Chapter 104 Miaojiang Seeks Medicine "Kneel down now and kowtow three hundred times"...
The carriage bumped along the rugged mountain road. Inside the carriage, Jiang Cichen frowned and looked very painful.
Luo Wan had personally experienced the severity of the Jue Ya poison. When the poison took effect, it felt like thousands of ants gnawing at one's heart, causing unbearable pain that was unbearable for ordinary people.
The medicine Qingyun gave him to alleviate the toxicity only slightly alleviated the pain, but it was like gravel in the sea, with no effect at all.
Luo Wan gently lifted the carriage curtain and looked at Xie Yan, who was driving the horse: "Have those people been dealt with?"
Xie Yan said calmly, "Kill them all."
"Where's the body?"
"Grind the bones and scatter the ashes."
Luo Wan asked: "Does Yunjing know about this?"
There is an ongoing struggle for the throne in Yunjing, and Jiang Cichen's people are still protecting the Eastern Palace. If people with ill intentions find out that Jiang Cichen is dying, there is no guarantee that they will not take this opportunity to attack the young prince.
Xie Yan realized this very early on. He said, "All news is blocked. No one knows except the people Chen Bezhe brought to encircle and suppress Bei Yeji. They are all from Yanyun Pavilion and will not tell anyone."
After Chen Beizhe and his men tracked down Bei Ye Ji, he immediately sent a message to Jiang Cichen and Xie Yan. They then led their men to kill all of Bei Ye Ji and Lei Yuanjie's men silently. When they went into the forest again, they found a group of death warriors from Tingyu Tower guarding the forest.
In order to avoid alerting the enemy and allowing Bei Yeji to escape, Jiang Cichen and Xie Yan sneaked in alone, and only then did they run into the four people confronting each other in the forest.
Xie Yan was silent for a moment, then continued, "I thought anyone would attack Ah Chen, but I never thought it would be Jiang Yuanan."
Not only Xie Yan, but Luo Wan also didn't expect this.
Qiandeng Town is located outside Miaojiang and is the closest town to Miaojiang.
An ancient custom is followed here: every Mid-Autumn Festival night, in addition to admiring the moon and eating moon cakes, every household must release a Kongming lantern.
When the dark night sky is lit up by thousands of bright lights, the lights carrying countless wishes slowly rise into the sky, which is the most beautiful scenery here.
When Luo Wan was poisoned in his previous life and left Miaojiang, he passed by here and also lit a bright lamp for prayer.
The carriage stopped at Qiandeng Town. Going forward was the Miao territory. The mountain road was steep and the carriage could not pass.
The Miao village is located halfway up the mountain and can only be reached on foot.
At the entrance of Qiandeng Town, the guards of Tingyu Tower, who had been waiting for a long time, saw Luo Wan and Qingyun and immediately hurried over to greet them. "Master, you've finally arrived. I've been waiting here for a long time. When will you set off up the mountain?"
Luo Wan said: "Let's go immediately."
"Okay, then I'll get the brothers together."
"No need to gather." Luo Wan stopped him, "Just go get a simple stretcher."
The man didn't understand why, but he still did it obediently.
Xie Yan gazed at the Miao village halfway up the mountain and frowned. "At this height, I'm afraid it'll take an hour or two to climb." He glanced at the old man Qingyun and said, "Mr. Qingyun, can you lift it? Do you want to pick two strong men from the Tingyu Tower warriors here?"
Luo Wan shook her head. She couldn't bring anyone up with her, otherwise it would be difficult to explain her purpose. She said, "Qingyun and I will go up. You wait here."
Xie Yan pointed at himself, incredulous: "I'm waiting here?"
Luo Wan raised her eyes: "Do you know who I should ask for medicine from in Miaojiang?"
Xie Yan paused and said, "Bei Ye Si..."
Beiye Si's mother is the Holy Maiden of Miaojiang. If there is anyone in Miaojiang who can use the mother-child Gu, it is only him.
