Chapter 191 The Demonic Cult Witch 20

It was March, the breeze was warm, and the crabapples were in full bloom.

The Xuyang Sect had been operating here for decades, and there were many precious flowers planted on the roadside. In the past, when walking on the road, you could smell the fragrance of flowers, but now, in addition to the fragrance of flowers, there was also a faint smell of blood in the air, indicating the fierce and cruel bloody battle in the afternoon.

Now, the people of the Xuyang Sect died or surrendered. The huge sect was very quiet, and all the people walking back and forth were people from the Juexian Pavilion.

Yao Rong walked around the clinic and returned to the lobby. Seeing Doctor Xie and Senior Sister Xie moving around and kneeling restlessly, he frowned.

A clever subordinate kicked Doctor Xie in the waist and cursed, "Be quiet."

He didn't hold back his kick at all, and Doctor Xie was kicked forward, half of his old face hitting the ground first.

"Dad!"

Senior Sister Xie hurried over to help Doctor Xie up, tears falling from her eyes. Just as she was about to turn around and curse, she was held down by Doctor Xie.

Doctor Xie endured the severe pain in his waist and gasped, "Dad, it's okay. Ah Xi will be here soon. You must control your temper, be gentle with her, and say some nice things, understand?"

Doctor Xie knew his daughter's temper very well, and he was not someone who could swallow his anger.

But things have changed, and now Axi is no longer the helpless little female doctor. Whether they can save their lives depends on Axi's thoughts.

Senior Sister Xie wiped her eyes with the back of her hand: "Dad, I know."

Her heart was full of regret.

If she had known earlier, she would not have come back to get those jewels.

Those jewels are expensive, but compared with her life, her life is definitely more important.

Also, if she had known that Axi was the daughter of the leader of the demon cult, she would not dare to treat Axi harshly even if she was beaten to death...

Doctor Xie looked at Senior Sister Xie's expression and knew what Senior Sister Xie was thinking. He sighed and felt very depressed.

The relationship between master and apprentice these days is no worse than that between father and daughter.

He was Ah Xi's master and had taught Ah Xi medical skills for six years. If he had treated Ah Xi better at that time, maybe he could have become an elder in Juexian Pavilion.

But on second thought, Doctor Xie comforted himself again. After all, he was Ah Xi's master. Even if his attitude towards Ah Xi was a little bad at that time, he had taught Ah Xi a lot of things!

If he couldn't become an elder of Juexian Pavilion, at least he had to find a way to coax Ah Xi and let Ah Xi send them down the mountain safely. Senior

Sister Xie and Doctor Xie had already done psychological work for her in advance, so as soon as Ah Xi stepped into the clinic, she saw that Senior Sister Xie and Doctor Xie looked at her with eager eyes, and their faces were full of deliberate enthusiasm and flattery.

Ah Xi walked around them and came to Yao Rong: "Mother, the wounds of those injured disciples have been treated."

Yao Rong asked Ah Xi to sit down and handed her a cup of tea: "Thank you for your

hard work." Ah Xi sat down next to Yao Rong: "I'm glad I can help."

Chen Nan said: "You are the only doctor in our sect. If even you can't help, then I will be even more useless."

Ah Xi was amused: "Senior Brother Chen Nan, you are too humble."

Chen Nan acted helpless: "Well, you were humble first, I can't not follow suit."

Senior Sister Xie knelt for a long time, but Ah Xi didn't even look at her. Her knees were aching, and she couldn't help but interrupt: "Axi, have you been okay these two years?"

Axi's eyes moved from Chen Nan to Senior Sister Xie and Doctor Xie.

Chen Nan's smile froze, and he glanced at Senior Sister Xie coldly.

Axi said: "Senior Sister Xie, you are asking a question knowing the answer. I have been staying with my mother for the past two years, so naturally everything has gone smoothly for me."

Senior Sister Xie was choked and didn't know how to answer for a moment. Doctor Xie blamed

his daughter for being impatient, but at this time, he couldn't remain silent any longer: "I am relieved that you are doing well."

Relieved?

Based on Ah Xi's understanding of Doctor Xie and Senior Sister Xie, they must be very unhappy to know that she is doing well.

No one offered Doctor Xie the steps, so he could only talk to himself: "Master, I know that you are angry in your heart and are blaming me and your senior sister. But as a master and disciple, there is no overnight hatred, don't you think?"

Yao Rong changed his sitting position and tapped the armrest with his fingertips: "I don't quite understand what Doctor Xie said. At the sword discussion meeting that day, didn't you say it in front of everyone, "Did you expel Ah Xi from the sect?"

