Feng Yu Jiu Tian - Volume 7 - Chapter 9

CHAPTER 9

Empress Dowager ordered someone to come and call for the physician to see Feng Ming. The servants helped Feng Ming up and slowly Feng Ming regained consciousness.

FM: What happened?

ED: You suddenly fainted; does your chest still hurt? How do you feel right now?

FM: Ah, I remember. It must be because I stood up suddenly and I had a drop in blood pressure (orthostatic hypotension), it’s fairly normal. ED: Even so, let’s have the physician take a closer look.

Thinking about having his pulse taken and then having to take the bitter medication, Feng Ming forcefully objected.

FM: Let’s not have the physician check. Just a bit of rest and some food are enough. That’s right, it must be because I haven’t ate anything therefore my blood pressure is low.

Feng Ming eagerly tried to sit up, but everyone quickly stopped him, “No.”

One of the servants quickly pushed Feng Ming down and ordered the others: “Hurry and check if the physician has come yet.”

One of the female attendants from outside came to report: “The Advisor has arrived.”

Just then, Lu Dan appeared at the entrance of the room, nodded at Empress Dowager to greet her, quickly walked towards the bed, and examined Feng Ming’s pulse.

Everyone knew that Lu Dan was a medical expert so they excused themselves. Feng Ming saw the serious look on his face and didn't dare to swarm.

FM: Hopefully the prescription Advisor write won’t be hard to swallow.

Lu Dan focused hard on taking Feng Ming’s pulse and then let his wrist go, he smiled at Feng Ming.

LD: Nothing to worry, no need to drink medication. This matter just let Lu Dan take care of it, Duke Ming just take a good rest.

Feng Ming heard Lu Dan’s reply and felt there was a hidden message, he felt worried and quickly grabbed onto Lu Dan’s hand.

FM: Advisor must never ever do anything crazy.

LD: Don’t worry Duke Ming. Things that are not beneficial, Lu Dan will never do them. You just need to take a good rest.

Not taking notice of Feng Ming’s complicated gaze, Lu Dan stood up and took a bow at Empress Dowager.

LD: These two days, there are many matters to take care of, I couldn’t entertain Master Sun, please forgive me.

ED: (smiled) Don’t mention it, Advisor. Thank you Advisor for looking after my disciple.

LD: Please don’t say that. Master is also an expert in medicine, but when Lu Dan heard that

Duke Ming became ill, I completely forgot about it and as a result, embarrass myself in front of you. Since there’s nothing wrong with Duke Ming’s body, Lu Dan still have other things to take care of and can’t stay long, if there’s any free time, I will come by to entertain Master.

Lu Dan bid farewell to Feng Ming and left.

Seeing that Feng Ming’s condition was a bit better, Empress Dowager felt relieved.

ED: Next time, don’t be like that, you gave me quite a shock.

FM: Next time, I’ll sit for a longer time and slowly stand up or else if I scare Master into fainting, what shall we do then?

But in Feng Ming’s mind, he wondered if what Lu Dan said about his (FM) health condition weakening is true.

Feng Ming decided to switch topic and told Empress Dowager that he’ll be going outside to eat dinner and wishes her a good sleep.

Feng Ming ate dinner and his servant requested him to take a bath afterwards and sleep early.

Feng Ming thought about all the things that happened today and found that he had not waste a single minute. In the morning, he find out that Empress Dowager wanted to accept another disciple, afterwards discussed training method with Jun Ting, the second secret message from Rong Tian arrived, Empress Dowager told them where the ambush was, the ambush was discovered and suspicion of a spy. The traitor was Lin Yin, someone who Jun Ting loved. Besides that, there was Lu Dan who worried about his fate.

Today was definitely a long day.

Lying on the soft and warm bed, Feng Ming quickly went into a beautiful sleep.

Late in the night, Chang Yen came by to see Feng Ming, but after hearing about his illness, he decided that if Feng Ming does not wake up after the servant call for him then they don’t need to wake him up. The servant tried to call for Feng Ming to wake up, but he was in a deep sleep. After reporting to Chang Yen, he decided not to bother Feng Ming and tell the servant that if Feng Ming wakes up tomorrow, tell him to come to the military meeting hall.

That night, Feng Ming had a very good dream, he dreamt of Rong Tian embracing him and they were both at the Crown Prince’s quarters.

Feng Ming woke up the next day, close to the afternoon. The servant told him that late last night, Chang Yen came by to look for him.

FM: (surprised) Does he have something urgent to come by that late? How come you didn’t wake me up? Ah, you also need to ask him what it’s about.

The servant told him: “I didn’t ask. General Chang Yen came by late at night; I highly suspect that it’s about military affairs. Regarding military affairs, I don’t dare to ask.”

After dressing up, Feng Ming went to see Empress Dowager.

FM: Your disciple believes that he should go over to the military meeting hall to see what’s going on.

ED: I believe that it’s just regular military affairs, if not then General Chang Yen would have waken you up. Anyways, go ahead and check, don’t worry too much.

Empress Dowager glanced over at Feng Ming and faintly displayed a bit of satisfaction.

Feng Ming thought: could it be that Rong Tian has started to take action? This little deer stood up, didn’t dare to ask further and with a good mood ran towards the meeting hall.

Don’t know if there was any meeting today or not or whether it ended, but within the meeting hall there was only Chang Yen and a few other unimportant Generals. Feng Ming secretly glanced in all four directions, but didn’t see Jun Ting at all.

