Chapter 975 Threat
When Madam Qin was brought over, Tang Ning had already changed into a clean monk's robe.
Although the fabric of the robe was ordinary, it looked brand new and clean, and it even had the scent of pine branches.
Tang Ning leaned on the edge of the couch, and his expression instantly relaxed when he saw the person coming in through the door. Madam Qin's face was even more excited, and she wanted to step forward quickly, but the person who brought her in blocked her outside the door with his hand.
"Qin Miaoshou, my master asked you to come here for the sake of my wife's health, but I also hope that you won't do anything you shouldn't do, otherwise no one will be able to guarantee the safety of your junior brother."
Madam Qin's face darkened.
Shi An said, "Go in."
Madam Qin looked at him expressionlessly, then walked in quickly with a cold face. In the inner room, Tang Ning had already been helped up by Yue Jian.
"Sister Qin."
"Aning."
When the two of them clasped their hands together, they spoke almost at the same time. Before Tang Ning could ask Madam Qin if she was safe, Madam Qin had already pinched her wrist lightly with her backhand. After pressing her fingertips on her pulse for a moment, she said with a grim expression:
"You were due in a few days, but you suddenly gave birth prematurely, and your body was ruined like this. It's all my fault. If I hadn't been careless and hadn't been tricked into leaving the capital, you wouldn't have been in such danger..."
"Sister Qin."
Tang Ning held Madam Qin's hand. "I'm fine. Although the day of delivery was dangerous, it's over. Now it's just the poison in my body that's bothering me. As for you, have you been okay these days? Did Lu Zhinian hurt you?"
Madam Qin's face turned particularly grim when she mentioned Lu Zhinian: "He didn't hurt me, but that bastard deceived my junior brother and trapped us with his life. He is so shameless!"
She had been in the martial arts world for many years and had seen too many schemes. When she realized that she was being plotted against, she wanted to escape immediately. With her means, Lu Zhinian's men could not have trapped her. However, Lu Zhinian was vicious and not only took her junior brother's life, but also contaminated the entire village with poison, causing an epidemic.
The poisonous disease is ferocious. If the infected person cannot be treated in time, he will die within two days. Moreover, the poisonous disease is extremely contagious. Once it spreads, it will cause a terrible disaster and harm countless people.
Lu Zhinian never hid his thoughts, and even took the initiative to tell her that he had prepared these things in other places.
He was gentle and polite, and never showed any disrespect to her. He even took the initiative to ask Madam Qin to help him treat his headache. Even though Madam Qin hated him so much that she could kill him with a single injection, she did not dare to attack him, let alone leave.
Madam Qin talked about what happened after she was "captured". Looking at Tang Ning's flat belly and the weakness that could not be concealed even with disguise, she couldn't help feeling guilty when looking at Tang Ning.
"Aning, I originally had the opportunity to leave, and Lu Zhinian couldn't trap me, but I can't leave."
"The things in Lu Zhinian's hand were coaxed out of him by my junior brother. Although my junior brother has no bad intentions, he cannot escape responsibility. If those people die from the poison, all the blame will be borne by my sect."
Her master, her school, and all her fellow disciples took it as their responsibility to practice medicine and save lives. What she learned on her first day in medicine was the compassion of a doctor. She could not sit idly by and watch those lives being lost, nor could she allow Lu Zhinian to do evil.
She was willing to be "trapped" here, but it hurt Tang Ning.
Tang Ning looked at Madam Qin, whose eyes were full of guilt. She had been wondering before that with Madam Qin's ability, even if she was captured by Lu Zhinian, there would be no news at all. She would definitely find a way to escape. But now that she knew she was staying voluntarily, she understood the reason.
Madam Qin pursed her lips and said, "When I knew he was Lu Zhinian, I vaguely guessed what he wanted to do, but by then I couldn't leave. Aning, do you blame me?"
Tang Ning shook his head and pulled Madam Qin to sit on the couch beside him. "When I first met you, I knew what kind of person you were. If a doctor has no reverence for life and death and turns a blind eye to human life, then you are not the Sister Qin I know."
"Besides, you saved the people of Wei. If the epidemic spreads and harms the entire Wei nation, I'm grateful to you. How could I blame you?"
Upon hearing this, Madam Qin's expression softened and she couldn't help but hold Tang Ning's hand.
The outer door was closed, but the three people in the room knew that there was someone guarding outside. Even outside the open window, someone was looking inside from time to time, and there were several servants in the yard pretending to clean.
Tang Ning placed her hand on the small table and let Madam Qin feel her pulse. She asked softly, "Has Sister Qin been in Lingyun Temple all this time?"
Madam Qin shook her head. "No, it started at a farm in the western suburbs. My junior brother was seriously injured and contracted the disease while trying to cure the poison. I stayed with him for several days until he was brought to Lingyun Temple three days ago."
Tang Ning frowned: "Then your junior brother..."
She paused.
"Did he do this on purpose?"
Madam Qin pursed her lips and said, "No, Shuisheng grew up in the Medical Valley. He has a simple personality. He is not very talented in medicine, but he is very obsessed with some strange diseases and poison witchcraft."
"Initially, he was tricked by Lu Zhinian. Lu Zhinian tricked him with a headache, then concealed his true identity and befriended him, providing him with various rare poisons for his medicine making. Shuisheng was manipulated by Lu Zhinian without asking for anything else, and he treated him as a close friend. However, when he realized that Lu Zhinian was plotting against me, he tried to take me away and was even seriously injured while trying to save me."
Madam Qin hesitated a bit while speaking, but still said to Tang Ning:
"Aning, I know my junior brother got into big trouble this time, but I can assure you that he and Lu Zhinian are not on the same side, and he certainly won't help the evil. He was used from the beginning to the end."
"The rules of my sect are very strict. He will be severely punished for what he did this time. If..."
She pursed her lips and paused.
"If I can keep you safe this time, can you hand him over to me so I can take him back to the sect and deal with him?"
With the mistake Zhuo Shuisheng made, he would lose half his life if he returned to his master's sect. His master would also abolish all his previous knowledge and order him to guard the medicine garden. From then on, he would never be able to step out of the Medical Valley.
But at least it can save his life.
Seeing Madam Qin's pleading face, Tang Ning said without hesitation:
"He's your junior apprentice brother, so naturally you should take him back and deal with him. Besides, he was being used by others and even infected himself to cure the epidemic. Could it be that in Sister Qin's eyes, I'm so unkind?"
"Of course you are not, but others are."
Madam Qin's eyes were full of helplessness as she spoke.
She had known Xiao Yan for many years and knew his character very well.
With his temper, if he knew that it was her junior brother who caused Tang Ning to give birth prematurely and suffer so many dangers, and now she has fallen into Lu Zhinian's hands, he would definitely cut her junior brother into pieces and skin him alive.
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