After Fang Zilan returned to the guest room, a worried Awan and an anxious Xiahou Zhang surrounded her.
"You are back. Not long after you were invited by Master Fang this morning, Your Majesty...Mr. was taken away." Awan pulled Fang Zilan's sleeves and said, "How was it? Did you see Mr. Already? Who took him away..."
She asked the questions at once, like beans being poured out of a bamboo tube, crackling, crispy, loud, fast and dense. There was neither time for Fang Zilan to respond nor a chance for Xia Houzhang to interrupt. He was so anxious that he had to pace back and forth.
Seeing this, Fang Zilan patted Awan's shoulder lightly, temporarily stopping her questioning. Then she turned to Xia Houzhang and asked, "Did your husband recommend himself to be a hostage?"
Although it was a question, she said it with absolute certainty. Xia Houzhang didn't seem to expect that she would ask such a direct question. He was stunned for a long time and then whispered: "Yes, my husband..."
"Is he crazy?" Fang Zilan shouted sharply, blocking everything Xia Houzhang could say later, "Isn't he causing trouble at this juncture?"
"They must have a hostage." Xia Houzhang hurriedly defended Li Shengxuan: "Sir, he took the initiative to stand up for me and Miss Awan."
"Do you believe this?" Fang Zilan snorted coldly and said, "If they just want a hostage, then why didn't you take the initiative to stand up?"
"I..." Xia Houzhang hesitated to speak. After struggling for a long time, he whispered: "Sir, it was to protect you that I took the initiative to stand up."
"Protect me?" Fang Zilan looked at Xia Houzhang in disbelief and asked, "What does being a hostage have to do with protecting me?"
My husband said that if someone is traveling with you, they will definitely attract the attention of the bandits. "Xia Houzhang let out a long sigh, "The usual behavior of bandits is to take them hostage so that they can negotiate terms with you and even control you. "
He paused as he spoke, and his voice became a little deeper, "Therefore, the people who were taken hostage by the bandits must not become a burden to you."
Fang Zilan ignored everyone's dissuasion and said that it was difficult to travel in the dark, so she immediately prepared a carriage and returned to Yanzhou overnight.
She and Shangguan Fei sat in the carriage together along the way. She closed her eyes to rest and Shangguan Fei did not dare to say anything.
He secretly guessed that she was ill from poison and was afraid that she would not be able to ride a horse, but he was also worried that he was just being smart. She just wanted to take care of him who was seriously injured in the carriage and could not move easily. Open your mouth.
The two of them were silent all the way until they rushed back to Yanzhou City. It was already dawning.
The light in the sky was dim, and Awan was awakened by the movement outside. He thought that Fang Zilan had not been gone for a day, and someone dared to come to the house to cause trouble. This group of local snakes in Yanzhou are really not economical. lamp.
She yawned, stood up, took a coat and put it on, and walked sleepily towards the door of the house. She wanted to see who didn't have eyes and dared to disturb people's dreams and not even let her sleep.
However, as soon as Awan walked to the door and saw the new housekeeper greeting people to enter the house, he felt no sleepiness at all. He felt as if he had been poured cold water on his head.
The man who should have appeared in the military camp, and whom the young master had repeatedly asked her to take care of, was now as pale as paper, with obvious cold sweat on his forehead. Standing in front of her like this made her angry and scared.
She was angry because she had made herself look like this in just one day, and what she was afraid of was what would happen if she couldn't stand it any longer.
"Fang Zilan!" Awan rushed forward angrily, grabbed Fang Zilan's wrist, and dragged her away without any explanation, leaving Vice General Cao and the housekeeper looking at each other, both stunned for a moment.
Fang Zilan turned back to look at the few people who were stunned on the spot, and shouted to them: "Shangguan Fei is seriously injured. Go and find me the best doctor in Yanzhou City, and..."
Before Fang Zilan could finish her words, she was interrupted harshly by Awan, "How can you still be in the mood to worry about others when you look like this?"
After Awan said that, he gouged out her eyes. She immediately became much quieter and said softly: "Awan, I was poisoned..."
"I know!" Awan groaned angrily, dragging her back to her room and slamming the door shut.
"A Wan, am I seriously poisoned?" Fang Zilan saw that A Wan was really angry. She was as well-behaved as a child who had done something wrong, and her voice seemed to lack confidence.
A Wan listened to her rare soft words, and her resentment seemed to have touched the cotton, and it swayed away lightly. She could only sigh heavily, "I just took your pulse on the road. It's a poison unique to the barbarians." ——The bone erosion is incompatible with your Gu."
"Is there an antidote?" Fang Zilan pretended to be calm, but underneath she was extremely panicked. She could not fall down in such a troubled year.
Awan shook his head, "Bone erosion is just a name. Each tribe of the Twelve Barbarians prepares it differently. Unless I can catch the person who poisoned you and find out which formula it is, I won't be able to make it." Antidote.”
Fang Zilan's heart sank and she asked in a low voice: "What will happen to the poisonous hair?"
"My whole body was in extreme pain, as if every bone was broken, and I had a high fever until I died." Awan's voice became a little darker, "You still have poison on your body, I'm afraid it will be even more painful."
"You said that, is there a way?" Fang Zilan clenched her fists, and Awan stepped forward and reached out to touch her forehead, "It has started to burn."
"What can I do?" She raised her hand and grabbed A-Wan's wrist. A-Wan let her hold it, and his eyes fell on her bandaged palm. "Didn't you think of stabbing yourself?"
Sure enough, is it bloodletting?
Fang Zilan gently closed her eyes. When she was still in the military camp, she had only a hazy consciousness at first. She vaguely felt that bloodletting would help her stay awake. When she saw Awan, she couldn't explain why.
Until then, Awan said she had already thought of it? Only then did she remember that this was not the first time that she had been poisoned by something other than poison. This situation has happened so many times that she shouldn't care at all.
In a daze, all kinds of voices in her memory came one after another, sweeping into every corner of her mind.
But unlike every previous memory, this time she was able to hear every word clearly and identify the owner of each voice.
However, the more she heard and the clearer the distinction, the more out of breath she felt.
Just like when she fell into the water before, she was like a drowning person. She was immersed in the water and could see the sunlight that seemed to be within reach, but she could never touch it even if she stretched out her hand.
After all, this life no longer belongs to her.
