Jiangshan Fengwuzhi

Chapter 58 Pharmacist (Part )

My heart still aches.

Gu Jingnian suddenly felt that there was another heart beating at the same frequency as his not far away. In his daze, he thought of Ying Yao being caught and suddenly opened his eyes.

In the sight, the great pharmacist fell to the ground, raising a few dead leaves, his wide-open pupils filled with shock and unwillingness.

Gu Jingnian crawled over and checked his breath, and found that he was dead.

When I turned around again, I saw Gu Jizu's gloomy face.

"How could he die?" Gu Jizu suppressed his anger and asked word by word: "What happened?"

"It would be better if I died." Gu Jingnian murmured.

What he wanted was for the Great Pharmacist to die, so that the situation would not involve the Gu family again.

Gu Jizu ignored him and quickly turned his gaze to the direction where the words "caught" were heard.

He knew that the Great Pharmacist's arrangement tonight was to catch the man with the viper heart. Even if the pharmacist was dead now, as long as the "good medicine" was still there, there was still hope of curing the leg disease.

An old soldier of the Xiaoyi Army had already gone over there to get someone. After a while, someone reported from afar.

"Sir! Got it!"

They brought two people over.

When Master Ma, who was caught in the net, saw them, he shouted anxiously, "Yingyao, run!"

Gu Jingnian looked at Huang Hu.

Huang Hu had also stood up at this time and was sitting there with a grin on his face. As soon as he saw Gu Jingnian's gaze, he realized what was going on and his expression became a little more serious.

There was no need to communicate, as they had already decided to rescue Yingyao by force if necessary.

There is no other reason, maybe it’s just because the blood in the body is connected.

There was hope in Gu Jizu's eyes again. He stared at the figure that was getting closer and closer, squinting his eyes slightly. Gradually, hope turned into surprise.

The two people were approaching, one was Pei Nian and the other was Liang Caixing.

As soon as Liang Caixing saw Gu Jingnian, she pointed her finger and shouted, "I caught you! You and Pei Nian were having an affair here, and I caught you!"

Everyone else was silent, only his voice echoed in the woods.

Liang Caixing was a little dazed when he saw the corpses all over the ground.

In fact, he lost them as soon as he entered the woods, so he shouted loudly, hoping to scare Pei Nian and Gu Jingnian out. Sure enough, as soon as he shouted, a fire appeared in the deep woods. But he ran towards the fire for a while and didn't catch up. Until he heard a conversation in the distance, he couldn't hear it clearly because it was far away. He rushed over and saw Pei Nian. He was so excited that he shouted "I caught him".

He didn't realize that his shouting made others mistakenly think that Ying Yao was caught.

The surprise in Gu Jizu's eyes froze, and he clenched his fists in anger at Liang Caixing's stupidity.

He had planned everything, but he never expected that at the most critical link, such a ridiculous mistake would occur because of a fool.

At this moment, the look in his eyes when he looked at Liang Caixing was full of murderous intent.

Gu Jingnian suddenly thought that he was hallucinating because of his serious injuries. Such a big commotion happened tonight, but it was hard for Liang Caixing to still care about this matter.

It's quite persistent.

When Huang Hu saw that Ying Yao was not caught, his heart relaxed and he could no longer hold on. He fell to the ground, closed his eyes and rested, too lazy to pay attention to the noise of the stupid bird over there.

Master Ma was stunned for a long time. At first, he couldn't believe that he was rescued by a fool tonight. Then his eyes rolled and before Pei Nian looked at him, he crawled on the ground and buried his face in the darkness to avoid being seen by Pei Nian.

Pei Nian was relieved to see that Gu Jingnian and Huang Hu were safe. She spoke, not as if she was captured, but asked about Gu Jizu.

"Mr. Gu? Why are you here?"

Gu Jizu came back to his senses and said, "My brother didn't come home last night. I was worried about him, so I came to look for him."

Although the reason was false, everyone around him was his, so he didn't need to give an explanation. Since he said so, it meant that he didn't intend to silence Pei Nian.

Pei Nian pointed at the bodies on the ground and said, "These people are related to the case I am investigating. The bodies must be examined by the Kaiping Division."

"It's all thanks to Pei Jishi." Gu Jizu said, "I was just passing by."

He was only interested in curing his leg disease, and didn't want to care about cases or achievements. Having said that, without caring about Pei Nian's reaction, he made a casual gesture and asked his men to leave.

These people moved swiftly and quickly disappeared into the darkness.

Gu Jizu said he came to find Gu Jingnian, but he didn't even look at Gu Jingnian before leaving.

Pei Nian stepped forward, helped Gu Jingnian up, and bandaged his wound immediately to prevent others from seeing his healing process.

Huang Hu, seeing this, hurriedly tore off a piece of cloth and bandaged himself, groaning and asking Liang Caixing to check whether the bodies on the ground were dead.

"What's going on with Gu Jizu?" Pei Nian asked in a low voice.

"He heard about the Wanchun Palace incident and came to join in the fun to see if his leg could be cured."

This time, Gu Jingnian did not hide it. The great pharmacist was dead anyway, so it would not be a big crime even if Gu Jizu wanted to cooperate with him.

For him, the bigger question now is, how many people are behind the Great Pharmacist? Do they know that Ying Yao has obtained the Viper Heart? And do they know the connection between him and Ying Yao?

Once again he felt in danger of becoming the prey.

"Is this the person you met in Wanchun Palace?" Pei Nian asked.

"Is that so?" Gu Jingnian did not voice out his doubts, and said, "The scar on his face was caused by me."

