A pure heart in a jade pot

Chapter 134

"Aren't you going to go and take a look?" Mo Yan asked with a forced smile.

"What's so interesting about a horse carcass?" he said coldly.

"Wait a moment, I'll be right back... watch the horses for me."

Seeing that Yelü Pusa Nu remained silent, she took it as a yes and quickly walked forward. His voice came from behind her: "Southeast, fifteen steps."

Author's Note: Two gold medals in men's and women's team gymnastics—that's truly hard-won, so exciting!

And weightlifting too, I was so worried! The young athletes this time were really good, they withstood so much pressure.

Chapter Sixty-Six

Mo Yan poked her head back: "Do you have a fire?"

Yelü Pusa Nu didn't answer, and even turned his face away, tilting his head back to look at the night sky through the branches. Seeing this, Mo Yan shut his mouth in a huff and headed southeast in the dark.

After a short while, she staggered back, her face contorted in pain, on the verge of vomiting. The horse had been torn apart by the wild beast; the stench of blood was horrifying. She leaned forward to examine the remains, and only when she saw no human limbs or pieces of clothing among the carcasses did she feel relieved. It seemed that Zhao Yu had separated from the horse before it encountered the wild beast, but whether she had been thrown off or dismounted on her own was unknown.

"Have you found any clues?" Yelü Pusa Nu asked coldly upon seeing her appearance.

Mo Yan glanced at him secretly before saying, "I think the princess must have fallen off her horse earlier."

It seemed that Yelü Pusa Nu already knew what she was talking about, so he just gave a faint hum and started walking north.

"where you go?"

"The horseshoes came from the north, where the mountain roads are rugged and have many cliffs."

"You mean... the princess might have fallen off a cliff?" Mo Yan gasped.

Yelü Pusa Nu remained calm: "I didn't say that, you did."

"..."

His words made her even more worried. The thought that Zhao Yu might be lying at the bottom of the cliff, perhaps missing an arm or a leg, or perhaps not breathing at all, made Mo Yan panic. She had no heart to say anything more and pulled on the reins to leave.

The two of them followed the winding mountain road to the north. The road was unfamiliar and very difficult to walk, and without torches, Mo Yan followed Yelü Pusa Nu almost step by step.

Without firelight, Mo Yan's eyesight was so poor that she couldn't see very far. She could only shout as she walked, afraid of attracting wild animals, and she didn't dare to speak too loudly.

Yelü Pusa Nu walked quietly as usual, but his eyes shone with a sharper light than usual. They walked slowly, seemingly casually, until the moon was high in the sky. Yelü Pusa Nu suddenly stopped, then strode to the left. Because it was summer, all sorts of unidentified trees and wild grasses grew luxuriantly, and the steep slope stretched straight down.

Mo Yan's eyesight was not as good as his, and she did not notice anything unusual. Only when she cautiously approached did she see that some weeds showed signs of being broken. Upon closer inspection, she saw that some of the grass was lying flat on the ground, clearly having been crushed by a heavy object.

Yelü Pusa Nu had already descended the slope, intermittently pulling on the trees beside him to cushion the impact—at the bottom of the slope, a slender figure lay motionless among the weeds, breathing weakly.

"Princess!"

Mo Yan, who was following behind him, gasped in shock upon seeing the figure prone on the ground. Forgetting to grab onto the trees beside her, she rushed down to Zhao Yu's side. "Please don't die! Please! Please!" she murmured to herself, simultaneously turning Zhao Yu over and checking his breath...

His breathing was shallow.

"The princess is still alive!" she exclaimed with joy, turning to Yelü Pusa Nu.

His expression remained indifferent as he slowly walked down, seemingly unconcerned whether Zhao Yu was alive or dead.

Mo Yan gently patted Zhao Yu's face and called out, "Princess, Princess... wake up, wake up..."

As if hearing her voice, Zhao Yu frowned and groaned twice, her face pale, seemingly in great pain, but she still did not open her eyes.

"Are you injured somewhere?" Zhao Yu's clothes were made of turquoise with stitching, and with the late hour, even if there was blood, it was hard to see clearly. Mo Yan could smell a faint scent of blood, but couldn't find the wound. So she simply picked up Zhao Yu, held her head, and groped around for a while. She didn't find any wound or swelling, so she breathed a sigh of relief and then began to check the rest of her body.

Seeing her unbutton Zhao Yu's outer robe, Yelü Pusa Nu, who had been standing quietly to the side, turned her back to her, even though it was quite dark at the bottom of the slope.

Mo Yan examined Zhao Yu's chest, back, shoulders, and arms, and couldn't help but gasp repeatedly. It seemed that Zhao Yu had a broken rib in her chest, and her right calf was sticking out hard under her skirt, with thick blood flowing down to her shoe, which was probably also broken.

Strangely, the bleeding wasn't much, and it had already stopped. Could someone have been here before them? Mo Yan wondered, looking around. As far as she could see, there were no other footprints besides her own and Yelü Pusa Nu's.

That's probably impossible, otherwise there's no reason for the person who came to stop her bleeding and then leave her here unattended. Zhao Yu knew some martial arts, so Mo Yan could only assume that she had pressed the acupoints to stop the bleeding herself, and then fainted due to exhaustion from her injuries.

"The princess has two broken bones in her chest and a broken shinbone," Mo Yan said anxiously, turning back to Yelü Pusa Nu.

He seemed to hum again, but the sound was so soft that it was almost inaudible.

"Can you set broken bones? I can only set dislocations, not broken bones. What should I do?"

Yelü Pusa Nu turned around and glared at her fiercely: "You're supposed to be a martial artist, how come you can't even connect bones!"

Mo Yan whispered, "Learning martial arts is not like studying medicine, and besides, Master didn't teach us that."

Enraged by her, Yelü Pusa Nu remained motionless and silent, his face displaying an unusually unpredictable shift in mood. After a long while, he finally said, "I can take the call for her, but afterwards you can only tell her that you took it, and you must not tell anyone the truth in the future."

Why is that?

“Men and women are different, and besides, the princess and His Highness have not yet held a formal ceremony…” He stopped abruptly halfway through his sentence, looking coldly at Mo Yan, clearly unwilling to explain further.

Before he could finish speaking, Mo Yan smiled and said, "I didn't realize you were such a good person."

"Hmph!" Zhao Yu was seriously injured and did not want to say more, so he directly said to Mo Yan, "Take off her clothes first."

Although she knew this was inappropriate, there was really no other way in the current situation. Mo Yan let Zhao Yu lean against her, being careful not to touch her wound, and tried to be as gentle as possible. While she was undressing Zhao Yu, Yelü Pusa Nu still turned his back, and only turned around and came over when she called out to him.

In the pale moonlight, the girl's breasts were as white and flawless as cheese. He dared not look directly at them, his hand paused in mid-air, and his thin lips pressed tightly together...

“Hey! I’m watching right here. You mustn’t have any frivolous thoughts toward the princess! Otherwise, otherwise…” Mo Yan couldn’t think of a solution for the moment.

Yelü Pusa Nu glanced at her, ignored her, and without further hesitation, reached out to Zhao Yu, touched the broken bones in her chest, snapped them twice, and then quickly covered them with his clothes. He then set her shinbone. His technique was extremely fast. Before Mo Yan could even see clearly, he had already set the three broken bones.