Chapter 110
Chu Zhong was driving the carriage, while Aunt Guo and Jiang Yanyi were sitting in the carriage. He saw that the situation was not good, so he quickly whipped the horse whip and shouted: "Protect the young master and the young lady!"
The speed of the horse pulling the carriage had reached its limit, and it was unable to completely avoid the carriage in the alley when it hit.
Jiang Yanyi was also scared and broke into a cold sweat. She reflexively pushed Chu Yangui to Aunt Guo: "Auntie, take Yanui out!"
The carriage that rushed across the alley knocked away all the stalls at the entrance of the alley. If this inertia hit their carriage, the people in the carriage would be injured if not killed.
Chu Yangui's face was pale. He stretched out his hand to grab Jiang Yanyi's sleeve, but he grabbed nothing. At that moment, his eyes were full of pleading and fragility: "Sister!"
Before he could say another word, Aunt Guo jumped off the carriage with Chu Yangui in her arms. She was good at martial arts, and she rolled on the ground twice to relieve the force, but her arm was still broken.
Jiang Yanyi was in the carriage. Because Chu Zhong tried hard to turn the horse's head to try to avoid the carriage as much as possible, she felt that the whole carriage was spinning. If she hadn't held on to the crossbar at the window tightly, she would have been thrown out of the carriage.
Just as the carriage coming out of the alley was about to hit them, the horse pulling the carriage was suddenly chopped off its head by someone. The horse's head fell to the ground, blood gushed out, and the horse fell straight down on the street.
The carriage behind it dragged for a distance due to inertia, and only stopped when it ran over the horse's body.
The driver lost his balance and fell forward, lying in a pile of horse blood, his face and body were covered with blood.
Tap, tap, tap.
The tip of the horizontal sword in Feng Shuo's hand was still dripping with blood. There were a lot of blood stains on his cold face and on his black robe embroidered with dark red coiled dragon patterns. The murderous intent in his eyes was even sharper than the sword in his hand.
After he found out something was wrong, he immediately cut the reins of his carriage and rode forward to stop the assassination.
The driver was obviously frightened, his legs trembling, looking at Feng Shuo in horror, unable to stand up, using his hands and feet to retreat.
Feng Shuo took a step forward and stabbed the driver's thigh with the broadsword in his hand. The driver held his leg and howled in pain, with veins bulging on his neck.
Xing Yao rushed over with several guards, and Feng Shuo said coldly: "Take him back and torture him."
The driver was soon tied up and dragged away.
Feng Shuo then walked towards the carriage where Jiang Yanyi was. When he opened the curtain, he saw Jiang Yanyi still holding the crossbar of the window tightly with both hands. His face was pale, and it was obvious that he had not recovered from the shock.
He felt as if something stabbed his chest, and tried to soften his tone and said, "It's okay."
Jiang Yanyi nodded, her hands and feet were still a little weak, and when she saw Feng Shuo reaching out his hand to her, she handed it over.
She stumbled when she stood up and fell into Feng Shuo's arms.
Feng Shuo pressed his hands tightly on Jiang Yanyi's back and repeated the sentence in a calm tone: "It's okay."
It was unclear whether he was talking to Jiang Yanyi or to himself.
Jiang Yanyi also recovered. She stumbled just now because she had been sitting in the carriage for too long and the road was bumpy, so her legs were weak.
Feng Shuo was always a person who did not show his joy in front of outsiders, but at this moment, she could clearly feel his panic.
Jiang Yanyi felt so soft in her heart that she replied, "I'm fine."
Feng Shuo still did not let go and directly carried her down from the carriage.
Aunt Guo broke her arm and could not help Chu Yangui, so two guards from the Feng Mansion carried him over.
The wound on his leg healed, but the bone inside had not healed yet. He had never stood up before, and the first time he stood up, his knees felt like they were being pricked by needles. After only a few steps, his forehead was already covered with sweat.
"Sister..." Chu Yangui saw Feng Shuo holding Jiang Yanyi, and thought she was injured, and his eyes were filled with pain.