"What does he want to do?"

"I suspect Huang Hu has taken the heart of the viper and wants to cut out Huang Hu's heart." "Ha." Huang Hu suddenly laughed for no reason and said, "This is not called 'taking out the heart of a tiger', it's called 'taking out the heart of a tiger'."

Gu Jingnian pulled Pei Nian and asked her to come closer.

Then, he whispered in Huang Hu's ear: "Tell others that this pharmacist is still evil and wants to use the leech to harm living beings. He got wind of the case and deliberately let Huang Hu act out a scene, pretending to be poisoned by the leech, to lure Huang Hu away. This is a plan to lure the snake out of its hole..."

Liang Caixing first checked the corpse on the ground, then looked up and saw the two of them huddled together and whispering. He pointed and said, "Well, you are in cahoots with each other and collude with the demon."

"What do you mean?" Huang Hu asked.

"You!" Liang Caixing pointed at Huang Hu and said, "You were clearly poisoned by a viper, but the two of them rescued you and killed so many people. They must have used the corpses to feed the viper!"

"Bullshit, you're so fucking stupid."

"Boom!"

Liang Caixing drew his knife and said, "I think you are all vipers. Killing you all is the best way to rid the people of harm!"

Pei Nian saw that this man was cunning, and thought to himself that if he continued to be ungrateful, it would not be difficult to kill him and then accuse him of colluding with the pharmacist.

As they were confronting each other, they heard the sound of dense footsteps and Wei Xie arrived with his guards. He immediately took control of the situation and brought all the people and the bodies back to the camp for further discussion.

As Gu Jingnian spoke, he glanced around and found that Master Ma was gone, and even the big net was gone.

No wonder Gu Jizu couldn't wait to leave.

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Under the moonlight, the carriage slowly passed through the mountains and forests.

Master Ma squatted in the carriage and glanced at the gloomy-faced Gu Jizu. There was a look of panic in his cunning little eyes, which looked very pitiful.

"Did you take the viper heart?" Gu Jizu asked.

"Yes." Master Ma thought about it quickly, not daring to deny it, and said, "But..."

"Hand it over, don't wait for me to torture you." Gu Jizu said, "My methods of torturing people are no worse than those people."

Master Ma said, "I'm afraid the snake heart is useless for your leg disease."

"I can tell whether it is useful or not."

Master Ma's tone became more sincere, and he said: "If you can trust me, you don't need to go far away, I can cure you."

He had deliberately avoided being seen by Pei Nian because he had already guessed Gu Jizu's purpose and cooperated with him to allow Gu Jizu to take him away smoothly without being noticed.

Gu Jizu was silent for a moment and threw out a water bag.

"Drink some water first. If you do something for me, I will reward you generously."

"Thank you, sir."

Master Ma was overjoyed. He took the water bag and took a sip, then started talking about what happened in the valley, emphasizing the story of Huang Hu escaping from the snake and recovering from his serious injuries, which Gu Jingnian had not mentioned before.

Out of selfishness, he said at the end: "Others think that the heart of the snake is a good medicine, but they are wrong. The heart of the snake is actually useless. What is really useful is the process of growing this heart... If you want to be cured, you can only imitate Huang Hu."

Gu Jizu didn't know whether to believe it or not, so he didn't express it and just rubbed his fingers.

Master Ma was a little nervous, but he could probably guess what he was thinking and didn't dare to say anything more.

Given the strength of the Gu family, it might not be impossible to raise a six-headed viper from the prisoners of war.

After a long while, Gu Jizu asked, "How do you know this?"

"It's a little skill passed down by the master."

"Where did the teacher come from?"

"Just call it 'Master'." Master Ma smiled and said, "Young Master, perhaps you know it."

Gu Jizu paused for a moment, then quickly remembered something and murmured, "Is it that sect?"

"Yes."

“It’s still there.”

Gu Jizu sighed and recalled some old things.

About fifty years ago, there were several disciples in Chongjing Academy who were very good at refining alien creatures. The leader among them was named Shi Xuandao. He was a genius and attracted some people to follow him to learn his refining methods and call themselves his disciple.

Later, these people were regarded as heretics and expelled from Chongjing Academy. They fled to Yue State, where they came into contact with more aliens and refined them, allowing Yue State to defeat Da Rui with its small power. When Da Rui raised an army to destroy Yue State, Shen Jichi completely uprooted his master and killed them all.

Gu Jizu's legs were destroyed at the hands of a general from the State of Yue who had learned the refining technique from his master. But thinking back on it today, he felt no hatred towards his master. He only sighed in his heart that fate was playing tricks on him.

"The master's sect should be gone." Master Ma said, "The only ones left are some pharmacists who inherited the master's skills. My master once followed Master Xuandao to make medicine, and was later recruited by the caged people."

"What is the relationship between the pharmacist who just died and you?"

"He is also from the Master's sect, but he is very mysterious. I only know that he is very good at refining medicine. I guess he is probably the direct descendant of Master Xuandao."

Talking about these old stories, Gu Jizu actually felt a little nostalgic. He nodded and said, "It seems that I can rest assured about your medical skills."

"Today, you have saved me. I am so lucky to be able to serve you like a dog or a horse."

Master Ma hurriedly expressed his loyalty, and then said: "It's just that I am afraid of causing trouble for you, after all, I have betrayed the cage and have been hunted down."

Gu Jizu didn't care. He raised his hand to stop the conversation and said calmly, "From today on, you only need to consider my legs."

(End of this chapter)