Besides, with this scruffy, unkempt appearance, even if he were dragged in front of Yuwen Jun, he might not recognize him. Let alone an ancient society that relies on abstract impressions to identify people.
Bai Junjun sympathetically checked his pulse.
Wenren Pingting didn’t stop him and only spoke with a sorrowful face about their misfortunes: "The mont I received the news you sent back, I ca to find His Highness, but I was still a step too late."
Unfortunately, Wenren Pingting ca a step too late. By the ti she finally convinced Yuwen Luanfei to withdraw the troops, the Fifth Prince refused to let them leave.
Yuwen Luanfei had no choice but to use a decoy to escape like a cicada shedding its shell, yet when they fled back to the North-South Bridge, they were outmaneuvered by Yuwen Jun.
Yuwen Jun suddenly attacked Yuwen Luanfei. Luckily, out of nowhere, a group of masked people appeared. Their target also happened to be Yuwen Jun, so the couple managed to escape the brush with death.
As fate would have it, years ago, while wandering and sightseeing in the Eastern Land, Yuwen Luanfei had saved a family. Now, in their ti of crisis, that sa family stepped in. They had the couple pose as distant relatives seeking refuge.
Upon learning that Yuwen Luanfei was gravely ill, the family partitioned their only bed with wooden boards for the couple to use, while the elderly couple themselves slept on a straw mat on the floor at night.
At the mont, the elderly couple was out working and would only return in the evening.
i Hua often wandered around this area. Accidentally spotting Wenren Pingting, she grew malicious and inquired with the neighbors, learning that Wenren Pingting had brought her sickly husband here to seek refuge with relatives. This confird in i Hua’s eyes that Wenren Pingting was the perfect target.
Thus, she began showing up constantly to harass them.
As Wenren Pingting recounted their recent experiences, her eyes were filled with hatred toward Yuwen Jun and Yuwen Song.
"His Highness wasn’t fighting for himself, but in the end, he ended up abandoned by everyone. Those who used him and deceived him all deserve to die!"
Compared to Wenren Pingting’s fury, Bai Junjun appeared much calr. While she vented her grievances, Bai Junjun had already finished checking Yuwen Luanfei’s pulse.
Yuwen Luanfei’s heart had always been underdeveloped. With all the recent turmoil, constant travel, and a series of sudden, intense stimuli surpassing his ntal endurance, it triggered a heart condition.
This illness wasn’t entirely hopeless—if treated with valuable dicine, his life wouldn’t be at imdiate risk. But if left untreated or if his heart abruptly failed, he could die at any mont.
That he had held on this long might actually have sothing to do with Big Beard’s dicine.
Bai Junjun, as though recalling sothing, asked, "Didn’t I give you a bottle of Immortal Water before?"
Wenren Pingting froze, then awkwardly replied, "At the ti, we were fleeing in chaos. How could we have spared any thought for it? It was probably left behind in the army camp."
Bai Junjun sighed regretfully. If Yuwen Luanfei had taken the Immortal Water, things might have turned out entirely differently. It could only be said that this was fate.
"How is His Highness? Can he... hold on much longer?" Wenren Pingting asked nervously.
She knew that Bai Junjun had once apprenticed under Mr. Dan He. Three years ago, the prospect of her humbling herself to ask Bai Junjun for dical advice would have been inconceivable.
But things were different now. Setting aside the reconciliation the two had in the Imperial Capital, for now, with Yuwen Jun issuing a citywide manhunt for Yuwen Luanfei, she didn’t dare visit a clinic or buy dicine openly from a pharmacy. Instead, she had to rely on dicines bought from roaming peddlers.
As for the dicine given to her by Big Beard, she had no way of knowing if it was effective or not. Wenren Pingting decided to treat a dying horse as if it were alive, feeding it all to Yuwen Luanfei.
But he still showed no improvent, leaving Wenren Pingting increasingly anxious.
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