False evidence

Chapter 391 Medicine Slave
"Didn't I already tell you? I'm an orphan, and my name is Sanqi."

Tong Xiangnan walked over, carefully examined my face, and asked:

"You know physiognomy, so you knew Sun Jing was nearby just now through me, right?"

I nodded: "He came to this ward before, pretending to be a doctor. You should have met him."

"I didn't notice."

Tong Xiangnan adjusted his glasses and sighed, "Actually, I don't remember this nephew very well. On the contrary, I remember..."

He stopped talking, squeezed my shoulder, and said, "If there's nothing else, I'll hypnotize you now."

"Aren't you tired? How about we do it another day?"

"No need. Now."

I drew the curtains and locked the door, and the room suddenly became very dark.

Tong Xiangnan leaned against the hospital bed and slowly said:
"This time, let's try a different approach. You yourself can introduce your... your 'friends' one by one."

I nodded, took out a cigarette, lit it, and took a shallow puff.

Lu Xin was the first to emerge from the smoke.

He also had a cigarette between his fingers, and gave Tong Xiangnan a nonchalant smile: "A tumor in your brain? Will it make you stupid?"

Following him out was Liang Kaiyuan. "Hello, Mr. Tong, we meet again."

Liang Yuan was the third to appear, looking rather melancholy as he glanced around and said:
“When I was alive, I was very poor. I would tough it out if I had a minor illness. But if I got a serious illness, well… I would have worked for half a year for nothing.”

"Ugh, this place is awful, there's a weird smell everywhere!"

Sun Li raised his lotus finger and fanned himself in front of his nose. After looking around, he sat down on the chair next to the wall.

"Hey, this cushion is way too hard. Couldn't you have replaced it with a leopard skin? Or at least, you could have added more silk floss."

Tong Xiangnan asked, "Didn't you say there were five?"

I pointed to Liang Garden.

Liang Yuan turned her head and said in a female voice, "Hello, sir. My name is Shen Fangyun."

I told Tong Xiangnan, "Shen Fangyun was Liang Kaiyuan's fiancée in his previous life. In this life... she was reincarnated as Liang Yuan. The two of them usually won't be separated."

Seeing Tong Xiangnan staring at me, I sensed something strange in his gaze. "I'm telling the truth. You don't really think I've gone crazy, do you?"

Tong Xiangnan coughed lightly and said, "I believe in their existence, but I can't yet imagine how the six of you would get along. How about this, let's introduce yourselves one by one."

Lu Xin smiled at me, straightened up, and said, "Do I need an introduction?"

Tong Xiangnan said, "Let me introduce you. Also, while you're introducing you, walk around the room counterclockwise."

As if afraid that Lü Xin wouldn't know the concept of counterclockwise, he deliberately pointed to the wall clock.

Lu Xin shrugged, put his hands behind his back, strolled around, and slowly said:

"My name is Lü Xin, courtesy name Wuxin. I lost my mother at the age of five and was sold into a brothel by my drunken father at the age of nine. I worked as a teapot and a pimp. Later, through someone's introduction, I entered the Thousand Gates. As a fire general, I killed the son of a big shot and was hunted down by my fellow disciples."

I used a series of tricks—a feigned madness, a quick escape, a borrowed knife to kill, and a honey trap—to kill seven of my fellow disciples. After that, I rode alone for a thousand miles, drunk and asleep among the flowers. Heh, thinking back to those times, they were truly joyful. Alas, time never returns.

I couldn't help but ask, "Before you joined the Thousand Gates, you were a pimp. Who taught you your skills?"

Lu Xin laughed and said, "I've never been to modern brothels, but I imagine these places must have thugs to keep watch, right? Ever since I was sold into a brothel, I've been bullied by a shaman named Lei. I served him tea and water, washed his feet and gave him a bath, treating him better than I would my own father. Later, I learned his Iron Palm technique. And then, he died under my Iron Palm!"

