Updated: 2012-06-05

When Xue Wanche woke up, it was already the morning of the second day. A bright light of the sun shone in from the door of the military tent, which happened to shine on Xue Wanche's face. Because of the light golden sunlight, Xue Wanche's pale face did not look so ugly. He slowly opened his eyes, but was stabbed by the sun again and felt a little painful.

"General! You are awake and scared me to death."

Xue Bao, the general of the family, screamed excitedly when he saw Xue Wanche open his eyes. Xue Bao, who had not slept all night, looked a little haggard and frightened all night. When he saw Xue Wanche awakening, he couldn't suppress the excitement in his heart for a while, he started crying. He was a general of the Xue family and grew up with Xue Wanche. On the same day, Xue Shixiong sent him to pull Xue Wanche back in Sashui, but Xue Wanche scolded him and had to go with Xue Wanche to save people. He did not dare to go back to see Xue Shixiong, and he was even more worried about Xue Wanche's safety.

Yesterday, General Yan's personal soldiers brought Xue Wanche back and said they were poisoned. But Xue Bao was scared. Fortunately, General Yan had a Dugu Captain who was good at detoxifying.

"Xue Bao?"

Xue Wanche frowned slightly, and felt that his throat hurt like a dry riverbed, as if it was cracked. His voice was hoarse, just like his sound, but it was like the sound made by a ghost who had just woken up. The first feeling when he woke up was that his throat was so hot that it was so painful that the pain in his belly was not so obvious. Then he had no strength on his body and could not even lift his arms.

"I'm not dead?"

Xue Wanche asked hoarsely.

Xue Bao quickly brought a bowl of water, helped Xue Wanche and took a few sips.

"General, you have great fortune and great fortune, how can you die? But General, when General Yan's personal soldiers sent you back yesterday, I was frightened. Fortunately, the poison has been relieved."

"poison?"

After drinking a few sips of water, Xue Wanche felt a little better. He signaled Xue Bao to help him up and sit, and then shook his head gently. He felt like there was a pot of water in his head swaying back and forth, which was so painful.

"I'm poisoned?"

Xue Wanche asked after he woke up.

"General, don't you know?"

Xue Bao asked in surprise.

Xue Wanche remembered that before he fainted, the pain seemed to be stirring with a knife in his stomach. The pain was too severe at that time, and he quickly fell to the ground and fell into a coma. Thinking about it, it must be poisoned. But how could he be poisoned? Also, since he was poisoned, why didn’t he die?

"Xue Bao, tell me the matter. Yesterday, I drank at General Dugu's place, so why was I poisoned? Where is Yan Yun? Where is Dugu Zhen?"

When Xue Bao heard Dugu Zhen’s name, he changed his face in anger: “General, why do you still mention that evil man?”

He said annoyedly: "It was Dugu Zhen who poisoned you and General Yan Yun's wine. If the Dugu Captain Dugu under General Yan Yun had no idea about medical principles, I'm afraid you and General Yan would be harmed by that damn Dugu Zhen! Yesterday, Dugu Ruizhi, the captain under General Yan, guarded you here in the middle of the night, and was sure that you were not in danger before rushing back to take care of General Yan."

"Yan Yun was also poisoned?"

Xue Wanche was stunned, and then remembered that before he fell into a coma, it seemed that he had indeed seen Yan Yun and fell down staggeringly. He remembered again that it seemed that Dugu Zhen fell down first. Since Dugu Zhen poisoned Yan Yun and himself, why did he fall down himself?

"Where is Dugu Zhen?"

Xue Wanche asked in a weak voice.

Xue Bao gritted his teeth and said, "Die!"

"Dead?!"

Xue Wanche's heart suddenly jumped, and his mind buzzed instantly. The sound was like the waves of the sea, and it felt like it was being beaten by the waves. His mind was confused and blank. After a while, he woke up and took Xue Bao's hand and asked, "Why is Dugu Zhen dead?"

"He deserves it!"

Xue Bao gritted his teeth and said, "In order not to let General, you and General Yan suspect, he poisoned his wine. However, he carried the antidote on his body, and for some reason, he poured it down before he could eat it. It is said that his personal soldiers thought he had drunk too much and gave him a lot of water. Hehe! The captain Dugu said that the more water he drank, the faster the poison would attack. The antidote was on him, but unfortunately he didn't have the strength to take it out, and he was so laughing to death."

When it comes to Dugu's death, Xue Bao feels relieved.

"Dugu Zhen also arranged an ambush outside the tent, intending to kill you and General Yan. Hehe, people are doing it, God is watching! He committed his own evil, but he poisoned himself to death? General, you don't know, Dugu Zhen was poisoned and shouted to ask his personal soldiers to kill you and General Yan. Many people heard it at that time. And those personal soldiers really dared to take action! At that time, General Yan thought that Dugu Zhen's personal soldiers mutiny and ran to save him, but the poisonous attack occurred General Yan fell. Dugu Zhen's personal soldiers wanted to kill General Yan. Fortunately, the captain Xiong Kuohai arrived with people and killed all the damn things!"

"Happy! Such scum should be killed!"

Xue Bao said with saliva flying.

"Yeah……"

Xue Wanche only felt very tired and didn't want to say a word anymore. Seeing that he was tired, Xue Bao hurriedly helped him lie down and said, "General, please rest for a while. I'll go find Captain Dugu. He told me before leaving, if you wake up, go and call him immediately."

“Go…”

Xue Wanche seemed to be weak and didn't want to speak. He nodded slowly and couldn't help but continue saying: "Look at General Yan... how is it."

