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The knife broke through the stone and sank into the ground, stopping the two people from rolling. At the same time, Yuan Cixian heard a clear "click", like the sound of a broken bone.
The carriage went over the cliff and crashed. She felt dizzy but didn't feel any pain. She woke up belatedly and found that the person injured was not her.
The stone that was going to crush her pierced the hand under her head.
The rocks on the edge of the cliff were cracking and collapsing. Zheng Zhuo's half body was hanging outside the cliff, but he still leaned on the handle of the knife and asked her, "Are you hurt?"
Yuan Cixian struggled to prop herself up and moved her head away to avoid further injury to his hand. She shook her head and panted, "Your Highness, your right hand..."
Zheng Zhuo said "It's okay", then put away his knife, stood up, pulled off the dark fur coat behind him, wrapped her tightly and said, "You can't get on the horse now, wait for the carriage to come, it will be quick."
Yuan Cixian nodded with great effort, holding back tears, and said with a breath: "Child..."
The child was not in the carriage, and the other party separated the mother and child.
Zheng Zhuo quickly explained, "The enemy troops are divided into four groups, heading towards the four city gates in the east, south, west and north respectively. This is the eastern group closest to Yongxingfang. I was outside the city tonight, and I rushed here as soon as I got the news. The child is in the other three groups. Your brother is chasing north, the people from the Lu Mansion are chasing west, and I have sent another subordinate to the south group."
It was already past curfew. Fortunately, Zheng Zhuo happened to be outside the city to check on Lu Shiqing's whereabouts. Otherwise, Yuan Yu would have been justified in taking him out of the city because his sister was abducted, and he would not have been able to bring his men out so easily.
Yuan Cixian was wrapped in a thick fur coat, but her heart grew colder.
Obviously, the enemy didn't want her life, and they trapped her in a carriage and divided the troops into four groups just to distract Yuan Yu and Zheng Zhuo's manpower and attention. In other words, the enemy's ultimate goal was not her and her son, nor the Yuan family or Zheng Zhuo.
Throwing her and the child out as bait, this trap could only be set for one person. And the other party even avoided putting the bait in the same basket to be on the safe side.
Just like now, Yuan Cixian has been saved, but the child is most likely not.
She was so anxious that her lips trembled and her voice was already filled with tears: "Where is he?"
Zheng Zhuo stared at the carriage speeding towards him on the horizon and said truthfully, "I don't know."
The news he received was the same as Yuan Cixian's, which only covered the snow disaster, and there was no news of Lu Shiqing after that. In total, he had been missing for nearly three days.
But they all knew that since the other party chose to throw out the bait, it meant that Lu Shiqing must not have fallen into the hands of the enemy yet.
The carriage soon drove up to them, and Zheng Zhuo said, "There are midwives and maids in the carriage to take care of you. You go back home first." Then he picked her up and carried her into the carriage.
Yuan Cixian didn't have the energy to be coy at this time. She got into the carriage and lay down, looking at him pleadingly: "Your Highness, please..."
She wished she could grow wings to chase the child, but she knew that in her current physical condition, she would only cause more trouble. Once she met an enemy, it would make everyone even more restrained.
Zheng Zhuo nodded: "He and the child will come back safely." Then he lifted the curtain and walked out.
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Inside the carriage, the midwife and maid arranged by Zheng Zhuo hurriedly took over Yuan Cixian.
Yuan Cihan's head felt heavy as if it had been filled with soup. She could not hold on and fell asleep before she could even return to the city. When she awoke, she smelled a strong stench of medicine. She suddenly opened her eyes and saw that the sky was bright, as if the sun was already high in the sky. She hurriedly struggled to get up.
Jianzhi, who was sleeping beside her bed, was startled and hurriedly shouted outside: "My dear, the lady is awake!"
Yuan Cixian thought she was calling Lu Shiqing, and the tension in her head relaxed. She turned around and saw Yuan Yu walking quickly from the outside. Her heart tightened immediately, and she hurriedly said in a hoarse voice: "Brother, where is the child, where is Lu Shiqing?"
There was a big dark spot under Yuan Yu's eyes. Hearing this, he said with an unhappy "tsk", "Why, are you disappointed to see that it's you, brother?"
He sounded joking, but Yuan Cixian was not in the mood at all and was so anxious that she almost cried.
She was so tired and uncomfortable last night that she thought she would just take a nap and wait for news from Zheng Zhuo and her brother, but she ended up sleeping until noon the next day.
Yuan Yu was so distressed when he saw this that he sat down and said, "Everything is all right, everything is fine, dear, don't worry and don't cry."
"Really?" It's not that Yuan Cihan didn't want to believe it, but if Lu Shiqing really came back safely, why didn't he stay by her bedside
Yuan Yu coughed softly, his expression a little unnatural: "Of course it's true. My nephew didn't catch a cold, he was lying in the rocking chair outside. Brother has taken a close look, he looks a lot like me when I was young."
Indeed, it was reasonable to say that if the other party wanted to use the child to trap Lu Shiqing, they would have to protect the child well. This was a blessing in disguise. Yuan Yu was not a person who could lie, so what he said did not seem to be false, but he did not mention Lu Shiqing at all, which was really unusual.
