Jiangshan Fengwuzhi

Chapter 168 Royal Physician
When Yin Jinggeng arrived, Gu Jingnian, Pei Nian and Yin Wanqing had already walked around the underground palace.

"Why are you here?"

Yin Jinggeng was also in charge of the imperial palace guards. He first heard that someone had broken into the palace, and then learned the identity of the intruder, so he hurried over.

When he heard that Wei Li's villa could lead directly to the underground palace, he was even more surprised and suspicious.

Gu Jingnian observed his expression and asked, "Your Highness, do you know anything?"

With Yin Jinggeng's cunningness, if he really wanted to hide it from Gu Jingnian, he wouldn't have revealed it in his expression.

He nodded and said, "Wei Li's senior brother, Zhao Boheng is back."

Gu Jingnian had already heard about this from Feng Niang, so he waited for further information.

Yin Jinggeng said: "Wei Li and Zhao Boheng are both disciples of Master Xuandao. I doubt they will continue to tinker with alchemy. But there is nothing we can do about them."

"Why?"

"First, the Yong Kingdom has never issued an explicit order to prohibit alchemy; second, they are openly treating illnesses and refining medicine for the aliens."

This is another rather novel topic.

Yin Jinggeng hesitated for a moment and said, "There are many strange people in Yong State, and strange people can also get sick. For example, you may not be able to heal yourself one day, or one of your fire wings may not be able to flap. It is inevitable that you will need a doctor to treat you, but ordinary doctors can only treat ordinary people, and are helpless against various kinds of strange people. This is one of the reasons why strange people can hardly shake the status of ordinary people in Zhongzhou. Because there are too few doctors who can treat them, and Zhao Boheng is one of them, and the most famous one."

Gu Jingnian said: "So, he can refine aliens in the name of saving them?"

"I do suspect this," Yin Jinggeng said, "but it's hard to prove. He has too many supporters in the court, both civil and military. If we touch him, it would be like hitting a rock with an egg."

Gu Jingnian heard him use such a serious word and asked, "Why?"

"You fought with Bai Yuze yesterday. What do you think of his strength?"

"powerful."

Gu Jingnian admitted it bluntly.

If nothing else, Bai Yuze could at least use water to restrain his fire.

Yin Jinggeng said, "Bai Yuze's elixir is the secret recipe given to him by Zhao Boheng. The strongest of the Yiren families in Yong State have all received favors from Zhao Boheng and relied on him to cure their illnesses or increase their strength. In this case, how dare I touch Zhao Boheng?"

Gu Jingnian looked towards the entrance to the underground palace and asked, "Has Zhao Boheng been here in the past two days?"

Yin Jinggeng nodded and said, "He went to the underground palace yesterday and moved away all the things left in it, asking his father to make medicine."

"Where did you move to?"

"The Imperial Hospital."

Gu Jingnian and Yin Jinggeng looked at each other and understood each other's intentions.

Given Zhao Boheng's prestige in Yong State, the Eastern Palace should not confront him head-on. This time, Gu Jingnian could go to the Imperial Hospital to make a scene in the name of private matters, which could be regarded as a prelude for the Eastern Palace.

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Royal Hospital.

Ever since the death of Yin Kuo and his son Yin Yucheng, the imperial physician Liang Xing disappeared, and many other imperial physicians either died or fled, the place became deserted for several days.

But people always need to see a doctor. With the return of Zhao Boheng, he was entrusted with the task of running the Imperial Hospital, and the government office regained its vitality.

On this day, many servants were moving medicinal herbs when suddenly someone turned around and exclaimed.

"That's... Cheng... Chengye Hou?"

The man walking over was easy to recognize, with two flaming wings on his back. Who else could it be but Gu Jingnian, the most popular person in Beijing recently?

"Is Zhao Boheng here?" Gu Jingnian asked.

"inside."

Gu Jingnian then walked in, not at a fast pace, and without any attitude of coming to call for an explanation. He calmly went from one government office to another, carefully identifying every imperial physician he met.

But when he searched all the houses, he didn't see Zhao Boheng, let alone any trace of Zhang Xiaofang.

Gu Jingnian then flapped his wings and flew up into the air, hovering above the Imperial Hospital and overlooking it, which once again caused a round of pointing and talking.

Soon, he realized something was wrong.

There were clearly two rows of official residences under a large roof at the back of the courtyard, but when he pushed the door open, he only saw one row, indicating that there was hidden space behind the wall.

But I don't know where the entrance is.

Gu Jingnian’s way of getting in was very simple. He flew straight to the roof and smashed it hard.

"Boom!"

Pieces of tiles and wood chips flew everywhere.

Gu Jingnian fell from the roof and looked around. He saw a wide space inside with rows of medicine racks and medicine furnaces. It was obviously a place for refining medicine.

Right here, there are seven or eight girls sitting upright, each of them making the same pose.

There was a bowl in front of them, and blood was dripping from their fingertips into the bowl.

Gu Jingnian only took a glance and saw Zhang Xiaofang.

He suppressed his anger, walked forward, grabbed Zhang Xiaofang's hand and dragged her out from the stool.

"Sir?"

Zhang Xiaofang was very surprised and asked, "Why are you here?"

Gu Jingnian did not answer and continued to observe the place.

He saw that the women were all around seventeen years old, some were ugly and some were beautiful, so he thought that they were not captured based on their appearance.

Strangely, some of them looked familiar to Gu Jingnian, but he couldn't remember where he had seen them.

In short, the situation here must be that they are using living people to refine some kind of supernatural power.

Yin Jinggeng wanted evidence, and this is the evidence.

"Come with me."

"Sir, you..."

