"It's okay. I'm in very good health. I'll be fine."
"No! The whereabouts of the young master and Mr. Qi are unknown now. You finally got out of prison, but you must not let anything happen!"
"There is absolutely nothing wrong with this cowpox vaccine. If I don't risk my life, the people won't believe me. Don't worry, I won't risk my life."
"But."
Tang Pan'er wanted to persuade a few more words, but a weak voice interrupted them: "Let me do it."
It's Pei Shaojun!
His hair was a mess, and the exposed skin was covered with old and new scars.
The tattered clothes on his body were already messy and stained with blood, making it difficult to see their original appearance.
He stood there all alone, like a fallen leaf or flower, lifeless.
Everyone was startled, and Tang Pan'er quickly stepped forward to support him: "Young Master? What's wrong with you? Who injured you?"
"I'm sorry if you worry about me."
Originally, the air was filled with pain and sadness, but Pei Shaojun's voice was like a gentle wind, blowing away the sadness.
With the support of Tang Pan'er, he came to Su Zhen, took out his hand, and knelt in front of Su Zhen without saying a word.
Su Zhen's eyes were filled with tears. She curled up her lips and said, "It'll be nice to come back."
Pei Shaojun stretched out his arm: "Give me the injection."
Seeing the determination in his eyes, Su Zhen felt a little distressed: "You should get up first."
Pei Shaojun couldn't afford it, so the others had no choice but to continue persuading him.
"Young Master, you seem to be seriously injured. Why don't you let us bandage your wound first?"
"Yes! If you delay it any longer, you might die!"
Pei Shaojun said nothing, just stared at Su Zhen motionlessly.
Su Zhen pursed her lips and squatted down to inject it. When she took out the needle, Pei Shaojun smiled.
"Master. Can I still call you master?"
Pei Shaojun's ears were ringing and his eyes were dizzy. He vaguely saw Su Zhen's lips moving, but he didn't hear them clearly.
Just as he fell down, a strong arm caught him.
Su Zhen looked at Huo Ji and said: "He has been vaccinated against cowpox. You can take him into the ward. I will guard him from tonight."
"I'll accompany you."
"Um."
At this time, You Yun came over.
"Sir, there are twenty patients willing to be vaccinated against cowpox."
"Well, you just follow my previous steps to vaccinate the patients. I'll go see Shaojun."
"Young Master is back?"
"Well, he's injured, you'd better not disturb him."
"Injured?" You Yunlai looked at the remaining blood on the ground and felt cold in his heart: "Young Master is seriously injured? Who did it?"
"It's not important anymore. Just come back. By the way, Doctor You, there will be wind and sand in Phoenix City in the past two days. Go ahead and tell the people to rinse their mouths morning and night, and wash the dishes and chopsticks with hot water."
After that, Su Zhen walked towards Pei Shaojun's ward.
Everyone present knew that Su Zhen was a person who was determined to exact revenge. Pei Shaojun was seriously injured, but she did not hold him accountable.
Either Su Zhen couldn't afford to offend that person, or Pei Shaojun himself didn't want to pursue the case.
They are more inclined to guess later
Eunuch Luo sighed in the distance. Unexpectedly, the emperor actually relented and let Pei Shaojun go.
He walked to the door of the ward and knocked. Huo Ji didn't give him a good look when he opened the door.
Eunuch Luo did not dare to say anything. After giving the wooden box the imperial edict to Huo Ji, he hurriedly said goodbye and returned to the palace.
In the ward, Pei Shaojun was lying unconscious on the bed.
Huo Ji untied his clothes and saw that the scars on his body were criss-crossed, especially the several deep whip marks on his back and waist, which were shocking.
The wound on his abdomen had begun to fester and become pus-filled. Su Zhen first injected an anesthetic to remove the pus from the wound, and then removed the necrotic tissue.
Su Zhen wanted to use the medicine refined by Yin Shen to treat Pei Shaojun's injury, but the hand holding the medicine bottle suddenly stopped.
He took back the medicine bottle, took out the medicine used to treat patients' wounds in the hospital, sprinkled it on Pei Shaojun's wound, and then sutured and bandaged it.
After a series of operations were completed, Su Zhen took off her gloves and asked Huo Ji to help Pei Shaojun get dressed.
The two of them sat opposite Pei Shaojun, wanting to wait for him to wake up.
"I didn't expect Yin Yuli to be so ruthless, and to force him to reveal your secret, he would resort to such heavy means." Huo Ji said in a low voice.
"Treason is a capital crime that implicates the nine tribes. Yin Yuli can spare his life and send him over, which is an extrajudicial act of mercy."
"That's why you didn't use Yin Shen's medicine to heal his injuries?"
"Yin Shen's medicine is very easy to use. After applying it, the wound will heal quickly without leaving any scars. But if Shaojun becomes lively and vigorous as soon as he comes back, that is not what Yin Yuli wants to see."
Huo Ji sighed: "Pei Shaojun's mouth is really tough. Fortunately, you have the support of your contract."
"The contract has been released long ago."
"What?! Untied?!" Huo Ji exclaimed, causing Pei Shaojun on the bed to frown in his sleep. Huo Ji covered his mouth and asked in a low voice: "When was it untied?"
"He came here the day I was imprisoned in the prison of the Ministry of Punishment, and I terminated the contract between us. I thought our master-disciple relationship was over, but I didn't expect that he was captured by Yin Yuli and tortured for many days.
Still holding on and not speaking."
'Young Master, my disciple, bid farewell to Master.'
Pei Shaojun's words that day still echoed in Su Zhen's ears, and Su Zhen took out something from her arms.
Looking at the golden token, Huo Ji was so shocked that his voice trembled: "This is the death-free gold medal?!"
"Well, this was what he left for me before he left that night. The moment he gave it to me, he had already betrayed Xiliang."
"Why was Yin Yuli willing to let him go?" Huo Ji finally realized something was wrong.
"I made a contract with him to never invade Xiliang and to bring Hexuan Continent into a new era of civilization."
Huo Ji: "."
Huo Ji was so depressed that his face turned livid with anger, but he suppressed the curse he was about to blurt out.
After a long time, Huo Ji said: "Aning! I left my hometown and came to Xiliang one day just to help Luo Qi unify the four countries, but now, you say you want to give up?!"
"Yezi, do you think Pei Shaojun betrayed the Xiliang royal family or the people of Xiliang?"
"This" Huo Ji was speechless.
"Pei Shaojun recognizes me because he sees my strength and everything I have done for the people of Xiliang. Xiliang is different from Nanhuang and Beirong. To defeat those cruel and bloody nomads and tribes, we only need to kill them all."
Execution will leave no one alive. But what about Xiliang? The people of Xiliang are no different from our people in Luoqi. They don’t want to experience war. If peace can be achieved through trade, why should we choose to end the war with war?
What’s the strategy for planting seeds?”
When Huo Ji heard this, he finally let out the suffocation he had been holding back.