Iron Snow Clouds

Chapter 410: Endure
Wu Xunsheng saw Tie Hongyan's longing look, and then he realized that she had been too nervous leading troops in battles for a long time, and it had been a long time since she had played with kites in such a relaxed manner. Looking into her eyes, he had not thought of the scenes of her killing people. Instead, he suddenly felt that it was not easy for her. Finally, the war was over, and she should have been able to relax, but now she was seriously injured and could not go anywhere. He said to her gently: "Take good care of your injuries. When you recover, let's go to the wild to play with kites together, okay?"

"Okay." Tie Hongyan said.

Then the two of them stopped talking. Tie Hongyan closed his eyes, but did not let himself fall asleep. Wu Xunsheng sat there in a daze.

Another half hour passed, and the effect of Zhu Cai's medicine wore off.

Because Tie Hongyan was emotionally agitated when she learned that Di Feng had mastered the sword technique to control demons, the pain was even more severe this time. However, she forced herself not to scream out, clutching the quilt tightly with both hands, breathing rapidly, and whispered, "Medicine..."

Wu Xunsheng immediately gave her the medicine.

When the pain subsided and she let go of the quilt that she was tightly holding, Wu Xunsheng discovered that the quilt had been torn by her.

Wu Xunsheng recalled that he wanted her to rest and recover but ended up agitating her instead. He thought that she would be in more pain this time, but he didn't expect that she would not scream out after the pain got worse. He said, "It's all my fault for agitating you and aggravating your pain. But why did you rather endure it than scream out this time? Wouldn't it feel better if you scream out?"

Tie Hongyan said slowly: "There's not much use in shouting. I don't want the people outside the door to hear me shouting and think something happened to me, or... misunderstand that you didn't take good care of me."

Hearing her say this, Wu Xunsheng was stunned at first, then stared at her and said: "Just for this? Why do you have to endure it? They won't misunderstand me! Besides, even if they do, so what? I don't care whether others misunderstand me or not, I only care whether I have taken good care of you! Don't do this again... I made you emotional just now and I really didn't take good care of you."

Tie Hongyan said slowly: "I told you that I am not to blame for my emotional outburst. It was you who told me that incident so that I could recover from my injuries in peace."

"Do you know that I feel sad seeing you like this?" Wu Xunsheng said involuntarily.

"What's there to be sad about..." Tie Hongyan said. "I..." Wu Xunsheng didn't say anything else.

"You're saying half a sentence again."

Neither of them spoke anymore, looking into each other's eyes, and then avoiding each other's gaze after a while.

Chapter 82

In the Gusuo Palace.

The men that Tie Wandao considered reliable carefully inspected the walls of the Gusuo Palace. Not long after the inspection, Wang Qi came on Tie Wandao's orders to inquire about the inspection results.

Three years ago, after Wang Qi followed Tie Hongyan and Wu Xunsheng and was revealed by Guan Wenliang, Tie Wandao severely taught him a lesson and punished him, but he did not give up on reusing him. Maybe it was because an honest man like Wang Qi would not deceive his superiors or subordinates, maybe it was because he was used to using him to get things done, or maybe it was because he already knew a lot of things. If someone else did the job, one more person would know those things, which would increase the risk of doing some things.

"Did you find any problems?" Wang Qi asked.

"Not yet." said one of Tie Wandao's men.

(End of this chapter)