"You are a traitor to the Northern Kingdom, and he is the prince of the Northern Kingdom." Luo Wan said, "There is no benefit for you to go up, and the other assassins of Tingyu Tower cannot go up either, otherwise they will be suspected of stealing the medicine."
Xie Yan disagreed: "The Northern Kingdom is dead, so where would the Northern Kingdom's prince come from? If there really is a Gu in Miaojiang that can cure the poison, what would happen if we surrounded the entire Miaojiang area?"
"No." Qingyun said, "The Miaojiang mother-child Gu is extremely fragile. It needs to be personally pulled by the person raising the Gu before it can be planted."
Luo Wan said calmly, "If Miaojiang was gone, do you think they would still save Jiang Cichen?"
Xie Yan frowned: "But do you really think that Beiye Si will save Ah Chen? Ah Chen destroyed his homeland."
"I'm not sure..." Luo Wan looked back at the unconscious young man in the carriage and said softly, "But this is his only way to survive."
She has always been a vengeful person, but now that she thinks about it, all those grudges and hatreds are nothing compared to Jiang Cichen's life.
Soon, the assassins came back carrying a stretcher.
When Xie Yan moved Jiang Cichen to the stretcher, the young man vomited another mouthful of black blood, the color of which was darker than before.
After two days of tossing and turning, the poison had penetrated deep into his lungs.
It rained here two days ago, and the mountain trails were muddy and slippery.
Luo Wan has always had good physical strength, but after carrying it for an hour with Qingyun, he couldn't help but feel tired.
Qingyun looked ashamed and said reluctantly, "Master, I'll carry you for a while."
Luo Wan shook her head and refused: "People who are poisoned hate bumpy rides. Besides..." She raised her head and looked at the mountain village shrouded in clouds and mist, "We're almost there."
They walked from early morning until noon. The sun gradually grew higher and both of them were sweating a lot before they finally reached the entrance of the village.
There are very few outsiders visiting the village. When the three unfamiliar faces appeared, the Miao people gathered around curiously.
When they saw the unconscious young man on the stretcher, the crowd immediately burst into low cries.
"What a powerful poison!"
"I'm afraid this won't work, right?"
"What a pity, so young..."
"He's quite handsome..."
Luo Wan was surrounded by the crowd and could not move forward, so he had to patiently ask them to make way.
"No!" a little girl carrying a bamboo basket shouted, "No one from outside can enter the village without the permission of the high priest and the priest!"
Luo Wan's eyes flickered slightly, and he asked in a gentle voice, "Is your priest called Bei Ye Si?"
The little girl shook her head: "No, there is no such person as Beiye Si in our village."
Luo Wan frowned and asked tentatively, "Is there a person named Chu Lin?"
The little girl immediately covered her mouth and said in a low voice, "You can't call the priest by his name!"
Then she asked everyone around to disperse. After the crowd gradually dispersed, the little girl looked at Luo Wan warily: "How do you know the name of our priest?"
How to explain, friend? Old subordinate? Or enemy?
After a long silence, Luo Wan said, "We know each other. I want to ask him to save someone."
The little girl stretched her head to look at the young man on the stretcher and offered a solution: "Then you wait here for a while. I need to go back and ask for permission. I can only take you in after the priest agrees."
Luo Wan nodded: "Thank you."
The little girl trotted back to the village carrying the basket.
After watching the girl run away with the bamboo basket, Luo Wan hurriedly turned around to check on Jiang Cichen's condition.
His face was even more pale than when he went up the mountain, and cold sweat kept oozing from his forehead.
Qingyun also noticed this and checked Jiang Cichen's pulse, but it was so weak it was practically non-existent. Sometimes, there was no pulse at all. Jiang Cichen possessed profound internal energy; an ordinary person would have died long ago.
Luo Wan looked at Qingyun anxiously: "How is it?"
Qingyun said: "If you don't detoxify before dark, you will die."
