Qi Hui stood in front of Xia Xun:
"Impossible! Master Chu, there must be a misunderstanding!"
Chu Anyu asked him back:
"Then tell me, whose idea is it that Mr. Qi wants to come to Tongchang Teahouse?"
Qi Hui paused: "This..."
Chu Anyu looked at Xia Xun:
"It's the suggestion of this entourage surnamed Dong. Those archers have already confessed, saying that they got the news that there is a person surnamed Dong next to Mr. Qi, and he will find a way to lure Mr. Qi to the Tongchang teahouse. Let the archers do the assassination."
Qi Hui was startled, he asked Xia Xun: "My lord, is it really you?"
Xia Xun just looked at Qi Yan, turned a deaf ear and didn't respond.
Chu Anyu said sharply:
"What are you doing in a daze? Catch me!"
The officers and soldiers rushed forward, held down Xia Xun, and tried to drag him away.
Xia Xun was so out of her mind that she let them drag her around.
But Qi Yan did not let go.
Even when he was seriously injured and unconscious, he still held Xia Xun's wrist tightly.
When the officers and soldiers saw him, several people came up to break Qi Yan's fingers.
Qi Yan was stimulated and gripped even harder.
Pain came from Xia Xun's wrist bone. He lowered his head numbly and looked at Qi Yan's hand. His little finger had been parted, and the other four fingers were still holding onto Xia Xun tightly.
Qi Hui thumped his heart and knelt down to Chu Anyu:
"Even if the son is really an internal response, Mr. Chu can't take him away!"
Chu Anyu said angrily:
"Assassination of court officials is a serious crime that requires beheading! Why do you want to protect criminals?! Could it be—are you his accomplice??"
Qi Hui stood in front of Xia Xun:
"Qi Hui doesn't understand the law, so he doesn't know if the young master is a sinner! Qi Hui only knows that my master is seriously injured and dying, and is in danger! Just because the young master is still alive, he is still alive! If Mr. Chu takes the young master away, my master is afraid I really can't live anymore!!"
Chu Anyu waved his sleeves angrily:
"Absurd! It's just nonsense! Someone, pull Qi Hui down for me too!"
Qi Hui drew out his saber:
"Master Chu wants to be killed or cut to pieces, so please listen to me! But if you want to take the young master away, Qi Hui will have to meet you in battle!"
Chu Anyu pointed at him and cursed:
"Presumptuous! I am the governor of Gyeongju handpicked by His Majesty, it's your turn to act presumptuously in front of me?! Come on, give me—"
Xia Xun spoke, and his voice came in a low voice:
"Lord Inspector, there is no need to call for beatings and murder. When Qi Yan wakes up, I will surrender myself. At that time, I will leave it to the Lord Inspector."
Chu Anyu raised his eyebrows upside down:
"When is it the prisoner's turn to negotiate with the officer?! The officer—"
He glanced at Qi Yan on the bed, and saw his pale profile and the heavy bandages wrapped around his body.
The two incisions on Qi Yan's body were oozing blood, the bandages were wrapped so thickly, but the blood still leaked out of the surface.
He didn't know what Qi Hui was up to, but he could tell that Qi Yan was seriously injured.
At this time, if he acted rashly, if Qi Hui's words were true and Qi Yan's injury was aggravated, when His Majesty intervened, he would be unable to answer.
Thinking of this, Chu Anyu snorted coldly:
"Hmph! I will let you go for now! But I will not let you stay here. I will send people to surround this room. When Lord Qi's injuries are stable, I will arrest you and question you!"
Xia Xun said coldly:
"Lord Inspector can do whatever he wants, can you tell your people not to touch Qi Yan again? His fingers are about to be broken."
Chu Anyu gave an order, and all the officers and soldiers stopped temporarily.
He gave Qi Hui a hard look, and retreated out of the room with his men, and then sent a small team to surround the hut where Qi Yan was staying in an airtight manner.
As soon as Qi Yan wakes up, these people will take Xia Xun away immediately.
Qi Hui raised his sword, and Qi Yan's fingers, which had been parted just now, held Xia Xun's wrist again.
Xia Xun sat on the ground in a rather uncomfortable position, her upper body crawled beside the bed.
He rested on the back of his hand and looked at the sky outside the window.
