Gran Medicina China - Capítulo 106
“I didn’t expect Tang Jingfeng to still have a conscience,” he sighed, looking up at the moon. “When I grew up, I realized that more than a hundred people in the Tao family had died, and none of them survived except me. I will not be at peace if I do not seek justice for them.”
Looking at He Bi, a mocking smile flashed across his handsome face again: "But later I realized that there may not be justice for me in this world, and the imperial court will never admit its mistakes."
“After my master passed away, I have been thinking of ways to take revenge for many years. Seven years ago, when I was traveling in Jiangnan, I accidentally recognized my elder brother. At that time, Senior Nangong had already passed away. He was the young master of Nangong Villa.”
Li You shook his head: "If you hadn't gone to him, how could someone like Brother Nangong have done such things? He was already a good person. You... really shouldn't have dragged him into this."
He remained silent for half a day.
His phoenix eyes gradually dimmed, and he nodded: "That's right, his heart is too soft."
He Bi suddenly said, "Isn't your heart soft?"
He remained silent.
He Bi looked at him, her eyes flashing: "You could have had many opportunities to attack us along the way."
He turned around and said arrogantly, "I don't need to."
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Is it unnecessary, or is it that you can't bear to?
They are friends.
Volume Four: People in the Jianghu
Updated on Shuxiang Chinese Website: 2008-02-26 10:50:40 Word Count: 3203
Li You smiled and said, "I once heard Xiao Nian mention your Tear Chrysanthemum. The day I took Yao'er to your Nanshan Formation, I searched for a long time but couldn't find any chrysanthemums like this. All the varieties were old."
He said casually, "You're really curious."
“At that time, I did not doubt you,” Li You looked at He Bi. “Just now, I did go to see Old He, and also visited a senior, and asked about the real name of your Tear Chrysanthemum.”
"The Blood-Weeping Grass" (28)
Li You nodded: "The Blood-Weeping Grass resembles a chrysanthemum, but it contains a deadly poison. This grass is also very rare. You must have spent a lot of effort to find it."
“That’s right. This herb only grows in the wild and desolate lands beyond the Great Wall. I searched for it for many years, and only found it three years ago.”
"Even though Master Situ and Lord Tang's martial arts are inferior to yours, the best way to kill someone invisibly is to use poison. Among all poisons, the one that is hard to detect and hardest to be suspected is the Blood-Weeping Grass. You already knew we would come looking for you and were afraid of being exposed, so you deliberately said it was the Ten Thousand Poisons Blood Palm. No one will doubt the words of the First Divine Physician."
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silence.
“I spent three years refining it into poison and gave it to my elder brother, but he only used it once, for himself.”
At this point, he let out a soft sigh.
“My eldest brother is just like my father. He is kind-hearted by nature. When I found him, he had no desire for revenge at all. Later, I finally managed to force him to agree.”
“I originally wanted to destroy the evidence, but my elder brother refused. Master Situ and his men are very famous in the martial arts world. If they disappeared without a trace, their disciples would definitely suspect each other and even kill each other. He did not want to lose any more lives. If he had not insisted on doing so, I'm afraid it would not have been so easy for you to investigate now.”
After saying that, he smiled and turned to look at He Bi: "I did kill those people. You know my older brother would never do it."
He Bi nodded: "As long as you show your true colors, Madam Leng and the others will naturally not be on guard."
Because they mistook him for Nangong Xue.
He frowned: "We only discovered that Aunt Ye knew the Ten Thousand Poison Blood Palm after we saw Tang Jingfeng's body. This was really unexpected. I never thought that Tang Jingfeng's daughter would fall in love with my brother."
Even though she was the daughter of his enemy, Nangong Xue still couldn't bear to hurt Tang Kesi. He kept her by his side every day, probably because he was afraid that his younger brother would harm her when he returned. But he never expected that Tang Kesi would run away on her own in her sadness.
"It was you who first set Xiao Nian up with the 'Lonely Wutong Tree,' but Brother Nangong insisted on saving her. In order not to reveal any flaws, you had no choice but to come out and save her yourself."
Just as Nangong Xue couldn't help but stand up to find him, he came out on his own and cured her of the poison.
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He looked at the stunned Yang Nianqing and finally nodded: "The day he took you away, it was I who forced him back with the Heart-Corroding and Bone-Piercing Powder. I didn't expect him to endure it for so long."
My heart aches again. (d7)
When the sword came stabbing at her, he stood in front of her, and there was that clear and happy look in her eyes from the carriage. It was all real. Nangong Xue hadn't lied to her. He really did want to take her away, and he had already made up his mind to turn back.
