The Sickly Emperor Is Only Immune to Me

Chapter 106: Chapter 106: The Strange Person

Sang Yan thought about it, and it did seem to be the case.

But, what did it matter to her what other people were like?

They were just passersby.

They had nothing to do with her.

Sang Yan thought this way, but when she did the evening prayers, she saw that passerby again.

He knelt before the Buddha statue, motionless, like a wooden figure.

By the time she had finished the evening prayers, he still maintained that kneeling posture. Thinking that he had been here since morning, she didn’t know how long he had been kneeling.

Weirdo.

Thinking this, Sang Yan returned to her room.

The next day,

she went to perform the morning prayers, and that weirdo was still there, still in the same kneeling posture.

A little monk brought him some vegetarian food.

He thanked him, swallowed a couple of bites hastily, then suddenly, his head slanted, and he threw it all up.

“Ugh, ugh—”

He vomited so much that tears came out.

The entire temple hall was filled with a foul smell.

The monks seemed not to notice, focusing on the morning prayers.

Sang Yan tried to endure it, but couldn’t hold back.

Qiuzhi supported her as they left, whispering, “That man is really crude. How could he vomit inside the hall? And in front of the Buddha statue too. That’s highly disrespectful to the Buddha!”

Sang Yan didn’t quite think so, “Perhaps he has fallen ill.”

She inexplicably felt pity for the weirdo and looked back at him.

After finishing his vomiting, the weirdo stood up, his face ashen, his belly protruding, staggering out.

“The Buddha won’t save me.”

“No one can save me.”

“Ha ha ha, no one can save me…”

He walked past her, tears streaming down his face, muttering absently.

Listening to him, Sang Yan furrowed her brows, feeling that the weirdo might do something foolish.

What to do?

Now that she had seen him, it didn’t seem right not to help.

She struggled for a moment and then called a Hidden Guard, ordering, “Follow him, don’t let him do anything foolish. Also, try to find out who he is and what has happened to him.”

“Yes.”

The Hidden Guard followed the weirdo.

The weirdo descended the mountain.

Below the mountain was a river.

The river, due to recent heavy rains, appeared clear yet unfathomably deep.

He walked to the riverbank, closed his eyes, and lunged forward.

The Hidden Guard caught him by the shoulders in time and pulled him down to the ground.

The ground was covered in green grass, softening the fall.

But the weirdo clutched his belly, his face streaming with cold sweat.

“Ah, ah—”

He writhed on the ground in agony.

The Hidden Guard frowned, “What’s wrong with you?”

The weirdo cried and screamed in pain but couldn’t utter a word.

The Hidden Guard had no choice but to knock him out with a punch and then carry him into the city to find a doctor.

The doctor was a man in his fifties.

He was thin and short, with a black mole on his nose and nearly invisible eyes.

He took the weirdo’s pulse, checking repeatedly for a while, his brow furrowed, then examined the weirdo’s belly.

When the coarsely woven shirt was lifted, the weirdo, contrary to his shabby appearance, had skin that was snow-white and smooth, clearly someone normally indulged.

And on that snow-white skin protruded a bulge, firm and hard to the touch.

The doctor leaned over the belly and listened; there seemed to be a heartbeat.

“Hey!”

He startled, stroked his short beard, and after calming down for a while, he sighed, “Strange indeed. Strange indeed. Could it be that a man can become pregnant?”

Hidden Guard: “…”

A man pregnant?

“What nonsense are you talking about?”

He was running out of patience, grabbed the doctor by the collar, and demanded with a cold face, “Explain clearly, what exactly is wrong with him?”

“Please stay calm, Hero, let’s talk this through—”

The doctor, timid and eager to please, quickly said, “I think he, he seems to be pregnant. His, his pulse is very erratic, it seems like a pregnancy pulse, but then it doesn’t, and I am not very skilled medically, really can’t diagnose clearly. But his stomach is so swollen, and there seems to be something moving inside, it really looks just like pregnancy.”

Now it was the Hidden Guard’s turn to be shocked and frown.

“How could it be… pregnant?”

The Hidden Guard doubted his own life.

But he didn’t doubt for long, and then thought: If he is not pregnant, and so young, why would he seek death?

“You, you all—”

At this moment, the strange person slowly woke up, and upon seeing two strangers, nearly fell off the bed in fright.

“Who are you? What do you want?”

Seeing his clothes lifted, his confusion and fear deepened.

“Don’t touch me!”

He clutched his stomach, got off the bed, and ran outside.

Seeing this, the Hidden Guard tossed the doctor two taels of silver and hurriedly chased after the strange person.

The strange person, one hand on his belly and the other on his face, ran wildly in the streets, bumping into many people and almost toppling several street vendors’ stalls.

“You, you stop following me! What do you want?”

The strange person was shouting, and tears started to fall.

How did he not die!

How did he not die!

“Why did you save me!”

He was overwhelmed, picked up the food from a nearby stall, and hurled it.

The Hidden Guard easily dodged it.

“Hey, why are you messing with my things! Pay for them! Pay for them!”

The stall owner grabbed the strange person, demanding compensation.

The strange person, frenzied, pushed him away with great force and staggered off.

The Hidden Guard was halted.

The stall owner put on a fierce look, “You, you can’t leave! You guys have issues, causing me to lose my stuff! If you don’t pay, I’ll take you to the officials!”

The Hidden Guard, busy chasing after the person, didn’t argue, simply took out two taels of silver, paid off the amount, and didn’t even wait for the change.

The strange person finally stopped.

He stopped in front of a mansion.

The mansion had a grand entrance and extended far, looking very magnificent and splendid.

The plaque read: Jiang Residence

“Second Young Master, how, how did you end up like this?”

The gatekeeper, both shocked and panicked, hurried forward to support him and asked concernedly, “Second Young Master, what happened to you?”

Watching this scene from afar, the Hidden Guard thought: Jiang Residence? Second Young Master? Is this person Jiang Chongyu’s brother Jiang Chongli?

*

Sang Mansion

Sang Kun was lying in bed recovering, enjoying grapes fed by the pretty Maid, and asked the guard kneeling on the ground, “I asked you to check on Jiang Chongyu, how is it going?”

Duan Yan had not found out anything illegal or disorderly about Jiang Chongyu.

The man was utterly upright and honest, aside from his official duties, he would spend his free time studying and had even donated family wealth to set up several schools, taking in children from poor families, even teaching there personally.

This was quite awkward.

Bowing his head and hesitating for a while, he finally said, “Mr. Jiang hasn’t done anything worth investigating. However, Second Young Master Jiang seemed to have contracted a strange illness. He, he disguised himself early yesterday morning, with a pregnant belly went to Long Chan Temple to pray, but afterward, he threw himself into the river, fortunately, he was saved, and a doctor saw him, that doctor said, said—”

“What did he say?”

Sang Kun became a bit interested now, even stopped eating grapes, just looked at him.

Duan Yan was so embarrassed his face turned red, struggling to speak.

Sang Kun frowned, “Quit stalling, just say it!”

Duan Yan had no choice but to tell the truth, “The doctor said, Second Young Master Jiang might be, might be pregnant.”

This was utterly absurd and awkward.

How could a man be pregnant?

Sang Kun thought the same, “Did you hear wrong? How could a man possibly be pregnant?”

“No, that’s what the doctor said, he might be pregnant.”

Duan Yan became more nervous as he spoke, “Should I check further?”

“Hurry up and do it!”

Sang Kun nodded and waved his hand, his expression serious, “You must clear this up! Jiang Chongyu has harmed me many times, this could be a chance to ‘thank’ him!”