"You, you, you, how did you see that? Miao Chengtang asked in shock.
"Did someone tell you?" "That's right.
Only Xu Xinyuan knew that he was there. Xu Xinyuan had specifically told Miao Chengtang not to mention him. That meant that the young man before him had no idea that he was there, let alone knowing about his condition. Miao Chengtang was able to tell with his own abilities. He was able to tell that Miao Chengtang had been poisoned with a single glance. That was something that only a handful of people in the stockade were capable of.
Being able to tell meant that he was able to treat it.
"Do I even need someone to tell me that?" Wang Yao said.
"Please save me!" Miao Chengtang said in a sobbing tone.
Seeing hope, Miao Chengtang felt like a drowning man who had just found a straw to clutch at. He knelt right away. At that moment, what he wanted most was to live, even if it meant that he was on his last legs.
"Tell me the truth before I save you."
"I'm in Tianjin, but I only moved there recently," Miao Chengtang said. He had no choice but to tell the truth at that point.
"I was originally from Diannan."
"Diannan? Valley of Thousands of Medicine?" Wang Yao was able to tell where he was from right away.
"H-how did you know?" Miao Chengtang was shocked to hear that.
"It's really that place. You're from the Valley of Thousands of Medicine. Did Guo Zhenghe send you?" Wang Yao said. When he heard that the man was from Diannan, he immediately thought of that place. He thought of the young master of the Guo family, who was working in He County in Diannan.
"I am indeed from the Valley of Thousands of Medicine, but I don't know any Guo Zhenghe," Miao Chengtang said. "I was introduced here by someone named Xu Xinyuan."
"Xu Xinyuan? The one who came last time?"
"He said that he was here before and that you cured him of the poison."
"Tell me more," Wang Yao said.
Cough! Cough! Cough! Miao Chengtang's body began to cough uncontrollably.
Wang Yao patted the air a few times, and his body shook a few times. Then, he miraculously found that the violent coughing was suppressed just like that. The taste of blood in his mouth was also forcibly suppressed.
"This, this, this …" Miao Chengtang was so shocked that he was unable to come back to his senses for quite a while.
"Alright, go on."
"Okay, okay …"
He didn't need any injections or medicine. What was going on? Could it be that he was like Miaoxi River, someone who knew Kung Fu?
Miao Chengtang thought about many things at that very moment. He then described some of the things that were related to him. Of course, he changed some of them and covered some of them up. He was no fool. There was no way he would reveal everything to Wang Yao, who was a total stranger.
Mmm!
Wang Yao nodded. While Miao Chengtang might not have been telling the truth, he knew what he needed to know.
Seeing Wang Yao deep in thought and not responding for quite a while, Miao Chengtang hurriedly said, "Please save me."
"Save you?" Wang Yao looked up and stared at Miao Chengtang.
"Did you kill anyone?"
"No, I swear to the heavens that I didn't kill anyone. Miao Tianchuan killed all of them. It had nothing to do with me. I want to kill Miaoxi River, but I don't have what it takes." Miao Chengtang pointed at the heavens. He was telling the truth about that. He did not kill anyone. Not a single one. He was, at most, an accomplice.
"I can save you," Wang Yao said. "Tell me about the Blood Orchid."
"How … How do you know about the Blood Orchid?" Miao Chengtang was dumbfounded. He never expected Wang Yao to know about something that was considered a secret in the village.
"It doesn't matter," Wang Yao calmly said. "I know a lot about the Blood Orchid, including what you just told me. Some of it isn't true, is it?"
At that point, Miao Chengtang's face turned pale. He was sweating profusely. He never expected that a young doctor from a small village in the north would know so much about a remote village thousands of miles away in southern Yunnan. He never expected the doctor to know so much about it in such detail.
Why? What is he trying to do?
The reason Wang Yao knew so much about it was all because of the information he got from Jia Zizai's friends in southern Yunnan. They used to work in special professions, so they had their own secret channels for getting information. Jia Zizai knew that Wang Yao was very interested in information about the Valley of Thousands of Medicine. She told her friends there to do everything they could to get their hands on information and tell him about it. Professionals were able to get their hands on information very well. Her friends even found ways to get some first-hand information from the police, as well as some things that had yet to be confirmed.
"Alright, alright, but what I know is limited," Miao Chengtang said. "The Blood Orchid is a raw medicine from the Miaojiang. It was only recently discovered by Miao Chengtang. He was experimenting with it in the village."
"Experimenting with what?"
"Legend has it that the Blood Orchid can prolong one's life and make one immune to all diseases."
"Oh, is it really that miraculous?"
"It is indeed miraculous," Miao Chengtang said. "I heard about it from Miao Tianchuan. He was poisoned when he escaped from the Valley of Thousands of Medicine over a decade ago. He returned to the village to return to his roots, but he accidentally ate the Blood Orchid. The poison in his body was no longer a threat to him. Not only did he not die, but he also became stronger in some aspects of his body."
"Alright, you can treat him now," Wang Yao said.
"My treatment fee is very expensive."
"I know. I brought money." That was something Xu Xinyuan had specifically told him before he left.
"Very well."
A bowl of decoction and half a leaf of Miasma grass.
After drinking it, Miao Chengtang's stomach rumbled. His chest felt hot.
"Alright, you can go back now." Wang Yao waved his hand and said.
"That's it?"
"It's done."
"Well, this …" Miao Chengtang froze where he was.
"Who are you trying to fool? You think I'm done for after drinking a bowl of bitter decoction? You think I'm cured of the curse?" Miao Chengtang was rather annoyed. He even suspected that Wang Yao had put on such an act in the beginning just to get information out of him.
"Alright, here's the fee."
"A bowl of decoction costs 50,000?" Miao Chengtang was dumbfounded when he heard the price.
"This is daylight robbery!" He knew medicine was expensive, but he never expected it to be that expensive. Even the sacred medicine of Miaojiang could be that expensive.
"What? Are you regretting it?" Wang Yao asked coldly.
"Yes, I am."
Wang Yao was silent for a bit.
"If you don't want to be treated, I can make you spit out all the decoction you drank," Wang Yao said.
At that moment, the decoction made from the Miasma grass he drank had already begun to take effect.
Hiss. Hiss. Hiss. Hiss.
Miao Chengtang took a deep breath. He recalled what Xu Xinyuan had told him.
"I'll pay." He paid the fee in the end.
Fifty thousand yuan was not a small sum of money to him now.
"Thank you," he said through gritted teeth.
"Don't get angry. It's bad for your liver," Wang Yao advised.
Miao Chengtang was so angry that he trembled. He turned around and left.
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