Chu Zhong knew that Chu Yangui's leg injury made him unable to stand, so he quickly took out the wheelchair from the carriage and let him sit.
Jiang Yanyi was embarrassed to be intimate with Feng Shuo in front of his brother, so he pinched Feng Shuo's stiff arm and motioned him to let her go, but Feng Shuo turned a blind eye and only said to Chu Yangui, "She is not injured."
Jiang Yanyi quickly nodded in agreement, and asked Chu Yangui, "Are you injured?"
His face looked too bad, and he didn't look like he was not injured.
Chu Yangui shook his head: "I'm fine, but Auntie Guo broke her arm to protect me."
They couldn't go to Ruyi Tower, so they went back home because there was a ready-made doctor in Feng Mansion. Jiang Yanyi saw that Chu Yangui's forehead was sweating all the time in the carriage, and was worried that he had hurt his bones when he stood up. Auntie Guo's hand also needed to be seen by a doctor, so they went to Feng Mansion together. The
doctor in Feng Mansion first set Auntie Guo's bones, and then treated Chu Yangui's injuries.
The doctor asked Chu Yangui to lift up his trouser legs. Feng Mansion had floor heating to keep him warm, so he didn't have to worry about being cold.
Seeing that Jiang Yanyi had no intention of avoiding suspicion, the doctor thought that they were siblings, so he didn't say anything. Chu Yangui, however, seemed a little embarrassed: "Sister, wait for me outside."
Men and women of seven years old should not sit together. Even if they are brothers and sisters, they need to avoid each other on weekdays. Chu Zhong has always been the one to change the medicine on Chu Yangui's leg. Except for the time when his wound was festering, Jiang Yanyi has never seen the wound on his leg. Jiang Yanyi
still trusts the doctor of Feng Mansion. Seeing that Chu Yangui was very reluctant to let her stay in the room, he stood up and said, "I'm outside. Call me if you have anything."
Chu Yangui nodded, and Chu Zhong also said, "Don't worry, Miss, I'll be watching inside the room."
Jiang Yanyi then left the room.
Feng Shuo went to interrogate the driver himself. She was under the eaves, looking at the gray sky and the heavy snow falling like goose feathers to the world, a little absent-minded.
There must be a mastermind behind this accident, but I don't know if it's the emperor or someone else.
In the room.
After Chu Yangui lifted up his trouser legs, the doctor of Feng Mansion knew why he let Jiang Yanyi go.
The wound was healed, but his knees were covered with hideous scars, which made him feel sick just by looking at them. Moreover, there were signs of muscle atrophy in his calves, which were completely disproportionate to his thighs.
The doctor pressed the area below Chu Yangui's knees and asked him, "Does it hurt?"
Chu Yangui shook his head with a dim look in his eyes.
He had discovered earlier that he had almost no feeling below his calves, and knew that he would undoubtedly be a useless man in this life. He was afraid that Jiang Yanyi would be sad, so he had been hiding the fact that Jiang Yanyi had no feeling in his legs.
However, his two calves had obviously become smaller due to muscle atrophy, and he himself felt sick just looking at them.
The doctor took a silver needle and inserted it into that place, and Chu Yangui's legs twitched uncontrollably. The doctor continued to ask: "What about now?"
Chu Yangui said: "It hurts a little."
The doctor nodded, and when he pressed the acupuncture point on the inner upper side of his knee, before he asked, Chu Yangui groaned: "It hurts."
The doctor's face was a little solemn. He pulled out the silver needle below the knee: "Many tendons and veins in the young man's legs have been necrotized, but he has not completely lost consciousness. I feel that it takes a hundred days
to heal a broken bone. You must not exert force on your front legs until the bones have grown back. As for walking like a normal person, I am afraid there is no hope in this lifetime..." Chu Yangui interrupted the doctor and said, "Just tell me whether these two useless legs will kill me.
" The doctor said, "That won't happen."
After getting this answer, Chu Yangui curled the corners of his lips as if nothing happened, "That's enough."
