Chapter 45: Life and Death Together [Three Updates] If your wound hurts, bite me...
Yan Huinan couldn't stand Song Hongxuan's stupid speech any longer. He rolled his eyes at him and warned, "Enough!"
Song Hongxuan shut up in frustration. He really had no way of dealing with his cousin. He and Yan Huinan hadn't gotten along in childhood; he'd even given him a dog to taunt him.
But Song Hongxuan had one thing going for him since childhood: he was like a rubber ball, unyielding despite being thrown or hit. He might be a bit timid, but his vision was far more far-sighted than his brothers. He had a clear mind and could clearly discern who was valuable and who was not.
So even though Yan Huinan had been unruly in the past, he knew that Yan Huinan was a capable cousin, so he let him do whatever he wanted.
As expected, when the capital finally fell, his brothers, like frightened birds, were even more cowardly than he, hiding in their fiefdoms. Only Yan Huinan led his troops to rescue him.
He is a man of flexibility and adaptability, so fate favors him more. It was so in the past, and it is still so now.
Xie Yun knew that Yan Huinan was seriously injured in order to save her, and Song Hongxuan hated her, so Xie Yun did not say anything to refute him this time.
She silently planned to follow Yan Huinan. Even if she looked up, she could see the shocking white area after the bandage.
There beneath was a fatal wound.
Maybe she really is the nemesis of the Yan family, as everyone says...
"Xie Yun."
She lowered her head like a weeping willow that had been left dry by the cold wind all night, full of self-blame, but she heard Yan Huinan calling her.
Xie Yun was puzzled. "What?"
When she looked up, she saw Yan Huinan chase away Song Hongxuan. He freed his arm and stretched out his hand towards her, "Come here."
"Oh," Xie Yun replied, and walked over. Yan Huinan's face remained expressionless, but he held her hand tightly.
Suddenly, she felt a sharp pain in her nose. She didn't know why, but this indescribable sense of security was something she hadn't felt in ages. It had been years since she'd felt such a strong, powerful hand hold her tightly. In fact, she hadn't felt that way since she was very young.
Her father and brother never held her hand. She saw little girls sitting on their fathers' shoulders on the street countless times. Although she knew she would never have that, she couldn't help but envy them.
How could I not envy her, not imagine her? She was born like any other child, a sensible and intelligent little girl, so why couldn't she have such love and favor?
She has only ever felt the warmth that belongs to her mother.
In fact, Xie Yan got lost during his escape, but his father did not send anyone to look for him.
At that time, his father could barely protect himself, so he wouldn't care about her being just a concubine's daughter. During the famine, there were too many parents who sold their children, and Xie Qingyun simply didn't look for them.
Many people would think so. In fact, Xie Yun was shocked, frightened, and a little pitiful at the time, but she also had a cruel perseverance and gratitude in her heart.
Her father did not abandon her, and she hoped that she would not be abandoned.
But she will remember for the rest of her life that her father told her that Yan Huinan liked her, Lou Cheng also liked her, and that she was a valuable person.
Her young heart hadn't had time to react to these words, it had already begun to ache subconsciously. She couldn't feel a trace of warmth in these words.
She always seemed like a rootless duckweed, running around in a hurry, and was treated like a chess piece, used when useful and thrown away when useless.
But after this incident, when Xie Yun hovered between life and death, without her realizing it, her emotions had been involuntarily led by Yan Huinan.
Thinking back now, Yan Huinan had truly been involved in so much of her life. She had never felt the support of a father or brother, never felt a father's love. But she knew Yan Huinan's shoulders weren't strong, and his back was so thin that it made him look distant, but it was reassuring.
When he carried her on his back, she was always very stable and never felt uncomfortable. She often fell asleep on Yan Huinan's back because she was too tired from playing, and when she woke up, she was already home. Oh, right, it could also be the mansion of a marquis or a princess, where the gentle and beautiful eldest princess would be waiting for them two naughty monkeys to have dinner.
The food at that time smelled so good. If she smelled it again, she would definitely be able to tell which one was made by the eldest princess herself.
She had thought the world was cold and indifferent, that everyone was selfish, and that only fundamental interests could move people's hearts. No one would really risk their own life for another's.
