Chapter 240 A life-long friendship
A Yan Nineteen who took the wrong medicine is far more terrifying than a mentally ill Yan Nineteen.
In comparison, Yun Chen even felt that the neurotic Yan Shijiu was quite cute. Although he was weird and unruly all day long, he was at least a gentleman who knew etiquette and was not frivolous!
Yun Chen wiped his neck with water eighty times, almost breaking the skin.
Yan Shijiu seemed to have lost the effect of the medicine, and was exhausted from being "treated" with salt water. There were still two balls of cotton in his nose to stop bleeding. He was lying on the couch with his arms and legs spread out, sleeping soundly.
Yun Chen was so angry that she could not vent her anger. She had no desire to sleep at all and could only stare and wait for dawn. She thought that after leaving Guying City, she would have to beat Yan Shijiu up to vent her anger.
Although the incident happened suddenly and was entirely due to the wrong medicine, and it was not anyone's intention, the kiss and touching had already happened. Yun Chen felt sorry for Huo Gannian and was very upset, so he simply left the room and walked around the empty brothel.
She wanted to go to the highest point of the third floor to see if she could overlook other parts of the city and think of an escape route.
As soon as I went upstairs, I saw Wan Chen was already there.
"Wan Chen, you know I'm a woman, right?" Yun Chen walked over, and Wan Chen immediately took two steps back, keeping a distance from her as usual to avoid suspicion.
"I know." Wan Chen replied.
She feigned anger: "Then where were you when your master was bullying me? Why didn't you come to help? Are you pretending not to hear?"
"kindness."
"You're quite stingy with words, Wan Chen? And you even have the nerve to say 'yeah'? Aren't you ashamed of pretending not to hear a little girl's cry for help?"
"I don't think so." Wan Chen looked up and down at Yun Chen's armor. She put it on in a hurry to prevent Yan Shijiu from going crazy again.
Wan Chen is a man of few words, so serious that he is almost boring.
Although he didn't say much, his eyes seemed to say, "You? A girl? And so young? My master didn't even dare to say a word when you hit him? How many lives do I have left to care about you?"
Seeing that he couldn't joke with Wan Chen and nothing he said was warm, Yun Chen shrugged, feeling frustrated.
Noticing the sloppily smeared and bandaged wound on Wan Chen's wrist, she reached out to his wrist:
"You bandaged yourself so carelessly. Let me bandage it again for you."
As a result, as soon as her fingers touched Wan Chen's wrist, the latter seemed to be hit by a fire bomb and suddenly bounced back on the spot, wishing he was a hundred or eighty feet away from her.
She could only withdraw her hand awkwardly, "Okay, okay, I won't touch you, okay? It's like I'm bullying you."
Wan Chen said nothing, but silently untied the bandage on his wrist, wrapped it again, and tied it tightly again with the help of his teeth.
Watching Wan Chen's movements, and then looking at his skeleton-like body, which was already thin due to being a secret guard and now even thinner, Yun Chen couldn't help but ask:
"Ever since the Black Scale Cavalry broke through Guying City, have you been imprisoned in death row? For the past six months?"
Wan Chen nodded, and Yun Chen asked again:
"Does Jiao Zuotai always torture you?"
"It was him at the beginning, but not later. He assigned the task of torturing us to someone else," said Wan Chen.
Because later Jiao Zuotai was busy leading the Black Scale Cavalry all the way to Yancheng.
"What are you doubting?" Wan Chen asked suddenly.
"No, I just don't understand." When applying medicine to Yan Shijiu, Yun Chen discovered that many of the wounds were not caused by fighting, but by unilateral torture. She asked:
"Why do Jiao Zuotai and the others keep torturing you?"
After hesitating for a moment, Wan Chen looked towards the second floor where Yan Shijiu was and said:
"Because of you."
"Me?" Yun Chen was surprised. "I'm just a newly appointed major general. Why did you torture me for half a year and even torture me so severely?"
Wan Chen was silent, as if he was considering whether to speak or not.
Yun Chen naturally saw his concerns and said, "You can say whatever you want. I won't tell Yan Shijiu a single word. I promise."
"I believe you," Wan Chen said. "When two armies fight, the commander is the most important. The Lion Army is powerful, and so are the Black Scale Cavalry. But even the most powerful soldiers need a good commander. If the Black Scale Cavalry wants to win, they must defeat Huo Gannian."
