Chapter 40: Uncovering Old Scars
After Zhuang Sheng fell ill, after a few days of leisure, it was considered a blessing in disguise, Yun Yun asked him what was wrong with the injury on his wrist, and he also insisted that he was playing with a knife to scratch the injury, Yun Yun couldn't help it even if he didn't believe it.
One night.
Jun'er hurriedly ran to Zhuang Sheng's door and panted and said, "Young master, it's not good, the young lady is cold all over, and she is crying cold." ”
"The sick man is sick." Zhuang Sheng thought to himself, and rushed to the scene after getting dressed hastily.
After arriving in the house, he saw Yun Yun lying flat, suddenly turned around and said, "Don't get in the way, don't shout so that the old man can hear, you go and call Luo'er over." ”
Jun'er hurriedly went out and called Luo'er.
"Bring a sharp knife and fill it with a basin of water."
Luo Er didn't know why, but she still ran away, and came back from time to time.
"You both go out, close the door, and don't let people in." Zhuang Sheng commanded.
He rolled up his sleeves, and a horizontal crimson scar was clearly visible on the top of his wrist, the wound he had suffered from the previous days had not yet fully healed.
Without the Dao Master, he only had to cut through the flesh by himself, but when the blade touched the green tendons on his wrists, his whole body was numb, and his hands trembled terribly.
"I heard that there is a blood vessel on the wrist that cannot be cut, otherwise it will bleed non-stop......" Zhuang Sheng thought carefully, sweating on his forehead, and Yun Yun lost most of her consciousness, her mouth was trembling, and she was trembling.
"I can do anything for you...... he wiped his sweat, put the blade on the flame to bake, and when it cooled, it would be placed on the old wound, and turned his eyes to stare at Yun Yun who was sleeping quietly, his white lips needed to be soaked in bright red blood.
He didn't use any force, he just dragged the knife slowly, and where the blade cut, blood gushed out, but this time he didn't feel like he had been cut by the grass, and when he uncovered the unhealed scars, he gritted his teeth in pain. Putting down the knife, his eyes were red, and sweat flowed into his eyes and tears flowed down his eyes. Raising her head slightly with one hand, this hand dripped blood for her, and he didn't feel the pain at this time, he only felt numbness in his wrist, "In ancient mythology, only evil demons and ogre demons will drink human blood, Yun Yun, you drank my blood at this time, and you have become a monster that drinks human blood." He smiled slightly, "There is such a ridiculous thing in the world, heh, you can just wake up." ”
Seeing that she was gradually returning to normal, Zhuang Sheng only smeared some ointment, still bandaged it with gauze, cleaned up the blood stains on her mouth, staggered back to her room, and asked Luo'er to pour the water and hide the knife.
"Luo'er, what do you eat to replenish your blood?" Zhuang Sheng asked.
"I don't know."
"I'll ask tomorrow and I'll buy some back."
Luoer agreed.
The next day, Yun Yun saw that he had gauze wrapped around his hands again, and it was still stained with blood, so she asked, "Isn't everything okay?" Are you playing with knives again? ”
"yes, I don't have a long memory."
"You lie to me." Yun Yun was helpless, she really couldn't think of any other reason to hurt her wrist.
Recently, the political situation has been turbulent, revolutionaries have been rampant, the assassination of the regent Zaifeng, the assassination of Yuan Shifeng and other incidents have emerged one after another, and the whole city has been filled with soldiers, and the Qing government has made every effort to hunt down the rebels.
Lao Liu, the cook of Zhuang Sheng's family, exclaimed all the way: "It's terrible, it's terrible, it's going to die..."
"What's the matter, shouting, the young master is so easy to rest for a while, you don't cook in the kitchen, what do you call when you come to the front yard?" Luo'er asked.
"In the firewood room, there was a man who shed blood all over the ground."
Luo Er hurriedly went to look, and saw a man with a flat head and a straight face crooked on the pyre, his eyes half-open, and his breath was weak.
