Chapter 224 How could it have been hit out of nowhere?
Li Manyun clicked her tongue in annoyance. Of course, she couldn't have anticipated this situation. Why did the Imperial Guards suddenly come up the mountain? Could it really be that her brother went to find them?
Hearing the footsteps coming from above, the maid worried that the Imperial Guards might come down at any moment and discover them. Feeling guilty and anxious, she asked, "Miss, what should we do?"
"What should I do? What should I do? How am I supposed to know what to do?!"
Li Manyun was only a thirteen-year-old girl. She had planned to find an opportunity to drag the person to this small cave, saying that they had gone for a walk around the area. However, Li Manyan and her maid walked too fast and accidentally fell down the hillside and fainted. Since she couldn't help the person back, she had no choice but to settle the person here first and then go back to find the person.
If all goes well, no one else will know about this, and given her relationship with Li Jin, Li Jin would never suspect anything amiss.
Who knew such a variable would suddenly appear? The Imperial Guards are right around here, and they certainly know that there can't be a hillside nearby that could knock someone unconscious from a fall.
What to do? But she couldn't think of any other way besides this lame excuse.
How can I make others believe me?
Li Manyun suddenly looked at the stones on the ground.
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"Your Highness, we've found Miss Li and Miss Li the Second!"
The group immediately perked up, and Shengsheng and Xie Yunqi, who were sitting on the rock, also stood up.
Xie Yunchuan took a few steps forward, his movements seeming somewhat hurried, but then he deliberately stopped after realizing that Li Jin was still there.
Fortunately, Li Jin wasn't paying attention to him at all. When he saw Li Manyun being helped back from afar, he ran up to her and called out, "Yun'er!"
Li Manyun's clothes were a bit dirty, her hair was messy, and she had abrasions on her body, arms, and legs, and her clothes were torn.
"Yun'er, what's wrong? Where's your sister Yan'er?"
When Li Manyun saw that the Second Prince Xie Yunchuan, the Fifth Prince Xie Yunqi, and even the Second Princess were behind Li Jin, she was startled and felt even more guilty. She subconsciously hid in front of Li Jin, not wanting them to see her.
Li Jin assumed she was still scared and didn't think much of it: "Speak up, where's Yan'er?"
Because of his anxiety, Li Jin's tone became involuntarily stern and loud. Li Manyun's nose tingled, and her guilty conscience made her even more sensitive. She tearfully cried out, "Why are you being so fierce? The person is right behind us!"
Li Jin was taken aback: "I wasn't being mean, brother was just worried about you..."
Before he could finish speaking, Li Jin's attention was drawn to Li Manyan, who was being carried back on a stretcher.
Several people noticed Li Manyan even before him and gathered around her.
Li Manyun flung him away, furious: "Go on, go on, all of you go and worry about her! It's the same thing again! I should have..."
Li Manyun quickly stopped herself from saying something she shouldn't have.
Fortunately, Li Jin was also anxious to see what was wrong with Li Manyan. He didn't hear what she said clearly and just comforted her with a few words: "Alright, alright, I'll go see my little sister Yan'er first."
Li Manyun bit her lip, but didn't stop Li Jin's actions, because she was afraid that she would blurt out something.
A maid, also dressed in drab gray, whispered a reminder from behind her: "Miss, you must stay calm, or we're doomed!"
They share both glory and ruin. She was Li Manyun's maid, and if something happened to Li Manyun, she would suffer the consequences as well.
"I know, you didn't need to remind me," Li Manyun said with a mournful expression.
Over here, Sheng Sheng surrounded Li Manyan with surprise and worry: "What's wrong, Sister Yan Yan?"
Xie Yunchuan placed his fingers on Li Manyan's wrist and used his internal energy to probe and observe it.
"Quickly take her down the mountain, Thirteen. Go down now and have the imperial physician prepare. Miss Li has suffered a head injury and is in critical condition!"
The situation was sudden, and no one felt that Xie Yunchuan's actions were offensive. Upon hearing Xie Yunchuan's words, Li Jin became extremely anxious: "What? What exactly happened? What happened? How could someone who was perfectly healthy have suffered a head injury?"
Xie Yunchuan tried his best to keep his expression from being too cold, but looking at Li Manyan lying there with a pale face, he really couldn't suppress his emotions.
"As for the specifics, Young Master Li, you'd better ask your sister and her maid first. After all, your sister and her maid are the ones who have been with Miss Li the whole time. Now that Miss Li and her maid are both unconscious, Young Master Li should ask the two who are conscious. Only your sister knows the situation best."
Xie Yunchuan's voice was icy cold. Li Manyun, who was far away, heard it and shivered for some reason.
She felt that the Second Prince's words clearly didn't mean anything else, yet she became even more frightened.
Sheng Sheng was quite strange. Could it be that he encountered some ferocious beast and, in his panic, lost his footing and fell?
After thinking for a moment, she whispered to Shi Tou, "Shi Tou, go and smell Yan Yan and her maid, as well as Miss Li and her maid. Do they smell like anyone else?"
Sheng Sheng did this because she felt it was possible that she had been attacked by some wild beast, or at the very least, by someone.
However, these problems are secondary now; the most important thing is to save lives.
Thirteen had already gone down the mountain to have the imperial physicians on standby, so Li Manyan and her maid were immediately treated as soon as they were carried back to the hunting grounds.
During hunts, it's common for animals to fall off their horses while chasing prey, and such injuries are very easy to inflict.
Therefore, Physician Zhang quickly treated the wounds of the two men. However, because the impact was to their heads and they had been bleeding for a long time, they had lost too much blood and would have to remain unconscious for a period of time.
While Physician Zhang was dealing with the situation, Li Jin asked Li Manyun outside what had happened.
"I clearly told you to wait for me where you were, so why did you leave? Yan'er isn't the type to disobey. Did you get carried away and drag her off to play somewhere else?"
Hearing her own brother speak to her like that right away, Li Manyun felt a pang of disappointment, but also a sense of relief, as Li Jin's words conveniently provided her with a reason.
Li Manyun pretended to be angry and said to Li Jin, "Brother, why are you saying it's my fault right away? I'm your own sister!"
Li Jin frowned, realizing he had indeed been too impulsive, and apologized to her.
Sheng Sheng and the others watched from the side, all crossing their arms in a surprisingly synchronized manner.
Not only were their movements synchronized, but their expressions were also identical, with their eyebrows slightly raised and their eyes filled with suspicion and caution.
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