RMACAUH Chapter 44
by VolareChapter 44: Feng Yue, I dreamt that your legs were cut off…
The carriage was completely out of control, and the inside was bouncing violently, making it impossible to gain any foothold.
“Young Master!” With such violent shaking, Wei Xiaofeng’s wound on his arm became even more severe, and fresh blood rolled out, quickly soaking half of his sleeve.
His face was frighteningly pale, and he tightly closed his eyes, enduring the pain.
Sang Cai lifted the curtain of the carriage and took a look outside, so frightened that his soul almost scattered. Just over two hundred meters ahead was a cliff. This time, they might really have to explain themselves here.
The two were bumped around in the carriage until their heads were dizzy and they just wanted to vomit. Faced with the powerlessness before them, a sense of despair arose that they had never felt before.
Just as the horses were a hundred meters away from the cliff, at the critical moment, two horses galloped from behind. One of them jumped onto the carriage and desperately pulled the reins. The horses were restrained, and their four hooves almost rubbed sparks on the ground.
Although the horses were reined in at the edge of the cliff, the carriage was thrown out violently due to inertia. The violent galloping just now, with their bodies constantly colliding against the carriage, caused the tenon and mortise joints that were stuck to wear out and break. The two bodies simultaneously crashed into a carriage wall, and with a loud “bang,” the wall was damaged. The two rolled out of the carriage at the same time, their bodies falling downwards in weightlessness.
Sang Cai was above Wei Xiaofeng. The person on the carriage lunged and grabbed his wrist. Sang Cai didn’t have time to see clearly, only feeling a figure jump out of the cliff with him, grabbing Wei Xiaofeng and falling together.
He was shocked beyond measure, and could only stare wide-eyed at the scene before him, still in shock. Feng Yue actually hugged Wei Xiaofeng and fell down together.
How could someone be willing to follow another person so firmly in the face of life and death, without any hesitation?
In the past, he always felt that Feng Yue didn’t have much true affection for Xiaofeng, and that Xiaofeng was too foolish to believe in a high-ranking nobleman. He must have had some ulterior motive to treat him with false courtesy.
But now, he had to believe that there really was unswerving love in this world.
*
When Wei Xiaofeng woke up, he found himself leaning in a warm embrace, surrounded by cliffs on all sides. A full moon hung high, and tonight the moon was bright and the stars were few.
“A-Yue…”
Hearing Wei Xiaofeng’s call, Feng Yue responded softly, his voice a little hoarse: “You’re awake?”
“I remember, I fell off the cliff, and then I saw you, and then… then I don’t remember.”
“I came down with you.”
“Then are we dead?”
“No, there are many shrubs protruding from the cliff wall, which cushioned the gravity of our fall. We are now stuck on a rock that is neither up nor down, just enough for two people to sit down and look at the moon.”
Only then did Wei Xiaofeng feel the wind around his waist roaring like the low howl of a wild beast, gradually taking away the temperature of their bodies.
Wei Xiaofeng moved, and gasped in pain, discovering that the wound had been roughly treated, bandaged with Feng Yue’s clothing.
He smelled a strong smell of blood, assuming it was his own, so he didn’t think much about it.
Because Feng Yue was here, he felt very at ease.
Even in such a desperate situation, it gave him great courage and the belief to live on.
“Tonight’s moon is really round and bright!” Wei Xiaofeng couldn’t help but exclaim. He never dreamed that he would experience such a thing with another person, able to sit on a half-cliff and look at the moon.
“Yes, it’s very beautiful.”
Wei Xiaofeng heard that his voice seemed very tired and weak.
“A-Yue, are you injured?” Wei Xiaofeng wanted to turn around to look at him, but was stopped by Feng Yue.
“Don’t move! Be careful of falling down.”
“Oh, oh, I won’t move.”
“I’m fine, I just didn’t sleep well and I’m a little sleepy.”
“Then why don’t you sleep for a while?”
“I’m afraid, I’m afraid that if I fall asleep, I’ll be too tired and won’t wake up. It’s good to have you talk to me like this.”
“Will they come to save us?”
Feng Yue firmly believed: “They will, before dawn, they will definitely find a way to find us.”
“A-Yue, I’m so cold!”
“Yes, I know, I’ll hold you a little tighter, be good… don’t be afraid.”
