Doctor Yao let go of his hand, “I got sweaty last night, plus I got anxious, a few stitches and I’ll be fine.”
“The patient has wind and cold in his body, how can he be cured after a few needles and sweating? You are purely a quack.”
Doctor Yao turned back to look at Imperial Doctor Zheng and snorted coldly, “I’m a quack? Then why didn’t His Majesty come to you for treatment but to me?”
“You ……”
Imperial Doctor Zheng’s face was red with dislike and he wanted to brush his sleeves away, but when he thought of Duke Qi’s orders, he held back.
“Don’t think you are great just because you are an imperial doctor, I don’t eat this, and I also trouble you to hide away a bit, don’t learn my medical skills!”
The imperial doctor Zheng could not bear it any longer and brushed his sleeves away.
The Duke of Qi’s face was also clearly unpleasant, “Stop it!”
“What, your Highness does not approve of my medical skills either?”
The Duke of Qi was choked speechless.
“In this case, he needs needles in his chest and head, please also ask the State Duke to accompany the old man and the second gentleman to wait outside for a moment.”
“No harm done, we are both men, what are we afraid of?”
Doctor Yao lifted his eyes, “I am afraid that the presence of the State Prince here will affect my ability to place the needles.”
“You ……”
“The Duke of China ……”
The old gentleman spoke, “Let’s go out and wait, let’s not delay Qingping County’s treatment.”
The Duke of Qi could not but go out with them, giving a wink to the guard guarding the door as he walked to the door, the guard understood and falsely covered the door, keeping his ears open to listen to the movement inside.
Dr. Yao leaned forward, “concentrating” on sticking needles into the county magistrate, and said in a voice that only two people could hear, “Please tell me, Your Excellency, how is Old Wei doing?”
The County Magistrate’s eyelids twitched.
Doctor Yao had already finished the first needle and picked up another silver needle with his hand, gently rubbing and twisting it slowly, “If they hadn’t done something to Old Wei, you wouldn’t have been given three days off.”
The county magistrate’s eyelids were dancing.
Doctor Yao took another silver needle, “Although the third prince and the Duke of Qi are powerful, but old sir is not a vegetarian, they are targeting the Gu family like this, old sir is very angry, when he goes back he will definitely go back to the emperor to complain, when the time comes ……”
The county governor opened his eyes.
Dr. Yao maintained the movement of sticking needles and looked at him.
Knowing that the Qi Guild had sent someone to guard the door, the County Magistrate did not dare to make a sound, only a slight movement of his lips, which Dr. Yao saw clearly and closed his eyes.
The reason why the young master set fire to the tavern last night was to use this incident to get Master Wei out of the jail, but he didn’t expect that he was still a step too late.
Sitting back in his chair and taking a few deep breaths, Doctor Yao finished sticking the rest of the silver needles, which he didn’t even want, and carried the pillbox outside, “In half an hour, just take the silver needles off, I haven’t eaten this morning and I’m starving. Let’s go back first, old sir, second sir and master, and come back in an hour.”
“Good.”
The old gentleman, keenly aware of the bad look on his face, guessed that perhaps the county magistrate had given him something to say, and turned at once to go out.
Mr. Xu Er followed him, while Master Gu and Doctor Yao walked behind.
When he saw that they had left without a hitch, the Duke of Qi became suspicious and raised his eyes to ask the guard at the door, who shook his head, so the Duke of Qi sighed with relief and went back to his courtyard.
When they got into the carriage, Doctor Yao sat on the board and leaned against the bench, panting heavily.
The old man and Mr Xu Er and Master Gu were appalled.
“What’s happened?”
Doctor Yao’s eyes were red, “Master Wei is dead, they threw him into the mountains last night to feed the wild beasts.”
The old man couldn’t believe it!
Gu Qian’s legs went weak and he half-kneeled on the carriage board, his lips twitched for a while before he made a sound, “Sure, sure?”
“The county magistrate said it himself just now, he was forced to pretend to be sick, just so he couldn’t go to court today and not let us see Master Wei.”
“Thrown away to which mountain?”
Master Gu almost lost control.
Doctor Yao choked up and could barely speak, “West of the city!”
“Go to the west of the city!”
Master Gu yelled towards the outside.
The coachman quickly turned the cart around and raced towards the city gate.
Mr Xu Er helped the old man to sit down, and seeing the grief-stricken appearance of Master Gu and Doctor Yao, he could not bear to look away. He could understand the two men’s feelings and was even more furious at the actions of the Third Prince and the Duke of Qi. He dared not imagine what would have happened to the Song and Gu families if Gu Yi had not been betrothed to Yue’er and without the Xu family as a concern.
The old gentleman’s face was heavy. He had thought last night that the fire at the tavern had not been set by the Third Prince and the Duke of Qi, but now it seemed that he had been wrong in thinking that they simply had nothing to worry about. Perhaps their move was not only to seize the business of the Gu and Song families, but possibly also to give him a warning: the Song and Gu families were his soft underbelly, and if the Xu family did not stand by their side, the Song and Gu families would not end well.
The carriage rushed along and soon arrived at the foot of the mountain.
Master Gu and Doctor Yao got off the carriage and stumbled towards the mountain, with the carriage driver and the boy following behind, unable to even care about the carriage.
When the old gentleman and the second gentleman got down, the second gentleman led the horse bolt to a tree by the roadside, found a larger stone, took out a handkerchief and spread it on it, and helped the old gentleman over to sit down.
“Don’t mind me, you follow me up too, be careful.”
The second gentleman answered, and when he was seated, he also went up the hill. After walking for two quarters of an hour, he saw Master Gu’s men stopped in front of him. He quickly went up and saw the corpses that had been gnawed by wild beasts and could not help but draw a breath of cold air.
The corpse still had bits of fabric on it, the clothes of Wei’s boss, which Mr. Er had seen a few times when he had gone to the house to deliver the food.
Gu Qian took off his own robe and wrapped it around the corpse of the shopkeeper, leaning down to pick it up, the monstrous hatred in his eyes unconcealed.
The second gentleman opened his mouth, but did not know what to say and silently moved his body away.
When the old man saw him, he stood up, and the second gentleman was busy helping him.
The old man put the body of the merchant on the carriage and turned back towards the old man and bowed Avray, “Old man, I’m sorry, you and the second gentleman have to walk back, I’ll take revenge on my family myself, I won’t involve you, if anything happens to me today, please help take care of Yi’er in the future.”
“Gu Qian, don’t be impulsive ……”
Master Gu instructed the boy, “You stay and take care of the two gentlemen.”
After saying that, he turned around and got into the carriage, and Dr. Yao followed.
“Gu Qian, listen to me ……”
The old gentleman wanted to follow up, but was stopped by the boy and watched as the carriage walked away.
“The way he looks, something big is going to happen, Lao Er, go back to the city quickly and go tell Yi Er to stop the man.”
“Yes!”
Mr Xu Er drew his legs and ran in the direction of the city, the old man followed quickly, but he was helplessly old, and after walking for a while he was out of breath and in a hurry.