The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#634 - Who's in a hurry?

The guards outside the palace gate were somewhat surprised to see Physician Lu, who had left not long ago, return.

It wasn't until the latter said that he had made a mistake with one of the herbs in the prescription he had written earlier that the guards hurriedly went in to report. After a while, the person who had gone to report returned and allowed Physician Lu to enter again.

Physician Lu first went to the palace where Bu Bu Le was staying and examined his body again. After confirming that he was fine, he handed the new prescription to the maids who were taking care of Bu Bu Le.

After that, Physician Lu didn't stay long and hurriedly left Tongtuqiu's palace.

Seeing that it was already dark, Physician Lu didn't go home. Instead, as soon as he left the palace gate, he turned to the bathhouse he had visited in the afternoon and started soaking in the bath.

Physician Lu was very nervous while taking the bath, afraid that an assassin would jump out from somewhere and kill him with a single blow. However, nothing happened until he finished bathing.

Afterwards, Physician Lu nervously put on his clothes and walked back home.

Several times, he was scared half to death by pedestrians passing by and getting too close to him, but in the end, it turned out to be false alarms.

Physician Lu finally returned home safely.

Not long after he left the bathhouse, a man with a limp and a hunched back walked into the bathhouse.

As soon as he entered, he said to the people inside, "From now on, no one is allowed to leave here."

Hearing his words, some people who had finished bathing and were wiping themselves showed dissatisfaction on their faces, but after seeing who it was, they fell silent again. In the end, no one spoke, and they all stood obediently to the side.

The lame man looked around and, seeing that no one objected, continued, "Just now, there was a guy about five feet tall, with a round face and big ears, a short beard on his mouth, and a somewhat anxious look, who came here to take a bath.

"Some of you should have an impression, right? Come on, tell me who he talked to here and where he went. As long as you don't miss a single detail, I'll let you leave."

Upon hearing this, everyone couldn't help but look at each other.

After a moment, a short, fat man who looked like a merchant said, "Brother Di, I, I really have nothing to do with this… I have a business deal to discuss tonight, and the other party is already waiting for me at the restaurant. Do you think I can take my leave first?"

The lame man surnamed Di glanced at the short, fat man and beckoned him over, "Come here."

The short, fat man smiled and walked over, but he was greeted by a fist!

The fist landed squarely on his nose, shattering his nose bridge. The short, fat man immediately screamed like a pig being slaughtered, and fell face-up to the ground, bleeding profusely.

Then, the lame man surnamed Di asked again, "Does anyone else have urgent business?"

This time, the bathhouse was completely silent, and no one clamored to leave anymore.

Just when the lame man surnamed Di thought he could get to the point, another voice suddenly sounded, "I, I also have urgent business."

The lame man surnamed Di turned his head and looked in the direction of the voice.

He found that it was a young man who was speaking, so he sighed.

He said to the young man, "You come here."

Upon hearing this, the latter stepped towards him.

When the young man walked up to him, the lame man surnamed Di said coldly, "Everyone who knows me knows that I am the fairest person in doing things." He pointed to the short, fat merchant who was still wailing on the ground.

"Just now he said he had urgent business, so I punched him. Now you have urgent business, so I'll punch you too. If you can take it, you can naturally leave this bathhouse to take care of your urgent business. If you can't take it… hehe."

"Why so much nonsense? If you want to hit me, hit me quickly," the young man said, "I also have something to ask you."

The anger in the lame man surnamed Di's chest finally climbed to the peak. After that, he didn't say anything more, just pulled open his stance, and then punched the young man's chest.

Unlike the punch just now, this punch was his full-strength strike under great anger, and he had already used ten percent of his power, creating a gust of wind.

This punch was no longer aimed at drawing blood, but at killing!

The onlookers subconsciously took two steps back, seemingly afraid of being hit by the young man who was about to be sent flying.

But the next moment, someone did fly up, but contrary to everyone's expectations, it was not the ignorant young man, but the lame man surnamed Di, who flew out with his full-strength punch.

He directly smashed the door of the bathhouse and fell back onto the street outside.

The young man, while putting on his clothes, said to the others, "What are you still standing there for? Those who have urgent business, leave."

As soon as he said this, the crowd rushed out of the bathhouse one after another. Many people didn't even have time to put on their clothes because they were escaping too quickly, and they went out on the street like that.

After Lu Jing put on his clothes, he also walked out of the bathhouse unhurriedly.

At this time, the man surnamed Di was being supported by his two younger brothers and fleeing towards the other end of the street.

Unfortunately, they couldn't escape too far before being stopped by Lu Jing, who had come after them.

The lame man surnamed Di's face was devoid of blood at this moment. He felt that he couldn't even lift a little finger. The true energy that was originally gathered in his dantian had already been scattered in his meridians, running around everywhere.

"Who sent you here?" Lu Jing asked.

"No one, I came here on my own." The lame man surnamed Di gritted his teeth.

"Why bother?" Lu Jing said, "Your bones may be very hard, but there are always people whose bones are not so hard."

As he spoke, he turned his gaze to the two subordinates beside the lame man.

"Who sent you here? If you tell me, I'll let you go, and I can give you some money, say one hundred taels of silver… enough for you to leave here and start a new life."

The two looked at each other, and one of them already showed signs of wavering.

But the next moment, the other suddenly took out a dagger from his arms and stabbed it into his companion's heart!