Your Highness, Please Love Me Tender

136. Hunt for Lan Buhui

 

Translator: Flying Lines

 

At the border of State Yanling.

Yue Wanzhi was busy and tired recently. Influenced and inspired by the soldiers on the border, Yue Wanzhi developed the idea of joining the army. Every time he saw Vice-general Yan training a disciplined army, Yue Wanzhi felt his cells were all clamoring for training.

Yue Wanzhi longed for strength. He liked powerful people, such as Su Jie.

In Yue Wanzhi’s eyes, Su Jie’s skinny body seemed to have infinite power hidden, which made Yue Wanzhi yarn for.

How good would it be if he had such a powerful martial skill?

Yue Wanzhi was about the same age as Su Jie, but he was a little more childish. He wanted to learn martial art because he had a dream of being a hero in his heart.

So, after watching Vice-general Yan train the army for many days, Yue Wanzhi shamelessly ran to Vice-general Yan’s military camp.

“You can be a soldier. Don’t ever think about giving up halfway. Otherwise, I will break your leg and throw you down the cliff.”

Vice-general Yan’s voice was cold and indifferent, which made Yue Wanzhi shiver.

However, Yue Wanzhi was not a man who could easily give in and promised Vice-general Yan without hesitation.

The result was that he was in pain all day, and felt himself on the brink of death.

Yue Wanzhi wondered if he would die like this if he kept training.

On the contrary, Xiao ShengXian was having a rather cozy life at the border.

In the first few days, Yue Wanzhi and Xiao ShengXian were still wandering outside every day. After Yue Wanzhi joined the training, Xiao ShengXian was a little bored. He just watched as Yue Wanzhi was trained every day and took pleasure in his misfortune.

He and Yue Wanzhi used to be fond of frequenting House of Intoxicating Spring, but now they had a lot of common language.

“It’s been so long. I don’t know when my brother is going back to State YanHui.” Xiao ShengXian said casually while holding a cup of tea. After coming to State YanLing, he had lived a much quitter life without the royal family’s treacherous schemes and power struggles. Besides, there were so many soldiers serving as free guards, which made Xiao ShengXian feel time flying.

“Who knows? Maybe your brother won’t leave because of my shifu.” Yue Wanzhi said in groan and moan. Although he was severely trained by Vice-general Yan, Vice-general Yan would occasionally let him go to have the medicated bath with a cold face. After soaking, Yue Wanzhi clearly felt better.

“Who said that? My brother is capable both of holding the brush and wielding the sword, he is charming, talented, sweet and considerate. He is a perfect match for your shifu.” Xiao ShengXian was effusive in praise for his brother. In his eyes, not to mention Su Jie was just a crown prince of the previous dynasty working to retake his throne, even if Su Jie became the emperor, his brother was not a bit inferior.

“Oh, yeah? Then I wonder who went all the trouble to State YanLing to look for my master shifu.” Yue Wanzhi was not willing to let him win. Although he was born in the State YanHui, his training these days had already made Yue Wanzhi feel respectful towards Vice-general Yan. And with Su Jie as his master shifu, he must speak for Su Jie.

“What country are you from? You’ve stayed in the border for too long that you even started to speak for the crown prince of other countries.” Xiao ShengXian snorted, but not really blaming Yue Wanzhi. The two of them had been bickering frequently recently, which was a pleasure.

“But you are also in Yanling’s territory. The soldiers here are full of admiration for my master shifu. If you dare to say anything bad about my shifu, you’d be thrown down the cliff.” Yue Wanzhi snorted.

Xiao ShengXian stopped talking about this meaningless topic. He took a sip of his tea and said, “A few days ago, Zhui Xing set out to look for my brother, but I don’t know if he has found him now.”

“Who knows?” Yue Wanzhi half-squinted his eyes and stretched hisself in a lazy manner. Today Vice-general Yan gave him a rare day’s rest. Yue Wanzhi decided to have a good sleep. He said goodbye to Xiao ShengXian and left.

Capital city of State YanLing.

“How is his injury?”

“Your highness, the arrow has damaged this…young master’ bones! Although it has been bandaged, the condition of this young master’s arm isn’t very optimistic. He can’t use any strength for a long time.” The doctor wanted to say that Xiao ShengNian’s arm had already been disabled. A man of martial arts was injured in the right arm and it wasn’t going to be easy for him to recover, just as the old saying goes, an injury in the sinews or bones takes at least a hundred days to heal. But seeing the livid look on his highness’ face, the doctor chose to put it in a much nicer way.

Su Jie nodded and entered the room.

In the room, Xiao ShengNian was lying on the bed, weariness on his face as he breathed steadily. Obviously, he had fallen asleep. Because of the injury of his arm, Xiao ShengNian could not lie flat but to lie down on his stomach.

The room was still full of pungent smell of herbs. Su Jie quietly stood by Xiao ShengNian’s bedside for a while before he left.

Several doctors were still guarding the door. Seeing Su Jie out, one of them said, “Your highness, in order to relieve the pain of that young master, we’ve added some herbs that could make him sleep soundly.”

“Will the injury affect him in the future?”

“This…” Several doctors faltered. The medicine they gave Xiao ShengNian was not the best. It was not that they were selfish, but that the good ones had already been used up as the army marched. The medicine in the capital’s herb shops was robbed by Lan Buhui’s sixteen guards first. They didn’t have much stock in the box they carried with them. If they wanted to buy new herbs, they would have to send the army to buy them in neighboring cities.

“Xuan Wu, take someone to the nearby cities to take a look, buy more of the medicine on the prescription, and buy all the vulneraries.” It was already deep night, but in order to make the medicine available for Xiao ShengNian tomorrow, Su Jie could only send some trustworthy people to buy herbs.

After arranging hundreds of soldiers to patrol and guard outside Xiao ShengNian’s room, Su Jie went to see Ju Liandao again. Because a part of the previous palace was burned, Ju Liandao was original plan was to build a new palace for Su Jie to live.

Su Jie himself did not want to live in the old palace, which had been burned by Lan Buhui after a slaughter. But the country had just been reunited, there were still a lot of things to deal with. Building new palace would have a great negative impact on their lives, so Su Jie had to give up this idea.

Under the curtain of night, Su Jie rode around the palace, accompanied by Gongsun Yi and dozens of soldiers.

The corpses scattered at sixes and sevens in the palace had been cleaned up, and the blood on the ground had been washed. The palaces were full of peace under the silvery moonlight.

The clops broke the silence. Su Jie dismounted and called Gongsun Yi.

“Your highness, what is your order?” Gongsun Yi stepped forward, his tall figure looking steady under the moonlight.

“I want to arrange a mission for you alone.”

“Please tell me.” Gongsun Yi raised his eyebrows in surprise and asked with a smile.

“I want you to track down Lan Buhui and bring him to me alive.” After the baptism of wars and battles, Su Jie’s temperament became much more mature than before. His eyes were even deeper and unfathomable than the night sky, and the golden flower on his face seemed to glow under the moon.

The reason why Gongsun Yi was given the task was because of Yun Hui’s assassination today. Su Jie was impressed by the three arrows shot by Yun Hui. He felt that the one who could have such superb skill must be Lan Buhui’s most capable right hand. Since his right hand was still in the capital city, then it followed that Lan Buhui himself must be in the capital too.

“Lan Buhui?” Gongsun Yi’s browns knitted a little and then spread. There was a confident smile by the corner of his lips as he said to Su Jie, “Your highness, I will not let you down.”