"It's just a simple meal. Please forgive me if it doesn't suit your taste." Fang Linyuan was gentle and polite. Situ Yao couldn't keep a straight face, so a smile appeared on his lips. "Thank you, Doctor Fang."
"You're welcome." Fang Linyuan was blind in sight but not in mind. From the way he spoke and acted, he could infer that Situ Yao was of extraordinary status.
He originally didn't want to offend these people, but he couldn't resist Linglan's request, so he agreed to let Su Mengyan and others stay with him.
After dinner, Su Mengyan helped Linglan clean up.
"Lily of the valley, these are vegetables my family just picked. I'm giving you some." The woman's loud voice startled everyone inside. Situ Yao just took a look and quickly looked away after realizing that it was not an assassin.
Linglan ran over to take the dish and said obediently, "Thank you, Aunt Lin."
The woman saw Su Mengyan clearing the table and pulled Linglan aside, asking curiously, "Is this your brother's patient?"
"I guess so." Linglan said with her head tilted. Because the one who needed treatment was the young man in the room, not Su Mengyan, she didn't know how to answer.
Aunt Lin patted her gently and said, "If it's yes, it's yes. If it's no, it's no. Why are you still unsure?"
"That's not the case." Linglan said decisively.
"Then why is she in your house?" Aunt Lin asked curiously.
"Because I need to treat her son's illness, I'm staying here temporarily." Linglan had just finished speaking when Fang Linyuan came out. He heard their voices, found their location accurately, and said gratefully, "Thank you, Aunt Lin."
"What is there to thank us for? We are just neighbors. And Doctor Fang treated us for free, so I should be the one thanking you." Aunt Lin had a clever tongue, and the brother and sister together couldn't beat her.
Fortunately, she left after a while. Su Mengyan felt that her eyes were almost seeing through her.
"Don't mind, Sister Su. Aunt Lin lives next door to us and is a very warm and hospitable person. There haven't been outsiders visiting our village for a long time, so she might be curious." Linglan noticed her discomfort and came over to explain.
"It's okay. It was me and the young master who disturbed you." Su Mengyan didn't mind. When she entered the room, Fang Linyuan was taking Situ Yao's pulse.
Seeing her come in, Fang Linyuan took the initiative to say, "Young Master's injuries are all superficial, not to the lungs. However, the knife wound on the wrist is quite deep, so he needs to rest for a few days."
"Thank you, Doctor Fang." Su Mengyan saw that Situ Yao did not have a fever, but he was still pale and looked very weak. However, she was relieved when she heard Fang Linyuan say that his life was not in danger.
"Young Master, we seem to have forgotten Cui Mixue." Su Mengyan just remembered that on the day of the assassination, Cui Mixue was in another carriage, and she didn't rush out. She had no intention of dying with Situ Yao, and she didn't know what was going on.
Later, they were busy escaping and fell off a cliff, so they had no time to care about her and didn't know how she was doing now.
Situ Yao was wrapped in gauze, his face expressionless, "The assassin's target is me, so naturally I won't waste my energy to kill her."
"Are the assassins this time from a killer organization?" Su Mengyan asked curiously. At that time, they sent at least a hundred people, and their martial arts skills were not low.
"It's Xuan Yue." Situ Yao said, "Only Xuan Yue would dare to take this business."
Rumor has it that Xuan Yue could kill anyone, regardless of whether they were human or ghost, for enough silver. This time, having found Xuan Yue, the Bai family and Situ Zhao must have spent a fortune, determined to prevent him from returning to the capital.
Unfortunately, he was lucky enough to survive after jumping off the cliff. Situ Zhao's plan failed. He didn't know what his expression would be when he saw him return safe and sound. Situ Yao pulled the corner of his mouth and revealed a hint of a sneer.
"Linglan, you have always lived in this village. Have you ever been out?" Su Mengyan asked her in a roundabout way.
Linglan was very innocent and answered immediately, "My brother sometimes takes me to town to buy things."
"There's a cliff outside. How are you going to get up there?" Su Mengyan asked in confusion.
"There's a small path on the east side of the village. You can go up from there." Linglan pointed with her, "Once the young master's injury is healed, Sister Su can go up from there."
It turns out that there really is another way. If Situ Zhao had not given up and was determined to find Situ Yao's body, they would have discovered this place at any time.
"Is that route well-hidden? Will the exit be easily discovered?"
Linglan didn't understand what she meant, and her bright eyes were filled with confusion. "Everyone in our village knows the place, so it's very familiar and easy to find."
Inside the house, Fang Linyuan asked Situ Yao with a cold face, "Miss Su said that the young master escaped. This statement must be an excuse to fool us."
"Don't blame me, Doctor Fang. We have no choice." After two days of recuperation, Situ Yao knew that they were just ordinary villagers.
"No matter who you are, or why you fell off the cliff, please don't bring disaster to the village." Fang Linyuan's face grew colder. "I don't like innocent people dying because of this."
"Young Master's injury is almost healed. If possible, I will let Linglan take you up tomorrow." Fang Linyuan intuitively felt that the person in front of him would bring disaster to the village, so he wanted to send him away as soon as possible.
Situ Yao was able to walk without any problems, but the wound on his wrist hadn't healed yet, so he couldn't hold the sword. He could roughly guess why Fang Linyuan had chased him away, so he nodded in agreement. "Okay, I'll trouble Doctor Fang and Miss Linglan then."
In the capital, Situ Zhao's men discovered Qing Feng's whereabouts and immediately returned to Prince Rui's Mansion to report, "Your Majesty, your subordinates discovered that the East Palace guards and people from General Feng's Mansion secretly left the city."
"Send someone to follow them." Situ Zhao whispered, "He is not dead after all!"
Su Mengyan was surprised to learn that they were leaving tomorrow, "Is your injury healed?"
"It's almost done." Situ Yao stood outside and saw the curling smoke from the village. "I don't want to disturb the peace of this village."
"The assassin will chase us again?" Su Mengyan was shocked.
"Go pack your things, we'll leave early tomorrow morning." Situ Yao said and went into the house.
However, the peaceful life of the village was broken the day they were brought in.
Later, people from the Rui Palace were the first to find a way into the village. They grabbed the old man at the entrance and asked, "Are there any outsiders from up there in your village?"
The old man knew that Fang Linyuan had brought back two patients. Thinking about how Fang Linyuan usually treated patients and saved lives, he didn't want to betray him, so no matter how he was pressed, the old man didn't say a word.
"You won't tell me? Then I'll kill you right now." The guard drew his sword and was about to kill. The young man next to him knelt down and begged for mercy, "Sir, please spare my life. I know where they are. Please let my father go."
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