Chapter 225: The Xiangu County Branch

Li Jun's elderly father, looking at Li Jun who had been lying on the bed in a coma for several days in a row, could not help but shed tears.

Every physician who could be invited had been invited, and the shaman had also performed rituals, but Li Jun remained in a coma.

Li Jun's elderly father picked up a bowl of thin porridge, scooped half a spoonful, and fed it into Li Jun's mouth.

"Jun'er, what has happened to you? Don't scare your old father! Wake up..."

Seeing the thin porridge spilling from the corners of Li Jun's mouth, Li Jun's elderly father could no longer hold back and burst into sorrowful tears.

Just at this moment, Li Jun's fingers suddenly moved, and then his eyeballs, as if dreaming while asleep, rolled beneath his drooping eyelids.

Seeing Li Jun's eyeballs moving, Li Jun's elderly father was pleasantly surprised and continued to call out: "Jun'er, come back! Jun'er, Father is here! Jun'er..."

He called out a few times, and to his surprise, Li Jun actually opened his eyes.

Li Jun's elderly father was suddenly overjoyed and cried out: "Jun'er, my Jun'er. The Great Immortal was indeed efficacious; after the ritual performed last night, you woke up today."

Li Jun, however, acted as if he hadn't heard, staring blankly at his father; his mind was a complete blank, and only after several breaths did his memory return to his brain.

Li Jun's expression suddenly changed, and looking at his elderly father, he asked: "Father, what is the date of the twelfth lunar month today?"

Li Jun's elderly father was stunned for a moment, but seeing that Li Jun knew to ask for the date, he said with full joy: "Jun'er, today is the eighteenth of the twelfth lunar month. You have been in a coma for nearly five days."

"The eighteenth of the twelfth lunar month?" A look of tension and pain seemed to emerge on Li Jun's face, and he struggled to get up.

His elderly father immediately supported him. "Jun'er, don't be anxious."

Li Jun, however, pushed his elderly father away, got out of bed, and was about to rush outside.

But having been bedridden for five days, his muscles had become somewhat stiff; after running only a few steps, he suddenly fell to the ground, yet Li Jun struggled to get up and ran outside again.

His elderly father shouted anxiously from behind, but watched as Li Jun ran further and further away...

Huang Qing was currently still living in the dormitory courtyard of the Middle Courtyard, right next to the room where Duan Rong had originally lived.

The fifth day of auditing accounts was the day with the highest labor intensity since the auditing began; when Huang Qing returned last night, he felt as if the bones all over his body had fallen apart, and he collapsed on the bed and slept soundly until now, when the sun was already out, and he had yet to wake up...

Just at this moment, outside the dormitory door, a thumping sound of knocking on the door rang out.

"Huang Qing! Huang Qing!" Along with the knocking, Wang Dean's anxious shouting also rang out.

Huang Qing was finally woken up; he struggled to get up, but the moment he moved, he felt a wave of soreness in his calves.

But Huang Qing still gritted his teeth and crawled off the bed, because he had already recognized that the person knocking was Wang Dean.

Huang Qing opened the door with a face full of fatigue; as his fingers exerted force, they also felt a wave of stiff pain.

As soon as Wang Dean saw Huang Qing open the door, he pulled him toward the Backyard Accounting Office without a word, and kept asking him about things during the account auditing along the way.

However, Huang Qing had just woken up, his mind was hazy, and as the two were walking rapidly, every time Wang Dean asked a question, Huang Qing could not answer for a long time.

By the time the two rushed to the Backyard Accounting Office, Huang Qing's mind had cleared up quite a bit.

Wang Dean led him straight toward Xu Shouxian's Dongjia Room.

Xu Shouxian was pacing anxiously inside the Dongjia Room, no longer fanning the palm-leaf fan that never left his hand; as soon as he saw Huang Qing enter, he immediately began to interrogate him.

"You mean, Duan Rong has been auditing the accounts of the twelfth lunar month for these five days?"

"Yes."

"And he has almost emptied the account books from the four shelves on the south side?"

"Yes."

Xu Shouxian stood with his hands behind his back, pondering silently, his face shifting between light and shadow. "Four shelves? Could it be..."

Xu Shouxian was somewhat suspicious, but he could not be certain; just at this moment, Li Jun suddenly pushed the door open and rushed in.

