Like Xue Qianyu, Gu Nian also fainted after seeing Gu Shouxin and the others. Xue Qianyu fell forward, but Gu Nian had a soft cushion beside her.
Gu Shouxin arrived first. He picked up Gu Nian and laid her flat on her back. He supported her head and saw that she was pale and her lips were cracked. It was obvious that she was dehydrated.
He took off the bamboo tube from his body and fed Gu Nian water.
When Gu Xin arrived, she took Gu Nian's pulse, first on her left hand and then on her right.
She studied medicine with Grandma Xiao for three years, and although she was extremely talented, she still couldn't reach Grandma Xiao's level.
"How is it?" Gu Shouxin asked in a deep voice.
“Father, my sister has probably not eaten for several days and is severely depleted. Otherwise, she is fine,” Gu Xin replied.
"Second Uncle, look." Gu Hui happened to be at Gu Nian's feet and saw bloodstains on her ankle. She reached out and flipped it open, revealing a dark purple area around the snake bite wound.
"But my sister wasn't poisoned!" Gu Xin wondered.
"Miss Gu is not poisoned, but our general is!" Xue Qianyu's deputy general also came along. As soon as the Gu family arrived, they checked on Gu Nian. Their general was lying there unattended, how pitiful!
The Gu family members looked over and, well, Xue Qianyu's lips were already turning blue, and his complexion was not good, but there were no other obvious wounds.
Even a fool could see what was going on.
Gu Shouxin had Gu Hui support Gu Nian as he stood up and looked around.
There was no one around, and apart from a few traces of blood on the edge of the cliff, there were no signs of a fight.
There was a rope on the tree, and a branch that had broken off.
...
Xue Qianyu woke up before Gu Nian. When he woke up, he found himself in the tent, with a familiar voice standing by the bed.
"Second Uncle!" Xue Qianyu sat up and called out.
Gu Shouxin turned around and looked at him. His lips had regained their rosy color, and his face was no longer as deathly pale as before: "Are you feeling better?"
Xue Qianyu nodded: "It's alright. How is Gu Nian? Did Second Uncle bring the masked man's body back just now?"
Gu Shouxin raised an eyebrow: "Niannian is fine. There's no one else there besides you and Niannian."
Xue Qianyu first breathed a sigh of relief, then exclaimed in shock: "Impossible! When I was looking for the rope on him, I smelled his breath, and he was already dead. Could he have practiced the art of concealing his breath?"
The art of concealing one's breath is a technique that allows one to control their breath and make others believe that they are dead.
Just now, Xue Qianyu watched as Gu Nian activated the bracelet and shot it at the masked man. He personally witnessed the hidden weapon inside the bracelet pass through the masked man's body, yet he still didn't die.
Gu Shouxin sat down on the edge of the bed and carefully inquired about what had happened.
Xue Qianyu only knew what happened afterward; he knew nothing about what happened before.
He had been poisoned by snake venom while sucking out the venom from Gu Nian's blood and had just fainted from the poison. Gu Xin fed him a jade bead, and he recovered completely. He then got up and went with Gu Shouxin to Gu Nian's place so the two of them could talk together.
At this moment, Gu Nian had just finished drinking a bowl of congee, and Gu Hui, Gu Xin, and Princess Jinghe were surrounding her.
Gu Shouxin didn't go directly into the tent. He called out from outside and waited until they had finished talking inside before bringing Xue Qianyu in.
When Gu Nian saw Xue Qianyu again and found that he was back to normal, she was relieved.
She had been starving for several days and had lost a lot of weight. In addition, she hadn't washed or groomed herself for days, so she looked rather disheveled.
God knows why she was thinking about her appearance in this situation; even she herself was puzzled.
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