Chapter 503: Don’t Die, Please
Jade-like skin, beautiful eyes, gleaming with brilliance.
No matter how low-key she dressed up, she would always be eye-catching at a glance, standing in the crowd.
He withdrew his gaze and handed some food that he bought temporarily to the little girl. “Get in the carriage. I know you’re in a rush, so I won’t look for a restaurant. Eat something inside when you’re hungry.”
”Thank you, Brother Haizi.” Liu Yusheng smiled gratefully.
She indeed didn’t want to waste time.
Her heart was torn with anxiety.
She just didn’t show it.
At this hour, the sky had just cleared up. The two got on the carriage, and they rushed towards Xuzhou while taking advantage of the morning mist.
Meanwhile, a hundred miles away, the sky over Xuzhou was about to turn over.
There was martial law throughout.
The people had no idea what was going on.
They only knew that from midnight, officers and soldiers started interrogating people everywhere in the streets and alleys of the main city. On the usual quiet and peaceful night, the lights were bright, voices of people raised ruckus, the roosters crowed and the dogs barked non-stop.
The people panicked.
When they opened their doors, they saw officers and soldiers with swords going from house to house and questioning them one by one.
They were officers and soldiers stationed at the city gates, wharfs, and various entrances and exits between Xuzhou and other prefectures.
Whether this was to arrest someone or find someone, the people dared not ask.
In short, the local authorities were digging deep underground without the tendency of resting.
In the hall of Xuzhou Yamen, a man in a purple robe sat behind the desk. His eyes were bloodshot, and the violent coldness emanating from his body was as dense as a storm that kept sweeping in.
A little corner swept by the storm could make people shiver.
The entire lobby was suffocating.
The prefect of Xuzhou accompanied on the side. Cold sweats kept trickling down his forehead, but he didn’t dare to pull his sleeves to wipe it.
For fear that one action would provoke the King’s anger. By then, there was no saving his head.
”Master, we’ve searched the land and water stretching for 30 miles outside the city, but still found nothing,” Wei Zi hurriedly entered to report.
”Then extend it for another 30 miles! Keep looking!” Feng Qingbai raised his eyes and commanded word by word.
”Understood, I will pass the order!” Wei Zi turned around with worry in his eyes.
His Highness was on the verge of collapse.
Nearly one night has passed. If none could be found, once His Highness loses his mind, the capital would be turned upside down.
A fist placed on the hall desk was tightly clenched, veins bursting out.
Layers of ice condensed in Feng Qingbai’s heart.
It had been a night, and he had dispersed countless manpower to guard the various gates points. If Shengsheng was all right, she should have known that he was looking for her when she saw the officials searching. She would have sent a message back to reunite with him immediately.
But no, he waited all night without any movement.
Not even Liu Zhiqiu’s trace was found.
With scarlet eyes open, Feng Qingbai stared straight at the sky.
The sky has begun to clear.
If the result he wanted failed to come in fruition, he wanted everyone inside and outside the palace to be buried with him!
In sloping woods ten miles outside the Xuzhou City gates, the dense trees blocked most of the light and it still looked dark.
A slender figure dragged a person and moved extremely slowly.
Inch by inch, pulling someone out.
Every two steps, the person would stop and heave breaths for a long time. Bursts of dizziness struck her vision, and lights and shadows kept spinning around her.
She didn’t dare to stop, she didn’t dare to rest, for fear that once she lay down, she would not be able to get up again.
It wasn’t until she dragged the man to a hidden groove and put him in place that she collapsed beside him and retched out.
Her entire body screamed of exhaustion. Something in her chest kept churning, so stuffy that it was as if it would burst open in the next second.
And the man lay there weakly, silently.
She could smell the stench of blood coming from him.
He was wounded and had a tree branch through his belly.
At this moment, the broken branch was still there, and she did not dare to pull it out, afraid that he’d die once she did so.
His clothes were already bloodstained, and through the dim light, she could see the paleness on his face.
He lost too much blood.
”Liu-gege, Zhiqiu, wake up… don’t sleep, don’t die…” She crawled beside him. Her voice rang so weak that it was almost a whisper.
She touched his hand and felt that his body temperature was getting colder and colder. This rendered Li Junyue’s eyes dim.
She gritted her teeth, scratched her wrist hard, reached to the man’s mouth, and dripped her blood into his mouth.
She was trembling all over, and even her voice was shattering: “Don’t die, don’t die…don’t die.”
This happened because he lost too much blood. She would give him the blood, and he wouldn’t die.
She knew the idea was absurd.
But she had no choice, she really had no other options.
She couldn’t do anything!
She could only use the stupidest method, praying to bring him a little bit of life.
Her tears flowed uncontrollably and fell.
She was in a coma before, but she was aware of everything that was happening around her.
She knew that he used 50,000 taels to help her get out of that cage.
She knew that he traveled mountains and rivers to take her to Xuzhou to seek medical treatment.
She knew that they were being hunted down, yet he still carried her, a burden, out of the courtyard.
”Liu-gege, don’t die… I beg you…”
All of a sudden, she heard a faint sound.
Someone was heading in their direction, not just one.
Li Junyue’s eyes lit up, then dimmed again.
She took another look at the man beside him. She gathered some withered branches around to hide him a bit, then forced herself to stand up and walked towards the intruders.
She had no idea whether they were friends or foes, but she’d better appear first. If they were foes, she was totally irrelevant to the matter, and they would never pay much attention to her.
At most, she’d likely be killed.
If they were friends, she could ask them to save them.
”Sir, there are traces of someone being dragged here!” someone ahead of her said.
”Search the place!”
Li Junyue bit her lip and stumbled out. “He-Help… help me…”
When she rushed out, from her spinning vision, she clearly saw that they were wearing yamen uniforms.
But she didn’t immediately call them to rescue Liu Zhiqiu.
Even if they wore official uniforms, they were not necessarily friends.
Weren’t the enemies of the King of Nanling, Feng Qingbai, court officials?
”Miss Li? You’re awake?!” The man at the front of the officers and soldiers saw her and immediately called out her name with surprise and astonishment in his tone.
The woman’s hair was disheveled, and her clothes were torn by branches in many places. The most striking thing was the blood flowing from her wrists, which dyed her whole hand red, and also stained her large skirt.
And her face was so white it was almost transparent.
”Who are you?…” Li Junyue covered her chest that was about to burst and reluctantly continued to walk towards the man, staring intently at him.
”I am a guard beside His Highness. Since you’re awake, have you seen Young Master Liu and Miss Liu when you woke up?”
”The King’s guard?”
”My name is Wei Zi…”
Wei Zi, he has almost the same surname as Aunt Hong in the Liu family courtyard.
Li Junyue was instantly relieved, and she plunged headlong toward him. “S-Save him, Zhiqiu——”
Wei Zi hurriedly stretched out his hand to catch the woman, and then followed her’s guidance to find Liu Zhiqiu, who was hidden in a groove on the forest slope.
Blood was all over his body, and his vitality was like a gossamer. The corners of his mouth and chin were also stained with blood.
Thinking of the blood on Li Junyue’s wrist, Wei Zi instantly understood the cause.
He took the two out of the woods and immediately sent them to the city medical center to seek medical treatment.
Feng Qingbai quickly received the news, but even so, it didn’t reduce the tyrannical aura around him.
Peek-Aboo 
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