In front of the North Gate

Chapter 12

"Boss Lou? What's the matter?"

"The sun is about to bask your ass, and the door is still closed here!" Du Juan shouted, "Don't worry, our servants have to do the work!"

Lou Huaiyu frowned.

He tried to support himself, wanting to respond, but when he opened his mouth, he found that his throat was burning and hurting badly, and his arms were also very soft, and he couldn't support his body and fell back on the bed.

Du Juan paused for a few seconds, then shouted: "Boss Lou?!"

Lou Huaiyu closed her eyes in pain.

Du Juan complained a few more words about not knowing the hard work of the servant, and continued to knock on the door.

Shi Jichang also frowned deeply, looked at him with his head down for a while, and finally reached out to take the towel amidst the continuous urging sounds from outside, and hung it back to its original position.

After a few more minutes, Du Juan's shouting finally stopped, and she seemed to finally realize that something was wrong, her tone became better, and she said to herself at the door: "Is there anything wrong?"

Shi Jichang went somewhere, and Lou Huaiyu lost the towel to cool down, and his head became more dizzy.

Lying on the bed, he only felt half asleep and half awake, as if he was about to fall back into that absurd and painful dream again.

After a while, there was a loud sound of wood breaking outside the door, which made Lou Huaiyu's heart tremble.

Then, the door was opened, and light and wind broke in together.

Yamaguchi walked in a hurry, followed by a group of soldiers, and walked into the room like the wind.

Lou Huaiyu listened in a daze, and the sound of rummaging through boxes and cabinets began to be heard in the room.

Lou Huaiyu's mind and body were extremely uncomfortable, his mind couldn't move, and he felt very flustered, tears flowed down unconsciously, saltier and hotter than usual.

He struggled to lift his neck to make sure that Shi Jichang was still hiding behind the bed he usually slept in, but that piece was too dark, and there was a black hole behind the carvings, so he couldn't see anything clearly.

Shankou came to his bed, saw the tears on Lou Huaiyu's face, the expression on his face paused, but stopped first, and touched his face.

But several soldiers behind him had already circled Lou Huaiyu's bed to check.

"Are you sick?" Yamaguchi asked gently while wiping his tears for him, and looked around the bed seriously.

Lou Huaiyu's heart sank when he saw someone checking the back of the bed, and he didn't even bother to answer the questions. He stared at the thin Japanese soldier walking behind the bed.

The soldier was tall, about the same as Shi Jichang, and a little thinner than him, as if it was easier to walk into the darkness he was familiar with.

For a few seconds, Lou Huaiyu felt that his brain was congested, he lost his breath, and even had tinnitus.

He uncontrollably imagined what Shi Jichang would look like when he was captured, would he be beaten or shot?

The bloody picture also squeezed into Lou Huaiyu's thinking effortlessly while he was weak.Lou Huaiyu didn't even have the heart to think about herself, for a moment she didn't know whether she was more flustered or more heartbroken.

Fortunately, the next second, the tall and thin soldier came out again with no expression on his face.

He said something in Japanese to Yamaguchi, then shook his head, probably meaning no one.

Lou Huaiyu breathed out slowly, choked herself, and coughed uncontrollably.

His throat was sore and itchy, the more it hurt, the more he wanted to stop, the more he wanted to stop but he coughed harder, his face flushed from choking for a moment, he turned sideways and retched.

Shankou waved his hands and told the soldiers to leave the inner room first, and sat down on the bedside to comfort Lou Huaiyu, frowning deeply: "Why are you suddenly so sick?"

Lou Huaiyu waved his hands while coughing, and heard Shankou say: "Don't build any snowmen in the future."

Lou Huaiyu responded with difficulty, and when he really stopped coughing, the house was almost searched.

A group of well-trained people came in, and all the well-trained people retreated, leaving only the leader, the tall and thin soldier who had just come in to look around the bed.

Lou Huaiyu heard him say a few more words in Japanese.

