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Chapter 665 The Great Test
Upon hearing this, the group of people who had been chattering away fell silent.

The severed leg looked truly horrifying; none of them had the ability to heal such a wounded leg.

Zhu Yu didn't actually pay attention to the noise of those people. When she was focused on doing her own thing, she often couldn't hear the sounds around her. No matter how many people there were or what they were saying, it all turned into a meaningless buzzing sound in her ears.

The injured man was drugged, fell, and lost blood, so he was unconscious at the moment. However, just to be on the safe side, Zhu Yu still instructed the talismans to immobilize his hands and other good leg, in case he suddenly woke up halfway and struggled because he was frightened or in great pain, which would destroy all the progress and might even endanger his life.

After securing the injured person, Zhu Yu first rinsed the bloody wound with hot liquor, cleaned away the excess skin and flesh, carefully put the broken leg bone back together, and then used mulberry bark thread to carefully suture back the external muscles that had been torn due to the fall.

The person was seriously injured in that fall; some of the skin and flesh were torn and bruised, and there was no way to stitch them back up. They had to remove the wounds and stitch up the internal ones, but the external wounds were still oozing blood.

"Runes, melt those candles." Zhu Yu didn't even look up, continuing to carefully suture the wound while instructing Runes beside him.

Rune deftly broke the candles into pieces, melted them in a small bowl, and took them away.

Zhu Yu sprinkled the powdered burnet charcoal they had brought onto the stitched wound, then directed the runes to carefully pour scalding wax onto the bleeding stitches, covering both the bleeding areas and the newly stitched wound with the wax.

When the wax first dripped onto the man, the unconscious victim still twitched instinctively due to the scorching heat, but later he became less responsive.

Zhu Yu checked the solidified wax and, confirming that no new blood was flowing out, finally breathed a sigh of relief. He then had Fu Lu bring over all the small wooden sticks he had just split and tightly bound them around the injured man's legs. After making sure they were secure, he wiped the sweat from his brow, stood up, and rubbed his aching back.

"Second Master, is that all?" Fu Wen looked at the person on the ground. After the injured leg was stitched up and fixed, it stopped bleeding. The person seemed to be much calmer, and his breathing was more steady.

"It's been dealt with for now." Zhu Yu nodded, then pondered for a moment, "In a couple of days, I'll have to reopen the wax-sealed wound to see how well it's healing inside, and whether there's any rotten flesh or inflammation that needs to be treated. If there isn't, then everything will be fine; if there is, then we'll have to see how he fares."

After she finished speaking, she tried to squat down to pick up the tools on the ground, but Lu Qing grabbed her arm.

“You must be exhausted. Go and rest for a while. Let the talismans handle these trivial matters.” As he spoke, he pulled Zhu Yu to sit down on a cushion. There was a cushion there, so she didn’t have to worry about the ground being cold.

The talismans and runes immediately took Zhu Yu's tools to the side and carefully rinsed them with clean water.

The two brothers had seen how much their mistress cherished this set of equipment, and they were very familiar with how to do it, so they handled it with ease.

The bandits who had just witnessed Zhu Yu treating their companion's injured leg had now fallen silent.

Although they knew nothing about treating injuries, they weren't blind. They had seen the slender young man's focused and earnest demeanor, as well as his hard work and exhaustion during the process. They could tell that he was carefully tending to their brother's leg, which had been completely severed.

Just putting the two broken bones back together and removing the excess bone fragments was no easy task. Originally, everyone thought that the brother's leg was definitely ruined, but now, after the young man's treatment, it looked like the leg could still heal.

Now that his leg was healed, no one spoke again, and the scene was eerily quiet.

The group of people looked at Lu Qing and his companions with puzzled expressions, seemingly wondering what these people wanted to do after going to such lengths to lure them out.

They wouldn't believe it if the other party didn't have malicious intent, since everyone was tied up like crabs about to be steamed.

But if the other party harbors mostly malicious intentions of persecution towards them... then the young man who treated their man's leg injury just now was no easy task...

Lu Qing had already noticed that those people were secretly observing them. At first, she wasn't in a hurry. She waited until she had settled Zhu Yu in so that she could rest comfortably for a while before walking back to those people. She had the talismans and runes help them change their positions so that they could face her and talk more easily.

"Gentlemen, I apologize for the intrusion." Lu Qing nodded to the group. "In order for us to be able to have a proper conversation, please bear with us for a while."

The oldest man in the group, with a full beard, looked to be in his early fifties. Upon hearing Lu Qing's words, he immediately became wary again and sneered, "What do we have to say to you!"

"How could there not be?" Lu Qing smiled and was very amiable. "We just wanted you heroes to tell us where the eldest grandson of the Prince of Lan is now. That's all. We didn't mean to make things difficult for you."

The bearded man glared at Lu Qing, his expression cold: "Is this great hero joking with us?!"

"We're nothing but mountain bandits, a rabble, robbing and plundering for a living. How would we know anything about the nobles in the capital?"

Lu Qing wasn't surprised by this explanation and gave the talisman a wink: "Check it."

Just like before, the runes and talismans examined the hands and arms of those people. Sure enough, each of them had calluses and various marks on their hands, the kind that only martial arts practitioners would have after years of training.

Some of them even had scars on their arms.

Lu Qing watched the group from the side. They would often turn their gaze to the bearded man, as if he were their leader. During the inspection of the runes and talismans, some people were clearly unhappy, but after exchanging glances with the bearded man, they reluctantly endured it.

So Lu Qing pointed at the bearded man and said, "Trinkets and talismans, test him."

A great test.