Chapter 41. Penal Department

Xiao Jifeng took me like a horse. Even though I was blindfolded, I could feel that we were drifting away from the official road, and the horses' hooves were raising dust. I was very wary at first, but gradually, sleepiness hit, and I really fell asleep in a daze by Xiao Jifeng.

I don't know how long it took, but I heard Xiao Jifeng's voice ringing in my ears. "Beauty, we're here."

Before I could finish speaking, I noticed his lips fall to the corners of my mouth. I was angry and hit him in the ribs with my elbow, but he had expected me to make this move, so he took me in his arms, gasped lightly, and smiled ambiguously with his lips against my cheek: "Beauty's temper is really not small, but the more you resist, the more I like Xiao!" It's better to wait until the business is done, and you and I will find a secluded place......" He paused, and put one hand on my lower abdomen. "How about getting to know each other better?"

"Downgrade!" I cursed, and hurriedly slapped his hand away.

He didn't do any more than that, and only chuckled twice. "What's wrong with being indecent? Beauty, you haven't seen my kung fu. If you have seen it, Xiao guarantees that you will miss me day and night, a beauty! ”

With that, he rolled over and dismounted, and then picked me off the horse, untying the strip of cloth that had been covering my eyes.

I slowly opened my eyes. The night was dark, and even the stars and moon were gone. I looked around and found that I was actually on the mountain, there are only two mountains near Shengjing City, one is Lingxiu Mountain, the other is Yunhua Mountain, and these two mountains have a deep relationship with Fengli's faction.

"Let's go." Xiao Jifeng took my hand, and I shook it vigorously but didn't get rid of it.

He led me into a house that was pitch black, except for the candle flame jumping in one room. He led me into the house and led me to the bed. In front of the couch, a purple curtain hangs, and a slender figure can be faintly seen lying on the bed.

Xiao Jifeng lit a few more lamps and candles, lifted the curtains on both sides, and hooked them with tent hooks. I looked over to the man on the couch. It was a woman with a beautiful face, about twenty-five or sixteen years old, with her eyebrows slightly raised, her eyes closed, her lips slightly open, and an indescribable charm.

However, her face was as pale as paper at the moment, her breathing was weak, and even if she was covered with a thick quilt, she could not feel the warmth of a living person at all.

I looked at Xiao Jifeng with an inquiring eye.

"Trauma. You can see it at a glance. He dropped the sentence very casually and stepped out of the house. I was speechless in my heart, Xiao Jifeng took the risk to let me save this woman, then she should be extremely important to him, but how could he have such an attitude?

I couldn't think of an answer, so I didn't think much about it, leaned down, and called softly: "Girl? Girl? But there was no answer.

I had to lift the quilt, but I gasped. This...... How is this possible?!

The woman was dressed in a crimson gauze dress, which was extremely light, and through the fabric, the woman's snow skin was clearly visible, and only the key parts were short silk trousers. What shocked me was the scars on the woman's body. The scars were clearly sword wounds, criss-crossed, shallow and deep. The shallow ones only cut through the epidermis, while the deep ones are clearly visible. Individual wounds are apparently located in the aorta.

Judging from the dark red color of the wound, it has been a long time since the woman fell from the wound. If it were an ordinary person, if he was injured like this, he would die in an instant. But she still has a breath of air, and if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't have believed it!

It's just that since she has been injured for a long time, why does the wound on her body show no signs of healing, no matter how deep or shallow?

I took my nerve and took a closer look, and found that the edges of each wound were blue except for the dark red blood of the wound. Cyan? Is it poisonous?

She must have been poisoned, and the wound did not heal for a long time.

Fingers on her wrist veins, and it was found that her qi and blood were stagnant, but it was not caused by injury or illness, it should be artificial.

I thought about it for a while and understood: someone must have sealed her bloodline with internal force, otherwise she would have died of blood loss according to her body injury.

I continued to check her pulse and found that there was no sign of poisoning, but the wound was obviously blue, thinking that the poison had just been resolved.