However, his own brother forced him to return.
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A wave of guilt washed over him, and he shook his head with a self-deprecating smile: "Later I realized that I had made a mistake. I really shouldn't have forced him to come back. I never expected that he would use poison on Old Man Cao at that time."
Li You said sadly, "He's protecting you."
Yang Nianqing lowered her head and closed her eyes.
Back in the carriage, he endured the pain, yet still held her tightly, pleading, "Don't go back."
On the evening he woke up, he had that desolate and sorrowful look in his eyes, because he realized that he had returned. Perhaps at that time he had already made up his mind and arranged a path of no return for himself, taking all the blame on himself, all for the sake of protecting his younger brother.
A long silence. (24)
“He didn’t need to do that at all. The truth will always be revealed in front of you, and no one can protect him,” he said calmly. “Last night, Tao Clan’s last enemy, a former imperial guard, died of heart disease.”
At this point, his eyes suddenly flashed: "But if I don't come back now, do you think you'll be able to find me?"
He Bi shook his head: "No."
He smiled.
With a raised eyebrow, his handsome face was bathed in the hazy moonlight, and his arrogant smile, always carrying a hint of coldness, made him look like a chrysanthemum braving the frost.
Looking at the square piece of paper that had suddenly appeared in her hand, Yang Nianqing was stunned: "This..."
“It’s a prescription,” he said, no longer looking at her. “It’s Li You’s. Go back and have him take a look, then you’ll know. But be very careful.”
Li You's?
She was filled with doubt. (fc)
What's wrong with Li You?
Look at Li You, and you'll see that he also looks completely bewildered.
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Clean, beautiful fingers lifted the wine pot, and the crystal-clear wine slowly poured into the white jade cup, reflecting the moonlight and exuding an exceptionally pure beauty.
Three wine glasses.
Everything was as expected; he had been waiting for them all along.
“I rarely drink,” he sighed, seemingly with some regret, put down the wine jug, and looked at the two men. “Now, would you be willing to have a drink with me?”
After a while.
A stiff smile appeared on his indifferent face. He Bi looked at him and nodded: "It's only natural to keep an old friend company while we drink."
After saying that, he picked up his wine glass and drank it all in one gulp.
He wasn't grateful: "Aren't you afraid it's poisonous?"
He Bi didn't answer, but frowned and said, "You really don't drink much."
He was taken aback.
Li You picked up his wine cup and looked at it, then sighed, "Compared to Brother Nangong, Old Qiu's taste in wine is really not good. I'm thinking of going to sell wine too. I can sell it to you even if I dilute it with water. This wine is terrible."
He drank it all in one gulp.
A smile gradually spread across her familiar yet unfamiliar phoenix eyes, growing stronger and lingering for a long time.
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As that proud figure fell, Yang Nianqing's eyes were filled with tears, but her heart was filled with a deep, unyielding warmth and emotion.
She vaguely saw a glimmer of light in the pair of gloomy, indifferent eyes beside her.
Even a "god" can shed tears.
Along the way, he had many opportunities to strike at them and stop them from continuing their investigation, but he didn't—they were his friends;
He could have escaped; with his exquisite disguise skills, no one would ever recognize him again, and he could have lived a life of freedom forever. But he didn't—he disdained it.
An incredibly proud person.
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He loved chrysanthemums, and people called him Mr. Chrysanthemum. He often said, "If a person doesn't even cherish the life of plants, why bother saving his life?"
Yet this very person has personally taken many lives.
Some deserved to die, while others were innocent.
Was this really his intention? A person who cherishes even the lives of plants and trees so much has absolutely no reason not to cherish human life. He knew the consequences of doing this, but he still did it.
It all stemmed from one obsession.
Perhaps at first he only wanted to clear his father's name and his disciples' names, to seek justice for the more than one hundred lives lost, and to bring the murderer who framed Tao Men to justice.
However, there was no justice for him in that world.
No matter how famous or powerful he is, he is just a江湖人士 (jianghu person, someone who walks the martial arts world). The imperial court would never admit his mistake to him, especially since he has no evidence whatsoever.
He was unwilling to accept this, so he chose a path of no return, and took his brother with him.
Was he wrong?
He simply didn't want his innocent disciples to die with their eyes wide open in vain, nor did he want the murderers who killed them to go unpunished. Otherwise, he would forever feel guilty and uneasy.
When you're in the world of martial arts, you're not always in control of your own destiny.