Oriole Line

Hold each hand in the palm of your hand.

The doctor applied herbal medicine to Wen Tao's wound, wrapped it up with gauze, and said with a heavy breath, "Three days from tonight will be the gate of hell."

48, 48.

After Lang Zhong left, it was almost three o'clock, Pu Chen asked all the guards in the room to retreat.This is his own room, and he specially ordered his personal guards to let Wen Tao recuperate here.On the bed, Wen Tao was still falling asleep, his breathing was a little more stable than before.

Pu Chen dared not leave Wen Tao, let alone sleep.The doctor said that the next three days will be hell. He has seen many in the barracks and he knows that the first night after a serious injury is usually the most difficult, and the wound is most likely to deteriorate.He was exhausted from running around and fighting hard for a day, and he was already so sleepy that he could fall asleep as soon as he closed his eyes.But he was worried about other people guarding Wen Tao, so he tied a stick of incense on his wrist, and it took exactly half an hour to burn it.He sat on the ground with his head resting on the side of Wen Tao's bed with his hands on.Every half an hour, when the incense on his wrist burns and wakes him up, he checks on Wen Tao's situation.

On the first night, Wen Tao's fever didn't subside, but it didn't get worse either.The whole person looked very pale, and there was no trace of blood on his face.Pu Chen fed him water several times a night, his eyelids moved slightly, as if he was having a deep dream.

At Chenshi, the guards came in, and the Beiyan people at Yiyangguan had withdrawn, and Tang Yu and Xiang Hu came back with 2 horses.

"Call Tang Yu over here." Pu Chen ordered.

A quarter of an hour later, the door was pushed open, and Tang Yu stood by the door nervously, but Pu Chen's civet cat also followed and called Pu Chen affectionately twice.Pu Chen waved, and the civet cat jumped into Pu Chen's arms, leaving only Tang Yu hesitating at the door.He heard about the tragic battle of Wuchang, that Wen Tao was shot and fell from a building, that Mr. Wei died, and that Pu Chen went to Luzhou alone to borrow troops.As Pu Chen's personal guard, he did not participate in any of these.During those darkest and most dangerous days in Wuchang, he was trapped in Jingzhou, unable to move an inch.At this moment, the family wanted to see him, and he panicked.

However, the moment he saw the Patriarch, what caught his eyes was not the vigorous and decisive Patriarch he remembered. Pu Chen was sitting on the ground, leaning against the bed, his eyes were bloodshot.If one only looked at his back, one would never have imagined that this was a young general whose father had just died for half a year, and who completely wiped out Beiyan's main force by himself.

"Patriarch..." Tang Yu choked up for a while, "I'm late."

Pu Chen looked at him, shook his head, and comforted him: "It's my fault, I can't blame you."

Tang Yu knelt down: "When the Patriarch is most dangerous, it is my dereliction of duty that I am not by the Patriarch's side."

Pu Chen turned his eyes back to Wen Tao, and continued to say to Tang Yu: "If you were the one who followed me back then, I left Wuchang to you, can you hold it?"

Tang Yu lowered his head even lower. He heard that Wen Tao faced [-] Northern Yan cavalry alone, and Wuchang City guarded for five days before waiting for reinforcements.Asking himself, he felt that he couldn't do it.

Pu Chen sighed: "You are all people who follow me. It is not your fault that you can't keep it. It is my incompetence that you lost your life. Mr. Wei died for me, Wen Tao died for me, and he is still alive today. Your life is hanging by a thread. You and Xiang Hu couldn’t come to support Wuchang because I was tricked by Khalil to divert the tiger away from the mountain. This time, it’s all my fault.”

"Patriarch said so, I feel even more ashamed." Tang Yu kowtowed heavily.

Pu Chen patted Tang Yu on the shoulder: "Get up. Wuchang still has a lot of military affairs that I want to discuss with Dai Wang. You stay here and take care of him. I don't worry about others. If there is any danger, just call me." Pu Chen crooked Standing up obliquely, his eyes drifted to Wen Tao again, his brows were full of worry.

Tang Yu nodded. He was so young that he had never seen such a soft side of Puchen. He always thought that his patriarch was proud and invincible. It turned out that he would also have weaknesses, which made Tang Yu a little scared. But also some peace of mind.

Pu Chen walked to the front hall, Zhou Yu was already waiting there.Seeing Pu Chen's tired face, Zhou Yu asked with concern: "What's the matter?"

"Thank you Dai Wang, nothing happened overnight." Pu Chen said, "How many casualties did the Dai Wang's Luzhou army suffer in yesterday's battle?"

Zhou Yu sighed: "Five or six thousand people were lost. However, it was worth the trip to wipe out the main force of Beiyan and kill Haril."

Pu Chen naturally knew that Zhou Yu's troops were all raised by him bit by bit. Although the borrowing of troops this time was to fight against Yan with all one's strength, after all it was Pu Chen who needed to borrow troops from Luzhou because of his improper deployment of troops, so he sincerely said : "I will send generals from Wuchang to train Daiwang's few soldiers and horses. If there is still a shortage of soldiers, I will transfer them from Wuchang."

