Chapter 10 (2/2)
Fu Shen inally wanted to put on clothes for hi hi into any hidden injuries It just so happened that someone had come to report Shen Yi'ce's arrival at this tiht into the bedroo, as naked with his hair in disarray, and his eyes went so wide they very nearly fell out “Th-th-that's…”
“Don't stutter It's the Marquis of Jing Ning” Yan Xiaohan placed Fu Shen atop his bed “He was kneeling in the rain for a little under a shi+chen, and passed out due to fever just now Can you take a look and see if you can do anything for hi has been cropping up a bit too frequently these days, but doesn't think too deeply about it He talked as he took Fu Shen's pulse “How did that happen? He can't walk any off to kneel in the rain all willy-nilly for? Were you just rained on too, Sir? Call for theer soup”
Yan Xiaohanto bother with such a trivial , but doesn't ask again He concentrates on thoroughly checking the pulse on both of Fu Shen's wrists, then lifting the blanket to look at Fu Shen's legs He wrote down three prescriptions to take, washed his hands with strong alcohol, and replaced the bandages on Fu Shen's legs for him
“He just shouted in pain Are there any other wounds?” Yan Xiaohan asked, frowning
Shen Yi'ce suspects that Mr Royal Inspector Envoy's brain was soggy froround for a shi+chen would be hard to bear with even if his knees were otten painfully infla drenched Further still is that—” he points out thehere, “those fro fear weather like this thehe has oing through this kind of pain, they would be rolling about on the ground right now”
Yan Xiaohan folloith his own soft lae person couldn't becoe ceremony at twenty when he put on ar his life for an outstandingfor so ed innumerable hurled spears and stealthy arrows, but he couldn't avoid the knife co, when the Yuantai Eested that he could take over the Northern Yan Iron Cavalry, Yan Xiaohan genuinely did feel a split second of tereat deal of weight, it reaps nearly the full condemnation of the Court The Imperial Guard, then, is respected and noble, but it's not a good place to rack up achievements at the end of it all
Is there anylike Fu Shen and holding the Northern Yan Cavalry in the pal the eneht ‘if that werewhatever sort of great service for his own glory?
However, can the seat of the Coood life purely by being perched securely on it?
Yan Xiaohan knows that he's incapable of replacing Fu Shen, and that there will not be another of him anywhere in the world It's a shame that the Yuantai Emperor doesn't understand that
The Great Wall, never once destroyed by an outsider's hands, will first be torn down by its own people, brick by brick
“Sir” Shen Yi'ce got up, having swiftly finished switching out Fu Shen's s “Youto take this to heart, but I still s in my duty as a physician I'm afraid that this injury of the Marquis's will be unable to be completely fixed for the rest of his life He's had a fever twice, this one erous than the last His health won't be able to last any sort of torment
Even if you dislike him, he's a… hero, in the end If you can help hile by hi in the rain for one shi+chen happen again”
No sort of eleaned fro familiar with Fu Shen, nor did I ever see you speak up for a patient before”
“It's just ” Shen Yi'ce placed his wares that he had spread out on the table back into his medicine box and closed it “I don't really have any sort of relationshi+p with the Marquis, but I just so well in the world, then it'll be calht for our lives under the iron hooves of the barbarians”
As Yan Xiaohan recalls, Shen Yi'ce was born in Xuanfu [3], which had once been occupied by the eastern Tartars before being later reclaimed by the Northern Yan Cavalry
He didn't respond, also getting up to see Shen Yi'ce out They walked silently through the winding corridors, and upon arriving at the front courtyard, Shen Yi'ce turned to face Yan Xiaohan with a staoodbye “There is no need to escort me out further, Sir”
“Jizhi,” [1] Yan Xiaohan called out to hilint deep in his eye “Fu Shen's injury… howable to stand up again?”
Shen Yi'ce srimly “You put too much value in me, Sir”
“Say what you think,” Yan Xiaohand replied “You don't need to hold back I want to hear the truth”
Only after hesitating for a long time did Shen Yi'ce start to speak cautiously “Only about ten, twenty percent sure Broken bone is easy to coed, particularly from when his kneecaps broke in half It may take three to five years of effort to nurse him back to health The amount of money that'd be spent on the medication doesn't need to be spoken of – the key point is that there needs to be soht not work”
A glint of hope is always better than having one's hands co to a decision “In that case, fro's treatment will be handed over to you Come to my Estate if you need to check the wound or administer medicine”
Shen Yice was astonished “Sir?!”
“No need to be surprised You would have known about this sooner or later,” Yan Xiaohand said mildly “His Majesty issued an imperial edict just now The Marquis and I are to be hout the sky, Divine Doctor Shen was rooted to the spot, mute as a wooden chicken [2]
Oneroar exploded from within the Yan Estate's courtyard “Is the Emperor insane?!”
The translator says: Todaybutchered by so treated like that are being realized vicariously…
[1] 继之 = Another courtesy Means roughly ‘continue on', or some such
[2] 呆若木鸡 = Literally, “dumbstruck like a wood chicken” What kind of idiom is this?
[3] May be an actual town in this novel's canon, but in real life, Xuanfu was athe Great Wall