Chapter 42: Money, money, money, that’s all I know!
Xie Ziqian tried to pull his hand back: "Mom, Mom, let go!"
Zhou was already having difficulty breathing, but she continued to strangle him to death.
Her eyes seemed to be squeezed out of her head as she spoke intermittently, "Xie Ziqian, if you don't... don't want to bear the crime... of killing your own mother, then... just sign!"
Seeing Zhou's face becoming increasingly ugly, Xie Ziqian could only break down and say, "I'll sign! I'll sign!"
Upon hearing this, Xu Yinghe fell to the ground.
Ten thousand taels!
When the Xie family was at its peak, the younger generations like them never had the chance to see ten thousand taels.
Now they have become criminal slaves and are no longer able to earn so much money.
Xu Yinghe seemed to see her own children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren... all bowing down and serving Lu Wanyin.
She hugged her two children tightly and cried uncontrollably.
Xie Ziqian and his entire family were forced to sign, and Zhou went to find Xie Ziheng with the IOU.
Xie Ziheng was so hungry that his stomach ached, so he simply followed his third uncle Xie Deyi's example and lay on the ground eating a black-flour steamed bun.
When Zhou came to him, he was too lazy to struggle.
He dipped his finger in the blood of Zhou's index finger and quickly signed his name.
Finally it was Xie Deyao's turn, but Zhou didn't even ask a single question.
She grabbed his hand, signed, pressed her fingerprint, and turned away.
That was so quick and neat.
Zhou handed the IOU to Lu Wanyin, her eyes swollen like walnuts from crying: "I have done what you said. Can you save my youngest son?"
As he spoke, tears were still welling up in his eyes.
"Since I dare to speak up, I can definitely save him."
Lu Wanyin looked at the IOU.
After making sure that everything that needed to be written was complete and there were no mistakes or omissions, she put the IOU away.
Lu Wanyin took out a set of silver needles from the Imperial Hospital from her sleeve and began to give acupuncture.
She also taunted him: "He's lucky this time, but if he dares to snatch food again, he might not be so lucky next time."
Hou Yuanji came over and said: "His mouth is as black as charcoal, can you save him?"
On the colorful bun-shaped face, the eyes, which were not big to begin with, narrowed into a slit, flashing with malicious light.
Lu Wanyin didn't even glance at him.
However, the escort on the side kept chattering.
"That's impossible. He was panting like a dying mouse. I think I sneezed and killed him."
"That's right, bro! I've fought so many people before, I can tell at a glance that this guy is not going to survive."
"Mrs. Xie is pretending to be a dying man and asking for ten thousand taels. She is even more shameless than me."
"Tell me, next time I beat these guys half to death, can I ask them to sign an IOU for me?"
His words revealed his familiarity with beating people to death.
Xie Jingci listened and his eyes darkened.
To put it nicely, this group of escorts were public servants who escorted prisoners.
But in fact, they are all executioners who do things for money.
All the prisoners who fell into their hands were worried about whether they could reach the place of exile alive and whether they could live well there.
It mainly depends on whether there is anyone willing to buy the prisoner's life.
The second is whether the prisoners have money to bribe them.
In the end, it all depends on whether they are happy or not and whether they are willing to spare the prisoner's life.
This kind of thing has long been commonplace in our dynasty.
They were not afraid to speak out in public, and often even made bets, such as "Whoever kills a prisoner first will get five taels of silver."
And these things will eventually become their capital for showing off after drinking.
Because the people being guarded were already criminals, everyone felt they deserved to be put to death, so no one cared.
Lu Wanyin curled the corners of her mouth sarcastically.
If you make a mistake, there will naturally be laws to punish you.
This group of escorts can ignore the law and act so unscrupulously. The root cause is that the top beam is crooked and the bottom beam is crooked.
But what a coincidence, isn't it?
Lu Wanyin also came back from the end of the world.
At that time, rules and laws were the real wasteland.
"I need to get it done"
Zhou's interruption brought Lu Wanyin back to her senses.
He looked down and saw that Xie Zichuan's face was covered with silver needles, and his hand that was about to insert the needle paused.
She doesn't save people with her medical skills.
He just took advantage of the chaos to secretly drip the spiritual spring into Xie Zichuan's mouth.