Luo Wan wiped the sweat from his forehead and checked his injured hand. The bandage had been stained by the poisonous blood.
After waiting for a while, the sound of footsteps came closer. Luo Wan turned around to look, but did not see Chu Lin as expected. Instead, he saw the Miao chief priest behind the little girl.
The little girl supported her knees with her hands, panting: "The priest was reading, so we didn't disturb him. The same thing happened when the high priest came!"
The high priest slowly approached, looked Luo Wan up and down, and said in an unclear tone: "It really is you."
He glanced at the young man behind her and said, "When Ah Cai told me this, I didn't quite believe it. Have you forgotten what you did to Ah Si? How dare you bring someone else to ask for medicine?"
Ah Cai opened her eyes wide and listened carefully with her ears perked up.
Luo Wan did not forget, but she had no other choice, this was the only path she could choose.
Unless it was absolutely necessary, she would never bow to her enemy.
"I haven't forgotten. I am willing to take responsibility for all the mistakes I made in the past." Luo Wan bowed his head. "I also ask the high priest to save his life."
The high priest sneered: "Why should I save him?"
“…”
Even Luo Wan himself couldn't come up with a reason for saving the person. He could list thousands of reasons not to save the person, but it was difficult to come up with a single reason to save the person.
So powerless.
Luo Wan pondered and said, "If there is anything the High Priest wants to do, or someone he wants to kill, I can do it for you in exchange."
"If there was someone I wanted to kill, he would have died long ago." The high priest paused, "But there was one person, but Ah Si didn't allow me to, so I didn't kill him."
Luo Wan raised her eyes: "Does the High Priest want my life?"
After rebirth, too many things deviated from the trajectory of the previous life. Chu Lin killed Su Qinghuan; stabbed himself with the sword; and stopped the high priest from killing her.
Every incident left Luo Wan puzzled.
As a result, Luo Wan couldn't figure out what kind of person Chu Lin was. That was why she still had a glimmer of hope and came to Miaojiang to seek medicine.
She is a despicable person.
The high priest said calmly, "I dare not kill you, lest Ah Si gets upset and angry again."
Luo Wan knew that since the high priest was willing to negotiate conditions, it meant that there was still room for improvement. However, the conditions she proposed had not yet impressed the high priest.
In her previous life, she had very few interactions with the high priest. Apart from the fact that he had saved her once at Chu Lin's request, they had no other dealings.
In her memory, the high priest had treated her in a normal way in her previous life. Luo Wan didn't understand him and couldn't imagine what this man would want.
Luo Wan whispered, "What do I need to do to get the high priest to save me?"
"You want me to save him? Sure," the high priest said coldly, "Now kneel down and kowtow three hundred times, saying that you deserve divine punishment for your indifference."
These words made Ah Cai, who was standing by, gasp.
Qingyun was also stunned.
Luo Wan felt like there was something stuck in her throat, but she also breathed a sigh of relief. She completely understood the high priest.
Looking at the whole thing from the high priest's perspective, and looking at her as a person, she is just like that, heartless and ungrateful, and deserves God's punishment.
Luo Wan clenched his fists, digging his nails into his palms. Although the ground beneath his feet was muddy, it was soft enough.
It’s just three hundred kowtows. She won’t die, but Jiang Cichen will survive.
Luo Wan smiled and said, "Please ask Miss Acai and Qingyun to be witnesses. I hope the high priest will keep his word."
The high priest snorted, "Of course I keep my word."
Luo Wan didn't hesitate any longer and bent his knees. Just as they were about to touch the ground, a clear and melodious sound of silver bells broke the oppressive and silent atmosphere.
A strong arm embraced her from behind and lifted her up steadily.
Luo Wan tilted his head in surprise.
The first thing I caught out of the corner of my eye was the tattoo on his fair neck.
Chu Lin helped her stand up, his voice clear and firm: "You don't have to kneel."
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