Yamaguchi nodded in response, the two exchanged a few words, Yamaguchi waved to him, and he went out first.

Shankou himself didn't stay too long, he tucked Ye Lou Huaiyu's quilt, and said to him, "I have something very important to do today, I have to go out first."

Lou Huaiyu nodded, and Shankou patted his head again: "I have sent someone to find a doctor, and he will come soon."

The doctor came very quickly.

As soon as Shankou went out, Xiaodong led the people.

Lou Huaiyu himself was so confused that he didn't remember what he did. He only knew that a cold towel was put on his head after a while, and the pillow was padded up.

Xiaodong seemed to see off the guest, and came back to put down the hot breakfast for him.

Afterwards, the noisy sounds in the room gradually disappeared, only outside the yard, there were still loud shouts that he couldn't understand from time to time.

Lou Huaiyu felt uncomfortable all over, dizzy and light-headed, but couldn't fall asleep anyway, lying stiffly, as if unable to sense the passage of time.

Until Xiaodong came to deliver the meal again, and said sadly at the table: "Eat something, it will be better if you don't eat."

Only then did Lou Huaiyu realize that it had been so long.

He tried to sit up with some difficulty, but Xiaodong still had eyesight and came over to help him.

Lou Huaiyu leaned weakly on the bed, looking around the messy room.

Xiaodong brought him a bowl of hot porridge: "Boss Lou? Have some."

He saw what Lou Huaiyu meant: "How about I collect it for you..."

"No." Lou Huaiyu replied weakly.

He still had a sore throat, it was difficult to speak, and he had no strength. He could barely hold a small bowl of porridge, so he put it on his knees, raised his head and nodded at Xiaodong.

Xiaodong understood what he meant, bent over and left.

Lou Huaiyu didn't have much appetite either. He held the wall of the bowl and stared blankly at Xiaodong helping the messy seat, and then couldn't help but look where there was room for people to hide.

Wardrobe, bed, chairs... There are few furnishings in Lou Huaiyu's room, and there seems to be no room for a man as big as Shi Jichang.

"Shi Jichang." After a while, he called softly.

They haven't been together for a long time, but they are inseparable every day, sharing the same bed, and Lou Huaiyu hasn't called his name a few times.

"Shi Jichang." Lou Huaiyu shouted again, "You can come out now."

He had a sore throat, and he didn't dare to shout loudly. By the third time, he was already a little hoarse and choked with a premonition.

Lou Huaiyu took a deep breath and forced herself to get up from the bed.

The closet was also messed up, the things in it fell all over the floor, and the paper, pens and books were gone.

Lou Huaiyu looked at the closet quietly for a while, then slowly turned around, squatting down by the dining table with his last hope.

There was an inconspicuous corner missing on the floor beside the dining table, which was accidentally removed by Lou Huaiyu in a panic when he was saving Shi Jichang.

He carefully lifted the whole board along the gap.

The light in the house shines into the ground along the gap, and the inside is empty, with nothing in it.

Lou Huaiyu suddenly let out a small "woo", the board fell back to the ground with a soft sound, and Lou Huaiyu also fell to the ground, feeling an uncontrollable soreness in the corner of his eyes.

Probably sick people are always more vulnerable, Lou Huaiyu couldn't help but whispered: "Shi Jichang."

Didn't you say you were going to take me out?Lou Huaiyu thought, why did he just leave?

He remembered the conversation yesterday, and felt regret and puzzlement, sadness and despair at the same time.Yes, it was Lou Huaiyu who was overconfident and delusional, it was him who made people angry and annoying, and made Shi Jichang feel sick.

He knew he was wrong, and he won't do it in the future... But didn't Shi Jichang still say he would take him away? Why did he just fall asleep and break his promise?

"Why don't you keep your word?" Lou Huaiyu cried and scolded in a low voice, tears streaming down his face, it was cold and bitter, but he didn't even have the strength to wipe it off.

