Chapter 4: Murder is against the law

There was a long moment of silence.

Chu Ran guessed that he probably didn't want to say it, but it was not something Chu Ran needed to know. After a moment, Chu Ran opened the curtain with one hand and prepared to go out.

"Li, Fu."

The child's voice is a little hoarse. Because of the cold and possibly the voice change period, his voice sounds strange.

In fact, Chu Ran heard it clearly, but he repeated it again, "My name is Li Fu."

“Sizzle—”

Chu Ran grabbed the curtain and pulled it down, pulling it down a little. Chu Ran quickly let go, crawled through the curtain, and walked out quickly.

Walking into the yard, Chu Ran's slightly curled left palm was already wet with sweat, and the empty medicine bowl was tightly grasped in his right hand with such force that his finger bones turned white.

Li Fu!

This little kid turned out to be the fourth prince Li Fu!

The ultimate villain boss Li Fu in the article is a ruthless person who doesn’t recognize his relatives, kills his father and relatives, is more wolfish than a werewolf, kills all the protagonists and supporting characters without leaving a single one alive, and is almost able to achieve the result of “the villain wins the final victory”!

The article states that he set the palace on fire and then walked into the blazing fire. Thus, after paying countless painful prices, the protagonists finally won the final victory.

As a villain, he, Chu Qinglin, occupies the identity of a villain, but plays the role of a comedian, but Li Fu, plays the role of a "villain and the protagonist of a cool novel". Thinking of this, Chu Ran suddenly felt a subtle admiration and respect for Li Fu, who is also a villain.

Just like when a poor student looks up to a good student, this question always arises in his mind: they were both born by the same mother and raised by the same parents, so why is there such a big gap between them?

Why?

Soon, Chu Ran came to his senses and shook his head vigorously.

What is he thinking about?

He just wanted to be a salted fish that ate nothing but food and waited for death. He couldn't afford to offend such a werewolf, so it would be better for him to have less contact with him in the future.

As soon as Chu Ran left, someone walked towards him.

In the darkness, Chu Ran's back was obscured by the night and was very blurry, with only the rough outline of his body vaguely visible. It was not until his back completely merged into the darkness that he walked into the yard in the dark.

There was no light in the room, it was pitch black. After the man entered the room, he lit the candle first, then turned around and looked at Li Fu lying on the bed.

Li Fu kept looking out the window until he heard footsteps again in the house, then he turned his head.

The man had a head of black hair with a few silver strands mixed in here and there, and a few noticeable fine lines could be clearly seen on his forehead and around his eyes. He was holding a bag of herbs in his hand, and a trace of confusion suddenly appeared in his slightly cloudy eyes.

He began to gesture.

"alright?"

He came to visit Li Fu this morning and found that Li Fu was sick, so he went to the pharmacy to get medicine. He didn't expect that there were so many people getting medicine today, and the queue for medicine has been waiting for now.

Li Fu hummed in a rough voice.

Xing Ji was a little worried, so he walked to the bedside and reached out to touch Li Fu's forehead.

"Uncle Xing, I'm fine." Li Fu said.

Xing Ji still had the back of one of his hands on Li Fu's forehead. He lowered his head and stared at Li Fu for a while, then took two steps back and moved a little further away from the bed.

"Who was that just now?" Xing Ji asked.

Li Fu lowered his eyes and said in a low voice, "It's a young eunuch I haven't seen before."

"What?"

"Nothing."

Xing Ji said nothing, picked up the herbs, turned around and went out to boil the medicine.

Subconsciously, Li Fu clenched his five fingers and grasped the thick cotton quilt that did not belong to him.

Near the end of the month, the eunuchs in each palace received their monthly salaries. When Chu Ran went to collect his salary, the palace servant in charge of distributing the salary said that his salary had already been collected by someone else.

Back in the yard, Guo Maoxue was lying on a recliner, holding a teapot with a spout in his right hand. His index finger pressed the lid of the teapot, and his middle finger inserted into the ear of the pot to fix it. He held the spout and took a sip of tea. A gurgling sound like gargling came from his throat, and then he swallowed it down with a gulp.

His left hand was placed on the armrest of the chair, his fingertips tapping it from time to time, and he looked very comfortable.

"Hey? Are you back?"

Guo Maoxue greeted Chu Ran who had just entered the yard with a smile.

Chu Ran walked up to him and asked directly without being polite, "Where is my monthly salary?"

