After the Disabled God of War Became My Concubine Volume – Chapter 42

After the Disabled God of War Became My Concubine Chapter 42

Huo Wujiu didn’t know how Highness King Jing, who obviously got frustrated outside and came back alone drunk, had time to care about whether his legs hurt or not.

However, this person was lying softly in his arms. Jiang Suizhou’s eyes were lax, staring at Huo Wujiu drunkenly, which immediately softened the latter’s heart. It was as if Jiang Suizhou was gently poking on his soft spot.

It seemed that his scent had gotten him somewhat intoxicated too.

Huo Wujiu paused and whispered, “It doesn’t hurt anymore.”

Jiang Suizhou was still staring at him when he said, “But it’s raining outside.”

Huo Wujiu took a deep breath.

For the first time, he felt that a drunk person was difficult to deal with, but also for the first time, he felt that, while this man was clearly so difficult to manage, he was not annoying at all.

He patiently and slowly said, “So you got wet. Get up and go change your clothes.”

Jiang Suizhou paused before he said as an afterthought, “Oh…I got wet.”

With a casual push of his hand, he propped himself up on Huo Wujiu’s shoulder and struggled to stand up. But once drunk people lost their strength, it would be difficult to get that strength back, so he tried several times, all in vain.

Back and forth, it was akin to rubbing himself coquettishly in Huo Wujiu’s arms.

Huo Wujiu’s face gradually became a little ugly.

All of a sudden, Jiang Suizhou felt a hand holding his arm tightly, lifting him upwards and picking him straight up.

Then, the man carried him in just one hand, while his other hand rolled his wheelchair. Huo Wujiu supported him all the way. He brought Jiang Suizhou to the bedside, and with the one hand carrying him, pressed him to sit on the bed.

“Change your clothes first,” the man said.

Jiang Suizhou let him carry him all the way, only to feel a dizzy spell on his head. When he sat down in bed, he somehow couldn’t tell southeast from northwest.

But he was obedient. When he heard Huo Wujiu’s order, Jiang Suizhou clumsily peeled off his soaked outer robe and casually tossed it to the floor.

“I’m not that wet…” While stripping, he also muttered under his breath.

After completing that task, he had no more strength and leaned sickly to the side against the bedpost.

Seeing that Jiang Suizhou’s inner clothes were dry and he most likely wouldn’t catch a cold, Huo Wujiu didn’t force him anymore. He pressed the wheelchair under his hand to go back to his own couch.

But he heard Jiang Suizhou, who was leaning against the bed, sigh softly.

The sigh was very soft, but Huo Wujiu could hear the exhaustion and bewilderment Jiang Suizhou was trying to hide.

Huo Wujiu came to a stop, and the hand that was supposed to roll his wooden wheel also stopped in its place.

He turned his head sideways and looked at Jiang Suizhou.

Huo Wujiu saw Jiang Suizhou leaning sideways, his forehead against the bed frame. His eyes were drooping pensively, and he didn’t utter a single word.

The surroundings were quiet under the warmth of the lamp. Beautiful pearls and jades were everywhere. The man was clearly sitting in his territory, but he seemed to float in the void with no one to rely on.

“…What’s wrong?” Huo Wujiu, who had never been nosy, asked for some reason.

It took Jiang Suizhou a moment to realize that Huo Wujiu was talking to him.

He opened his eyes, and under the candle flames, those eyes were flooded with starry watery light.

“I’ve harmed someone.” Speaking of this, his voice choked a little. “He was framed because of me.”

Huo Wugou most likely knew who he was referring to. After all, he was also present when Meng Qianshan rushed in early this morning.

“It has nothing to do with you,” Huo Wujiu said.

Even though he had been in the military for many years, he knew that some innocent people would always be sacrificed in the struggle to frame each other at court. Even if some people were not sacrificed because of Jiang Suizhou, it would be very difficult for them to wisely protect their own hide.

Jiang Suizhou shook his head. “It’s my fault,” he said, “I must get him out.”

Speaking of which, a thought seemed to have occurred to him. His eyes blinked, and a tear suddenly rolled down from his eyes.

Huo Wujiu panicked for no reason, and his movements were rather cramped.

As the tear slid down, Huo Wujiu’s eyebrows wrinkled tightly. His hand on his knee was also clenched into a fist.

“If you want to save him, save him. Why are you crying?” Huo Wujiu said. After a pause, he added, “Is it because you don’t know how to save him?”

Although Huo Wujiu didn’t know much about Southern Jing’s imperial court, corruption cases had always been very flexible. After all, the flow of a sum of money had to go through many people’s hands. It was not too difficult to save a person who was originally slandered.

Jiang Suizhou, however, shook his head and raised his eyes to Huo Wujiu.

Jiang Suizhou didn’t seem to notice that he was crying. Now that he was looking tearfully at Huo Wujiu, he didn’t even wipe the teardrops from his face.

Such a gaze directed at Huo Wujiu made his chest a little tight. But for some reason, his heart became inexplicably active, one beat followed another, pounding especially fiercely. After staring at Huo Wujiu for a while, Jiang Suizhou sighed softly.

“Huo Wujiu, when will your leg heal?”

Huo Wujiu had no expression on his face, but his clenched jaw betrayed some emotions.

…When people got drunk, their speech would become incoherent.

One moment Jiang Suizhou said he was going to save an unrelated person, and the next he wanted to heal his legs. Now that this man was drunk, he acted as if he could manage all other people’s business under the heavens.

However, Huo Wujiu was not too bothered when Jiang Suizhou’s concern was on him.

