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Chapter 563 Blood Gourd
When Zhu Yu heard the noise, he was sitting in the courtyard and immediately jumped up.

Lu Qing also stood up and looked in the direction of the sound.

Liu Yueyao walked at the front and saw Lu Qing and Zhu Yu in the courtyard. She didn't bother to bow and said first, "Master, Madam, the talismans and incantations have returned."

Upon seeing Liu Yueyao and hearing that the Fu brothers had returned, Zhu Yu breathed a sigh of relief. Then he saw Fu Lu carrying someone on his back as he walked in, following behind Liu Yueyao.

My heart, which had just settled back into place, jumped again in an instant.

"What's going on?!" Zhu Yu rushed over. It was dark in the courtyard, and she couldn't see clearly what the person on the talisman's back looked like.

Upon seeing the expression on Zhu Yu's face, Fu Lu guessed what she was thinking and quickly said, "Madam, don't be afraid, the one on my back isn't my elder brother!"

Upon hearing this, Fu Wen, who had been following behind, quickly stepped forward to make sure Zhu Yu could see him clearly: "Madam, I'm here."

Zhu Yu finally saw the rune that had caught up from behind and realized that it was also completely unharmed, and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Who did you bring back?" Lu Qing looked at the bloodied and mangled figure on the back of the talisman with some doubt, unsure whether it was dead or alive.

"This man went to the Tze-Lush Shop during the day to demand an explanation, shouting things like his life was at stake. He was politely invited in by the shopkeeper, but just as it was getting dark, we saw several guards from the Tze-Lush Shop sneakily carrying him out, taking him in a carriage, and dumping him in the outskirts of the city. When we followed them, we found that he had been beaten black and blue. We thought that this man probably knew some secret about the Tze-Lush Shop, which is why he was almost beaten to death."

So they picked the person up first. Manager Liu didn't know what to do with the person, so he said he'd turn him over and ask the master for his opinion.

Liu Yueyao, with keen insight, raised the small lantern she was holding higher and moved closer to the person on the back of the talisman so that Lu Qing and Zhu Yu could see the person's condition more clearly.

The man was indeed badly beaten; his clothes were almost soaked in blood, and his arms hung limply in front of the talisman. His body barely rose and fell with his breath.

"This won't do. Find another secluded place, put the person down, and see if there's any chance of survival," Lu Qing instructed.

Liu Yueyao immediately signaled Fu Lu to carry the person on his back and follow her. Zhu Yu went back to his room to get his own set of items and followed as well.

After winding their way through several turns, the group finally arrived at another small courtyard.

Zhu Yu had visited Yunyin Pavilion many times before, but he still had no grasp of its full scope. The main building already contained hidden secrets, but he never expected there to be so many secret spaces behind it.

This small courtyard is quite a roundabout way from where they live. If you're not very familiar with the area, you'd probably have trouble finding it. There's a room in the courtyard with the most basic things like a bed and a table and chairs. It's a bit simple, but it's not too bad for an ordinary person.

Lu Qing was very satisfied with this and had Fu Lu carefully settle the person on the bed.

Zhu Yu stepped forward and asked Fu Wen to bring the oil lamp closer. He pried open the man's eyelids and looked inside. Under the bright lamplight, the man's pupils were slightly constricted. He then felt the pulse on the side of the neck and wrist. Although faint, it was still detectable if one felt carefully.

“He’s still alive.” Zhu Yu said to Lu Qing as he skillfully opened the leather bag and took out needles and thread. “But I don’t have Yan Daoxin’s ability to determine whether he has been poisoned by any strange or unusual toxins.”

So after the external injuries are treated, whether he lives or dies depends on his fate.

Liu Yueyao had never seen Zhu Yu do these things before. Although she had extensive connections in the capital and could find out almost anything, she was not so well-informed about things outside the capital or even outside of Jin Kingdom.

Therefore, she watched as Zhu Yu skillfully used the alum vinegar, cypress soup, and strong liquor obtained from the talisman to carefully wash the wounds on the unconscious victim's body. Then, she used a small black iron knife that had been heated over a fire to deftly clean up the excess flesh that had been broken beyond repair, making the wounds clean and smooth, and allowing fresh blood to seep out. Only then did she replace the wounds with needles and mulberry bark thread to carefully suture the deeper, more open wounds.

I hope you can do these things with ease and composure.

Lu Qing and Fu Wenfu, who were watching from a distance, were used to such things and calmly observed from afar.

Liu Yueyao, who was usually quite adept at handling everything, had her face flushed and paled alternately, her eyes wide open. It wasn't until she watched as the person, covered in lacerations and wounds, gradually regained a semblance of human form under Zhu Yu's intervention, and the messy, patchy wounds were finally cleaned into neatly stitched scars, that her expression finally stabilized.

This person was seriously injured, with numerous wounds of varying sizes and depths. After treating them all, Zhu Yu was so exhausted that he could barely stand up straight.

"Fu Lu, help me apply ointment to the outside of his wounds, and then cover them with a clean cloth." Zhu Yu called Fu Lu over to help, rubbed his aching back, and stepped aside.

Lu Qing pulled her to sit down at the table next to her to rest. Liu Yueyao hurriedly went over to pour tea for Zhu Yu and handed it to her: "Madam...you really have a lot of courage! You were able to treat that person's injuries so well!"

"Actually, I'm not particularly good at this; I was just forced into it." Zhu Yu waved his hand.

Liu Yueyao thought Zhu Yu was just being modest, but she didn't know that what she said was the absolute truth.

After all, what she's really good at is much more exciting than stitching up a wound.

“This person is seriously injured. Whoever attacked him must have really wanted to beat him to death.” Zhu Yu took a sip of tea, caught his breath, and said to Lu Qing, “But something is strange.”

The man's injuries were messy and didn't look like they could have been inflicted by one person alone; it looked more like he had been beaten by a group of people until he was barely hanging on.

There are many ways to kill someone, and the simpler the process, the more reliable it is.

Especially when the attackers outnumber the victim, leaving the victim powerless to resist or escape, tying them up and stabbing them to death, strangling them with ropes, or poisoning them would be far more efficient. Yet, those people chose a method that left the victim battered and bruised, barely alive, and they actually survived...

That's really quite strange.