So what I have to do is actually not difficult, but to clean her wound, and stitch up the deeper wound. It's just that there are hundreds of wounds on her body that need to be stitched up, large and small, and some of them also hurt internal organs, which are obviously not something I can deal with this time, at least two more times.

Although it is not difficult to heal, I still need to be cautious, after all, her body injury must be unusual, and she has been poisoned.

I probed her pulse again, and I was a little sure that her breathing was weak, but it was steady, and it should not be difficult to survive three treatments. So she made up her mind and decided to deal with the irrelevant wounds first, and only when she recovered gradually could she bear the sutures of the wounds in the vital places.

After a busy night, when the day was about to dawn, I finally treated most of the wounds except for the vital parts. I just wanted to take a breath, but I heard someone knock on the door.

"How?" Xiao Jifeng's voice sounded outside the door, sounding a little tired.

Could it be that he kept a vigil all night?

I packed the medicine box, helped the woman get dressed, and tucked the quilt before I opened the door.

Xiao Jifeng glanced at me, entered the room, and probed the woman's snort. "The breath has indeed recovered somewhat." He spoke without a hint of emotion. As he spoke, he pulled me up. "Let's go."

My eyes were blindfolded by him again. The horses below him were whipped by him, neighed, spread their hooves and ran forward.

"She's got too many wounds, and I'll need to do it twice." I said tiredly. When he heard it, he was silent. I wondered. "Why don't you ask me how she's doing?"

He spoke, and there was no previous ruffian in his tone, but it was extremely cold: "Whether she is in good condition or not, it has nothing to do with me. ”

"Really? So you've been keeping watch outside the door all night? "I didn't expect this Xiao Jifeng to be a duplicitous master.

"It's none of your business." After spitting out those four words, he was speechless.

I pouted, he's the same attitude as someone who asks for help, so I don't have to worry about it.

The circuit was more tired than when I came, and I slept very deeply by Xiao Jifeng until Xiao Jifeng woke me up.

When I opened my eyes, I saw that the strip of blindfold had been removed by him at some point. In front of him was a high gate, which was opened. He helped me off my horse and took the routine questioning before entering the city.

It was still early, and there were only a few old men in the city who swept the streets. Xiao Jifeng galloped all the way, and finally sent me to the palace gate.

I got off the horse and stood still, brushed my windblown hair, glanced at Xiao Jifeng, who was expressionless, pursed my lips, turned around, and was about to walk towards the palace gate, but suddenly heard a sentence: "Thank you." ”

I was stunned, turned around, and saw Xiao Jifeng's eyes gloomy, but quite serious. He...... Are you thanking me?

I tugged at the corners of my mouth: "It's just part of the deal." ”

His lips moved, and he hesitated to speak, "Do you know that Ling Niankong has been looking for a way to recall Leng Qingqian?" ”

My heart skipped a beat, and my eyes looked at him again.

He hooked the corners of his lips, but there was not a smile on his face. "Otherwise, you would have died at his hands a long time ago, and you would still be alive today?" He took a few steps forward and continued: "You lied to him, if you hadn't occupied Leng Qingqian's body, he would have killed you with a sword." Do you really think that you have so much value for him? He only left you behind to make sure you were safe. When he finds a way, will you still be alive? ”

Listening to his words, my body became colder and colder. "But Xiuli said that she was cold and shallow...... Can't come back. ”

Xiao Jifeng snorted coldly. "The orthodox method is not good, but there are many crooked ways. So......" he paused. "You'd better do what you have to do according to the deal, then I'll help you get out, otherwise it's only a matter of time before you die in Ling Nian's empty hands."

I don't remember exactly what he said after that, only the sentence "It's only a matter of time before you die in Ling Nian's empty hands" echoed in my mind repeatedly.

Yan Linxuan, you've thought of these for a long time, haven't you? You have taken possession of the original owner's body, causing the original owner's soul to disappear and cannot be recalled. Ling Niankong loves the original owner so much, even if there is only a slight possibility, he will do everything possible to find her back. He is keeping your life now, but he is just letting you keep this body......

When I came to the hospital in a daze, I tried my best to drive away the negativity. Since Ling Niankong doesn't move me for the time being, that day still has to be lived.