Guo Maoxue still had a smiling face, "As for the monthly salary, I will collect it for you."

Chu Ran stretched out his hand, his face cold, "Give it back to me."

"Look at you. You are young, but you have a bad temper. I will save your monthly salary for you. When you really need it, you can ask me for it."

Chu Ran said: "I'm in serious need now, return my monthly salary to me."

The smile on Guo Maoxue's face disappeared, and he snorted coldly, "No."

"It was just posted, and it's gone?"

Guo Maoxue said: "You don't need money to take care of things, and you don't need money to buy food and daily necessities. Why do you think you have such a smooth life in this palace? Isn't it because my family helps you take care of things and speaks well of you?"

As he spoke, Guo Maoxue rolled his eyes at Chu Ran, as if he had given a lot behind the scenes, but Chu Ran not only didn't appreciate it at all, but was even ungrateful.

Chu Ran glared at Guo Maoxue for a long time, then suddenly turned around and left.

Guo Maoxue glanced at Chu Ran's angry back, sneered, and lay back in his chair.

The door was slammed shut with a bang.

Chu Ran entered the room and saw a pair of scissors placed on the bedside. Chu Ran walked over quickly and picked up the scissors. Maybe it was because he was under too much pressure recently, but for a moment, Chu Ran wanted to rush out and use the scissors in his hand to stab Guo Maoxue, the damn bastard, to death.

But in the end, he did nothing and put the scissors back on the bedside table as they were.

Forget it, murder is against the law.

Chu Ran sat back on the bed, waiting for his emotions to calm down.

Guo Maoxue, relying on the fact that he was a few years older than Chu Qinglin and had more experience, started bullying and exploiting Chu Qinglin since he was very young. Chu Qinglin did the work and Guo Maoxue received the rewards. Chu Qinglin worked like a dog every day, and Guo Maoxue would sit beside him, drinking tea and giving orders. If he saw that Chu Qinglin didn't do what he wanted, he would beat him up. Over the years, Chu Qinglin has grown up, and Guo Maoxue no longer beats him. Instead, he replaced the previous beatings and scoldings with pinching his ears and flesh, which were relatively "mild" methods.

Chu Ran thought about it carefully. Why was Guo Maoxue so arrogant, but Chu Qinglin never resisted? Maybe it was because Chu Qinglin was used to being bullied by Guo Maoxue and was afraid of Guo Maoxue. Years of bullying made Chu Qinglin unable to think of resisting. It may also be that he had resisted before, but not only was it useless, but he also received a great lesson. But the main reason was that others had backers, but Chu Ran did not.

In the palace, the various palace factions were clearly divided. The more favored the master was, the higher the status of the master and the servants under him. Guo Maoxue's backer was the eunuch Zhao Zhongyi, a popular figure around Emperor Chengwen, and ordinary people would not dare to offend him easily.

In fact, Chu Qinglin has a backer, but that backer looks down on Chu Qinglin and is not willing to let Chu Qinglin stop relying on him.

Even so, Chu Ran didn't intend to endure it any longer.

Some people, once they are used to being grandsons, can never stand up straight again. He can be a grandson, but he absolutely cannot be Guo Maoxue's grandson.

He thought that maybe he could take advantage of Guo Maoxue's inattention, tie him up in a sack, and beat him up secretly, but beating him up seemed to be unable to solve any substantive problems except for venting his anger at the time.

If all else fails, poison him, the kind that can paralyze his limbs. If he spends the rest of his life lying in bed, he won't be able to do evil again.

But poisoning is easier said than done. First, where can one get the poison that can paralyze a person's limbs? Secondly, how can one poison someone without being noticed? If the poisoning is exposed or found out, how can he get away with it?

Of course, these are all later stories. The most important thing is that Chu Ran knows nothing about herbs! Even if poison is placed in front of him, he doesn't know that it is the poison he wants.

This cannot be blamed on him. During the nine years of compulsory education plus three years of high school, the school only taught him Chinese, math, English, physics, chemistry and biology, but did not teach him how to identify Chinese herbal medicines.

After thinking about it, Chu Ran realized that the conditions he was in now were not just bad, they were downright terrible!

Unable to think of a solution, Chu Ran's thoughts went astray.

Others who travel through time all have golden fingers, but why does he have nothing?

It doesn't matter if there is no system, at least give him some natural skills!

Is it possible to rely on his poor academic performance whose total academic scores are only over 500?

It would be better to just take a shower and go to bed.