The female warrior seemed to realize something and suddenly startled, hastily tugging at Yun Ge, "Doctor Yun, be careful of the many eyes around!"
Yun Ge was startled and then took a deep breath, "Take her away!"
Afterwards, the woman was seized by the female warrior and dragged into the valley.
Yun Ge was in a state of turmoil. After clearing everyone out, she patiently inquired once more. Frightened by Yun Ge’s authority, the woman stammered through the story once again.
It turned out, this middle-aged woman was from Pingchang, Taihang Town. About eight or nine months ago, a dark-skinned young girl with a face full of pockmarks approached her, giving her a copper coin to spread news about Medicine Valley.
Later, a man wearing a hat, but with a stature as tall and straight as a pine, stopped her and also inquired about the news.
She didn’t take it seriously at first, but a few months ago, she seemed to have contracted a strange illness, always feeling nauseous and wanting to vomit. The female doctors in the town couldn’t figure it out, which panicked her, so she thought of the Medicine Valley God Doctor and decided to run here to save her life.
She stood there, dumbfounded for quite a while.
Eight or nine months ago?
She was out and about at that time, not in the valley.
After pondering carefully again, she immediately called for an old servant of Medicine Valley, "Medicine Slave, I ask you! Before I left, did someone bring Purple chervil grass to find me?"
Medicine Slave was a bit confused but still honestly replied, "Indeed, there was a man who brought a patient, along with a handful of Purple chervil grass, wanting to see you. After all, many people come to our valley throughout the year seeking medical advice, but which of them doesn’t bring a load of precious treasures and gold and silver? Yet, that man was strangely attired, and he was exceptionally tall, even taller than some of the women of Dayuan, so he made a particularly lasting impression on me..."
"What about the man? Did he leave?"
"He... the person he brought seemed to be his brother, who was critically ill. They once waited outside the valley for a long time, until in the end, it seemed they had run out of money and then they left..."
"Medicine Slave, oh Medicine Slave, why didn’t you tell me sooner!"
Yun Ge was frustrated at his lack of initiative, and then immediately ordered, "Hong Fei, prepare to leave, we’re going to Pingchang Prefecture! If my guess is correct..."
If her guess was correct, the person who had come looking for a doctor was definitely connected to the Purple chervil!
After all her fruitless searching, to think she had just missed them!
Yun Ge was extremely efficient in her work, and preparations for travel were made that very night. It was then that she received another piece of news, "Doctor Yun, the man we picked up, he’s woken up!"
The man was wearing a green robe.
This robe was what Yun Ge had Medicine Slave change him into, but perhaps because of his appearance, too enchantingly beautiful, it was incongruous with such plain clothes. Yun Ge couldn’t help thinking that a man with such peerless beauty and a trace of worldly, nefarious charm was more suited to fiery, blood-red hues rather than plain colors.
The man sat up in bed, his hands groping at the bedside, but all he could see was pitch black. Suddenly, he turned his head to the side, as if he heard footsteps, and immediately asked with caution, "Who’s there?"
Hong Fei, the female warrior, had accompanied Yun Ge. Quietly and unnoticed, Hong Fei gripped the hilt of her sword. They were soldiers who had followed the General through life and death, clawing their way out of mountains of corpses and seas of blood. Now, facing this man of unknown identity, they could not afford to be careless.