Chu Zhong felt uncomfortable watching him like this, but he turned his eyes away.
The doctor wrote a prescription and went out to boil the medicine, saying that after Chu Yangui took the medicine, acupuncture treatment on his calves would be able to relieve muscle atrophy to a certain extent.
When there was no one else in the room, Chu Yangui said to Chu Zhong, "Uncle Zhong, don't tell my sister."
Chu Zhong really loved the two children. He said, "It's not a solution to keep it a secret. The young lady will find out one day."
Chu Yangui said, "My sister is already worried enough about the affairs of Ruyi Tower and the noodle shop. I don't want to cause her more trouble. Besides, the doctor can't do anything about my crippled legs, so what can my sister do?"
Chu Zhong knew that what Chu Yangui said made sense, so he finally agreed and half squatted down to help him put down his trouser legs.
Chu Yangui tightly grasped the armrest of the chair, his eyes full of stubbornness and anger: "I will avenge my mother. I will not let anyone who harmed my sister go, and I will live well until those people are dead."
If he had not been going out today, he would not have encountered this assassination.
Chu Yangui hated himself, and he hated those maggots hiding in the gutter, ready to harm people at any time!
The sky was gloomy, and the dungeon of Feng Mansion was dark, with only scarlet flames spitting out of the brazier.
Several pieces of iron had been burned red in the brazier, and the coachman was tied to the rack, his head tilted to one side, and his body was full of scars from being whipped.
"Master, the person has passed out." Xing Yao said to Feng Shuo after stepping forward to check.
Feng Shuo's face was grim. He made a gesture, and immediately a jailer poured a bucket of cold water with ice chips on the driver. After the driver was awakened by the splash, he was breathing in more than out.
"I will ask you one last time, who ordered you to do this?" Feng Shuo's tone was a little colder than the snow in winter.
The driver looked like a coward, but his mouth was very serious. He was almost dead, but he still refused to give in: "No one ordered me to do this. I was just scared..."
Seeing Feng Shuo's face getting more and more gloomy, Xing Yao couldn't help but sweat. He said, "Master, this man is asking for death. You can't torture him anymore. I will come to interrogate him tomorrow..."
Feng Shuo smiled coldly: "Feng Shiyan's dog is really... "You are loyal. If you dare to hurt a finger of my princess for Jiang Yanxi, I will chop off Jiang Yanxi's whole hand!"
When the driver heard the word "Jiang Yanxi", his eyelids finally moved, and a slightly sarcastic look appeared on his face: "A bunch of traitors who are plotting to usurp the throne are worthy of mentioning a princess."
Feng Shuo's eyes changed slightly. He had heard Jiang Yanyi talk about the plot of the original book and knew that Jiang Yanxi was a princess of the previous dynasty.
The current Daxuan Dynasty is already chaotic enough, and he doesn't want people from the previous dynasty to get involved and make the water more chaotic. Not to mention that Minister Jiang is now in the hands of Emperor Feng Shiyan. Without Minister Jiang's evidence, Jiang Yanxi may not believe that she is a princess of the previous dynasty. Just expecting her to poison Emperor Feng Shiyan, with Feng Shiyan's suspicion, the probability of Jiang Yan's poisoning being successful is pitifully small.
The best option is to keep the person in hand and use him to restrain Feng Shiyan.
The driver delayed until now and suddenly exposed Jiang Yanxi's identity as a princess of the previous dynasty. It is obvious that he is no longer worried about Jiang Yanxi's safety.
Feng Shuo figured something out in an instant, and ordered Xing Yao with a cold look: "Immediately take the troops to Pipa Lane!"
In Xizhou, apart from the big jail near the government office, the dungeon of the Protectorate can only be used to lock people up.
The Grand Empress Dowager is at home, and Feng Shuo dare not take the risk of locking people in the dungeon of the mansion, fearing that the other party will be desperate and kidnap the Grand Empress Dowager.
After someone tried to rob the prison before, Feng Shuo changed the place to hold Jiang Yanxi.
