C93 C93: Poisoned
After the black-clothed man left Lord Ping’s mansion, he did not leave too far. Instead, he changed into a set of black clothes behind the walls of the nearby provincial governor Lin’s Mansion, put on his prepared clothes, and walked out calmly and unperturbed.
The sky had turned white, and the first rays of dawn were beginning to show themselves.
Gao Xun came to the two sides of the street and ordered a bowl of noodle soup and a pancake. He sat down at the corner with a calm expression and started eating.
He watched the street as he ate.
The street was bustling as usual. There were hawkers on both sides of the street. People were coming and going, and it was bustling with noise and excitement. There seemed to be many guards on this street, checking door to door. When the citizens asked them what was going on, they told them that the Lord Ping’s mansion was robbed at night, and a precious treasure was stolen. The Ping Wang ordered them to capture this thief and punish him severely.
Very quickly, they arrived in front of Gao Xun’s stall.
The guard looked around and, seeing no one suspicious, left.
In fact, when Gao Xun fought against Yan Yun yesterday, he had actually cut open Gao Xun’s chest with his personal dagger, but Yan Yun himself probably did not notice, which was why he missed out on this clue. Gao Xun was glad that he covered his face last night. In addition to the darkness and the dark clouds blocking the moonlight, he couldn’t see his facial features. Finding him in the capital was like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Yan Yun’s dagger was extremely sharp. One slash cut into his chest and left a small wound.
Gao Xun only used some cloth to bandage it quickly, not enough time to treat it. He decided to apply the medicine after he returned to the army camp.
He finished a bowl of noodle soup and wiped his mouth with his sleeve.
He suddenly felt dizzy.
He paused for a moment, ignoring the fact that he had to keep walking.
After walking for some distance, he saw a clinic in front of him. He pushed open the door and entered, preparing to pack some medicine to treat his external injuries. However, because his feet were unsteady, he bumped into the person who came out.
“You — —” The other party was a girl wearing a Sky Blue Embroidery Shirt with tender green circumference, the chiffon dress s. They frowned in dissatisfaction as they complained and raised their head to glare at him.
He didn’t look at her and lower his eyes apologized, continuing to walk inside.
Lin Huapin pursed his lips in dissatisfaction and said unlucky thing, he did not care about it at all.
She was here to get medicine for her father. Recently, his heart had been on fire and he was coughing violently. She was worried that he would fall ill at this rate. Thus, she decided to come to the hospital to get medicine. He didn’t expect to meet a blind man … She snorted and sat in her carriage. She couldn’t help but think of that person’s appearance.
He was pretty good-looking, but he was too rude.
Gao Xun naturally did not know of Lin Huapin’s evaluation of him, he grabbed some medicine from the doctor and returned to the army camp.
Him not returning all night was a violation of the military’s rules, but he was a Chiliarch, and had Zhong Shang and General Zhong protecting him, so naturally no one said anything.
Furthermore, he was sweating profusely when he returned. Other people would think that he had secretly gone out to train and admire him.
Returning to the tent, he took off his jacket, revealing his bare chest. He saw that the wound on his chest had turned purplish black. The blood had soaked the bandaged cloth and had not stopped.
The dagger was poisonous!
He gritted his teeth. The First Prince was really shrewd, even his dagger could be poisoned. It could be seen that he was prepared to fight with others at any time. He did not even trust the people around him.
He told the soldiers standing guard outside that no one was allowed to come in without permission, and then began to bind his wounds with difficulty.
His top priority right now was to get rid of the poison, but he didn’t know what kind of poison it was, and there was no cure for him in the barracks. He could only stop the bleeding first. He was currently sprinkling medicine on his wounds, and the tent flap was lifted by someone from the outside. Zhong Shang walked in with large strides: “Where did you go yesterday?”
With his back to the door, he said hoarsely, “Get out.”
Zhong Shang sensed that something was wrong with his voice and didn’t go out. Instead, he went over to look around.
This time, he was shocked. Zhong Shang stared at his injured chest and asked: “What’s going on?”
