Chapter 516 Awakening (Two Updates)
After the defeat of Prince Yi, everyone thought that he and his son-in-law would lead an army of 5,000 to Beiyang City or Ye City to join the Chen army. However, according to reports from the two scouts who were lying in wait outside Beiyang City and Ye City, no trace of the former dynasty's army was found.
Meanwhile, Gu Changqing was also desperately searching for Gu Jiao's whereabouts.
No one expected that Prince Yi and his entourage would brave the wind and snow, cross the icy plains, and arrive at a "paradise on earth".
It's called a paradise because of its rolling mountains, snow-covered landscape, and a natural hot spring at the mountaintop.
This is a treasure land that the Silver Fox Man discovered by chance during a winter hunt. It is located within the territory of Zhao Kingdom, but it is unclaimed land. The ice covering it for months every year makes the border officials regard it as an ordinary mountain.
The silver-foxed man secretly built a stronghold here, and even the Prince of Yi was visiting for the first time.
When a horse-drawn carriage enters the village, it needs to cross a wooden bridge.
As the carriage crossed the wooden bridge, Prince Yi asked the silver-foxed man with trepidation, "Is it really safe here?"
The silver-foxed man brushed off the snowflakes that had accidentally flown in through the window and landed on his silver-foxed cloak, and said with a calm and confident smile, "Uncle, don't worry. The mountains here are steep and the terrain is secluded. It snowed so heavily when we came, our footprints have long been covered up. There is no way the Gu family army could find us."
Below the wooden bridge was a bottomless abyss. Prince Yi, as if possessed, lifted the curtain and took a peek, nearly scared the soul out of his body!
If this wooden bridge breaks, they will all be smashed to pieces!
Only after everyone had crossed the wooden bridge did Prince Yi finally feel relieved.
But the next second, he heard his nephew say, "Fengshi, cut down the wooden bridge!"
Prince Yi was shocked: "Zheng'er, why did you cut down the wooden bridge! Do you want to be trapped here forever!"
The silver-foxed man smiled reassuringly and said to Prince Yi, "Uncle, Gu Changqing, the young master of the Gu family army, is exceptionally cunning. I'm worried that he will still find some clues to catch up with us."
Prince Yi frowned and said, "But didn't you say you wouldn't leave any trace?"
"This is just in case," the silver-foxed man explained with a smile. "As for the way down the mountain, Uncle, you don't need to worry. There is a secret passage in the village that leads from the top of the mountain to the outside. Even I haven't been there. That is our real way out."
Upon hearing this, Prince Yi breathed a sigh of relief again, but for no reason, he felt a pang of worry the moment the wooden bridge was cut down.
He couldn't tell whether his concern stemmed from the wooden bridge itself or from something else.
His gaze unconsciously fell on the Zhao soldier.
There was a charcoal brazier inside the carriage, which was much warmer than outside. The ice on the Zhao soldier's armor had melted, and there was a puddle of water beneath him.
The visor on his helmet was probably lifted up during the fight. He was originally wearing a mask underneath, but it was torn off by the Silver Fox man's men.
He was lying on his side, his left cheek, which had a birthmark, was exposed.
The more Prince Yi looked, the more his brows furrowed.
"Uncle, we've arrived," the silver-foxed man said to Prince Yi. Then he noticed that Prince Yi's gaze towards the boy was a little strange, so he asked, "Uncle, what's wrong?"
“I always felt we should kill him,” Prince Yi said, looking at Gu Jiao.
The silver-foxed man laughed and said, "If he's useless, it's not too late to kill him."
"Your Highness, it's time to get off the carriage," a soldier reported from outside the carriage.
Prince Yi withdrew his gaze from Gu Jiao and got off the carriage.
After getting out of the car, the silver-foxed man said to his trusted subordinate, "Feng Shi."
Feng Shi cupped his hands in greeting: "My lord."
The silver-foxed man calmly ordered, "Take him away, find a room to settle him in, and find a doctor to examine him. Don't let him die."
Feng Shi said, "Yes!"
The silver-foxed man paused, then warned, "Also, he's quite skilled; be careful not to get ambushed."
Feng Shi cupped his hands and respectfully replied, "Your subordinate knows what to do."
There are two hot springs on the mountaintop, one large and one small. The Prince's courtyard is located at the large hot spring, while the Silver Fox Man's courtyard is located at the small hot spring.
The silver-foxed man first escorted Prince Yi back to his courtyard, and only returned to his own courtyard after settling Prince Yi in properly.
The courtyard was heavily guarded both inside and out.
The silver-foxed man looked at the two soldiers at the door and asked, "Is the princess inside?"
One of them said, "In reply to your question, sir, the princess has always been here."
The silver-foxed man asked again, "Never gone out?"
