Chapter 297 White on the outside, black on the inside
Chen Jie rolled down in the flowerbed, howling in pain, while Wan Qi hid behind a pillar, hesitating whether or not to go down.
At this moment, Chen Jie remembered where he was. If he shouted and attracted others, he would not be able to explain himself. So, enduring the pain, he got up from the flower bed and used his Wind Riding Technique to run away.
Wanqi realized that the person had left and wanted to slip away as well. Just as he came out from behind the pillar, he bumped into two disciples of the medical family who came to change his bandages.
The two disciples of the medical school stared at Wan Qi, half surprised and half suspicious.
One of the female physicians recognized Wan Qi and frowned sternly, saying, "Wan Qi, what are you doing here? This is a women's medicinal bath room; men are not allowed to enter."
Wan Qi thought to himself that things were going badly, so he could only pretend to be innocent and say, "I came to find Senior Brother Chen. There is an injured person over there whose condition is very urgent. It's foggy here and I'm not familiar with the area, so I got lost and ended up here."
The two people in front of him didn't believe him and looked at him with suspicion.
Wanqi had no choice but to point to the flowerbed and say, "I just heard Senior Brother Chen scream over there. Senior Sister, why don't you two go and take a look? I don't want to get too close to the medicinal bath room."
"Chen Jie?"
"yes."
"Is he really inside?" Du Xiaoxing, the senior sister of the medical family, walked in with suspicion. When she got close to the flower bed, she smelled blood. She looked down and was so frightened that she took two steps back.
"Senior sister, what's wrong?" Wan Qi pretended not to know.
"This...this..."
"How can there be human eyeballs in these!" another female physician exclaimed in surprise.
"Where is Chen Jieren?!"
Wan Qi also called out, "Can't you see Senior Brother Chen?"
Startled, Du Xiaoxing snapped, "Wanqi! What exactly happened here? Don't lie to me!"
Wan Qi pointed to her eyes and said, "Senior Sister, I really don't know. I only had time to hear Senior Brother Chen's scream. I was just about to go over and see what was going on when he disappeared. Besides, my eyes are perfectly fine in their sockets. I certainly don't have the ability to gouge out Senior Brother Chen's eyeballs!"
Du Xiaoxing looked around and noticed the bloodstains on the ground. She then traced the direction Chen Jie had left in: "Go find Chen Jie first, then we'll know what happened. If you dare to lie to me..."
Wan Qi raised his hand and made an X gesture in front of him to indicate that he absolutely did not.
Du Xiaoxing snorted coldly and led him to find someone.
As Wan Qi left, he glanced back thoughtfully at the medicinal bathhouse behind him. He didn't know which room Yu Sui was in. The steaming mist rose again, blurring even the view of the wooden house.
He sighed inwardly, realizing he had really brought trouble upon himself.
Yu Sui pretended not to hear anything and continued soaking in the medicinal bath to repair her soul. She didn't want to waste time on Chen Jie.
Even if Wan Qi didn't say anything, she would still have to go out and thoroughly deal with Chen Jie after her medicinal bath.
Wan Qi and Du Xiaoxing followed the trail of blood to find Chen Jie. Chen Jie couldn't leave the medicinal bath hall with only one eye injured, so the most likely place he was hiding was the men's medicinal bath area next door.
Du Xiaoxing followed the trail of blood to the wall. Just inside the wall was a men's medicinal bath area where women were not allowed. The more she thought about it, the more she felt something was wrong. She turned to Wan Qi and said, "Go in and find Chen Jie."
"Huh?" Wan Qi pointed to himself. "Me? There are still injured people at the clinic. The situation is very urgent, really urgent."
"Don't think you can just get away with this!" Du Xiaoxing said. "Why would you be in the women's bath area? Don't tell me you got lost; who would believe that?"
Wanqi could tell from the expression on her face that her senior sister was doubting her.
"Was it you who injured Chen Jie?" Du Xiaoxing asked directly.
Chen Jie's reputation is much better than Wan Qi's, so it's not surprising that Wan Qi thinks this way. With a gloomy face, he said, "Do I have that ability?"
Du Xiaoxing frowned and asked the junior sister who had come with her to contact the senior brothers and sisters in the front hall to come and handle the matter.