With the spiritual spring, she is not afraid of any accidents no matter where she gets the treatment.
However, her face was almost prickled like a hedgehog, and she rarely felt a trace of guilt.
One escort was jealous of Lu Wanyin for easily getting ten thousand taels, and said sourly, "He's about to die, and he still has to suffer this old punishment. It's too miserable."
Zhou didn't trust Lu Wanyin in the first place, and when she heard the escorts all saying that Lu Wanyin was cheating her out of money, she felt even more uneasy.
When she saw her son stabbed into such a horrible state, her mind suddenly exploded.
"Lu Wanyin! If anything happens to my youngest son, I will send you to him to make amends!"
"oh."
After Lu Wanyin finished speaking, she quickly and decisively stabbed the needle into Xie Zichuan's face.
This time Zhou saw it clearly.
Before acupuncture, Lu Wanyin just took a quick glance and did not carefully determine the acupoint.
That movement was even more casual than when she was tying pork belly.
Zhou was furious: "Stop it!"
Lu Wanyin really stopped.
She said, "Let me make this clear first. If you call it quits, I won't return the IOU. You still have to pay what you owe."
"No! You didn't even save the person, why do you want our money?"
Xie Deyao was furious when he heard that the IOU would not be returned.
Little did he know that his reaction also made Zhou furious.
Money! Money! Money!
The youngest one is about to die, and both of them are only thinking about money!
Zhou pushed Xie Deyao down and let him fall to the ground screaming.
She turned around and was about to question Lu Wanyin.
But he saw Lu Wanyin holding the silver needle and shaking it slowly.
The midday sun was blazing brightly, casting a dazzling cold light on the silver needle.
Zhou stopped, clenched her hands into fists, and dug her nails deep into her palms.
After a long while, she finally gave up and burst into tears: "I just want to save my youngest son."
"Then be content."
After saying that, Lu Wanyin finally found a spot on her face and quickly inserted the silver needle.
After the injection, Zhou felt a chill in her heart.
But Lu Wanyin was satisfied—it was finally symmetrical!
The jealous tall and thin escort took the opportunity to say: "There's no place to pierce my face, you're not going to pierce your body, are you?"
Lu Wanyin has never been the type to be manipulated.
The reason she had tolerated this group of escorts until now was simply because she was too lazy to deal with them.
But that doesn't mean she will endure it forever.
Thinking of this, Lu Wanyin shot a silver needle at the tall and thin escort.
No one noticed anything unusual.
Until the escort opened his mouth several times but was unable to speak, and pulled Hou Yuanji excitedly.
“Ah… Yeah…”
Only then did the others realize that he had been murdered.
Hou Yuanji kicked away the out-of-control escort, wanting to find out the truth about Lu Wanyin's medical skills.
"hiss!"
Xie Zichuan, who was already showing signs of death, suddenly took a deep breath in an urgent manner.
Then he let out a heart-wrenching cough as if he was choked.
After coughing for a while, he opened his eyes and vomited out all the food he had eaten.
His face also changed from dark purple to deep red.
Although it was still not quite normal, it was obviously no longer the gray and withered color of being on the verge of death.
Zhou rushed over and asked Xie Zichuan about his well-being.
Everyone from the Xie family also gathered around.
This incident completely overturned their understanding of the gap, and they were all more shocked than each other.
The escort pushed the Xie family away, picked up Xie Zichuan, and looked at him carefully.
Hou Yuanji didn't care about it.
His eyes followed Lu Wanyin who was quickly retracting the needle, because he was more concerned about something else.
Hou Yuanji asked: "You have such medical skills, why didn't you save Xie Jingci?"
Lu Wanyin glanced at him and said, "Have you ever seen anyone who can put a severed head back on a corpse?"
Upon hearing this, the suspicion in Hou Yuanji's eyes froze.
Having the tendons in your hands and feet cut is like having your head cut off.
Unless a god comes, it is impossible to come back to life from the dead.
But Hou Yuanji always felt that it was probably because of the outrageous things that happened before, such as the crow's protection and the giant python giving away gifts.
It's not impossible.
Hou Yuanji looked at Xie Jingci scrutinizingly.
If this is true, he must not take it lightly!
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