Doctor Xie was still very thick-skinned: "Master Yao, I said those words that day because I was forced by the situation. Based on your understanding of Master Mu, do you think that if I didn't expel Ah Xi from the sect, would Master Mu let me go afterwards?"

His words did make some sense at first glance. If he encountered a less logical one, he might have avoided the main point.

But Yao Rong was not led astray by him at all: "I am a person who always judges by deeds rather than by heart. No matter what you think in your heart, you and Axi are no longer master and disciple in name only."

Doctor Xie smiled bitterly and followed Yao Rong's words: "Yes, no matter what I think in my heart, I did so. However, without the name of master and disciple, what about the master-disciple relationship?"

Knowing that Yao Rong was not easy to fool, Doctor Xie gave Senior Sister Xie a hint and turned to look at Axi: "Axi, you and I have been master and disciple for six years, is there really no affection left for us?"

Senior Sister Xie received Doctor Xie's hint and also Then she played the emotional card: "Axi, when you first arrived at Xuyang Sect, you didn't remember anything. It was my father and I who accompanied you through that period, and you slowly adapted to the Xuyang Sect."

Looking at Axi's indifferent face, Senior Sister Xie gritted her teeth and said, "Yes, I admit that I have always been jealous of you. I'm jealous that you look better than me, that you are more talented than me, and that you are favored by Senior Brother Mu, but I have never hurt you because of my jealousy, right?"

Chen Nan was disgusted by the words of the father and daughter, and wanted to speak up and expose their false faces.

But in this situation, the Pavilion Master can speak up.

Because the Pavilion Master is Axi's mother.

With his identity, it is not appropriate to speak up.

However, Chen Nan understood Ah Xi, and he didn't think that Doctor Xie and Senior Sister Xie could fool Ah Xi.

Ah Xi said softly, "Doctor Xie, we are master and apprentice, and Sister Xie, we are fellow students. I will remember them all. So don't worry, I won't take your lives."

Doctor Xie and Sister Xie were about to breathe a sigh of relief when they heard Ah Xi's next words, "If I spare your lives, then my relationship with you will be over."

"Next, let's settle the debt you owe me."

Doctor Xie frowned, "Do we owe you?"

In the past two years, Ah Xi has often provided free medical treatment.

Sometimes when she met patients from poor families, she couldn't bear it, not only did she treat them for free, but she also paid for the patients' medicines herself.

Although the monthly dividends from Rouge Shop were enough to offset the expenses, Ah Xi would never complain that the money in her hand was too little.

Before coming to Xuyang Sect, Ah Xi spent an entire night making a list.

At this moment, she took it out slowly and started reading from the beginning:

"In March of the thirteenth year of Yuanping, I went into the mountains to collect herbs and collected a two-hundred-year-old ginseng. You said that this ginseng belonged to the sect, so you took the ginseng away from me."

"But this ginseng did not enter the clinic, but fell into your hands."

"According to the age and quality of that ginseng, it can be sold for at least four hundred and fifty taels."

"In total, in six years, I have collected three ginsengs. The age and quality of the last two ginsengs are not as good as the first one, but they are also a hundred years old, so let's count them as three hundred taels each."

"The converted silver is one thousand and fifty taels."

"Then there is deer antler. In the past few years, I have collected..."

"And Ganoderma lucidum..."

"By the way, in addition to these more expensive medicines, a small half of the medicines on hand in the clinic are all collected by me from the mountains."

"The Xuyang Sect allocates three hundred taels of silver to the clinic every year to allow the clinic to purchase medicines. If this money is not used up, it will all go into your pocket, Doctor Xie."

"Then it is equivalent to me saving the clinic one hundred taels of silver every year. In six years, that's six hundred taels."

...

Doctor Xie and Senior Sister Xie were both stunned by Ah Xi's calculations.

Senior Sister Xie subconsciously retorted: "That ginseng is not two hundred years old at all, it is at most one hundred and eighty years old, and it was sold for only four hundred and thirty taels in the end, you are overestimating."

Ah Xi lowered his eyes and glanced at Senior Sister Xie: "It seems that you admit this bill."

Senior Sister Xie knew that she had said something wrong: "What do you want to do?"

Ah Xi reported the final total: "All the silver taels above add up to a total of two thousand seven hundred taels, you can return this money to me."

Senior Sister Xie and Doctor Xie's luggage was with Chen Nan, and he gestured to a subordinate.

The subordinate opened the luggage and first took out all the banknotes inside: "Only one thousand six hundred taels."

Chen Nan said: "Go and search them."

The several banknotes that Senior Sister Xie and Doctor Xie had hidden close to their bodies were also searched out.

Adding these banknotes, it just makes up the amount.

Senior Sister Xie's face was very ugly.

