Chapter 302 Domineering Female Doctor Skilled in Gu Poisoning VS Down-on-his-luck Laborer Prodigal Son 29
"My benefactor, what are you looking at?" Duan Yunzhi's voice sounded perfectly normal, as gentle as ever.
If you only listen to him speak, you can't imagine what he looks like now.
His face was filled with hostility, as if he had completely changed into a different person. He looked sinister and vicious, like a venomous snake hiding in a dark corner.
“You…” Jiang Zhiyi looked at him warily.
She slowly backed away, clutching poison powder in her hand for self-defense, ready to act at any moment. However, she was unaware that there was another person hiding in the house behind her.
Duan Yunzhi secretly gave a signal, and the man quietly walked to the window. He picked up a wooden stick and smashed it hard on Jiang Zhiyi, knocking her unconscious immediately.
"Lock her up, and be careful. Don't let anything happen to her. I still have a use for her," Duan Yunzhi instructed.
He hadn't originally planned to lay a hand on her, since she had helped him, but she had stumbled upon something she shouldn't have, so he couldn't let her live.
After a few days, once he confirmed that the Gu worm had taken full effect, he killed her to prevent future troubles.
Duan Yunzhi's face returned to its previous calm expression. He turned and went to a bedroom, where the woman was lying on the bed with her eyes closed.
He took off his coat, climbed into bed, pulled her into his arms, sighed with satisfaction, and softly called her name, "Little Yue'er..."
His face was full of smiles, he was extremely happy.
But the woman on the bed did not answer him; she seemed to have fallen asleep, if one ignored her eyelids trembling with fear...
"Why won't you speak to me?" Duan Yunzhi's expression immediately changed. "Are you afraid? Are you afraid of me? Little Yue'er isn't afraid of me at all. If she were afraid of me, she wouldn't have been having an affair with that scholar!"
He suddenly grabbed the woman's neck with such force that it seemed he wanted to strangle her to death. The woman kicked and struggled, her face turning red from suffocation.
The woman's face was streaked with tears, and her pitiful eyes seemed to provoke Duan Yunzhi. He suddenly let go of her, then pulled her into his arms and gently coaxed her, "It's my fault, it's my fault, I shouldn't have hit her... Little Yue'er, don't cry, it's all my fault, I was angry for a moment... After we have that Gu worm, Little Yue'er, you'll be obedient, right? You'll change your mind, won't you? I know you love me, you only love me..."
"Yes...yes..." The woman suppressed her fear and answered him in a low voice, afraid that he would go crazy and hurt her again.
Duan Yunzhi closed his eyes and stroked her hair.
...
In another room.
Jiang Zhiyi, who was unconscious, suddenly opened her eyes. The pain in her back made her grimace and look around.
It must have been late at night by then. There were no lights on inside, only moonlight filtering in, which was barely enough to see.
The door was locked from the outside, so she couldn't escape at all. Even the only window in the room was sealed shut.
“Miss…” a faint voice suddenly came from the corner.
Jiang Zhiyi was startled by the sound. She turned her head and saw a woman huddled in a pile of weeds in the corner.
"Help...help me...help me..." the woman weakly pleaded for help.
Jiang Zhiyi noticed an overturned candle and a tinderbox on the ground. She used the tinderbox to light the candle, and the room became much brighter.
By the light, Jiang Zhiyi saw that the woman's face was covered in dirt and her lips were pale. She didn't seem to pose any threat, so she cautiously walked over.
"Save me...save the child..." The woman grabbed Jiang Zhiyi's hand, but was forced to let go due to her weakness.
Jiang Zhiyi looked at the woman's slightly protruding belly, and then took her pulse. She was now four months pregnant, but because the mother was too weak, the baby might not survive.
Jiang Zhiyi took a pill from her person and fed it to the woman. This medicine could help her get through a few more days.
"Who are you? Why are you imprisoned here?" Jiang Zhiyi asked.
After taking the medicine, the woman felt much better and told Jiang Zhiyi everything she knew.
She was originally an ordinary peasant girl. One day, a Taoist priest came to her house and said that her birth date and time were extremely auspicious, and he wanted her to become a concubine for a nobleman.
The wealthy man was very generous and gave her family a lot of money. After that, she came to this mountain villa.
Her original name was Cui Lian, but it was changed to Zhou Yue.
The nobleman was Duan Yunzhi, the young master of the Duan family. He would always gaze at her with infatuation and call her Xiaoyue'er.
Cui Lian wasn't stupid. After making some inquiries, she quickly understood what was going on. She had thought she resembled Zhou Yue, the woman Duan Yunzhi loved, but she hadn't expected that he only cared about her birth date and time.
Before long, the Taoist priest began to draw her blood daily to perform rituals, claiming it was some kind of soul-summoning technique, to make someone else's soul possess her.
Besides her, there were many other women in this courtyard, all serving the same purpose.
However, the Taoist priest's magic never succeeded. Many people died in the courtyard; some died from blood loss, while others were killed by Duan Yunzhi's enraged and crazed swords.
Later, they began to feign madness and pretend to be possessed, feigning to please Duan Yunzhi.
But this method didn't work either. Duan Yunzhi would always sense that something was wrong, and when he was dissatisfied, that was their death day.
Now, countless people have died in this villa, and their bodies have been dumped in the back mountain.
Jiang Zhiyi: "Why are they locking you up by yourself?"
With tears streaming down her face, Cui Lian said, "I... I was supposed to die, but I was pregnant with Duan Yunzhi's child, and that Taoist priest said... that using my child's blood as a sacrifice might be more effective... so they spared my life..."
Jiang Zhiyi felt a chill run down her spine; she never imagined that Duan Yunzhi was such a beast.
She must escape as soon as possible, otherwise Duan Yunzhi will definitely not let her go. He has gone mad, and the Gu worms cannot appease him for more than a few days.
Jiang Zhiyi comforted Cui Lian, "Don't cry. If you don't want to die, then calm down first. We need to find a way to escape quickly."
Cui Lian looked at her in despair, shaking her head and weeping, "We can't escape. If we're discovered, they'll beat us to death with sticks."
They were completely defenseless and no match for the Duan family's guards.
Jiang Zhiyi said in a deep voice, "Trust me, I'm confident I can deal with them, but the prerequisite is that you cooperate with me properly."
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