"Ah, our night pearl, why is our night pearl missing?" From the room of the chief eunuch of the imperial dining room, the old eunuch's heart-rending roar sounded, and then he ran out of the house to the backyard where his eunuchs were working, and angrily reprimanded: "Which little bastard stole our priceless night pearl, and obediently stood up for our family!" ”

The eunuchs who were working separately, you look at me, I look at you, you are a little puzzled, I don't know what is going on, and Meng Yan was expressionlessly mending a broken table in the corner of the courtyard, he was facing away from the old eunuch at this time and did not take his roar seriously. Under the orders of the old eunuch, several eunuchs who were his confidants began to rummage through the boxes and cabinets of all the eunuchs' residences at the scene to find the lost Night Pearl, including the few little eunuchs who had bullied Meng Yan before.

After a while, a "found" voice came from the side of the eunuchs' residence, and I saw the little eunuch who had been hit by Meng Yan and still had bruises running out of the residence with a transparent bead, and then he pointed to Meng Yan after handing the night pearl back to the old eunuch and said loudly that the night pearl was found under Meng Yan's pillow, and then the other eunuchs who were searching in the room ran out quickly to confirm the little eunuch's statement.

"Wow, you little slave really ate the bear's heart and leopard gall, stealing things and daring to steal to our family's head, it seems that if you don't give you a little bit of power, I'm afraid you can steal to the emperor's bedroom in the future!" The old eunuch angrily pointed at Meng Yan and scolded, while several other little eunuchs who had bullied Meng Yan secretly hid beside the old eunuch and snickered sinisterly. Hearing this, Meng Yan threw away the tools he was holding without any ups and downs, and then stood up and replied to the old eunuch word by word that he had not passed anything, and he also mentioned that if some despicable villains wanted to deliberately frame him so that he had no place in the palace, he had no way, and he finally yelled at the old eunuch, "There is no excuse for the crime you want to add, if you want to kill, you must scrape and listen to the respect."

"Oh, what a clever tongue, the despicable villain you kid said is probably yourself. It's really hard to prevent house thieves day and night, come on, call me! The old eunuch looked at the angry Meng Yan in front of him with contempt, and then several little eunuchs leaning next to him picked up a few sturdy wooden planks from the courtyard and rushed towards Meng Yan at the same time. Meng Yan tried to dodge and resist, but these little eunuchs were merciless one by one, and after barely resisting for a while at first, Meng Yan was knocked to the ground again by several people.

"If you steal our things, you dare to fight back, and beat our family hard!" With the old eunuch's order, several people sneered and waved the planks or sticks in their hands towards Meng Yan, who was lying on the ground and looked a little dazed.

At this moment, Ling Rui had just sneaked into the imperial dining room and happened to see this scene, he immediately took out a black face towel from his body to cover his mouth, and then quickly killed from the side, and before the few little eunuchs who rushed towards Meng Yan came to their senses, they were all sent flying several meters away with a few punches and kicks. The old eunuch panicked for a moment, hurriedly picked up a long knife from his side and slashed at Ling Rui, but where was he Ling Rui's opponent, after being kicked away by Ling Rui, he was hit hard by Ling Rui's chest and abdomen with more than ten consecutive punches.

The old eunuch fell to the ground spitting blood, and the other little eunuchs who were still watching the excitement before saw this situation and fled with their heads in their hands. Ling Rui glared angrily at the several eunuchs who had fallen to the ground and were wailing, and then he turned around and helped Meng Yan up, Meng Yan looked at Ling Rui with a haggard expression and then fell unconscious.

While Ling Rui focused his attention on Meng Yan, the old eunuch and the other little eunuchs who fell to the ground quickly got up and staggered out of the door of the imperial dining room.

Ling Rui heard the increasingly obvious footsteps outside the courtyard, he quickly carried the unconscious Meng Yan on his back, and then he gritted his teeth with a frown, and stepped forward to forcibly break out from the encirclement and interception of the guards. At this moment, the kind-hearted old eunuch who had been hiding behind the kitchen door to observe them and had rescued Meng Yan ran out in time to stop Ling Rui's too risky move, and then he said to Ling Rui that he knew that there was a secret passage in the imperial dining room that could go directly to the outside of the palace, which was a secret emergency passage built by the Wang clan of the previous dynasty for the emperor's refuge.

