Chapter 14 Be good, there are eyes all over your face
Half an hour ago.
Almost as soon as she left Hongwenguan, Luo Wan realized that someone was following her. That person had a very strong tracking ability.
But unfortunately, the one I met was her.
In her previous life, not to mention the entire martial arts world, she had never met anyone in the entire Northern Kingdom who could truly monitor her.
The lantern festival was noisy and crowded. Luo Wan casually strolled around with Pei Shaochuan for a while, easily shaking off the pursuer and arriving at Xu Xuan's courtyard.
Pei Shaochuan's previous portrait did not only contain a portrait, but also had information about the two people marked on the side, including Xu Xuan's address.
The small courtyard was on the outskirts of the city, with an ordinary tiled house and a fence. Luo Wan thought to herself: Feng Yuyun was so stingy towards her accomplices, it was a pity that Xu Xuan was willing to help her harm others.
The wooden door was shabby and the couplets pasted on the door had turned yellow and faded. Fortunately, Luo Wan took a closer look and saw footprints left in front of the door in the past two days. Otherwise, based on the appearance of the hut, she would have thought it had been abandoned long ago.
With a creak, the rotten doorposts rubbed against each other, and the wooden door was opened from the inside. A thin man carrying a package looked at her in surprise.
Luo Wan stared intently, and in the inky night, she saw clearly that the man was Xu Xuan.
When a person does something wrong and wants to leave, but is discovered, what is his first reaction?
right.
run!
Xu Xuan ran away!
He didn't understand what the little girl at the door did, but he had a hunch that it was definitely because of what happened that year.
Chi Wanwan should be this old now.
So Xu Xuan brushed past Luo Wan and ran out.
"Tsk." Luo Wan shook his head, picked up the bamboo stick leaning against the door, and threw it towards Xu Xuan's back with his backhand.
The bamboo stick cut through the darkness, and hit Xu Xuan's head and back hard with a thud.
Suddenly, a painful scream of "Ah" was heard.
Xu Xuan staggered two steps and fell face first to the ground.
In the north, there was heavy snow all day long in winter. He fell on the snow and landed flat on his face.
Luo Wan had already withdrawn his strength from the previous blow, but the bamboo stick was still broken into pieces.
Xu Xuan collapsed on the ground and struggled to stand up several times. Luo Wan walked closer and leaned over to take a look.
The thick layer of snow in front of the man was scraped away to reveal the soil, but he still couldn't get up.
Luo Wan squatted down and said slowly, "Where are you going? Doctor Xu."
Luo Wan picked up the package on the man's body with a bamboo stick, and the package fell apart with a bang. The silver and banknotes inside immediately rolled out and flew out. It seemed that it was the money given by Feng Yuyun.
"Uh..." Xu Xuan raised his head from the snow with difficulty and said incoherently: "She really does want to kill me after all."
It turned out that Xu Xuan thought she was an assassin sent by Feng Yuyun.
Luo Wan grabbed the man by the collar, dragged him into the house, and threw him on the table with one hand.
The two blows caused Xu Xuan to feel severe pain in his internal organs, but the fear of death and the desire to survive that suddenly ignited in his heart caused him to stand up suddenly and want to run!
Luo Wan glared at him, suddenly grabbed his fingers and bent them in the opposite direction, then kicked him in the knee as if he knew the ropes.
The man screamed in pain, bent his knees, and subconsciously twisted his body to relieve the pain in his fingers.
In the darkness, a flash of cold light suddenly appeared, and the dagger pierced deeply into the table. Then, a force pushed his back back onto the table.
Xu Xuan was horrified. His eyes were only two inches away from the dagger. He could clearly see the fear in his own eyes through the blade.
Luo Wan tied the man's hands behind his back to the table. Xu Xuan's face was pressed against the table, unable to move, looking miserable.
Luo Wan said, "Doctor Xu just said someone wants to kill you. Who is it?"
Xu Xuan said angrily, "Since you're here, why are you pretending to be so serious and asking questions when you already know the answer?"
Luo Wan looked around the house. It was plain and simple, even a little shabby. It definitely didn't look like the residence of a black-hearted doctor. A black-hearted person wouldn't be so poor.
The room had a mud floor, a bed, a desk, and a table where Xu Xuan was lying.
There was a bronze mirror on the desk, and a face towel and a wooden box beside it. The face towel was stained with a mixture of old and fresh blood. When the wooden box was opened, there were several knives and needles inside.
Luo Wan picked up the bronze mirror, pulled out the dagger, and placed the bronze mirror where the dagger had been. He asked Xu Xuan, "Do you really think Feng Yuyun is the only one in this world who wants to kill you?"
At this moment, this bronze mirror not only reflected Xu Xuan's eyes, but also his entire pale and thin face, including the black mole between his eyebrows and the scars around the mole.
After doing that for Feng Yuyun, he couldn't sleep for a long time and was haunted by nightmares after hearing the news of Ye's death.
He tried to cut off the mole countless times with a knife and a needle, but always failed. He felt that this was God's punishment for him, making him remember the evil he had done forever and pay for it in the future.
During these eleven years, he thought about leaving the capital, but he had seen Feng Yuyun's ruthless side, and he was afraid that he would be wiped out without anyone noticing soon after leaving the capital.
In this way, he stayed in the capital for eleven years in agony.
Because of the fear and guilt in his heart, he would think of that incident every time he went to see patients, which led to him being unable to treat his patients at one point. The medical skills he was proud of became a sword that stabbed him.
He even ate vegetarian food all year round in an attempt to offset his sins, and today was the time to pay for his sins.
