Chapter 45: Little Lick and the Pigeon Cage
For the past three days, Yin Xinmei has been living in the Guard Infirmary in Sether City, and there seems to be no patient in the entire building except for her. Lu Wande told her that this is not a time of war, and each battalion has its own medical staff, so the average wounded and sick soldier will not be treated here, so it looks very empty.
In the early hours of the morning when Lu Wande brought Yin Xinmei here, he asked a doctor on duty to fetch bullets for her. Luckily, the bullet that was fired into her shoulder was the oldest of the kind, small enough to be dead in her right arm if it had been a regular bullet, but even then, her shoulder blade had been pierced.
"Don't use your right hand for at least three months, or you may not be able to hold a dagger for the rest of your life. The doctor said while bandaging her wound.
Yin Xinmei's heart was half cold, and then he could only comfort himself, "It's okay, my left hand is just as good as my kung fu." Upon hearing this, Lu Wande glared at her in surprise.
After they left, Yin Xinmei lay alone on the hospital bed, her injured shoulder was like being filed by a sharp saw, and she couldn't sleep, but what worried her the most was the doctor's advice to her right hand. I thought that seventeen years of slavery had made her heart as hard as a rock, but she was a person whose hands and feet were chained and thrown in the firewood room of a brothel and almost humiliated in turn, but she was not afraid because she had the idea of dying a big deal, but now how can she be afraid of being like this when she thinks that she can only attack with one arm?
"Is it true that the emperor said that I have always regarded self-abandonment as fearless courage and pride, and once I realized it, I became the number one coward who could not stand even the smallest setback?"
The thought of this and her self-hatred began to make her remember a lot of the past, and now it seems that she needs to be re-examined••••••
"Wait, what if Sether's purpose in saying these things was only to extract more secrets from my mouth? After all, he had rejected my revenge before, but not long after he secretly supported me—for he knew that I would never have been able to give him what he wanted if he had not used this means to provoke my humiliation, and to give me a false identity and a few small favors that resembled encouragement, and to turn me into a tool that he could use at his disposal. ”
Yin Xinmei pondered along this line of thought, but found that the more he thought about it, the louder the condemnation of his conscience became, "Well, even if his intentions are ill-intentioned, he is not wrong at all about evading responsibility." ”
"So it seems that the emperor has become a soul spur and a goal-setter?! Oh my God, haha•••••• it hurts, it hurts, my arm!"
"Oh, my arm, my right hand! If I become a left-hander who can only fight with one hand, I might as well die••••••"
"Wait, I seem to be giving up on myself again!"
"Damn, that's enough for me to think for two seconds! Stop, I want you to stop immediately! Now be quiet, close your eyes, stop your thoughts, and start counting the sheep••••••"
The next day, Yin Xinmei woke up early, feeling worse than before bedtime, and the pain of the shoulder injury did not lessen in the slightest. Someone brought her a breakfast, and when she had finished eating, she wanted to go out for a walk, but as soon as she reached the entrance of the infirmary, two guards stopped her.
"Now the whole city is heavily guarded, and entry and exit must be strictly guarded. The guard pointed a bayonet at her.
"I just wanted to go buy a rotisserie chicken. ”
"Non-medical personnel in the infirmary are forbidden to go out without a special entry and exit permit from His Majesty. The guard replied coldly.
She could only walk back in a daze, and she was the only wounded person in the entire infirmary, and she saw no one except a cleaner with a fierce roe deer's eyes. After passing by locked rooms, a few dark corridors, a huge warehouse, two low old rooms, two empty consultation rooms, and a fairly clean public toilet, she came to a conclusion, "This infirmary is a prison, I am the only prisoner, and the cleaner is the guard." The euphoria caused by not touching a weapon for a long time made me save the emperor who wanted to hang me. Then, in order to express his gratitude, he did not let me go back to the black grave pit, but arranged for me and the bad old man who looked like a bad devil to be locked up here for a few years or decades, and the specific time depended entirely on the emperor's mood! In order to show his mercy, after the old man died, the emperor was especially kind enough to let me write a eulogy with my left hand to praise him so great, and the final reward was that I finally became the next caretaker of this ghost place with the hole in my right shoulder! Blue Bird and Hurry, complete my revenge!!!
