Chapter 872: The Clouds Are Cleared (Part )

"Xunzhen, are you crazy?"

In another guest room, Abaolu watched Xunzhen ignore his repeated dissuasion and insist on cutting her wrist with a knife, letting her blood flow into the bowls prepared by Pan Yuyin. In less than an incense stick of time, her blood had filled two large bowls.

When the grateful Pan Yuyin was bandaging her wound, Xunzhen's face turned pale, and she was not as energetic as before, with a hint of fatigue appearing between her brows.

Seeing this, Abaolu, who was both nervous and worried, could no longer suppress his anxiety. He urged Pan Yuyin to stop Xunzhen's bleeding quickly, while complaining: "To save a little Liu Xunyi, you didn't even care about your own body? If something goes wrong, how can I explain to the King of Shao Qin when I go back?"

"Don't worry, I'm just a little sleepy." Xunzhen twisted his wrist nonchalantly and asked Pan Yuyin, who was in tears, "Is that enough?"

"That's enough! That's enough!"

Pan Yuyin was touched and distressed by Xunzhen's generosity, and was secretly surprised. After all, in her memory, although Liu Xunyi and Xunzhen had a friendship, it would never reach the point of risking one's life to save someone.

Although Xunzhen kept saying "we should try our best", Pan Yuyin, also a woman, vaguely felt that something unusual was going on.

This kind of "silent dedication" to Liu Xunyi seemed familiar to Pan Yuyin. After thinking about it for a while, she suddenly realized that she seemed to have had similar feelings when she accepted Zhao Xin's entrustment.

Thinking of this, Pan Yuyin's eyes turned more complicated when she looked at Xunzhen, and her mood became more and more confused.

"This time, Brother Liu was able to come back to life, all thanks to Miss Xunzhen..."

"The credit is useless!" Abaolu interrupted without any hesitation, "If this method causes the slightest damage to Xunzhen's body, I will kill Liu Xunyi with a single blow even if he survives. And you, you will also die..."

"shut up!"

Seeing Pan Yuyin's panic, Xunzhen's face darkened and he hurriedly shouted, "Stop talking nonsense. If you scare Miss Pan, I will hold you accountable!"

After saying this, Xunzhen's expression relaxed, and he walked up to the anxious Pan Yuyin and comforted her kindly: "Abaolu is a rough man, and he always speaks without restraint. Miss Pan, please don't bother with him. Please quickly 'inject blood and cleanse the marrow' for Liu Xunyi, and make sure to save his life."

"Don't worry, Miss Xunzhen. Brother Liu is a lucky man and will definitely be able to overcome the danger. You should have a good rest. I will make you a bowl of blood-replenishing soup later to help you recover your vitality."

After saying that, Pan Yuyin bowed to Xunzhen, who was smiling, and Abaolu, who was indignant, and then carefully picked up the blood bowl and tiptoed out of the guest room.

"close the door!"

After Pan Yuyin left, Xunzhen couldn't wait to urge Abaolu to close the door.

"boom!"

With a slight sound, Xunzhen, who had been trying to remain calm, could no longer resist the dizziness and staggered onto the bed.

"Xunzhen!"

Abaolu was horrified and rushed forward, trying to help, but the depressed Xunzhen waved his hand to refuse.

"How are you? Where do you feel uncomfortable?" Abaolu looked at Xunzhen who was slowly getting up with nervous eyes, and asked him questions in a barrage of questions, "Did you lose too much blood and damage your vitality? Did Pan Yuyin lie to us? Is it..."

"Don't talk nonsense!" Xunzhen shook his head impatiently, "I'm just a little weak, nothing serious. Don't make a fuss and want to cause chaos. I don't want outsiders to know."

"Xunzhen, what's wrong with you?" Looking at Xunzhen's white forehead covered with fine beads of sweat, and then seeing her weak and powerless appearance, Abaolu couldn't help but get furious, "It's just Liu Xunyi, why are you fighting so hard? If you die, you die. At worst, we can find another puppet. In any case, you shouldn't take risks. You just did that to him... to him, and that's fine, but now you are using your own blood to heal his wounds. It's simply... it's simply unreasonable!"

Looking at the furious Abaolu, Xunzhen was not angry. Instead, he explained in a friendly manner: "Do you know how important Liu Xunyi is to us..."

"How important is it?" Abaolu asked angrily, "I have raised questions countless times on our way south, but you always brushed them off. Now there are no outsiders around, you must give me a reasonable explanation, otherwise I will chop off Liu Xunyi's head right now to save us from taking risks for him again and again."

"How dare you!" Xunzhen glared at me angrily, "Abaolu, you are becoming more and more unruly!"

"I..." Abaolu knew he was in the wrong, so he didn't dare to look Xunzhen in the eye, and stammered in defense, "I just can't understand... Liu Xunyi is obviously the root of trouble, and everyone in the world wants to avoid him. Why do you and the young Qin King treat him as a treasure? In terms of martial arts, wisdom, wealth, and background... Liu Xunyi is not the best in the world. Instead, he makes enemies everywhere and causes trouble every day. What is so outstanding about such a person that is worthy of you and the young Qin King's high hopes?"