He answered lightly, “Poisoned.”
Isn’t this nonsense? Only a blind person wouldn’t be able to tell that he had been poisoned!
Zhong Shang sat opposite of him, but didn’t try to help him out. He carefully looked at his wounds, they were not shallow, and also had poison in them. He revealed a rare serious look, “How did you get injured? What poison did you get? Even though the poison has yet to be cleared, you intend to treat it this way? ”
Gao Xun told him to go to the side and get a white muslin cloth, and wrapped it around him quickly to stop the bleeding, “I still don’t know what poison it is, I’ll go to the street and let the doctor have a look.”
He wasn’t worried at all!
If the poison was slightly stronger, he would have been killed before he could reach the infirmary. Zhong Shang suddenly stood up, pointed at him and said: “Sit here and don’t move, I’ll get someone to get a doctor.”
Gao Xun called out to me before I had even taken two steps, “Don’t make any noise, tell the world that I’ve only caught a cold.”
Although Gao Xun didn’t know what was going on, he respected his opinion.
Not long after, the doctor came over and studied his chest carefully. He said that this was a poison of the Western Yi, and the poison was not considered strong, but it was more troublesome to cure, and required several types of medicine to be consumed continuously for a month before it could be completely removed. He could not use martial arts during this period of time. He needed a light diet to slowly recuperate.
Zhong Shang told the doctor to prescribe the medicine and the doctor wrote a prescription for him. Zhong Shang then asked a trusted soldier to follow him and catch the medicine.
Only Zhong Shang and Gao Xun were left in the tent. Zhong Shang crossed his arms and looked at him calmly: “Where did you bring this poison from?”
But he didn’t say anything, and just laid down on the bed, “I’m tired, so I want to sleep for a while. You can go out first. “This month, just say that my body is not well and I won’t be able to train with you guys.”
Zhong Shang really wanted to kick his face.
On account of the fact that he didn’t argue with him, he would interrogate him when he woke up. Zhong Shang opened his tent and walked out. Gao Xun lay on his bed for a long time without sleeping, turning things over and over in his mind. He had a lot of things to do, one of them was Xie Zhen’s smiling face, one of them was Xie Zhen’s figure crying in the wilderness, the other was the scene of him fighting against Yan Yun last night. Just as he was about to fall asleep, the tent was suddenly lifted from the outside, bringing with it a scorching summer breeze.
Zhong Shang ran over to him and picked him up from the bed. He looked into his eyes and asked: “You went to assassinate the King?”
His eyes were unperturbed as he calmly asked, “How do you know?”
This sentence was equivalent to tacit agreement.
Zhong Shang did not care whether he was injured, and threw him back onto the bed, then angrily grinned, “Who doesn’t know that the Ping Wang is wantonly searching for assassins in the city?”
He closed his eyes.
Zhong Shang walked around the bed twice, recovering from the initial shock. He turned his head and looked at Gao Xun, “It’s really you?”
He was quite magnanimous, and there was no longer a need to conceal anything. “It’s me.”
He didn’t return last night, and was even injured on his body. The timing was so coincidental that it was strange, so Zhong Shang’s guess could not be blamed.
I just didn’t expect him to admit it so quickly…
Zhong Shang raised his eyebrows, “Why did you think of assassinating the Ping Wang? Aren’t you afraid that he will take your life? ”
He smiled weakly, “My life is worthless, whoever wants it can take it.” It even seemed like it was going to break.
When he went to Lord Ping’s mansion yesterday, he had already thought about it. If he was unlucky and got caught, no matter how the other party forced him to confess, he would insist that it was the Provincial governor Lin who ordered it. He could not create trouble for Xie Zhen, even if he were to die, he had to blame it on the Provincial governor Lin, he was not afraid of death, but he would not be able to take revenge for Xie Zhen.
It was a pity that he missed. It was a pity that he was unable to kill the First Prince with a single strike.