Wei Xiaofeng felt awkward for a while: “I’m not a child anymore, I can bear this hardship.”
“I know, my Xiaofeng is the bravest and strongest person.”
Wei Xiaofeng’s body was slightly hot, and his earlobes also turned red. “Why did you just jump down with me like that? Don’t do this in the future, you still have many, many things to do, your life is more important than mine.”
“We are together, through life and death, don’t you remember?”
“I remember! But… this is too scary.” Wei Xiaofeng lowered his head sadly and said, “I don’t want you to do this for me. No matter what happens, you have to live well for yourself.”
“What about you?”
“Me?”
“If I one day face such a dangerous situation, can you be so calm and live well on your own?”
“Of course!” Wei Xiaofeng raised his voice. “Why are you so silly? Life is so precious, once you die, you can never live again. I still have a lot I want to eat and play. I will never give up my life easily for anyone, so you too.”
“Liar!” Feng Yue bit his earlobe hard as punishment. “Wei Xiaofeng, I really didn’t see that you could be such a liar!”
Wei Xiaofeng gasped in pain and asked him aggrievedly, “What, what did I lie to you about?”
“You know it in your heart!” As he spoke, Feng Yue’s eyes were already wet, his voice hoarse. The last scene in his previous life memories appeared in his mind, riddled with holes as if he were being executed by slow slicing. That kind of death was too tragic. Xiaofeng must have been in a lot of pain, right?
Wei Xiaofeng became silent with guilt, raised his hand to cover the palm on his waist, and interlocked his fingers with him.
“Why aren’t you talking? If you don’t talk, I won’t be able to hold on and will fall asleep.” Feng Yue sighed and tried to cheer up.
“What should I say?” Being with him, Wei Xiaofeng never seemed to deliberately look for topics. Feng Yue always took the initiative to say something to him, guiding him to speak.
“Tell me, how many children should we have in the future?”
Wei Xiaofeng blushed with shame: “How can you be sure about this? Besides, *ge’er* are not as easy to have children as women, some *ge’er* can’t have children in their entire lives!”
Feng Yue smiled: “Then it must be that his man is not good, I am different, you know.”
“Oh, your skin is really thick! Don’t say it…”
“Then let’s have ten.”
Wei Xiaofeng was startled: “Do you think I’m a pig? Then you should dismiss me as soon as possible! Your expectations are too high, I can’t do it.”
“Hahahaha…” Feng Yue laughed. “Then how many can you have? You can’t even have one, right?”
“Then, then I really can’t have any… you should dismiss me as soon as possible!” Wei Xiaofeng felt great pressure.
“I’m teasing you, it would be a lie to say that I don’t have any expectations. I want a child with you, preferably all like you, equally cute, kind, strong, brave, and straightforward. But it doesn’t matter if we don’t have any. I just want to be with you. The rest are unexpected joys.”
Wei Xiaofeng scolded: “You are really boring, always saying such things to tease me, I don’t want to talk to you anymore.”
“Don’t, good husband, please talk to me!”
“Then be serious.”
Feng Yue pretended to sigh: “How about I recite poetry for you? *Guanguan jujiu, in the river island…*”
Wei Xiaofeng painfully covered his ears: “I don’t listen, I don’t listen!”
“Then how can I be serious?”
“Aren’t you usually very serious with them?”
“Them?”
“Your subordinates, and those officials in the court.”
“You want me to treat them like I treat you? Then you should think clearly, when I get serious, I am very stern and scary.”
“I, I didn’t mean that either, never mind, you should just be unserious!”
“Okay, okay.” Feng Yue rested his chin on his shoulder and gently closed his eyes. He was really too sleepy, and couldn’t hold on any longer.
After waiting for a long time without hearing Feng Yue’s voice, Wei Xiaofeng felt inexplicably uneasy and called him a few times, but he didn’t respond.
“A-Yue! A-Yue!! Are you asleep?”
“You didn’t even say hello before you fell asleep, how can you just fall asleep like that?”
After a long silence, Wei Xiaofeng made a decision.
“Let’s just have two, one like you and one like me. What should we name the children?”
“A-Yue, your body is so cold, A-Yue… A-Yue!!”
Wei Xiaofeng called his name tremblingly, again and again, but Feng Yue didn’t give him any response. He turned to look at him, but the narrow rock didn’t allow him to move at all.
