Chapter 94: Beautiful Face
Tang Ying was never a crybaby. She just fell off the cliff without any preparation, and was touched by Fu Chen's words, so she couldn't control her overwhelming emotions.
By the time she realized that she had actually cried in front of Fu Chen and was still blaming him, she immediately covered her face in embarrassment and wished she could find a piece of tofu to hit herself to death - it was so embarrassing!
"I'm fine." She wiped her face twice, got out of Fu Chen's arms, and sat up. Her voice still had a slight cry, but her soul had returned to its place, and her seven spirits were reunited. She was the Tang Ying who looked indestructible again, with a little red at the corners of her eyes. She tried her best to maintain her remaining dignity and said, "Hurry up and get up, and see where you are hurt?"
Fu Chen sat up, and suddenly, without saying a word, he held her in his arms, patting her gently from the top of her head to her shoulders and back, as if comforting a child who had lost his mother, and said in a hoarse voice: "Yingying, don't keep pushing me away, don't make me feel too distressed."
The bones of the girl's shoulders and back were incredibly slender. Even though she was wearing winter clothes, she could still feel the ridges of bones underneath. There was no one around at the moment, only the sound of the mountain wind blowing quietly, as if there were only two of them. The words that he had been hiding in his heart for a long time burst out.
"Yingying, I just got to know you a little later than Yu An. It's not my fault." He has always been arrogant, but facing this stubborn girl, it seems that all his dignity is worthless in front of her. He almost begged her: "Please don't push me away, okay?"
Tang Ying said in a low but firm voice: "Let go, I'll take a look at your injuries."
Fu Chen was ruthless and refused to let go: "Tell me, why did you have to push me away? Tell me?"
Tang Ying took a deep breath, as if to sort out her troubled mood, and finally couldn't help but get angry: "Do you know why I must go to Beijing? What a fake Miss Tang, at best it's just a lead. What I really want to know is, those transfer orders in the name of rotation, those constantly delayed military equipment and food, who wants to put my father and brother to death? Put the young men of Baicheng to death?"
"Is that why you pushed me away?"
Fu Chen couldn't help but look down at her. The girl's brows were stern, and she was determined to move forward: "I want to seek justice for those who died unjustly. I don't care about love!"
"It's okay. I'll wait for you." He breathed a sigh of relief, fearing that she would reject him by bringing up the reason of disobeying the imperial order and refusing marriage, and that she would be with Yu An till death. Even though he felt that his heart was not false, he could not compete with a dead man for a place in her heart.
Fortunately she didn't.
Fu Chen was afraid that she would say something to hurt his heart and reject him, so he immediately cried out "Ouch!" " It hurts ." He also showed a painful expression, and his pain was genuine.
As expected, as long as the wound was mentioned, Tang Ying focused her attention on the wound on his body. The two of them moved towards the main trunk of the tree. She checked the wound on his back and found that it was not only a serious external injury, but also a possible injury to the rib bone. She did not dare to take it lightly: "Let's find a way to go down first."
She wanted to carry Fu Chen down, but unexpectedly, Master Fu wanted to show off: "I'll go down first, you follow me."
Tang Ying couldn't stop him and could only follow him. The two of them climbed hard through the cracks in the cliff and finally reached the bottom of the valley after a quarter of an hour.
There was a thick layer of fallen leaves and weeds at the bottom of the valley, but the light was inevitably a little dim as the sun was setting in the west. Tang Ying lit a fire to keep warm, and pulled Fu Chen over to sit beside the fire to treat the wound on his back.
Fu Chen could feel the busy hands on his back, and half-jokingly said, "This little injury is actually nothing. I have received more serious injuries than this in the past. The men I lead are all a bunch of rough men. The way they treat their wounds makes people suspect that they are taking revenge. It must be because I am too harsh on them on weekdays."
There were several old scars on his back, and a wound running from his shoulder to his lower back. From its ferocious appearance, one could imagine how dangerous it had been.
Tang Ying often did odd jobs in the wounded camp and had seen a lot of fatal injuries, but he didn't think they were that scary and treated the wounds in an orderly manner. Sir Fu had prepared all the bleeding medicines except for clean cloth. Tang Ying asked him not to turn around, took off her shirt and tore it into two-inch wide strips to bandage his wounds.
Fu Chen's mind was full of thoughts. For a moment, he thought that the cloth strip had once been her personal item, but now it was touching her skin, which was equivalent to their skin touching each other. At the same time, he thought that this idea was too dirty and could only be hidden deep in his mind, not to be seen by others...
He had a lot of thoughts in mind, and Tang Ying was also very fast. She quickly treated the external injuries and took his clothes and put them on him one by one. "I'm not very good at treating bones. If the bones under the ribs are really broken, it will be particularly troublesome. I'm afraid it will pierce the internal organs. But maybe it's just a fracture. I'll go cut a stick to use as a crutch. If not, let's go out first."
Seeing her busying around like a little bee, Fu Chen felt lazy and wished that the two of them could stay in this quiet valley for a few more days, or even half a day. "No hurry, my wound hurts, let me rest for a while."