"The young king of Qin had a good reason to take a fancy to him..."

"Reason?" Abaolu asked unwillingly, "I really can't think of any reason that could make you disregard your own life? In the past, Luo Tianjin was at least the 'Northern Sage King' who was feared by the world. He had money, people, martial arts, and scheming... But what about Liu Xunyi? What is there about him that is worthy of your respect? Are you after the blood debt he owes you? Or are you after his stupidity that doesn't know the current situation?" "It seems that if I don't give you a satisfactory answer today, you won't let it go?"

"Yes!" A nameless anger that had been suppressed for a long time was pressing against Abaolu's chest, making him unable to swallow his anger any longer, so he blurted out without thinking, "We ventured into the Central Plains, worried all day long, and narrowly escaped death. We can't always be confused. If Liu Xunyi is really as capable as you said, I can turn a blind eye to what happened today. But if Liu Xunyi has no real talent and does not have the potential to help the Liao Dynasty restore its country, and protecting him is just out of your selfishness, then I... dare not agree!"

"How outrageous!" Abaolu's bold words made Xunzhen furious. "What do you mean by 'out of selfish motives'?"

"You...you know it clearly in your heart..."

"I don't know!" Xunzhen suppressed his mental fatigue and spoke harshly to Abaolu, "What selfish motive do I have towards Liu Xunyi? I saved him because he is useful to the young king of Qin..."

"What use can a lonely man on the run be to the Young Prince of Qin?" Abaolu laughed in anger, and spoke more and more excitedly, "In the final analysis, it is because you have experienced life and death together in the Xianwang Mansion, which made you gradually fall in love with him without realizing it..."

"Snapped!"

Xunzhen, unable to bear it any longer, suddenly raised his hand and slapped Abaolu hard in the face, catching him off guard and making him see stars and stop talking abruptly.

Xunzhen said angrily, "You mean I'm using my power for personal gain?"

"I……"

Abaolu, who had suddenly come to his senses, was filled with remorse. He knew that Xunzhen had always worked hard for the cause of Prince Shao Qin and had never had any selfish motives. But now he rashly accused her of being partial to Liu Xunyi without any evidence, which was undoubtedly an insult.

"Xunzhen, I just said something out of turn, please don't..."

"Forget it!" Xunzhen waved his hand to interrupt Abaolu, who was full of shame on his face, and then took a deep breath, as if trying to calm himself down, and said expressionlessly, "Since you are so persistent in asking, I will just tell you the truth. But you must promise me that you will never leak a single word of this to anyone else."

"I swear!" Abaolu said with a serious expression and raised his hand to swear.

"In fact, it was not me who recommended Liu Xunyi to the Young King of Qin. On the contrary, it was the Young King of Qin who took the initiative to order us to protect him at all costs."

"What?" Abaolu looked at Xunzhen in disbelief, and asked in astonishment, "Why did the young king of Qin..."

"You said it well just now." Xunzhen said calmly, "You said 'Liu Xunyi is not the best in the world in terms of martial arts, wisdom, wealth, background...' In fact, I used to think the same as you, that Liu Xunyi was a lonely person with no use value at all. But we were wrong, and we were very wrong!"

"This……"

"Not long ago, Prince Shao Qin received a secret letter."

"Secret letter?" Abaolu was startled. "What secret letter?"

"A secret letter sent from Luoyang." Xunzhen's eyes sparkled as he spoke word by word, "It was written by Xie Xuan... with his own blood. Because of this letter, King Ling Shaoqin focused his attention on Liu Xunyi for the first time. Also because of this letter, King Ling Shaoqin chose Liu Xunyi to replace Luo Tianjin and become our new ally in the Central Plains."

"In the letter..." Abaolu gradually heard a clue, swallowed subconsciously, and asked cautiously, "What is the content of the letter?"

"Xie Xuan asked for help from the Young King of Qin in his letter," Xunzhen said quietly. "He said that there was no one else around him he could trust, so he could only risk his last hope on us. He hoped that the Young King of Qin would help him because of their past friendship with Luo Tianjin, and he promised that after the matter was accomplished, he would do his best to continue the unfinished business between the Young King of Qin and Luo Tianjin."

"Help?" Abaolu looked at Xunzhen thoughtfully, "Is Xie Xuan in danger?"

"No! Xie Xuan is not asking for help for himself, but... for Liu Xunyi!"

"Wait!" The confused Abaolu became more and more confused as he listened, his eyes becoming more and more bewildered, "Liu Xunyi killed Luo Tianjin and forged an irreconcilable feud with the Xianwang Mansion. Xie Xuan should regard him as a mortal enemy and would want to chop him into pieces and scatter his bones to ashes. How could he... ask for help for him?"

"If it's a mortal enemy, then we'll never reconcile. But if it's the young master, then..."

"Young Master?" Abaolu's face suddenly changed. "What do you mean?"

"In fact, Liu Xunyi is Luo Tianjin's illegitimate son who was left behind. He is Luo's family's... own flesh and blood."

……

(End of this chapter)