Fortunately, he was still breathing. Yuan Jing's own breathing was almost stagnant due to nervousness.
Yuan Jing stretched out his hand, and just as his hand touched the boy, the boy lying on the ground suddenly opened his eyes and stared straight into Yuan Jing's eyes. Those eyes were as sharp as a beast, as if they were going to pounce on Yuan Jing and tear him apart the next moment.
But when he found that Yuan Jing was not the old eunuch Liu he thought he was, the cruelty and sharpness in his eyes faded a little, but he still looked at Yuan Jing coldly, without moving or speaking, just lying there.
This was not the look a child should have. Yuan Jing's heart ached as he didn't know what kind of suffering he had endured.
"Who are you?" Yuan Jing lowered his voice. "I came here to cause trouble for Liu Lao the eunuch. I came down to look for his hidden property and then I found you. Do you want me to take you away from here?"
"Who are you?" The voice didn't sound like that of a child, but extremely dry. Yuan Jing almost wanted to pour the spiritual spring water into his mouth, but fortunately he controlled himself. No, he had to wait until he got to the ground.
"My name is Yuan Jing, I'm a doctor. Take you away. I can heal your injuries and make you fully recover." Without taking the pulse, Yuan Jing could see that there was not a single healthy spot on the boy's body. It was not the same torture as Shuang'er, but the torture instruments in this room were used. The boy's identity might not be simple. He could ask Liu Yangou to hide here. Yuan Jing was in a confused state at the moment, and he couldn't figure out who he might be for a while.
The boy looked at Yuan Jing steadily. He was examining whether this man could be trusted. The identity of a doctor was exactly what he needed, but this man's appearance was a bit too coincidental.
He closed his eyes for a while, then opened them again and said, "Okay."
He was just taking a gamble, betting that this man could lead him out of the devil's den. He was going to cut Old Liu into pieces, and those who had harmed him would also die miserably.
Yuan Jing felt the hostility and murderous intent emanating from the boy at this moment, but he didn't think it was wrong at all. Everything that happened to the boy was worth thinking about. Wasn't it right for him to go out and take revenge on his enemies? This time, he was willing to be a knife for his lover.
Yuan Jing squatted down and carefully picked up the boy. His body was so light that it made him feel distressed. However, this cautious look made the boy look at him again, then turned his head away and let Yuan Jing carry him away.
When he came out and saw Shuang'er waiting outside, he said, "Let's go."
"OK."
When they returned to the bedroom from the basement, Liu the castrated dog was still lying there motionless. The boy saw that something was wrong with him and asked, "What did you do to him?"
"I stabbed him with a knife. There was a drug on the knife, so he was unconscious."
"Can you wake him up? I want to stab this old dog to death myself." There was hatred in the boy's eyes.
"Okay, I didn't want him to live in the first place." Yuan Jing replied. He put the boy down on the ground and asked Shuang'er to support him. The boy obviously disliked Shuang'er, but seeing that Yuan Jing had something to do, he had to give up.
Yuan Jing tied Liu Fu to a chair and wrapped him tightly with more cloth strips to ensure that he could not escape. He then took the cloth ball out of his mouth, threw a pill into it, and stuffed the cloth ball back in, blocking it tightly.
In less than a minute, Liu Fu finally woke up. He was awakened by the pain. He was lying on the bed sleeping, how could he wake up by the pain? As soon as he woke up, Liu Fu wanted to curse those servants for serving him. Did they all want to die?
But only a humming sound came out of his mouth. Liu Fu quickly opened his eyes. The bedroom was dark and his mouth was clearly blocked.
"Woo woo..." Someone come quickly, Liu Fu shouted, but there was only woo woo sound and no one responded. Liu Fu became scared.
"Help me over there." The boy was only seven or eight years old, but he told Shuang'er in a matter-of-fact tone. Shuang'er didn't seem surprised at all and carefully helped him over there. After just a few steps, he was picked up by Yuan Jing. The boy was obviously used to having Yuan Jing support him. Shuang'er stepped back a few steps and watched carefully.
"Liu Old Dog, open your eyes and take a good look at who I am. Liu Old Dog, I've said before that if I don't die, it's you, the old dog, who will die, including the master behind you."