Seeing that Xue Wanche was fine, Xue Bao smiled and nodded, "Okay! I'll go now."

After Xue Bao left the camp, Xue Wanche slowly closed his eyes. At this time, he felt as uncomfortable as if a big stone was blocked. Compared to the stuffiness in his heart, the pain in his throat, and the headache were nothing. He knew that Li Xian was definitely not a victim as Xue Bao said. However, Dugu died was indeed a fault and it was no wonder that Li Xian. He didn't know that the poison was actually caused by Li Xian, so he took it for granted. Since Dugu Zhen could hide an ambush and poison it in the wine, it was nothing.

But I didn't expect that the evil man would have his own evil man's consequences. God was watching him, and he actually got poisoned and had no antidote to take.

In order to kill Yan Yun and I, we ambushed the troops first and then poisoned them. The people in the Dugu family were indeed cruel and ruthless, and the guy in the Dugu family who was in charge of the Ministry of Justice was also a sinister and vicious person.

But, what is Dugu Zhen’s purpose?

Xue Wanche was in a bad mood because he found that the friendship between life and death became worthless in the face of power and merit. He could guess why Dugu Zhen did this, and he also came from a noble family. He knew what power and merit meant to a noble family. The Dugu family was a first-class family in the Sui Dynasty, and it was not comparable to their Xue family. Fortunately, this was the case, and there were fewer dirty things in the Xue family. Moreover, his brothers were very harmonious.

Dugu Zhen is certainly hateful, but death is not worth cherishing.

But... what about Yan Yun? Is Dugu really dead a chance? Obviously, Yan Yun transferred the heavy armored infantry from Xiongkuihai to Dugu Zhen's camp, and must be defending Dugu Zhen. Moreover, when he and Yan Yun came out, Yan Yun said, "I don't know if there is any urination in the art of war." Although this sentence sounds like a joke, when he thinks about it, Yan Yun seems to have a helpless tone.

He didn't plan to take the initiative!

Xue Wanche thought that if Yan Yun wanted to take the initiative, he could have transferred Xiong Kuohai to capture Dugu Zhen. He could even kill people while drinking. After all, Yan Yun knew that Dugu Zhen had an ambush outside the tent. He wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to leave, and because he was inconvenient to point it out, he would have pulled me away.

Xue Wanche opened his eyes and gently exhaled a breath of turbid air.

Yan Yun is still too soft-hearted. If such a person really has the will to rebel, will he succeed?

He thought of Dugu Zhen again. Dugu Zhen was cruel and ruthless, but in the end he died in front of Yan Yun, who seemed to be a woman's kindness. Is this God's will or is it inevitable? The Great Sui Dynasty has always claimed to establish the country with benevolence and filial piety, but can be loyal and filial piety be tenable? Which of the nobles in the Great Sui Dynasty court has any kindness, righteousness and virtue? Even Your Majesty... Thinking of this, Xue Wanche suddenly woke up, what's wrong with me, how could I have such a rebellious idea!

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Just as Xue Wanche was thinking about it, Li Xian was drinking in his military tent. This time he drank not poisonous wine or the kind of bad wine from Goguryeo. He was enjoying a very comfortable taste of a rare pot of Western Regions wine, which was unexpectedly discovered when he was fighting that fort. There was not much wine, only a small wooden barrel. When Wang Qinian found it, he keenly realized that this was a good opportunity to flatter, so he immediately sent it to Li Xian.

If Li Xian has the leisure to taste wine, it means he is fine and very good.

Of course he was poisoned, at least it seems like others. He didn't have any poison in his body, not because he took the medicine in advance, but because the poisoning was just a fraud. Li Xian would not taste the smell of poison himself in order to plot against Dugu Zhen. Even if he is a poison master now, even if he has a Dugu Ruizhi around him, he would not be so stupid that he could drink some poisonous wine. When it comes to his life safety, Li Xian has always been very brave.

Dugu Zhen was poisoned, Xue Wanche was poisoned, and he fell. Although he was not poisoned, it was natural in everyone's eyes that he was poisoned.

When Dugu Zhen arranged for someone to ambush, the flying tiger spy arranged by Li Xian in the dark had already discovered it. In fact, before Xue Wanche looked for Li Xian, Li Xian already knew what Dugu Zhen was going to do.

The reason why he went there was that way was because he really didn't want to attack Xue Wanche. Li Xian was a villain who would revenge and a gentleman who was grateful for his kindness. Xue Shixiong had helped him, and he always remembered it. Moreover, Xue Wanche had no intention of dealing with him from beginning to end. Besides, Li Xian planned to pull him into his camp.

"General, Dugu really didn't stay any of his personal soldiers, and they were killed."

Xiong Kuohai smiled and said, "I didn't expect that he would come to him by himself."

Li Xian smiled slightly, not saying anything.

Xiong Kuohai said just in the morning that the soldiers should be punished with some crimes, so that they would be farther away from the Sui Dynasty. Xiong Kuohai came up with the idea to kill Dugu Zhen. However, the plan was far different from Xiong Kuohai, and it did not have the effect of causing the soldiers to bear the crimes.

"General, Xue Bao is here, saying that General Xue is awake."

Wang Qinian walked in from outside and whispered.

Li Xian asked, "Have Dugu gone?"

Wang Qinian said: "The Dugu Captain has gone."

Li Xian stood up and said, "I'll go and have a look, too."

He walked out with a smile, looking calm.
Chapter completed!