Yuan Cixian was anxious and wanted to get off the bed after lifting the quilt, but he frowned and pressed his shoulder: "If you want to live, lie down well." After he said that, he sighed and said helplessly, "I said I can't lie, but you insisted that I lie to you... Okay, I'll tell you the truth, but I have to make a deal, you can't get out of bed now."
Yuan Cixian nodded her head at that, and then she heard him say, "Lu Zishu is indeed back, but he was slightly injured. He passed out while guarding you until dawn, and is now lying in the next room."
She wanted to jump down again when she heard that, but she held back and asked, "How is his injury?"
Yuan Yu thought for a moment and said, "Come on, I'll bring it to you, you can see for yourself!"
"… "
Yuan Yu went out after she finished speaking. Jianzhi saw that Yuan Cixian was confused, so he explained to her what happened last night.
The original west and south roads were fog balls set by the other party, and the child was actually sent to the north road chosen by Yuan Yu. But before he caught up with the group, Lu Shiqing had already fought with them alone.
The other party cheated by throwing a huge rock wrapped in swaddling clothes from a height of nearly three meters. It was a dark and foggy night, and Lu Shiqing did not dare to take the risk. Even though he knew it was probably fake, he still took it. The injury was sustained at that time.
Afterwards, he pretended to fall to the ground and was unable to get up, thus luring the other party into revealing the child's location. Cao An, who had followed his arrangements beforehand and was lying in ambush nearby, took advantage of the situation and rescued the young man.
When Yuan Yu arrived, Cao An had already left with the child, while Lu Shiqing stayed behind, using himself as bait to delay time. Not long after, Zheng Zhuo also arrived and helped him escape.
Yuan Cixian was already terrified just by listening to it, and she became even more frightened when she thought about Lu Shiqing's situation in the past few days.
Now that I think about it, the so-called confrontation between the Uighur and Turkic armies was not a coincidence at all, but a deliberate act by someone with the sole purpose of taking Lu Shiqing's life.
The snowy mountain where he disappeared was located on the border of the Great Zhou Dynasty, a thousand miles away from the capital of Zhou. It took him two and a half days to get back. He had to go without food or drink, sleep, and change horses constantly, traveling day and night. If you also take into account the time wasted due to the fatal attacks he encountered along the way, she could hardly imagine how he got back. When he arrived near Chang'an City and heard the news that she and her child had been abducted, how did he have the strength to run to rescue them
Yuan Cihan asked Jianzhi to bring both children over. After giving the order, Yuan Yu came back with big strides, holding Lu Shiqing horizontally in his arms, ignoring the surprised looks of the servants and maids in the Lu mansion.
At first she thought he was just joking, but seeing this she stared at him and the unconscious person in his arms with her mouth open for a long time before she reacted and moved to the side of the bed to make room for Lu Shiqing.
But Lu Shiqing didn't wake up early or late, and woke up just when Yuan Yu was about to lay him down on the bed. When he opened his eyes, he saw his face that had been magnified several times. He was so frightened that he rolled over and fell on the bed with a "bang".
Yuan Cixian was startled and hurried to touch him: "Did you fall?"
Lu Shiqing almost broke his arm last night, and suffered internal injuries due to the strong impact of the stone. In terms of physical condition, he was not much better than Yuan Cihan. After such a fall, he was indeed seeing stars.
But he woke up when he heard the voice, almost crawling to his feet and asked, "Are you awake? Are you feeling better?"
He didn't dare to call her before, and kept waiting for her to get enough sleep. Unexpectedly, she couldn't hold on and fell asleep before she woke up. Now she didn't understand the situation and probably thought he had never left.
Yuan Cixian curled her lips and reached out to touch his face, which had become thinner: "I'm fine."
Lu Shiqing choked when she heard this. When she was asleep, the doctor came to see her and said that she had suffered so much that it really damaged her essence. Fortunately, she had a good constitution, so she was able to save her life. However, she could not get pregnant again within three to five years, and she had to hold the baby in her mouth and take good care of herself during the confinement period. She was saved in time last night. If it was a little worse, she would have been ill and would have been weak and cold in winter.
After this experience of passing through the gates of hell, Lu Shiqing originally did not intend to let her suffer again. Now that he had both a son and a daughter, it didn't matter if he didn't have another child for three to five years, or even for his entire life. Even if he didn't have a child yet, as long as she was fine, he was willing to stop having one. But in the future, he would have to make amends to the ancestors of the Lu family in the underworld.
Seeing that he was choking and not speaking, Yuan Cixian smiled and said, "It's really okay. Look at me, I'm fatter than you."
Lu Shiqing couldn't help it anymore, he pulled her into his arms, and kept stroking her shoulders: "I'm sorry, I broke my promise."
She was born more than ten days early, so there was really no need to settle the score. However, she still raised her head and pretended to be angry and said, "Will you still run around in the future?"
Lu Shiqing looked down at her, shook his head, and said seriously: "I will be wherever you are."
"You take me everywhere?"
He nodded: "I'll take you wherever I go."
Yuan Cixian leaned against his chest and smiled: "No need to relieve yourself!"
"… "
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