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When Sun Chao’en slowly awakened and opened his eyes, he discovered that he was back at the county yamen. He tried to sit up, but did not have the strength to do so. He was about halfway to a sitting position when sudden pain gripped his torso, and he fell back to his bed.
Beside him, the county assistant Ren Youwei said in a hurry, “Stop moving, my lord! You’re going to open your wound again!”
“Have you sent someone to General Lee?”
“Worry not, the messenger is long gone.”
“Has Staff General Liao dispatched reinforcements?”
Ren Youwei hesitated, but ultimately answered, “He refused to mobilize, but we expected this response.”
Once more, Sun Chao’en tried to push himself to a sitting position while growling hoarsely, “Liao Jingwu! I will kill him one day! Support me!”
“You cannot, my lord! You are no match for him right now, not to mention that unauthorized killing of a royal official is punishable by extermination of the whole clan!” A stunned Ren Youwei tried his best to change Sun Chao’en’s mind.
Seeing that his county assistant would not give him a hand, Sun Chao’en panted, “It’s not like I can go to him right now even if I want to. I remember that there’s a signal arrow in the ancestral hall. Did you retrieve it?”
“I left it in the hall.”
“Shoot it now! Now, I say!”
Ren Youwei hurried away to carry out his orders. Moments later, a signal arrow erupted in the sky and stayed there until a long, long time later. The message read: “Wei Yuan has traveled...
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