Zhou Yu laughed: "There is no need to transfer troops. I can borrow Brother Yi Xing's generals to train new soldiers for me. I wish for it."

The two looked at each other and smiled.Pu Chen suddenly said: "By the way, Your Majesty..."

Zhou Yu's brows were also clouded in an instant: "Yesterday, I wrote a memorial to inform His Majesty of the good news here. I hope His Majesty can save me from resisting for the sake of us breaking the siege of Beiyan and beheading Khalil." crime of purpose."

Upon hearing this, Pu Chen hurriedly said: "I'll also come to make a memorial immediately. I insist on borrowing the Luzhou Army on behalf of the king. If His Majesty commits a crime, I will be the one who should be punished."

Zhou Yu said gratefully: "Brother Yi Xing doesn't have to be like this. If the country is in trouble, everyone is responsible. Besides, Brother Yi Xing's Wuchang Army suffered a lot of losses this time."

Pu Chen shook his head bitterly, he came back as soon as the war ended yesterday.Today's Wuchang city is in a mess, and the Wuchang army is also in disarray, and he still needs to do too much finishing work.After he wrote the memorial, he began to deal with military affairs. It was almost evening when the wounded were settled in sevens and eighties.In this battle, only five or six thousand of the 3 people stationed in Wuchang were left. Including the Luzhou Army, a total of 5 of them participated in the battle this time, and more than 10 died in the battle. However, Haril's Beiyan main force was [-] All the people were wiped out. In this way, although the battle was fierce, they still won more with less.Beiyan's main force died in battle, and the rest of the army is expected to shrink to the north. This is an excellent opportunity for Nanjing to counterattack.

"Patriarch!" Pu Chen was still thinking about the counterattack strategy on the sand table, and Tang Yu suddenly ran over.Seeing his expression, Pu Chen's heart sank, and he strode towards his room.

On the bed, Wen Tao was still in a coma, with an ice pack on his forehead, Pu Chen tested the temperature, it was even higher than yesterday, it was frighteningly hot, he hurriedly asked the doctor next to him, "What's going on?"

The doctor wiped the sweat from his forehead: "The medicine has already been changed. There is no way for wound infection. You have to carry it by yourself. The fever is gone before you can pass the hell."

"Then how to reduce the fever?" Pu Chen's eyes were burning.

"Ice compress." Lang Zhong said.

"The ice pack has never been broken." Tang Yu whispered, "The temperature on his body still can't go down."

Pu Chen stared at Wen Tao curled up in extreme pain, waved his hands and said, "You go down first, Tang Yu stays."

Tang Yu stood on one side with his head down, waiting for the order, but Pu Chen's order turned out to be to prepare bath water.

"Bath water?" Tang Yu was full of doubts.

"Cold water, if there are ice cubes, put ice cubes." Pu Chen said with a cold face.

Tang Yu didn't dare to ask more questions, obediently prepared a bucket of ice water, and retreated.He probably guessed what Pu Chen was going to do, and before stepping back, he softly instructed: "Patriarch, be careful not to catch a cold."

Pu Chen nodded slightly.He quickly removed his clothes and dipped into the bathtub.Although it was still midsummer, the biting cold still made Pu Chen tremble all over, and his whole gums began to tremble.He soaked for a while, made sure his body was cold and got up to dry himself with a towel.He took a deep breath, and carefully got on his bed. He hugged Wen Tao from behind, and pressed his cold chest against Wen Tao's back tightly.Wen Tao in his arms was as hot as a stove, he never woke up, he only hummed softly when he touched Pu Chen's cold chest.Pu Chen put his cold hands on Wen Tao's chest to cool him down, and Wen Tao's originally curled up body finally relaxed slightly.

Pu Chen remained motionless in this position for half an hour, and when his body temperature returned to normal, he got up again and dipped back into the ice water again.He hadn't closed his eyes for almost two days, and when Pu Chen got into the tub, his eyes almost went dark. He remembered a similar moment, the moment when he and Wen Tao were in the water to avoid the Beiyan people from chasing and killing him.This man is really his doom.Wen Tao was injured again and again, but every time it was for himself, either to save his own life or to his great cause, every time when he swore he would never let him be hurt again, he turned around and put him away again. In a near-death situation.Before, I was angry again and again that he didn't take care of my body, so why not anger at my incompetence?If he is exhaustive and has far-reaching plans, why does he need the people around him to die, get hurt, and the people he cares about the most to struggle with life and death again and again?Wen Tao survived once, and twice, escaped from Lord Yan's hands, what if he can't escape this time?As long as Puchen thought of this possibility, he felt that he had fallen into eternal darkness.

Pu Chen got up from the ice water again, and once again used his body to cool down Wen Tao.His icy chin rested on the back of Wen Tao's neck, just in time to catch a glimpse of his welt. Although the wound healed, the scar remained forever.It was what Pu Chen left for Wen Tao when he met him for the first time.Pu Chen finally couldn't bear it anymore, he buried his head into the back of Wen Tao's neck, tears poured out uncontrollably, he tried his best to suppress his voice, he could only hold the person in his arms tighter, tighter .In fact, he is far from being as strong as he thinks, he has admitted