He reached out to touch his cold body, but touched a handful of stickiness. In the moonlight, he saw that his hands were covered in bright red blood.
In that instant, bean-sized tears welled up from his eyes. He turned sideways, hugged Feng Yue’s body with all his strength, and cried sadly.
“A-Yue, don’t die! Don’t leave me alone, wuwuwu… open your eyes and look at me!”
In a daze, Feng Yue saw a bright light in the endless darkness, as if guiding him forward.
Just as he was about to pass through the light, he suddenly heard Wei Xiaofeng’s crying behind him. He was shocked and ran back.
Then he saw the person with tears and snot smeared all over his clothes, barely breathing. “Don’t cry, your husband is not dead yet! Don’t cry, don’t cry.”
“You are not allowed to die, if you die, I won’t live either! I will follow you to the ends of the earth, I will pester you, you don’t even think about shaking me off, you provoked me, I won’t let you go even as a ghost! Wuwuwu…”
“You scared your husband so much that I dare not die.”
Wei Xiaofeng burst into tears and smiled. “Don’t sleep, A-Yue, look there! It’s going to be dawn.”
He said that when dawn came, their people would definitely rescue them.
Until the sky was bright, the morning light breaking through the clouds was golden, hot, and dazzling.
Wei Xiaofeng found that the rock they were on had been soaked red by Feng Yue’s blood last night. His face was frighteningly pale, leaning motionless against the cliff wall, without a trace of breath.
Wei Xiaofeng’s heart turned cold. He gently stroked Feng Yue’s pale face, and suddenly a picture flashed in his mind, a picture that he had never experienced but made him extremely terrified.
Feng Yue was also like this, leaning against a window and falling asleep motionless, with white snow outside the window.
He was so frightened that he could only hug him even harder, and the back he touched with both palms was also full of blood…
Had the blood in his body almost run dry?
Wei Xiaofeng’s throat felt like it was being pricked by countless dense needles, aching and hoarse, his eyes firm and resolute: “I won’t let you go alone, if you don’t believe it, then wait for me on the road to the Yellow Springs.”
Suddenly, a surprised shout came from the cliff: “Found them! They are there!! Quick, quickly pull them up.”
Hearing the shout, Mu Yunhua slid down the rope to their side. When he saw Feng Yue’s condition, his heart sank to the bottom.
He didn’t dare to check Feng Yue’s breathing, but just put the rope hanging down on Feng Yue’s body, supporting him to let the people above start pulling.
Wei Xiaofeng behaved quite calmly, looking up at Feng Yue being taken up, his eyes empty and dazed.
When he was rescued back to the camp, when Feng Yue’s upper clothes were taken off to check the wound, the military doctor gasped heavily. There was a wound on his back cut open by a rock, from the back of his neck to his waist. The opened flesh had turned white, and the blood seemed to have run out.
Not only the wound on his back, but also a sword wound on his waist, which was torn deeper due to excessive pulling when he fell down, almost able to see the internal organs.
Mu Yunhua almost went crazy, his eyes red, pacing back and forth in place, roaring: “He is already like this, can he still be saved?!”
The military doctor swallowed his saliva. “This… this… the prince has lost too much blood, it’s hard to say! I’ll disinfect his wound first, sew up the wound, and try feeding him some decoction.”
When Sang Cai rushed over, he saw Xiaofeng sitting outside the tent, it was the first time he saw him looking so dejected.
“Young Master! Are you injured?”
Wei Xiaofeng shook his head stiffly: “He protected me, I wasn’t injured.”
Sang Cai was terrified: “Then, then what about the prince?”
“A-Cai, he bled a lot, a lot of blood, no matter how I called him, he didn’t respond to me, will he die?”
Sang Cai’s breath choked. In the past, he felt that Feng Yue’s death or life had nothing to do with him, but now… if Feng Yue died, there would be one less person in this world who was sincere to Xiaofeng.
Then Xiaofeng, would definitely be very sad, right?
“I’ll go in and take a look!”
Sang Cai rushed into the tent and saw Feng Yue, who was dying on the couch. The doctor was suturing his wound.
“Doctor, how is the prince?”
The doctor glanced at him and shook his head: “Too much blood loss, it’s really dangerous!”
“Too much blood loss?” Sang Cai’s heart moved: “As long as you replenish the blood that has been lost, wouldn’t it be fine?”
