Chapter 97: Beili Wolf King x Central Plains Prince 33
"How is he?" Xiao Jintian sat on the couch and held Qian Zhou's cold hand.
His fingertips squeezed into Qianzhou's fingers and clasped them tightly together.
Qianzhou still had his eyes closed, showing no signs of waking up, and his chest rose and fell shallowly, as if he had fallen into a deep sleep.
There were silver needles stuck in his forehead and neck. Doctor Zheng used the silver needles to take Qian Zhou's hand away from Xiao Jintian.
"Don't be clingy."
Xiao Jintian frowned as he watched Doctor Zheng prick Qianzhou's tiger's mouth with a silver needle.
A long time passed, and Doctor Zheng put away the silver needle and placed the tattered cloth bag in his sleeve.
"Are you okay?" Xiao Jintian asked.
Doctor Zheng raised his hand and said, "Wait a minute, stretch out your hand for me to see."
Xiao Jintian stretched out his hand, and Doctor Zheng looked down at the lines on his palm and took his pulse again.
"Hmm?" Doctor Zheng stroked his beard and took a breath. "You're actually okay?"
Xiao Jintian asked, "How is Qianzhou doing now?"
"You also have poison in you, and it's more potent than the one who's unconscious!"
"Really?" Xiao Jintian grabbed Qianzhou's hand again, crossed his legs, and looked at him questioningly.
"You gave him the injection, why hasn't he woken up yet?"
Doctor Zheng: “…”
"He's too weak right now. You know this poison isn't fatal, but it's extremely damaging to his vitality. He hasn't fully recovered from his previous injuries yet, and now something else has happened. How are you going to wake him up?"
Doctor Zheng inserted a needle into him. Xiao Jintian sat on a stool, and his wrists, neck, and forehead were soon all covered with needles.
After about half an hour of acupuncture, Doctor Zheng was exhausted, but Xiao Jintian was still sitting upright.
He raised his hand, but Doctor Zheng stopped, a puzzled look on his face. "Hasn't it been forced out yet?"
Xiao Jintian stood up, pushed open the door and went out. A gust of cold wind blew past, and he still closed the door.
He lowered his head as if nothing had happened and casually spat out blood on the ground.
The blood is thick and a very dark red.
Then he went back to the house and sat on the stool again, wiping the blood from the corner of his mouth, and asked, "What kind of poison is this?"
"It's a deadly poison!" said Doctor Zheng.
The old man immediately looked up at him and said, "Why are you acting like nothing's wrong? Anyone else would have been seriously ill and would have died. How could you still be so energetic and force people to pay respects to their parents?"
Xiao Jintian turned his head to look at him, "How do you know?"
"You're shouting so loud, who can't hear you?" the old man murmured. "Ah, I only recognize him, I'll give my life to him."
Doctor Zheng has been treating Xiao Jintian's injuries since he was a child. He has watched the Wolf King grow up and knows his temperament.
He sighed deeply, "Hey... You've been poisoned for almost two or three days. Are you okay? Are you feeling well anywhere else?"
Xiao Jintian thought for a while, pinched Qianzhou's fingers, and said, "My neck is a little sore, and it's a little hard to draw the bow."
Xiao Jintian was the only one who could pull the hundred-jin bow by himself, but after being poisoned, he only had a little difficulty in pulling it.
Doctor Zheng packed up his suitcase and said, "I think you're fine. Your bones are really inherited from the Xiao family. Just like your father, they're very strong."
The old man kept talking about the past, and Xiao Jintian just lowered his eyes and looked at Qian Zhou's face.
He reached out and stroked the hair on the side of Qianzhou's ear, watched Doctor Zheng leave, stayed with Qianzhou quietly for a while, then got up and left.
In the study, Yuan Hao was waiting for him at the desk, looking much haggard.
"What's going on?" Xiao Jintian asked.
Yuan Hao said, "This morning, someone tried to assassinate me. His kung fu was so strong that I almost got killed."
"You are not dead." Xiao Jintian said.
Yuan Hao leaned forward and tutted, "Why don't you care about me at all? I'm your deputy general after all."
