False evidence

Chapter 295 Dongtai Gate

Chapter 295 Dongtai Gate
Just hearing the word "poison" gives me goosebumps.

I've heard of Gu (a type of poison), but I've never seen it.

In my mind, Gu is a poisonous insect.

After hearing what Liu Hong said, and thinking about those terrifying water spiders...

The instinctive fear of Gu that they already had deepened even further.

Liu Hong's explanation of water spiders was very concise.

—Those were all raised by Wei Min in recent years using Gu techniques, and were fed with live livestock and various poisonous insects.

—The purpose of raising water spiders is to save Liu Hong's life!
I asked, "If we had stayed in the water, I would have been eaten away by the red water spiders and reduced to a skeleton. If I had traded my life for yours, would you have been able to continue living?"

Liu Hong nodded, but clearly didn't want to continue the discussion about the water spider and the 'Gu':
“There are very few people who meet the criteria for a life-swapping exchange. Xiaomin found a few before, but they were all children, and she couldn’t bear to hurt them.”

I said coldly, "I'm a good fit, and I'm just delivered to your doorstep."

Liu Hong said, "Yes, you are suitable; and that short man—Gu Han—is also suitable."

"Happy New Year!"

I got up and straightened my clothes.

There's no need to argue any further now that things have come to this.

"sorry!"

Liu Hong then stood up.

At the same time, Wei Min, lying on her hospital bed, also weakly uttered these three words.

Liu Hong tucked the blanket around Wei Min, looked at her face, and whispered a few words.

Then she said to me, "Sanqi, I would never intentionally harm you, and Xiaomin would never do that either! I know now that you were asked by my grandfather to come find me! But Xiaomin doesn't know you! I... I'll say something inhuman, even if she knew you were my friend, the relationship between one's own man and his friend..."

"You're making things more complicated." I stared at him for a moment and said, "The ordeal of turning forty is over, so let's give our woman a proper status. We'll definitely have a wedding banquet, but don't invite me, I'm very busy."

Liu Hong quickly stepped forward, wanting to put his arm around my shoulder.

I abruptly pushed his hand away, and could no longer control myself as I shouted:

"Enough! You may have a thousand reasons, but my friend, my dog... and me! They almost died, that's a fact! I don't want to get angry at a woman lying in a hospital bed, but don't force me to say anything more hurtful!"

Liu Hong's expression froze for a moment, and as I turned away, he said weakly:
“I’m very grateful to you. If you hadn’t gone, Xiaomin would have traded her life for mine. If that had happened… what would be the point of me living…”

Thinking back to the first time I met Wei Min in real life, I was somewhat shocked by her 'unusual amazement' and her 'strange behavior' that was hard for ordinary people to understand.

However, I didn't linger. I found Xiao Shen San, ignored Liu Yi'er's shouts, and left the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital directly.

"Why are you so angry?" Xiao Shen asked me while fastening his seatbelt.

I was stunned for a moment before shaking my head slightly: "I shouldn't be getting angry, but I just have this feeling of pent-up anger inside me..."

I recounted my conversation with Liu Hong.

Xiao Shen scoffed, "It would be abnormal if you weren't angry!"

I looked at him.

He said, "If it were a monkey, or me, would you be this angry if something like this happened? Tsk, actually it's just that your relationship with Liu Hong isn't that close!"
Shuanzhu is still on an IV drip, and Mengniu's eyes are still swollen. You almost lost your life back then, and you're still worried about Pidan!
They're a loving couple, and we're a family too! Whether it was intentional or not, at this point, I wouldn't be able to get over it either!

Oh dear! I understand! You're just feeling resentful right now, it's just a momentary outburst! You'll be fine afterward!

Alright, alright, stop thinking about it, the more you think about it, the more problems you'll have.

"How about this, we go find some fares... No, no, I can't be a 'pimp' for the rest of my life, especially during the New Year. Or, how about we find... find Big Baldy?"

"good idea!"

I called Yan Fengwei on the first day of the Lunar New Year, saying I'd come to wish him a Happy New Year the next morning. I don't know if he'd had too much to drink or what, but he mumbled, "It's not appropriate! I have to open my shop...to make money!"

Dongtaimen is a bustling place, with some businesses staying open and some closing during the year. Compared to other places, it is still quite lively.

For example, how to say it...

Some shops were closed, so some vendors took advantage of the space to sell their odds and ends, making it feel a bit like a small temple fair.

Xiao Shen is wild at heart and has some life experience, but he hasn't really seen much of the world.

I'm even worse than him.

I didn't go back for the first two years. I was afraid to see the happy family scenes during the Lunar New Year, so I lived like a coward, staying at home all day and surviving on the stockpiled wine and vacuum-packed cooked food.

So this time, we both really got away with it.

Starting from the street corner, they 'scatter silver' all the way.

It doesn't matter what kind of meat skewers, candied hawthorns, fried dough sticks, or small skewers...

Anyway, he kept talking and had a whole bunch in his hand.

And so, they arrived at the center of Dongtaimen, which was less than 30 meters from Yan Fengwei's shop.

"Little brother, I want..."

As soon as a bulky woman in a cotton-padded coat approached me, I scoffed at her, stared at her outstretched hand, pouted, and turned away without saying a word.

Damn, they're really hardworking. They're even selling their products these days?

Wait, who still watches stock charts these days?

I turned to look at the woman.

She has found a new target and is now showing off half of her cotton-padded coat to others.

The man who approached me was a bald old man in his fifties, wearing black-rimmed glasses, the kind of person you wouldn't notice in a crowd.

I made eye contact with the old man, and he seemed quite wary. He actually pulled the woman and led her into a small alley.

Although I was a little curious about what the woman was selling if not CDs, I wasn't going to deliberately follow her to find out.

However, at that moment, in his mind, Lü Xin suddenly uttered two strange words.
—Save them!
—Get them!

I was stunned: "Save who? Get rid of who?"

Lü Xin seemed to be talking to himself: "Trying to do ten things with only a few tricks is probably asking for trouble."

I was completely confused: "What are you talking about?"

Lu Xin chuckled: "I'll explain later. For now, listen to me, go along and just watch the show. Hurry up, or someone might really die."

I was just slapping my child on a rainy day, and I had nothing better to do, so I didn't think about it anymore. I let Xiao Shen wander around by himself first, and then followed him into the alley.

Before they even got close, the woman gestured to the bespectacled old man and said:
"Twenty thousand, that's the lowest I can go. You know this is a good product."

The bespectacled old man seemed a bit impatient, speaking with a southern accent:
"It's true that you're an old man who opens doors, but you have to let me handle it and take a look."

I started to realize what was going on. Having known Yan Fengwei for a while, I'd heard him use a lot of professional terminology related to antiques.

For example, "open door" means that it looks genuine at first glance; conversely, "closed door" means that it looks new but doesn't match your taste. The so-called "open door old" means that the item may not be genuine, it may be an old fake, but the item is definitely old.

So this woman was selling antiques while holding them in her arms.

I immediately lost interest, but Lü Xin urged me to go forward and 'deal with them'.

I find it really baffling. I've been to Dongtaimen a few times, and there are usually quite a few people selling things like this. According to Yan Fengwei, he wouldn't even bother touching the things these people are selling.

Even if they're selling counterfeit goods, they haven't been chasing me to scam me, so why should I have to deal with them...?

(End of this chapter)