The doctor listened as if he was hearing a fantasy. “This young *ge’er*, are you joking? There is no such saying in this world that blood can be replenished like that!”
“I can!”
“What did you say?” Mu Yunhua seemed to see the only hope. “Can you really do it? Don’t make such a joke!”
Sang Cai nodded firmly: “I can, I know a blood-collecting *gu* technique, but… I have never used it so far, I only saw it in the ancient books left by my mother. I have practiced many *gu* worms before, I can try to use them.”
Mu Yunhua’s head was about to explode, and he grabbed his collar angrily, gritting his teeth and said: “What nonsense are you talking about? The master’s golden body is not something you can casually say you want to try! If something happens, you have to pay with your life!”
“Why are you so excited? If I don’t save him, he will die anyway!”
“Guard Mu!” Wei Xiaofeng rushed forward to protect Sang Cai behind him, and said firmly: “Let A-Cai try, if he says he can, he definitely can!”
Mu Yunhua couldn’t calm down. “The master jumped off the cliff at all costs to save you, protecting you with all his strength with his own flesh and blood. He is already like this, but you haven’t shed a single tear, and now you still don’t take his life seriously! You have been treated well for nothing!”
“Okay, you dog son, step aside!” At this time, Yuan Gonggong also walked in with a whisk, and looked at Sang Cai and said: “Little baby knows a lot, our family used to travel the world, I have indeed heard of it. There is a *wugu* technique in Southern Border that can replenish blood with *gu* worms and bring people back to life. You should hurry up and let our family have an eye-opener today.”
“Summon all the soldiers, I want to collect blood.”
Mu Yunhua couldn’t do anything after hearing Yuan Gonggong say this, so he had to bet with them and summoned all the soldiers over.
Only to see Sang Cai take out ten white, almost transparent, crawling insects from a square wooden box. They were extremely strange and rare, never seen before.
He put these worms on Feng Yue’s body, and the worms were actually sucking Feng Yue’s blood. The body of the worm that sucked the blood instantly turned blood red.
Sang Cai held the worms that had turned red in his palm, walked out of the tent, and placed the ten *gu* worms on the ground, letting them crawl.
The worms would quickly choose to suck the next person, but not everyone’s blood could be sucked. It had to be extremely similar to the first person’s blood, otherwise it would not be able to fuse and die.
“Don’t be afraid, it’s just sucking a little of your blood, it won’t hurt people.”
Soon the worms picked out ten people. After a while, three of them died when they were sucking for the second time, and there were still seven left that had sucked full of blood.
The color of the worms that are full of blood will become more vivid, and they will return the excess blood that cannot be digested back into the human body.
Sang Cai took the worms full of blood into the tent and put them on Feng Yue again, repeating the cycle until it got dark.
When the military doctor took Feng Yue’s pulse again, he exclaimed repeatedly: “Amazing! Amazing!! The prince’s pulse has now stabilized! I’ll go and prescribe some warming tonic prescriptions and have people feed him. Don’t leave him alone, call me if there is any situation.”
Then, the military doctor prescribed medicine and asked the soldiers to buy it in the town.
Wei Xiaofeng stayed by Feng Yue’s couch and refused to leave. Sang Cai comforted him: “Young Master, don’t worry too much, the prince will be fine, he will definitely be fine.”
“A-Cai, you have worked hard today, go and rest.”
Sang Cai couldn’t let him go, so he went outside to guard him.
“Little baby, who are you? How do you know this ancient method?” Yuan Gonggong was immediately very curious about him.
Sang Cai: “My mother is from Southern Border, she left an ancient book to me before she died.”
“Then, what about those worms? I have never seen them here!”
“My mother brought them from Southern Border. These worms can produce many eggs a year, and their vitality is also strong. I have a lot of them here!”
“Interesting, really interesting.” Yuan Gonggong looked at him with deep eyes: “Your mother’s identity is not ordinary in Southern Border!”
Sang Cai’s heart skipped a beat. “Does Yuan Gonggong know anything?”
“Like this top-notch secret *gu* technique, not everyone can learn it. More than twenty years ago, there was a rumor in the *jianghu* that the most favored medicine woman of the *Gu* King of Southern Border escaped and disappeared since then. He has been looking for her.”
“Why does the *Gu* King keep looking for my mother? Don’t medicine people want as many as they can get?”
