Chapter 571 - Chapter 571: Hanging Himself Out Of Despair
Chapter 571: Hanging Himself Out Of Despair
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
Bai Shuang was a little afraid. She was so afraid that she wanted to leave, but just as she was about to turn around, she seemed to sense the person in the snow moving.
“He’s alive?”
She gripped the garden shears in her hand tightly. After undergoing a great inner struggle, in the end, she mustered her courage and walked towards the body.
The person was lying face down in the snow. At a glance, she could not see his face, but when Bai Shuang saw the clothes he was wearing, a strange look appeared in her eyes.
She placed the things in her hands on the ground and reached out to flip the person over from the snow.
After getting a good look at the other party’s appearance, she nervously reached out and touched his neck.
His pulse was still beating and he was still breathing.
Bai Shuang did not have time to figure out why this guy would appear here at this hour. Her first reaction was to save him.
“You’re really lucky to have met me twice.” Bai Shuang did not care about the plum blossoms anymore. She pulled Si Chen’s arm over her shoulder and tried to pick him up from the ground. However, she could not stand steadily in the snow. It would be difficult for her to carry another person on her back.
When Bai Shuang was trying to save him, she did not notice the two figures hiding not far away.
One of them wanted to step forward but was stopped by the other. “Didn’t you see the jade token on her waist? That person is from the palace. If we were to touch people from the palace at this time, the whole matter would only blow up. Let’s observe first before making a decision.”
The person who wanted to attack stood back obediently. “How come there are people from the palace here?”
Xiao Jin and Su Ying didn’t tell anyone that they had left the palace to hunt, so no one in the capital city knew that the Emperor and the Empress were hunting in the hunting grounds now.
“There’s an Imperial Family’s villa nearby, so it’s not strange for there to be people from the palace. Once she leaves, tail her. Later, look for an opportunity to lure her away, and I’ll go grab him.”
“Alright.”
Bai Shuang could not lift him, so she could only grit her teeth and drag him in the direction of the villa.
As soon as she walked out of the plum blossom forest, she could not quite move anymore.
The people hiding in the dark exchanged looks. They wanted to take advantage of this moment to make a move.
However, just as they were about to jump out, they heard footsteps not far away.
“Bai Shuang, why haven’t you gone back yet?”
Bai Shuang turned around and saw that it was Hea Shouyi. “Uncle Hea, you came at the right time. I met someone who encountered danger in the snow. I was thinking of dragging him back to the villa to give him a checkup, but the snowy terrain is not easy to walk on. I can’t move him no matter how hard I drag. Come and help me quickly.”
Hea Shouyi walked up with a puzzled expression to take a look and saw a very delicate-looking young man.
Bai Shuang, do you know this person’s identity?”
Bai Shuang paused. “I don’t know, but I’ve met him on the street once before. I think there shouldn’t be any problem with him.”
Hea Shouyi wanted to ask why would a man who looks like a scholar come to this place in the wilderness on such a snowy day.
They were people who served the Emperor and the Empress at close quarters and had to be on their guard even under normal circumstances. However, if the other party was an innocent commoner, they still had to save him.
“Just now, I saw a group of Imperial Guards patrolling ahead. Let me blow the whistle to get them to come over and take a look.”
“Look at me. I forgot about them.”
The faces of those hidden in the shadows clouded over when they heard that
the Imperial Guards were nearby.
However, Hea Shouyi had already blown his whistle.
The Imperial Guards rushed over very soon.
After Bai Shuang explained the situation to the Imperial Guards, the Imperial Guards carried the man up from the snow.
There was a courtyard house at the back of the villa that was not connected to the interior of the villa. They could put this person there first and ask what happened after he regained consciousness.
When they saw the Imperial Guards taking Si Chen away, the two hiding men panicked.
“What should we do? He’s not dead yet. How are we going to explain this to Master when we go back?”
“Don’t be anxious. Let’s think of another way.”
The two of them looked at each other in speechless silence and could only secretly tail the group to see what was going on.
After the Imperial Guards carried Si Chen into the house, Bai Shuang went to look for Imperial Physician Ruan, who had tagged along with the Imperial Family today. She hoped that he could take a look at Si Chen.
Imperial Physician Ruan was acquainted with Bai Shuang previously, and he was a kind person, so he followed her back.
By the time Si Chen was carried back to the house, his body was already a little frozen stiff. Fortunately, he was saved in time and his body did not suffer too much damage from the freezing cold.
When Imperial Physician Ruan examined Si Chen’s body, he found a very eye-catching strangulation mark on his neck.
“Is this young man trying to kill himself out of despair?” He was found in the wilderness with a strangulation mark on his neck. It was no wonder that Imperial Physician Ruan asked this.
Bai Shuang only noticed it when she heard what Imperial Physician Ruan said. She looked at the strangulation marks on Si Chen’s neck and also thought that he had taken things too hard. “What an idiot. How could a man be so weak!”
Imperial Physician Ruan shook his head and took out some silver needles to perform acupuncture on Si Chen.
“He still has some old injuries on his body. After his breathing was stopped, the foul air accumulated directly in his chest and heart. If the foul air is not dissipated, this person will be in trouble.”
“Imperial Physician Ruan, will he die?”
Imperial Physician Ruan shook his head slowly. “Not necessarily.”
Not necessarily meant there was still a possibility that he could die. A strange feeling rose in Bai Shuang’s heart. After all, he was someone she had saved. If she simply watched him die, she would feel a little strange.
“Imperial Physician Ruan, you have to save him. He… He’s still young after all.”
Imperial Physician Ruan looked at her with a taunting expression, “You little lass, you care so much about him? You two know each other?”
Bai Shuang was stumped. She didn’t care about him at all. She only felt that it was a pity for him to lose his life. “Imperial Physician Ruan, don’t talk nonsense. Save him quickly.”
Imperial Physician Ruan laughed. He took out a pill from the medicine box and pressed it under Si Chen’s tongue. “I’ve done what I can. Whether he wakes up or not depends on his own luck.”
“Thank you, Imperial Physician Ruan. When Uncle Hea cooks the Crispy Jade
Rabbit, I will send one portion over to you, Imperial Physician Ruan.”
Bai Shuang’s words made Imperial Physician Ruan smile happily. He was not the one who liked to eat Crispy Jade Rabbit. It was his wife. “Sure. Then I must thank you in advance, Miss Bai Shuang.”
Imperial Physician Ruan didn’t prescribe any medicine. He only said that Si Chen would wake up tomorrow morning if he could still regain consciousness. If he didn’t wake up, then he would never wake up again.
‘Miss Bai Shuang, go back first. The Empress and the rest should be back in a while. I’ll help you watch him. There won’t be any problem.”
Bai Shuang was someone who served the Empress by her side, so the others were naturally polite to her.
“Then I’ll have to thank you, Brother Imperial Guard.”
Outside the hunting ground, Ji and Ling were counting each other’s prey.
Six, seven, eight, nine… Big Brother caught nine prey, but I only caught six! I lost!” The difference in number was so big too. How embarrassing!
Ling puffed up her tiny face and looked dejected.
However, even if she was unhappy, she did not argue with Ji. Her mother had said that if she was willing to take a gamble, she had to be willing to admit defeat.
Ji raised his eyebrows. “If you didn’t slack off during the horseback archery class, you wouldn’t have lost so badly.”
Ling pouted and whined, “I’ll ask the horseback archery teacher to give me extra lessons when I get back.. I’ll definitely become better than you!”