Tang Ying placed her cold little hand on his forehead, very worried: "No, we'd better get back to the camp before nightfall. By then, we will have the imperial physician and good medicine. If it doesn't work, I'll carry you on my back."
"With your small body?" Fu Chen stretched out his long legs: "I'm afraid that half of my body will be dragged on the ground."
Tang Ying frowned and said fiercely: "Anyway, having a longer leg doesn't mean you're smarter than me. Why not just cut it off?" Maybe because he risked his life to save her, jumped off the cliff with her, broke down and cried in front of him, and told him all the secrets she had, she felt like throwing in the towel.
Unexpectedly, Fu Chen was so angry that he smiled: "You are smart, you are the smartest."
Tang Ying always felt that he was speaking sarcastically. She carefully observed Lord Fu's expression and saw that he looked innocent, as if he was really praising her sincerely. She snorted coldly and turned to look at the sky, with the corners of her mouth slightly raised. She simply didn't know what expression to use to face him.
Suddenly, Fu Chen grabbed her hand and lowered his voice: "Don't make a sound, it seems someone is coming."
At the same time, Tang Ying also heard the sound of footsteps on fallen leaves, and there should be more than one person.
The two looked at each other and instinctively sensed the danger.
Tang Ying looked around hurriedly and found a small cave behind the fire. She helped Fu Chen up, dragged him over, and tried to stuff him into the natural cave.
Fu Chen refused: "Maybe it's someone from the Forbidden Cavalry Department."
Tang Ying: "Don't be silly. If the people from the Imperial Cavalry Division came looking for us, they would shout loudly instead of sneaking up on us. Maybe these people are in the same group as the one who shot the sneak attack. Don't hold me back."
As they were talking, the footsteps were getting closer and closer, and more than twenty men in black appeared in the sight, with their faces covered and their heads and tails hidden. The steel knives in their hands gleamed coldly. The leader made a gesture to encircle them, and the group of well-trained people narrowed the encirclement.
Tang Ying was too lazy to waste words. She drew out her sword and stood guard at the entrance of the cave, using her fingers as a whistle. In an instant, her whistle echoed in the valley. The men in black hesitated immediately, suspecting that she was calling for help.
One of them lowered his voice and said, "Even if she called for help, it shouldn't be so fast. Should we end this quickly?"
The leader made a gesture, and four people rushed towards Tang Ying first.
Tang Ying's sword moves were not fancy or showy, but each one was full of murderous intent. She took the initiative to attack without waiting for the four men to get close. Fu Chen was sitting in the cave, watching her thin figure rushing forward bravely, and he didn't know what to feel in his heart.
The leader raised his voice and said, "Master Fu, you are like a coward, but you let a woman lead you in front of you. Are you still a man?"
"Eh?" Tang Ying thought he was looking for trouble, but she didn't expect him to point out that he was looking for Fu Chen. In the midst of his busy schedule, he turned around and asked him, "Sir, who did you offend?"
Fu Chen spread his hands: "I have offended so many people that I can't even remember them all." He shouted to the leader: "Since you have a grudge against me, Fu, why don't you let this girl go? I will accompany you to the end."
The four men who were fighting with Tang Ying slowed down their movements for a moment, and the leader laughed and said, "I heard that Master Fu is not interested in women, but it turns out that it is all a lie. I didn't expect that Master Fu also knows how to cherish women . In this case, I will fulfill Master Fu's wish. Miss, you can go now."
Tang Ying stabbed one of the men in black in the face with a sword flower: "I'm really sorry, I haven't had a sparring match with anyone for a long time, my hands are itching to fight, it's not too late to leave after I finish this round."
The leader didn't expect to meet such a stupid girl: "I didn't expect that Master Fu is so lucky that there is a beauty willing to be buried with him. I will definitely help you."
Tang Ying stabbed a man in black in the abdomen with a sword, twisted her waist to avoid the sword stabbing at her abdomen: "I'm wrong, who in the capital doesn't know that Master Fu is beautiful, isn't it because I am lucky enough to be with her?"
Fu Chen burst out laughing.
"You sharp-tongued girl!" The leader said, "Since you are determined to be a pair of lovebirds, I will help you!" He made a gesture, and five of them went straight to Tang Ying, while the other five went to Fu Chen.
In just a few words, Tang Ying had dealt with two people neatly. The pressure suddenly eased, but unexpectedly, five more people came running in the blink of an eye.
She fought while retreating. She was originally not far from the cave where Fu Chen was hiding. Before the five men could run to Fu Chen, she had already retreated to the cave and blocked more than a dozen people at the entrance of the cave, with the momentum of one man blocking a thousand.
The leader in black didn't expect that she was not only ignorant of the current situation, but also stubbornly resisted. He snorted coldly: "What a girl who doesn't know how to live or die!"
Tang Ying was in high spirits, with his back against the cave on the mountain wall, facing more than a dozen swords in front of him without any fear: " You rats who don't know how to live or die!" He even found time to curse at others.
