Giant Ship Across the Song Dynasty: My Supplies Come from My Motherland

Chapter 146 Miracle Boy

When Lin Zhou stood before Prince Rui, the prince's expression was indescribable, with suspicion, astonishment, surprise, and confusion taking turns on his face.

You should know that in order to return to the Jin Kingdom as quickly as possible, he traveled day and night, using carriages and ships in three shifts without a moment's rest. Even someone like him, who had been tempered on the battlefield for many years, still looked dead, and the exhaustion made him unable to even lift his arms.

But Lin Zhou in front of me had clean clothes, a clean face, clean hands, and not a speck of dust on his hair. Even his strange backpack didn't look dusty at all.

"I heard that Hongliu's grandfather was injured, and she was very worried, so she asked me to bring him medicine. But your old man looked at me like I was a dog. I put the medicine down and came over."

Upon hearing this, Prince Rui's expression became even more puzzled, even turning from astonishment to shock: "You mean, you went to the front-line camp alone and were able to come out unharmed? You know even I would have been skinned alive if I went in there."

"I'm just a little immortal, all it takes is a little trickery, right?" Lin Zhou snapped his fingers, looking completely at ease. "I vanished from the old man's sight in a flash."

It would be a miracle if Prince Rui believed this, but he didn't know how Lin Zhou had managed to escape from his rigid, strict, and xenophobic father. He felt a chill in his heart, after all, that was his own father, and he knew his father's personality best. For a Song person like Lin Zhou to leave him peacefully would probably require paying a heavy price.

"What did you say to him?"

"He's going to kill me."

Upon hearing this, Prince Rui was taken aback: "Hmm, that's right, that's my old father. And then?"

"And then, I said, 'Don't take your anger out on a scholar like me just because you can't beat Yue Fei.'"

"ah???"

Rui Wangteng jumped up from his chair: "You talked to him like that??? And then what? What did he say?"

He said Yue Fei was dead.

"And you?"

Lin Zhou smacked his lips: "I said, isn't Han Shizhong still around? Why don't you go fight Han Shizhong? What kind of skill is it to bully me?"

At that moment, Prince Rui felt a sudden dizziness. When he looked at Lin Zhou, his pupils dilated in shock, his face filled with disbelief and incredulity. He felt as if his worldview had collapsed.

"You said that, and then—he let you go?"

Even now, Prince Rui still insists that his father spared Lin Zhou, but that was the Wolf Lord—

"No, he wasn't going to kill me. So I ran away." Lin Zhou spread his hands: "I can't talk to him. He has no humanity at all."

At this moment, Prince Rui stepped forward and poked Lin Zhou's chest with his finger to confirm that he was not in a state of soul separation but a living person. Then he walked around him in circles with his hands behind his back.

"What?! You're still alive? Stop spinning, or you'll spin a spirit out of the ground."

Lin Zhou spoke with obvious helplessness; the old man clearly didn't believe he could have survived his father's clutches.

This is understandable, after all, he was the Wolf Lord. At least for now, the person who had the most authority in the entire Jin Kingdom was still Wanyan Zongbi. Even Wanyan Liang, a ruthless and taciturn man, didn't dare to utter a word when Wanyan Zongbi was alive.

"Hiss—when did you go to my father's?"

"Today, the midnight hour is from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., and the 1-3 o'clock hour is..."

"Oh, no, no, no, I have a clock at home, just tell me what time it is." Prince Rui was furious at the way he was counting the hours on his fingers: "You're counting on your fingers to tell me the time?"

"It's around 4 p.m., since I just came from Lin'an by car this morning."

At first, Prince Rui believed Lin Zhou's words, but when he heard that he had just come from Lin'an that morning, he no longer believed it. It was more than two thousand miles, crossing the Yangtze River and the Yellow River. Even if he could fly, he couldn't have covered that distance.

"Forget it, forget it." Prince Rui waved his hand. "You never tell the truth. What are you doing here? After giving Father the medicine, what were you going to do next?"

"I'm not Hong Liuyao, I'm worried about my family. Besides, what if Wanyan Liang tries to cause trouble while the Jin Kingdom is defeated? Wouldn't that put you in danger? So I came here to find a way to take you away."

"Oh dear, you children!"

When Prince Rui heard this, he was both heartbroken and angry. Although Lin Zhou was talking nonsense, he had indeed traveled two thousand miles, and from a safe place to an extremely dangerous place. Not everyone, let alone an unmarried son-in-law, could do that.

Although we don't know what the point of these brats doing this is, as parents, we are naturally happy as long as they do it. However, the feeling of happiness doesn't last long and is soon overshadowed by a sense of crisis.

Do you know why I've come back?

"Keep an eye on Wanyan Liang. They're selling military rations and plotting a coup. Without your father here, and with the emperor in Harbin, if Wanyan Liang were to rebel now, we'd be doomed."