The next moment, someone suddenly shouted, "Xiaofang, who is this?" Gu Jingnian turned around and saw a half-blind man coming out of a cubicle, walking towards him with a cane.

"It's the young master." Zhang Xiaofang said, "It's also Ah Chou."

"It turns out to be Marquis Chengye."

The half-blind man smiled ingratiatingly, and as he walked, he flattered, "I have long seen that the Marquis is not an ordinary person, and he will surely soar to the sky one day."

Gu Jingnian looked alert and asked, "So what?"

The half-blind man said anxiously: "Although I am old, sick and disabled, I am willing to serve you."

"Haven't you already surrendered to Zhao Boheng?"

The half-blind man was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "I was indeed brought to Yongjing by Imperial Physician Zhao, but my medical skills are not good enough, so I am afraid I cannot get a job in this Imperial Hospital."

Gu Jingnian looked at the half-blind man's expression and did not sense any danger, so he asked, "Why did you bring Zhang Xiaofang here? To refine her?"

The half-blind man was startled and waved his hand, "What are you talking about, Lord? I just brought her here for a test."

"test?"

"Yes." Zhang Xiaofang said, "Imperial Physician Zhao can detect whether a person has the blood of an alien."

As he was talking, another person came out from the cubicle.

When he saw this person, Gu Jingnian's eyes narrowed slightly.

The man was about fifty years old, with three long, very elegant beards, and an extraordinary aura.

However, when Gu Jingnian saw him, he thought of another hunchbacked old man - Zhang Dashi's father-in-law, Zhao Bo, who escaped from the war and came to Lanshui Village.

Looking at the man's face again, there was clearly a tattoo that had not been completely washed off.

"Are you Zhao Boheng?" Gu Jingnian asked, "Are you also Zhao Bo?"

"good."

Zhao Boheng stroked his beard and nodded, saying, "I am a refugee from Yue State. I went to Rui State to do some business, so I had to disguise myself."

Then he turned to Zhang Xiaofang and said, "I was living in the mountains at that time, and it was thanks to Miss Zhang that I was rescued."

When Gu Jingnian looked at the tattoo on Zhao Boheng's face again, he realized that it was actually a tattoo of the Rui army, which was tattooed after they captured him, a prisoner from the State of Yue.

Another person came out of the compartment. He was a very handsome young man.

Gu Jingnian also felt that this person looked familiar, so he couldn't help but take another look. He couldn't help but be surprised and asked, "You are...Zhang Dashi's wife, Zhao E?"

"Zhao Er greets Marquis Chengye." The young man bowed.

Seeing this, Zhang Xiaofang puffed her cheeks in annoyance.

She was wholeheartedly seeking a wife for her brother at the time, and had saved a lot of money for the purpose, but she did not expect that she would end up marrying a man for her brother.

But who could have thought at that time that such a beautiful girl would be a man?
Gu Jingnian frowned slightly, feeling it was too absurd.

He really couldn't understand why a person like Zhao Boheng would disguise himself and go to a rural village to deceive an ordinary hunter.

Is it just for the money from selling those few acres of land?
"At that time, I was stranded in the country of Rui. Thanks to Miss Zhang's generosity, she sold her land to help me." Zhao Boheng said in a gentle and elegant manner, "Therefore, now that we have the chance to meet, I will test whether Miss Zhang has supernatural powers."

"Really?" Gu Jingnian didn't believe it.

Zhao Boheng nodded and said, "That's true. Although there are not many Yihai aliens who come to Zhongzhou, over the past thousands of years, there have been many aliens who intermarry with ordinary people. Their descendants often lose their special abilities and don't know for several generations that their ancestors were aliens."

Having said that, he changed the subject and became more arrogant.

"But as long as they have alien blood in their bodies, I have a way to make them feel their abilities again. With practice, they can gradually master the skills."

Gu Jingnian still didn't believe it, and a hint of ridicule appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"What I said is true." Zhao Boheng said, "There are many extraordinary people in Yong State, and I discovered their potential."

Gu Jingnian asked: "How do you know that you didn't absorb the supernatural power through refining?"

Zhao Boheng sighed, "The disaster of Yue's demise is still before my eyes. How can I fail twice in the same place? Whether you believe it or not, I have a clear conscience for what I have done."

Zhao Erze looked at the girls sitting upright and asked, "Is what the teacher said true?"

"Yes."

The girls said that they were all deeply favored by Zhao Boheng, and some were rescued as slaves and brought to the State of Yong.

Seeing this, Gu Jingnian didn't want to say more and said, "I want to take Zhang Xiaofang away."

Zhao Boheng turned his eyes and glanced at the bowl of blood over there, then smiled and said, "Of course."

Gu Jingnian did not stay and flew towards the hole in the roof with Zhang Xiaofang in his arm.

"My Lord, wait for me."

The half-blind man shouted, pushed open an inconspicuous door in the wall, and ran out.

He was afraid that he would not be able to catch up with Gu Jingnian, but when he came out of the Imperial Hospital, he saw Gu Jingnian and Zhang Xiaofang standing there waiting.

"Master Hou."

"Tell me." Gu Jingnian's face was cold, and he said calmly, "What's going on?"

"Villain..."

The half-blind man hesitated, thought for a moment, and realized that Zhao Boheng had not asked him to hide the matter, so he simply told the truth.

"I suspect that Imperial Physician Zhao is looking for someone. When he came to Lanshui Village in disguise, he often asked me which family had adopted a girl."

After hearing this, Gu Jingnian was slightly stunned and thought of something.

Wei Li said that she fled from Rui State, crossed the Yidi Mountains, and gave birth in a forest.

That was the forest where Phoenix had brought him down.

Lanshui Village is also near the woods...

(End of this chapter)