Both Wang Dean and Xu Shouxian were startled; Li Jun had been in a coma for many days, and neither of them had any confidence in whether he would eventually wake up, but they did not expect Li Jun to suddenly rush in.

Before the two could be surprised, a single sentence from Li Jun made their souls fly away in terror.

"Xu Lao, Duan Rong can understand the structure of the double-entry accounts... I saw it with my own eyes..."

Upon hearing this, Xu Shouxian's whole body suddenly turned cold; he immediately knew what Duan Rong was going to do, and although he did not understand how Duan Rong could understand such a complex structure of double-entry accounts, this question was clearly no longer important.

What was important was that he already understood why Duan Rong was blocking the door.

This thieving brat was trying to kill him!

As expected of the good brat taught by Xiao Zongting!

Xu Shouxian knew that Duan Rong was already a Martial Artist at the Small Success Realm, and an ordinary person really could not deal with him.

Xu Shouxian's eyes were cold; he turned his head to look at Wang Dean and said in a low voice: "Go find the Chief Helmsman, Mr. Luan!"

Xiao Yu stood in the backyard, in front of the courtyard of Ruan Fengshan, pacing anxiously.

Duan Rong had instructed her last night to invite Ruan Fengshan to the Backyard Accounting Office early today, but she had come over early only to be told by a Personal Attendant that Ruan Fengshan was not there, and that he had gone out several days ago and had not yet returned.

This was something Duan Rong had not anticipated; originally, today was the day to report the results of the account auditing, and he had assumed that Ruan Fengshan would definitely be there today.

After Wang Dean left the Escort Agency, he hurried to Luan Jingfu's residence; Luan Jingfu's house was not far from the Escort Agency to begin with.

But when Wang Dean went over, he realized that Luan Jingfu was not at home, so he could only say that someone was causing trouble at the Accounting Office and begged Luan Jingfu's son, Luan Bao, to come with him.

Luan Bao was a Guard Deputy Commander, and these few days were also his duty days; as soon as he heard that someone was causing trouble at the Backyard Accounting Office, he immediately rushed to the Escort Agency with Wang Dean.

In the morning light, a carriage came rumbling through the alley behind the Yuanshun Escort Agency and stopped in front of the side door of the backyard.

Ruan Fengshan jumped down from the carriage; he looked at Luan Jingfu, who was driving, with a weary face and asked: "How is the wound on your shoulder?"

Luan Jingfu stood in front of the carriage, holding the reins in his hands; his face was somewhat pale, and bloodstains were seeping through the bandage wrapped around his shoulder.

"It's nothing, just a small wound."

Ruan Fengshan had watched as Luan Jingfu was stabbed in the shoulder by a Long Spear; he knew that the wound was quite deep and was by no means a small wound.

Ruan Fengshan fished out a small bottle of Golden Sore Medicine from his person, threw it to Luan Jingfu, and said: "This is top-quality Wound Medicine; treat the wound properly when you get home."

Luan Jingfu received the Wound Medicine, thanked him, and pulled the reins; the carriage then rumbled toward the other end of the alley.

Ruan Fengshan watched the carriage disappear at the end of the alley, his eyes flickering.

A few days ago, the Yuanyang Prefecture Hall of the Filthy Blood Sect had an operation in a neighboring county; because they were short of manpower, they notified the Xiangu County Branch here to transfer two people over from nearby.

Ruan Fengshan had taken Luan Jingfu with him. Ruan Fengshan and Luan Jingfu had met by chance because they were both members of the Filthy Blood Sect; later, after Ruan Fengshan was promoted to Helmsman at the Xiangu County Branch, after several years of getting along, he felt that Luan Jingfu was quite loyal and brave, so he relied on him as his confidant.

A few years ago, he even made him the chief of the Yuanshun Escort Agency, which shows how much he relied on and trusted Luan Jingfu.

This is why Ruan Fengshan was willing to bleed money to pay for the registration of Xiao Yu and Luan Bao to participate in the selection for Registered Disciples of the Taiyi Sect.

Needless to say, Xiao Zongting had toiled for the Yuanshun Escort Agency his entire life.

The reason Ruan Fengshan was also willing to pay this silver for Luan Bao was that, whether within the Yuanshun Escort Agency or at the Xiangu Branch of the Filthy Blood Sect, Luan Jingfu could be described as loyal and devoted to him.

(End of this chapter)