Chapter 153 Hardships
"Sir, Miss Su is awake."
This sentence interrupted Qin Huai's thoughts. He followed the person who brought the news back, but Li Rusong's steps were a little slow.
Su Luo has been in a daze ever since he opened his eyes.
How she wished that when she opened her eyes, she would see the snow-white ceiling and crystal chandelier. Why couldn't she go back? Did she really faint? No, seeing such a bloody scene, she should be scared to death. Since she was dead, she should go back to the modern world instead of continuing to look at the carved wooden bed and paper-covered windows.
She reached out and touched her face. The wound was on her left cheek and was difficult to bandage, so the cloth strip was pressed down on her nose and wrapped around the back of her head, using it to wrap her head like a gourd. Needless to say, this must have looked extremely stupid.
Su Luo stretched her body and walked out the door, just in time to see Qin Huai and Li Rusong coming towards her one after the other. Looking at Qin Huai's worried face, Su Luo forced a smile at him and moved her eyes to Li Rusong. Li Rusong looked at her without any abnormality, but Su Luo saw the earnestness in Li Rusong's eyes.
"Let's go back." Su Luo ignored Li Rusong and only spoke to Qin Huai.
Qin Huai nodded and walked to the gate of the military academy with Su Luo. Only then did Li Rusong say "Oh" softly.
Su Luo didn't look back, and pulled Qin Huai away without looking back. Li Rusong stayed where he was, looked at the sky, scratched his head, and looked very distressed.
Qin Huai let Su Luo sit in front of him, and the two of them rode on the same horse. The speed of the horse was not very fast, obviously to take care of Su Luo.
"Does your face still hurt?"
Su Luo was stunned and raised her hand to touch her face. It was still a little painful, but she was thinking about other things and ignored the pain.
Qin Huai said again: "I'm sorry."
"Why apologize?"
Su Luo was sitting in the front. Qin Huai couldn't see her expression, but her tone didn't show much surprise. She was just asking a question.
Qin Huai quietly tightened his arms while driving the horse, "I won't let anyone hurt you again."
Su Luo smiled, but the smile was fleeting.
"If your face still hurts, don't smile and talk less."
Su Luo nodded and really stopped talking. Qin Huai's eyebrows gradually gathered. He wanted to ask several questions but held back. Finally, Su Luo realized that something was wrong with him and said, "Ask whatever you want to ask."
"I just feel like there's something wrong with you. What happened?"
Su Luo snorted softly, "Didn't Li Rusong tell you anything?"
Qin Huai was unsure of what she meant, so he remained silent.
Su Luo bit her lower lip, hesitating all the time, her knuckles gripping the horse's mane so tightly that they turned white. Qin Huai spread Su Luo's fingers one by one and said in a gentle voice, "If you don't want to say it, don't say it. Don't embarrass yourself."
Su Luo half-turned her body and looked at Qin Huai, who was smiling at her as always. She calmed herself down and said, "Let's go downstairs and take a walk."
Qin Huai got off the horse, and took Su Luo off. He led the horse and followed Su Luo. He did not intend to urge her to speak. Su Luo seemed even more uneasy. She would rather Qin Huai kept asking questions.
Although they said they were taking a walk, Su Luo walked without any focus. Qin Huai followed her the whole time, occasionally using his height to block the sunlight for Su Luo. Su Luo noticed this and felt even more annoyed.
"Yun Lang, he..." Su Luo finally spoke, but didn't know where to start, "He was..."
Qin Huai sighed when she mentioned Yun Lang, "I know you don't hate Yun Lang, right?"
Su Luo was stunned, raised her head to meet Qin Huai's eyes, and nodded slowly, "Although he held me hostage, it was only to leave Luoyang. Zhao He stabbed me, and he felt more distressed than anyone else. At that time in the carriage, he kept holding me and protecting me, for fear that Zhao He would do something bad to me again."
Qin Huai listened quietly without interrupting. Since Su Luo had already spoken, he continued speaking in one go, "After we left the city, they drove Li Rusong off the carriage and dropped me off ten miles away from me. Zhao He was afraid that I would reveal their whereabouts, so he wanted to..."
Qin Huai stopped suddenly, "What do you want?"
