A life of two souls traveling through time

Chapter 447: Shadow Clan sneaks into the medicine store in disguise, Xiaolu sees the clues

After the hour of Chen, Sanxiu Pharmacy opened its doors wide, and the patients who had been waiting there early entered the pharmacy one after another under the guidance of the pharmacist and went straight to the clinic.

The clinic had just opened, so the pharmacy was not busy dispensing medicine. Rong Fan was sitting in the corridor with nothing to do, looking at the patients staggering by in the yard. When he saw a young man with an unremarkable appearance and a tall stature supporting a lame boy walking by, he could not help but look puzzled and muttered:

"Why is it him again?"

"What do you mean, him again?" Xiaolu, who happened to be passing by Rong Fan, suddenly heard him mumbling, and hurriedly stopped and asked curiously.

"Have you seen that man?" Rong Fan stood up and pointed at the tall man who had arrived at the door of the clinic and asked Xiaolu.

"What's wrong with him? Isn't he just here to accompany his family to see a doctor?" Xiaolu followed the direction Rong Fan pointed and saw the tall man, but he was still confused and muttered.

"You don't know, he has come three times in the past half month." Rong Fan continued.

"Three times in half a month? Even if it's a follow-up visit, it wouldn't be so frequent, right?" Xiaolu then looked again with some vigilance at the figure who had entered the consulting room.

"Who says it's not true? But the patient he helped today is not the same person as the last two times. I remember clearly that the last patient was an old man who was poisoned by a snake."

"So that's how it is." After hearing what Rong Fan said, Xiaolu became even more suspicious of that man, so he muttered to himself and went to the clinic.

Xiuming went out to buy medicinal materials, and Sanxiu went with him to the neighboring county for a follow-up visit for his old friend. There were not many patients today, so Siyao was able to handle it alone, with Guoying and another medicine boy assisting.

"Aren't you the son of Uncle Liu from last time?" When the tall man helped the lame boy beside him to sit down in front of the examination table, Si Yao was also surprised to notice this somewhat familiar face.

"Hello, Miss Si Yao. You are here today to accompany my younger brother. He accidentally fell from a height while playing with others yesterday and injured his leg." The man immediately bowed to Si Yao, then patted the boy's shoulder and said with a wry smile.

"Is your father feeling better?" Upon hearing this, Si Yao hurriedly asked someone to help the young man into the acupuncture room nearby, and at the same time asked the man with concern.

"Much better. It's all thanks to Miss Si Yao's superb medical skills that my old man is safe." The tall man bowed again in gratitude, and then followed Si Yao into the acupuncture room.

Upon hearing this, Si Yao just smiled faintly and said nothing more. She turned to the boy to check his injuries. The tall man stood aside and answered a few words for the boy before suddenly covering his stomach and wanting to go to the toilet.

Although Si Yao was puzzled as to why this man had to go to the toilet every time he came back, and each time he was there would take at least an incense stick of time, he did not think about it too much. He just thought that he would take his pulse if he had time later.

The man was familiar with the route as it was his third time coming to the pharmacy. After walking out of the clinic, he no longer looked around to ask for directions, but quickly ran towards the toilet in the west. Xiaolu, who had been secretly observing at the door of the clinic, also quietly followed him.

The tall man came to the west side of the medicine store and looked around stealthily. When he saw that there was no one nearby, he suddenly bent his knees and jumped onto the wall beside him and disappeared.

"Suspicious indeed." Xiaolu, who was following closely behind, saw the man climbing over the wall into the backyard, snorted coldly and continued to chase him.

The tall man came to the building in the backyard and was about to sneakily push the door of Si Yao's room when Xiaolu appeared in time to stop him. He pretended to be shocked and shouted at him, "Who are you? What are you doing in the backyard of my medicine shop?"

"Don't get me wrong, I came here to accompany my younger brother to see a doctor, but I got lost while looking for a toilet and ended up here." When he was discovered, the tall man was so shocked that he quickly took two steps back, bowed and smiled at the other party.

"How can you find the toilet in someone else's house?" Xiaolu sneered at the other party's lie.

Seeing the sneer of disapproval on Xiaolu's face, the man became a little annoyed and angry. Perhaps he knew he was in the wrong so he did not get angry. Instead, he glared at him and tried to turn around and leave.

"You can't even answer and you still want to escape? There must be something wrong with you looking so cunning!" Ran Xiaolu certainly couldn't let him go so easily. Seeing that the other party was trying to escape, he directly attacked him.