"That's called Aljin! When you speak Chinese, don't try to speak Jurchen; it sounds awful."

Prince Rui rested his hands on his knees, looking at Lin Zhou: "If even I am in danger, what are you doing here? To die with me?"

"That's unnecessary. It's just—you're bullying me, Your Highness. You look down on people."

The prince smiled and shook his head, saying nothing more, but pointed at Lin Zhou: "Go, go get some sleep, you must be exhausted from traveling over two thousand miles."

Lin Zhou was sent away. Prince Rui sat there for a long time. He was not concerned about how Lin Zhou escaped from his father. Instead, he kept thinking about whether he could withstand Wanyan Liang's attack if his father really got into trouble this time. If he couldn't, what would happen to the child?

After a long while, he returned to his room, whereupon the princess greeted him: "I heard that boy has arrived?"

"Yes, they said they were worried that Wanyan Liang would kill us, so they came to be our henchmen."

Upon hearing this, the princess chuckled, "Then what use would he be?"

"That's what I said too, but he's already here, and now he's definitely being watched by Wanyan Liang. Letting him run around recklessly, who knows what might happen. Oh, right—"

The prince began telling his wife about Lin Zhou delivering medicine to the old man at home. After listening, the princess slapped her forehead, her face full of shock, and asked, "Did he really say that?"

"Given his personality, it's quite possible. But given the old man's personality, he wouldn't have survived. There's no way to explain this."

"I'll have someone ask about it tomorrow."

"Hmm, that makes sense."

Some things are just interesting. Before the people who went to inquire about Wanyan Zongbi arrived, the messenger who informed them had already arrived, saying that Wanyan Zongbi had a persistent high fever and was vomiting and having diarrhea.

"The old man didn't take the medicine my son-in-law brought him that day?" Prince Rui pointed to Lin Zhou standing beside him and said, "That old man!"

The messenger was naturally a trusted confidant, one of the personal guards in the main tent that day. He turned his head to look at Lin Zhou sitting next to him, and his expression changed drastically. This brave warrior in battle suddenly collapsed to the ground, his hands supporting him as he rubbed his back.

Seeing his state, Prince Rui stepped forward and kicked him to the ground: "What kind of grotesque behavior is this!"

Trembling with fear, the guard recounted the events of that day to Prince Rui in detail, a story far more fantastical than Lin Zhou's account.

A man claiming to be a deity came along and asked the commander to convert to Taoism. He said he was some minor deity and even gave the commander an elixir of immortality. The commander refused and tried to capture him, but the deity vanished with a whoosh, leaving behind the elixir.

But the general refused to take the elixir and developed a high fever that very night. At first, he felt cold all over, then pus and blood oozed from his wounds. During the day, he felt icy cold, his heart was beating very fast, and he was breathing rapidly. Although the doctor had given him medicine, his condition did not improve.

Upon hearing this, Prince Rui frowned deeply: "He's not taking his medicine!?"

"Tell the commander to throw him into the fire."

Prince Rui gritted his teeth and turned to look at Lin Zhou: "How did you just disappear with a 'poof'?"

"It's just a smokescreen, a self-defense technique he learned overseas." Lin Zhou sat cross-legged, raised his chin, and asked, "He didn't eat a single one? He would have been fine even if he had eaten just one."

"General—the General refuses to eat."

"You're coming with me. Do you have any medicine on you?"

"Yes, there is—but, is there enough time?" Lin Zhou suddenly laughed: "I'll just give you the medicine directly. If I go there, he'll kill me, won't he?"

Prince Rui licked his lips, thought about it and agreed that it made sense, so he took the medicine from Lin Zhou again.

"This one is taken once, three times a day. There's also this one for injections, one million units at a time, which can be used ten times. This is for external application, but you have to cut away the infected tissue first."

"Cut?"

"Otherwise what?" Lin Zhou chuckled. "If he had been willing to take and apply medicine back then, that thing wouldn't have been a problem. But now, that thing of yours—if you don't get it cut, you'll die."

As he spoke, he glanced down at the instruction manual: "If the infection is severe, just push ten million units into him to give it a shock. Just turn this knob all the way down and push it all in at once."

In fact, Comrade Xiao Lin knew that there was no need to cut it. These bacteria and such could not withstand antibiotics. 100,000 units are a miracle drug. If you take 10 million units of antibiotics, even a Siberian tiger would be energized, let alone an irritable old man.

But he was still annoyed. Wasn't that old guy just showing off? He'd see if he could keep up the act after taking this blow.

"You!" Prince Rui poked Lin Zhou on the head with his finger: "Don't be so reckless next time. If you see me first, everything will be resolved."

"Even if I saw you first, it would be too late, old man!"

"I'll deal with you when I get back, you little brat." Prince Rui mounted his horse with his belongings. "You stay in the manor and don't go anywhere. Things aren't peaceful here right now. You're not allowed to leave this house until I get back!"