RMACAUH Chapter 11

Feng Yue’s eyes reddened, and he suddenly felt that he himself…

Wei Xiaofeng was so frightened that his body stiffened. He put his hands together, closed his eyes, and muttered, “Supreme Star Lord, respond without ceasing, drive away evil and bind demons, protect life and defend the body.”

After reciting, he mustered up the courage to look back, only to see a dusty little thing jumping out of the tangled grass.

“A little rabbit?” Wei Xiaofeng’s playful nature was aroused. He haphazardly wiped his wet hands on his clothes, crouched down, and quietly approached the wild rabbit.

Just two steps away, Wei Xiaofeng gathered his energy and pounced. As a result, he didn’t catch the rabbit, but instead got a mouthful of grass clippings and dirt.

“Pui, pui, pui!” Wei Xiaofeng wiped his mouth, brushed aside the withered grass to search, but unexpectedly saw a dog hole hidden at the base of the wall. The wild rabbit had burrowed in through the dog hole.

He was overjoyed and quickly crawled to the dog hole. He felt no shame in crawling through a dog hole, only that heaven never seals off all exits, and tonight he could finally escape!

These past two days in the self-combing hall, he had lost a lot of weight. Although the dog hole was narrow, he could still crawl out with some effort.

Wei Xiaofeng got covered in dirt, his mind only on leaving this ghastly place, the farther the better. He ran wildly along the narrow path before him, running all night until the soles of his shoes were worn through and he could no longer walk.

At this time, the sky was faintly glowing with a grey light, and it looked like dawn was approaching.

He leaned against a tree trunk, tilted his head, and slid to the ground. He closed his eyes tightly, wiped the fine sweat from his forehead, and wanted to wait for the sky to brighten before going down the mountain.

He was extremely tired at the moment, and he fell asleep in a daze.

While he was sleeping soundly, he felt something crawling on his back, a wet, cool, and slippery sensation, like a venomous snake coiling around him.

He wanted to shake off the snake on his hand, but his body was so heavy that he couldn’t move at all. He opened his mouth wide but couldn’t shout.

How terrifying! Who would come and save him, wake him from this nightmare?

Suddenly, the snake coiling around his hand opened its bloody maw, and the snake’s head transformed into a hideous human head. Its eyes were so scarlet that it seemed blood would drip from them. His hoarse throat, like an old bellows, squeezed out two words: “Save me!”

“Ahhhh!!!” Wei Xiaofeng woke up from the nightmare with a start, jumped up, and kicked away the object next to him. He wanted to run, but his legs were weak, and he fell to the ground with a thud. Only then, in the already bright morning light, did he see clearly what the scene before him was.

The place before him was actually a mass burial ground!

What had been crawling on him wasn’t a venomous snake, but a ghostly thing that looked like a person.

This ghostly thing was covered in blood, its hair soaked in blood and formed into clumps, its dry hands still trying its best to crawl towards him, “Save, save me, save me…”

Wei Xiaofeng cried in fear, and asked with a choked voice, “Are you a person or a ghost?!”

“I, am a person!” After saying that, his head drooped, and he lay there motionless.

Wei Xiaofeng stretched out his leg and gently kicked him twice. He was as unconscious and unaware as a dead person.

With the bright daylight, Wei Xiaofeng was finally certain that he was a person, so he mustered his courage and stepped forward, reaching out to feel his nose. His breathing was very weak.

A cinnabar dot between his eyebrows, plus his figure, confirmed that he was a *ge’er* without a doubt.

Such a weak and slender body made Wei Xiaofeng feel guilty about his kick earlier.

Wei Xiaofeng looked around helplessly. Right now, he could only rely on carrying him down the mountain to find a doctor.

Looking at his own clothes, covered in blood and dirt, and then looking at himself, he wasn’t much better off.

Wei Xiaofeng sighed helplessly. There was no need to be particular anymore. He gritted his teeth, picked the person up on his back, and walked down the mountain.

Wei Xiaofeng gasped for breath like an ox, “You must not die, ah! You’ve persevered in a pile of dead people for so long. You finally waited for me to come along, it would be too unworthy to die like this.”

