C19 Nine-li Slope Escape

Pei Hongqing protected Yun Zhui in front of him as he rode his horse into the forest at the side. Only after a long while did he finally shake off his pursuers. However, not long after she calmed down, Yun Shu felt the person pressing down on her from behind suddenly sink. She was just about to turn around to take a look when she was thrown to the ground by a horse, rolling along with the person behind her.

Thinking about the arrow stuck in Pei Hongqing's back, she quickly wrapped her arms around his neck to stop him from landing on his back. "General Pei?"

In the darkness of the forest, all that responded was the sound of insects.

"Pei Hongqing?" She stretched out her hand to feel the breath of the person beside her. Luckily, she was still alive, but a bit weak. She rolled Pei Hongqing onto his stomach. When she got up and started looking for the horse in the forest, she realized that the horse had fallen to the ground. Its legs were already covered with some kind of sticky and warm liquid. She put her hand close to the tip of her nose and sniffed. The smell of rust suddenly filled her nose. She knew that the horse was injured. She couldn't feel any breath by the time she put her hand next to the nose of the horse.

She bit the corner of her lips. "It's been hard on you. You should get some rest." She stroked its mane and returned to Pei Hongqing's side. She placed his hand on her shoulder and led him into the mountains. The mountain was covered in dense forest, making it difficult for the moonlight to penetrate through. There were several times when she almost fell down with Pei Hongqing in her arms.

After walking for half an hour, she vaguely saw a cave in front of her. Since she didn't have the strength to go anywhere else, she helped people in, found hemostasis herbs, dried grass, and dried branches, and fished out a fire sickle to ignite the fire. The dark cave immediately lit up.

She picked up some of the grass and spread it on the ground not far away from the bonfire, then moved Pei Hongqing, who was lying on the ground, onto the grass. Only then did she have time to help him check on the arrow wounds, only to see that the skin around the wounds was a strange purplish black color, and the first thing she thought of was that the tip of the arrow was poisonous.

Thus, she pinched Pei Hongqing's face a few times. Just as she was about to bleed out, the unconscious person did not disappoint her and finally opened his eyes.

Yun Shu let out a sigh of relief, "General Pei, if you don't wake up soon, your face will probably be ruined by my hands. That arrow is poisonous, quickly swallow the antidote in your mouth, although it might not be able to dispel the poison, but this is the only solution, I don't even have a dagger with me, I can't even help you pull it out."

Pei Hongqing's Adam's apple rolled up and down. His pale lips moved slightly as he said, "Pull it out. I can bear it."

Yun Shu frowned in fright at this suggestion: "What if you die from pain? Will I be beheaded for murdering you? "

"No, this general will tell the emperor that it wasn't you who killed this general."

"He's still in the mood to joke around at a time like this." With that, she tore the clothes around the wound even further.

Pei Hong Qing chuckled and said, "Didn't you also joke about wanting to ruin my face?"

"I mean it." Yun Shu moved closer to the wound and thought about which direction she should pull the arrow out in to ease Pei Hongqing's pain a little. She then straightened her body and placed her hand on the arrow, "Besides waking you up, I really can't think of any other way for you to swallow the medicine quickly. There's no water nearby."

"Have you ever thought about …"

"What?"

"Actually, if you chew the medicine and feed it to me, won't it save you a lot of trouble?" I'm still unconscious, and I can't stop it. " Just as he finished speaking, Pei Hongqing nearly bit his tongue — the arrow on his back was pulled out at this moment. He suspected that this Yin brat was doing this intentionally and was extremely sinister.

Yun Shu threw the poisoned arrow into a corner and looked him in the eye with her head tilted. "Are you alright?" After saying that, he glanced at the wound that had started bleeding out black blood ever since the arrow was pulled out.

"Nope."

Yun Shu could not help but roll her eyes. "If Great General Pei is fine, why did you say such nonsense about your head being caught in a door? I thought that the poison had already spread to your mind, so I can't do such a disgusting thing. "It's too strange." As soon as she finished speaking, she noticed that the blood coming out of the wound had started to turn from black to red.

Probably due to the effect of the medicine given by Yang Siyuan, she smiled in relief.

Pei Hongqing said, "Help me bandage my wound. I still want to lie down and rest. If I lie down like this, my neck will be broken."

Yun Zhui cleaned the area around the wound with a plain handkerchief, took some herbs and crushed them before opening up his own bundle. He tore a long piece of cloth from one of the round collars to help him bandage the wound.

However, Pei Hongqing continued to stare at the bundle that she had left open. Finally, after Yun Shu had tied up the cloth in her hand into a bow, he finally spoke up. "I should have known that the person who had broken into the army camp was you. Which thief would be so stupid as to risk his life to break into the army just for this small piece of trash?"

