Seeing that Shen Zhao and his group did not ask any more questions, the woman relaxed and said hospitably, "Since you are guests, please follow me. There is a tea room inside where you can rest for a while."

Shen Zhao stared at the woman without blinking, and doubts began to form in his heart when he thought of what he had just seen.

"Go!" Ma Shuyi said, "Since you are here, why not go in and take a look? Besides, she said this is a time-honored brand, and seeing is believing. Don't you want to take some pictures as a souvenir? Maybe you won't come again in the future."

After hearing what Ma Shuyi said, Xu Ke, who had some concerns at first, agreed. Li Kui herself didn't have any opinion, and since everyone else agreed, she had no choice but to go with the flow.

Shen Zhao glanced at a few people, but it was not appropriate to tell them everything he had just seen. He just advised them kindly, "We can just take some photos outside. It's someone else's private place inside, and it's not a good idea for us to go in."

But the woman who had already turned behind the beaded curtain suddenly turned back and asked them gently, "Aren't you coming? Our medicinal tea is famous, and since you are interested, I want you to try it."

Seeing the woman so enthusiastic, Ma Shuyi thought, what could happen in this tourist area? And there were four of them, so one woman couldn't possibly take care of them all, right? Thinking of this, she felt more relieved, and turned to Shen Zhao and said, "If you don't want to go in, you can wait for us outside. Are you satisfied with this arrangement?"

Shen Zhao couldn't persuade her, "Okay, then you guys be careful, I'll sit outside and wait for you."

The woman flipped the bead curtain with her bare hands, and with a final turn, her eyes fell directly on Shen Zhao. A chill ran from his spine to every limb. When he looked again, the woman had already gone in with the other three. The previous glance seemed like an illusion.

Shen Zhao calmed herself down, thinking that maybe she had seen it wrong. If they were really late, she would call the police. She believed that this pharmacy would not be stupid enough to do something stupid like kidnapping a few girls in broad daylight.

She found a chair and sat down, looking through the stained glass window on the wooden door at the bustling crowd on the street outside. Her doubts grew even stronger. With such a large flow of people, how could no one walk into this so-called time-honored pharmacy?

She turned her head to look at the door that was half covered with a beaded curtain. She could vaguely see a small courtyard inside the hollow space below. As for how the roads inside were distributed, it was unknown. The woman had brought them in for half an hour. Her right eyelid twitched from time to time, and she felt bad on the left and good on the right. She stood up worriedly, holding the phone in her hand, and dialed Xu Ke's number.

While Shen Zhao was expecting, a busy tone came from the other end. She couldn't help but hold the phone tightly. Everything would be fine, she secretly convinced herself. She thought so in her heart, but her body involuntarily wanted to walk towards the door. The door was separated by a bead curtain, which aroused endless fantasies, as if to lure outsiders to look inside.

Shen Zhao turned on her cell phone and typed several text messages, sending them to Xu Ke and Situ Rui respectively. Then she put away her phone and walked towards the door.

The door led to a courtyard of irregular shape. There was a rockery on the grass, the kind whose shape could be seen from far and near. There were some green bamboos planted beside it, separating the two paths inside. Shen Zhao pricked up her ears and listened carefully. She could vaguely hear voices coming from the left path. Although weak, they were indeed human voices. According to how quiet it was at the counter just now, she could not imagine that there would be other people in the drugstore, so she walked in that direction.

On the other side, Ma Shuyi and his companions were being warmly entertained by the woman in an elegant teahouse.

"Sister, your tea is so delicious. Did you add anything to it? It smells so good." Ma Shuyi took a sip from the teacup, her eyes shining. It was a taste she had never tasted anywhere else, not even in a developed city like H City. After asking, she quickly took another sip.

Xu Ke also laughed when she saw it, looked at the steaming cup of tea on the table, reached out to take it, and took a sip. Li Kui had never seen such a scene before, and was a little restrained. Seeing the other two naturally taking the tea from the woman, she followed suit.

The woman couldn't help but chuckle when she saw the three girls drinking tea obediently. "This tea, the recipe is not allowed to be passed on to others. It was made by our head chef. It has the effect of soothing the liver and strengthening the spleen, and refreshing the spirit. As for one of the ingredients, I can reveal it to you."