He had thought that the person on his back was almost half-dead, but who knew that he would exhale a breath of stale air, his voice so hoarse that it seemed to be squeezed from his chest cavity, “I want to live!”

Hearing this sentence, Wei Xiaofeng smiled knowingly, “Yes, you must live! Living allows you to taste all kinds of flavors in the world, haha… I also used a lot of effort to escape. Don’t worry, as long as you want to live, I will do my best to find a doctor to save you.”

“Thank you, you, are really a good person. My name is… Sang Cai.”

“Sang Cai *ge’er*, your name is really nice, my name is Wei Xiaofeng.”

Relying on a tenacious will, Wei Xiaofeng carried Sang Cai from dawn until the sun set, finally arriving at the city gate.

It was already past *xu* hour, and the evening drum on the city wall sounded heavily. The officers guarding the city gate were about to close it.

Wei Xiaofeng couldn’t care about his bleeding feet. He didn’t know where the strength came from, but he carried Sang Cai in one breath and rushed forward, “Brothers, wait! There’s still someone who wants to go in!!”

Who knew that the officer wouldn’t show any leniency, and instead held a *yanyue* blade in front of him, coldly rebuking, “*Xu* hour has arrived, come again tomorrow!”

“No, it won’t do, this little brother of mine has to enter the city to see a doctor, if he doesn’t see a doctor, he will die! Can the two elder brothers please be accommodating and let us in?”

“Get out, if you don’t get out, you’ll be charged with disrupting order and arrested and taken to the *yamen*!”

Wei Xiaofeng was pushed, falling flat on his back. Sang Cai, who was pressed underneath, groaned. But this groan made Wei Xiaofeng feel particularly relieved. He quickly rolled over, helped him up, and let him lean against his chest, “Did I hurt you just now? You groaned so loudly, it’s good that you’re not dead.”

“You…” Sang Cai ‘wah’ sound, spat out a mouthful of blood, rolled his eyes, and fainted.

Wei Xiaofeng was shocked and panicked as he shook the *ge’er* in his arms, “Little Brother Sang Cai! Hold on a little longer! We’ll be able to enter the city soon, wait a little longer, wait a little longer…”

He looked blankly at the deep night sky, and for the first time was so panicked. The feeling of helplessness was like a beast in the night that could devour everything. His eyes dimmed, and he picked up the person on his back again, ready to crash into the city gate as if resigned to his fate.

Just as he ran out one step, not far away, a black-maned horse galloped over holding up a token, and a loud voice echoed through the nine heavens, “The *hefu* is here, open the city gate quickly!”

The officers guarding the gate immediately became solemn and quiet, neatly opening the locked city gate wide to welcome the horse carriage behind.

Wei Xiaofeng curiously turned his head to look, and at a glance he saw Feng Yue riding a horse beside the carriage. The speed of the horse was neither fast nor slow, and the horse kicked with elegant and lithe steps, just like its master, majestic and unhurried.

It was too dark, and Feng Yue did not notice the two little beggars outside the city gate, and with eyes fixed straight ahead, he was about to enter the city with the carriage.

Wei Xiaofeng thought, I’ll take a gamble, maybe he still remembers that his carriage carried a certain *ge’er* from the Wei family, and will kindly take him into the city together!

He wheezed and puffed as he carried the person and ran forward. Before he could even stop the carriage, the accompanying imperial guards drew their knives and pinned him down. Colliding with royal dignity was allowed to be treated as assassination and immediate execution.

Feng Yue frowned, his eyes revealing a fierce color as he spurred his horse forward, about to question what was happening, but he saw the person held down by the knives, and even though his beautiful face was now as dirty as a little cat, he recognized him at a glance.

Feng Yue’s heart tightened into a ball, and even his breathing lost its rhythm. It hadn’t been long since he last saw him, how did Xiaofeng get like this?

“Guangling Prince, it, it’s me, ah! Wei Xiaofeng, don’t you recognize me? That… at the palace banquet that day, you even let me…”

“Shut up.” Feng Yue lowered his eyes and looked down at him, his arrogant posture unattainable, “Where did this little beggar come from, randomly trying to curry favor!”

