Chapter 72 Hope for Recovery
This time, Zhao Chen lay down for another three days, and after three days, he woke up again! However, not only was there a creepy dead gray on his face, but his skin all over his body turned dead gray! His hair gradually lost its luster, and his eyes were covered with blood!
Zhao Chen felt confused and his whole body was extremely heavy. It was difficult for him to raise his hand!
At this moment, he suddenly saw a person lying on the head of the bed! The man was covered in white hair. Who would he be if he weren't Li Gang?
"Teacher!" Zhao Chen couldn't help but whisper.
When the sound came out, he felt the pain in his throat to the extreme! He almost fainted in one go!
He closed his eyes gently and gasped! At this moment, Li Gang woke up!
"Your Highness, you... are you... awake?" Li Gang said excitedly.
"Yes, I'm awake! But I'm afraid I won't live long!" Zhao Chen said with a wry smile.
Three days ago, when he woke up, he felt cold all over his body! Now he woke up again, he couldn't feel the feeling of chill all over his body, and replaced by a numb feeling! His body was extremely numb, as if the body no longer belonged to him! Even with his medical knowledge, he knew that the current situation was much more serious than a few days ago! He was seriously injured, but now he was attacked by severe poison. It would be really hard to survive!
"Your Highness the Crown Prince, don't despair. We have already gone to find famous doctors in the world! When those famous doctors arrive, you will definitely be able to cure your prince's body!" Li Gang said in tears.
"I don't want to despair! But I was hurt one after another, and I became like this now. It's hard not to despair!" Zhao Chen smiled bitterly again.
"Your Highness, as long as you are not dead, you cannot despair! You must believe that there is still hope! We must also believe that you can cure you, the prince!" Li Gang said.
Zhao Chen was silent for a long time, nodded, and said, "What you said makes sense!"
"Your Highness, Yue Fei, and Wang De have already invited a famous doctor to come! As long as that famous doctor comes, you will definitely be able to heal your highness's injuries!" Li Gang said.
"Oh? Did they both go out at the same time? What is the famous doctor? Where is it?" Zhao Chen said.
"That doctor is a Taoist priest, and he is practicing in Zhongnan Mountain! His medical skills are extremely high! Your Highness, you must persist, at least until the Taoist priest arrives!" Li Gang said.
"Taoist? Who would it be?" Zhao Chen said secretly. After a moment, he gritted his teeth and said, "The teacher said it is right. I will at least hold on for a while! I am not dead yet, and there is still hope of healing! I will persist until I die completely! I want to see this thief, God, he brought me to this era and caused me so many hardships. Is it just to let me die? I will never believe it! Even if this is true, I will fight with heaven and fate. People will conquer nature. I will definitely live! Teacher, please give me some porridge first, and I will eat some first! At least you can't starve to death here!"
He suddenly felt a sense of grief and anger in his heart, and was sad and angry at God and fate! He was originally a senior high school student in modern society and lived a good life, but God made him travel to the Song Dynasty! It was okay to come to the Song Dynasty, but he became the crown prince. However, the prince had not been long before he was about to be destroyed and his family was forced to escape! From last winter to today, he has been on the way to escape! He finally came to Hanzhong and settled down, but he was assassinated again! After being assassinated, he was lucky enough to die, but his internal organs and meridians were damaged. Others asserted that he would not live to be 20 years old! Then it was the extremely gentle A Yao who took care of him, but A Yao was also an assassin and wanted to completely kill him with poison!
He felt a strong injustice in his heart! He didn't understand why fate was so unfair!
"God doesn't let me live, but I just want to live! Not only do I want to live, I also want to live well! I want God to see who I am Zhao Chen is, whether I am Zhao Chen can survive, and whether I am Zhao Chen can step on all my enemies and all the hardships!" His face showed a firm look again!
"Jurchens, King Kang Zhao Gou, Zhe Keqiu, Assassin... and A Yao, you... I will not let you go! Aren't you going to kill me? I just won't let you do it!" Zhao Chen said intimately.
Li Gang had already brought the porridge in there. He served Zhao Chen to eat porridge. Seeing the firm light in Zhao Chen's eyes, he was delighted! No matter what, as long as Zhao Chen himself was not desperate, there was still hope of survival! If Zhao Chen himself was desperate, I'm afraid Zhao Chen would really not be able to live for a few days!
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Yue Fei and Wang De were riding a horse towards the north at this moment!
They gradually walked out of the Hanzhong Basin and came to the higher mountain! The weather was already very hot at this time, but the two of them had a profound internal strength, especially Yue Fei had already reached the state of insemination of cold and heat, so the heat did not have much impact on them! It’s just that the horses under their feet could not be the same as them. At this moment, the horses were full of sweat!
"Two months ago, we just left Dasan Pass, and now we have to pass Dasan Pass again!" Wang De looked at the pass in the distance and said.
It turns out that they are not far from Dasan Pass now!
"Yes! Who would have thought that so many things happened after leaving Dasan Pass! We were ordered to protect Your Highness, but we were injured repeatedly! I am really guilty!" Yue Fei said sadly.
"Assassin's methods are emerging one after another, so you can't blame you alone!" Wang Dedao.
"If I catch those assassins, I will definitely tear them to pieces!" Yue Fei said gritting his teeth.
"Those assassins should be people in the devil's way!" Wang Dedao.
"Man in the Demonic Way? Did General Wang find out their details?" Yue Fei said.
"There is no such thing! The whereabouts of people in the Demonic Way are mysterious and ignore all principles, laws and morals! I seem to have heard of Xiaoyaozi, the name of the Demon Queen, is the top master in the Demonic Way! However, now is not the time to settle accounts with them. Now we have to find someone to cure Your Highness first!" Wang Dedao.
