How can I bow my head and serve the powerful officials?

Chapter 278: The result of shortening one's lifespan, the strongest assistant's recklessne

Well, how can that be considered messing around?

He had obviously thought about it seriously.

Of course, it is not ruled out that the anxiety and irritability caused by withdrawal reactions inevitably prompted him to decide to go all out.

"But, God is on my side." The young man smiled triumphantly, but he couldn't help but gasp because of the pain of his broken ribs.

The crisis was over, and the pain that had been temporarily ignored due to the tense emotions could not wait to surface, causing the young man to start speaking incoherently.

"Shen, Shen Yuan..."

He blinked, "My back hurts."

"Yes, I know." Shen Yuan closed his eyes and held back the moisture in his eyes. He wanted to hug the limp young man tightly, but he was afraid of aggravating his injuries. He stroked the back of Xie Chengze's head and said gently, "Don't move. The doctor will be here soon."

Xie Chengze stayed there obediently without moving. He leaned his head on Shen Yuan's shoulder, and his eyelids gradually became heavy.

"Shen Yuan, I want to sleep."

"Okay, go to sleep." The man said in a hoarse voice, "The pain will go away when you fall asleep."

Xie Chengze closed his eyes with relief.

Zhu Xiaobiao rushed over with a doctor. The doctor quickly checked Xie Chengze's physical condition, felt his pulse, and then couldn't help sighing, "Who would be so cruel!"

Zhu Xiaobiao asked nervously, "Doctor, how is my son?"

Hu Lai also looked at the doctor nervously.

"There is no danger to his life." The doctor first reassured them, then shook his head and sighed, "But this young man's physical foundation is too poor. He must have been unable to rest for a long time, and he is exhausted and mentally tired. But has he been buried in books and trivial matters for a long time during the day and night?"

Zhu Xiaobiao couldn't help but look at Shen Yuan and Hu Lai. Hu Lai nodded and said quickly, "Our young master was indeed a little too studious in the past."

After all, the Second Prince in the past had to go to court even with a lame leg, and he was even busier at night.

"Not only that, this young master has also been worrying too much for a long time, and his liver qi cannot be released, so it is stagnant inside, affecting the spleen, causing the transportation and transformation to be disrupted. The fine food he eats cannot be transformed into qi and blood, and the whole body has no source of nourishment."

The doctor sighed, "But he should have been well cared for, and his life span would not be affected. But he seems to have been on a diet recently, which has caused his spleen and stomach to be weak. His pulse is weak and stringy, and it is intermittent. It is obvious that he is suffering from a great deficiency of Qi and blood."

"Now that I have contracted this addiction, my vitality has been greatly damaged, affecting my internal organs. My liver pulse is tight, my wood energy is stagnant, and my spleen and stomach are also affected. I have difficulty swallowing food, and even if I force myself to swallow, I will vomit immediately. I am unable to transport and transform food, and the essence of water and grain cannot be transformed."

"Plus, I was hit by the internal force, and my internal organs were damaged. If it weren't for this, maybe..."

Hu Lai was getting a little impatient, "Can you please get to the point?"

The doctor was startled by the shouting and said quickly, "I'm afraid you will have to take medicine all the time in the future. Although your life is not in danger, it may also shorten your life span."

He paused, shook his head repeatedly, and sighed, "Young Master, I'm afraid you'll have to shorten your life by ten years."

After he finished speaking, Zhu Xiaobiao on the side couldn't help but open his mouth, wanting to say something but not knowing what to say. In the end, he could only lower his head dejectedly, with tears in his eyes. He couldn't help but turn his head away and raise his sleeves to wipe away the tears.

His Highness...why is his life so miserable?

Shen Yuan's lips trembled slightly, and he clenched his fists tightly, wishing he could kill Sheng Shihuai again.

"Prescribe some medicine." His voice was hoarse, and his chest felt stuffy. "His ribs are broken, and he needs painkillers. Hu Lai, go find a stretcher."

Hu Lai quickly got up and went to find a stretcher.

The doctor hurriedly wrote the prescription and warned Shen Yuan, who was full of worry, "Sir, please do not make the patient worry anymore. Although this young man has been weak since his mother's womb, he will die of old age as long as he is not overly abused. The reason why his body is now in a state of decline is that the long-term unrelieved depression and tension are the crux of his body collapse. If he is still so willful in the future, it will not only cost him ten years of life."