Su Luo turned back in surprise, "Of course they wanted to kill me to silence me, but his old injury relapsed, so Yun Lang was unwilling to kill me, so he just knocked me out, leaving some room for me when he attacked. But I fell down obediently, so they thought I was unconscious, and they left... What's wrong with you?"
Qin Huai loosened his grip on the reins and smiled softly, "It's okay, I'm just a little scared. If it weren't for Yun Lang..." This was the second time he regretted signaling Zhao He to hold Su Luo. How could he forget that although Zhao He was loyal to the Wufeng Group, he was a pirate after all. Although he had not killed innocent people in the past few years, many coastal people had died at his hands before. It's easy to change a country, but it's hard to change one's nature. When a person is in danger, his survival instinct makes him decide to kill. What's so strange about this?
"Yeah, maybe I would have died." Su Luo stared at Qin Huai's slightly pale face and suddenly smiled, "Are you kidding? Why are you so pale? Zhao He is so weak. If it weren't for Yun Lang, how could he dare to hold me hostage? Even if he wanted to kill me, wouldn't I run away?"
"But..." Qin Huai's eyes fell on the bandage on Su Luo's face, "He hurt you after all. If I had stayed with you, maybe he wouldn't have had this chance."
"I believe it." Su Luo nodded heavily, "If you were by my side, even if he held me hostage, you would never let him hurt me."
Such a simple sentence actually moved Qin Huai so much. He couldn't imagine whether Su Luo would still trust him if she knew that all this was done at his instruction.
"What happened next? How was it?"
"Yun Lang's carriage was not driving fast, probably because he was taking care of Zhao He's injuries. Not long after they left, Li Rusong caught up with them. I heard the sound of them fighting, so I quietly followed them and saw... Zhao He lying on the ground, covered in blood. Yun Lang was no match for Li Rusong, and he fell down after being stabbed by him."
Seeing Su Luo's drooping eyelashes trembling constantly, Qin Huai patted her shoulder and said, "Don't worry, Deputy General Liu and his men only found Zhao He's body. Yun Lang should not be dead yet."
Su Luo lowered his head and said nothing. He walked for a long time before speaking: "What can't be said clearly? Must we fight? Although they have known each other for a short time, Yun Lang was taught by him personally. If it were you, would you be able to do it?"
Qin Huai always felt that Su Luo's reaction was not right, and he was more and more worried that Su Luo was overly stimulated. He hurriedly said, "Don't think about these things. Zi Maozi sent someone to find Yun Lang. He will be fine."
Su Luo shook his head. "So what if we find it? Li Rusong doesn't seem like a person who would follow personal relationships, and Yun Lang will never reveal the secrets of the Wufeng Fleet just to save his life. In the end, it's better not to find it."
Qin Huai frowned slightly, "Will Yun Lang know any secrets? Didn't Zhao He keep his mouth shut before?"
"I don't know either." Su Luo quickened his pace and threw Qin Huai behind him. "But when they started, Yun Lang kept saying 'I won't tell'. Maybe Zhao He said something to him before he died."
Su Luo lowered his head and talked to himself. After a while, he realized that Qin Huai had not caught up with him. Looking back, he saw Qin Huai standing there thoughtfully. Su Luo wanted to turn back, but after taking two steps, he stopped and called out to Qin Huai, "What's wrong?"
Qin Huai rushed over and said, "Get on the horse. You must be frightened after seeing such a bloody scene. Go back and drink some calming tea as soon as possible."
Su Luo did not refuse and got on the horse with Qin Huai's help. Qin Huai also got on and accelerated towards Luoyang City.
Not long after, the two entered the city and arrived at the Qin Mansion's villa.
Qin Huai sent Su Luo back to the room and settled her down. "You take a rest first. I'll find a doctor to see you."
Su Luo held him back and said, "I'm fine. I don't need any calming tea."
Qin Huai smiled gently, "Let a doctor take a look at your face. Injuring your face is no small matter."
Su Luo touched the cloth on his face and said dejectedly: "It's okay if I'm injured, who cares? You're the only one who cares about me, unlike some people who don't even ask a question."
"Are you talking about Zimao?" Qin Huai straightened up. "He is as worried as I am."
"Not at all! He..." Su Luo turned his head away angrily, "It's none of my business whether he asks or not. I don't have to rely on my face to serve him!"