"Yes." You saw it? " Yun Shu could not help but become nervous.

"No, how could this general open someone else's letter and read it without permission? But since you barged into the military camp and want to take back the letter, I'm somewhat curious about the contents of the letter. Are you really an enemy spy?"

Yun Shu had originally been at a loss as to what to say when he asked about the contents of the letter, but the other side suddenly changed the subject and brought it to this point. She immediately smiled bitterly: "General Pei, I'll bring you back tomorrow. She turned him over.

General Pei laughed, but did not close his eyes to rest after he was done lying down. Yun Shu ignored him and took out an outer garment to throw to him as a blanket. She folded the items that she had disorderly earlier and placed in the middle of the bundle, tying it up. General Pei, who had been watching the entire scene, spoke up again, "You could have used that piece of white cloth to bandage my wound, why did you tear off my clothes?"

Yun Shu threw her bundle of grass beside Great General Pei and smiled at him, "General, can you please close your eyes and rest like a patient?" How could she possibly use that piece of white cloth to bandage someone's wound? Moreover, that person was a man. That's what she used to wrap her chest with …

"What if the pursuing troops from the Dazhu arrive later?"

Yun Zhui leaned against the mountain wall and pulled up the outer garment he was wearing. He picked up a wooden stick and fiddled with the flames in front of him, "What else can I do? "Of course I'm handing you over. Keeping your life is more important than anything."

"Hey Yin Yun, are you still mad at me for saying that you were a spy?"

Yun Shu, "…" These words seemed to be blaming her for being petty.

"Hey, I was just joking with you, I apologize. You could have gone back to your own house without being aware of it, but you came back to save me in the end. I shouldn't have made such a joke of you. "

Yunshu laughed, "How strange, General Pei is actually apologizing to a mere soldier."

Although the wound on his back was very painful, Pei Hongqing still smiled. "But how do you know I'm in danger?"

Thus, Yun Shu told him about what she had heard from the two Emissaries in the forest.

When Pei Hongqing heard this, a look of understanding appeared in his eyes, "No wonder those two emissaries would urge us to march forward when the sky was about to turn dark. They probably thought that it would be more advantageous for them if the sky turned dark. "Since the target of the Great Liang army is me alone, then Zhan Xin should go back and find reinforcements. Zhan Xin is very efficient, he should be able to find us tomorrow and be safe by then …"

However, the other party did not reply him. Even the wooden stick that was originally fiddling with the flames did not move. Pei Hongqing followed the direction of the wooden stick and saw that he had fallen asleep on the mountain wall.

Pei Hongqing took out the stick in her hand and threw it into the bonfire. After placing some more branches in the bonfire, she closed her eyes to rest. However, she soon caught sight of the sleeping figure not far away, who was actually trembling as if in a dream.

With a slight frown, he propped up his somewhat weak body and moved towards that direction. He also covered her with the outer garment that he was wearing.

Actually, it wasn't as though he couldn't move. What was wrong with this little bit of poison? He had been on the battlefield since he was seventeen, and he had suffered numerous injuries of all sizes. He just felt that allowing this person to take care of him and help him turn things over was a rare thing that would allow him to feel at ease in his current condition.

Perhaps it was because the person beside him had once saved him in a dangerous situation, so when he saw the arrow shooting towards him, he didn't hesitate to sacrifice his life to protect him. That was why he could still feel at ease in this situation. However, at that time, he had also gone mad. He had actually pulled the other party into his protection, causing him to suffer an arrow blow from it.

Long ago, he remembered, the late emperor had asked him what he thought of leading soldiers to war. At that time, he replied to Emperor Xian that generals needed to be courageous and scheming, and that they should treat their comrades like brothers. However, if they were forced to be in danger, they should make a prompt decision and abandon their brothers and sisters to consider the bigger picture.

Because of this reply, the Eternal Light Emperor seemed to have seen himself running on the battlefield a few years ago. The Eternal Light Emperor, who had experienced the chaotic battles of the six nations when he was young, believed that as long as the courageous generals were still alive, there was no battle that they couldn't win, no city that they couldn't win. And the 'bravery' that the Yongguang Emperor believed in was only the courage to counterattack in desperate situations. He did not mean that the general had to charge in with the soldiers.

If he had fought alongside the soldiers, then the Eternal Light Emperor would have already died on the battlefield. How could he conquer the surrounding five nations and expand the territory of Yan Guo to seven times its original size?

And just a few hours ago during the 'crisis', he did not do as he had replied to Emperor Xian. Now that he thought about it, he felt that he had done something stupid.