Cang Lan Dao - Chapter 26.5

Chapter 26.5
This Servant Is Liu Xiniang

Luo Wanqing froze, then hurriedly rushed to the woman. The woman had all her bones broken, paralyzed on the ground.

Luo Wanqing panicked and cleared the woman’s hair that covered her face, revealing a hideous face. She looked at that face and opened her mouth but could not make any sound.

The monk who was guarding the temple walked out from the main hall. He looked at Luo Wanqing suspiciously, “Miss recognizes this person?”

Luo Wanqing couldn’t speak. She hugged Zhang Jiuran, tears fluttering down her face as she kept nodding.

The monk sighed in relief and only said, “This person has been here for a few days. When she came, she told us she was waiting for someone. If she died, she asked us to carry her away. We don’t dare to move her and only give her medicine every day. It seems that Miss is the person she is waiting for. That would be the best.”

“Many …… thanks.” Luo Wanqing slowly returned to her senses as she finally made a sound. She then realized she couldn’t bring Zhang Jiuran to the Inspection Department. She had just entered the Inspection Department, and her bringing Zhang Jiuran in an unclear manner would be dangerous for both of them. She took a deep breath, calmed down, thanked the monk, and asked for the nearest medical center, then picked up Zhang Jiuran and rushed to the medical center with her.

The doctor was still in consultation, but Luo Wanqing carried the person in and said urgently, “Doctor, I will put the horse here. Please take care of this girl first. I will come to pay tomorrow.”

“Miss ……” The doctor was trying to speak, but Luo Wanqing inserted the bloody blade into the table before calmly looking at him and asking, “Okay?”

The doctor dared not to speak. Luo Wanqing glanced at Zhang Jiuran, who was placed on the bed by her. She pursed her lips and mentioned a list of medicinal herbs to the doctor. “Use these medicines for her first, and I’ll come back to see her tomorrow. I’m not a bad person, don’t worry. If anything happens, you can go to the Inspection Department,” Luo Wanqing drew her blade and walked out the door, “and look for Liu Xiniang.” After saying that, she carried her blade and walked towards the Inspection Department.

With the cold wind on her face, she calmly walked the wide streets of Dongdu. March was the season of peach blossoms. While smelling the fragrance of the flowers in the wind, she walked back to the Inspection Department and knocked on the gate.

Every time she knocked, she gouged at her own heart. Before, she had always thought; she wanted to enter the Inspection Department, take revenge, have power, and protect everyone. For these, she would do whatever it took, regardless of life or death.

However, on this night, when she hugged Zhang Jiuran, who had long ago lost all senses, and when she received that woman’s blessings and gifts, she suddenly realized. She wanted to come to the Inspection Department, not for revenge, not for power, but to live this life in a good way. She wants to take revenge and demands a share of justice to quell her hatred and then live this life well. Satisfactorily and successfully. With a cry, she banged at the door of her destiny.

Soon enough, the door opened, and the one who opened was Zhu Que. Luo Wanqing looked at him seriously and saluted, “Greetings, Ambassador Zhu Que. I’m back.”

Zhu Que seemed to have received some instruction. Seeing her teary but calm face, he didn’t ask but cautiously said, “Come with me to pay respects to the Department Master, shall we?”

Luo Wanqing didn’t say anything as she nodded and followed behind Zhu Que. She walked through the nine corridors until she reached the deepest part of the Inspection Department. After stepping into a small courtyard, she saw people coming and going carrying bright lights.

At the end of the long corridor, a young man wearing a plain white robe was sitting in place with files piled up in front of him, and the surrounding area was also files. He was holding a pen, approving the dossiers, while Xuan Shan, who supervised the examination of the Inspection Department before, was standing next to him to report something.

He was well-born with long eyebrows, phoenix eyes, and thin lips. His pale skin highlighted his lip and hair color. He looked gorgeous, but his temperament was cold. When listening to people talk, he kept the same expression, and one couldn’t see any emotion, so alienated from the world.

Luo Wanqing had seen countless good-looking gentlemen in the past, but none of them – not even Jiang Shaoyan – could compare to the man in front of her. But who would have thought that such a handsome gentleman with an unrivaled appearance would be holding the sharpest knife in the world, the Inspection Department?

Luo Wanqing didn’t dare to look more and lowered her eyes.

Zhu Que waved his hand towards Luo Wanqing.

Luo Wanqing walked forward and kneeled on one knee on the ground.

Zhu Que stood aside and respectfully said, “Department Master, only one Agent passed the examination this time.”

Hearing this, the youth above lowered his eyes to look at her. He didn’t ask her where she was going or what she had done. He only calmly looked at her for a long time, had someone hand out a token from above, and coldly spoke, “After entering the door of my Inspection Department, you are my person. State your name.”

Luo Wanqing was about to answer when someone suddenly rushed in from outside, shouting: “Master, it’s not good!” The voice was so loud that the attendant who handed her the token shook his hand.

The token fell to the ground. Luo Wanqing heard the person who had passed the news kneel before hurriedly saying, “News has come in from Lingnan. The Luo Clan encountered a landslide on the way to exile, and the entire clan lost their lives!”

When these words came out, coldness instantly fell from above, and silence covered the entire room.

Luo Wanqing kneeled on the ground, stretching out her bloodstained hand and grasping the token.

March spring breeze carried peach blossom scent blowing through, and she raised her clear, bright eyes to look at the angry youth above and calmly said, “This servant is Liu Xiniang.”

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