She never believed that Yan Huinan would be like this. After all, they were just childhood playmates and close friends.
And later on, Yan Huinan must have hated her to death.
But at this moment, she suddenly didn't understand him.
Would you risk your life to save someone you hate?
But everything in this world is empty and floating, only this warm palm at this moment is truly holding her tightly.
She was reluctant to let go of this hand.
She stole a glance at Yan Huinan, then looked down uncertainly at her and Yan Huinan's clasped hands. Suddenly, she wanted to laugh at the irony of fate. After so much hatred and resentment between them, they could still hold hands after going through life and death together.
And if she really indirectly killed the eldest princess, and Yan Huinan knew the truth.
Can they continue to walk hand in hand like this?
Can she really trust the person who risked his life to save her?
Can she really be happy?
The word happiness has left her far behind for a long time...
Xie Yun couldn't help but think to herself, she would definitely heal her. As for what happened next, she would just take it one step at a time. Her life wasn't suited to overthinking. She was most afraid of having everything she wanted go unfulfilled.
Maybe you don't want to get too much, but you will get some surprises instead.
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One month later, in the capital.
The capital city had a full supply of medicinal herbs, and the poison in Yan Huinan's body had been completely eliminated. Unfortunately, the poisonous insect was being fed by the poison, and it carried its own toxins. As time went by, the insect grew larger and larger. Its secretions were toxic, and recently, it had begun to move within Yan Huinan's body.
Every time it moved an inch, Yan Huinan felt unbearable pain.
Even Yan Huinan, who was never afraid of pain, was often tortured to the point of being covered in sweat and his face turned pale. However, if the poisonous insects were not acting up, he could rely on his endurance to remain as if nothing had happened.
But no one could truly empathize with his pain, and no one knew how torturous it was when something inside his body was constantly eating away at his body.
After returning to Beijing, Yan Huinan had a new courtyard cleaned up and he lived in that courtyard.
No one in the mansion knew what had happened between the masters during this trip to Mount Tai. They only knew that the general and his wife slept in separate courtyards, and that the general seemed to be injured because he was taking medicine.
But when he saw the general on other days, he was no different from usual and could still handle his official duties normally. However, sometimes he saw that the general's face was not very good and he no longer went to the barracks.
But the lady seemed to be different from her previous indifferent attitude. She often stayed with the general. Although the general never set foot in the courtyard where they lived before, the lady often went to the general's courtyard. But at night she would go back to her original courtyard.
Since returning to Beijing, everyone has kept silent about Yan Huinan's serious injury. In fact, Yan Huinan specifically instructed that anyone who knew about it must not disclose the news, otherwise they would be killed without mercy.
Ever since the Miao youth's failed assassination attempt, Yan Huinan had been in the open, while his enemy had been in the dark. He had no idea when his opponent would strike again. However, based on the last examination of the body, and considering that those people knew Yan Huinan cared about Xie Yun, he could preliminarily infer that this person must be in the capital.
The news that Yan Huinan returned safely must have reached the other party's ears by now.
So no matter whether Yan returns to Nankang healthy or not, the other party must be waiting for an opportunity to send someone to assassinate him again.
But the main reason Yan Huinan concealed his condition was that he was worried that the Liang in the southwest and the barbarians in the north would take advantage of the situation and invade. If Yan Huinan was attacked before he recovered, the Great Zhou would be plunged into crisis again.
Therefore, Song Hongxuan never slowed down his efforts to send people to search for the female Gu.
Yan Huinan managed to finish his official duties by supporting himself, and suddenly remembered what Xie Yun said when she was examining the corpse that day. She had seen the special pattern mentioned by the assassin.
After Yan Huinan returned, he drew a picture of the mark. It seemed to be a flower with a simple eye-like pattern in the center. He had never seen such a pattern before.
This flower seemed somewhat familiar to him.
Like poppies.
poppy……
It was once his mother's favorite flower.
He suddenly thought of something and called Si Wen in, "Inform Si Wu and ask him to find a woman named Lu Song. She used to be Xie Yun's maid."