After she made such a tragic prophecy, she dragged her soft legs back to the room in despair, flipping through a dirty first aid manual left by someone who didn't know why, while desperately wondering if there was a possibility of escaping. The horrible old man wasn't a problem, but the two guards at the door, armed to the teeth, were not a good deal, not to mention that her right shoulder was wounded, and her only sword was still lost in the stone chamber. Besides, where will she flee after fighting hard? Now the whole city is on alert, and she will be imprisoned again on her back feet before she has even stepped out of the inner city.
Hidden eyebrows spent the first bleak and miserable day in the infirmary with all kinds of depressing thoughts. But to her delight, Louvand came to her lunch the next day, when she was pulling a few slices of bean sprouts from her bowl without an appetite, and when she saw the familiar blue and white pigeon cage uniform appear at the door, she almost rushed over to give him a bear hug. Lu Wande brought her a lot of first-hand news, the first one was to find the baby white.
"How's he doing?" asked Yin Xinmei anxiously.
"Very bad," Lu Wande looked worried, "the patrol found five bodies behind the abandoned stables not far from Garcinia Cambogia Street, and at first they thought he was dead, but later found that he was still breathing weakly. Two of the five men had their throats cut, two had their hearts pierced, and one had four holes in his body and had lost so much blood that he had lost so much that the infant captain had killed him. He paused for a moment, and praised affectionately with a face full of adoration, "Worthy of being the captain!
"Then how could he be injured?" Hidden Eyebrows couldn't help but interrupt him, she was very worried about the safety of Infant White.
"That's the strange part," Lu Wande began to frown again, "the captain was shot twice, neither of them was a vital part, but he was hit in the back of the head so hard that he still hasn't woken up." They're all swords and guns, and who's going to throw a stone at the head or something?"
Reflecting on what happened in the stone chamber that night, Yin Xinmei cautiously put forward an idea that had been there at the time, "Is it possible that there is more than one group of people?"
"We thought so too, but—" Lu Wande suddenly paused, staring at Yin Xin's eyebrows in a daze, as if he had just discovered that she was here.
"What's wrong?" she was bewildered and uncomfortable.
"Are you really, so ...... Martial arts are outstanding?" Lu Wande said thoughtlessly, rolling his eyelids and weighing for a long time before using this word. Seeing her expression, he explained that Sether had been in a meeting since he returned to the palace, and mentioned the assassination and ambush encountered in the stone room, and everyone thought it was incredible, "Why didn't I find out when I cooperated with Captain Infant to save you in the Changchuan Strait before?"
"I didn't expect the woman of the caravan family to have such incredible combat effectiveness. At first, I really thought that His Majesty was working too hard, so that he confused hunting with ambush, regarded the palace as a stone room, and regarded Xiao Lick as a girl, but I didn't expect it to be true......"
"What little licking?"
"Little Lick is His Majesty's favorite female cheetah, and for a while she slept next to him every day. But since the white lion, Little Lick is not so favored. I didn't expect that the phrase "Jun En is like flowing water" can still be applied to animals......"
"I'm sorry," Yin Xinmei resisted the urge to slap the table, "Are we going a little far?"
"Oh yes, where did I say before...... So," Luvand began to stare at her again.
"What's the matter?" Yin Xinmei couldn't laugh or cry, this benevolent brother's concentration was not as good as a mosquito.
"Were you really born into a caravan family?"
"What team, what family?" she gritted her teeth.
"Aren't you going to travel to various countries with the elders who run toy caravans since you were a child, so that you have the opportunity to practice the weapons unique to each region and learn their skills from weapons experts, so that's why," Lu Wande began to look up the dictionary with his eyelids again, "so good at everything?"
"That's right, that's right, it's me!" she remembered the story she had made up with them in the Jinghu Palace, and hurriedly made a natural appearance, she really didn't expect it to spread so quickly, "That's it, a merchant family, uncle ...... toy merchant"
"So let's move on to Captain Baby," Yin Xinmei quickly changed the subject, "Have you found out the identities of those people?"
"They are prisoners of war in Jalal, from the Golden City that was purged by the Mighty Coalition 27 years ago. ”