Chapter 381 Puppet Gu
The speaker was an old man in his fifties.
His head was covered in mud, like a beggar who had rolled around in a mud pit.
It's clear how difficult it must have been for them to get here, enduring wind and rain and sleeping outdoors along the way.
"What a joke! Even if we were to recruit medicine servants, we would choose from within our three cities. How could it be a place for outsiders like you!"
The woman who had been shouting earlier shouted again, her eyes once more filled with her former haughty demeanor.
"What about my son? He was taken in by your Holy Healer Sect! The authorities have verified his identity!"
"Yes, my son did too, he even signed a contract."
Another old woman took out a piece of cloth and carefully took out a piece of paper from it.
"We also have a contract..."
"We have that too..."
Everyone started taking out the keepsakes they had been keeping like precious treasures.
In their view, this was irrefutable proof; even if they went to the emperor, they would have to acknowledge the contract!
It's written in black and white, and even has handprints!
But when they took them out and unfolded them for inspection, the writing was still there, but the place where the names were signed was blank, and even the fingerprints that were pressed on them were gone.
"How could this be? I never let anyone touch it! It's been hidden under the kang (heated brick bed) all this time!"
"The fingerprints are gone, and mine are gone too!"
"That's not right. I took it out to look at it two years ago, and there were fingerprints on it!"
"My daughter, where is my daughter?"
A chorus of panic erupted instantly.
"You've clearly been scammed, yet you're blaming the Holy Physician's Sect! So many people beg to become medicine servants at the Holy Physician's Sect but can't get in, how could it be a chance for you peasants!"
The woman seemed to have found evidence that the Holy Physician Sect had been wronged, and forgetting her own predicament, she became even more arrogant.
Just by looking at her, you can tell what she's like on a normal day.
Many people around them chimed in.
Lu Qingqing knew that birds of a feather flock together, and since their men were no good, most of them had been influenced by what they saw and heard and had also gone astray.
"I think you've got it wrong."
We're not here to judge a case, we're here to convict you!
Lu Qingqing reached out and pulled out a few contracts, glanced at them, sneered, tore them up, and threw them away.
"My contract—" they cried out in a panic as they reached for the ground.
"No need to pick it up anymore. They've tampered with the contract; it's invalid."
"It's ruined, what are we going to do? What about our child? I haven't seen my son for three years. I shouldn't have let him go with those people, I shouldn't have..."
"Could it be that what's being said outside is true, and the child was..."
Yes, their children are long gone, and their remains have been disposed of somewhere.
If she hadn't had people intercept these people on the road beforehand, they probably would have disappeared without a trace once they entered the Holy Physician's Gate.
The Holy Physician Sect handled the matter very cleanly; not a trace could be found.
The men sent out all said that no remains were found in the vicinity.
Amidst the panicked and helpless discussions, Lu Qingqing called for help, took the missing persons away, and settled them in, awaiting further arrangements.
The people who had just gone to search for evidence came closer.
“Girl, when we went there, they were destroying the list. They only managed to grab two copies and burned the rest.”
"It's alright, destroying it won't do any good. We'll just hand it over to the newly appointed officials when they arrive."
"yes."
Lu Qingqing then looked at the crowd and announced: "By His Highness the Crown Prince's oral decree: The faction of the Holy Physician Sect has plotted to harm the Crown Prince, disrupted the court, colluded with the army, harmed soldiers, engaged in factionalism, persecuted physicians, and monopolized medicinal materials..."
Even if we only consider one or two of the sins committed by the Holy Physician Sect, they are still unforgivable sins!
No need for complete evidence.
I want more!
As she said, she wasn't there to investigate the case; she was there to sentence someone to death!
"Divide them into ten groups and interrogate them one by one! Those who remain obstinate shall be executed on the spot!"
"Those who reveal the secrets of the Holy Physician Sect and make significant contributions will be given lenient punishment."
"This is your last chance to choose between life and death."
After she finished speaking, those who had been defiant just moments before finally realized that they were now lambs to the slaughter.
Those arguments were utterly useless in the face of the soldiers, who stood solemnly with their swords drawn.
The woman in charge could not accept it.
Yesterday she was the wife of the guard leader, valued by the sect leader and respected by outsiders, but now she has become a traitor!
These people are not ordinary soldiers; they are actually His Highness the Crown Prince's men.
"Impossible! The Holy Physicians Sect are the bodhisattvas of our time, healing the world; they are the great physicians praised by the Empress herself! You are falsely conveying the Crown Prince's decree; you are imposters!"
Mo Lang walked towards her.
The woman waved her hand and threw out a handful of poison powder.
"Everyone, let's rush out together!"
Her shout actually rallied quite a few people.
Some of the older children even held handfuls of poison and sprinkled them on the guards.
Mo Lang rolled over to dodge, covering his mouth and nose. He was fine, but many soldiers around him were caught off guard and collapsed from the poison.
Lu Qingqing was furious: "Those who resist, kill!"
She was too kind!
A bodhisattva of our time who can save the world?
Whose Buddha statue carries poison powder with it?! And that old woman on the street who kills people.
These people have all become demons!
This is the headquarters of a cult!
She drew her knife and went toward the woman.
Unexpectedly, the woman also wanted to capture Lu Qingqing and rushed over without knowing her own mortality.
As a result, Lu Qingqing pierced him through the chest from the front.
Behind him, he was pierced by Mo Lang's dagger.
The other women and children who obeyed the woman's orders were also stabbed to death by the soldiers.
Whether they were ten or five years old, they didn't spare a single one.
The remaining people were all terrified, and no one dared to make a move.
A woman cried out, "I'll tell you everything I know! The Holy Healers are evil! They kidnapped me! My husband was a doctor, and they killed him—"
"Go to the group interrogation!" Lu Qingqing said to Mo Lang.
Then go and rescue the soldiers who were poisoned underground.
Thousands of people were being interrogated one by one here, while the medicinal herb fields were also under the control of soldiers.
Jin Diandian and her son were followed by soldiers and were forced to lead the group through the medicinal herb field.
The farmers working in the fields are all villagers who are hired to work here.
The further they walked, the more uncomfortable Jin Diandian became.
So much land, so many medicines!
From tilling the land to sowing seeds, she watched it grow from scratch.
This lush green expanse will soon no longer belong to her.
I went through it once and didn't find any problems.
The soldiers made their notes and went back to report, leaving only two people who kept a close watch on the mother and child from a short distance away.
"It seems Lu Qingqing doesn't trust us!" Jin Diandian said angrily.
Jin Duoduo was also listless. "Who told us to be so fickle? If only we had been more patient back then, we would have been fine. We never expected that Lu Qingqing had so many people behind her!"
Yes, they betrayed us too soon!
Those people too, if they had shown up a little earlier, they wouldn't have abandoned Lu Qingqing.
"No way! This land was left to me by my master. Why should they just take it away like that!"
"Mother, there's nothing we can do. Lu Qingqing has so many people, what do we have? All we have are these herb farmers who only know how to hoe the fields. Are we supposed to fight them with hoes?"
Jin Diandian smiled slyly with a hint of cunning: "Hmph... no need for such trouble."
I have a whole bunch of keys to Ouyang Bingyan's body, and the secret room for raising Gu has all kinds of Gu. Let's find a puppet Gu..."
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