“No, no, the selection of medicine people is extremely strict. Some can’t withstand the medicinal properties, so they die. But your mother is the only one who is still alive after using all the poisons. Hundreds of *gu* are controlled by her, how could the *Gu* King let her leave?”
“My mother is already dead, burned alive.”
Speaking of this, tears welled up in Sang Cai’s eyes, and he silently raised his hand to wipe away the tears in his eyes.
“You have to hide well in the future, don’t let the *Gu* King find you.”
“What will happen if he finds me?”
“This…” Yuan Gonggong didn’t want to scare him, and only said: “I can’t say for sure.”
*
Late at night, the doctor brought the medicine that had been decocted. Wei Xiaofeng fed Feng Yue a little bit. When he fed halfway, he tasted it and said: “This medicine is too bitter, you can put some sugar.”
The doctor smiled: “Good medicine tastes bitter.”
But A-Yue can’t eat this kind of bitter taste!
“By the way, doctor, can it be made into pills? Like before, easy to take down with water.”
“That’s good too, easy to carry around. The road ahead is still long, and if you encounter extreme environments, I’m afraid there will be no conditions to decoct medicine.”
Saying that, the doctor went to make pills overnight.
Two pots of charcoal fire were raised in the tent. People who lose blood have a drop in body temperature and can’t stand the cold at night.
Wei Xiaofeng slept by his side, warming him with his own body temperature, not daring to fall asleep easily.
He almost lost him.
“A-Yue, you have to get better quickly.”
Wei Xiaofeng held on until the second half of the night, when a wave of sleepiness struck, and he fell into a deep sleep.
In his sleep, he only felt a bone-chilling cold in his knees, which made people feel very uncomfortable.
He opened his eyes, but found himself kneeling in front of the Lingxiao Palace. The scene in front of him was very familiar.
Suddenly a shrill wail came from inside the palace.
“Feng Xiao! Why do you treat me like this?!!!”
Wei Xiaofeng was shocked, that was, that was A-Yue’s voice!
He desperately got up and wanted to rush into the palace, but saw two eunuchs holding a pale-faced person, dragging two long bloodstains behind them, extending from inside the palace to outside the palace.
Many people kneeling outside to plead were so frightened that they screamed and couldn’t bear to see this tragic situation.
Wei Xiaofeng staggered, like he had lost his soul, and greeted him. He hugged the bloody man in his arms, and saw the broken bones at the knees, his whole body was shaking.
Feng Yue was still conscious, thinking that he was going to touch his wound, he held his hand tightly, the veins on his forehead bulged, and his whole body was covered in cold sweat: “Don’t, don’t touch! Don’t touch…”
“Ah ah ah ah…” Wei Xiaofeng hugged him and cried loudly, his heart aching beyond measure.
“Xiaofeng! Xiaofeng, wake up!”
Wei Xiaofeng cried very sadly, his throat aching badly, his heart seemed to be torn apart, and tears couldn’t be stopped.
“Xiaofeng, don’t cry, open your eyes and look at me.”
“Don’t…”
“Xiaofeng?”
“It hurts so much!”
“It doesn’t hurt, it doesn’t hurt anymore, it doesn’t hurt anymore.”
Feng Yue didn’t know what he was bewitched by, he couldn’t wake him up no matter how he called him, and he was crying so sadly in his dream.
Presumably, this time really scared him.
Until the sky was bright, Wei Xiaofeng finally broke free from that nightmare, and met a pair of worried and deep eyes.
Only to hear Feng Yue sigh softly: “You finally woke up, I don’t know what you dreamed about, you kept crying, and the pillow was wet with tears, no matter how I called you, you couldn’t wake up.”
Wei Xiaofeng had not yet escaped from the nightmare, and went crazy to explore his legs. When he touched two healthy legs, he gradually calmed down.
Feng Yue was shocked: “What’s wrong?”
Wei Xiaofeng swallowed the sourness in his throat, his eyes were red and swollen, just staring at him in a daze, for a long time, then stretched out his hands to hold his cheeks, and silently kissed his lips.
Feng Yue responded gently, hugging him tightly in his arms.
“A-Yue, I dreamt that your legs were cut off, you were sitting in a narrow prison car, and I followed you for a very, very long way, we went to a strange place, where it was snowy all year round, too cold!”