Chapter 265

“Lu Qi, Lu Qi, no matter where you are, get out at once!” Xu Ran called Lu Qi’s name crazily, giving King Yan and the rest who had rushed from afar a start.

Gao Quan saw Lu Qi in the distance and rushed over at the fastest speed to fetch him over. Being caught by such a baffling way, Lu Qi was initially quite annoyed, but when he saw Liu Tong who was on the back of Xu Ran, he couldn’t utter any words.

Lu Qi did not inquire about the reason. He reached out to check Liu Tong’s pulse, and then changed his expression. Xu Ran couldn’t see it clearly. Liu Tong did not have the strength to look. However, Gao Quan and Shao Yu standing next to him saw it quite clearly.

Seeing his look, Shao Yu asked anxiously, “Master, what’s wrong with Liu Tong? What happened?”

As King Yan came over and saw this scene, his expression changed too. The solemn look on Lu Qi’s face made King Yan more anxious.

Liu Tong shook his head and said softly, “It’s gone…”

Liu Tong was unconscious and he had no idea what they were saying.

Xu Ran closed his eyes at Lu Qi’s words and loosened his grip on Liu Tong’s trousers. Slowly, everyone on the scene saw blood dripping down from his pants, onto the ground, tainting the green stone board on the ground.

When they saw this scene, everyone knew what had happened. For a moment, everyone was in perfect silence, not knowing what to say.

Xu Ran bit his lips and said, “Your Highness, please get me a room and let Lu Qi give Tongtong an examination. The baby is gone. Let it be so. However do not let nothing happen to Tongtong.”

Even Xu Ran didn’t know how he said out those words that sounded very flat.

However, at Xu Ran’s words, King Yan also came to his senses. He asked people to prepare hot water and bring Lu Qi’s medicine kit over. The room was the same one they had been staying in before.

Xu Ran walked step by step towards the room with Liu Tong on his back. Blood dripped onto the ground, leaving a long mark.

After Xu Ran put Liu Tong on the bed, he moved aside to let Lu Qi examine Liu Tong. He took over the hot water from the servant and wrung out the handkerchief to wipe Liu Tong’s face.

Liu Tong frowned and even bit his lips in a coma.

No one but him understood how much pain he was undergoing. Liu Tong knew that the child was gone and he knew better than any of them. However, he only had time to tell Xu Ran before he lost his consciousness, which was either owing to his discomfort or to his grief.

Ever since he came in, Xu Ran had been quietly watching Lu Qi check pulse for Liu Tong without saying a word.

Others waited anxiously outside. King Yan ordered the servants to find Tangtang and Guoguo who was practicing martial arts and Baozi who was playing with Yan Lan and Yan Hao.

The three kids ran into the room gulping for air. Baozi cried as soon as he reached the doorway. His voice was quite loud and he kept calling Daddy. Although Tangtang and Guoguo didn’t cry like Baozi, their eyes were red.

The only movements inside was that basins of bloody water were brought out by a brother, and then clean water was brought in, which was repeated continuously. Even if one was just watching it, it might give one the feeling of numbness, as if it had been witnessed it countless times.

As for what was happening inside, nobody knew. Apart from Baozi’s sobbing, there was no sound from either inside or outside the room. The quietness was frightening.

Xu Ran earnestly and quietly helped Liu Tong clean his body according to Lu Qi’s instructions. Even if he had witnessed basins of bloody water sending out, he still did not change his expression.

It wasn’t until the blood was stopped and the cleaning job was done that Xu Ran slumped heavily in front of the bed as if he had used up all his strength.

Lu Qi looked at him and wanted to say something but found that he was unable to do it.

After a long time, Xu Ran said, “The person who was in charge of opening the gate should be changed.”

Lu Qi frowned. He knew that there must be some reasons that Xu Ran said this. As he remembered that during the new year period, there was no guard at the gate of King Yan’s residence, his brow knitted more tightly.

The meaning of Xu Ran’s words was also quite clear. The person who opened the gate must have gone late.

As for Xu Ran, he sat quietly on the ground. He didn’t dare to go out or look at Liu Tong who was lying on the bed. He was terribly upset, with sadness, remorse, and anger tangling together.

Even the words blurted out previously were venting his anger. He knew that he needed to find a place to let off his feelings. Without a doubt, the person who opened the door had become the scapegoat.