Luo'er didn't dare to assert herself, nor did she dare to approach, so she immediately told Zhuang Sheng.
Zhuang Sheng came in a hurry, he was already timid and timid, but when he saw that this person was bloody, he was even more at a loss for what to do, and after relieving himself, he saw that he barely opened his eyes, so he asked, "Who are you?" How did you come to my house? ”
The man grinned and gritted his teeth, only panting and looking directly at Zhuang Sheng, as if he was about to eat himself.
Zhuang Sheng had a premonition, but his life was at stake, and he thought it was important to save his life.
"Don't leak the slightest rumor about this," Zhuang Sheng said, "just go and call two boys." ”
Several people worked together to get him to the small bedroom in the attached courtyard, Zhuang Sheng thought, seeing that he had been holding his abdomen, he might have been shot or knifed.
At one moment, a few people gathered around here, "Luo'er, you go and peel off his clothes to see what's going on!" Zhuang Sheng said.
Luo Er trembled and lifted his clothes, which were covered in blood, and somehow he said, "Bring water." Luo Er shouted to the person next to him, "I just know how to watch the excitement, and if I can't help, I will do my own work!" ”
"Go, go, go," Zhuang Sheng also told them to go away, and Lao Liu immediately went to the kitchen to bring water.
When the water came, Luo Er took a handkerchief to wipe his wounds, seeing that he was sweating profusely in pain, Zhuang Sheng grinned, afraid that he would call out, and if he was heard, he would cause trouble, so he took a cloth and let him bite in his mouth.
"Young master, it's a small hole, it should have been hit by a musket."
"What should I do? If the bullet is inside, it needs to be taken out, and we don't understand. Zhuang Sheng asked him, "Why don't you send you to the foreigner's hospital, they can treat you." ”
The man had lost a lot of blood and lost his strength, but he still shook his head violently and muttered, "I will not die, I have a letter in my bosom and give it to my wife, but—"
He lay motionless, not wanting to move more, but when he spoke of the letter, he raised his hand to take it, but as soon as he moved, he pulled at the wound, and a sharp pain struck his whole body.
Zhuang Sheng signaled, and Luo'er took it out of his arms.
"But-there's no address on this, I don't know if you're a good person or you're in the same group as Old Thief Yuan, and I won't tell you where my family is for the time being."
Yun Yun heard the people in front of her talking about it, and knew about it from their mouths, so she ran over to see, Zhuang Sheng heard her shouting outside the door, hurriedly went out to stop her, and asked, "You also know?" ”
"Got it, how is that guy?"
"I'm going to die." Zhuang Sheng thought that the old thief Yuan in his mouth must be Yuan Shikai, he must be an assassin, and said anxiously, "He is a wanted assassin, we can't keep him." ”
"And what do you want to do?"
"Send it to the government?"
"I ask you," Yun Yun asked, "is he a bad person?" ”
"I don't know."
"Then you're going to push people to death?"
"I'm also worried about getting into trouble."
"With our identity, who will trouble us, no." Yun Yun hurriedly said, "Save him." ”
Zhuang Sheng had to ask Luo'er to find a foreign doctor who could take the bullet, but fortunately he was not injured, and once the bleeding stopped, although it took a few hours to bring the doctor in, he finally survived.
"My Zhuang Mansion is also a courtyard with high walls, since he is seriously injured, how did he come in?" Zhuang Sheng asked.
"I went to see it just now, but I didn't see any signs of climbing on the wall, but there was one in the dog hole, and I think it got in from there." Luoer said.
Zhuang Sheng smiled: "Now I don't have to sneak out anymore, I don't even remember to fill it in, and now I have caused such a disaster, and you don't remind me." ”
"Didn't Xiao Gongzi use it some time ago, who knew that he would rather go over the wall than pass from here, so he forgot about it."
"Have you cleaned up the bloodstains?"
"It's cleaned up, and I can't see it at all."
"Okay."