Wan Chen is right about this.
Just as a dynasty needs a good emperor to rule in order to prosper, an army needs excellent generals to be invincible.
A group of dragons needs a leader, and fighting on the battlefield is often the commander-in-chief fighting on an invisible chessboard.
Therefore, assassinations of enemy commanders have been common throughout history.
Huo Gannian is undoubtedly a rare general in the world.
Whether in terms of military strategy or moral character and talent, he is a rare good general.
Yun Chen acknowledged this, and Wan Chen continued:
"I don't know how Jiao Zuotai found out, or if he saw it while fighting you on the battlefield, but he knows very well that you are Huo Gannian's weak spot."
Now Yun Chen completely understood.
If the Black Scale Cavalry wants to defeat the Lion Army and wreak massacres on the land of Nan Kingdom, they must defeat the main general Huo Gannian.
In order to defeat Huo Gannian, one must target his only weakness - Yun Chen.
As if unwilling to recall the painful torture of the past six months, Wan Chen whispered:
"Jiao Zuotai wants to know from his master what 'Yun Chen's weakness' is. He wants to capture you alive. He is very interested in you."
In order to get information about Yun Chen from Yan Shijiu, Jiao Zuotai used almost all the tortures he could think of on Yan Shijiu.
It turned out that this was the reason why Yan Shijiu was covered with scars. Those branding irons, canings... and even spikes so deep that the bones could be seen, were all because he gritted his teeth and refused to say a word.
Yun Chen stood there in a daze, speechless for a long time.
Yan Shijiu, who was so careless and loved to cry out in pain and tease others, could be more resolute and tenacious than anyone else for her.
He didn't even mention it to her face.
When she was still a guard of the Huo Gang, he wanted to take credit for it when he gave her burn medicine; when he bought honey milk cheese for her, he showed off eagerly.
But when her life was threatened and she was tortured to the point of being completely exhausted, he chose to swallow it so that she wouldn't feel uncomfortable or guilty.
She couldn't imagine what would happen if Yan Shijiu really died from all the torture...
He will sleep forever with his protection for her, and no one will ever know the sacrifices this fool has made...
Yun Chen felt her heart was blocked. She wanted to speak, but her voice was a little hoarse, with a tremor that she couldn't control:
"I didn't know he..."
"You don't have to think too much." Wan Chen interrupted Yun Chen before he finished speaking, and his next words instantly made all the guilt and emotion in Yun Chen's heart reach a peak.
Wan Chen said, "The master said that if it were you, you would definitely do the same as him. You both have the same feelings. He said that fortunately, he was the one who suffered."
Fortunately, he bore all the torture.
He didn't need to be proud and take credit for it, because he knew that if the positions were reversed, Yun Chen would definitely be like him and would be willing to go through fire and water for him.
He had already determined her heart, and that trust and affirmation were far more powerful than just asking for "thank you".
Yun Chen had no time to think about whether the "affection" of Yan Shijiu that Wan Chen mentioned was the same as the "affection" in her heart. Her eyes were moist and she couldn't get over her emotions for a long time.
After saying to Wan Chen, "You should have a good rest," Yun Chen left slowly.
She walked back to the room on the second floor. Yan Shijiu was still sleeping on the couch like a dead dog, with his limbs spread out in a "big" shape, which looked very funny.
She walked over gently and stood at the bedside for a long time.
Yan Shijiu's shoulders and back are broader than those of the average man, and his skeleton is also wider.
But such a burly figure is matched with a contradictory baby face, thick eyebrows, high nose, and bright eyes. It makes people wonder whether to say he is handsome or cute.
In the past, she always laughed at his bear-like body and childish face. Now, his "childish face" has become so thin that his cheekbones have become high, his cheeks are thin, and his jaw has become as sharp as an "adult's".
When applying medicine to him, Yun Chen had his eyes blindfolded and could not see what was happening to him.
But in fact, she could clearly feel that he was so thin that he was just a bag of bones.
Looking at Yan Shijiu's sleeping face, Yun Chen's nose felt sore and his eyes gradually became moist.
"Yan Shijiu, thank you. I'm so touched... I'm honored to have you as a friend in this life. I will definitely give you the same friendship and loyalty that we've shared for life!"
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