Wei Xiaofeng’s heart stung for a moment. He hadn’t expected much, but now that he was being kneaded into the mud, the taste was ultimately unpleasant.

Feng Yue pursed his lips tightly, painfully turning his face away, not bearing to look at him any longer. He forcefully pulled the reins, brushing past him.

The hooves of the horse splashed dust, choking Wei Xiaofeng, just as he was in despair, he heard a light, slow voice from afar: “This prince is in a good mood tonight, let them into the city!”

“Thank you, Guangling Prince!” Wei Xiaofeng sincerely bowed to him. After the imperial carriage went far away, he picked up Sang Cai again and entered the city.

Empress Chen was a little curious, and lifted the curtain to ask, “Who was that just now? How did he recognize you?”

Feng Yue smiled lightly, “Empress Mother, it’s normal to recognize me. I don’t often stay in the palace, how many people do I see in a day?”

Empress Chen always felt that the tone of the person just now didn’t sound like a stranger with no connection at all. Recently, there have been some unpleasant rumors outside, could it be… all true?

“You are a prince, you must be careful in your words and actions, and don’t do those foolish things that damage your reputation. Although it is normal for men to have three wives and four concubines, being fickle is not the behavior of a gentleman.”

Feng Yue pretended to be annoyed, pulled the reins, clasped his fist and bowed, and said to Empress Chen, “Empress Mother, please return to the palace quickly, this son will ride his horse back to the residence first.”

“You…” Empress Chen had a worried look on her face, thinking that he had been behaving steadily and dignified recently, but he didn’t even last until the New Year Festival, and now he was showing his true colors!

“This child, so untamed, will suffer sooner or later in this capital.”

Feng Yue pretended to ride his horse back to the residence, made a semicircle and returned to the city gate.

Xiaofeng, in that state, certainly wouldn’t be able to go far, he had to find him and bring him back.

The guards who were guarding the city gate at night saw Feng Yue riding his horse back, and were confused. They hurried forward and saluted.

“Your Highness, I don’t know what matter brings you back so late at night?”

“It’s nothing,” Feng Yue was filled with an aura of arrogance and sternness, “Under all the heavens, there is no land that is not the king’s. This prince is just running a horse in his own city, don’t bother me!”

“Yes.”

“This prince is just taking a short run, if this matter is spread out in the future…”

“This humble official understands! Understands!”

“Humph, it’s good that you understand.”

After saying that, he rode away, and the guards breathed a sigh of relief and whispered a few words.

“Guangling Prince’s aura is so scary.”

“A general of a century, who has established world-shaking achievements at a young age, it’s normal to be a little arrogant.”

“Don’t discuss it anymore, are you courting death by privately discussing the imperial family?”

……

Feng Yue did some inexplicable things this night, but he couldn’t care about those, he only wanted to find Xiaofeng as soon as possible in his heart.

He anxiously pulled the reins and went through the streets and alleys, only hoping to find him in the next moment.

Finally, deep in a new alley at a turn, he found that figure that haunted his dreams.

He saw that his hair was messy, his whole body was dirty, he really looked like a homeless little beggar, leaning wearily against a corner of the wall. He didn’t know who the *ge’er* leaning next to him was, which made him angry!

He had fallen to such a state, and he still had to drag along a dying burden!

Feng Yue jumped off his horse and quickly ran towards Wei Xiaofeng. He squatted down and gently called his name with a tenderness that even he himself didn’t know.

“Xiaofeng! Xiaofeng… how did you get yourself into this state?” Feng Yue’s eyes reddened, and he suddenly felt that he was quite useless. Why couldn’t he protect one person in two lifetimes?

“Mmm?” Wei Xiaofeng was half-dreaming and half-awake, as if he heard someone calling him, but he was too tired, so tired that he didn’t even have the strength to open his eyelids, and only mumbled, “It hurts…”

“Where does it hurt?” Feng Yue pushed aside Sang Cai, who was leaning on his shoulder, pulled him into his arms, and pinched the joints on his body, only stopping after confirming that he was not injured.