Chapter 58: Good and Evil Retribution
The skinny man had already thrown his head to the ground, ignoring the mud and rain on the ground, and kowtowed repeatedly, "Sir, please spare my life, sir, please spare my life!"
In the blink of an eye, the Jinyiwei Qianhu was captured without even a chance to resist. When had he ever seen such a master? How could he not know that the Jinyiwei had hit a wall this time! What about the ordinary imperial physician? !
"If you confess, you may suffer less."
Gu Dan walked forward, threw the other three immobile guys aside, and said in a cold voice: "After asking you, I will ask the other three. If there is any discrepancy between their sentences, do you want to know how a doctor can save people and kill people at the same time?"
"Sir, I am just following orders! In winter, the superiors ordered me to keep an eye on this place and report any unusual movements. Later, you never went out, so the superiors asked me to keep an eye on an ordinary citizen who often came here. Until tonight, at the wine table, the citizen said that there was a willow tree in your yard that looked like it was in midsummer. After I reported it, I was brought here. I really didn't know!"
The skinny man was crawling on the ground, shaking like a sieve, and in a few words he pushed everything aside.
"Ding Ji?"
Raindrops fell from the sky, bringing endless coolness. Gu Dan looked around and then asked, "Where are the others?"
Boom boom
A loud thunder exploded in the sky, and the sky and the earth turned white in an instant.
The light of thunder also illuminated the thin man's cheek, which was as pale as paper, and it was unclear whether the water sliding down his face was sweat or rain.
“He he.”
"Where's Ding Ji?!"
Gu was startled with worry and realized something was wrong.
The thin man who had been kowtowing continuously was about to hit his head against the ground suddenly. Judging from the fierce force, his head would surely break into pieces when it hit the ground, and there would be no sound.
The head was suspended in the air, and a hand stopped there first.
"You'd rather die than say it?"
Gu Dan seemed to understand something, and he lightly placed his palm on the thin man's chest, breaking all his strength and then sealing his meridians, ensuring that he would be like a living dead for half an hour, with a clear mind but a body that would not obey his commands.
This method is called Sealing the Acupoints, and it is not a very sophisticated martial arts trick. It is only useful when there is a huge gap in strength. The same trick will be much less effective against a martial artist who has mastered the internal organs training. This is a trick that Gu Dan learned when he was treating martial arts masters in the dungeon.
The other three were taken aside and interrogated one by one. Xun Ke, who heard the noise, got up at night and walked out with a candle.
The light from the candle was not bright. In that faint light, Xun Ke saw the cold and ethereal Mr. Gu who seemed to be out of touch with the world. His eyes were so icy cold that it made people tremble.
For a moment, he froze and dared not speak.
Gu Dan looked over, his lips moved, and he said, "It's cold tonight, wear more clothes."
He nodded subconsciously and went back to the house. Xun Ke could not forget the almost suffocating look Mr. Gu gave him for a long time.
Putting down the Jinyiwei captain who was almost unrecognizable in his hand, Gu Dan stood up.
He took out two umbrellas from the house and held Cang, who was still sleeping peacefully, in his arms.
He also covered Cang with the small quilt that Mo Qiu had sent him in winter to keep out the damp and cold, while waiting for Xun Ke to change his clothes.
"Let's go. I'll take you to the Imperial Hospital to have a good sleep tonight. I'll be back soon."
Gu Dan held an umbrella to block the cold rain, and his voice was calm.
Xun Ke followed him obediently, wanting to say something several times but stopping himself, but in the end he could only follow obediently.
They arrived at the Imperial Hospital and woke up the sleeping Xu Zhian. Gu Dan handed Cangxian to him to take care of.
"Something happened to a friend of mine, and I have to go over there. Cang is still too young to be left alone in the house, so I have to trouble Uncle Xu."
This is what Gu Dan said to Andy Hui.
Xu Zhian looked Gu Dan up and down, carefully took Cang, waved his hand impatiently and scolded: "What do you know about taking care of a child? You haven't even got married yet! You should have taken care of me a long time ago, go away!"
The night grows darker.
Gu Dan held the thin man in one hand and walked towards Ding Ji's house step by step.
Half of his body was hanging on the ground as he was dragged along.
Rain, mud, and even various small stones rubbed his trouser legs and cut his skin. The closer he got to Ding Ji's house, the more terrified and helpless the thin man looked. Even the pain in his body seemed to be nothing.
When Gu Dan pushed open the door of the courtyard that he had visited once, the thin man only hated himself for not committing suicide earlier when he saw that the situation was not good.
The rain spread and flowed on the ground, washing away the bloodstains.
With just one glance, Gu Dan saw the figure lying on the ground with the body torn apart.
He walked forward silently, picked up Ding Ji's head from the mud, looked at his still wide-open eyes, and almost irresistible anger surged in his chest.
In the past sixteen years, many people, both familiar and unfamiliar, have left him.
The imperial physician Pang Qi who gave him three hundred taels of silver, the imperial physician Lin who gave him the "Essentials of Golden Injury", and Xiong Qihu who took over as the owner of the museum for several years after Mo Qiu fought for his ideals, and is now Ding Ji.
Some were killed by unexpected disasters, and some fought for a future for themselves. The only similarity is that they can never come back.
He had never seen the appearance of those people being killed with his own eyes, so he felt somewhat at ease.
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Life is too bitter, with so many separations.
He would rather stay in his small courtyard, quietly accumulating strength and waiting for the immortal to appear, than make many friends and then watch them die one by one for various reasons.
Life has weight. The more you care about it, the heavier it is.
Knowing that separation is coming, it is better not to meet at all.
But, but! When he saw Ding Ji's eyes that were still open, Gu Dan found himself wavering.
I am not heartless, people have their own hearts.
The wren builds its nest in the deep woods, but on only one branch; the water rat drinks from the river, but only until its belly is full.
We meet briefly in the journey of life, and the past days are plain but real.
Passing away does not mean taking away the future, nor does it mean taking away the memories.
His eyelids drooped, and Gu Dan reached out and closed Ding Ji's eyes.
"I'll avenge you."
He said.
After putting the separated bodies together, Gu Dan looked towards the distance.
The soundless child and the woman whose skin was covered in bruises and whose chest was pierced and stained with blood.
Gu Dan took off his clothes and covered her body.
Walking into the inner room, the three children inside also looked lifeless. The eldest one was held by Gu Dan himself and he heard him call him uncle.
When I returned to the yard, the spring rain was still falling.
Without an umbrella to shelter you, the rain is so cold that it chills you to the bone when it falls on you.
Gu Dan looked at the thin man lying on the ground unable to move.
"Have you ever heard of a drug that can make a person feel as if thousands of ants are gnawing at their heart, and they cannot die?"
(End of this chapter)