Chapter 190 Temple Gate

That night, Li San Niang and Sun Yijian stayed at the wine shop, ordering their food from the street.

Li Sanniang thought that if the heartbroken man could make it through tonight, he could be carried to the Imperial Medical Bureau's clinic tomorrow, freeing up the wine shop for him.

A liquor store is, after all, a place for doing business, and being delayed for a day and a night is already unavoidable.

Li San Niang felt that it was because she had people carry the heartbroken man here and used a lot of their strong liquor, causing them a lot of trouble. She also had the door panels removed before, and there was still one of them under the heartbroken man's body.

Therefore, the liquor store should be given some compensation.

Furthermore, the clean clothes that Li San Niang and the others needed for saving people today, as well as the blanket that Duan Chang Ren is currently covered with, were all kindly given by the female shopkeeper of the clothing store across the street, and they should also be compensated.

Once these things are done, I should definitely give them a thank-you gift.

Tang Mingyue originally said he wanted to stay and watch over the heartbroken man, but Doctor Sun said that it was enough for him and Li Sanniang to stay, and that Tang Mingyue could go home and rest and come back the next morning.

Qiu Xiang was dutifully staying inside with Li San Niang. Moreover, during the break just now, Qiu Xiang whispered to Li San Niang that Mr. Bu Ke might come over later.

In addition, while Li San Niang and Sun Yijian were eating steamed buns at the door, several Jinwu Guard soldiers in armor came over.

He was a colleague of the man lying inside, and after a busy day, he only had time to visit him after the curfew.

They hadn't found the man with broken heart in the Imperial Medical Academy's clinic and assumed he had died. They even went to the morgue to look for him, intending to collect his belongings and send them to his family. But when they arrived, they found out that the man with broken heart was still alive.

“Dr. Li and I are staying here. If he can make it through tonight, he can be moved back to the clinic tomorrow, and his chances of survival will be much greater. If he doesn’t make it, we… did what we could.”

Several Imperial Guards bowed and saluted at the entrance of the wine shop to Physician Sun and Li Sanniang, saying, "We understand, thank you both. We will come again tomorrow."

As night fell, Li San Niang finally had time to treat the injuries on her face and neck from earlier that day.

Previously, when Li Erxiong hired a donkey cart to take Song Dalang home, he also stopped by the wine shop to tell Li Sanniang. Li Sanniang specifically told Li Erxiong not to tell Li's parents that she was injured, and that she would definitely take care of it before she returned, and by then it would not look serious.

"Second brother, tell Dewdrop that I will definitely be going home tomorrow."

"I know, you should clean and bandage yourself quickly. Honestly, I'm starting to think that what Father said makes some sense. I don't know if it was right or wrong to let you become a female doctor in the first place."

"Second brother, I..."

Brother Li waved his hand, looking helpless. He was just grumbling because he felt sorry for Li San Niang when she was injured.

He also knew that Li San Niang would never give up being a doctor.

Furthermore, it's no longer possible for Li San Niang to remain safe and sound simply by not practicing medicine.

Qiu Xiang was treating the wounds on Li San Niang's face and neck, wiping them with a cloth soaked in strong liquor. Li San Niang grimaced in pain, but if it wasn't treated properly and got infected, that would be a real tragedy.

After finishing her business, Li San Niang planned to check on the condition of the man with broken heart.

"It's nothing. I don't know if it was the strong liquor that made the rub or the medicine that worked, but this person is really tough. He hasn't had a fever at all."

"That's good. It's worth all the effort we put into saving him."

"Bang, bang!" A man appeared at the entrance of the liquor shop, which was missing a door panel. It was Xue Yao.

"Is it possible for Miss Li to find some time to come with me to Wuhoupu to discuss today's attack?"

Li San Niang turned to look at Physician Sun, who was easy to talk to: "San Niangzi, go ahead. I'll keep an eye on things here and handle it. If you need help, the soldiers at the gate should be able to help too."

Li San Niang bowed and then got into Xue Yao's carriage with Qiu Xiang.

When they arrived at Wuhou Shop in Yongping Ward, they indeed saw Mr. Bu Ke and his hunchbacked servant inside.

Under the dim light of the oil lamp, Li San Niang noticed the obvious fatigue on Mr. Bu Ke's handsome and noble face. It seemed that the matter of the mastermind behind the scenes was quite troublesome.

This time, Li San Niang was attacked for the third time in full view of everyone on the main road leading out of Yongping Ward. The mastermind behind the attack was not caught in this operation, and they didn't even find the skilled archer.

But I did learn from that cowardly, skinny assassin who surrendered without a fight what the organization that had repeatedly caused trouble in the Tang Dynasty was called.

Temple Gate.

Yes, Temple Gate, that's the name of the organization.

According to the skinny assassin, the Temple Gate organization originated in a certain country in the Western Regions. It was originally a religion where believers gathered together to survive because of a certain faith.

However, years of war caused many believers to die. More than ten years ago, a man who claimed to be the Son of God gathered a large number of people under the banner of God's word on earth.

Gradually, it grew stronger. Later, the Tang Dynasty won a battle, many countries in the Western Regions submitted to it, wars decreased, and the people began to recuperate. The Temple Gate also became quiet on the surface.

But judging from the information obtained from the skinny assassin, this holy son is playing a grand game with far-reaching ambitions.

The skinny assassin said that the Temple Gate originated in the Western Regions. Through trade between the Western Regions and the Tang Dynasty, many people have already left the Western Regions and taken root in various parts of the Tang Dynasty.

Furthermore, on the surface, it seems as if the Holy Temple Gate organization no longer exists, but in reality, the Holy Son has done a lot of things in the past ten years.

For example, the assassins sent to kill Li San Niang were divided into two groups.

A group of fearless assassins, willing to risk injury and death, were determined to kill Li Sanniang and complete their mission. They were highly loyal and had been trained by the Temple Sect since childhood.

Like the tall, thin assassin who was executed, and this captured thin assassin, they had no loyalty whatsoever; they joined the Temple Gate for the bounty and other reasons.

The reason why this Holy Son is said to be playing a grand game is that the case of the Turkic rebellion in the Western Regions that Xue Yao and his Imperial Guards were investigating, and the case of the lost military tally that the Bad People were investigating, both eventually led to the same conclusion: the assassins who caused the rebellion were the same group of people.

Furthermore, after the arrival of the hundred-man brigade of Jinwu Guards, a team searched several places in Yongping Ward that were likely hiding places of the Holy Temple Gate, but only found a few low-level henchmen who did not know martial arts and were just doing things for money.

The biggest gain today was that skinny killer who surrendered without a fight and was afraid of dying.

In order to prevent further panic, the Imperial Guards and the Imperial Guards did not conduct house-to-house searches, and Xue Yao did not believe that house-to-house searches would catch anyone.

Therefore, they had previously consulted Emperor Wu and decided that from the end of the curfew tomorrow, people entering and leaving Yongping Ward would need to provide identification documents.

Furthermore, the Imperial Guards were stationed at all nine gates of Chang'an, and during this period, one would need to present identification documents to enter or leave Chang'an.

Xue Yao refused to believe that under such intense pressure, they couldn't find any clues about this damned temple gate.

Although it is still unclear what the Holy Son's motives are for using the Temple Gate to do these things, and what his goals are, it is certain that this cult, this Temple Gate, and this Holy Son are all detrimental and harmful to the stable development of the Tang Dynasty.

As for harmful things, they should naturally be killed.