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When the girl slowly approached him, Gu Huaizhi suddenly came to his senses, quickly picked up the blood-soaked underwear and covered himself with it.

He could pretend to be sick in front of her before, but now he didn't want her to see his truly weak appearance.

"Aning, what are you doing here?" Gu Huaizhi spoke too quickly and coughed unconsciously. His frail face showed seriousness and his tone was slightly accusatory: "Do you know that this is very dangerous?"

Gu Huaizhi's eyes dodged, not daring to look at the girl's expression, and thousands of possibilities flashed through his mind.

But anyway, it couldn't be because of him.

Mu An Ning, standing in front of the young man, remained silent for a long time, not knowing how to answer for a moment.

Gu Huaizhi was able to ask this question, probably because the prince had not told him this, but she also didn't know why the prince called Mu Wan'er to the border.

She came here this time only because she was forced by the system to accompany Mu Wan'er.

She was also curious about what would happen.

Mu An Ning did not answer, but lowered his eyes to look at the young man, and asked calmly: "How is the injury of the prince? Has it been treated?"

Although I don't know what exactly happened, from the conversation between Gu Huaizhi and Lu Changqing, it seems that Gu Huaizhi saved Lu Changqing, which led to his serious injury at this moment.

And this cave was obviously just their temporary resting place.

Hearing the girl's concern for him, Gu Huaizhi's eyes could not help but ripple, and he raised his head reluctantly: "Nothing."

Although he said so, Mu An Ning noticed that the boy's hand pressing on the wound was trembling slightly.

He seemed to be in pain.

"Prince." Mu An Ning thought for a moment, then suddenly squatted down, his eyes falling on his underwear: "Why don't you let me see how deep the wound is."

They were clearly going to fight the State of Liang, but now both generals were in this deserted cave. She really wanted to know why, but she couldn't ask too much.

"Aning, the injury has been treated." Gu Huaizhi's fingers unconsciously tightened and he turned his face away: "You don't need to look."

The wound was ugly and he didn't want her to see it.

Of course, now she no longer sheds tears for him.

Of course, now she should just think of him as an ordinary patient, not her lover.

Mu An Ning did not force it, but just asked: "What medicine did the prince take? Can you show it to me?"

Gu Huaizhi was silent for a moment, his eyes flickered as he looked at the fire: "That medicine... I'll throw it away after I use it."

Mu An Ning hummed softly, but she felt it was a little funny in her heart.

When he lied, he was still the same as when he was a child, looking away and not daring to look her in the eye.

Mu An Ning moved his gaze from the boy's face to his index finger and thumb, which he was unconsciously rubbing.

The next moment, the girl stretched out her slender hand, ready to snatch the underwear from under his hand.

Unexpectedly, she took off the clothes with just a light pull without much effort.

The blood-soaked cloth on the boy's lower abdomen also came into her sight.

Gu Huaizhi suddenly felt a chill on his body and froze for a moment. His Adam's apple moved slightly and he turned his head stiffly: "Aning, you..."

"Who taught you..." The boy paused and coughed uncomfortably: "To strip a man's clothes?"

After only a few days of not seeing each other, she had become so bold and could face a naked man without batting an eyelid.

Is she the same to others?

Mu An Ning glanced at the boy's heaving chest, then looked back at the injury on his abdomen, and asked calmly, "When was the prince injured?"

Gu Huaizhi looked at his clothes in the girl's hand. The tip of his ear was illuminated by the firelight, and his pale face seemed to have regained some redness. He answered in a daze, "Yes, it has been three hours."

Hearing this, Mu An Ning frowned slightly, pondered for a while, and stretched out his fingers to the boy's abdomen.

Gu Huaizhi did not let her succeed this time. He directly grasped the girl's slender wrist with his left hand which was not stained with blood.

"Aning, don't look." Gu Huaizhi's tone was a little harsh, and he no longer avoided the girl's gaze.

Mu An Ning's expression paused, and he suddenly noticed that Gu Huaizhi had some light stubble on his chin, and he looked much more haggard.

