Chapter 33: Flame Flower (3)
"Your Majesty, please let me feel your pulse..."
"No , no need, the King is fine—"
He rejected Xue Han's request and pushed Shan Zhen away. He shook his head heavily, trying to wake himself up. In fact, Zhou Cheng seemed normal on the outside, but he had not had much rest since Yin Yin fell asleep. He worked day and night for Yin Yin's affairs. Then, first it was Zhao State, then the shaken world, and then Zhou Yan was assassinated. This time he went directly back to the original Yin Yin. Zhou Cheng had thought about a lot for so long, and suddenly he thought of too many things at once , which made him overuse his energy, which led to his hesitation.
Shan Zhen had been watching from the side, so he was the one who knew best what Zhou Cheng was doing. He knew that Zhou Cheng was bearing a burden that most people could not imagine. Not only did he want to rescue Yin Yin, but he also had to take national affairs into consideration. As the king of a country, he had to be mentally prepared to bear it all. Of course, Shan Zhen knew that these were not things he could share with Zhou Cheng, he just had to do his best to do what he should do.
Several days passed.
A piece of good news reached Zhou Cheng's ears.
"Yes, the prince woke up early this morning, and now Doctor Xue is examining him—"
After hearing the news from the eunuch, how could Zhou Cheng just sit there and do nothing? He immediately set off for Gyeongbokgung Palace, where Zhou Yan had lived when he was a prince.
[Heyue Inn] in the royal city.
"Did he manage to survive?"
Feng Qinghan and his group reappeared, his eyes slightly filled with a meaningful smile, while he brought a cup of brewed tea to his mouth...
"Master, when shall we--"
The servant behind him consulted his master first as usual, not because he lowered the volume for fear of being heard. Feng Qinghan smiled but said nothing, and the servant was not eager to know the answer. After Feng Qinghan put down the teacup in his hand, he turned to the window and said: "Today's weather is good, very suitable for giving gifts--"
"Yes, I'll do it right away!"
Without waiting for Feng Qinghan to finish his words, the attendant immediately understood the true meaning and set out to do what he needed to do. Feng Qinghan looked out the window, gazing into the distance, wondering what he was looking at...
Inside the royal palace [Gyeongbokgung].
"Xue Han, how is Prince Jing's health?"
"Your Majesty, the prince has woken up, so it's okay. Because the prince exercises every day, I believe he will recover soon, but--"
"Just what?"
"this--"
Xue Han was a little hesitant about Zhou Cheng's questioning, and he did not forget to glance at Zhou Yan who was lying on the bed...
"Go ahead—"
Zhou Yan spoke in a hoarse voice. He had woken up, but was still very weak, and his face was pale.
"Yes, then I will speak frankly. To be honest, despite the combined efforts of my brother and I, the condition of the prince's right hand is still not optimistic, because the tendon is injured. At the beginning, my brother and I prioritized saving the prince's life, so we neglected the treatment of the tendon. The possibility of recovery is not very high—"
Zhou Cheng and Zhou Yan understood without waiting for Xue Han to finish. What else could they say if the tendons of the hand were injured? It was no different from being disabled...
"...Humph, I guessed it a long time ago..."
Zhou Yan seemed to have guessed it since he was injured that day. He was already somewhat surprised to be able to save his life. It didn't matter whether his right hand would be disabled or not...
"Yan! Xue Han, I order you to make sure to heal the prince's hand."
Seeing Zhou Yan lying weak on the bed, Zhou Cheng felt very bored. After all, he was his brother, how could he just watch him die?
"yes!"
"No need. Where's Yinyin? How's Yinyin?"
He was not worried about himself. Even though he was weak, Zhou Yan still missed Yin Yin.
"She's fine—"
A brief answer . Zhou Cheng, who was worried about Zhou Yan just now, looked down on him as soon as he heard Yin Yin's name. It seemed that Yin Yin had completely become a barrier between the two brothers. If it weren't for Yin Yin, I believe the two brothers wouldn't have ended up like this. They hated each other whenever Yin Yin was involved, right? Was this also the so-called turning against each other?
"Yan, what happened in the snowy mountains?"
Zhou Cheng quickly changed the topic from Yin Yin to the target topic. After hearing Zhou Cheng's words, Zhou Yan slowly began to recall the attack on the snowy mountain. Everything was too sudden. Although he was hostile to Zhou Cheng because of Yin Yin, Zhou Yan still told what happened on the snowy mountain...
Because it happened too suddenly, they were caught off guard. Plus, those assassins who suddenly appeared were not ordinary assassins, each of them had extraordinary skills. Although Zhou Yan's guards were also top-notch masters, they were obviously inferior to those suddenly appearing assassins. No one knew where they came from or where they appeared from. They only knew that they suddenly appeared and attacked them without any warning.
"…Does that mean their identities are a mystery?"
"Um--"
This was the first time Zhou Cheng and Zhou Yan had such a friendly conversation since Yin Yin's incident, but I still couldn't tell anything from Zhou Yan's words...
"Your Majesty, what about the recovery of the assassins' bodies? There should be assassins that were dealt with by the prince, right?"
Xue Han's sudden words startled Zhou Cheng and Zhou Yan. Yes, they could also find some clues from the corpse...
"We were fighting and retreating at the same time. Even if we had defeated them, by the time reinforcements arrived, we would have been seriously injured. They didn't have many casualties. Plus, it was snowing heavily at the time, so it would not have been easy to find the bodies of their dead—"
"But it's not completely impossible, right?"
Since Xue Han said so, there must be a reason for it. Zhou Cheng quickly reacted: "Someone come——"
Zhou Cheng shouted, and a guard came in a moment later: "I'm here!"
"Send a flyer to the general for an audience immediately!"
"yes!"
The guards were immediately ordered to leave.
"What if we find it?"
Zhou Yan's weaker voice sounded.
"Your Majesty, Prince, although I don't know if it is related, but before I came to Zhou Kingdom, I had heard rumors about a mysterious assassin organization. According to the rumors, they are all cold-blooded killers who kill without blinking an eye. They are all top-notch masters. There are even rumors that they can easily wipe out a team of well-trained elite soldiers by themselves. They have never failed. Compared with ordinary assassins, they are really different from the world. I heard that there must be a blue-black wolf mark somewhere on their bodies, so outsiders gave them the nickname "Black Wolf" -"
"Black Wolf?"
Xue Han's serious and cautious words revealed some secrets of the underworld that Zhou Cheng and Zhou Yan were unaware of.
