Su Ruyi then realized—she was looking for her fifty yuan!

While Lan Jun was searching, Su Ruyi used her divine sense to thoroughly search Lan Jun's body again.

It was only then that I realized that the scabbard of her dagger could be clipped to her belt; the design was quite ingenious.

So, taking advantage of the moment when Lan Jun turned her over, Su Ruyi put the dagger and scabbard into her spatial storage.

Her divine sense continued to carefully examine Lan Jun's entire body, and she suddenly discovered something wrong with one of her back molars!

As her divine sense continued to penetrate deeper, Su Ruyi was shocked to discover that the molar had been hollowed out, and inside was a small amount of poison that could be fatal!

Clearly, this was to prevent the leakage of secrets after being arrested, and to use it as a means of suicide!

Su Ruyi carefully transferred the poison into her spatial dimension, then used her divine sense to remove some wood shavings from the back of the stool and filled the gap between her teeth.

After discovering this hidden group of poisons, Su Ruyi's search became even more thorough.

Finally, she found three small white pills, each about the size of a fingernail, sewn into Lan Jun's trouser leg.

Su Ruyi was very familiar with the code on the pill; it was a powerful oral anesthetic given to livestock. Some meticulous veterinarians would give a few pills before sterilizing cattle and horses.

Is this... treating oneself like a beast of burden?

Su Ruyi was so angry that she almost fainted, and a slight sound came out of her throat.

Lan Jun was so startled that he immediately turned her over, returning her to her previous position, muttering, "Is this brat so resistant to drugs?"

While tidying her clothes, I straightened her head.

She never took this village doctor from Dingjiatun seriously.

In her opinion, Su Ruyi was probably just living off the family's old prescriptions. She was just lucky to have found a patient who was right for her and cured him, which is how she became famous.

In her eyes, such people are no different from opportunists. Unlike her, who has trained hard to reach this level with every punch and kick.

She had long forgotten how Su Ruyi had easily killed her when they were snatching bullet casings in Dingjiatun. She only blamed herself for being too flustered at the time, which allowed the village doctor to see her weakness and launch a sneak attack.

Therefore, she felt nothing but disgust and contempt for Su Ruyi.

During this meeting, Su Ruyi continued to play dumb to deceive Lan Jun, who felt she was nothing special.

Su Ruyi was unaware of Lan Jun's thoughts. She was busy quietly storing the three pills that Lan Jun had hidden in his trouser leg into her spatial storage.

Lan Jun returned to his chair, picked up a newspaper, and pretended to read it, his eyes occasionally glancing at Su Ruyi.

Su Ruyi continued to make sounds that seemed like she was about to wake up, yet also like she was talking in her sleep.

Every time a sound was made, Lan Jun would jump up in tension.

After a dozen or so times, Su Ruyi felt she was about to burst out laughing, so she turned over and sat up with a blank look on her face: "Sister Lan Jun, why aren't you asleep?"

"Huh? I...I'm not sleepy anymore!" Lan Jun answered in a panic.

"Oh. I can't, I have to go out for a walk!" Su Ruyi said, "If I sleep too much during the day, I won't be able to sleep at night, and that will affect your rest."

With that, Su Ruyi turned and left.

She walked out of the front door of the small building, went around to the back door, went up to the third floor via the back stairs, took out the key from her spatial storage, and slipped into the single room at the end of the corridor.

This was a room she had specifically asked Cheng Weiguo for—she didn't want to miss any opportunity to study medical books.

These days, the medical books she's studying are becoming more and more interesting, and her patients are becoming more and more able to maintain their human form.

Su Ruyi locked the door, drew the curtains, and immediately slipped into the space.

First, I put on gloves and carefully examined Lan Jun's small cloth bag—inside, besides the syringes and needles, there were several medicines, three of which contained lethal doses of various hormones, and the others contained anesthetics.

This is... they're here to kill her!

Su Ruyi began to doubt whether her previous deductions were correct or wrong.

She had assumed that Lan Jun was in cahoots with Han Weiguo and Xia Dong, and that she might be trying to get her abroad to detoxify the two men—the poison she had given them was now taking effect, and they must be suffering terribly.

However, seeing the medicine Lan Jun brought, her deduction was invalidated—Lan Jun clearly wanted her dead!

Su Ruyi once wanted to kill Lan Jun and pull him into her space to use as fertilizer, but now she wants to know more about who is behind Lan Jun.

Also, why did that person target her?

...

Meanwhile, Xia Tianxiu, whom Su Ruyi had forgotten, was brewing a shocking conspiracy.

After Xia Tianxiu escaped from Sanhe County, she knocked on the door for water but was knocked unconscious. She then ate sweet potatoes for three days in the cellar.

After that, her hands were tied behind her back, her mouth was gagged, her eyes were covered, and she was stuffed into the bed of a Jiefang C10 truck along with several other girls.

After several days and nights of travel, they arrived in an unfamiliar place.

Xia Tianxiu recognized the accent of the fierce man who came to pick up the goods, and thus determined where she was—the southern part of the Greater Khingan Mountains, a transitional zone that is both agricultural and pastoral.

In other words, she is now thousands of miles away from Heilongjiang Province!

Summer Xiu tried her best to remain calm and did not scream like the other girls after being released.

Naturally, she wasn't beaten like the other girls.

And she was the first one chosen.

The two men who bought her were surnamed Yang. The older brother was named Yang Dashu, and the younger brother was named Yang Xiaoshu.

The two brothers spent 200 yuan on Xia Tianxiu, which was all the money their family had.

The two brothers were about thirty-four or thirty-five years old. On the way back, to keep her from getting tired, they took turns carrying her on their backs.

Compared to other buyers who had shabby or deformed items, Xia Tianxiu's two brothers were much more normal and kind.

However, their home is really far away.

The two brothers carried Xia Tianxiu on their backs for two days on mountain paths before finally arriving at a small wooden house deep in the mountains.

Three wooden houses, a small courtyard, and a slightly bitter spring well.

The Yang family also has an elderly woman who is paralyzed in bed; she is the mother of the two brothers.

There was no one else besides them.

There are no other families living in these mountains; the Yang family are hunters who make their living off the mountains.

Neither of the brothers could read, so they drew two vertical lines, one long and one short, on the leaf and asked Xia Tianxiu to choose.

Summer Xiu chose the longest one, so she became her brother's wife.

There was no wedding night; she bit her lip tightly that night, but offered no resistance.

Yang Xiaoshu watched the two of them from outside the window, and Xia Tianxiu didn't say anything.

Seeing Xia Tianxiu's submissive manner, and how she even took the initiative to clean and take care of the old lady's excrement and urine in the morning, the two brothers were relieved.