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Chapter 730 Guilt [Bonus Chapter]

Lu Qing sighed softly, wanting to reach out and touch Zhu Yu's hair, but she couldn't move, so she had to suppress the thought for the time being and just follow her every move with her eyes.

Finally, after finishing the last stitch, Zhu Yu looked at the wound, which no longer looked gruesome, silently applied ointment, wrapped it in a cloth, and put away the tools.

The runes and talismans also tacitly took the basin of blood used to wipe the wound, along with other miscellaneous items, out of the room, and closed the door from the outside.

The moment the door was shut from the outside, Zhu Yu could no longer suppress her grief. She leaned over the bed and sobbed softly, her shoulders trembling, but she kept her sobs to a minimum.

Lu Qing felt a sharp pain in her left chest, as if it were even more painful than the wound she had just suffered.

"What's wrong?" he asked softly, trying to sit up but afraid of accidentally aggravating his wound and letting Zhu Yu down after all that effort. So he gently stroked Zhu Yu's back with the hand by the bedside and asked her.

"If you were wearing the golden silk armor, you wouldn't have suffered this injury..." Zhu Yu didn't look up, her voice filled with sobs.

Lu Qing knew she felt sorry for him, but he didn't expect there to be a hint of self-blame in her tears. For a moment, he couldn't tell whether he felt more warmth or more heartache.

"Don't talk nonsense." He gently patted Zhu Yu's back, trying to soothe her emotions. "You saw the wound just now; it's not fatal."

I was only able to dodge in time, and that thief only managed to scratch me.

I was worried you'd be concerned if you saw the tear in my clothes, so I even swapped clothes with Fu Wen. But I forgot how sharp my wife's eyes are; in the end, you couldn't hide it from me."

Zhu Yu had no time to care about anyone else and hadn't even realized that Lu Qing had a knife wound, yet his outer robe appeared perfectly intact except for the bloodstains that had seeped through.

Now that she heard him say that, she realized that this was his reasoning.

Zhu Yu's shoulders trembled even more violently, and she almost cried uncontrollably.

Lu Qing closed her eyes, sighed, and blamed herself for saying the wrong thing.

He knew that Zhu Yu had been worried about him before, and must have been terrified. Now, with tension and heartache mixed together, crying might be a way to release her emotions and make her feel better.

But seeing her crying made him feel as if his insides had been kneaded into a ball.

After a while, he couldn't help but speak again: "The golden silk armor on you has always been the thing that makes me feel most at ease. Without this peace of mind, I wouldn't be able to concentrate so much when dealing with those thieves."

So, this is also a way of protecting myself, don't you think?

After waiting for a while without receiving any response from Zhu Yu, he looked down and found that the shoulders that had been trembling were now motionless.

"Zhu Yu?" Lu Qing tried calling Zhu Yu's name softly. "Zhu Yu?"

There was still no response.

Lu Qing's heart tightened. Ignoring her wound, she scrambled out of bed and reached out to check Zhu Yu's breathing.

Breathing is stable.

He breathed a slight sigh of relief, carefully got out of bed, gently picked up Zhu Yu who was lying by the bedside, and placed her on the bed. Looking at her tear-streaked face, he disregarded his heartache and first took her wrist, placing his fingers on Zhu Yu's wrist.

Her pulse was steady. Lu Qing removed Zhu Yu's shoes and socks, and then saw that there were several blisters on the soles of her feet, and some of them had broken open, with blood splattering everywhere.

Lu Qing frowned, helped Zhu Yu remove his outer robe and soft armor, covered him with the quilt, and gently opened the door and left the room.

Zhu Yu only remembers crying very hard, and then she knew nothing more. When she opened her eyes again, the sky was just beginning to lighten, and she was lying in a warm bed with someone holding her hand.

She turned her head and looked.

Lu Qing slept beside him, the blanket only covering her waist, and the cloth she had wrapped around her chest after applying the medicine was still on her chest.

"Awake?" Lu Qing's eyes were not open, and her voice still carried a hint of lingering sleepiness.

"I slept from noon yesterday until this morning?" Zhu Yu looked at the daylight at the window and had already guessed it.

"I heard from Fu Lu that you traveled a lot yesterday, treated the wounded, arranged for those who were not seriously injured to clear the official road, and also treated Lu Chao's ankle injury."

"I was all sweaty from all the exertion, and then I caught a chill in the wind. Plus, I was so nervous and scared." Lu Qing let go of Zhu Yu's hand and touched her forehead. "You were a little feverish yesterday afternoon, but thankfully it went down by midnight. You should be fine now."

"You've suffered so much, you should get some more sleep."

Zhu Yu didn't say anything, silently turned over, hugged Lu Qing's arm, and rested her head on his shoulder.

Lu Qing's heart skipped a beat, and she tried to turn over, but before she could move, she heard Zhu Yu say, "Don't move. If you reopen the wound that I painstakingly stitched up, when we go home, I'll sleep in the bedroom and you'll sleep in the study."

These words had a considerable impact. Lu Qing's thought of turning over was instantly dispelled, and she lay there obediently without moving.

“When you have more free time in the future, you can teach me martial arts,” Zhu Yu suddenly said after a moment of silence.

"Why did you suddenly have such a thought?" Lu Qing gently rubbed her cheek against the top of Zhu Yu's head.

"Because there's nothing you can do but wait in the back, it's really awful." As Zhu Yu answered, his arm tightened around him. "I always thought I was very brave, that I wasn't afraid of corpses or bones, blood or severed limbs."

Yesterday I finally realized that the reason I wasn't afraid was because those who died had nothing to do with me...

Zhu Yu didn't continue speaking, but Lu Qing understood everything.

“Okay, I’ll teach you.” He readily agreed. “Once everything has settled down, I’ll teach you whatever you want to learn.”

Zhu Yu nodded, leaned on Lu Qing's shoulder, and soon drifted off to sleep again.

This time, she slept soundly.

When I woke up again, the sun was already high in the sky.

She thought Lu Qing had gotten up long ago and gone out to do something else, but she didn't expect to find him right next to the table after she sat up.

"You're awake? I had someone prepare a clean set of clothes for you. Fu Lu just came over and said lunch is ready. You've slept for so long, you should eat something." Seeing that Zhu Yu was awake, Lu Qing got up and sat on the edge of the bed, looking at her with a smile. "Hmm, your complexion is indeed much better after a good night's sleep."