by Cui Miao's subordinates to rest. He leaned against a tree. Although he had averted his gaze, his ears were not deaf and he could still hear their conversation.
He was actually seriously injured. In addition to several knife wounds on his body, the most serious one was near his heart, and it was bleeding profusely.
After being injured, he worried that she couldn't walk on her own, so he thought about going to look for her. However, the blood was flowing too quickly, leaving him with no strength. He felt very cold. He had felt cold when he leaned against the cave earlier, and now he felt even colder.
His fingers curled up, his eyes slightly closed. Alone and alone, surrounded by Cui Miao's men, they naturally surrounded Cui Miao, and no one cared about his life or death.
After Chai Heng applied the powder on Cui Miao's arm, when there was only half of the medicine left in the bottle, she seemed to remember Yang Yan again.
This was the first time in her two lifetimes that she had seen Yang Yan bleed so much. His white clothes were stained with blood, and his handsome face was only pale.
She thought about it, handed the remaining powder to Cui Miao's subordinate, and signaled him to go and see where Yang Yan was injured and stop the bleeding.
Cui Miao's subordinates realized what was happening, took the medicine powder, and went to look after Yang Yan.
Yang Yan didn't like being touched by outsiders. He had been injured before, so he wasn't used to being seen by others. So when Cui Miao's subordinates came over with the medicine powder, he rejected them. But Chai Heng was with Cui Miao; she didn't have the time or the ability to care about his pain. If she continued to be coy at this time, it would seem too hypocritical.
He revealed his wound to Cui Miao's subordinate because it was close to his heart, or perhaps because the hideous knife wound was too scary. The subordinate frowned and, with the idea of a quick victory, poured all the medicine powder on the wound.
The most effective powders all sting.
So Chai Heng was extremely careful when applying medicine to Cui Miao just now, fearing that he would be in too much pain.
Cui Miao was also startled by the action of this young subordinate.
“Hey.”
He groaned, but couldn't stop it.
When the powder was applied to the wound, Yang Yan broke out in a cold sweat, which made his already pale lips even paler. However, he was able to endure the pain, so he endured it.
Chai Heng was changing the handkerchief on Cui Miao's arm. The process reached the last step of tying the knot. Cui Miao's scream brought her back to her senses. When she saw the clumsy little subordinate, she was also startled for a moment.
But soon, calm returned.
It doesn’t matter as long as you don’t die.
Besides, Yang Yan was often injured in his previous life. She was not always careful when applying medicine to him, and she often hurt him with her clumsy hands and feet. It was so painful that he would scream.
"I should have replaced him with a more careful subordinate." Cui Miao felt a little reluctant. As someone who had just been baptized by this powder, he knew how painful it was.
"He didn't scream, which means he's fine."
Chai Heng lowered her head and continued to focus on tying the knots on Cui Miao's arm. Yang Yan was tolerant of pain, but in his previous life, when his father had beaten him and she had applied medicine to him, her movements less gentle, he had also cried out in pain. Back then, every time she heard his small, muffled groans, her heart ached. She wanted to beat her father-in-law to pieces, but now she thought, none of his beatings were in vain.
After hearing what Chai Heng said, Cui Miao did not agree in his heart.
He is also a man.
When people are injured, they usually endure the pain and will only cry out if they want to cause sympathy to others.
But in Yang Yan's situation, he was surrounded by strangers. The only person he knew was his ex-wife, Chai Heng. But even if he cried out in pain, she wouldn't feel any sympathy, so what was the point of crying out?
You can't wink at a blind person.
So Cui Miao replied honestly: "That powder really hurts. If you were someone who cared about him, he would cry out."
Chai Heng finally tied a perfect bow on Cui Miao's arm: "Then I still hope he will shut up."
She had felt so sorry for him before that she had forgotten to feel sorry for herself. If she still wanted to feel sorry for him now, it would mean that she had fallen into Yang Yan's trap again, and all the suffering she had endured in the past would have been in vain.
She finished tying the knot and Yang Yan also applied the medicine.
Not far away, there were bright lights. Several rows of Qi soldiers were wading across the river with lanterns and swords in hand, heading in this direction. These were soldiers dispatched overnight by the prefecture governor in charge of Linzi City from the surrounding prefectures and counties.
"Lord Yang."
The leading general had previously worked in the Ministry of War. His name was Zhou Daoyuan. He was broad-shouldered and tall with a beard. He recognized Yang Yan at a glance.
Zhou Daoyuan was incredibly strong. When he was young, he could lift a cauldron weighing a hundred pounds with one hand. Yang Yan had some impression of him, so when this man came over, he nodded slightly, "General Zhou."
Yang Yan had just finished applying the medicine, and his face still looked bad, with a little cold sweat on his temples. When Zhou Daoyuan saw Yang Yan like this for the first time, he wanted to ask what was wrong, but he remembered that Yang Yan was notorious among the six ministries for his cold temper and his ruthlessness. He was someone who could not be offended, so he swallowed his words and only said:
"This time, the Magistrate of Li County threatened and intimidated the surrounding prefectures and counties, saying that he would not lend troops. If Linzi City was broken, no one would be able to escape. The surrounding prefectures and counties borrowed a lot of troops at once. Right now, half of the troops are patrolling Linxi Village, and the other half are in the city. Now the village is temporarily safe, please rest assured, sir." Zhou Yuandao said respectfully to Yang Yan.
After saying that, he looked at the remaining people and said, "Why don't you all follow me into the city first? The refugees in the village have just been arranged to enter the city. Other matters will be arranged after we enter the city."
All of them are now injured and disabled.
Staying here would only lead to death. Yang Yan nodded and said, "Then I'll trouble you, General Zhou."