With the help of the old eunuch who did not leave his name to Ling Rui, Ling Rui successfully left the palace through a secret passage with Meng Yan on his back, and the other end of the secret passage was connected to a dry well in a corner of Chengdu City that was tightly covered by trees. When Ling Rui rediscovered the light of day with difficulty along the long ladder in the dry well, Gao Che, who was sitting on the stone bench next to the dry well and leisurely eating a basket of fruits, really startled him.

"Yo, Brother Ling is out, it's still a lot faster than I expected!" Gao Che said to Ling Rui with a wicked smile.

"Hehe, it seems that everything is expected by the senior brother, the eunuch uncle also boasted to me that he is the only one in Chengdu City who knows this secret way, and I even believe it." Ling Rui slowly put down Meng Yan on the grass and smiled at Gao Che with some helplessness and self-deprecation.

"Haha, okay, since Brother Ling has come back unharmed, then let's hurry back to the Thousand Medicine Hall. Presumably this one lying on the ground is Brother Meng, so let me carry him on his back this time. Gao Che deliberately pretended to be the first time he saw Meng Yan, and then he asked Ling Rui to help him get the basket of fruits, while he carried Meng Yan on his back and carefully put him into a carriage that had been parked on the side of the road for a long time. Ling Rui wanted to help drive the carriage himself, but he still hesitated to enter the carriage under the persuasion of Gao Che to boast of his better driving skills, and Gao Che sat in front of the carriage and drove the two of them who had returned safely to the Thousand Medicine Hall.

At night, after an afternoon of careful treatment by Chu Birou, Meng Yan slowly woke up from a coma, and the skin injuries on his body were also effectively treated, but for the reason for Meng Yan's internal and internal strength loss, Chu Birou guessed that this should be caused by the urging of a certain drug, but as for the specific drugs that can produce such an effect, she is currently a little clueless, and needs to give her time to look through the pharmacopoeia to find out.

"Brother Meng, have you slept? I'd like to talk to you. Ling Rui knocked on Meng Yan's door, but there was no response from the dark room. Meng Yan lay on the bed with his back to the door, his mind constantly flashing through the nightmarish experience he had experienced since he witnessed the murder of his entire family, tears streaming from the nineteen-year-old boy's eyes and wetting the pillow towel.

Although the accumulated emotions gradually burst out like boiling water, he still tried his best to suppress his involuntary sobbing sound from Ling Rui outside the door, and after a while, seeing that there was no response in the house, Ling Rui's figure reflected in the room through the window gradually disappeared. For this young man who once had great ambitions and strong self-esteem, he didn't know how to face these friends around him who had gone to great lengths for him in his current crippled appearance. Most importantly, he remembered the promise he had made to the beautiful woman he had considered the love of his life when he was in Yufeng Villa, and now, he resented how he could fulfill the promise he had made to her with his soulless body, even if those words might have been forgotten by Ouyang He, who had gradually become a belonger.

The night gradually deepened, Ling Rui came to Meng Yan's door again and knocked on the door without getting a response, and reluctantly returned to the room where he lived to sleep, and the fire in the inner courtyard of the entire Thousand Medicine Hall gradually disappeared with the passage of time, leaving only Xiao Wu to sit in the front hall with a sleepy oil lamp and keep vigil.

A black dexterous figure fell lightly from the roof of the medicine hall, and then cautiously sneaked into Meng Yan's room. Meng Yan couldn't fall asleep completely due to his heavy heart, and when he heard a strange noise in the room, he immediately became alert. By the sound he had heard, he could tell that the man had entered the room and walked straight to the table and sat down, and there was no sound.

"Meng Yan, the son of King Jin who used to be infinitely beautiful, has now become a lowly eunuch, if I were you, I wouldn't be able to sleep every day and every night." The black shadow looked at Meng Yan on the bed, and muttered in a shrill female voice.