He would never do this in Beijing.

Feeling the strange changes in his heart, Mu An Ning's eyelashes trembled, but soon returned to normal: "Sir, if the wound is not treated in time, I'm afraid it will rot."

Gu Huaizhi remained silent, his jaw clenched, but he did not let go.

"If the prince doesn't think about himself, he should also think about the people of Chu." Seeing that the young man seemed to be relieved, Mu An Ning said again: "If there is one less person leading the troops, what will happen to the soldiers? What will happen to the Great Chu?"

She didn't know what the current war situation was like, but with the Crown Prince heading to the border and Gu Huai seriously injured, she thought the situation would not be very good.

I don't know what words touched Gu Huaizhi, he finally loosened his hand on the girl's wrist, his brows showing a heavy look.

Mu An Ning did not hesitate any longer and directly peeled off the piece of cloth covering the wound on the left side of his abdomen.

The moment he saw the wound, Mu An Ning's eyelids twitched involuntarily.

The wound looked like it had been caused by a sword, and was more severe than any she had seen in the hospital before.

The wound just barely stopped bleeding, but the flesh around the edge was already showing signs of turning inside out.

If nothing is done, Gu Huaizhi might very well lose too much blood.

Mu An Ning thought for a while, turned around and took out his water bag from his bag, then slowly poured it on the wound. He then hurriedly took out the thin cloth he carried with him, lowered his head and carefully wiped the wound that was bleeding.

As Gu Huaizhi looked at his beloved who was so close to him, his whole body gradually became stiff.

From his angle, he could see the girl's drooping eyebrows and her unconsciously pursed red lips.

The girl's hand movements were gentle and delicate, as if she had returned to last summer.

That time, he happened to run into Mu An Ning on the street, who was being harassed by a drunken playboy.

He was filled with anger and immediately rushed forward to rescue her.

His attention was completely on the girl, so naturally he didn't expect that there was an accomplice of that man behind him, and his arm was accidentally grazed by the sword.

He wanted to teach the two courageous men a lesson, but he couldn't persuade the tearful girl, so he just kicked them twice casually and was pulled away by Mu An Ning to treat his injuries.

However, he still sent someone to teach them a lesson afterwards, and had them tell their parents about their involvement in the fireworks area, so that they would never be able to hold their heads up in Shangjing again.

The only difference was that he injured his forearm back then, but this time it was his lower abdomen.

As the thin cloth gently stroked his lower abdomen, the numbing feeling it brought, the boy was pulled out of his memories. His body suddenly trembled, and breathing seemed to become a little difficult.

But Mu An Ning, who was wiping the wound carefully, did not notice anything unusual about the boy. He turned around and took out a small medicine bottle from his bag.

This bottle of medicine was developed by Dr. Lu himself. It was made earlier and he specially sent a bottle to her.

She tried it once and found that this medicine was better than the usual gold medicine. It was a pity that she only brought this bottle and she would probably use half of it today.

Mu An Ning carefully observed the boy's injuries, then sprinkled the medicine on his abdomen little by little, and said in a calm voice: "You should be thankful that the sword that hurt you was not poisoned."

If the sword that caused such serious injuries was poisoned, Gu Huaizhi would be dead for sure.

Hearing the young man's muffled groan, Mu An Ning paused for a moment, thought for a moment, and said, "If it hurts, you can tell me, and I will go slower."

Gu Huaizhi was stunned for a moment, then couldn't help but curl up the corners of his lips, and said in a tone that was unlike his: "It doesn't hurt."

As soon as Mu An Ning raised her eyes, she met the boy's sparkling peach blossom eyes. She was stunned for a moment, then quickly lowered her head to apply medicine to him, but her heart couldn't stop beating. If it were in the past, such a look that seemed to want to melt her into his eyes would probably make her fall into it.

Gu Huaizhi saw the girl turn away her eyes and said a little aggrievedly: "Aning, it hurts."