There was some hope in the eyes of several people.

"You guess first."

"Hey, how could this be!" The three of them exclaimed in unison, "This fragrance is so unique, how could we have guessed it!"

The woman looked at another place outside the tea room with a deeper gaze, then turned around and smiled, "It's a special liquid made with camellia and osmanthus. As for how it's made, I can't tell you."

After hearing the answer, the three of them immediately looked at the woman with admiration, "I guess the head of the family must be a very powerful person."

The woman nodded, "Indeed."

Passing through the corridor on the left, she came to a house with unknown number of entrances. They were all ancient buildings, with the main house being at most two stories high. There was a door on each side, allowing people to walk freely, but the main door in the middle was closed. She followed the sound and carefully walked around to the corridor on the left, passed through the first door, and looked out to see a pond in the courtyard. There were some yellow leaves floating on the surface, which was an ugly brown color. The water in the pond was green, and it was obvious that it had been abandoned for many years. The left door connected to the corridor to the other side. She did not walk into the courtyard, but walked to the left.

The sound seemed to be getting closer and closer. It was the voice of a woman speaking, and that voice did not sound like the woman she had seen before. Shen Zhao then felt danger. Then she heard a man coughing lightly, and then there was no movement. She turned around and wanted to run. This Dongling Pharmacy was strange. If she knew something, it would be like being in trouble and she would never have peace. Besides, she had just died once. If she got into trouble again this time, how would she have the chance to find answers for herself?

Although she didn't know whether she could see what was ahead, she had an intuition that if she didn't run now, it would be too late.

But it was too late.

At the moment when the voice disappeared, Shen Zhao turned around, and a tall masked woman appeared behind him. She said nothing, and stabbed Shen Zhao with a silver needle. This body was extremely flexible, and Shen Zhao was very familiar with silver needles. After dodging several times, the woman showed surprise and moved more fiercely. Shen Zhao was originally a sports student, and difficult movements were no problem, but he was not a martial artist. Under the attack of the woman, he quickly showed signs of weakness, and there were many flaws. Of course, the woman accurately seized the gaps that appeared. Shen Zhao felt a pain behind his neck, and he knew that he could not dodge again this time. His eyelids were heavy, his mind was in a mess, and his eyes went black and he fell straight to the ground, but he did not fall directly on the stiff stone floor, but fell into the woman's arms.

The woman stared at the girl in her arms with a complicated expression, hesitated for a moment, and then dragged her into the room. A breeze blew on the corridor, making the green bamboos rustle. The sunlight was cast on the bluestone road, mottled. Everything seemed so peaceful and quiet, as if nothing had happened.

The woman placed Shen Zhao on a chair and tied her hands behind her back with a rope. After she was done, she looked at the man hidden in the shadows and said, "Master, what shall we do with this girl?"

"How did she get in?" a cold voice sounded.

The woman frowned. "Maybe it was Juhong who was too bored recently and did something like this again."

"Go and search her for anything."

Shen Zhao was wearing casual clothes, and at first glance she looked like a young girl. The woman quickly searched her pocket and found her student ID card and handed it to the man.

The man stretched out a bare arm, pinched the ID between his fingers, and looked at both sides. "It's Deyan's student. This reminds me of something. That person seems to be from Deyan as well, right?"

"Are you talking about the one from the Mu family?"

"Who else would it be?"

"But he doesn't have much time left."

After hearing this, the man laughed in the room, saying without reservation, "Why do you make such a guess?"

Recently, a batch of goods was intercepted, which caused many casualties. He was also ambushed and seriously injured in the incident. Because of his injury, his subordinates kidnapped the successor of the Huadan Needle School without saying hello to him. However, he recovered a lot because of this. Now he has the energy to understand the recent news. Li Cheng thought that without Zhao Qing, his personal doctor, Mu Yanchen would certainly not live long. Everyone knows that Mu Yanchen is relying on Zhao Qing to survive.

The woman looked out the window. "Do you remember a medical genius who appeared in the early years?"

"Why? Is it related to that person?"

