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Chapter 144 Even more powerful than a tiger
If Lu Qing's first words made Situ Jing calm down half, after hearing the latter words, he calmed down completely.

Situ Jing pondered for a moment, then said to the guards, "You will take turns on guard tonight, so be careful.

Don't mention what happened tonight to anyone after you leave the tent. Don't say too much, and don't cause trouble with others at this time."

The personal guards responded quickly, fearing that saying anything more would cause trouble for the general. They saluted and left again, leaving only Situ Jing, Lu Qing and Zhu Yu in the tent.

"With things getting this bad, the Chief Secretary is quite frightened. I was planning to let you rest in my tent tonight while I stepped up patrols outside. However..." Situ Jing glanced at Zhu Yu, "If the other party intends to attack me, my tent won't be safe either."

"No need. At the moment, it is safest to keep everything as it is." Lu Qing shook his head at Situ Jing.

Situ Jing didn't say anything else. He stood up and walked them to the door of the big tent. Lu Qing helped Zhu Yu walk to the personal guards' tent where they were staying for the time being.

The situation was urgent and Zhu Yu had no time to react. When the personal soldier who suddenly became poisoned was subdued by Lu Qing and tied up and taken away, she realized that she had twisted her ankle due to the sudden pull and push at the critical moment.

When people are under great stress, their sense of pain tends to become much duller. She didn't feel any pain at that moment, but when she breathed a sigh of relief and walked towards the tent, she felt unbearable swelling and pain in her ankle with every step she took.

Lu Qing obviously noticed this. He put his arm around Zhu Yu's shoulder, which seemed to be helping her walk slowly. But in fact, Zhu Yu felt that the foot that was not twisted was only lightly touching the ground, and her whole body was almost lifted up by Lu Qing.

Although I knew that this guy was a big guy, I never thought he was so strong.

The two men returned to the tent of their personal guards, and no one else was there.

After what happened in the evening, the only two people who could come back to rest were probably Lu Qing and Zhu Yu.

It would be best if no one is around, as it would be convenient to check the injury.

Lu Qing settled Zhu Yu on the mat where they usually rested, and began to remove the shoes and socks on her sprained foot. He took out a flat porcelain bottle from his bosom, scooped out some ointment with his fingers, and applied it to Zhu Yu's slightly swollen ankle. He then melted the ointment with the warmth of his palms and rubbed it with moderate force.

When the ointment first touched her skin, it brought with it a strong chill that made her shiver uncontrollably. When Lu Qing pressed down with his palm, she groaned in pain.

However, as the ointment melted on the skin, the cold feeling gradually disappeared, replaced by a warm feeling that seemed to be able to seep through the skin and into the bones, quickly dissipating most of the dull pain from the sprain.

"My junior fellow apprentice asked me to bring it with me before, but I was impatient. I never thought that this thing would come in handy." Lu Qing held Zhu Yu's foot with one hand and rubbed it with the other. "Were you scared just now?"

"I was indeed startled, but because I was protected by that golden soft armor, I was just a little scared, not scared to death." Zhu Yu shook his head. "Were you frightened by my appearance just now in the general's tent?"

Lu Qing paused for a moment and looked up at Zhu Yu. Only then did he realize that her expression was completely different from when she was with Situ Jing just now.

Just now she looked listless, as if she was still in shock and terrified. Her complexion was a little strange, her eyelids drooped, and she didn't say a word.

If Lu Qing hadn't known that the golden soft armor could definitely protect him from the blow from his personal soldier, he would have thought that Zhu Yu had been injured.

Now, the sprained ankle was real, but she sat there, supporting her upper body with her arms and looking at herself. Her eyes were bright and energetic in the dim light, and she didn't look scared at all.

"What's your plan?" he asked in a low voice. "I'm just going with the flow," Zhu Yu said. "If it was a soldier of the Imperial Guard who was poisoned tonight, this wouldn't be necessary.

It just so happened that the man was Situ Jing's personal soldier. I just didn't show off my strength at the right time and chose to show weakness.

If you want him to work for you in the future, a friendship as plain as water may not be enough. You have to owe him some favors.

It is actually very easy to make a gentleman owe you something, and the guilt caused by implicating an innocent person is just right.

Today, his men almost killed your men by mistake. Isn't this a favor that comes right to your door?"

As Zhu Yu spoke, he showed a pitiful expression as if he had been frightened.

Lu Qing lowered his head slightly, but he didn't stop rubbing the ointment with his hands. It was just that the strength became a little unstable. If you looked closely, you could see that his shoulders were shaking, as if he was trying hard to hold back his laughter and not laugh out loud at such an inappropriate time.

After a while, he raised his head again, with a calm expression on his face: "The Chief Secretary and I are truly in tune with each other.

"Having a chief historian is like adding wings to a tiger."

"Thank you for the compliment." Zhu Yu said modestly.

In fact, it is just a matter of keeping company with ink... and vermilion will become redder if you keep company with it. After following this fox for a long time, I figured out some of his ideas and methods, and I learned a lot from them and applied them flexibly.

Lu Qing rubbed it for a while longer, then checked his ankle in the light. It was no longer as swollen as before. He stopped and said to Zhu Yu, "I'm sorry that you've troubled me today. Don't take off the golden armor tonight. If you can endure it for a few more days, the time will be right."

Seeing him say this calmly, Zhu Yu couldn't help but suspect that Yan Daoxin was not completely without progress, but that these two people were deliberately dragging their feet, waiting for some opportunity.

Obviously, the sudden situation tonight made Lu Qing feel that the time was almost ripe.

Zhu Yu spent the second half of the night lying in bed with her clothes on. Although she felt like she was lying on a gravel road again, after such a close call, she was not affected at all for the first time in her life. She fell asleep soon after lying down, and when she woke up, the sky outside was just beginning to turn blue.

Lu Qing sat cross-legged beside her with his eyes closed, and opened his eyes immediately after she turned over and sat up.

"You didn't sleep at all?" Zhu Yu asked.

Lu Qing simply stood up and stretched his limbs slightly, then said to Zhu Yu, "See if your ankle still hurts and whether you can walk.

I don't think today will be a peaceful day. If your ankle can't support you, I'll ask Situ Jing to keep you by my side so we don't have to run around."

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