The soldier shook his head: "No."
This is a stronghold large enough to accommodate an army of 10,000. It's quite a large place, and no one restricts Princess Ning'an's freedom, but she just won't go out for a walk.
The silver-foxed man nodded thoughtfully: "Understood. Guard the courtyard well and report to me immediately if there is any movement."
"yes!"
Everyone responded in unison.
The silver-foxed man entered the courtyard.
On the other side, Feng Shi settled Gu Jiao in a small wooden house.
Gu Jiao's small basket was also carried over by a soldier.
"Deputy General Feng, what should we do with this basket?" a soldier asked.
Feng Shi personally dug this basket out of the snow and delivered it to the adult along with the red-tasseled spear. The adult only took the red-tasseled spear, clearly showing that he didn't care about the contents of the basket.
Feng Shi looked at it and saw that apart from a little bit of hard, dry food, there was only a tattered little box.
The box had a faint smell of medicinal herbs, so it must be a medicine box.
“Take them all away,” Feng Shi said, then paused and added, “Never mind, give me that box.”
What if there are some valuable medicinal herbs inside?
"Yes." The soldier handed the small medicine box to Feng Shi, then carried the small basket downstairs.
Feng Shi then sent someone to fetch the accompanying physician.
While waiting for the physician to arrive, Feng Shi tried to open the small medicine box, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't budge it.
He touched the lid of the box and said strangely, "It wasn't locked."
He then pulled out his dagger and inserted it into the gap under the lid, attempting to pry it open.
With a sharp clang, his dagger broke off, but the lid of the box remained intact.
"What a piece of junk!" Feng Shi stood up, impatiently kicking the small medicine box, then looked at the broken dagger in his hand and said with heartache, "The dagger that the master gave me... I haven't even used it twice..."
Amidst the whispers, the medic was brought in by the soldiers.
Feng Shi pulled the broken blade out of the crevice in the box, grumbling as he walked out, intending to see if the dagger could be repaired.
He took two steps, then turned back and threw the small, broken box that had pried off his dagger into the brazier!
As for Gu Jiao on the bed, Feng Shi had never seen anyone frozen like that and still be able to be saved. However, since the adults had given the order, Feng Shi still found a rope and tied Gu Jiao's hands and feet together.
The physician entered the room and bowed to Feng Shi.
Feng Shi said coldly, "The lord has ordered that his life must be kept alive no matter what. Use any good medicine you have on him."
"Yes, I understand," the physician replied.
Feng Shi went out to repair the dagger, and the physician came to the bedside and placed his medicine box on the small table by the bed.
Since he was a soldier, there was no need to be cautious about the separation between men and women, and the physician sat down directly by the bed.
Gu Jiao's hands were tied together and placed on her stomach.
The physician did not dare to untie Gu Jiao's ropes, and took her pulse just like that.
You won't know until you do, and then you'll be in for a surprise.
"Yes...yes..."
It's a girl!
The physician shuddered and instinctively stood up, but his hand was suddenly grabbed by a cold, lifeless hand.
The medical officer opened his mouth: "Come on -"
He had only spoken halfway when a blade appeared on his wrist, seemingly out of nowhere.
The medical officer was completely baffled by this series of actions!
What's going on?
Didn't they say they were freezing to death?
Why did you suddenly wake up?
He woke up, and then somehow got a knife and tried to cut his wrist!
Gu Jiao woke up when Feng Shi tied her up with a rope. Gu Jiao didn't know who the other person was, but since the other person tied her up with a rope, he probably didn't intend to treat her kindly.
After Fengshi left, she quietly took out the blade hidden inside her arm armor.
Come to think of it, this armor is really well made; it can hide weapons everywhere, it's practically tailor-made for her.
Gu Jiao's eyes were as cold as her hands, and the physician's legs began to tremble.
Gu Jiao gave him a wink to the soldiers outside the door.
The physician understood, broke out in a cold sweat, swallowed hard, and said in a normal tone, "Young man, could you please fetch me a bucket of hot water?"
The soldier was thinking, "Why don't you go yourself?"
Since he was a medical officer, the soldiers couldn't afford to offend him, so they suppressed their impatience and went.
As soon as the soldier left, Gu Jiao cut the rope: "Don't make a sound! Or I'll slit your throat!"
The physician was successfully threatened.
Gu Jiao tied him up with a rope and stuffed a wad of cotton from the pillow into his mouth.
Then Gu Jiao spotted the small medicine box burning in the brazier. Her eyes turned cold, and she picked it up.
Thankfully, it wasn't burned.
Gu Jiao walked over and closed the door. The soldier needed to fetch a whole bucket of water, so he wouldn't be back so quickly, but he wouldn't be too slow either. She didn't have much time left.
Her condition is not good.
