The Great Physician

Falling in Love with You (630bookla Chapter of The Great Physician)

The fire startled the sleeping villagers. They rushed around shouting for help and to put out the fire, even before they were fully dressed.

Li Ruozhuo and Chan hid behind a rock, which was about half a person's height and as wide as an arm. Since it was downhill, no one noticed them.

Li Ruozhuo took some time to change his blood-stained clothes, then lay behind a rock, quietly watching people come and go, his gaze sharp and persistent like a fly searching for prey.

Chan bit her lower lip and whispered, "Sister, who are you looking for?"

Li Ruozhuo said, "While you were unconscious, that beastly man said that someone would come to pick them up in four days. Who am I? Who killed me?"

Male beast!

Chan: "..."

She quietly looked up at the sky; four days had already passed.

He lowered his head and said, "There's no one suspicious."

Is Li Ruozhuo one of them?

Suddenly, a cry of surprise came from the courtyard: "Uncle Butler, someone's inside!"

"Can you save them? Is it possible to rescue them?"

"The fire is too big to be extinguished by water."

With a curious look in her heart, Chan raised her head and peered into the courtyard. She saw a menacing figure reflected on the window lattice of the side room. Upon closer inspection, the figure's size was very similar to that of the steward.

She was so frightened that her face turned pale, and she squatted down next to her older sister: "Uncle isn't dead."

Li Ruozhuo said, "I'll kill them all, so they'll be killed alive. Otherwise, how can they feel any remorse?"

But what good is regret if you're already dead?

Chan said, "Sister, you are so heartless. If it were me, I wouldn't be able to bear seeing someone burned alive."

Li Ruozhu glared at her: "You little brat, do you think I can just say such ruthless things? Don't you keep them to yourself? Where am I ruthless? I'm just giving you a taste of your own medicine."

Chan heard that Li Ruozhuo wasn't really angry, and her tone was even a little teasing, so she smiled and said, "This servant won't do it again next time."

Li Ruozhuo smiled sincerely and frankly: "To be honest, you will encounter many situations after you follow me. I am not a soft-hearted person."

Chan nodded: "Then I'll follow you, sister. You're my sister, and I'll be your sister for life."

Li Ruozhuo's smile widened.

Annoyed by the two's chatter, Ji Yuanyuan stretched her paws on Li Ruozhuo's shoulder.

Li Ruozhuo's gaze shifted from Chan's face to the courtyard gate, and his expression suddenly changed. At some point, a middle-aged man in a black robe appeared at the gate.

By the bright firelight, one could see that the man had an ordinary appearance but a refined and composed demeanor.

Because the long robes worn by farmers in the village were only worn by people of a certain status, these people were not villagers.

Li Ruozhuo listened attentively.

Then the man asked a villager, "Is Steward Wu inside?" His voice was filled with astonishment and disbelief.

"The two side rooms weren't on fire. Everyone was in the side rooms, and I don't know how many people were in the main room. Just now, Steward Wu suddenly lunged forward, screaming his heart out, but there was nothing he could do. The fire was too big to put out."

Do you know how the fire started?

"We didn't know that they cooked inside the house, and the fire didn't start from firewood, so no one else knew."

"!"

After hearing the words, Li Ruozhuo saw the man turn around and leave the courtyard, heading down the mountain path.

Chan whispered, "Sister, if he wasn't from our village, what was he?"

Li Ruozhuo said, "We'll follow him."

Chan looked surprised: "Sister herself might be the one who killed us. It wouldn't be very dangerous to follow her."

Li Ruozhuo said, "So follow them, otherwise how will you know who really harmed me?"

The black-robed man moved with a light step, indicating he possessed some cultivation. Li Ruozhuo, leading Chan, dared not get too close and followed from a distance.

Although the road to Xiazhuangzi is steep and long, it is sheltered by trees and rocks on both sides.

Li Ruozhuo and Chan followed them to the village entrance.

A horse-drawn carriage stopped at the village entrance. As the man in black approached the carriage, two men dressed in shorts stepped out from in front of it. Both men were very strong, so it was clear that they were the village's guards and thugs.

"Manager Qiao."