"Lie down first." Qin Huai smiled gently, "Believe me, if he wasn't worried about you, he would have shot the arrow long ago. He hesitated for so long because he was not sure whether Yun Lang would really hurt you."
Su Luo didn't say anything until Qin Huai left the room. Then she frowned and sighed. She sighed again and again until Qin Huai came back. Her saliva was almost dry from sighing.
The doctor Qin Huai brought back seemed very wise. He unwrapped the bandage that had been used to bandage Su Luo, pulled her beard and studied it for a long time, then wrapped it around her body again, then got up and left.
Could it be that she felt hopeless and just gave up? Although Su Luo said she wasn't worried, how could she not worry with a scar on her face? Was she going to change her name to Scar Su?
"doctor……"
Qin Huai acted faster than Su Luo, "Doctor, is there something wrong... Oh, let's go out and talk."
"Don't go out, don't go out..." Su Luo was anxious. It was just a scar. There was no need to treat her like a terminally ill patient.
The doctor said simply, "The medicine on this girl's wound is several times better than all the medicines I have. Just keep using it, and the wound will heal in a few days. But it will take more than a few days for the scar to completely disappear."
Qin Huai was relieved, sent the doctor away, turned around and said with a smile: "Do you believe what I said? How could Zimao ignore your injury? The doctor just now is the best external trauma doctor in Luoyang City. The medicine on your face is even better than his, which shows how much Zimao cared for you."
"Maybe he just happened to have some medicine, and he gave it to me." Su Luo looked unhappy when Li Rusong was mentioned. "What are you doing? You keep saying good things for him."
Qin Huai was silent, looking at Su Luo with pity, and hesitated for a long time before speaking, "Do you know? The reason why Zimao left you quietly was because of his own difficulties."
Qin Huai repeated to Su Luo what Li Rusong had said to him, "He was afraid that you would be involved in the fight between him and the court, and he was even more afraid that someone with ulterior motives would threaten him and harm you. He told me that when Liaodong stabilizes, you will be his only wife."
Qin Huai originally thought that after hearing this, Su Luo would immediately go to Li Rusong to ask for clarification, because he knew that Su Luo was a person who did whatever he wanted. However, after Su Luo was stunned for a while, he actually smiled listlessly, "Do you think I should go to him to ask for clarification?"
Qin Huai nodded, but Su Luo shook her head. "When two people are together, the most important thing is to be honest with each other. He didn't ask me, but he thought it was for my own good. Has he ever understood how sad I have been these past few days? He did it for my own good, but it made me feel heartbroken. In turn, I should understand his difficulties? How can this be justified in the world?"
"But he's doing this for your own good..."
"Lying to me is for my own good? I believed that he had his own reasons and I gave him a chance, but what did he do? Not only did he treat me coldly, he also flirted with Su Jiang. Is this also for my own good? Besides..." Su Luo sneered, "He hid more than one thing from me. Is it all for my own good?"
Qin Huai was speechless for a moment, and Su Luo continued: "Hardship is not an excuse to hurt others, and there is no need to use deception when facing someone you like. How does he know that after he tells me, we won't come up with a better way to resist foreign enemies together? How does he know that I won't cooperate with him and distance myself from him to confuse others? Everything is an excuse. Lying is lying. Why do you have to put on the cloak of "hardship"? Li Rusong once said, who doesn't have sad things? I borrow his words, who doesn't have hardship? If you have hardship, talk about it, so as not to let the misunderstanding develop too deep. On the surface, you still love each other, but in fact, there is already a knot between the two that cannot be untied. In the end, saying that you regret or wake up, isn't it too stupid?"
Qin Huai thought about Su Luo's words, as if thinking about something. Su Luo looked at him expectantly, "Qin Huai... do you have anything to say to me?"
Qin Huai couldn't help but be startled. At this moment, the housekeeper knocked on the door and came in, "Master, Lord Li sent someone."
Qin Huai nodded, motioned for the butler to go out first, and then he turned around. Su Luo said anxiously: "Qin Huai!"
"No." Qin Huai's voice was a little low, "I don't have anything to say to you."
Su Luo didn't hear the answer she wanted to hear, and she couldn't help but feel extremely disappointed. She followed Qin Huai's back with her eyes, and when he was about to leave, she called out again, "Qin Huai, come with me to Beijing. Let's leave here and go to Beijing to do business!"