"Anyway, you can't leave. We'll explain this to you after we find Chen Jie." Du Xiaoxing detained Wan Qi, preventing him from leaving.
Wan Qi scratched his head, his face clearly saying "whatever."
Yu Sui saw this scene through the Five Elements Light Core and felt that Wan Qi might not be able to argue with Chen Jie in the end. After all, compared with Chen Jie, Wan Qi seemed to have some dark history, making him hard to trust.
She picked up the wind-listening ruler and sent a telepathic message to Wan Qi.
The two had added Tingfengchi as a friend when they were in the outer city.
Wan Qi listened to Du Xiaoxing and stood in the middle of the corridor separating the two areas without moving, while Du Xiaoxing watched him from the side.
He glanced down at the sound transmission from the Wind Listening Ruler, and when he saw the three characters "Nangong Sui," his heart skipped a beat.
Seeing that Wan Qi hadn't answered the telepathic message for a long time, Du Xiaoxing frowned and said, "Answer it."
Wan Qi: "You weren't eavesdropping, were you?"
Du Xiaoxing was so angry she laughed: "Unless you're talking about something shady!"
Wan Qi pointed to a spot and said, "I'm going to pick it up over there. Senior Sister, please don't follow me and eavesdrop."
Du Xiaoxing retorted angrily, "I won't!"
Wanqi answered the voice transmission only after he had gone far away.
Yu Sui's cheerful voice reached Wan Qi's ears: "If you don't tell the truth, they might think that the person who came to the medicinal bath hall to peep was you, not Chen Jie."
Wan Qi was exasperated: "It couldn't be you, could it?"
He was asking about Chen Jie's eyes.
"It's me," Yu Sui readily admitted. "You can tell them directly."
Wan Qi: "Will anyone believe that?"
Yu Sui laughed and said, "Do you think they'll believe that the person who came to spy was Chen Jie, or that I was the one who gouged out Chen Jie's eyes?"
Wan Qi thought to herself that whether he said it or not, Nangong Sui would be fine. She had the support of Saint Chang Gen, as well as her brother and senior brother. She, on the other hand, had nothing.
“I didn’t see it,” Wan Qi said in a low voice. “I’ll only say what I saw.”
He simply didn't want to offend Yu Sui, nor did he want to provoke Chen Jie.
Yu Sui asked, "Then why did you follow me?"
Wan Qi said helplessly, "Maybe I still have a conscience."
Yu Sui said, "I advise you to stick your tongue around and kill Chen Jie. If Chen Jie doesn't die this time, your future days will be difficult."
Wan Qi looked somewhat troubled: "Can you guarantee he will definitely die this time?"
Yu Sui said, "I promise."
The people on duty at the medicinal bath hall followed because of the eyeball that fell out of the flower garden. Several fellow physicians went into the medicinal bath area to find Chen Jie.
After finishing his medicinal bath, Xia Feichen saw the group of doctors hurrying by and asked, "What happened?"
Shen Jing, a disciple of a physician with whom he had a good relationship, explained briefly: "Someone sneaked into the next room."
Xia Feichen frowned immediately: "Who would do such a dirty thing?"
Shen Jing added, "Wan Qi discovered it first. He said it was Chen Jie, and that Chen Jie had lost an eyeball. They were searching and found that Chen Jie was hiding here."
Xia Feichen couldn't stand this kind of person, so he also helped find Chen Jie.
The man on duty at the men's medicinal bath hall tonight was none other than Chen Jie's good brother, Zuo Qiushan. Zuo Qiushan calmly directed people to look for Chen Jie elsewhere. Only after everyone had left did he walk with a sullen face to the house where Chen Jie was hiding.
When Zuoqiu Shan entered, he saw Chen Jie treating his eyes. He asked Chen Jie, "Who did this?"
"I don't know," Chen Jie said through gritted teeth. "I suspect it's Wan Qi. That kid must have been there on purpose; he definitely followed me there!"
"Why would Wan Qi do something like this?" Zuo Qiushan asked, puzzled. "He dares to gouge out one of your eyes; isn't that courting death?"
Chen Jie said resentfully, "He's definitely trying to curry favor with Nangong Sui!"
Zuoqiu Shan: "..."