Chang Yen saw Feng Ming charged in and invited him to sit down.

CY: I heard that Duke Ming was ill yesterday, are you feeling any better today?

Feng Ming thanked Chang Yen for asking and directly went into the subject about the reason Chang Yen came last night.

Chang Yen laughed and said.

CY: So because of that, Duke Ming is curious. To be honest, Duke Ming is someone the Great King appointed to participate in the military meeting; therefore, every new news we received have to be reported to Duke Ming. If the military news are not reported to Duke

Ming, then we would be going against the King’s orders.

Though Feng Ming didn’t know much about how the military division is run, this much he could understand.

CY: Last night, we have received news to the location of another ambush. Xie Guang immediately brought his troops to take care of the ambush and was victorious. The news traveled forth just in time when I was taking some fresh air from taking care of military affairs. I came over to Duke Ming’s place to report this news to you immediately, but Duke Ming had already went to sleep, so I didn’t have the heart to wake you up. I was also planning on talking with you, but since the military news isn’t quite urgent, I didn’t want the servants to bother you.

FM: So that’s it. I just thought that the matter was urgent that cause General Chang Yen to come by late last night.

CY: Sitting late at night in the cold wind, a person made of metal would be tired. Why wouldn’t I go outside to send a message and stretched out some muscle? If Duke Ming wasn’t sleeping, then I would have been bothering your late dinner meal.

The two of them started laughing.

At that moment, Xie Guang hastily came in, seeing the both of them, he scolded at Chang Yen.

XG: Look at you, I was freezing to death outside last night and you’re here joking around.

He sat down in the opposite direction; his hands massaged his shoulders. He sneezed aloud and rubbed his nose with his hand.

XG: Even though the sun is up, but the temperature is still cold causing me to ache all over, don’t know if I’ve caught the cold from last night. (He again sneezed two more times)

Chang Yen and Xie Guang are friends for many years so Chang Yen decided to tease him.

CY: Your bones and muscles are even older than mine. Haha, last night you have made a great accomplishment, Jun Ling Si knows this so you’ll eventually be rewarded.

XG: That doesn’t mean much. 100 little soldiers like that, don’t know if their leader abandoned them for being useless or not, but their weapons were weak, and they couldn't even hold onto their spears steadily. Seeing our troops, we didn't even started battling when they were already scared and given up. If all of Bei Qi’s soldiers are like this, then I think that there is no need to battle. Our soldiers just need to sneeze once and it can flip them over. If we knew this earlier, then we wouldn’t need to urgently bring all our armies within the capital. If you look all over our military camp, everywhere is people, even the sleeping area is not enough, the campsite is flooded with soldiers twice or three times the usual.

CY: Are you questioning the orders of Jun Ling Si? The capital is the heart of the kingdom, so we have to be careful a bit.

XG: Who dares to question Jun Ling Si’s orders? These words cannot be said like a joke.

Feng Ming thought hard, but couldn’t understand what Rong Tian’s plans were. Was the ambush last night part of his scheme or not? How vexing, Empress Dowager won’t say a single word about it. Even though he got connections to Rong Tian, but everything is still unclear. Thinking for awhile, he looked up and asked Xie Guang.

FM: How does General know the location of the other ambush by Bei Qi?

XG: I don’t understand the words of the Gods so how can I know the location of the ambush?

Chang Yen decided to explain to Feng Ming.

CY: Last night, General Xie Guang captured alive a few prisoner of war, right now they are being interrogated in separate barracks, soon we will be able to know the location of the other ambush.

XG: I’m afraid it won’t be that easy.

Xie Guang remembered those prisoners and let out a long sigh.

XG: Those prisoners, they not only fear death but is also confused. We interrogated three of them and two already wet their pants. They are people from Bei Qi, but denied that they are soldiers, just stated that they are ordinary people of Bei Qi.

CY: (felt a bit surprised) Then why did they hid themselves outside of Ping Xi? And why do they have weapons from Bei Qi’s soldiers?

XG: That’s right! Even they themselves don’t know that they reached Dong Fan in what ways. A bunch of clueless group, their speech were disorderly, I have interrogated throughout the night and was furious to no end. Just a moment ago, this Guang Ying came to my barrack and knew that I couldn’t find out anything, so he dare to tease me, telling me that my method of torture was not evil enough; therefore, those prisoners were not scared. I was so mad, I ordered my subordinates to send those captives to the other barracks and see if they could find out anything from them.

Feng Ming seemed to have a flash of light in his mind, but he couldn’t make clear of it. He tried hard to think about it, but couldn’t quite understand. His temple began throbbing in pain, he couldn’t help but raised his hands to hold his head as his face grimaced.

Chang Yen saw that and asked if Feng Ming was alright.

FM: My head just hurts a bit. (he embarrassedly chuckled). Recently, if this area isn’t aching, another area would be sore.

CY: Do we need to send for the physician? FM: No need, no need!

Feng Ming was afraid that he had to drink bitter medicine and quickly stood up.

FM: I’ll head back to rest a bit and then it’ll be okay. If there’s any new military news, just send the guards to notify me.

Feng Ming excused himself and rode back to the inner palace.

Reaching the palace gates, several female attendants were standing there waiting for him. Two of the attendants approached the horse. Feng Ming climbed off the horse; one foot was still on the stirrup when he suddenly felt lightheaded. His hands didn’t seize the reins tightly when the sky spun about and Feng Ming fell into the deep snow.