"General Wang, is that Taoist priest really as magical as you said?" Yue Fei said.
"I'm afraid it's even more magical than what I said! The Taoist priest is very famous in the Hanzhong generation. He was originally from a wealthy family and passed the imperial examination. Later, he became a Taoist priest for some reason! He traveled around the world and saved the world with a canopy. He was very good at treating all the difficult and complicated diseases! Moreover, he was particularly good at treating poisonous injuries. No matter what all kinds of snake venomous insect poisons, he could cure them! I heard that he had also been to Tiannan, where there was a sect called the Five Poisons Sect, and he was very good at using poison! Someone was injured by the Five Poisons Sect, and the entire famous doctor in Tiannan was helpless. He also cured the disease! I found out the accurate information and knew that he was a peerless doctor, so I went to invite him! As long as he invited him, he would definitely cure your highness's poisonous injuries!" Wang Dedao.
"I hope this is the case!" Yue Fei nodded.
The sky gradually became darker, and the two of them still did not stop. They continued to ride their horses and rush forward! In the middle of the night, they finally arrived at the bottom of Dasan Pass!
At this moment, Dasan Pass was guarded by the Zhe Family Army, but it was dark night. The soldiers of the Zhe Family Army had already fallen asleep! There were not many Zhe Family Army soldiers on the city walls of Dasan Pass! The Zhe Family Army's discipline was loose, and after the Jin soldiers retreated, they had already returned to their original state!
Yue Fei and Wang De shouted loudly below, and someone finally arrived!
"Who are you? Why are you calling out in the middle of the night?" The deputy general appeared, and the deputy general said coldly.
"Open the city gate quickly! We want to go over!" Yue Fei said loudly.
"Nothing! How can you pass the test in the middle of the night? If you shout again, I will let you shoot an arrow and kill you immediately!" The deputy general said in a cold voice.
"We are here at the order of General Zhe Ke asked General Zhe to come! There is his token here!" Yue Fei said.
"What?" Hearing this, the deputy general above was shocked!
Although they were arrogant and domineering towards ordinary people, he was shocked when he heard that the two of them came with the orders they asked for!
Yue Fei had already taken out the token, but it was dark now. The distance from the top was so far below, and the deputy general above could not see the token below at all! But the deputy general did not check, but immediately asked someone to open the city gate and let Yue Fei and Wang De come in!
"This is the token!" Yue Fei and Wang De rode his horse into the Dasan Pass. Yue Fei took out the token again and said.
"Okay! The two of you came at the orders of General Zhe! I wonder what the general has to do?" The deputy general looked flattering! He recognized the token, which was the highest level of the Zhe Mansion, which generally means that there is an urgent matter of 100,000 yuan! On weekdays, the deputy general would never see such a token!
"It's confidential! You can't tell you! You can prepare a few fast horses for us quickly, we're leaving now!" Yue Fei said.
"Leave?" the deputy general was stunned and said, "In this dark night, where are the two generals going?"
"We have to go to Zhongnan Mountain to do business, and there is no need to delay it for a moment! You can quickly open the city gate in the north and let us go!" Yue Fei said.
Seeing the two of them being so anxious, the deputy general knew that something must have happened! At that moment, the deputy general hurriedly asked someone to prepare a horse and asked someone to open the city gate in the north. After Yue Fei and Wang De replaced the new horse, they left! Looking at the backs of the two, the deputy general secretly guessed that he didn't know what happened in Hanzhong!
Zhao Chen was assassinated, seriously injured, and poisoned. Although he is dying now, the news has not been widely spread! Zhe Keqiu has been strictly controlling the news, and even Zhe Keqiu has other plans in his heart! If Zhao Chen is really dying of illness, Zhe Keqiu may even kill all the insiders, and then find a young man to become the crown prince in order to achieve his plan to hold the emperor to order the princes! Of course, there are too many flaws to do this! Li Gang, Li Ruoshui, Wang De, Yue Fei and others all know about Zhao Chen, and countless soldiers of the Zhe family army outside the Qianqing Palace also know about Zhao Chen's affairs! If he really wants to find someone to replace Zhao Chen, too many people will leak sooner or later! So, if it were not forbidden, Zhe Keqiu would not do that!
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Yue Fei and Wang De came out of Dasan Pass and headed north all the way to the north, gradually reaching the territory of Fengxiang Mansion!
After arriving here, it was dawn and the two of them headed towards the east!
The road was extremely desolate. They saw countless broken villages and countless corpses exposed to the wilderness! The Jurchen invaded and slaughtered countless places wherever they went! I don’t know how many ordinary people died under the Jurchen iron hooves! Even if no one died, many of them had been driven away by the Jurchens and headed towards the north!
The Jurchens rose between the white mountains and black waters. They had a very strong combat power, but they had one huge disadvantage, that is, they were too small! They were even far inferior to the Khitans in the Liao Kingdom! The combined number of all Jurchens will not exceed one million! Therefore, they need a population!
For the Jurchens, in addition to plundering wealth, there is also a very important purpose of war to plunder the population! After each war, the Jurchens would drive a large number of people to the north! This was also the strategy set by Wanyan Agu. They wanted to turn powerful military forces into powerful national strength. They wanted to build a new powerful country out of thin air in the north, making the originally desolate north prosperous! Later generations, when the Jurchens rose again in the late Ming Dynasty, this was also their basic national policy. One of the main purposes of their war was to plunder the population and increase national strength by relying on the population!
Two months ago, Jin Wushu had come all the way to Fengxiang Mansion! But later, the Jurchen Marshal Wanyan Zonghan wanted to transport a large amount of wealth and population in Kaifeng to the north, so Jin Wushu had to retreat back to Chang'an! However, he drove a large number of people along the way, so this area is now extremely desolate and has no population!
Chapter completed!