When Du Juan came in with the soup, Lou Huaiyu was already paralyzed on the floor.

Lou Huaiyu was pale, her face was bloodless due to illness, and she lay quietly on the ground without any movement.

Du Juan immediately turned pale with fright, yelled several times, pushed and called him: "Boss Lou?!"

Du Juan is from the countryside and has great strength. Although his mouth is poisonous to Lou Huaiyu and he doesn't think much of a man who has become a concubine, his heart is still kind. The man picked it up and moved it back to the bed.

Lou Huaiyu woke up from the shaking, glanced weakly, and heard Du Juan shouting loudly: "I'm going to die, I'm going to die, get out of bed with a fever, do you want to die?"

Lou Huaiyu felt that his eye sockets were very hot, and before he even opened his mouth, tears came down first.

Du Juan was taken aback by his crying, and glanced at him, closing his poisonous mouth, and put the two bowls of soup and medicine aside, and said: "It's just boiled in the kitchen, the deep bowl is for wound medicine, and the shallow one is for healing." It's cold, the doctor said don't rush it, you can drink it while it's hot."

Lou Huaiyu didn't have the strength to respond to her.

Du Juan wanted to speak but stopped several times, and finally shut up.

Maybe it's because Lou Huaiyu is really pitiful today, and he went to help fold Lou Huaiyu's clothes that fell on the ground.

Outside the room, after a while, there were several loud Japanese voices, which sounded like scolding, followed by screams and begging for mercy from the servants.

Du Juan sighed: "Sin."

As she started, she said, "Did you know that last time you mobilized people to look for people everywhere?"

Du Juan turned to look at Lou Huaiyu, and continued on his own: "I heard that the man has been hiding in the compound for so long, and ran away with that Lan'er today."

Lou Huaiyu was stunned for a moment, then turned to look at her.

"Just that Lan'er, the one that Shankou just found a while ago, Third Aunt, I really can't tell." Du Juan saw that he had some reactions, and said more vigorously, "Who would have thought that such a girl can run faster than that one?" …The one who was wanted before, what was the name of the wanted one.”

Lou Huaiyu thought in his heart: Shi Jichang.

"Ah yes, Shi Jichang." Du Juan patted his thigh, "It's even stronger than that Shi Jichang. The person who was knocked out by them just woke up, and they all ran away."

Du Juan stuffed the folded clothes in: "I heard that Lan'er came in to save him on purpose, but there was a girl in her room who said she had never seen a third person before, and she didn't know how she hid it like that old."

Lou Huaiyu lowered her head again, stared at the bed, and blinked slowly twice.

He understood every word Du Juan said, but he couldn't seem to understand the concatenation of the words.

He didn't understand why the person who said he wanted to take him away left with someone else, and he didn't understand why there was a person who was there to support him, but he still came to give him hope in vain.

Lou Huaiyu's nose was so sore, he was dizzy, and he didn't have any thinking ability. His whole body was sluggish, and he couldn't control it, allowing the sadness and grievance to spread.

Are you just using him?

Because it is inconvenient for Lan'er to have a maid, is it easy to cheat if you spot him?

…so where does it begin to be a hoax?

It started when we watched the snow together, it started when we taught him to write, or it started at all?

Du Juan reminded him: "Drink the medicine quickly."

Lou Huaiyu responded blankly, but didn't move.

Du Juan couldn't see it, so he came over and picked it up and stuffed it into his hand: "Do you want me to feed you?"

Du Juan took the dark bowl, the medicine was still hot, and the heat spread to the palm of the hand through the bowl wall, reminding Lou Huaiyu that this was not a dream.

The noise outside the door finally stopped.

Du Juan sighed, he lost his usual cursing arrogance, and finally became like a servant living in the compound.She whispered: "When will this ghostly day be the head?"

Lou Huaiyu raised his head and drank the medicine.

This medicine has always entered Shi Jichang's mouth, it was the first time for Lou Huaiyu to drink it, and only then did he realize that it was so bitter.