Three Kingdoms: The Peerless Strategist of Wei

Chapter 23 Young Master, I am deeply grateful for your life-saving grace; please accept my humble bo

Cao Jie let out a joyful shout and pushed the cards in front of him forward with all his might.

Gu Cheng's eyes lit up immediately. He leaned over and took a closer look at her hand. She had indeed won, and it was a rare self-drawn win.

"Madam is truly remarkable. It seems you have quite a talent for mahjong."

Gu Cheng gave a thumbs up and praised repeatedly.

"Thank you for the compliment, my husband. Let's shuffle the cards and play another round!"

Cao Jie was completely hooked and kept urging everyone to shuffle the cards and start the game.

Just at this time.

The gate of the mansion was pushed open, and Xu Chu returned with his entourage who had gone out to make purchases, along with an extra carriage.

The carriage was covered with arrows, and anyone with eyes could tell that it had been attacked by crossbowmen.

"Zhongkang, what exactly is going on?"

Gu Cheng immediately noticed that something was wrong.

Xu Chu bowed and said, "Reporting to the young master, I was returning from shopping with my men when I came across this carriage on the way. It looked like it had been attacked by bandits. There was a woman lying in the carriage, seriously injured and unconscious. So I had no choice but to bring her back along with the carriage."

"The injured woman?"

A hint of surprise flashed in Gu Cheng's eyes. He immediately leaped onto the carriage and reached out to lift the curtain.

Sure enough, a young girl was lying in the carriage.

The girl had been shot in the back with an arrow, and half of her body was soaked in blood, leaving her on the verge of death. Gu Cheng first reached out to check her breathing, and then roughly examined the arrow wound on her body. Fortunately, although the injury was serious, there was still room for treatment.

"Let's carry her inside first."

As Gu Cheng spoke, he carefully and gently lifted the girl off the carriage.

Upon seeing this, Cao Jie and the others' expressions changed, and they quickly stepped forward to help.

Gu Cheng gently placed the girl on the bed and then turned to ask Diao Chan to fetch his medicine box.

They cut open the girl's clothes at the wound site, carefully removed the arrowhead, repeatedly cleaned the wound, stopped the bleeding, disinfected it, and finally carefully stitched up the wound. They also gave her a tetanus shot.

This series of smooth and dazzling treatment methods left Cao Jie, who was helping out, dumbfounded and shocked.

"I never imagined my husband possessed such superb medical skills. No wonder he was able to pull my elder brother back from the brink of death. But why did he use needles to prick this young lady and inject the medicine from that tube into her bloodstream...?"

Cao Jie watched from the side, secretly marveling at the sight.

"Alright, her life is saved. Now, wash her up and change her into some clean clothes."

Gu Cheng let out a long breath, handed the girl on the bed over to Cao Jie and Diao Chan for care, and then turned and left the room.

At this moment, Xu Chu had already unloaded a heavy iron box from the carriage and was about to reach out and open it.

"These are someone's private belongings; we cannot open them or look at them without permission."

Gu Cheng quickly stepped forward and reached out to stop Xu Chu.

Xu Chu had no choice but to stop and give up.

Gu Cheng reached out and pulled an arrow from the carriage. After examining it carefully for a moment, he smiled and said, "Zhongkang, the ones who attacked this carriage were not bandits at all, but Cao Cao's men."

As he spoke, he handed the arrow in his hand to Xu Chu.

Xu Chu took the arrow and examined it carefully. He immediately nodded and said, "Young Master's observation is indeed meticulous. This arrow is indeed a standard-issue arrow of Cao Cao's army."

After saying that, he asked with a puzzled look, "Why would Cao Cao's army attack such a weak, unarmed woman for no reason?"

"Once she wakes up, we'll find out the reason by asking her."

Gu Cheng picked up his teacup, took a sip of tea, and looked towards the inside of the room.

Before we knew it, the sky had darkened, and it was already late at night.

Da Qiao, lying on the bed, finally opened her eyes slowly and woke up.

She glanced around blankly, then suddenly snapped back to reality and struggled to sit up.

"Am I being chased by Cao Cao's army? Where am I?"

She muttered to herself, her eyes filled with confusion and bewilderment.

She vaguely remembered that when Shouchun City was captured, her father, Qiao Rui, took her, her younger sister Xiao Qiao, and Yuan Shu's Imperial Seal and escaped during the chaos in the city.

Although they successfully escaped from Shouchun City, they encountered Cao Cao's pursuing troops on the north bank of the Huai River while crossing it.

In the chaos, she was separated from her father and sister, and was shot in the back by a stray arrow, causing her to faint on the spot.

When she woke up again, she was already in this place.

Thinking of this, Da Qiao quickly reached out and touched her back, only to find that the arrow that had hit her had been removed.

"Could it be that I was destined to survive and was saved by a kind person?"

Da Qiao secretly speculated in her heart.

So she forced herself out of bed, laboriously put on the clean clothes laid out beside the bed, and staggered to the door, gently pushing it open.

Just at this time.

Gu Cheng was sitting in the courtyard enjoying the cool air, whispering intimate words with Cao Jie beside him.

"My lord, that young lady has woken up!"

Cao Jie was the first to see Da Qiao at the door. He quickly got up and went forward to support the unsteady Da Qiao.

Gu Cheng said calmly, "Young lady, although I have stitched up your wound, you have lost a lot of blood, so it's best if you don't move around too much."

"Was it you who saved me, young master?"

Da Qiao looked at Gu Cheng with eyes full of gratitude and asked softly.

Gu Cheng nodded slightly and said, "It was my brother who stumbled upon your carriage on the road. Seeing that you were seriously injured and unconscious, he brought you back. You're lucky; if it had been an hour later, even I wouldn't have been able to save you."

Da Qiao suddenly realized what was going on and quickly asked, "May I ask your honorable name, young master?"

"My name is Gu Cheng," Gu Cheng replied calmly.

"So it's Young Master Gu."

Da Qiao forced herself to kneel and curtsy, her face full of gratitude, and said, "Please accept my bow for saving your life, young master."