Mu An Ning paused his fingers slightly, said "hmm", and slowed down his movements, but because he did not raise his eyes, he did not see the successful boy and the smile on his lips that could not be stopped.

He didn't want to make her worry, but he also wanted her to care about him.

The tactic of showing weakness is indeed effective.

The next step is to wrap it with fine cloth.

Mu An Ning's eyes fell on the young man's lean waist. He hesitated for a moment before saying, "Prince, stand up a little."

He was leaning against the wall at the moment, and it was inconvenient for her to wind the cloth.

Gu Huaizhi's breathing stagnated and his ears turned slightly red, but he did as the girl said and moved a little closer to her.

Mu An Ning pursed her lips, took the piece of cloth, clasped her hands around the boy's waist, and wrapped it around again and again.

Smelling the unique fragrance of the girl, Gu Huai couldn't help but feel a dryness in his throat.

Mu An Ning didn't know that his breath was spraying on the boy's neck. After wrapping the gauze around his neck, he returned the underwear to him and said, "Put it on, Prince. Don't catch a cold."

The border is much colder than Beijing, and there are occasional cool breezes blowing in the dark night.

Hearing the girl's gentle instructions, Gu Huaizhi's expression finally returned to normal, but the tips of his ears were still slightly red.

He coughed lightly, took the clothes, and said, "Aning, I will send someone to take you back to Shangjing tomorrow."

He didn't want her to stay at the border, not because he couldn't protect her, but because if she wanted to stay, he would definitely take her with him, but he didn't want her to face the brutal war.

Mu An Ning frowned and asked the question that was confusing him: "Prince, I heard that there is a shortage of medicine at the border. Is this true?"

She learned about this by chance from her adoptive father and didn't know whether it was true or not.

Gu Huaizhi's eyebrows twitched. He didn't want to say this to her, but seeing the girl's serious look, he nodded for some unknown reason.

His uncle, the emperor, did not send anyone to replenish their medicine.

The two armies had clashed twice, and in the end, the Chu army had the upper hand.

But just when everyone thought that the Liang army would retreat in the face of difficulty, Liang caught them off guard.

Overnight, the people of Liang seemed to have become a new group of troops. They rushed forward recklessly, preferring to lose a thousand of their own rather than eight hundred of the enemy.

The Chu State lost three thousand elite soldiers before it was able to barely hold back the Liang army.

Mu An Ning was slightly shocked. He never thought that this was actually true.

Although the emperor's intentions could not be guessed, she really could not understand why the emperor would treat the soldiers who fought for the Great Chu in this way.

The winner will have unlimited territory, while the loser will have his country destroyed and his family ruined.

The emperor was so confident in the Chu army that he was sure there would not be a disastrous defeat?

Mu An Ning thought for a long time, and suddenly said softly: "Sir, I won't leave."

Even if she wanted to leave, the system had thousands of ways to get her back to the border.

So she might as well go along with it and look for any other way to replenish the medicine.

When Gu Huaizhi opened his mouth to speak, Mu Wan'er suddenly walked in yawning, "Sister, are you done?"

[That General Lu was like a piece of wood. I said ten sentences and he answered one. I was almost bored to death.]

[It would be nice if I had a cell phone so I could chat with my little brother...]

[No! Why is the atmosphere between my daughter and Gu Huaizhi a little... ambiguous? ]

The two people whose conversation was interrupted made eye contact, and then quickly separated guiltily.

*

The next day.

The young man who opened his eyes first touched his waist and was surprised to find that there was nothing unusual about the wound.

The medicine that Aning brought is indeed the best.

Then, Gu Huaizhi's eyes fell on the girl leaning on his shoulder, and the corners of his lips curled up unconsciously.

Mu An Ning was able to sleep next to him thanks to Mu Wan'er's accidental help last night.

His Aning was still asleep and looked very well behaved.

He wanted to be with her forever, but he pushed her to someone else with his own hands.

Gu Huaizhi's heart sank suddenly, and he slowly reached out to tuck the girl's messy hair behind her ears, but his eyes unconsciously lingered on her fair forehead for a moment longer.