Shen Yuan's fingertips trembled.

With Xie Chengze's original physical condition, living to sixty was already a long life. If he lost ten years of his life, he would be fifty.

If you continue to be willful...

Doesn't that mean he can only live for another twenty years?

When Shen Yuan thought of the young man with bright and handsome eyes and eyebrows, who would be lying on a sickbed in the prime of his life, becoming a pile of yellow earth buried forever in the ground, never to see the light of day, he couldn't stop feeling heartache and regret.

He is such a waste.

He didn't even realize that Sheng Shihuai had a substitute, nor did he arrive in Zhuolu County in time, which resulted in him being poisoned by Sheng Shihuai. He was even more self-righteous and thought that the young man was smart and valued his life, and would never risk his life to poison Sheng Shihuai with the Qiankun Yin-Yang Pot.

He bribed the yamen runners to deliver the wine jug to the county government office, wanting to tell him: He is coming, don't be afraid.

Rather than letting him take risks.

Where on earth did he get the courage to face Sheng Shihuai, who could kill him easily, and poison him when he had no martial arts skills at all?

If Hu Lai hadn't learned that Xie Chengze had been poisoned with incense, and concluded that drug addiction would make people lose their usual rationality and judgment, he would have been worried and decided not to wait for Xie Jinyu and the troops he arranged, and to charge in directly...

Shen Yuan didn't even dare to think about whether he would be holding a cold corpse if the palm strike just now had landed on Xie Chengze's chest.

Shen Yuan couldn't help but feel the pain in his heart. He raised his hand to brush away the strands of hair on the young man's pale cheek and gently held up his soft cheek which had become much thinner. He wanted to say something harsh but couldn't. He could only use his inner strength to relax the young man's tendons and reduce the pain in his body so that he could sleep more peacefully.

He... was really scared to death just now.

I was afraid that I had protected everyone in this life, except him.

At that moment, Shen Yuan knew that he had been completely defeated by the young man.

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Hu Lai found a stretcher and carefully carried the unconscious Xie Chengze into the house. He then asked Zhu Xiaobiao to follow the doctor to boil the medicine and watch over the medicine pot with all his heart to prevent any remnants of Sheng Shihuai from poisoning him.

He took advantage of Shen Yuan's rage to massacre the remaining followers of the yamen and ran back to the place where he was tied up and imprisoned by Sheng Shihuai. He took the antidote bought from the doctor and fed it to the unconscious Wuhen and Wuji.

Fortunately, Sheng Shihuai thought he was an ordinary person with no internal strength and did not take him seriously at all, so he did not feed him with knockout drugs, but just tied him up in the woodshed.

Therefore, he used his eloquent tongue to successfully get acquainted with the guard, bribed the guard with the small gold cakes he kept close to him to go to the toilet with him, and then pushed the guard into the pit with lightning speed, and escaped from the remote courtyard, crawling and rolling.

Then he was lucky enough to meet Shen Yuan who had just arrived in Zhuolu County.

He guessed that His Highness was trapped in the county government office by Sheng Shihuai. Sure enough, Lord Shen secretly bribed the servants in the county government office and inquired whether His Highness was safe. He learned from the servants that His Highness had been poisoned with incense.

When Hu Lai learned that Shen Yuan had slipped the Qiankun Yin-Yang Pot in, he knew he was doomed.

Given His Highness's hatred of drugs, what if he gets addicted to drugs and has a brain attack, and actually poisons Sheng Shihuai?

So he quickly persuaded Shen Yuan to rush into the county government office.

Even though he knew that without Wuhen and Wuji's cooperation, Shen Yuan, whose old wounds had not yet healed, would not be able to kill Sheng Shihuai, and might even be killed in return, but for Hu Lai, Shen Yuan's life was not important, His Highness' life was more important.

The Second Prince was the most generous and kind employer he had ever met.

He absolutely couldn't let anything happen to him!

As expected, his Highness really poisoned Sheng Shihuai. He obviously cared about Zhu Xiaobiao's life and didn't want others to enter the county government office and take the risk of poisoning him, but he himself ignored the danger to his life and poisoned Sheng Shihuai headlong.

His Highness is so incredibly stupid.