Without these banknotes, even if she could leave Xuyang Sect safely, she would not be able to live as comfortably as before.

Doctor Xie pulled her.

It was a pity to lose the banknotes, but they still had a lot of gold and silver jewelry. When the time comes, just pawn the gold and silver jewelry and find a place to open a clinic, and you won't have to worry about not being able to make a living.

However, Yao Rong's next words completely shattered Doctor Xie's beautiful fantasy: "After calculating the money for the medicinal materials, let's calculate the mental damage expenses for Axi."

"Mental damage expenses?" Doctor Xie had never heard of this term. "What do you mean, Master Yao?"

Yao Rong asked, "Axi did not have a good life in the Xuyang Sect, and her spirit was greatly damaged. Have you thought about how to make up for this damage?" "

What a joke!" Senior Sister Xie was anxious. It was obvious that he wanted to take away her jewelry as well.

Doctor Xie said, "It was Sect Leader Mu Jianye who brought Ah Xi to the Xuyang Sect."

Yao Rong stroked the hilt of the sword with his fingertips, his tone threatening, "So I will use the lives of the entire Xuyang Sect and Mu Jianye and his son to offset the damage they have done to Ah Xi. Later, I will personally take Mu Jianye's life."

Doctor Xie's heart sank: "We will pay!"

Yao Rong glanced at him. Those gold and silver jewelry: "Although the total value of these things is still a little low, I see that you don't have much money, so I'll just settle the accounts."

Chen Nan took away all the valuables in the bag, and asked someone to take away the ring on Doctor Xie's hand, the jade pendant around his waist, the jade bracelet on Sister Xie's wrist, and the gold hairpin in her hair, leaving them only a few clothes.

Sister Xie was so distressed that she almost fainted. Doctor Xie

's heart was also bleeding: "Can we leave?"

Yao Rong pretended to be silent.

Doctor Xie's heart was in turmoil again.

"Axi, do you think this account has been settled?" Yao Rong looked at Axi.

From the moment Yao Rong proposed the "mental damage compensation", Ah Xi's eyes were full of smiles. After seeing Chen Nan's attitude of plucking feathers from a passing goose, Ah Xi tried his best not to laugh.

Hearing Yao Rong's question, Ah Xi smiled and said, "I think the calculation is almost done."

"Then we..."

Doctor Xie was about to stand up when he was kicked in the waist by the disciple of Juexian Pavilion again.

Doctor Xie's forehead was covered with cold sweat in pain: "Master Yao, didn't you say that the account has been calculated almost..."

Yao Rong ignored him and asked him and Senior Sister Xie to continue kneeling, and then asked Ah Xi if he was hungry.

Ah Xi was busy treating the wounded in the afternoon, and was later called over by Chen Nan. He really had nothing to eat, so Yao Rong asked someone to make some food.

Sister Xie and Doctor Xie had been trying to escape in the afternoon and had not eaten anything either. Now that they smelled the aroma of food, they were even hungrier.

After eating something with Ah Xi, Yao Rong said to Ah Xi, "You have traveled so long and been busy all day. You should go back and rest first."

It was clear that they were going to kneel here for the whole night. Perhaps because he was too anxious, Doctor Xie finally understood what Yao Rong meant.

He shouted, "I was wrong. Ah Xi, I shouldn't have ignored you in those years, and I shouldn't have taken the herbs you collected for myself. As your master, I apologize to you."

After saying that, Doctor Xie pushed Senior Sister Xie hard: "Quick, apologize to Ah Xi."

Senior Sister Xie gritted her teeth and said, "Ah Xi, I'm sorry, it's my fault, please forgive me and my father."

Ah Xi paused and turned slightly. Her calm eyes fell on them, without any sadness or joy.

"From now on, I will no longer have anything to do with you." Ah Xi turned around, took the lantern beside him, and walked into the moonlight with Yao Rong.

Chen Nan did not leave with them. He stood at the door and said to his subordinates with a smile, "Although Lord Axi is magnanimous and does not bother with them, that is only the end of the accounts between Axi and them."

"We have just started to settle the accounts between Xuyang Sect and Juexian Pavilion. Now the other living people of Xuyang Sect are still locked up in the woodshed. It's not good to let them be an exception."

When his subordinates were escorting Doctor Xie and Senior Sister Xie away, Chen Nan remembered something: "Oh, they escaped too quickly today and may not have seen the tragic scene of corpses strewn all over the gate. You should go an extra mile and take them to the gate first."

Even though Ah Xi and Doctor Xie had severed their master-disciple relationship, they still had this relationship. Ah Xi couldn't retaliate too much against Doctor Xie, otherwise if it got out, public opinion would definitely be unfavorable to Ah Xi.