Liu Fu finally saw who was in front of him, and he cried out anxiously, "Has someone finally found this kid and come to save him?" But how could this be possible? No one knew that this kid was in his hands, and Liu Fu was very scared, especially when he saw Yuan Jing put the dagger into the boy's hand. While struggling desperately, a fishy smell emanated from the room.
Yuan Jing and the boy both looked at each other with disdain. The boy slapped his face with a dagger and said, "You old dog, you have come to this day. If I didn't want to alert your lackeys outside, I would have tortured you to death and stuffed the sliced meat into your mouth to let you taste your own meat. See how I've been good to you? I want you to die a full ghost before I die."
The fishy smell became stronger, and Shuang'er at the back was shivering all over, hugging her arms.
Yuan Jing supported the boy very calmly. Considering the torture the boy had suffered, no matter how cruel the torture was, it would not be excessive. The old dog really deserved to die.
The boy said regretfully, "You're lucky this time, old dog. Go down and wait for your master first."
As he spoke, the boy thrust the dagger into the old dog's heart, but unfortunately he had no strength and the insertion was too shallow. He looked up at Yuan Jing helplessly, and Yuan Jing immediately understood, held his hand, and the two of them thrust the dagger deeply into the old dog's heart.
Old Dog Liu flapped his arms, shouted, and struggled, but in the end all these movements stopped. This time, he became a dead dog completely.
Yuan Jing pulled out the dagger from the boy's hand again. The boy frowned in disgust, wiped the dagger on the old dog's body to wipe off the blood, and was about to put the dagger away. Yuan Jing hurriedly handed him the outer sheath to avoid accidentally hurting himself.
It was just a worthless dagger, and the boy just wanted to give it to him.
"Search for evidence here, it might come in handy someday."
"Okay." Yuan Jing didn't expect this, but after hearing this, he felt more and more that the boy's identity was extraordinary. His demeanor alone was not something that an ordinary family could cultivate.
Shuang'er helped Yuan Jing with his work because he found that his status was lower than that of the boy he rescued later. Yuan Jing listened to him very much. Could it be that this big brother came here specially to save him?
Yuan Jing didn't care what he was looking for, he just put it into the space, of course, on the surface he stuffed it into his chest, then turned around and picked up the boy again: "We have to go, we have to leave this Jiangcheng as soon as possible."
"Okay." The boy couldn't hold on any longer this time and completely gave his body to Yuan Jing. After what happened before, he found that Yuan Jing should be trustworthy. After all, they killed Liu Fu together.
It took them a little more time to get in because they were carrying two burdens, but they finally got out without alerting the guards in the garden. They then sent the two men to the inn where he was staying. They had to treat their injuries first and then find a carriage to leave the city at daybreak.
After being busy for half the night, the sky finally brightened. After using homemade medicine to treat the injuries of the two men, Yuan Jing hurried out to find a carriage, bought one and rushed back to the inn himself. He moved the two men onto the carriage. The waiters in the inn were still stunned, wondering when there were two more people in this guest's room.
But he didn't think much about it, maybe he had seen it wrong yesterday.
When they got on the carriage, Yuan Jing asked Shuang'er, "You want to leave the city with us? Won't your identity attract other people's attention?"
Having said that, the boy also stared at the pair. If there was any possibility that the pair's identity would be exposed, there was no doubt that the boy would immediately ask him to get off the bus.
Shuang'er huddled in a corner and said, "I'm not from Jiangcheng. No one in Jiangcheng knows me."
"Forget it, let's go to the city gate first and see the situation. I'll help you deal with it later." He still has a lot of ointments prepared, because he uses them frequently. After helping these two people change their appearance, they should be able to get out of the city.
At daybreak, there was no unusual movement in Jiangcheng, which made Yuan Jing suspicious. Could it be that the castrated dog had a rich nightlife and so got up very late every morning, causing the people in the garden to not realize that Old Liu the castrated dog was dead?
The later they found out, the better it would be for them. Yuan Jing thought of contingency plans all the way and unexpectedly got out of Jiangcheng smoothly. Looking back at the city gate, Yuan Jing breathed a sigh of relief and continued to drive the carriage away from Jiangcheng, the farther the better.
