After a cup of tea, Pei Yuanshan recovered.
Looking at the Luban lock in his hand, he hesitated for a moment and then put it in his arms.
Looking again, Qi Ze and that man had already gone far away on horseback.
Su Xueying stood beside Pei Yuanshan and looked at him worriedly: "Master Pei, are you okay?"
Pei Yuanshan stepped forward and held Su Xueying's hand, his eyes full of tenderness: "Don't worry, I'm fine, I will leave for Beijing soon, you are right, there are many famous doctors in Beijing, this little poison is nothing."
Su Xueying blushed and lowered her head slightly: "You also got Lu Yunzheng's things. I'm afraid my reputation will be ruined. Since you want to go back to Beijing, can I go with you?"
Pei Yuanshan nodded: "I will go to your house to propose marriage tomorrow."
Su Xueying smiled sweetly and buried her face in Pei Yuanshan's arms, not noticing the sarcastic smile in Pei Yuanshan's eyes.
"Do you know the woman with the apron just now?"
Su Xueying thought about it for a long time and shook her head gently: "The most common person around Lu Yunzheng is Qi Ze. I haven't heard that he has any powerful maids. I guess he is just a bandit who took advantage of the situation to rob."
Liu Qiaoer never showed her face from beginning to end, and her voice was deliberately low. Pei Yuanshan only saw the exquisite crossbow in her hand, and that she knew how to use poison.
Nor did he think of her as an ordinary maid.
"When I return to the capital someday, I will definitely find out her origins. This woman is not simple. If I don't use her for my own benefit, she will die."
Su Xueying hugged Pei Yuanshan's arms tightly. She didn't care about anything else. She just wanted to be with this man.
Besides, Liu Qiaoer took Qi Ze away and did not return to the city, but went to a nearby dilapidated temple.
Qi Ze was stabbed several times. If he didn't get timely treatment, he would have bled to death.
By the time they entered the dilapidated temple, Qi Ze had already fainted.
Liu Qiaoer took out the medicine and scalpel from the space, cleaned the wound, sutured it, applied medicine and bandaged it, all in one go.
Just as Liu Qiaoer wiped the sweat from her forehead, exhaled a breath, and was about to take a rest.
In her peripheral vision, there was a figure always behind her.
"who?"
Lu Yunzheng sat in a wheelchair at the entrance of the dilapidated temple and no one knew how long he had been there.
The equipment Liu Qiaoer had just used were all modern devices, and she was so nervous about Qi Ze's health that she didn't even notice someone coming.
Seeing that it was Lu Yunzheng, she slowly let out a sigh of relief: "How long have you been here?"
Lu Yunzheng had an uneasy look on his face, and he stared at Liu Qiaoer with eyes as sharp as a sword, wanting to stab her without hiding the slightest bit.
"How did you get that box?"
Lu Yunzheng answered the question irrelevantly. What he cared about most was the evidence in the Luban Lock. He didn't expect that Liu Qiaoer got it, and he didn't expect that she sold it to Pei Yuanshan.
"I, I just went back home to look for something that day and found it by chance."
Liu Qiaoer looked at Lu Yunzheng's beautiful face which turned hideous and she couldn't help but take a step back.
Lu Yunzheng gnashed his teeth in hatred: "Then do you know how important that thing is to me and to our Lu family?"
Liu Qiaoer's scalp felt a little numb. There was an incense table behind her. She had nowhere to retreat, so she wanted to find a gap to crawl into.
"I, I also wanted to save Qi Ze."
Lu Yunzheng opened his eyes wide in anger, clenched his fists in anger, and veins bulged.
"Qize, ten Qizes are not enough to match that box."
Liu Qiaoer disagreed with this statement and said, "Why? Everyone has only one life. Your Lu family's life is a life, but Qi Ze's life is not a life. Why should you use his life to exchange for your Lu family's? Is it just because he is your servant... This is not fair."
Lu Yunzheng was so angry that he really wanted to strangle Liu Qiaoer to death. No, it would be a pity if she died. He wanted to cut her into pieces.
At this moment, Liu Qiaoer suddenly took out another identical Lu Ban lock from her sleeve pocket and handed it to Lu Yunzheng.
"I'll give it back to you. Keep the important things for yourself to avoid endangering other people's lives."
Lu Yunzheng looked at the Luban lock in Liu Qiaoer's hand in shock and asked incredulously, "How come you have an identical box?"
Liu Qiaoer blinked her innocent eyes and said, "Is this box difficult to make?"
Having said that, in front of Lu Yunzheng, Liu Qiaoer easily unlocked the Lu Ban lock, opened the box, and placed the evidence inside in front of Lu Yunzheng.
But the medicine in the box to destroy the evidence was missing.
Lu Yunzheng looked Liu Qiaoer up and down in confusion: "What is your relationship with the Jiangnan Tang family?"
"What Tang family? That Jiangnan?" Liu Qiao'er was confused. "I'm just smart. I've never been out of Fengxin County."
Smart? Lu Yunzheng was also smart. He watched the Tang family lock the Luban lock and never opened it again.
Moreover, the Tang family also said that there was only one of this thing in the world, and if Lu Yunzheng did not have a connection with the Tang family, they would not have given it to him.
But this Lu Ban lock, which was described as very mysterious by the Tang family, was like a toy in this girl's hands. She took it apart, closed it again, and threw it into Lu Yunzheng's arms.
"Don't worry, I'm not that stupid. I can't possibly give such an important thing to that senior official. Besides, the box I gave him is poisonous. Once opened, the poison inside can kill at least a cow."
A smug smile appeared on Liu Qiaoer's pretty little face.
This thing is basically a toy in modern times. If you put it next to a computer, you can find the key to unlock it using just a program. Moreover, she can use 3D printing technology to copy an identical one in minutes.
Liu Qiaoer breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that Lu Yunzheng's complexion had finally gotten better.
"I did a good job of diverting trouble. The officials in the capital will not trouble us anymore. Everyone knows that the evidence is in the hands of Pei, so they will look for him if they want to find trouble."
Lu Yunzheng recovered from his rage to calmness, and he was a little slow to react for a moment. The expression on his face was awkward, and he still couldn't force a smile at Liu Qiaoer. He just had a expressionless face, which made Liu Qiaoer feel a little embarrassed.
"Next time you act, remember to consult with me."
Liu Qiao'er shrugged: "Then you didn't even discuss it with me."
Lu Yunzheng's eyes suddenly became sharp, and he frowned at Liu Qiao'er: "How dare you."
Liu Qiaoer pouted, feeling a little aggrieved, and said unconvincedly: "I am no longer your Lu family's maid, you can't control me."
Lu Yunzheng was so angry at Liu Qiaoer that he pursed his lips, but he couldn't say a word in rebuttal.
Liu Qiaoer pointed at Qi Ze again and said, "I'll give you fifty taels for his wound medicine. Remember to return it to me."
Speaking of silver, Lu Yunzheng was a little short of breath, and said stubbornly: "Didn't you extort two thousand taels from Pei Yuanshan?"
Liu Qiaoer quickly protected her purse: "That is the money I earned with my own intelligence. It has nothing to do with you. You are yours and I am mine. Let's not interfere with each other."
Lu Yunzheng sighed deeply: "Okay, I'll take the blame, and I'll pay you back later."
"That's more like it." Liu Qiaoer looked at Lu Yunzheng sitting in a wheelchair, and thought that today's events must have been planned by him, so she kindly advised.
"Your legs need to be healed, otherwise you will become disabled in the future."
Lu Yunzheng stared at Liu Qiaoer steadily and said, "If you hadn't provoked Su Xueying, I wouldn't have to work so hard."