"I'll take you away from the medicinal bath hall first. It's really hard to say what would have happened if you had stayed here." After Zuoqiu Shan finished speaking, Chen Jie also got up, and the two prepared to leave.
No sooner had he stepped outside than Xia Feichen, who had come looking for him, spotted him. He immediately saw Chen Jie, who was missing an eye and had a bloodshot face, following behind Zuo Qiushan.
Zuoqiu Shan reacted quickly, immediately grabbing Chen Jie and saying, "I've found the person, but we need to hear his explanation first. Things don't seem to be as Wan Qi said."
Xia Feichen narrowed his eyes and said calmly, "Then go to the main hall and explain in front of everyone."
Chen Jie cursed his bad luck in his heart, but he couldn't run away in front of Xia Feichen, who was known for his strictness in the Legalist school.
A considerable number of people had already arrived at the main hall of the medicinal bath hall. Even Yuan Xi, a first-class disciple on duty at the medical clinic, had come over after hearing about the incident. He was currently explaining the situation to the medical instructor on duty.
"Chen Jie has been found!" someone shouted, and the people who had been staring at Wan Qi all turned to look at the door.
Chen Jie looked up somewhat awkwardly and suddenly realized that Yu Sui was also standing in the crowd. The girl's hair was still a little damp, as if she had just arrived.
When Yu Sui saw Xia Feichen enter, a hint of surprise flashed in her eyes, and she then gave him a polite smile.
Xia Feichen paused for a moment, then nodded politely.
"Chen Jie, is that eyeball that fell into the flowerbed really yours?" Du Xiaoxing asked in disbelief. "Were you really there?"
Chen Jie immediately knelt down before the instructor and said, "Instructor! I am truly innocent!"
Yuan Xi turned his face away and whispered to Instructor Sun, "Instructor, why don't we conduct the interrogation separately in the back? There are too many people here, and things might get complicated..."
Others may not know, but Yuan Xi knows exactly what kind of scoundrel Chen Jie is. If things get out of hand, it will definitely be a mess and make the medical family a laughing stock in front of other families.
Instructor Sun thought so too. Besides, Chen Jie was a top-level disciple with a high cultivation level. He was also a good person and didn't seem like the type to do such a thing.
The instructors didn't want to make a big deal out of it.
At this moment, Yu Sui suddenly said timidly, "I was close at the time, and I did hear Wan Qi and Senior Brother Chen's voices."
She glanced at Yuan Xi, and Yuan Xi was startled for a moment as her gentle gaze swept over him.
Well, the princess has spoken, so Chen Jie can't be saved.
Yuan Xi still remembered how Nangong Sui saved him when Xuan Kui was destroyed. Although he didn't quite believe it when Nian Qiuyan told him, he had no choice but to believe it now.
"You say you're innocent? What makes you think you're innocent?" Yuan Xi immediately changed the subject, targeting Chen Jie. "Everyone's here. Just say it in front of everyone to avoid any misunderstandings later."
Instructor Sun, who was about to speak, was speechless.
No way, are you out of your mind?!
Who was it that you said you were going to interrogate alone?!
Instructor Sun felt a lump in his throat, unsure whether to go up or down.
Chen Jie cursed Yuan Xi in his heart for being such an idiot. Why did he have to say it in front of everyone? Couldn't he have let the instructor go to the back to interrogate him alone?
Yu Sui stepped forward and asked with concern, "Yes, Senior Brother Chen, please tell me what happened. I heard you shout 'Who is it?' and tell people to come out, but I was a little scared and was taking a medicinal bath, so I couldn't rush out to see what was going on."
Xia Feichen glanced coldly at Chen Jie: "That's the women's medicinal bath area. Men are not allowed to enter. What were you doing there?"
Chen Jie gritted his teeth and said, "I discovered that Wan Qi was missing, so I went to look for him, only to find that he had sneaked into the medicinal bath hall with someone!"
Wan Qi looked hesitant and pointed to himself.
It's me again?
Chen Jie spoke with great emotion, and there was not a trace of guilt on his face as he said, "I followed Wan Qi over there and found that they seemed to be going into the wooden house, so I spoke up to stop them. But I didn't expect one of them to be so fast that he injured my eyes in an instant. I didn't even see what the other person looked like, but I couldn't let this person escape, so I chased after them!"