Just as they were leaving Jiangcheng, the servant who was drugged by Yuan Jing in the garden finally woke up. He walked into the room dizzily to serve his father-in-law, but he saw Liu Fu dead on the chair and immediately heard a scream:
"Oh no, my father-in-law has been killed. Someone come quickly."
The entire garden was alarmed, but when they rushed in, they only saw Liu Fu's dead body and his last expression of unwillingness.
"Quick, notify the prefect and seal off the city to search for the murderer!"
Jiangcheng was in chaos because of Liu Fu's death. Many people suspected to be the murderer were arrested. But the real murderer had already left the city and was getting closer and closer to Ningcheng.
On the way, Yuan Jing had time to change the boy and Shuang'er's appearance. He simply dressed the boy as Shuang'er and put a red mole between his eyebrows. The boy's face looked androgynous and he would be a troublemaker when he grew up, so no one would suspect him if he dressed up as Shuang'er. Shuang'er asked Yuan Jing to change her into a teenager because he was not as tall as himself and a teenager was more suitable for him. He continued to dress like a doctor in his thirties.
The boy felt a little aggrieved and reluctant, but he didn't say anything against it. He obviously agreed with Yuan Jing's plan. This way it would be easier to get away with it. They were not safe yet.
As for the two girls, they would have no objection at all.
Yuan Jing looked at his work with satisfaction, put down the tools in his hand and said, "Let's tell each other our names, otherwise we won't know what to call each other. My name is Yuan Jing, you can also call me Doctor Yuan, Doctor Yuan, what about you?"
Shuang'er not only had no objection, but was also very happy with his current identity. Just because he was born a Shuang'er, he was an insignificant existence in the family. When he reached a certain age, he should contribute to the family. This was the fate of the Zhang family's Shuang'er.
If he were a boy, even a concubine's son, he could study with his legitimate brother, or even learn business. Even if he was suppressed by his legitimate mother, he would not be unable to survive.
Unfortunately, this outfit is only temporary and cannot really change his identity as Shuang'er. He whispered, "My name is Zhang Zhi, and I live in Huaicheng. I...can I always follow Doctor Yuan? I can do everything, such as washing clothes, cooking, and cleaning. Really, I am very hardworking."
"The Zhang family of Huaicheng? The salt merchant Zhang family?" Yuan Jing asked in surprise.
Zhang Zhi nodded repeatedly. It was this Zhang family, but he would rather not have been born in the Zhang family.
Seeing his expectant and anxious eyes, Yuan Jing nodded: "Then you stay first, and we'll talk about other things later. What about you?"
Yuan Jing turned to look at the boy and asked his name. Judging from the new and old wounds he saw when he was treating his wounds, he had been locked up in that underground dark room for more than a year. Thinking of those new and old scars, Yuan Jing felt that it was too easy for the old dog to be killed with one knife.
The boy was very smart. He could see that Yuan Jing treated him differently from Zhang Zhi. Perhaps he could take advantage of this. He said with a serious face, "Doctor Yuan can call me Ming Yu, the Yu in Yao, Shun and Yu."
"Okay, Mingyu, I will call you that from now on." Yuan Jing called out with a smile and reached out to rub his head. If you don't take advantage of the opportunity, you're a bastard. When this kid grows up, he will definitely be taller than you. Will there be another opportunity like this?
Mingyu became embarrassed and angry. He was actually being rubbed on the head. Apart from these days, when had he ever been treated like this?
Mingyu glared at Yuanjing, as if to say, "If you rub me again, I'll bite you." But Yuanjing smiled and took the opportunity to rub him again: "Okay, children should behave like children. You should know that you are temporarily under my care. I will tell you when you can repay me in the future."
Ming Yu was so angry that he was about to go crazy, but he had to admit that Yuan Jing's words made sense. With his current small size and status, there was no way he could run back to the capital by himself. He didn't have a single penny on him, and if he didn't want to starve to death, he had to let Yuan Jing support him.
But it was precisely because he knew this truth that he became even more angry, angry at Yuan Jing and angry at his own incompetence. Humph, one day, he would let this stinky doctor know how powerful Ming Yu was. Of course, he was not an ungrateful person. After making it clear that Yuan Jing had no other purpose, he would definitely repay him for saving his life.
