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Gu Jue stares dumbfounded, says with shock, "Da-shixiong, how were you poisoned."
She appears completely anxious and hurried, seeming to not know what would be best. Mo Qingfeng gently takes her by her shoulders, whispering comfortingly, "Madam doesn't need to be anxious, let me first go take a look."
At this time, Gu Jue seems to remember that her husband is a doctor.
She can't help faintly feeling a blush of shame over her panic and helplessness just then. She hurriedly lets Mo Qingfeng invite Zhao Jiangui into the room, checking his pulse for him. After confirming that the poison really isn't something life-threatening, Gu Jue relaxes her breathing a little.
"It's not some huge problem." Mo Qingfeng says, "After taking the antidote, in five days at most, the properties of the medicine will counteract it."
Zhao Jiangui nods his head, "Many thanks."
"Family doesn't need to be this polite." Mo Qingfeng says with a smile, "It's just there's something I don't understand. Thinking on da-shixiong's gongfu, how were you able to be so easily poisoned."
Zhao Jiangui knows Mo Qingfeng probably thinks it's from some concealed weapon or that another person had applied poison to their weapon. He doesn't know how to open his mouth and explain, forced to shut up wordlessly.
Yu Xian'er is sitting at the side drinking tea, and hearing Mo Qingfeng asking as such, laughter inevitably rises up.
Mo Qingfeng really doesn't know who he is, only that he's da-shixiong's friend in Jianghu. He sees him burst out laughing, however, and is embarrassed to inquire.
The youth takes Mo Qingfeng's prescription and goes ahead to cook the medicine, Xiao Lin follows to take care of it, and Gu Jue's heart has calmed down. Frowning as she thinks for a while, she finally can't help opening her mouth to ask, "Da-shixiong, there's an issue, answer me honestly."
Zhao Jiangui asks, "What is it?"
Gu Jue says, "Did you really kill Mengzhu's top disciple?"
In the beginning when the Haoran Alliance found Zhao Jiangui and proposed this matter, they basically never informed his master's sect of this thing. At this time, he also doesn't know where to start, he generally shouldn't tell shimei it was so he could seduce the Demon Sect Leader but then he has no choice but to pretend he killed Mengzhu's top disciple.
Furthermore, this seduction had failed from the start, since he's the one who took the bait and got seduced. Talking of this affair is really far too shameful, he also doesn't want to say the details, that's all.
Zhao Jiangui is forced to say, "I really didn't kill him. This was merely the strategy Mengzhu ordered to have me infiltrate the Demon Sect, that's all."
Gu Jue asks, "Bashan Daxia saw da-shixiong leaving along with that Demon, was that another momentary strategy?"
Zhao Jiangui summons up the courage to answer, "Yes."
"That's fine." Gu Jue releases a breath, "Although we both didn't believe da-shixiong would do that kind of thing, our old Shifu, however, is worrying day and night."
Zhao Jiangui says, "You can rest assured."
He suddenly recalls bringing up Yan Daifu's affairs with Yu Xian'er, soon asking, "Qingfeng, did you have a doctor surnamed Yan in the valley?"
Mo Qingfeng is dumbfounded, "Can da-shixiong be talking about Yan Shidi?"
Naturally after Yu Xian'er said those things, Zhao Jiangui already felt perhaps there simply isn't this person Yan Daifu on this earth, but he didn't think Mo Qingfeng would answer like this. He's inevitably also a bit reluctant.
Gu Jue's tone is somewhat impatient, "Da-shixiong has seen Yan Shidi? Where was he?"
Zhao Jiangui still hasn't opened his mouth, Yu Xian'er has rushed to say, "In the Demon Sect."
Zhao Jiangui says, "He's the doctor requested in by the Demon Sect."
"Impossible!" Mo Qingfeng is shocked, "Yan Shidi's only daughter died by the hands of a Demon Sect elder. Shan'er was only just sixteen years old then. No matter the case, Yan Shidi wouldn't treat illnesses for those demons."
Zhao Jiangui is stunned.
Yan Daifu appears to be only just a little over twenty in age, how could he have a sixteen-year-old daughter.
Zhao Jiangui, "Yan Daifu, he's... older than you?"
Mo Qingfeng says, "Yan Daifu is already over forty years old. He entered the valley late, so I just call him shidi."
Zhao Jiangui asks, "Does he appear quite young?"
Mo Qingfeng shakes his head, "Naturally after Shan'er passed away, Yan Shidi's hair turned white overnight. Although he's only forty years old, he looks like he's already an old man in his sixties."
Zhao Jiangui and Yu Xian'er exchange a look, their two expressions can't help being somewhat grave.
Gu Jue blinks, asking curiously, "Da-shixiong, what's really the matter?"
Zhao Jiangui hesitates, saying, "Jue'er, might you know where this Yan Daifu is right now?"
"A few months ago, someone invited him to treat his mother. Yan Shidi doesn't like leaving the valley, but that person kneeled outside his door for quite some time, and soon Yan Shidi was moved by his filial piety, so he left the valley." Mo Qingfeng says, "It's just that he left a few months and never returned, everyone in the valley was extremely anxious, deeply afraid he'd met with an accident."
Zhao Jiangui asks, "Was the person who requested him to leave the valley quite young?"
Mo Qingfeng, "Only twenty years old."
Zhao Jiangui, "Did he look quite arrogant?"
Mo Qingfeng thinks on it, says, "A bit rude, like no matter whose face it was they were all extremely ugly."
Zhao Jiangui is already speechless.
Gu Jue continues on, "Since he was totally arrogant, but he could kneel down and bow his head for his mother, Yan Shidi was touched."
Zhao Jiangui says sadly, "I'm afraid he wasn't bowing his head for his mother."
Gu Jue is at a loss in her bewilderment, "If not for his mother, then for what?"
Zhao Jiangui, "Power."
He thinks he's understood what Wei Qi said.
Actually Ji Han and Wei Qi told him this thing long ago, however he totally hadn't investigated it. He only just realizes it at the present.
If Wei Qi didn't guess wrong, that "Yan Daifu" fundamentally didn't know medicine. However, Ji Han took the initiative to replace him secretly, to the extent of having an attitude that accommodated him over and over again.
And that "Yan Daifu" is a young man, about the same age as Ji Han. It was said the old sect leader had people find a gifted doctor, but he seems not to know medicine at all.
Zhao Jiangui pulls Yu Xian'er over, and goes out the door. He presses his voice down, expression solemn as he opens his mouth to ask, "In the sect, that Yan Daifu, is he..."
Yu Xian'er smiles bitterly, "Looking at it now, certainly."
Zhao Jiangui ponders for a moment, suddenly saying, "We should get going."
Yu Xian'er is surprised, "Now?"
Zhao Jiangui says, "If it's really like this, Ji Han is likely in danger."
Yu Xian'er doesn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Zhao Daxia, I think Jiaozhu is worried of involving you in this matter, so he made Xiao Wei get you down the mountain."
Zhao Jiangui, however, repeats each word, "He's in danger."
Yu Xian'er, "I reckon so, and what can we do? No few people in the Demon Sect still listen to the old sect leader's orders, and Zhao Daxia, you're just one person."
Zhao Jiangui is silent and speechless.
Yu Xian'er continues, "Although I don't understand the matters of Jianghu, I know killing Mengzhu's top disciple is a grave mistake. Before it's cleared up, I'm afraid Zhao Daxia simply won't be able to find a helping hand."
Zhao Jiangui at long last opens his mouth, "I have a way."
Yu Xian'er asks, "What way?"
Zhao Jiangui says slowly, "I suppose, it's already been over a year since I've seen my second shidi."
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