Chen Nan didn't have this concern.

"When you send them to the firewood room, don't forget to tell the rest of the Xuyang Sect that they escaped." Following

Chen Nan's instructions, the subordinates sent Doctor Xie and his daughter to the firewood room and publicized their escape.

Although the Xuyang Sect disciples imprisoned in the firewood room surrendered when they faced Juexian Pavilion, at least they did not escape in the battle!

As a result, when they were fighting desperately, someone actually managed to survive and packed up a bunch of gold, silver and other small things and planned to run away! ? If Doctor Xie and Senior Sister Xie really succeeded in escaping, I would really get angrier and angrier! If

they don't live well, others can't live well either!

No one knew who started the fight first. When the guards came over and pulled everyone apart, Doctor Xie and Senior Sister Xie both had a lot of injuries on their bodies.

Especially Doctor Xie.

Everyone was reluctant to attack Senior Sister Xie, a woman, so they vented their anger on Doctor Xie.

Doctor Xie spat out two broken teeth from his mouth, covered his face and cried out.

He resented Yao Rong, resented A Xi, and finally resented his own daughter.

If she hadn't run back to get some jewelry, how could he have been caught on the spot by the people of Juexian Pavilion!

How could he have suffered such pain!

Senior Sister Xie huddled in the corner of the wall in fear, hugging herself with both hands.

Just now in the dark, she didn't know who slapped her. The pain and grievance intertwined together, making Sister Xie's nose start to feel sour.

She wanted to complain to Doctor Xie, but the moment she looked up, she saw the look in his eyes.

The cold eyes mixed with resentment and anger made Sister Xie's heart sink to the bottom.

Regret and despair, which were even greater than before, flooded her like a tide.

***

Yao Rong and A Xi each carried a lantern and walked towards the yard where they would stay tonight.

A Xi suddenly said, "Mom, I want to drink."

"What kind of wine do you want to drink?"

"Peach Blossom Brew."

"Then let's go to the cellar of the Xuyang Sect and see if there is any Peach Blossom Brew inside."

Yao Rong limped and led A Xi to the cellar.

Axi walked quickly and followed Yao Rong: "Mom, how do you know the specific location of the cellar."

"I've been there before." Yao Rong asked her if there was anything she wanted to eat.

With the evening breeze blowing on his face, Axi brushed away the broken hair on his temples with his fingertips: "I still want to eat chestnut cake, but I definitely can't buy it now. Let's eat roasted peanuts."

"No need to settle for the second best." Yao Rong said with a smile, "I have a box of chestnut cakes there."

These cakes can be stored for a long time. When he stopped to replenish his supplies, Yao Rong saw a shop selling chestnut cake on the roadside, so he bought two boxes.

With chestnut cake and peach blossom stuffed wine in the cellar, Yao Rong hung the lantern on the corridor and sat with A Xi on the stone table in the courtyard.

Axi uncorked the wine and filled their glasses.

The wine was fragrant and refreshing. Ah Xi drank the whole glass in one breath: "The last time I drank with my mother was in Qingfeng Town."

Yao Rong took a sip of the wine slowly: "Last time we drank was to boost our courage. What are you drinking for this time?"

Ah Xi chuckled: "Sure enough, I can't hide anything from my mother. Actually, it's nothing. I just revisited the old place and found that things have changed and people have changed. I can't help but feel a little emotional."

That painful time was finally released.

The bright and glorious future was ahead, and her heart would no longer be trapped by the past.

From then on, her heart was truly free.

Yao Rong raised her head and looked at the full moon in the sky.

Ah Xi imitated her movements and admired the moon together.

When Yao Rong turned her eyes back, most of the bottle of wine had been secretly drunk by Ah Xi.

She placed one arm on the table and picked up the wine bottle with the other hand, wanting to pour herself more wine, but only poured out a few drops of wine.

"I'm done." Ah Xi looked at Yao Rong, whose ears and cheeks were flushed with drunkenness.

Yao Rong took the wine bottle from her hand and teased, "How can things have changed? Your alcohol tolerance is still as bad as before."

"I'm not drunk."

"Drunkards like to say they are not drunk."

Ah Xi muttered, "You said this before."

"Do you think I'm nagging?"

"No." Ah Xi propped herself up and closed the distance between her and Yao Rong.

Yao Rong didn't know what she was going to do, so she sat quietly without moving.

Ah Xi hugged Yao Rong's arm, leaned close to Yao Rong's ear, and said in a very low voice, "Mom, I'm drunk. I want to sleep with you tonight like last time."

Yao Rong laughed: "Did you get drunk on purpose? Just to sleep with me."

Ah Xi's smile was a bit cunning like a fox: "Mom, if you say so, it's so."