"If you have anything to do, please tell me directly, otherwise your Excellency will please go back!" Meng Yan whispered to the black shadow behind him concisely.

"Heh, Meng Gongzi is really fast-talking, in fact, Gongzi doesn't have to be nervous, I'm not here to hurt you, I'm just here to say something on behalf of my master, if Meng Gongzi wants to take revenge in the future, and doesn't want to live a life like now, you can come to Shenyue Mountain Lingquan Cave Mansion to find us, my master is waiting for you at any time."

"Hmph, if you want to take revenge, I will take revenge myself, I don't need the mercy of others, Your Excellency is talking in vain." Meng Yan replied to the black shadow in a firm tone, "Please go back!" ”

"Hehehe, the person the master likes has never rejected us, I believe we will meet again!" The black shadow smiled in a low voice and then turned around and left Meng Yan's room. Meng Yan saw that there was no movement in the room, he lay on the bed and breathed a long sigh of relief, the suffocating sense of oppression emanating from the black shadow just now made him extremely nervous. He slowly stood up and walked to the table to pour a glass of water to drink, but suddenly found that there was a sheepskin map leading to the Nine Great Caves of Shenyue Mountain left on the table. Meng Yan subconsciously wanted to go out and throw it away immediately, but the moment his hand just touched the latch, somehow, he felt a little hesitant and hesitant in his heart. The hand reaching for the latch was retracted, and he mentally put the map into a yellow sachet that his mother had left for him, and then he turned around and drank a few glasses of water to force himself to calm himself down before lying back on the bed.

"Without internal strength and martial arts, what should I do to avenge this blood feud now that I am a wasteful person?" A few teardrops the size of beans slipped from the corners of Meng Yan's eyes, and extreme unwillingness and resentment filled his scarred heart. At this moment, he only had one thought, and that was to let the enemy who killed his entire family cry and die in his own hands.

Early the next morning, Gao Che and his lieutenant Feng Qianyi reluctantly bid farewell to Chu Birou, and he wanted to go back to the Xuanwuwei garrison to investigate who could poison him. After the two left, Meng Yan wore a black gauze masked hat and walked out of the room with a burden on his back expressionlessly, and only politely said hello after seeing Chu Birou, but Chu Birou walked up and gently asked Meng Yan how he felt or if he was unwell. Meng Yan replied "no" in a low mood, and after thanking Chu Birou, he walked out on the street alone.

"Meng Gongzi, you are not in good health and should not walk around the streets now, if there are any items that need to be purchased, I can ask Ling Gongzi to help you buy them." Chu Birou watched Meng Yan go to the street alone with his burden on his back, feeling a little confused and worried.

"No, he can't, and neither can you." Meng Yan turned around coldly and gradually walked out of her field of vision after finishing speaking to Chu Birou.

"Miss Chu, why are you here, have you seen where Brother Meng has gone? I didn't see him in his room. Ling Rui hurriedly ran out of the backyard and asked Chu Birou.

"Meng Gongzi, he ...... No, I haven't seen him today. Although Chu Birou wanted to inform Ling Rui of Meng Yan's whereabouts immediately, she suddenly recalled the firm and fearless look in Meng Yan's eyes when she left, and there seemed to be a voice in her heart that was trying her best to persuade her not to do this, and that voice gradually convinced her that Meng Yan really had something that he had to do. So before she could fully think about it in her heart, Chu Birou couldn't help but blurt out a lie to Ling Rui that might eventually affect Meng Yan's life.

Ling Rui still decided to go to the street to find Meng Yan because he was not relieved. When he walked into a small alley next to the medicine hall, Meng Yan was hiding in the corner behind him at this time, silently watching him who was extremely anxious. Finally, when Ling Rui disappeared in front of his eyes, Meng Yan closed his eyes and let out a long sigh, his fists clenched, and at the same time, he repeated a sentence in his heart like a drop of blood that he didn't dare to tell Ling Rui in person: "Good brother, I'm sorry, please forgive me!" ”