Zhong Shang didn’t know what kind of enmity he had with the First Prince, but he could guess about seventy to eighty percent of it. The First Prince and the Crown Prince were not on good terms. Yan Yu was a person of the Crown Prince, and Xie Zhen had married Yan Yu. It was too wishful thinking.
Whether or not he could avoid Yan Yun was another question.
But luckily they were in the army, so Yan Yun’s men should not be able to search this place, and even if they searched, they would not be able to search too carefully, so he might be able to retrieve his life.
Zhong Shang sat at the side, his posture casual, “You failed this time, are you still planning to go in the future?”
He shook his head. “No.”
Zhong Shang raised his eyebrows.
However, he said, “Because I found a more valuable piece of information.”
“What news?”
He propped himself up to speak. He treated Zhong Shang as his brother, so he didn’t try to hide anything. “Earlier, the doctor said that I was only poisoned by the Western Yi’s poison, and that we had almost cut off all contact with the Western Yi in the recent years. Shang Jia also rarely sells the things they have, let alone this kind of rare poison. But since the First Prince has it, why don’t you tell me? ”
Zhong Shang propped his chin up and laughed sloppily: “You suspect that he is in contact with the People of Western Yi?”
Gao Xun nodded, “That’s very possible.”
Although he did not know the reason behind the relationship between the Ping Wang and the Western Yi, but if the Emperor Yuan Hui knew about this matter, it would definitely infuriate the entire Emperor Yuan Hui, and at that time, Yan Yun would not have a good ending. The Emperor Yuan Hui had been suspecting that the Ping Wang was guilty of causing trouble recently. If he added a label of colluding with other realms, his meticulously planned plan for many years would come to an end.
Gao Xun asked Zhong Shang to prepare a letter for him. He wanted to write a letter to An Wang’s Mansion.
Zhong Shang took out a pen and paper.
He sat on the bed and began to write on the small square table. The letter did not mention anything about him assassinating Yan Yun. It only mentioned that it had seen that the First Prince was in contact with the People of Western Yi and suspected that he was colluding with him. It told Yan Yu to pay more attention to the First Prince’s movements and prepare sufficient evidence to report to the Emperor Yuan Hui.
After writing it, Gao Xun sealed it with fire lacquer and sent it to An Wang’s Mansion.
Zhong Shang looked at him with a complicated gaze, making him puzzled. “What?”
After a long while, Zhong Shang finally said: “Are you doing this for the An Wang, or for the An Wang Fei?”
It hit the nail on the head.
He was speechless, and his face had the look of someone who had just been exposed, “… They were old friends of mine when I was a child, so of course I wish them both well. ”
Zhong Shang laughed, “I hope you really think so.” After which, he walked out of the tent.
Gao Xun sat on the bed alone and thought for a long time.
*
When Yan Yu received the letter, two days had already passed since the news of the King Ping’s assassination.
In the assassination of the Prince, the first suspect was the Crown Prince. However, Yan Yun was unable to find any clues related to them, and even if he wanted to frame them, he was unable to find the reason.
However, the black clothed man’s clothes were found at the back door of Provincial governor Lin’s Palace. Lin Rui knelt in the courtyard of Lord Ping’s mansion for three days to prove his innocence. Even though Yan Yun knew it couldn’t be him, he couldn’t help but vent his anger on him. Who asked him to be so stupid? He didn’t even know that he had been framed in front of his house!
When this matter reached Emperor Yuan Hui’s ears, he knew that she was his own son. He assigned the three imperial physicians to treat Duke Ping’s wounds and removed a portion of the people who were monitoring the Lord Ping’s mansion. The Prince’s mood was not as bad as it used to be.
Yan Yu opened the letter and placed it on the table, looking at it with thoughtfully for a long time.
When Xie Zhen arrived, he was still reading the letter.
“servant maids said that you don’t want to eat. What are you looking at?”
He was silent for a moment, then folded the letter and placed it in his sleeve. Shaking his head, he said, “Nothing.”
With that, she stood up and held Xie Zhen’s hand, and they went to the hall for a meal.
