Zuan knew she had been bothered by this, and couldn't help but laugh, "Didn't you say she was just trying to heal her wounds?"
"Isn't it enough that I despise someone who needs to give up their body to heal their wounds?" Mi Li snorted, about to say something, when she suddenly frowned. "Huh, there's someone hiding in your room."
Zuan felt a warmth in her heart. Although she had said she wouldn't help anymore and that I should rely on myself, she still couldn't help but offer guidance when things happened.
"Is it a man or a woman inside?" Zu'an asked, relaxed.
“Of course it’s a man,” Mi Li rolled her eyes. “What are you thinking about? You’re going to die on a woman’s belly one day.”
Upon hearing that it was a man, Zu'an immediately stopped smiling and became wary.
He entered the house and found that all the maids and servants in the mansion were gone. He frowned, thinking that they had been poisoned, but he immediately noticed some calm and light breathing coming from the side room, so they must have fainted.
He sneered inwardly. It seems he's a clumsy thief. He's managed to confuse all the servants. I'll easily notice something amiss when I get back.
He cautiously opened the door, but instead of the expected ambush from behind it, a figure sat inside leisurely drinking tea, as if he were in his own home.
Upon seeing the other person's appearance, Zu An was somewhat surprised: "Lord Ma?"
He never expected that the head of the Imperial Medical Academy would appear in his home, and in such a way.
Ma An placed the teacup on the table and smiled slightly, "Lord Zu, you're finally back. I've been waiting for you for so long."
Zu An asked in a deep voice, "What exactly does Lord Ma mean?"
It seems the defensive formation in this house is too rudimentary; it can't stop a true expert. Hopefully, Xie Daoyun will become a powerful rune master at the academy and then replace the formation in this courtyard.
“Lord Zu, there’s no need to be nervous. I just want to have a chat with you,” Ma An said with a smile.
Zuan glanced at the slowly burning candle on the table and said indifferently, "Coming uninvited and even knocking out the servants, this doesn't seem like someone who's here to chat."
“Don’t worry, those people will be fine after a good night’s sleep,” Ma An said. “The main thing is that I’m sure Lord Zu wouldn’t want others to hear what we were talking about.”
"What would you like to talk about, Lord Ma?" Zu An asked in a deep voice.
Ma An crossed his legs and looked him up and down: "Lord Zu is full of energy and as strong as an ox. He doesn't look injured at all."
"No need for you to worry about that." Zu'an used the Jade Cong's power to summon nearby small animals, looked around to make sure no one else was lying in ambush, and couldn't help but breathe a slight sigh of relief.
“Even if you don’t admit it, I could guess that the medicinal herbs you asked for at the Imperial Hospital today didn’t have any healing effects,” Ma An paused and continued, “On the contrary, they are more of a raw material for refining pills that help one’s cultivation break through. I didn’t expect that Lord Zu would be so proficient in alchemy?”
Zu'an was too lazy to waste words with him: "What exactly do you want to say?"
Ma An wasn't annoyed: "Since Lord Zu is refining a breakthrough pill, you must be facing a breakthrough in your cultivation recently. Everyone in the capital thought that Lord Zu was able to defeat the Prince of Qi's heir and fight to a draw with Han Fengqiu, a ninth-rank guest elder of the Prince of Qi's mansion, because he had a mysterious expert helping him in secret. But today I realized that the mysterious expert doesn't exist at all, or rather, the mysterious expert is yourself, isn't that right, Eleventh Master of the Golden Token?"
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During this road trip, I witnessed what it truly meant to see a public toilet near Dalongchi on the southern section of the Duku Highway. It was an old-fashioned squat toilet with a latrine underneath, and the excrement piled up like a small mountain, almost level with the toilet. I was horrified. I couldn't bear to look at it again and even covered my nose with a wet wipe. If I had known it would be like this, I would have preferred to relieve myself in the wild. Just thinking about that scene makes me want to vomit...
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