The man ignored her and went back behind the altar. After a rustling sound, he came out carrying a boy who looked to be only twelve or thirteen years old.
The boy's face was covered in something, making it look dirty and obscuring his original features, but the red mole between his eyebrows was unusually conspicuous.
He had his eyes tightly closed and was breathing very weakly, looking like he was about to fall into a deep sleep. No wonder the man was so anxious.
There was still a trace of porridge around the boy's mouth. It seemed that the man had bought him that bowl of porridge. What did the man mean by what he just said?
Thinking this through, Yan Xiao asked directly:
"You just asked me to hand over the antidote out of the blue. Did he become like this because he drank my porridge?"
The man nodded, then shook his head, and after a long pause, finally managed to utter a complete sentence:
"Originally, he was just weak. After drinking the porridge, he developed a fever and fainted!"
Yan Xiao initially thought this person was aloof, but now she belatedly realized that this person wasn't aloof at all; he was clearly severely speechless.
etc......
A swordsman with a speech impediment and an injury, a boy with a red dot between his eyebrows, a dilapidated temple in the wilderness...
Really?
Yan Xiao stared intently at the boy's face, wanting to see if he had bright eyes and white teeth, was otherworldly and beautiful as if he were a demon.
Unfortunately, the boy's face was too dirty; apart from the red dot between his eyebrows, nothing else could be seen.
But it doesn't matter if she can't see the face clearly. She only needs to check the boy's body to know if he is the person she thought he was.
Thinking of this, she immediately lowered her eyes to hide her emotions and pretended to be a normal doctor, speaking to the man as if she were there for a routine consultation:
“There’s nothing wrong with my porridge. This boy doesn’t look well. Lay him down and I’ll take his pulse first.”
The man was desperate and grasping at straws; he had been protecting the boy as they were being chased all the way here.
The boy, unaware of some kind of ambush, remained listless and dazed throughout the journey.
He had finally managed to get some food, so he thought he would give some to the boy. But after the boy had only drunk two mouthfuls of porridge, he immediately developed a high fever and fainted.
This made him suspect that Yan Xiao and the others were behind it. If he hadn't checked the boy before feeding him, he would have already interrogated him instead of asking questions like this.
Judging from their appearance now, they don't seem to have done anything wrong, and neither of them has any internal energy; they are just ordinary passersby.
Just when he was at a loss, he heard Yan Xiao say that he was a doctor. This made him forget everything else and just want to give it a try.
If Yanxiao dares to play any tricks on him, he will absolutely not show any mercy.
After hearing Yan Xiao's words, he hesitated, but still followed Yan Xiao's instructions and placed the person in the position Yan Xiao pointed to.
Yan Xiao was quite enthusiastic at this moment, as she was very curious whether this boy was the person she thought he was.
After the man put the boy down, she couldn't wait to touch the boy's hand and then began to use her healing abilities to check the boy's physical condition.
As soon as the supernatural energy entered the boy's body, she felt a scorching aura attacking her, as if trying to drive her, the uninvited guest, away.
At the same time, there was a special and gentle energy that restrained the scorching aura, but it did not resist Yan Xiao's supernatural energy in any way.
Having seen this, Yan Xiao could roughly confirm the boy's identity.
She quickly withdrew her hand, her gaze towards the boy somewhat complicated, while considering whether or not to go to the trouble of saving him.
The boy's identity is complicated and troublesome, and trouble is what she hates most.
If she hadn't seen it before, this young man must be the former "holy maiden" of the Miao people.
She is called a saint because from birth, people have placed high hopes on her by dressing as a woman.
Although the Miao people are called a tribe, they are in fact a state.
They live in the mountains surrounded by dense forests. Their population is relatively small compared to other countries, but they all know the art of controlling insects, commonly known as Gu.
So even though they are small in number, no country would be so reckless as to provoke them, and they rarely have contact with the outside world.
However, these are all outdated information from many years ago.
The book describes the Miao people as women being in charge of the household, and there are two criteria for selecting a leader.
One is the eldest daughter of the former leader, who succeeded the leader after he grew old.
Secondly, if a woman in the tribe has a special physique and is born with the ability to control all kinds of insects, then this woman can directly bypass the eldest daughter of the chief and become the Miao tribe's holy maiden. After coming of age, she can directly take over as the tribe chief, and the previous tribe chief must unconditionally assist her.
However, this constitution is very rare, and only two cases are recorded in Miao history books.
One was the first Miao leader, the one who passed down the art of Gu poison, and the other was an ancestor from a thousand years ago.
Therefore, the second option of succeeding as clan leader is practically a legendary existence.
However, about ten years ago, a girl with a special constitution appeared in the Miao ethnic group. According to the clan rules, when that girl came of age, she would inherit the position of clan chief.
However, the current leader of the Miao people is an ambitious person. She is unwilling to live her whole life in the mountains and fields. She yearns for the richness of the plains and is determined to lead her people to expand their territory.
The saintess who suddenly appeared was a stumbling block for her.
Therefore, the saintess disappeared silently when she was only a few years old, and her fate is unknown.
Many people in the Miao ethnic group suspect that the disappearance of the holy maiden is related to the clan chief, but no one dares to speak out because there is no evidence.
In addition, most of the people in the clan, like the clan leader, had long been fed up with the current dull and boring life and supported the clan leader's ambitions. Naturally, they did not want a saintess to suddenly appear and get in their way.
So the matter was left unresolved, and the invasion of the Central Plains territory, despite the opposition of the peace faction, still slowly began under the leadership of the clan chief.
At this very moment, the Peace Faction produced a freak, a boy who possessed the constitution of a saintess. This gave the Peace Faction members other ideas, and they ultimately lied about the boy's gender.
Because of the previous saintess's fate, she protected the boy like a sardonic shell.
Even though the boy was there, he was too young and inexperienced to stop the clan leader's ambition.
Many years later, the Miao people of today are no longer the Miao people who lived in the mountains and fields and were content with their lot.
Not only that, but the truth will eventually come out, and his identity was exposed when he was a teenager.
The clan chief had always wanted to get rid of the troublesome holy maiden. Now that she had such leverage over her, what did she have to worry about?
They immediately launched a frenzied pursuit of the boy.
Although the boy escaped under the fierce protection of his guards, he was also poisoned by the clan leader's Gu poison. Fortunately, his special constitution protected his heart meridian, so he would not die for a while. Otherwise, he would not have met Yan Xiao.
In the original novel, the boy did not encounter Yan Xiao, but rather the female lead, Jiang Xinrui, who came to meet the second male lead, Wei Wuxiu.
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