Yu Jiao obediently raised her little face to look at him, her almond eyes peaceful and harmless. She said calmly, "Our village is surrounded by mountains and rivers, and is blessed with natural beauty. It is inevitable that people here will be influenced by some spiritual energy."
"You are such a talkative little mouth!" Looking at her black, watery almond eyes, Gu Yun felt a strange familiarity in his heart. He suppressed the strange feeling in his heart and asked, "Are you a female doctor?"
Yu Jiao was pinched by his jaw, and she responded with "Yes."
Gu Yun retracted his fingers, stood up, stared at Yu Jiao with disdainful eyes, and said, "It's not impossible to spare your lives. Since you are a female doctor, I will give you a chance. If you can heal General Xiao's hand, I will let you two sisters go."
Liu Ziqi shook his head helplessly when he heard this. Even the imperial doctors were helpless in treating General Xiao's hand, let alone such a little girl.
Yu Jiao's eyes moved slightly. She had heard earlier that General Xiao Ning's hand was disabled, but she had to give it a try, so that she and Yu Fuling would have hope of survival.
She took a deep breath and slowly stood up, "Young Marquis, please keep your word."
Gu Yun curled his lips and smiled, "I always keep my word. If you really have this ability, I will ensure that you and your sister leave in one piece!"
Yang Yuanchen said with some concern, "Young Marquis, isn't it a bad idea to let the two of them meet General Xiao like this?"
"It doesn't matter. I've already heard it. If we can't cure General Xiao Ning's hand, just kill him and be done with it!" Gu Yun said nonchalantly.
Yu Jiao said, "I can go in alone."
She was not completely sure that she could cure General Xiao Ning's hand. Although Yu Fuling had been involved, it would still be less dangerous if she did not follow her in.
Gu Yun did not comment on her words and took the lead to walk towards the pavilion deep in the bamboo forest.
Yu Fuling was a little worried and grabbed Yu Jiao's hand. Yu Jiao said soothingly, "Don't worry, sister. We will be fine."
As he said this, he let go of Yu Fuling's hand and followed Liu Ziqi and Yang Yuanchen into the pavilion deep in the bamboo forest.
Xiao Ning was still sitting in the pavilion. He was a martial artist, and he could hear everything that happened outside the bamboo forest. When he saw Gu Yun really bringing the little girl to show him his hands, he laughed roughly, "You little devil, you are so carefree even after leaving the capital!"
Gu Yun smiled and said, "If she can really cure your hand, then why not let me, Gu Yun, show some mercy to her?"
Xiao Ning's hand was injured when he was fighting on the battlefield to resist foreign invasion. At that time, he had made great achievements in the war and was deeply loved by the emperor. In order to sympathize with his meritorious service in guarding the border, Emperor Ming Zheng specially ordered all the doctors in the Imperial Hospital to treat his hand. However, his hand bones were severely injured and the doctors were helpless. For this reason, Emperor Ming Zheng also punished many of them.
Xiao Ning was an excellent master of the Xiao family's spear skills. His ancestral Thousand Cavalry Spear could be used to take the heads of enemy soldiers amidst a huge army. However, his right hand was disabled now. Not only could he no longer hold the spear, but he also often felt excruciating pain.
Yu Jiao bowed to Xiao Ning and said, "Please let me see your hand."
So many famous old doctors in the Imperial Medical Bureau were unable to cure Xiao Ning's hand, let alone a little girl like this, and it had been disabled for a long time.
Xiao Ning just thought he was playing along with Gu Yun and stretched out his right hand towards Yu Jiao.
Yu Jiao placed her hands on Xiao Ning's wrist bones and touched them carefully twice. She closed her eyes and felt the changes in every inch of bones under the skin and flesh, and touched every finger bone of Xiao Ning.
Seeing that her slender hands were shamelessly touching Xiao Ning's dark and broad palms, Gu Yun sneered, "Don't use despicable means to seduce people. Don't you know your own weight? Even if you are the most famous prostitute in the capital, General Xiao Ning can sit still, let alone you, a little girl who is still wet behind the ears!"
Yu Jiao glanced at him coldly, not affected by Gu Yun at all. She placed her fingertips on Xiao Ning's pulse, and after a moment, she withdrew her hand.
"Did General Xiao's hand ever get seriously injured and fractured?" Yu Jiao asked.
Xiao Ning nodded.
Yu Jiao continued to ask, "Who reconnected your bones back then?"
"The imperial physician accompanying the army." Xiao Ning didn't understand why she asked these questions.
Gu Yun said impatiently, "Stop wasting time here, can't you cure it?"
Yu Jiao ignored his nitpicking and said shockingly, "Since you are an imperial physician, it is impossible for you to connect the wrong bone. General Xiao's hand was not disabled due to a serious injury. Someone deliberately connected the wrong bone and disabled your hand."
"What did you say?" Xiao Ning stood up suddenly, staring at Yu Jiao fiercely. After all, he was a general who had experienced many battles. He looked majestic and full of murderous aura. He asked in a deep voice, "Are you lying to me?"
Yu Jiao said calmly, "I have just carefully felt your broken bones. There are no fractures or bone fragments. When you were seriously injured, your wrist bones may have been fractured or comminuted, but now these conditions have healed on their own. In other words, it is not serious enough to make this hand useless, but your wrist bone was misaligned."
Moreover, the dislocation is very subtle. Only one joint is dislocated, but the whole body is affected, and all the tendons and ligaments are dislocated.
He could no longer use his entire hand and was often in unbearable pain.
The person who set the bones was really clever and must be an expert. It wasn't like an ordinary sprain that a martial artist could easily detect. Otherwise, Xiao Ning wouldn't have not discovered it or suspected it for all these years.
If it weren't for the bone-touching skill inherited from her ancestors, Yu Jiao would have found it difficult to tell.
Xiao Ning's face was frosty and gloomy after hearing this. He suddenly raised his left hand and slammed it hard on the stone table in the pavilion. He gritted his teeth and said, "So that's it, so that's it! The imperial physician who accompanied the army in Xuanfu must have been the emperor's man. He actually planned to murder me five years ago! He even hypocritically gathered the strength of the entire Imperial Hospital to treat my hand!"
Gu Yun, Liu Ziqi and Yang Yuanchen who were standing by were all stunned. They never expected that there would be such a tortuous and circuitous method hidden in it.
"But five years ago, the emperor personally appointed General Xiao as the governor of Xuanda and handed over the military power of the three major military garrisons to you. It was a time when you had made great military achievements. Why would he attack you at that time?" Gu Yun said in great confusion.
Xiao Ning smiled sadly, "You also said that I was a great warrior at that time, and I know that my achievements are so great that they will shock the emperor! I never thought that I, Xiao Ning, was loyal to the emperor and served the country, but the emperor became suspicious of me five years ago when I was fighting in the battlefield and defending the country!"
These words caused everyone in the pavilion to fall silent. The current emperor...harmed his clan brothers, and not only did he obtain the throne in an illegitimate way, but as a monarch, he was also suspicious of his subjects. He had no moral principles, was incompetent and had no heart for the people.
"Is there any way to cure General Xiao's hand?" Liu Ziqi asked Yu Jiao.
"Don't embarrass this little girl!" Xiao Ning came back to his senses. After knowing the reason why his hand was broken, he looked much older in an instant. He was not as energetic as before. He said to Yu Jiao, "You told me the reason why your hand was broken today. This makes me, Xiao Ning, understand the truth. I will let you and your sister go alive."
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