Zuoqiu Shan was quick to understand and immediately gave a wink to the person next to him. The other person understood and said, "We did see someone coming from the other side of the partition wall, and we chased after them, but we didn't find anyone. We thought we were mistaken."
"Sure enough, I knew Senior Brother Chen wasn't that kind of person."
"Poor Senior Brother Chen, he couldn't find the person who was spying on him, and he even hurt his eyes."
The crowd began to murmur amongst themselves, all having faith in Chen Jie and believing it to be a misunderstanding.
Instructor Sun breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, it wasn't one of his own disciples who had done something shady; otherwise, it would have been truly embarrassing in front of so many people.
So Instructor Sun turned to Wan Qi and asked, "What did you say?"
"I went in with Senior Brother Chen." Wan Qi still acted as if he didn't care about being about to die, ignoring the disgusted looks from others, and just kept talking about himself. "Senior Brother Chen activated his Triple Eye of Pupil Technique and was inspecting the wooden houses one by one."
"You're talking nonsense!" Chen Jie roared. "I opened the Triple Eye to find your accomplices who are hiding!"
"Wanqi," Instructor Sun said in a deep voice, "are you still going to lie in front of so many people?"
Wan Qi said, "I didn't, I definitely saw it."
Zuoqiu Shan said coldly, "I think you're just trying to exonerate yourself, that's why you're slandering Chen Jie. Who are you, and who is Chen Jie? Do you really think he'd do such despicable things as you?"
Yuan Xi chuckled and said, "Well, no matter what, Chen Jie did indeed trespass into the women's medicinal bath area, which he shouldn't have entered. That alone is unacceptable."
Zuoqiu Shan then said, "If Chen Jie doesn't go in to stop them tonight, are you just going to let Wan Qi and his accomplices go in and do whatever they want?"
"Moreover, Chen Jie also injured one of his eyes because of this!"
Seeing Zuoqiu Shan and Yuan Xi arguing, and with public opinion in his favor, Chen Jie breathed a sigh of relief.
There are more people who believe in themselves than in Wanqi, and that's enough. Wanqi doesn't have any solid evidence anyway. We can ask the instructor for leniency later, and that'll be the end of it.
Just as Chen Jie was relieved, he suddenly heard a soft laugh.
He was momentarily distracted, and the soft laugh seemed like a hallucination. But the next instant, Chen Jie heard the girl's gentle voice in his ear: "Senior Brother Chen, guess why I left you an eye?"
That voice... is it Nangong Sui?
Chen Jie was shocked and suddenly looked up, searching for Yu Sui's figure in the crowd.
“If both eyes are blind, no one will know you have triple eyes,” Yu Sui said slowly. “Then no one will believe you could spy from such a distance, so it’s always good to have some evidence.”
Wait, what's going on? Am I the only one who heard this?
Nangong Sui is speaking, didn't any of you notice?
Zuoqiu Shan, didn't you hear me?
Chen Jie stiffly looked at Zuo Qiushan, who was closest to him. Zuo Qiushan was completely unaware and was still arguing with Yuan Xi.
No one noticed that Chen Jie's Listening Ruler was transmitting sound, nor could anyone see the Fusang Pearl in his ear.
"Before things escalate, you should tell the truth yourself before leaving Taiyi."
"Otherwise, I will insist on taking you to the Legalist school for judgment. At that time, I will vote on behalf of the Ghost Daoist Saint. Think about Luo Fu, who was sentenced to death by the Legalist school before. Guess whether I chose to let him live or let him die?"
The fact that Lov was sentenced to death by the Legalists was truly shocking.
Chen Jie realized that no one had noticed Yu Sui's voice, and he broke out in a cold sweat, his fear bursting forth from the depths of his heart.
He was still trying to find Yu Sui's voice, his eyes darting around frantically.
"Senior Brother Chen, are you going to the Legalists to have your case adjudicated and then die on the execution ground, or are you going to leave Taiyi while I'm still soft-hearted?"
Chen Jie could feel the itching sensation of sweat running down his neck.
Nangong Sui knew everything! She did it all! How is that possible? How did she find out?! And how could she have injured one of my eyes without anyone noticing?!