Xiao Jintian glanced at him coldly, "Deputy General of the Wolf King, can't you even handle an assassin?"
"It's done. Someone helped me, but I don't even know that person."
"He looks like someone from the Central Plains, and his Kung Fu style is somewhat similar to the Third Prince's. Could he be one of his people?"
Yuan Hao stared at the candlelight in a trance, muttering, "They in the Central Plains are so good at using ruthless tactics...Bei Li is so far away, and they can still do such things."
Xiao Jintian narrowed his eyes and asked, "Who do you think can reach this point?"
Yuan Hao counted on his fingers, "Their emperor and that devilish prince."
Xiao Jintian said, "There's another one."
"who?"
"Qianzhou."
Yuan Hao paused, "You mean the Third Prince? He wants to kill me?"
Xiao Jintian didn't even look at him. "Why would he need someone else to kill you? Wouldn't it be easy to kill a brainless person like you?"
"Hey?" Yuan Hao said with a straight face, "You really are my king."
"The prince wants to kill me, but who sent the people to protect me?"
He saw that Xiao Jintian's expression did not change, and it was obvious that he would not secretly send anyone to follow Yuan Hao.
After Yuan Hao finished speaking, his eyes widened slightly, "Damn...could it be the Third Prince?"
"Well, Lan Zhi, the head of Lan Yu Tower, is also his person." Xiao Jintian said.
Yuan Hao slammed the table, "What do you mean by his people?! Lanzhi is mine."
The charcoal fire in the stove crackled. Xiao Jintian stared at the candlelight in a trance. "It seems the request for peace was fake."
Yuan Hao rested his elbows on the table. "How can we be sure of this? Did they do something else before they assassinated me?"
Xiao Jintian sneered, "If they were sincere, they wouldn't have given those three boxes of treasures they brought from thousands of miles away to their Third Prince in front of me."
She would never say in front of him who the prince missed or was worried about.
Are they here to seek peace or to announce that Qian Zhou is their prince's man?
There is no sincerity at all. If he had a more radical personality, he would have led his troops to flatten their border town the next day.
Yuan Hao laughed, "Oh... no wonder you just left them hanging. What kind of a hot commodity is the Third Prince? Why are you two fighting so fiercely for him?"
Xiao Jintian wanted to say that he was more than just Xiang.
The house was silent. The footsteps of the guards in the Wolf King's Mansion were getting closer and closer. A team of people were patrolling around the entire courtyard.
Xiao Jintian knocked the table with his knuckles. "I want you to catch the traitor in the Wolf King's Mansion."
The people around Xiao Jintian have followed him for many years, so he handed the matter over to Yuan Hao without showing any mercy.
Once caught, use every possible means to make him confess.
"Are you going to personally monitor the delegation? Since they are going to escort the Third Prince back, they must be unable to sit still if something happens to Qianzhou."
Xiao Jintian said: "I'm thinking of another possibility."
"What?" Yuan Hao looked at him.
"The person who poisoned the Third Prince didn't want to kill him, but to disable him. So what did this person want to stop him from doing?"
Xiao Jintian raised his eyes and looked across the wall towards Qianzhou's house.
Yuan Hao suddenly stood up, a guess becoming clearer in his mind, "What kind of complicated scheme are these two princes up to? Could it be that the Crown Prince sent someone to drug him and forcibly take him back?!"
"No...why did he drug him? Doesn't the Third Prince want to return to the Central Plains? This is simply unacceptable—"
Xiao Jintian interrupted him, quickly got up and went out, and Yuan Hao hurriedly caught up with him.
There was a hidden sound that was extremely difficult to detect in the night, but Xiao Jintian was as sharp as a wolf and immediately determined the person's location.
The man realized he was exposed and quickly fled.
Xiao Jintian chased after him aggressively.
"You stay here and guard him!"
"Yes!" Yuan Hao replied.
They have already taken action tonight. If you dare to tamper with this, you will never get out of Beili alive.
There were weak footsteps behind him. Yuan Hao turned around and saw Qian Zhou's appearance clearly. He opened his mouth in shock, "Brother-in-law?!"
"Are you awake?"
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