He seemed to have gotten used to this silly rabbit’s stupid habit of putting him first in everything.

A moment of silence later, Huo Wujiu lifted his hand and stretched his rough knuckles to wipe off the tears hanging on Jiang Suizhou’s face, as if to wipe away those things that made him worried.

“It’s alright,” he said, “Sleep.”

The palanquin was remodeled with even more security than a prison wagon, as if he had the ability to grow wings and fly out.

Huo Wujiu had long been aware of how much he had terrified them in the past, and how much their abuse of him would now intensify.

As long as he was in enemy hands, the enemy’s fear would be transformed into a knife used to stab at him. Only when he reached the point where he was within a step from death’s door would they be relieved.

They were also right to do so. After all, as long as he still had a breath in him, then he, Huo Wujiu, would never sit around and wait for death.

But this Jingwang…

Huo Wujiu frowned.

He had never seen anyone like Jingwang. Jingwang was clearly afraid of him, and he had plenty of ways to dispose of him, and yet, he did nothing.

Huo Wujiu didn’t believe in the slightest that Jingwang was purely benevolent, but it seemed that he didn’t need to act on him yet.

Huo Wujiu closed his eyes.

He worked out a lot of the traps of his opponent as early as in the prison, preparing himself to defend against them. He knew there was bound to be a change, but he never thought…

The change he encountered was Jingwang himself.

Meng Qianshan, who was waiting at the door, was startled when he saw Jiang Suizhou pushing the door open by himself.

He looked at the sky and hurriedly greeted him saying, “Master, there’s still more than an hour before the grand court assembly. Why don’t you rest a bit more?”

Jiang Suizhou closed the door.

Grand Court Assembly? He knew that the Jing Dynasty didn’t practice a daily morning court session, but rather had one court session every five days, which was called the Grand Court Assembly.

It came as a surprise that the day after he came here, he would come across it.

He nodded his head and spoke gently, his voice a bit quiet, “I woke up early. It’s nothing.”

Meng Qianshan hastily answered, turned his head and ordered the servants to go to the King’s courtyard to prepare the meal, while he himself helped lead Jiang Suizhou out of the courtyard.

Jiang Suizhou hadn’t slept all night and was now dizzy and lightheaded, so he didn’t refuse and let Meng Qianshan help him.

Meng Qianshan carefully inspected him with a glance as they walked.

…Oh boy!

Dark blue eye bags, waxen face, unsteady gait; there was also a hidden exhaustion in the eyes.

Err…The Prince had quite an intense night, didn’t he?

Meng Qianshan took a look, then cautiously withdrew his gaze. But he couldn’t control himself, and looked back a second and third time.

He peeked too frequently that even Jiang Suizhou took notice.

Just as Jiang Suizhou boarded the palanquin parked at the gate of the courtyard, he found Meng Qianshan sneaking a peek at him again.

Jiang Suizhou couldn’t help but frown and asked, “What’s the matter?”

Meng Qianshan quickly withdrew his gaze and replied with a smile, “Nothing, nothing. I just wanted to ask Your Highness if there was anything you wanted to eat this morning.”

Jiang Suizhou shook his head. “Feel free to prepare whatever you wish.”

Meng Qianshan promptly responded, commanded the servants to carry the palanquin, and went in the direction of Anyin Hall.　　

Jiang Suizhou pondered for a moment and asked, “Meng Qingshan, have the arrangements been made for the courtyard where Huo Wuj…Madam Huo is moving to?”

Although his head was spinning, he still remembered his plans last night. The place where they slept last night was the ceremonial chamber used for wedding events in the royal residence. Today, Huo Wujiu was to move into his residence.

Since Jiang Suizhou had made up his mind not to provoke him, then Huo Wujiu must not be mistreated and lack these basic necessities.　　

Meng Qianshan was dumbfounded.

What? When did His Highness ask about such trivial matters in the residence?

Jiang Suizhou heard no response for a while, and when he turned his head sideways, he saw Meng Qianshan staring at him dumbfounded.

“Meng Qianshan,” he prompted.

Meng Qingshan answered, “Your Highness, don’t worry. I arranged it ages ago!”

Jiang Suizhou paused and then said, “He seems to be badly injured. Ask someone to examine him later.”

Good lord, I can’t believe I have to find a doctor for someone else.

Meng Qianshan nodded repeatedly, “I’ll go find a doctor later to take a look at Madam Huo.”

Jiang Suizhou grunted and said, “Serve him snacks.”

After saying that, he withdrew his gaze, closed his eyes and supported his head with one arm as he took a nap.

He did not notice that Meng Qianshan, who was following beside him, had long been stunned silly by his command.

He was already screaming deep inside.

He was sent to serve the Prince since he was ten years old and had been with him for many years, but when had he ever seen him ask after these matters?!

It was not that there were no other ladies in the mansion, but even if they were favored, he had never seen such care for them from his master!

He did not forget that when the Prince arrived last night, he was as cold as frost with anger. He threw the veil down and drank the wedding cup alone yesterday. Just looking into his eyes sent cold sweat down Meng Qianahan’s spine.

But in just one night, h-he actually began to care about the Madam inside!

What else could let people change their attitude so quickly? He knew these things even if he was just a eunuch.

But come to think of it…

The Prince’s appearance of overindulgence and excessive lust today showed him a glimpse or two of the methods used by the Madam inside.

Thinking of this, Meng Qianshan couldn’t help but sigh.

Unexpectedly…unexpectedly, that cripple had such skills!