Yuan Jing let the two men lie down in the carriage and continue to recuperate, while he went outside to drive the carriage. At this time, he could finally laugh to his heart's content. Seeing Mingyu's look as if he wanted to make a big move but had no choice but to hold it back, he wanted to laugh, but he had just controlled himself with great difficulty to avoid making Mingyu angry and embarrassed.
But when she thought of the injuries on his body, the smile on her face faded again. Liu Laogou was dead, but it was impossible that Mingyu was in this state because of Liu Laogou alone, so those people would be settled one by one in the future.
When Mingyu reported this name, Yuan Jing had some guesses about his identity. In fact, he was locked up in a dark room in the basement by Liu Fu but was only tortured and not killed immediately. This was enough to show that Mingyu's identity was very unusual.
The name Mingyu should not be false. Maybe it was the same as when he first met Mu Chengan in the previous life, both of them only reported a name but no surname. So if I am not mistaken, Mingyu should have the surname Xiao, which is the royal surname, and Xiao Mingyu is a member of the royal clan.
Yuan Jing dared to make such a conclusion because he knew from the plot that the prince of King Cheng was called Xiao Mingrui. The royal family members of their generation were all named Ming, but Mingyu was definitely not the son of King Cheng. It was unknown which prince he was from, and he ended up like this. If he hadn't come, would it be...
Yuan Jing didn't dare to think about it anymore. His lover was fine except in the first life. But in the following lives, there was no good result. All of them died in accidents. Why was it always this fate? Yuan Jing couldn't figure it out. Even in the first life, if he wasn't there, he didn't dare to say whether Qingshan could come back alive from the battlefield.
It seems that whether for himself or for Mingyu, he has to go to the capital, and is destined to face off against the male and female protagonists Zhao Han and Xiao Mingrui.
They did not stop to rest on the way. When they were hungry, they ate the steamed buns that Yuan Jing bought in Jiangcheng. When they were thirsty, they drank spiritual spring water. Mingyu and Zhang Zhi wanted to hold on, but both of them were injured and they did not get enough rest before escaping, so they fell asleep while being shaken. They spent most of the time on the road sleeping.
Zhang Zhi was very embarrassed. He wanted to replace Yuan Jing in driving the carriage, but unfortunately he didn't have the skills. Yuan Jing persuaded him to go back: "If you recover from your injury sooner, you can help me sooner. Now you are going through so much trouble that the wound will open again, which will only waste time."
After hearing this, Zhang Zhi stayed in the carriage and ate and slept, trying his best to recover from his injuries.
Before the news of Liu Fu's death reached Ningcheng, Yuan Jing brought the two burdens to Ningcheng and successfully entered the city. He arranged for the two injured to stay in an inn, and then went out to look for a house. It would be best if it was closer to Luo's house so that he could observe from close range.
Before going to Jiangcheng, he definitely couldn't afford such a house. After a tour of Jiangcheng, he had more than three million silver notes, not counting the gold and silver ingots on him. He counted them when he had nothing to do on the way. Even he was shocked by the number. He was just a eunuch, but he had accumulated such a huge fortune. What about his master? And what about other eunuchs who had the same job as Liu Fu?
The Great Zhou Dynasty is almost at its end. It has managed to hold on until now without many people rebelling. Yuan Jing thinks that we should thank God that the Great Zhou Dynasty did not suffer many natural disasters, otherwise the natural disasters combined with man-made disasters would have exacerbated the demise of this court.
Mingyu will have a heavy burden in the future, Yuan Jing sighed in his heart.
With such a large fortune on him, Yuan Jing readily used the money to buy a house on the same street as the Luo Mansion. Although it had three courtyards, there were only three of them and it was a bit too spacious, so after buying the house, Yuan Jing moved in with Mingyu and Zhang Zhi.
With the house, it was more convenient for Yuan Jing to help Mingyu regulate his body. Because he was still young, he could not use medicine directly like in his previous life. So Yuan Jing found the herbs and made medicated food for Mingyu. He also used spiritual spring water. After a few days, Mingyu's complexion improved, and Zhang Zhi also benefited from it. Her little face became rosy.
Zhang Zhi felt guilty, so as soon as his injuries got a little better, he desperately looked for things to do, almost without stopping. Yuan Jing saw this and did not stop him. He felt at ease keeping such a person by his side, instead of taking his help and treatment for granted.
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