Chapter 38 Fu Chenan returned to the capital with injuries
. Xiao Yingchun invited him to eat.
Seeing his pale lips and slow eating movements, Xiao Yingchun sighed.
"Your injury will take at least some time to heal. Didn't you say you would go to the palace to meet the emperor? How did you get injured like this?"
Fu Chenan lowered his eyes: "It should be... the Second Prince's people who did it."
"Oh?" Xiao Yingchun looked at him in surprise, "How did you know?"
Fu Chenan slowly analyzed while eating.
"Your Majesty wouldn't want me dead. After all, if I died, Your Majesty would worry that my father would rebel."
"To him, I'm more useful alive than dead."
"The same goes for the Crown Prince. After all, the empire will eventually pass to him, and chaos wouldn't benefit him."
"The Third Prince is currently attached to the Crown Prince, and the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Princes are still young..."
"Only the Second Prince is probably the one who most hopes my father will rebel."
"His mother's maternal family is a general. If my father rebels, Your Majesty will definitely rely on his maternal family, and then he'll have his chance..."
As Fu Chen'an explained, Xiao Yingchun gained some understanding of the current situation in the Daliang Dynasty.
"Then what are you going to do?" Xiao Yingchun put down her chopsticks after a few bites. She wasn't hungry, and Fu Chen'an gobbled up the rest.
Fu Chen'an's expression finally softened after he finished eating. He gave Xiao Yingchun a deep look. "I have to go back."
"Now?" Xiao Yingchun stared at him in shock.
Fu Chen'an nodded. "Later, noon."
He was being besieged and pursued, fighting his way through the city. He silently recited the Spacetime Supermarket and ran fifty steps north. He then accelerated and turned east into an alleyway, sprinting twenty steps, escaping into the Spacetime Supermarket.
There were no shops in that alley. He would wait until noon, when the weather was at its hottest, when the streets were sparsely populated, but the shops on the main street were still open.
That was the safest time for him to escape.
"But you're still covered in wounds. Are you okay?"
Fu Chen'an sneered. "After this incident, I'm sure His Majesty will have someone protect me."
Besides, he had personal guards, but they hadn't been accompanying him on this trip back to the capital for confidentiality's sake. He figured they would be arriving soon.
Xiao Yingchun had no choice but to nod: she wasn't Fu Chen'an, and couldn't make decisions for him.
Then, as if a thought had occurred to him, Fu Chen'an said, "His Majesty has rewarded me with a pair of jade ruyi and five hundred taels of gold. I'll bring them all to you in two days."
"Huh?" Xiao Yingchun was stunned.
"Didn't you say you wanted to express your gratitude with money or something?" Fu Chenan said this with a smile in his eyes.
Xiao Yingchun was rarely embarrassed for a moment: it turned out that he had understood it before...
"Okay." Xiao Yingchun agreed with a chuckle.
Fu Chenan felt better.
His Majesty the Emperor said at the time: If Fu Chenan meets a girl he likes, this pair of jade ruyi can be used as a betrothal gift.
If you take my jade ruyi, you are mine, and you can never look at another man's body again!
Xiao Yingchun knew nothing about this, and was still immersed in the joy of getting another 500 taels of gold and a pair of jade ruyi. Even taking his temperature and checking his wounds made him happy.
It must be said that Fu Chenan's physique is really good. He was seriously injured and dying last night, but now his wounds are basically healed.
I think after changing the medicine and fixing it with the patch for a while, he should be able to get better.
But after Xiao Yingchun replaced the dressing, Fu Chenan refused to use the patch again: "This thing can't be seen by others."
"But your wounds..." Xiao Yingchun looked at his several wounds that were so deep that the bone was visible.
"It's okay, when I get back, someone will treat and bandage me."
Fu Chenan knew the nature of those people.
Xiao Yingchun thought for a moment and said, "Okay, take the anti-inflammatory medicine again."
This stuff works faster than traditional Chinese herbal medicine.
"Okay," Fu Chenan agreed again.
Xiao Yingchun rolled her eyes at him. "This guy's obedience is all fake. He
's only so obedient when he wants to.
If he doesn't want to, he'll refuse without hesitation, then come up with a good reason to justify it..."
Fu Chenan's eyes turned to the snack shelves again.
Now that he'd tasted them all, he knew which ones were the best. Just thinking about the taste made his mouth water...
Xiao Yingchun glanced at the direction of his gaze and refused without hesitation: "You can't eat any of these for the time being. Don't even think about it. Wait until your wounds heal, then come back and take whatever you want."
Fu Chen'an sighed: "My injuries... His Majesty will definitely send more people to watch over me. I might not be able to come here for several days."
Xiao Yingchun glanced at the hideous wounds on his bare torso and nodded silently: he probably would have someone to wait on him. It would be inconvenient for him to come here in such a public place.
"It's okay, I'm here anyway," Xiao Yingchun reassured him. "My door is always open. Just come when you can."
"Okay." Fu Chen'an started playing nice again.
Xiao Yingchun was speechless, but didn't point it out.
Fu Chen'an pointed at his colorful, island-style beachwear: "This isn't suitable... What else do you have?"
Xiao Yingchun glanced at the beachwear: it certainly wasn't suitable.
After thinking for a while, she said, "Wait for me here, I'll buy it for you."
Those COSPLAY clothes should be okay? Let's go and see if there are any.
Xiao Yingchun searched on the map.
Found a COS clothing store. Xiao Yingchun went to take a look and saw that there were indeed many nice clothes, but they were very expensive!
Several thousand yuan a set!
His wounds will eventually get dirty! What a waste?
In the end, Xiao Yingchun chose a set of short clothes for a servant, which cost him one hundred and eighty yuan...
When they returned to the store, it was almost noon. Xiao Yingchun asked Fu Chenan to change clothes and went to cook.
For lunch, there was stir-fried beef with tomatoes. Onions, ginger and garlic were not added, so that Fu Chenan could eat it with a spoon. After eating
and drinking, Fu Chenan said goodbye: "Then I'll go back first..."
"Okay, let's go." Xiao Yingchun saw him off.
Fu Chenan walked out of the alley slowly, looking at the street where he had fought last night.
The bodies from last night had been cleared away, and the bloodstains washed away. Only dried black stains remained visible in the cracks of the bluestone slabs.
Shopkeepers lining the street stared at the man standing in the scorching sun, wondering if he wasn't afraid of the heat.
The next moment, he collapsed.
Blood seeped out slowly, quickly soaking his clothes.
"Hurry! Another dead person..."
Dai
Hengxin felt uneasy.
After returning home that day, he criticized Dai Enning in front of his parents. Dai Enning looked unconvinced, but he was still criticized by his parents.
His parents, university professors, wouldn't allow Dai Enning to openly express disdain for Xiao Yingchun.
Finally, with a reluctant look on his face, Dai Enning promised his brother that he wouldn't say such things again when he saw Xiao Yingchun again.
But in his heart, Dai Enning was absolutely certain: his brother was interested in Xiao Yingchun.