In a room with dim light, two figures were sitting opposite each other.
Guima looked at Xia Houmo with coziness, playing with a tea cup in his hand.
On the other side, the face of Xia Houmo was cold as ice, with the chill around him preventing any stranger from coming nearby.
“Achoo!” Guima rubbed his nose with his hand. He had used too much scented soap and the smell was a bit aggressive.
“So Lord, what do you want me here for?”
“I was poisoned.”
“What?” Guima jumped up to his feet, with his laziness look disappeared within one second, he walked behind Xia Houmo and felt his pulse.
His face was now in seriousness.
“You were poisoned by the Red Blaze!”
Without many expressions on his face, Xia Houmo took his hand back.
“Yes.”
“When was that?”
“About half a month ago.”
After he heard about the answer, Guima frowned an
After a moment of pause, Su Muge turned her head and looked at Meng Xiuwen.“Eldest Mast Meng, what else?”A few days ago, the Meng family had sent someone to tell her that she didn’t need to go to the Meng mansion anymore for treating Old Lady Meng. On that day, Su Muge had given the person a note to take back. And then here was the meeting between her and Meng Xiuwen.“My grandma...” Meng Xiuwen wanted to explain to her why they had stopped her treatment for Old Lady. However, at this moment, he suddenly felt that there was no need for it, since in either way, she would take it as an excuse of them wanting to get rid of the Su family.“Eldest Master Meng, there’s no need to talk about it. The Meng family has already done me a great favor.” Su Muge raised the little box in her hand and explained. She treated Old Lady Meng, and the Meng family helped her find the things she needed. Now, they owed each other nothing.“G
The rain fell on the muddy ground, with the air moist and smelly all around.Following the driver’s direction, Su Muge saw a white swollen body lying under the wheel of their carriage!Su Muge put on her straw rain cape and jumped out of the carriage. “Make the carriage go backwards a bit.” The driver’s hands were shaking, he pulled the reins, and made the carriage go backwards with difficulty.When the carriage moved away, a corpse was exposed on the road.Su Muge took out the sheepskin gloves when she used for making her medicine and put them on, turning the front of the body over.From the body’s livor merits and the extent of the swelling, it could be implied that the body had been dead for at least five days.“It’s, it’s, Hu, Old Man Hu, it’s Old Man Hu!” The driver was huddled in his seat. In such a situation, he would not even bother to think about why a young miss could remain so calm
Su Muge glanced over her shoulder now and then when she was driving the carriage.She had already noticed it from last night that the person hiding in the woods had been keeping an eye on their movements, so she had hardly slept.The one in the woods didn’t show up until the old woman and her grandson appeared, which meant that his target was those two.The old woman and her grandson looked as if they were just ordinary people. There was no doubt that she had to pay more attention to the suspicious person who appeared in Zhou county at this time.If she had not taken the two with her, they could have been killed by the man last night.The three of them finally arrived at Zhou county before it was dark.Just as the old lady said, the shops were closed and there were few people in the street.And those who were in the street were carrying their luggage with a hurry to leave Zhou county.
“Ok, you go to settle them down first,” Su Muge said, turned around and went back to the temporary ward.Adviser Li was entirely struck dumb. “Lord Su…”“Bang!”The door was shut. Adviser Li got snubbed. He was so anxious that he could cry.It was said that Lord Xia held the third-ranking or even higher position in the imperial court, and the imposing manner he carried was something to be held. Adviser Li had never seen anyone like him in his life. Now that such a high-ranking lord had arrived, Lord Su didn’t work on trying to please him, nor did he even go to receive him immediately. Wasn’t he just trying to throw his title away!Adviser Li could do nothing but went back to the county yamen alone.Su Muge went to see the boy. During the preliminary check, it seemed that he was having a fever, but after taking his pulse carefully, she realized that there was something wrong with his lungs.
It was already noon?!The sky was overcast with no sign of time. Su Muge had no idea that she would wake up at midday, and the only thing she could remember was that she did not sleep well last night.“So, what kind of plan do you have against the flood, Lord Su?”Xia Houmo changed the topic of their conversation, and Su Muge was clever enough to contend with him. She said, “Lord Xia, please follow me to the study, and we’ll talk about the details there.”“Sure.”The two of them stepped in, and Granny Fang left after she served the tea.A detailed topographic map of Zhou county was opened in front of them by Su Muge, and her hand pointing at the river that went through the whole county.“In my opinion, it’s crucial to build a dam now, and to raise the river bank with sands and stones...”At first, Xia Houmo only listened with a devil-may-care attitude. But then his face became mor
Su Muge took one step back. “I have to visit the other patients again, please wait here, Lord Xia.” “You couldn’t help anyway!” thought she.Xia Houmo didn’t refuse this time. “Fine.”After getting rid of this troublesome “tail”, Su Muge let out her breath in a long exhalation and went to another ward with her medical kit.Gazing at her receding figure, there was a slight coldness in Xia Houmo’s eyes. “Zuowei.”Zuowei came in from the outside upon his master’s call.“My Lord.”“Where has Guima gone?”“Doctor Gui has left Yanxia pass, and should be on his way to the land of southern barbarians.”Xia Houmo lifted his dark eyes a little. “He went to the land of southern barbarians?”“Yes.”“Fine, let him go.”“Lord, are you looking for Doctor Gui because you’re not feeling well? How about passing the message and ask people to bring
There was a moment when Su Muge wanted to cry. Why was she so unlucky? She dared not to think if her identity was unveiled, what would happen to her. Would this royal highness, the King of Jin, get angry with her and directly put her to justice?!Indeed, one could never win a game played with God!Xia Houmo kept his promise and had her scalpel made before dark according to her previous drawings. After knowing his identity, she was no longer surprised at his high efficiency.It would only be a joke if a person who was among the highest rank of people in the country like him had no ability superior to a normal village man.Su Muge took a scalpel and checked it carefully. It’s rougher than a modern scalpel, but she believed that if he had been given two more days, he could have made the scalpel even better than the modern one.Just as she was about to cut her fingertip with the edge of the scalpel as a trial, her waist wa
“What happened?” Su Muge asked in a low voice, which was particularly abrupt in a strange and silent street.She frowned and quickly pulled out the dagger on her leg in a state of full alert.Opening the carriage curtain carefully, she clearly saw her driver lying on the ground with a light moonlight.Suddenly, there was a violent gust of wind which startled her. She quickly pulled the curtain aside and jumped off the carriage. After several rolls on the ground, she finally found her balance.A dark figure went in front of her, and there was blood dripping from the sharp sword in his hand.“What do you want!”“Hand it over, or you’ll die!”Su Muge frowned, obviously confused by those words. Hand it over? What does this man mean?The man in black took her silence as a rejection and was irritated. He raised his sword with a snort and was ready to fight.Su Muge had only