The Splendid Brocade of the Painting Physician – Chapter 131

Chapter 131: To Let You Die Understanding

“Xie Zhen, what hatred do I have with you that you would want to hunt me down?”

After a long while, Chen Shuling finally managed to ask, enduring the pain in his wrist.

“Does Your Highness still remember a sentence I said at the Pure Conversation Gathering? Saving one life is not compassion, saving a hundred lives is not compassion, universal salvation is true compassion!”

“There is a fierce tiger in the mountains, should we save it or not?”

Chen Shuling didn’t answer, but he probably understood what Xiao Jinyu meant.

“A tyrannical and bloodthirsty person like Your Highness, the longer you live, the more people will die. Tell me, should a person like you die?”

By the end, Xiao Jinyu’s voice was filled with cold anger, disdain, resentment, and a murderous aura.

Chen Shuling began to feel scared, and he turned his pleading gaze to Gao Changgong.

“Prince of Lanling, are you going to be a man who breaks his word? If you save me today, I will repay you tenfold in the future!”

Gao Changgong seemed to not hear, ignoring him completely.

Lu Yu couldn’t help but sneer: “Your Highness, please stop lying. If you were to get out alive, you would skin us alive! Tenfold repayment? When have you ever shown kindness?”

Chen Shuling’s face instantly turned ashen, filled with resentment, he clenched his fists tightly.

A gust of night wind blew through the forest, occasionally a few mournful cries of crows could be heard, and a crescent moon hid behind the clouds.

Under the reflection of the firelight, the young man in black clothes, his figure swaying in the wind, looked like a mountain spirit, deciding life and death!

“To let Your Highness die understanding, I can let you see who I am?”

After Xiao Jinyu finished speaking, she raised her hand and removed the veil hat from her head.

And almost as soon as the veil hat was removed, Chen Shuling’s eyes widened, his entire body seemed to freeze, filled with shock and disbelief.

“Han Zigao?”

At this moment, Xiao Jinyu was still dressed in black men’s clothing, her black hair like clouds fluttering in the wind, but her face, even the red plum blossoms on the mountain and the boundless moonlight would be ashamed to hide their beauty.

He had seen this face before, when he and his father had just returned from Northern Zhou, there was a banquet in the palace, Emperor Wen brought the General of the Right Guard, Han Zigao, to the banquet together. At that time, he regretted that this was not a woman’s face.

No, Han Zigao was already dead, killed by his father!

“Who are you? Are you seeking revenge for Han Zigao? If you want revenge, you should find my father, why are you looking for me?”

Chen Shuling asked a series of questions in panic.

Xiao Jinyu just slightly curved her lips into a cold, mocking smile.

He seemed to have seen this kind of cold, even contemptuous and mocking look somewhere…

“No, you are… you are the granddaughter of the Xiao family… you are Xiao Jinyu!”

Suddenly, the day he brought Xiao Jinyu into the residence and forced her to drink a cup of aphrodisiac wine flashed in his mind. The young lady’s face turned pale and her neck crimson after the drug took effect. At that moment, he began to suspect that this young lady was disguised, never thought…

“Never thought you would actually look like Han Zigao… no, you are even more beautiful than him…”

More noble, dignified, and inviolably proud than him!

If he had known this earlier, how could he have let her go to Gao Changgong!

Otherwise, there would be no disaster today!

Suddenly thinking of something, he looked at Gao Changgong again.

“So, what Dai Wen saw, saying that the Prince of Lanling had obtained an unparalleled beauty, was her!”

“The person you desperately protected at the Pure Conversation Gathering was her!”

“The person you wanted from my residence was also her!”

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“That unparalleled beauty was her! The Divine Physician Lady was her! Even Xie Zhen of the Chenjun Xie Clan was her!”

Chen Shuling muttered to himself.

The Prince of Lanling didn’t deny it, just looked at Xiao Jinyu and smiled slightly, then reached out and pulled her over, lest this Prince of Shixing suddenly went crazy and hurt her!

Chen Shuling couldn’t believe it: This was just a young lady, how could she have such great ability, playing him in the palm of her hand!

“Xiao Jinyu, what do you want? Whatever you want, I can give it to you, even the throne, as long as you don’t kill me today!”

“I was ignorant in the past, but I just wanted to have you, I never wanted your life!”

Xiao Jinyu laughed softly again.

“Your Highness, you just wanted to kill me! And now you know all my secrets, do you think you can still live?”

One sentence chilled Chen Shuling’s heart: It turned out to be a femme fatale!

Sure enough, you can’t offend a woman who is too beautiful…

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Chen Shuling suddenly laughed loudly and said, “You don’t dare to kill me, if you kill me, how will you explain it to my father? Even if I have committed some unforgivable crime, the only one in this world who can punish me is my father!

