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Chapter 225

Shen Lingjun and Mo Zhonggui immediately rushed to the outskirts of Luzhou City to meet Shen Wei and the others.

Shen Wei returned with the subordinates that Mo Zhonggui had previously sent him, all on horseback, but with a carriage following behind.

Shen Wei was greatly surprised when he saw Shen Lingjun.

"Ling Jun?! What are you doing here?"

Shen Lingjun said with a forced smile, "I was really worried about you, so I came to the Northwest to see if there was anything I could do to help you. Otherwise, there's no point in me staying in that chaotic place of the Yongning Marquis's residence, is there?"

"Nonsense!" Shen Wei scolded. "The Northwest is too dangerous! The fighting on the border is already raging! You'd better go back right now..."

He stopped mid-sentence, turned to look at the carriage, and his voice suddenly softened: "...Um, there really is something I need your help with."

Mo Zhonggui also looked at the carriage: "Is the witness that Marshal Shen found inside?"

“They can’t be considered witnesses yet,” Shen Wei said with a complicated expression. “You’ll see when you see it.”

Shen Lingjun and Mo Zhonggui walked to the carriage, lifted the curtain, and inside sat a thin young man with dull, empty eyes, staring straight ahead, muttering something unintelligible.

He had a large scar on his head, clearly from a severe impact.

Shen Lingjun got closer and heard him muttering some indistinct words.

"I didn't see anything... I didn't see anything... Marshal, I don't know who he is... I didn't know he was from Bei Yi..."

Shen Wei said helplessly, "This is a soldier we found in Xiqi. He was a witness when Chu Tianming delivered military supplies to the marshal of Xiqi, but now he's mentally impaired."

Shen Wei and his companions encountered this soldier by chance in Western Qi.

At the time, he was wearing the uniform of a Western Qi soldier, covered in blood, lying at the bottom of a cliff near the Western Qi military camp. He had a fatal sword wound in his chest, multiple fractures all over his body, and a bloody hole in his head from being hit by a stone. It looked as if he had been thrown off the cliff.

Shen Wei discovered that the soldier was still alive and was mumbling about General Bei Yi and Marshal Xi Qi. Sensing something was amiss, he rescued him.

His heart was different from ordinary people's; it was located in the middle of his chest cavity. So the sword that stabbed him only seriously injured him, but he was lucky enough to survive.

But after being rescued, it was discovered that he had become mentally impaired, possibly due to a head injury. He was not very clear-headed and could only repeatedly utter incoherent words.

Shen Wei patiently questioned the soldier for a long time before piecing together complete information from his incoherent words.

The soldier saw Chu Tianming go to see the Western Qi marshal and bring a batch of military supplies to the Western Qi army. However, he was discovered by Chu Tianming and the Western Qi marshal while he was spying on him. He was silenced and stabbed by Chu Tianming, and his body was thrown off a cliff.

Neither Chu Tianming nor Marshal Xi Qi expected that the soldier's heart was abnormally formed, and he actually survived.

However, given Xiaobing's current dazed and confused state, unable to utter a single clear word, he cannot be taken back as a valid witness.

Shen Wei brought Xiaobing to Luzhou hoping that there would be better doctors in the city to treat his head; if not, he would have to take him back to the capital.

Shen Lingjun examined the young soldier carefully and said, "I can cure him, but it will take some time."

Shen Wei breathed a sigh of relief.

Their trip to the border wasn't entirely fruitless.

With this witness, although it is not enough to convict the Chu family of treason, it is at least a crucial bargaining chip.

Upon returning to Luzhou City, Mo Zhonggui had already arranged for a secluded residence to be prepared for them in the south of the city.

Shen Lingjun then began preparing to treat the young soldier from Western Qi.

She didn't have some of the medicinal herbs she needed in her spatial storage, so she went to the pharmacies in Luzhou to see if they had them.