The other party has been lurking for so long, obviously to find out the place where Jiang Yanxi is imprisoned. The assassination arranged today is simply a move to lure the tiger away from the mountain!
When Xing Yao heard Feng Shuo's order, he turned around and walked out. However, before he could walk out of the dungeon, his personal soldiers hurried out: "Master, Pipa Lane was attacked! The prisoners were kidnapped!"
The coachman tied to the rack laughed strangely: "When the princess recovers Daqi, you traitors and thieves will all die without a burial place."
Feng Shuo's face was not angry. He rubbed the rim of the teacup with his fingertips and sneered: "There are less than 3,000 old subordinates of the previous dynasty. You may still have a chance to survive by hiding your heads and showing your tails, but restoring Daqi? It's just a dream."
Knowing that there were old subordinates of the previous dynasty outside the pass, Feng Shuo would not take the initiative to provoke them, but to avoid any eventuality, he still sent people to investigate early in the morning to know the approximate number of people.
When the driver heard that Feng Shuo could tell the number of the former dynasty's old subordinates, his expression changed from contempt to horror: "How...how did you know?"
Feng Shuo did not answer him, and got up and left the dungeon. Xing Yao followed him and asked: "Master, how to deal with this man?"
Feng Shuo thought of the scene of him driving the carriage towards Jiang Yanyi, and his eyes rose with infinite coldness: "Punish him torn apart by a chariot."
Even Xing Yao, whose hands were already stained with the blood of countless people, shuddered when he heard such a punishment.
At this time, outside the main street of the Protectorate, a female itinerant doctor who had changed into an ordinary woman's dress looked at the Feng Mansion, with a bit of sadness in her eyes: "The rest of the guards are leaving."
The driver was once a former guard of the former dynasty.
The female itinerant doctor had been hiding in Xizhou City for more than a month with her excellent medical skills. She usually went from street to street to see patients. She knew which street and which house lived in which person. Therefore, after Feng Shuo changed the place to imprison Jiang Yanxi, she quickly determined the location.
"Aunt Fang, Xizhou will soon search the whole city again. The princess has been rescued. Let's go back to the inn first." The man who followed the female itinerant doctor whispered. The
female itinerant doctor sighed, "I don't know if Xiaowu got the treasure map of the imperial tomb from the daughter of the escort. The old fox Xing'an Hou will not protect us all the time if he can't see the treasure map."
The man said, "It would be great if Aunt Fangqing was still here. She would always find a way to protect us."
When the female itinerant doctor heard the name, she looked at the high walls of Feng Mansion, and it was hard to tell whether it was resentment or resentment in her eyes: "When I was selected to be a maid in the palace, she was only five years old. Later, she was sold to the Feng family as a maid to serve the crazy concubine. When the old villain Feng Zuo rebelled, it was thanks to her that she got the news and informed me in advance that the princess was replaced from the palace. I thought I could see her again in this life, but she died in the hands of King Liaoning..."
Fang Qing, the maidservant beside the Grand Empress Dowager, was originally named Fang Qing, and was her sister.
The female itinerant doctor was once the maidservant beside the Queen Li of the previous dynasty. Queen Li was the successor of the former emperor Qi, who was the last emperor of the previous dynasty.
The founding emperor of the Daxuan Dynasty, Feng Zuo, was the former emperor. Before he rebelled, he was still a general of the previous dynasty. His wife did not die of dystocia, but because of her outstanding appearance, she was favored by Emperor Qi and forcibly abducted into the palace when he was away at war.
In order to save face, Feng Zuo announced to the outside world that his wife had died of dystocia.
Feng Zuo endured humiliation for more than ten years and painstakingly planned to rebel, but the news still leaked out, and Emperor Qi sent someone to assassinate his only son.
In the same year, Feng Zuo's daughter-in-law, the current empress dowager, gave birth to Feng Zuo's grandson, the current emperor Feng Shiyan. After learning that her son was assassinated, Feng Zuo's wife chose to commit suicide.