Si Wen didn't hear what Xie Yun said at the time. He didn't know why Yan Huinan suddenly wanted to find this person. But he desperately searched for information about this person in his mind.
I only remember that not long after Yan Huinan went to collect his mother's body, he fell ill with a high fever and nightmares.
Just as he was able to get out of bed half a month later, and before he could hold his mother's funeral, he received the news that the Xie family had disappeared overnight. Although Yan Huinan was already terminally ill and heartbroken, he still forced himself to go to the Xie family to look for them.
But when they arrived, it was too late. The Xie family had already left and it had been almost half a month since they left.
At that time, Yan Huinan seemed to have died again, standing in a daze at Xie's mansion where fallen leaves and dead grass were everywhere.
But someone came to report that a little girl was found hiding in the house.
At that moment, Yan Huinan's eyes lit up, and he suddenly ran to the place where the news came from. But the person he saw was Lu Song.
Si Wen didn't know whether Yan Huinan thought that Xie Yun was left behind by her father who was eager to escape, so he hid in Xie's house and waited for him.
At that time, his father had just been framed by Xie Qingyun for treason. But if Xie Yun was left alone at that time, Yan Huinan would have kept her by his side.
But no, Xie Yun was gone too, completely and without a care in the world, as if she had never cared about Yan Huinan. During his most despairing and heartbroken moments, Xie Yun hadn't appeared once. It was as if their former friendship and joy had all been a fleeting dream.
It was like a heavy thunder, splitting him apart fiercely.
At that time, Lusong was as thin as a mouse, and his whole body smelled bad, as if he had been soaking in stinky water for a long time. Seeing Yan Huinan on the verge of collapse, he took out all his anger on Lusong, asking her frantically where Xie Yun had gone.
Lu Song was so frightened by the paranoid and crazy Yan Huinan that he was like a mute and could not utter a word. In the end, he was completely frightened by Yan Huinan and fainted.
After Yan Huinan and the others left Lusong behind, Siwen sent her to a seemingly prosperous farm. If the heavens were merciful, I prayed someone would rescue her. But I wondered if she was still there.
Si Wen received the order, "Yes."
Shortly after giving his orders, Yan Huinan returned to the courtyard. Not a single candle was lit, and the surroundings were pitch black. He had barely laid down on the bed when he felt the parasite in his body attack him again. He had been waiting for this difficult night.
Because lately, the poisonous insects have been attacking more severely late at night. He is almost mastering the pattern of its attack.
He didn't want Xie Yun to see him so vulnerable, so he hid alone in this tortoise-shell-like yard, ready to endure this painful night alone.
Xie Yun originally just wanted to stand outside the house for a while and then leave tonight, but it seemed that he was in particularly severe pain tonight. She heard the man who didn't even make a sound when his flesh was being cut, but she heard low gasps and suppressed cries of unbearable pain coming from inside the house.
Xie Yun's heart was also tightened.
She looked towards the dim window anxiously, only a wall away...
Finally, she clenched her fists, but still decided to push the door open and walk in.
The person inside the door seemed to have sensed someone coming, and before he could identify them, he shouted in a gruff voice, "Get out!"
Xie Yun ignored him and walked over with firm steps. She squatted beside the bed and looked at the person on the bed in the moonlight. Her eyes couldn't help but moisten.
She took Yan Huinan's hand with heartache, held it tightly, and lowered her head to kiss his hand tremblingly.
Yan Huinan was in agony, his consciousness fading. The autumn night breeze was chilly, so Xie Yun's hands and kisses were cold. This cool touch brought Yan Huinan back to his senses, and he recognized Xie Yun.
He growled in pain, "Get out!"
Xie Yun apologized over and over again in her heart, and finally couldn't stop herself and said it out loud, "I'm sorry, Yan Huinan..."
Her tears couldn't help but fall on their tightly clasped hands, "If it hurts, bite me."
Yan Huinan was obviously stunned for a moment.
Finally, he suddenly went crazy and pulled Xie Yun into his arms, holding her tightly. His strong body almost completely wrapped around her thin body, and he bit down painfully on the side of Xie Yun's neck.
Xie Yun couldn't help but gasp in pain.
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