The tall man saw the young man in front of him attacking him, and at first he was a little hesitant and tried to retreat, but he found that the young man was very skilled and it would be difficult for him to escape. If he continued for a long time, he would definitely attract more people. So he responded unconsciously, and the two of them started fighting with bare hands in the corridor on the building.

"What's that noise outside?" The first person to hear the fighting noise was Xiao Chenlin who was reading and writing in the study. He frowned and muttered to himself. He wanted to open the door out of curiosity but suddenly heard Xiaolu's voice outside:

"Tell me who you are and what do you want to do by entering my pharmacy three times?"

"Boy, you don't need to know. I advise you to stop, otherwise I will be rude to you!"

Another cold and murderous voice frightened Xiao Chenlin so much that he squatted by the door and dared not open it again.

"Hmph, you don't have the ability to kill me, do you?" The two men's kung fu was equally matched, neither could hurt the other, and neither could hold the other. Xiaolu naturally did not take the other's threat seriously, and only hoped that Zeng Si in the courtyard would discover him in time and come to help him.

Chen Lin is only five years old, but he is already a calm and sensible child. He was in the study listening to the fight outside. Although he was worried about Xiaolu, he also knew that he could not go out rashly at this time, otherwise he would cause trouble for Xiaolu.

As the pharmacy had just opened, most of the boys were staying in the front yard. The two boys who were responsible for cleaning the backyard went off to slack off because they saw that the owner and the master were not there. There was a wall between the kitchen and the residence, so no one noticed the fight in the corridor except Chen Lin who was hiding in the study.

Although the two men's boxing and kicking skills were evenly matched, Xiaolu was young at heart and underestimated the man's insidiousness and viciousness. Just as he tried to stop the man from leaving, the man suddenly stepped back and threw out two poisoned darts. Xiaolu didn't expect that the guy would take so long to release the hidden weapon, so by the time Xiaolu reacted, it was too late to dodge.

With a clang, at the critical moment, the shining soft sword appeared in front of Xiaolu and blocked the two darts for him. Seeing Zeng Si in white clothes, Xiaolu was overjoyed.

"People from Shadow Clan." Zeng Si glanced at the two darts on the ground, then looked coldly at the tall man opposite and said.

"How dare you come here? You really don't take the palace... the prince seriously?" Xiaolu was shocked and angry when he heard what Zeng Si said, and he almost exposed his identity.

In the fight just now, Xiaolu saw that the opponent only showed some ordinary punches and kicks. He also saw him sneaking into Sister Si Yao's dormitory, so he thought he was a thief who sneaked into the pharmacy to steal. He didn't expect that he was a member of the Shadow Gate.

"Don't get me wrong, I didn't come to the medicine shop to cause trouble, but to look for something." Seeing that his identity was exposed, the tall man didn't dare to escape. After all, if the prince blamed the Lord in charge for this, he was afraid he would not survive, so he simply told the truth.

"Is it that list you are looking for?" Zeng Si continued in a cold voice as the man finished speaking.

"You know that too?" The tall man couldn't help but widen his eyes, worrying that the list might have spread in the pharmacy.

"What list?"

Fortunately, Xiaolu's question made him secretly relieved, and then he bowed to the white-clothed scholar in front of him and said sincerely: "Your Excellency must know that the thing is what I, the Shadow Sect, vow to find back. Please return it, and we can live in peace in the future."

"It's not in the pharmacy. It's in the hands of the prince." Zeng Si said coldly with a blank expression.

Zeng Si saw that the other party treated him with courtesy and knew that he was just asking for something, but he still held the soft sword in his hand and did not dare to relax. After all, the people of Yingmen have always been cunning and untrustworthy.

"What!" Zeng Si's words frightened the tall man so much that his face changed drastically. He then raised his eyebrows and glared at Zeng Si and asked, "Why did you give the Shadow Sect's things to the King?"

"Since it belongs to Yingmen, why do you blame others when you don't think highly of it? Also, what is your Yingmen? Are you worthy of being on equal footing with the prince?" Facing the man's rage, Zeng Si just stared at him coldly, while Xiaolu clenched his fists and sneered with contempt.

The tall man was angry but dared not say anything. He just bowed and turned away. Xiaolu wanted to continue to stop him but was stopped by Zeng Si:

"Let him go back to Shadow Gate and reply."

Xiaolu naturally couldn't say anything more, so he hurriedly followed him back to the front yard.