After his first wife died, Feng Zuo became even more determined to destroy Da Qi. Later, he met Feng Shuo's mother, who looked exactly like his first wife but was younger and more beautiful. He once treated Feng Shuo's mother as his first wife, deceiving himself that his first wife was not dead yet.
Fang Qing began to take care of Feng Shuo's mother from then on. Emperor Qi was
incompetent and tyrannical. Empress Yuan died not long ago. Because there were rumors that he was indulging in sensual pleasures, Emperor Qi married Empress Li, who was 20 years younger than him, as his successor in order to shut up the people of the world.
Empress Li was plain in appearance and did not have the appearance to seduce the emperor. She and Shangshu Jiang were childhood sweethearts, but the two families were very different in status. At that time, the Jiang family had long been in decline, and the Li family did not allow their daughter to marry down. Later, in order to gain tremendous wealth, they sent their daughter to the palace.
At that time, Shangshu Jiang, who was still a commoner, was married to the fourth daughter of the Chu family by his family.
The year when Queen Li gave birth to Jiang Yanxi, Feng Zuo rebelled.
On the night when Jiang Yanxi was replaced, an imperial physician came to the palace to treat Queen Li. In the imperial physician's medicine box, there was a baby who was to die in place of Jiang Yanxi, and Jiang Yanxi was taken out of the palace by the imperial physician in the medicine box.
Queen Li asked the imperial physician to find a good family to adopt her daughter, but the imperial physician died after leaving the palace. The former dynasty's old subordinates had been looking for Jiang Yanxi for many years, but they never expected that it was Shangshu Jiang who secretly took the child back at the risk of being beheaded.
The female itinerant doctor closed her eyes and stopped thinking about those absurd past events.
The man thought she was sad about Fangqing's death, and said, "Don't be sad, aunt. Maybe Aunt Fangqing has been giving the mad concubine medicine, and the King of Liaoning has noticed it. When the princess restores the country, kill the King of Liaoning to avenge Aunt Fangqing!"
If it weren't for the control of the medicine, the mad concubine would not have been crazy for so many years.
The female itinerant doctor looked calm: "The medicine I prescribed will not be noticed. The mad concubine only recognized that girl after taking the medicine. Her position is stable, her wings are strong, and her mind is more..."
After the former dynasty's old subordinates hid outside the pass, they did not do nothing.
In the early years, after the empress dowager went crazy, she would occasionally regain her sanity. They wanted to disintegrate the Daxuan Dynasty from the inside and let Daxuan fight internally. A son who was full of hatred for the previous emperor would be the best weapon.
So they gave the Grand Concubine drugs to make her go crazy, and
Fang Qing fanned the flames. The late emperor himself was not a good-for-nothing, and Feng Shuo did not disappoint them, and successfully grew up to be a vassal king who could threaten the emperor. After the Grand Concubine left the palace, the Grand Concubine's move was actually useless. After all, she could no longer use the Grand Concubine to stir up conflicts between Feng Shuo and the emperor.
The female itinerant doctor once sent a message to Fang Qing to stop following the Grand Concubine, saying that the Grand Concubine took crazy drugs and obeyed her every word. As long as Fang Qing wanted to, it would not be difficult to leave.
But Fang Qing refused. At first, she thought that Fang Qing had fallen in love with the Grand Concubine after serving her for so many years. Later, when she heard that the Grand Concubine was still crazy, she realized that Fang Qing did not stop giving the Grand Concubine drugs. She followed the Grand Concubine, and it was obvious that she had other intentions.
While the female itinerant doctor was thinking about these things, the gate of Feng Mansion opened, and a large number of armored guards quickly poured into the street. The man following the female itinerant doctor looked evasive and said in panic, "Aunt, what should we do?"
The female itinerant doctor led him back calmly, and only whispered to the man, "Don't show your thoughts on your face."
The man nodded, but still couldn't help but secretly look at the army.
Xing Yao personally led the troops to Pipa Lane, and saw that the man kept glancing at them with his spare eyes, with a sneaky look, which was quite suspicious, so he immediately shouted, "Stop."
The man froze instantly.