"Are you Chi Wanwan's person?" Xu Xuan didn't think she was Chi Wanwan, even though they were of similar age. But he had felt Chi Wanwan's pulse when she was young and found her to be a short-lived person who was difficult for even Hua Tuo to cure. But now, this person's physical fitness was so good that she could fight three cows alone.
Luo Wan casually sat down on the stool beside the table and said, "Doctor Xu is really old and confused. He can't even remember me. I am Wanwan."
Without thinking, Xu Xuan said, "You are not her."
"As for me..." Luo Wan propped up her chin with her hand, staring at Xu Xuan. "I didn't come here to meet Dr. Xu today. I was young and didn't understand anything back then. Some things have become more and more strange the more I think about them over the years, so I decided to ask Dr. Xu about my mother's death."
Luo Wan rubbed the dagger twice on Xu Xuan's face. The latter stared at the horrifying scene in the bronze mirror in a daze, his pale lips trembling uncontrollably.
Luo Wan said softly, "Doctor Xu must answer truthfully."
Xu Xuan exclaimed: "Your mother's death has nothing to do with me!"
Luo Wan moved the bronze mirror away from them. "You took care of my mother during her pregnancy. How could she, who was so strong, die in the womb? As a doctor who was responsible for prenatal care, you didn't even notice anything."
Xu Xuan sweat dripped from his temples. "I didn't mean to hurt her. I was forced into it. They tricked me..."
Luo Wan frowned.
They? Feng Yuyun and Liu Ma Ma, the master and servant, were colluding to commit the crime?
Xu Xuan continued, "At first, I was the one who took care of Madam Ye's pregnancy, but later they wouldn't let me get close to her. They just gave me a prescription and told me to take the medicine according to the list."
I guess the problem lies with the prescription. How dare he say that Ye’s death has nothing to do with him.
Luo Wan found a pen and paper from the dilapidated house: "Tell me, Doctor Xu, the prescription."
Xu Xuan stuttered, "I...I don't remember!"
Luo Wan took out a dagger.
"Three grams of saffron!" Xu Xuan shouted, "One gram of Gelsemium elegans..."
Luo Wan slapped him twice on the face with the dagger: "Be good."
Xu Xuan's face was distorted and hideous, and he cried while reciting the prescription.
After writing the prescription, Luo Wan said, "You knew there was something wrong with this prescription, but you didn't do anything."
Xu Xuan trembled as he said, "I'm just a doctor. I can't do anything. How could I dare to go against an official's wife? Besides, they said I just need to pretend I know nothing. I'm innocent."
At that time, the entire Chi Mansion was under the control of Feng Yuyun, and Ye became a lady with only a good appearance. It was easy for Feng Yuyun to do anything to her.
"But you knew everything." Luo Wan placed the dagger against the man's neck and spoke calmly, "You knew Feng Yuyun was going to harm Ye, and you knew there was something wrong with the prescription. Yet, as Ye's doctor, you chose to stand by and watch, even dispensing the medicine for them. How could Ye have considered every bowl of pregnancy-preserving medicine? In fact, they trusted the fertility-promoting decoction dispensed by the doctor the most. Your indifference was the straw that broke the camel's back."
Xu Xuan pondered for a moment. A true man knows right from wrong and should admit his mistakes. After eleven years of entanglement, he was already exhausted. He said, "Back then, a single thought ruined the lives of you and your daughter. For so many years, I have lived with guilt every day. Now it is time to repay this debt. You can kill me or cut me into pieces, as you wish."
"Really?" Luo Wan smiled slightly, and the dagger suddenly shifted and stabbed into Xu Xuan's shoulder. She shook her head and said, "Doctor Xu didn't tell the truth."
"Ah——" Xu Xuan grimaced in pain, wishing he could faint immediately, but he was still awake and enduring the physical pain.
Luo Wan twisted the dagger against his shoulder a few times, her expression unchanged as she said, "Wanwan hopes that Doctor Xu will tell you everything you know, without hiding anything."
His words just now, "You can kill me or chop me up as you please," seemed to indicate a heroic death, but his eyes clearly showed a desire for life.
Xu Xuan's face lost all color: "I really said everything!"
"Doctor Xu isn't still waiting for Feng Yuyun to save you, is she? She didn't kill you all these years and even gave you money to let you leave the capital. You are indeed loyal." Luo Wan said helplessly, "How many holes do I have to poke before Doctor Xu tells the truth?"
Xu Xuan remained silent for a long while. Ye's death was not only due to his indifference, but also due to his greed. Feng had promised that as long as this matter was accomplished, she would ensure that he would be successful in the capital, so he dared to take the risk.
However, unexpectedly, after the matter was accomplished, he was the first to back down. Every time he went to see a patient, he would think of the tragic death of Ye and the baby with bruises all over his body.
After that, he didn't dare to see patients anymore.
About three or four years later, Xu Xuan learned that Feng Yuyun had sold all of Ye's former maids. This terrified him even more, as he feared that Feng would one day remember him and quietly kill him. Only then did Xu Xuan begin to actively participate in public life, seeing patients again to prove that he was still alive and well and would not die suddenly from a serious illness.
Occasionally, when Xu Xuan woke up from a dream in the middle of the night, he would get up from the bed, hold a knife in front of the mirror, and try to remove the mole between his eyebrows.
Luo Wan pulled out the dagger and stood up.
Xu Xuan felt a chill down his spine. Knowing that this person was not sent by Feng Yuyun, he asked himself that there was nothing wrong in hoping that Feng Yuyun would come to rescue him. He also knew Feng Yuyun's secret, so at least to her, he was valuable.
"I've heard that Buddhism records a Hundred-Eyed Immortal, whose body and face were covered with eyes. I've never seen one before." Luo Wan suddenly bent down and asked, "I'd really like to see one. Does Doctor Xu want to see one?"
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