Xia Yixin was in a state of utter confusion. "What do you mean, 'what do you mean, 'I'? Anyway, Li Xin already knows I'm here. Chu Mubai, I don't care what you thought before, now it's too late. You have to come with me, or I'll knock you out and take you away!"
After shouting, Xia Yixin felt relieved, but seeing Chu Mubai's undisguised shock, she felt she had gone too far. In a desperate attempt to salvage the situation, she took out a letter she had prepared beforehand from a hidden pocket and slapped it on the bed.
She tilted her head back and snorted, "Don't misunderstand me, General. I'm just doing this for someone else. You can take a good look yourself. I'm going out now."
It wasn't until Yan Jiu (Xia Yixin) left the room that Chu Mubai belatedly picked up the letter. He was extremely familiar with the three characters "Chu Mubai" written on the envelope in a flamboyant style.
He couldn't remember how long it had been since she last wrote to him, and he dared not even imagine that what he experienced before he fell into a coma was not a hallucination.
Chu Mubai's hands were bandaged, but it wasn't difficult for him to take out the letter. He took a deep breath and took out the letter. Although it was full of words cursing him, he felt as if the dying embers in his heart had been rekindled.
His gaze fell on the last sentence of her letter: "[Chu Mubai, you better listen to Yan Jiu, take good care of your health and your life. I have things to do, and I'll meet up with you after I'm done. You need to apologize to me in person before I'll consider whether to forgive you.]"
She still wants to see him.
Chu Mubai couldn't help but smile, as if the tightness in his chest had vanished.
This kind of happiness is different from the novelties I received from Zi Linglong before. It is a genuine joy from the bottom of my heart, like the feeling of a small boat in a stormy sea suddenly seeing a lighthouse.
On the other side, Xia Yixin received the system notification as expected: "Ding! Male supporting character's happiness level increased by 5 points, totaling 15 points! Health points: 45. Please keep up the good work, host~"
Chu Mubai carefully put the letter away, got up and changed his clothes. While changing, he also removed the bandages from his hands and was surprised to find that the nails on all ten fingers were completely healed. He guessed that it was probably due to Yan Jiu's excellent medical skills and did not take it to heart.
When Chu Mubai pushed open the door and came out, he was surprised to see that Yan Jiu (Xia Yixin) was not the only one in the courtyard, but also Li Xin, General Li.
Chu Mubai bowed to General Li Xin, already having made up his mind, and said loudly, "General Li, I wonder if the two isolated cities have been captured yet? I have a plan, I wonder if General Li would like to hear it."
Li Xin, nearing sixty, with graying temples, had followed the late emperor for many years and was considered a senior general in the court.
If it weren't for an extraordinary time, the new emperor would never have invited him out again. He knew the new emperor's attitude towards Chu Mubai when he was left behind. He had originally tested him, hoping to get his genius help to conquer the two cities, but Chu Mubai remained silent and respectful.
General Li was conflicted and frustrated, so he acquiesced to Eunuch Li's actions. In addition, Li Xin was a loyal minister who maintained his duty of loyalty to both Nan Yu and the new emperor. Furthermore, since his descendants were all in the capital, he dared not disobey the imperial decree.
Although Li Xin also thought the new emperor was being absurd over something as trivial as a woman.
Finally unable to bear the pangs of conscience, he prepared to release Chu Mubai.
Unexpectedly, someone arrived even earlier than him, and it turned out to be General Yan Jiu!
Before Chu Mubai came out, Li Xin already knew he couldn't stop the two. But if he let Chu Mubai go, the new emperor would definitely blame him, and Li Xin and his clansmen would also be unable to escape the new emperor's wrath. What Chu Mubai said solved his immediate problem.
He used the military merit of capturing two cities to offset the crime of letting Chu Mubai escape.
Li Xin sighed deeply, "Lord Chu's words make me feel even more ashamed of my own inferiority."
Chu Mubai could have easily escaped, but he left Li Xin a way out.
Li Xin was worried about Chu Mubai's health, so he told him to rest for a while before they talked in detail. Before leaving, he couldn't help but glance at Yan Jiu a few more times and thought to himself, "As expected of the Ghost Doctor, Chu Mubai has recovered so much in just one day and one night."
In fact, Xia Yixin was even more surprised than Li Xin, especially when she saw Chu Mubai's hands, which had recovered completely. She remembered that when she took his pulse a few hours ago, he was weak and bloodless. Why is it that now, although his face is still a little pale, his eyes are deep and bright, and he looks refreshed and gentle, with an otherworldly temperament?
When she watched in astonishment as he drank two bowls of porridge, she also noticed that he had a very good appetite.
When he asked for a third bowl, I quickly stopped him, saying, "You've just recovered, you can't eat too much."
Chu Mubai nodded calmly, as if to obey the doctor's orders, and stood up to bow to her. "I'll leave the matter of leaving later to General Yan."
His reaction was exactly what she expected. He didn't put on airs, just grunted "hmm" and said nothing more.
In fact, Chu Mubai also had his own considerations.
Previously, he wasn't unwilling to leave, but rather unwilling to expose Yan Jiu. However, now that Yan Jiu's whereabouts have been exposed, Chu Mubai is prepared to take the risk.
His shock wasn't due to Yan Jiu's decision, but rather to "his" attitude. Logically, "he" shouldn't have acted so impulsively, since the two weren't strictly friends, but rather business partners. However, because of the letter Xia Yixin had given him, Chu Mubai felt it made sense.
As for offering advice and strategies to help Li Xin, that was another consideration for Chu Mubai.
Before going to find Li Xin, Chu Mubai first found the bound eunuch Li. Unfortunately, eunuch Li didn't know much either, especially about Xia Yixin's whereabouts, which was what Chu Mubai wanted to know the most. He insisted that he only saw Yan Jiu that night, and even the Jinyiwei who escaped death only said that they saw Yan Jiu alone.
This made Chu Mubai vaguely feel that something was wrong, but he had secretly dealt with those people, and no one would be able to prove who had rescued him.
After Chu Mubai and Li Xin had a private conversation for several hours, rumors suddenly began to circulate in Maicheng.
The new emperor disliked Chu Mubai and imprisoned him!
The new emperor has obtained evidence of Chu Mubai's treason and wants to kill him!
What? You say you don't believe me?
Hey, didn't you see that Chu Mubai disappeared along with that eunuch Li left behind by the new emperor?
I heard that Eunuch Li is using torture to extract a confession!
The next day, when Eunuch Li's body was discovered, the people of the city were in an uproar.
Li Xin even publicly displayed a fit of rage, denouncing the thief who killed Eunuch Li.
Chu Mubai's whereabouts remain unknown.
Rumors spread in Maicheng that Chu Mubai's men had rescued him and were preparing to take him away!
Sure enough, just as rumored, Li Xin led his troops in a frantic search for something in the city, as if they had lost something.
The people of Maicheng were both anxious and angry.
Lord Chu is such a good person, how could he possibly be plotting a rebellion? It must be a rumor!
The people resisted the search and even clashed with the search teams. Maicheng was in chaos, at least on the surface.
At the same time, a letter of distress was delivered to the generals guarding the two isolated cities opposite—Chu Mubai, unwilling to be suspected by the new emperor and harmed by treacherous people, was fortunate to be rescued by his own men and wanted to ask General Beiming for troops to leave Maicheng under cover of night!
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