"You may not know, but those of us in this industry know it very well. That person... everyone in our industry is paying close attention to him."

Li Cheng threw the student ID card out, and he sat up, revealing his face from the shadows. He looked handsome and resolute, with only an old scar from his eyebrow to the corner of his eye, which had turned white and added a fierce aura for no reason. At this moment, his whole body was relaxed, and his eyes were mocking, "What does your profession have to do with medicine? It's good enough that you don't poison people to death."

"That being said, medicine and poison are inseparable..."

"Then go on, what happened to that person?"

"That person showed her talent in her early years, but then she disappeared. After a while, just recently, people in the industry said she was dead and drowned. We then learned that she was not practicing medicine during this period but was working in a pharmaceutical company doing research and development."

"This person is interesting. What does he have to do with the one from the Mu family?"

"The master has captured Zhao Qing, but according to my observations over the past few days, that person has no ability to save that person, so that person will die sooner or later. But before, I thought that that person had a glimmer of hope, relying on that genius, but that genius has also been drowned, so the person from the Mu family is nothing to be afraid of. According to the information from the insider, that person is now living in the area."

The woman's words were self-evident, and naturally allowed Li Chengyi to seize the opportunity to pursue the man and pull him down from the altar.

Li Cheng laughed wantonly after hearing this, "That's really God helping me. Although I'm still injured, it's possible to pull that sick guy down. I want him to lie on the ground and beg for mercy!"

When he thought of what Mu Yanchen had done to him back then, he couldn't help but clench his fists, making a rattling sound.

He stared at the woman, his eyes filled with chilling indifference, "Have you heard what he's doing here?"

The woman shook her head. "I don't know the details. I just know that after he came here, he stayed in the hotel and never went out."

"That's really strange."

With a soft moan, Li Cheng looked in the direction of Shen Zhao and glanced at the woman, "Your skills are getting worse and worse. You woke up a little girl so quickly."

The woman was also surprised. She remembered that she had stabbed the right spot. Could it be that it was off? She stared at Shen Zhao warily.

Shen Zhao slowly opened her eyes, her gaze fixed on the masked woman in the room and the fierce and handsome man sitting shirtless on the couch at the other end. A large area of ​​his body was bandaged, revealing a striking tattooed arm. She was surprised for a moment, but she did not act panicked. "Who are you? Why did you tie me up?"

"How did you get here?" the woman asked coldly.

"I was traveling here with three other people. We happened to pass by this shop and came in out of curiosity. The woman at the counter took my companions to have tea, but I didn't go. A lot of time had passed, so I came here by myself. I went here because I heard voices. It was not intentional."

The woman raised her student ID card and said, "Shen Zhao, a student of Class 36 of Deyan High School, but you saw something you shouldn't have seen."

Shen Zhao moved her hands and found that she was tied up, but this time the method was much more professional than Yuan Hongwei's, and she couldn't get free no matter what she did, "You can't say that..."

After listening for a long time, Li Chengyi knew how Shen Zhao got in, and couldn't help laughing, "Go on, don't be afraid of her."

The woman was unhappy, "Master! How could you..."

Li Cheng glanced at her coldly, and the woman fell silent.

Shen Zhao continued, "First, I didn't mean to break in. Second, if you hadn't tied me up, I wouldn't have been able to find this place." Shen Zhao looked around. The windows were airtight and the lights were on, but she couldn't find the door. It was obvious that this was not an ordinary way to get in. She was afraid that a trap would be triggered. "Third," she looked at Li Chengyi and glanced at the bandages on his body, "You were seriously injured. This doctor helped you a lot, but he overlooked one thing."

Li Chengyi didn't look directly at Shen Zhao at first, thinking that she was just a student, and it didn't matter even if she saw him. They were like two parallel lines, and would never have any intersection in the future. Letting her go could save a lot of unnecessary trouble. But when he heard Shen Zhao say this, his eyes became sharp, as if his secret had been discovered, and he became sensitive.

Although his expression had not changed much, the woman, who had been by his side for many years, could still feel that the aura around him had changed. She could not help but look at Shen Zhao in surprise. Could it be that what she said was true?

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