Lu Xin spoke with such nonchalance, but to me, it sent chills down my spine. Liang Kaiyuan stood up and, retracing Lu Xin's steps, said as he walked:

"In this life, my name is Liang Kaiyuan. I was born into a well-off family. I had no worries about food or clothing and everything went smoothly for me. When I was twenty-seven, I quit my job and opened my first pastry shop, and later opened five more chain stores. Then, I met the love of my life. Ah, I must have loved her for three lifetimes."

As he said this, he looked at Liang Yuan with an apologetic gaze.

With a sigh, Shen Fangyun appeared. "If you had said that before, I would definitely still hate you. But now... I can only say that it's all fate. It's all just me worrying unnecessarily, clinging to my obsessions, and reaping the bitter fruit of my own actions."

Liang Kaiyuan shook his head: "I'm the one who's wronged you."

Shen Fangyun also shook her head: "It's not your fault. There's nothing wrong with loving someone. The fault lies with me. I only felt wronged back then and didn't drink that bowl of soup."

"Soup?"

Tong Xiangnan asked, "What kind of soup?"

Perhaps due to the era she lived in, Shen Fangyun usually spoke slowly, and even now her voice remained gentle as she spoke slowly and deliberately:
“I had forgotten many things before, but not long ago I saw that person again and remembered everything I had forgotten.”

Liang Kaiyuan asked, "Who did you see?"

Shen Fangyun looked at me and said, "You should still remember that head nurse."

Her words sparked my questions again.

I saw the head nurse again before, but she seemed like a completely different person than she did in the morning.

She knew Qiu Weichi was Ma Guihua's son because of the hospital's records, but she had never met Qiu Weichi in person.

Since neither of us knows each other, how could I possibly foresee the disaster that is about to befall Qiu Weichi's family through her?
Shen Fangyun said, "I know what you're thinking. What you saw, I also saw. Moreover, I recognized that the nurse at that time was not her."

I asked, "Not her? Then who is she?"

Shen Fangyun said softly, "The Bridge of Helplessness spans the River of Oblivion, and I recall the past by the Stone of Three Lives; I bid farewell to this life before the Terrace of Longing for Home, and drink the Meng Po soup that makes me lose my mind."

River of Oblivion, Bridge of Helplessness, Stone of Three Lives, Terrace of Longing for Home...

"The Soup of Oblivion!"

I was utterly shocked.

Shen Fangyun nodded: "Yes, the head nurse we saw back then was actually Meng Po. In my previous life, I was deeply attached to my past life, and I smashed the bowl after only drinking one sip of the soup. That's why I recognize her."

You must be wondering why she came to earth. I had the same question back then, but now I know why she came to earth.

Seeing that Shen Fangyun remained silent, Liang Kaiyuan, Monkey, and even Tong Xiangnan couldn't help but ask at the same time:

What is Meng Po doing in the human world?

"Receive one person; leave one soul behind."

I asked, "What do you mean?"

Shen Fangyun sighed softly and said to me, "Jiang Baohan has used the Yin-Yang Fan, so he is no longer an ordinary person. Not to mention Ox-Head and Horse-Face, even the Seventh Master and the Eighth Master cannot take him away. Only when Meng Po comes and feeds him the Meng Po Soup can he truly say goodbye to this life."

Lu Xin nodded: "When you say you're picking up someone, you mean Jiang Baohan. And what do you mean by leaving behind a soul?"

Shen Fangyun remained silent for a moment, then looked up at me and said, "The recipe for the 'Hometown of Black Sweets' is with you, isn't it?"

I suddenly had an extremely eerie feeling, and while nodding, I tried to ask Shen Fangyun, "Who are you?"

Shen Fangyun glanced at Liang Kaiyuan and said, "I am Kaiyuan's betrothed in his previous life. Now I have obtained a part of Meng Po's soul and am responsible for preparing medicine for you, Tenth Master. You can still call me Shen Fangyun, or you can call me—the Medicine Slave!"

(End of this chapter)