After a busy night's work, I was really hungry, so I went to the kitchen to find some food to pad my stomach, and then I was relieved. The original owner's body is really weak.

When hunger is suppressed, sleepiness becomes even more intense. Fortunately, there are not many patients in the hospital now, and only those doctors can cope with it, so I decided to go to the back of the hospital to find an empty bedroom to rest for a while. But he didn't want to just step into the back door, but he heard a call behind him: "Lord Lin!" ”

I turned my head when I heard that. "Xiao Qin?"

He stepped forward a few steps forward and said hurriedly: "Someone from the Criminal Department has come, saying that he wants to see the chief medical officer of the medical workshop, and he is now waiting in the front hall!" ”

"The Criminal Department? Is there a key offender who needs to be healed? ”

"Eighty percent is, but it seems to me that people don't look good, so adults are still more cautious." Qin Wen reminded carefully.

"It's okay, everyone is acting according to the rules, and it's okay." I said this, but in my heart I secretly calculated that ordinary prisoners are usually ignored when they get sick, and only important prisoners who are related to major cases will be treated like this.

Before the establishment of the medical workshop, the errand of medical treatment had always been the responsibility of the middle and low-grade imperial doctors, but now this errand has been delegated to the medical workshop.

According to the usual practice, if there is a prisoner who needs medical treatment, it is usually sent to the hospital by the criminal department. And this time, the Criminal Department actually sent someone, which shows that this prisoner should be extremely important. Qin Wen reminded him well, and he had to be cautious.

When he came to the front hall, he saw that a civil official was already waiting, and when he heard the sound, he turned around, gave a slight salute, and said coldly: "In the lower part of the Criminal Department, under the order of Lord Yuan Zaidao, the secretary of the Criminal Department, I specially invite Lin Medical Officer to enter the prison of the Criminal Department to diagnose and treat an important prisoner, and the official document is here." ”

After speaking, he handed me the official document and flashed me a token. The content of the official document is consistent with what the official said, and it is also stamped with the seal of the criminal department. And the token is hexagonal, with the word "punishment" on it, which should be the order letter of the criminal department. But for some reason, I had a trace of doubt in my heart.

"Doctor Lin?" The official urged: "Lord Yuan ordered that this prisoner is extremely important, and the chief medical officer of the medical workshop needs to personally rescue him. Please also ask Doctor Lin to go with me quickly, otherwise it will not only be a humble position, but even you will ......."

Hearing him say this, I had to force myself to dispel my doubts. Since people have official documents and tokens, there should be no mistake. So he hurriedly responded, carried a medicine box and followed him to the prison of the Criminal Department.

The prison of the Criminal Department is located in the northwest corner of the official office of the Criminal Department, covering an area of considerable proportions. The cell leader's surname is Sun, and he is a short, stocky middle-aged man with a shrewd and calculating face.

He read the official documents and the letter, and then someone checked the things I was carrying, and then said lazily: "That prisoner is involved in an important case, and you two can only enter alone." He pointed to the officer's forehead. What do you do, what do you do? Then he glanced at me meaningfully. You come in with me! ”

Scold! It's just a cell head, and the shelf is not small!

I thought as I followed the cell boss inward.

The light in the prison was extremely dim, and each cell had only a small window at the top of the room, and the entire prison was filled with a damp and rancid smell. It's still winter, and the smell is so bad, if it's summer...... I didn't want to think about it any longer, so I hurriedly walked a few steps to follow the cell leader.

There is one thing that is different from what I imagined: the prison is extremely spacious, the passage between the cells is three or four meters wide, and the minimum of each cell is at least fifteen or sixteen square meters.

Seeing this scene, my heart was at ease, because although I always gave people the impression that I was not afraid of heaven and earth in my previous life, for as long as I can remember, I was extremely afraid of dark and narrow spaces, which should be regarded as claustrophobia. I had a psychology alumnus I had a good relationship with when I was in college, and he said it had something to do with an experience I had as a child......

Just as my thoughts drifted, the cell boss who was walking in front of me stopped, faced a cell, pointed inward, and said, "That's him." ”