Otherwise, if my father knows that I died at your hands, you will only be buried with me!”

Facing Chen Shuling’s threat, Xiao Jinyu just turned sideways and cast her gaze towards Yue Ying, the boy who had followed them.

Yue Ying drew his bow like a full moon, pointing it directly at Chen Shuling.

Chen Shuling’s expression changed drastically, he turned and ran, in his panic, he stumbled and fell, rolling down the slope, and crashed into a tombstone.

A sharpened bamboo stick protruded from his chest, he looked up and saw that the tombstone read:

Tomb of Xie An, Grand Tutor of Jin!

Gao Changgong, Xiao Jinyu, and several guards came over and saw that the bamboo tip had pierced Chen Shuling’s chest, and blood was gushing out.

Chen Shuling’s eyes were wide open, gradually turning ashen.

He looked at Xiao Jinyu and Gao Changgong again, blood gurgling from his mouth, as if he wanted to say something, but couldn’t utter a word.

“Although the world is vast, if one has a good heart and conscience, even ordinary people can be sages.”

“Chen Shuling, if there is a next life, I hope you can understand this truth!”

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Seeing that Chen Shuling was no longer moving, Yue Ying rushed forward, stabbing the sharp arrow in his hand into Chen Shuling’s chest again, and punching him fiercely, until he was exhausted, he burst into tears.

Listening to the boy’s cries, Xiao Jinyu, Gao Changgong, and the guards present couldn’t help but feel a pang of sadness in their hearts: Chen Shuling was dead, and it was his own fault, he received the punishment he deserved, but those who had been abused and killed by him could never come back.

“Yue Ying, your revenge has been taken!”

Xiao Jinyu could only sigh and say this, then turned her gaze to Xie An’s tomb, this was the tombstone of his Xie family ancestor.

It was a wordless stele. Legend has it that after the Battle of Fei River, Grand Tutor Xie was eventually feared by the emperor, so he didn’t dare to write his achievements on the stele, so he erected this wordless stele, leaving his merits and demerits to be judged by future generations!

That was the most glorious time of the Xie family. The Chenjun Xie Clan, represented by Xie An and Xie Shang, one cultivated prestige and fame throughout Jiangzuo, the other held the power of the frontier, during the Eastern Jin Dynasty, they were as famous as the Langya Wang Clan, and they were glorious for three hundred years. During the Liu Song Dynasty, half of the officials in the court were descendants of the Xie family, it could be said that the entire family was noble and prominent in the court, just as Xie Xuan said ━ the descendants of the Xie family are like orchids and jade trees growing in front of the steps and in the courtyard!

She was the ninth generation descendant of Xie An, and the Xie family had actually declined in her generation…

Sure enough, prosperity leads to decline, is there nothing in this world that can last forever?

Xiao Jinyu suddenly lifted her clothes and knelt down in front of the tomb, and then remained silent for a long time.

Although Prince of Lanling was puzzled by her actions, he didn’t say anything, but silently accompanied her to pay homage to this great scholar of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

Gradually, the clouds dispersed, the dawn light appeared, the plum blossoms in the mountains looked like a red sea, and the fragrance was intoxicating.

“Your Highness, there seems to be another group of people coming up the mountain!” A guard who had been scouting the surroundings came to report.

Gao Changgong nodded and squatted down, gently placing his hand on Xiao Jinyu’s shoulder.

“A’yu, we should go. You still can’t be involved in the death of the Prince of Shixing. Just treat this as an accident, as if he was punished by heaven for tomb raiding and offending the deceased!”

“Let’s go! It’s time for your Southern Dynasty’s emperor to wake up!”

Xiao Jinyu nodded, quickly collected her thoughts, and went down another hidden mountain path with Prince of Lanling.

In order to avoid attracting attention, Prince of Lanling didn’t bring many guards this time, only five or six people, so it was inconvenient to have conflicts with too many troops.

After they left, Xiao Mohe quickly arrived at Meiling Ridge with Ma Rong, Chen Zhishen, Chen Zhonghua, and dozens of soldiers. After searching everywhere, they finally found Chen Shuling dead in front of Xie An’s tomb.

“General, the Prince of Shixing is dead. The cause of death is a bamboo stake. It should be that His Highness the Prince of Shixing accidentally fell and hit it while escaping. Besides that, there is also an arrow, but it seems to have been inserted after His Highness the Prince of Shixing died!”

“The Prince of Shixing committed many evil deeds, there are countless people who want to kill him. His Highness the Crown Prince has ordered that whoever kills him will be rewarded. Since the killer didn’t leave his name, we will not pursue it further!”

“Take the body of the Prince of Shixing back to the city, you all go back and receive your reward!”

“Yes!”