Zhou Yuan said, "Master Yang, you are too polite. You are the superior, and everything is my duty." As he said that, he invited the others to mount their horses.
Chai Heng was using a cane and had difficulty getting on the horse.
Yang Yan subconsciously wanted to help her, but Cui Miao got there first.
"Master Yang, let me do it."
As Cui Miao spoke, he put his uninjured hand around Chai Heng's waist, exerted a little force, and carried her onto the horse with one hand.
Yang Yan's eyes subconsciously fell on the hand that was holding Chai Heng's waist. It was so cold that Cui Miao felt that he was going to freeze to death. But Chai Heng didn't say anything, so Cui Miao was not afraid. He pretended not to see it and asked Chai Heng, "Are you sitting tight?"
Chai Heng nodded.
Cui Miao immediately took her walking stick and held it in his own hand for her.
"Master Yang, shall we go?"
Seeing that he was distracted, Zhou Yuandao subconsciously urged him cautiously.
Only then did Yang Yan look away.
*
Back at the inn, Zhou Jiu had been sitting in the lobby for a long time. He had come all the way to Linzi City with only two bags on his back. During the time Yang Yan had been away, the imperial court had undergone tremendous changes.
The emperor had recently issued an edict to Yang Yan, threatening to publicly punish him with a cane outside the Meridian Gate if he didn't return to the capital. But then he suddenly fell seriously ill. The government was now controlled by the prince's clique, with the empress protecting the prince and opposing the faction of Prince Yu, who was protected by the imperial concubine. This created an irreconcilable situation.
As for Prince Yong, whom Yang Yan had been betting on, he has not been included in the candidate list so far because of his young age and his mother, Concubine Xuan, although her maternal family is powerful, never makes trouble and is law-abiding.
This is very similar to my previous life.
Yang Yan was not in a hurry. He was thousands of miles away and there was no point in being anxious.
He was more concerned about the battle with the Western Rong than anything else. After all, if they lost, Tuoba Ye's ambitions would definitely not be as simple as demanding peace from the Great Qi by ceding territory. But just a few days ago, an official document from the Jingnan Army reported that Prince Jing had suddenly coughed up blood. He hadn't dared to tell Chai Heng this news.
After all, in his previous life, Prince Jing's health had failed him after his final battle with the Western Rong. In this life, the battle had been brought forward to the present day.
The Jingnan Army had reached the front lines, but the main battlefield wasn't there, but on the eastern border, in the Wuyue region he and Chai Heng were familiar with. As for the harassment facing Linzi City, it was merely a smokescreen thrown by Tuoba Ye to annoy them.
Yang Yan's mind was in a mess at the moment, with many official matters running through his mind. So when he saw Zhou Jiu, he was a little slow to react. It was not until Zhou Jiu rushed over that he realized Zhou Jiu was here.
"My lord! Your Majesty!"
Zhou Jiu pounced on him and landed right on his wound. Yang Yan's eyebrows jumped in pain and he had no doubt that if Zhou Jiu had used a little more force, he would have been killed here.
"Hey, no, you adults are injured!"
Zhou Daoyuan hurriedly stopped him.
Zhou Jiu then realized that his master was covered in blood: "Sorry, sir, I thought it was someone else's blood."
Yang Yan: “…”
Seeing his master in so much pain that he couldn't even speak, barely breathing, Zhou Jiu couldn't help but glance at Chai Heng, who was standing nearby, feeling the pain for Yang Yan but looking as if it had nothing to do with her. Seeing her standing closely beside Cui Miao, while Yang Yan acted like a stranger, he felt that his master deserved it, but on the other hand, he felt that he was indeed a bit pitiful.
The only person I know in this place is my wife.
In the end, he still stood next to someone else.
But he had no way to blame Chai Heng, so he had to help Yang Yan upstairs first, thinking of going into the room of the inn first to see where his master was injured and how serious the injury was.
After entering the room, he untied Yang Yan's robe and undershirt, and was shocked to see the injuries on his body.
Zhou Jiu's eyes suddenly turned red: "You were so seriously injured, and your wife didn't take care of you?"
Zhou Jiu brings up everything.
When he said that, Yang Yan didn't feel any emotion at all. Especially when he saw the affectionate look between Chai Heng and Cui Miao just now, he felt something cutting into his heart.
Things change with time.
He had set a trap for Xue Ruyue in the past, and even though he knew she was very sad, he deliberately ignored her.
Now it's her turn to ignore him.
"Cui Miao's arm is injured, and she has to go take care of Cui Miao." Yang Yan said, and as he spoke, he seemed to slowly accept the fact that in Chai Heng's eyes, Cui Miao was now more important than him, and that they really had the possibility of being together.
Zhou Jiu consoled himself: "She must not have known how badly you were injured. Madam wasn't like this before. She would get so nervous when you had a little cut on your hand. She has always been reluctant to let you go."
"Really?"
"But she obviously knew it."
She knows everything.
It's just that he did something so wrong that she doesn't want him anymore.
I don't want to care about him anymore.
Zhou Jiu couldn't bear to see his master looking so frustrated, but instead of comforting him, he knew that the most important thing right now was to find a doctor for him.
"Okay, sir, I'll go find a doctor for you first." Zhou Jiu was about to go out, but was stopped by Yang Yan again.
"Wait, go find another doctor who treats her legs and feet. She broke her leg a few days ago and just walked a long way." Yang Yan said.
If Chai Heng was really with Cui Miao, then Cui Miao should be the one to worry about it. But these two were each more careless than the other, and Yang Yan had no doubt that if it weren't for the cane constantly reminding Chai Heng, she would have probably forgotten that she was a person with a broken leg that hadn't healed yet.
Zhou Jiu paused and wanted to ask why you were doing this, but after thinking about it, he didn't say it out loud.
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