She must have developed some complications from being in the snow for too long; she was having trouble breathing.
She opened the first-aid kit, took out a blood pressure monitor, and measured her blood pressure.
My blood pressure is too high.
"cough!"
She suddenly felt a tickle in her throat and coughed up a mouthful of pink foam.
The physician sitting on the bed was stunned once again by what he saw. It was one thing for her to take out those strange things from the box, but she even coughed up this stuff.
This...this is a lung disease!
This is a common ailment that often occurs after frostbite, and it is basically incurable by medicine!
Gu Jiao took her blood pressure again, and this time, it began to drop sharply.
It is acute pulmonary edema.
She will soon suffer from cardiogenic shock.
In a place like this, once you go into shock, you may never wake up again.
Gu Jiao took out a handkerchief and covered her mouth, then coughed up another mouthful of pink foam.
She has begun to show symptoms similar to heart failure and is about to go into cardiogenic shock.
Her hands trembled uncontrollably.
She held a handkerchief in one hand and took out an adrenaline syringe in the other.
There wasn't enough time to establish an intravenous line, nor was it possible to do so.
Gu Jiao grabbed the syringe, pried open the armor with the hand holding the handkerchief, and plunged it into her thigh!
...
"Doctor, your hot water is here." The soldier came to the door. "Huh? Why is the door closed?"
The soldier pushed open the door and said to the doctor sitting on the stool, "Doctor, here's your hot water."
"Bring it in," the physician said gravely.
The soldier curled his lip. It was one thing to ask him to fetch water, but to ask him to take it inside? Did he have no hands or feet?
This soldier was somewhat related to the steward of the Prince Yi, and was always more arrogant than the ordinary soldiers.
Unless absolutely necessary, the physician would not want to use him.
The soldier placed the water on the ground next to the physician, glancing at the sleeping Zhao soldier on the bed, and asked, "Why aren't you awake yet?"
The physician said solemnly, "How could someone who's been frozen for so long wake up so easily? They need treatment."
"Then you should treat him."
The soldiers seemed intent on watching the medic treat Gu Jiao.
The physician frantically tried to wink at him.
The soldier asked, "What are you doing? Is your eye twitching? Didn't the officer tell you to treat him? Hurry up and do it!"
The physician gritted his teeth and said, "Mmm!"
Go away!
The soldier wouldn't leave; he wanted to see how he would bring the living dead back to life.
This man was dug out of the snowdrift and was frozen together with Sirius's corpse; he didn't believe he could be alive.
"Why aren't you treating him yet? Is it not working? I'll go tell Vice General Feng to send another doctor!"
As soon as the soldier finished speaking, a silver needle flew past the physician's ear and struck the soldier between the eyebrows. The soldier's eyes widened, and he fell straight backward.
Just as he was about to crash onto the floor with a loud thud, Gu Jiao stretched out her foot to block him, then gently placed him on the ground.
The physician sighed silently to himself.
I warned you before, but you wouldn't listen.
Gu Jiao threw off the covers and got out of bed.
Gu Jiao didn't threaten the doctor with a razor blade this time because it was no longer necessary. Ever since he saw Gu Jiao prick herself with an acupuncture needle, not only did she not kill her, but she also brought her back to life, the doctor looked at Gu Jiao as if he had seen a ghost.
"What about my other things?" Gu Jiao asked the physician.
The physician shook his head like a rattle-drum: "I...I don't know, but...it's probably...it's probably taken by Deputy General Feng. He's the one who brought you here."
Gu Jiao removed the silver needles and put them away.
"No one will be coming for a while, right?" Gu Jiao asked.
The physician waved his hand and said, "No, no, this place is very remote, it's all where servants live. There are quite a few soldiers outside, even if you recover, you won't be able to escape."
Physician: ...Why should I remind you?
Gu Jiao opened the small medicine box again.
In addition to using cardiac stimulants to prevent cardiogenic shock, acute pulmonary edema also requires the edema in the lungs to be drained as soon as possible.
Gu Jiao found a bottle of mannitol and started giving herself an IV drip while asking the doctor for some information.
It turned out that Prince Yi had indeed been defeated in the Battle of Lingguan City. He abandoned the city and fled, taking his consort and 5,000 troops with him as they retreated from Lingguan City overnight. He encountered her on the way; it was his consort who took her in.
Too.
The path Princess Ning'an took was arranged for her by her husband, so of course he could find it.
As for the prince consort's purpose, it's not hard to guess. It's not because the prince consort has compassion, but because she probably still has some value to him.
Gu Jiao said thoughtfully, "So this is Prince Yi's lair?"
Physician: Please stop asking me, okay? I've already said enough, or my conscience won't allow me to continue!
“Yes,” the physician said, “it’s the lair!”
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