"Chen Jie!"
"Chen Jie!"
Zuo Qiushan's voice brought Chen Jie back to his senses. He was like a drowning person, his breathing becoming extremely rapid.
"Wanqi is always dissatisfied with you and always questions your prescriptions, isn't he?" Zuoqiu Shan gave Chen Jie a meaningful look.
Chen Jie felt dizzy and was still searching for the owner of the voice, unable to hear what Zuo Qiushan was saying at all.
It wasn't until he finally noticed Yu Sui standing at the back of the crowd that the girl seemed to notice him, whispering to the people around her. The moment their eyes met, she smiled slightly, innocent and harmless.
In that instant, Chen Jie felt his brain explode. The girl's innocent smile fell into his eyes, but it was as if death itself had come to life and was staring at him, like a venomous snake coiling around his body and pressing tightly against his bones and flesh.
But Chen Jie heard the girl's soft sigh: "Since you are unwilling, I will have to gouge out your other eye."
No, no!
Chen Jie blinked and felt a stinging pain in his right eye. In the excruciating pain, he roared and rolled to the ground.
Everyone present was startled, and then they heard Chen Jie's voice breaking down: "It was me! I framed Wan Qi, it was me! When I chased after them, I was using Triple Eyes to spy on the people in the wooden house!"
Chen Jie rolled on the ground in pain, wailing, "There were no accomplices at all! I did it! I did it! I used the Triple Eye!"
Upon hearing this, Yu Sui and the other girls gasped in surprise, covering their mouths and staring at Chen Jie in disbelief: "It really was you? You used your triple vision to spy on us, so you must have seen it back then!"
"Chen Jie!" Zuoqiu Shan's expression changed drastically, and he tried to grab him. "Do you know what you're saying?!"
Xia Feichen reached out and stopped the person from moving, while stepping on Chen Jie, who was rolling on the ground, and said: "Since the other party has already admitted it, Instructor Sun, this matter should be handed over to the Legalists to handle."
Chen Jie roared on the ground, "I am willing to withdraw from Taiyi immediately!"
Xia Feichen glanced at them coldly, thinking, "You're really dreaming."
Instructor Sun remained silent, and Yuan Xi leaned over and said, "Instructor, things have come to this point, it's best to deal with him immediately. Don't delay, or everyone will definitely blame you."
Stop trying to come up with something out of nothing!
Instructor Sun glared at Yuan Xi, then stepped forward and said to Xia Feichen, "I'll take the person to the Legalist School with you, and then ask the Dean to come and deal with it."
Xia Feichen and Instructor Sun both knew that going to the Legalist school was just a formality. Chen Jie himself had admitted it, and the impact was terrible. They just needed to wait for Jiang Shulan to arrive and hear the whole story before they could expel Chen Jie from Taiyi.
The people gathered in the medicinal bath hall dispersed after Chen Jie was taken away.
Du Xiaoxing looked at Wan Qi, who was standing still, and walked over to her. She said somewhat embarrassedly, "I'm sorry, I misunderstood you."
"It's nothing," Wan Qi said.
He was looking down at Yu Sui, sending her a message: "He's not dead, is he?"
Yu Sui smiled at this; he was quite serious.
"What's the rush? He can't possibly leave Taiyi alive."
The moment Chen Jie, expelled from the academy and no longer a disciple of Taiyi, stepped into the outer city, his death was imminent.
Yu Sui put away the Wind Listening Ruler and called out to Xia Feichen, who was holding Chen Jie and walking ahead, "Senior Brother Xia!"
Xia Feichen pressed Chen Jie back to look at him. When Chen Jie heard this voice, his heart trembled again. He was terrified and didn't dare to lift his head.
Yu Sui said, "Everyone has a chance to turn over a new leaf, so please be lenient with Senior Brother Chen."
Upon hearing this, Chen Jie raised his head with trembling eyes to look at Yu Sui.
The girl's innocent and kind smile was reflected in her bloodshot eyes. Chen Jie was momentarily dazed, thinking that he could really believe what she said, that she would spare his life as long as he was driven out of Taiyi.
At that moment, Chen Jie even felt grateful to Yu Sui.
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