The two men bowed to the man in black.

Chan muttered to herself, "Manager Qiao? The manager who often comes to collect rent is surnamed Liao. He's the one who reports everything to Xin Ge."

Li Ruozhuo said, "So it's very likely that Sect Leader Li doesn't know about our fishing. He didn't send the person here, but it's certain that they are from the Extreme Sect. Otherwise, those two bastards wouldn't listen to him."

Chan nodded.

Manager Qiao said to the two guards, "To save me the trouble, Manager Wu was also in the fire. Why didn't you leave him alive? How could he burn himself to death?"

The nurse said, "How can we go back and report?"

After pondering for a long time, Manager Qiao suddenly waved his hand and said, "No, I have to go back and confirm the body first."

The two guards followed him.

Manager Qiao said, "We don't need to be so cautious if we don't reveal that there are no experts in the manor."

The two nurses should have claimed responsibility.

Manager Qiao hurriedly returned, carrying his robe.

Li Ruozhuo pulled Chan down to squat down, and only got up again after he passed by the big tree and disappeared from sight.

When Chan saw her sister get up, she touched her waist and initially didn't notice that it was a kitchen knife.

Chan covered her mouth: "Sister."

Li Ruozhuo said, "Wait for me, I'll steal the carriage and we'll leave."

Chan put down her hands, her face anxious: "But isn't Sister with Steward Qiao? Why did you steal his carriage again?"

Li Ruozhuo said to Zhuangzi, "When he goes back to check the body, he will naturally find that you are not there. Rather than letting my sister follow him around, why don't we let him come after us? Shouldn't a sister be proud like this?"

Intentionally luring people to hunt you down isn't arrogance, it's just recklessness.

Chan: "..."

Li Ruozhuo piled the bodies of the two guards at the village entrance and drove the horse-drawn carriage westward for two hours to a town on the border of Qingyun Mountain.

By this time, it was already broad daylight. Li Ruozhuo saw that the town was bustling with activity, with stalls filling both sides of the main street and pedestrians coming and going in droves.

She parked the carriage at the entrance of the alley, then climbed into the carriage and handed Ji Yuanyuan to Chan: "You two stay in the carriage while I go buy some clothes and supplies, then we'll find an inn to rest."

Chan said, "Do you have money? You can't rob people of their money when they're buying things."

Li Ruozhu grinned and patted the cloth bag on the carriage: "It's all here. If we're frugal, it'll be enough for the two of us to live for ten or eight years."

Chan's eyelids twitched rapidly: "Where did you get the money, sister?"

Li Ruozhu wrinkled his nose, raised his eyebrows, and said domineeringly, "Of course, those two scoundrels who withheld my money will return it to me."

Chan immediately understood that the money was saved by the housekeeper.

She widened her eyes and said, "Sister, you killed her and robbed her of her money?" Then she set the house on fire.

Lin Ruozhuo glanced at Chan: "What? You sympathize with them? The money was originally mine, so isn't it all mine now?"

Chan chuckled as she saw her clutching the bundle like a mother hen protecting her chicks: "How could I possibly sympathize with them? I was just thinking how capable my sister is. She's not reckless, but she always plans ahead and remembers to take out the money. Otherwise, we would be starving right now."

"Flattery." Li Ruozhu smiled again, took out a string of coins from his bundle, and handed the bundle to Chan: "I'll be back soon."

Chanlu grabbed her sleeve in fear: "Sister, I'm scared, let me go with you."

Li Ruozhuo said, "That Manager Qiao burned several corpses and is investigating who killed his partner. Won't he come after us? Besides, if he wants to chase us, he'll need to find a car. You don't need to be afraid."

Chan looked at her with reluctance.

Li Ruozhuo poked Ji Yuanyuan's lazy (butt) bottom: "Don't sleep in the car. If Chan encounters danger and comes back, I'll use you as a scarf."

Ji Yuanyuan immediately stood up and looked at Li Ruozhuo with bright eyes: "Meow."

Chan quickly covered her with her hands and giggled, "You scared our eldest sister."

Li Ruozhuo smirked, his face roguish, and said, "I'm leaving." He lifted the carriage curtain and jumped down.

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