Qi Hui found a cushion and asked him to sit on it, but Xia Xun also refused.
Not long after, Zhi Gui appeared outside the room, and the officers and soldiers at the door stopped her from entering, but Qi Hui personally came forward and brought her in.
She put on a new dress and recomposed a simple bun.
She walked to Xia Xun's side:
"... Young Master."
Xia Xun looked up at her: "Yesterday...why didn't you leave?"
Zhi Gui blinked and said to him:
"The servant is planning to leave, but the servant is worried... the servant is worried about the young master and the lord, the servant always feels ashamed in his heart, and did not leave immediately, if not, how can the servant have a chance to save the lord?"
Zhigui told Xia Xun that Qi Yan had found her the night before coming to Tongchang teahouse.
That night, Qi Yan called her into the room, when Zhi Gui saw him, his heart was in a state of confusion, and before he could ask, he told him the whole story without reservation.
In the end, she knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Qi Yan:
"Young Master Xia said, Your Excellency already knew that it was the servant who told you the secret. The servant made such a big mistake and hurt the Lord, but the Lord did not pursue it. The slave has no way to repay it. Today, I will entrust this life to the Lord and leave it to the Lord." Fall."
Qi Yan asked: "Xia Xun already guessed it? What did he ask you to do?"
Zhigui took out the jade belt hook:
"Young master gave this to the servant girl. The young master asked the servant girl to hold it. After arriving in Qingzhou, find a chance to leave."
Qi Yan looked at it for a while, then said to her:
"I originally gave this to him. Since he gave it to you, you can accept it. You can leave today. I will have someone find out your deed of sale and burn it, but... Maybe I don't have a chance to return it." The capital is now... "
He said the last sentence in a very low voice, Zhi Gui was immersed in astonishment and couldn't hear clearly.
She widened her eyes: "Slave, slave betrayed the master, and even hurt the lord! If the lord didn't punish the crime, he would let the slave go??"
Qi Yan glanced at her, but said nothing.
Zhi Gui tightly grasped the hook of the jade belt, and kowtowed three times to Qi Yanlian:
"Your great kindness and virtue will never be forgotten by this servant! Let this servant go to the tea room with you tomorrow, and let this servant make a pot of tea for you at the end!"
Qi Yan didn't respond, just said:
"As you wish."
Zhigui thanked him so much, he didn't know where to put his hands and feet.
Qi Yan waved his hand, looking slightly depressed:
"Go on, I'm going to rest."
Zhigui saluted deeply, and exited gratefully.
Before going out, Qi Yan suddenly asked behind her:
"Zhigui, are you a barbarian?"
Zhigui hurriedly said:
"Your Excellency really has superb eyesight. The ancestors of the servants do have the blood of the Western Regions, but it is quite weak in the generation of the servants."
Qi Yan murmured thoughtfully:
"No wonder... no wonder..."
Now, in front of Qi Yan's bed, Zhi Gui said to Xia Xun:
"That was the last sentence my lord said to my servant. Yesterday evening, when you and your lord arrived at the tea room, your lord told your servant and Qi Hui to retreat, and specially asked us to retreat outside the tea room. Later, Qi Hui realized something was wrong and wanted to rush in. But he found that the door of the tea room was locked and he couldn't open it no matter what, he had no time to take care of his slaves, so he rode his horse and turned around and rushed to Qingzhou City, the slaves could tell that something big must have happened in the tea room."
At that time, it was already dark, and Zhigui had no torch, so he groped all the way in the dark. Somehow, he found a small door that was not closed tightly, so he opened it and went in.
As soon as she walked in, she was in the backyard of the tea house, and a few steps in front of her was the lake. Seeing archers standing on both sides of the lake, she didn't dare to move rashly, and hid in the grass.
After a period of turmoil, Qi Hui arrived with his men.
The archer was quickly arrested, and Xia Xun was also rescued from the lake by Qi Hui, but Qi Yan was not seen for a long time.
Seeing that everyone was searching in the lake, Zhi Gui guessed that Qi Yan must have fallen into the lake. She remembered that she had learned how to swim in the water when she was young, and the water quality was good, so she took off all the jewelry, took off the obstructing robe, and put her hair back Once tied, jumped into the lake.