Lu Qi glanced at Xu Ran who was sitting on the ground quietly, shook his head and opened the door to ask for pen and paper to write a prescription.

After finishing it, Lu Qi handed the prescription to the servant at the door. “Hurry up. Ask the medicine boy in the pharmacy to fill the prescription. There mustn’t be the slightest slip. If anything goes wrong, be careful of your lives!”

It has been a long time before Lu Qi came back, and it has been too long since he was so angry. For a time, these servants were intimidated by him and didn’t dare move.

Yan Xuan angrily shouted at the person who froze there for a long time, and the person came to his senses and hurriedly left with the prescription.

Lu Qi wanted to close the door and enter the room, but he was stopped by King Yan, “How’s Zheng’er? How about the child?”

Lu Qi tried his best to speak in a calm tone, “Second Master has bled heavily. It’s stopped now. He can recuperate after taking some supplements and tonics. As for the child..” Lu Qi didn’t continue and shook his head.

Everyone understood that the child was gone.

Although Baozi didn’t know what was going on, he saw that everyone around him looked upset. His cry which was already curbed, began anew.

Tangtang immediately covered his mouth and whispered to him, “Baozi, don’t cry. Daddy is asleep. Don’t wake up Daddy. With Uncle Lu Qi here, there won’t be anything wrong with him.”

Baozi cried too violently. Even if he wanted to stop after hearing Tangtang’s words, he couldn’t hold it in. Tangtang simply carried Baozi with his arms and left.

Guoguo walked around anxiously and were steeped with cold sweat.

After Lu Qi told King Yan about the situation, he went in and closed the door. He kept watching Liu Tong, afraid that something might happen.

Xu Ran sat there quietly, his mind blank and he seemed to have lost consciousness of the outside world.

Time passed quietly.

“Mmm…”

The sound of moaning from the bed gave the two in the room a start.

Xu Ran jumped up from the ground and looked at Liu Tong.

Lu Qi reached for Liu Tong’s pulse.

For some reason, Liu Tong’s sweat dripped down from his forehead. He frowned and looked uneasy.

Xu Ran opened his mouth to try to speak, but found that he couldn’t utter a sound. He grew even more anxious. As he turned his head, he saw the kettle on the table. Xu Ran poured himself a glass of water and drank up. After he cleared his throat several times, he barely managed to find back his voice.

Xu Ran took a few steps back to the bedside. “Lu Qi, what’s wrong with Tongtong? He looks very uncomfortable. Examine him quickly.”

Lu Qi was also upset. He checked Liu Tong his pulse. Apart from the damage caused by the heavy bleeding just now, he didn’t have any other symptoms, and his current performance looked more like a nightmare.

Lu Qi said to Xu Ran, “Xu Ran, wake up Second Young Master. He’s in a nightmare. We can’t let him continue like this.”

Lu Qi then retreated to the side regardless of whether Xu Ran could understand or not.

As soon as Xu Ran heard his words, he took over Lu Qi’s position and began to call Liu Tong’s name.

“Tongtong, wake up, Tongtong, wake up, wake up…”

Xu Ran wiped the sweat from Liu Tong’s forehead with one hand and whispered his name, repeating it tirelessly.

Maybe the calling was too bothering or for some other reasons, Liu Tong’s look started to calm down, but he didn’t open his eyes.

Xu Ran felt that things were not right. Liu Tong didn’t seem to be asleep. Xu Ran turned to Lu Qi and said, “Lu Qi, come over and take a look, why isn’t Tongtong awake?”

Lu Qi walked over to feel Liu Tong’s pulse. After that, he rolled his eyelids and checked his mouth. Then he shook his head.

“Xu Ran, Second Young Master doesn’t want to wake up. I can’t help him. It has to rely on you to wake him up. Be faster, do not make it last too long. If he doesn’t wake up today, Second Young Master will be in danger. He must wake up to eat and take his medicine.”

Lu Qi looked grave and Xu Ran knew the seriousness of the matter.

He said to Lu Qi, “Go out first and tell the people outside about the situation in case they will worry. Tongtong will wake up. Also, let people prepare some food. When Tongtong wakes up, he will eat. I will wake him up.”

Lu Qi looked at Xu Ran for a while, nodded and turned to leave.