The bottom of the lake was pitch black, faintly illuminated by the torches on the shore, Zhi Gui opened his eyes wide and tried his best to search, and finally found Qi Yan who had lost consciousness at the bottom of the lake.
She used the buoyancy of the water to push him out of the water.
Xia Xun asked her: "At that time, Qi Hui rode his horse and left. You obviously had the opportunity to leave, why didn't you leave?"
Zhi Gui said frankly: "This is how the servant is repaying the kindness of the lord, otherwise the servant will live in guilt for the rest of his life."
Xia Xun didn't speak.
Zhigui looked at Qi Yan worriedly:
"It's just... I wonder when my lord will wake up?"
Qi Yan's whole body was scorching hot, and the fever never subsided. Even holding Xia Xun's hand was terribly hot.
The skin of Xia Xun's wrist turned white from his grasp, because he kept doing the same movements, his arm soon became numb and gradually lost consciousness, but he could still feel the hot body temperature brought by Qi Yan's palm.
Qi Yan is very good at patience.
During this period, the doctor changed the medicine for his wound many times. The pain can be imagined. He didn't make a sound the whole time. When it hurt the most, he just frowned.
Most of the time, he seemed to be asleep, lying motionless on the bed, without even an expression of pain.
He was willing to die in the hands of Xia Xun, and he was willing to accept the injuries and pain Xia Xun caused.
That night, Qi Yan's injury suddenly deteriorated.
The two incisions began to bleed non-stop, and the bandages were changed one after another. The doctor put nearly a hundred silver needles on his body, but none of them could stop his bleeding.
The doctor was sweating profusely from nervousness, and there was nothing he could do.
Not long after, Qi Yan began to vomit blood, and the dark red blood was vomited out by him.
Qi Hui hurriedly helped him up to prevent him from choking on his own blood:
"My lord, wake up, my lord! Don't be like this, Qi Hui... look scared!"
His eyes were full of tears, and he choked up when he spoke.
Qi Yan vomited blood continuously, as if he wanted to vomit out all his internal organs.
Xia Xun didn't have time to think, he just wanted the blood not to flow out, so he covered Qi Yan's mouth with his hand.
Hot red liquid flowed all over his hands, sticky and hot, Qi Yan's lips rubbed against his palm from time to time, the cold touch reminded him that Qi Yan might be leaving him.
Xia Xun raised her fingers, and her knuckles were thinner than ordinary people, and gently wiped Qi Yan's face.
The blood-stained fingertips brushed over Qi Yan's cheeks and bridge of nose, and finally settled between his forehead. His pale face was stained with bloodshot streaks due to Xia Xun's movements, showing a more soul-stirring sense of fragmentation.
Xia Xun's touch gradually calmed him down, he no longer vomited blood, fell into Qi Hui's arms, and fell into a coma again.
Xia Xun withdrew his hand and looked at his palm. His hand was extremely red, as if he had been burned by the fire again.
Perhaps because he realized that Xia Xun was always by his side, or because the doctor's needles and medicine had worked, Qi Yan's wound stopped bleeding.
After being in a coma for a day and a night, at dawn, Qi Yan actually opened his eyes.
His consciousness was not yet clear, and his waking up was only caused by instinct. After Zhigui fed him the medicine, he passed out again.
But everyone breathed a sigh of relief, because the doctor said that this means that his injury is no longer getting worse, and there is hope to develop in a better direction, it depends on what happens next.
Chu Anyu didn't wait any longer, and when he got the news, he immediately sent someone to arrest Xia Xun.
Neither Qi Hui nor Zhi Gui would let him go, they stopped Chu Anyu's subordinates and did not allow them to do anything.
Xia Xun picked up the wooden shackle, weighed it twice, and said slowly:
"You don't have to be like this, I was indeed the one who hurt Qi Yan, not to mention the number of times I have been in prison, everyone here, I am afraid that no one can compare, even this wooden shackle, I have worn it for a long time, don't worry about me, you guys Just take care of your master."
He put the shackles around his neck and urged Chu Anyu:
"Lord Inspector, don't you want to go? Is it possible that you want to invite me with eight sedan chairs?"
Chu Anyu said angrily:
"Slick tongue! Take it away!"
Xia Xun went down the dungeon in Gyeongju Prefecture like this, and three days later, Qi Yan survived.