Chapter 95.2
"Did you save it just to eat it?"
The monk answered in a natural tone, "Otherwise?"
The corners of Gu Jiao’s mouth made a twitch and she wondered inwardly who exactly this monk was? How come she had never seen him before in the temple?
The monk pointed to the pit beside him and said, "Do you also want to eat snake meat? If you want to, go and fish it out."
Gu Jiao replied, "Why don"t you get it yourself?"
The monk let out a sigh, saying, "I"m afraid."
Gu Jiao said oddly, "You’re afraid, but you beat it to death."
"It wasn’t beaten to death." The monk paused briefly then corrected her, "It was bitten to death."
Gu Jiao：“…”
"Why on earth would you bite it?"
"It bit me first!" The monk exclaimed righteously, pulling up his left trouser leg, revealing his calf that had swollen like a pig"s trotter.
Gu Jiao was simply dumbfounded.
The snake bit you, so you bit the snake in return. Just what’s with this behavior?
That snake probably didn"t expect to be bitten to death one day!
Moreover, you had already been bitten like this by a snake and yet you were still in the mood to eat roasted rabbit? Don"t you know that you"re going to die soon?
The monk seemed to read Gu Jiao"s thoughts and sighed, "I know."
After saying that, he collapsed to the ground with a bang, coughed up some black blood, and pa.s.sed out!
Gu Jiao：“……”
What eccentric monk was this seriously?!
It was a highly toxic silver-ringed snake that bit him. Fortunately, Gu Jiao"s medicine chest contained the antivenom for the silver-ringed snake’s poison.
This antivenom belonged to Equine Serum preparation, which contained foreign protein and was easy to cause allergy.
As time was running out, Gu Jiao gave up the desensitization injection and painfully gave him two injections of antiallergens.
When the monk woke up, he was no longer on the original lawn and instead found himself sitting under a big tree. The sky was pouring with rain as well.
He glanced at Gu Jiao who was at his side, and said in a hoa.r.s.e voice, "Don"t you know that during a thunderstorm in springtime, you must not take shelter under a tree?"
Gu Jiao looked at him carelessly, saying, "You can even calmly roast a rabbit after being bitten by a poisonous snake, I think you’re not afraid of death at all."
The monk choked up and gently coughed, then said, "I didn"t think I could still live, so I at least had to be full when I became a ghost, don’t you think? Anyway... Did you save me?"
He lifted up his trouser legs and took a look. The wound had been applied with medicine and bandaged. The pain had basically disappeared, and the edema was gone as well.
"You can even cure snake venom. Are you a foreign expert?" He said founding it odd.
Gu Jiao didn"t answer his question and just sat by quietly taking shelter from the rain.
Probably realizing that he owed people two favors in a row, the monk felt embarra.s.sed. He smiled pa.s.sively and said, "May I ask what the benefactor’s name is?"
"My surname is Gu." Gu Jiao answered without looking at him, fixing her gaze at the incessant heavy rain.
The monk said with a smile, "I"m a poor monk who knows a bit about physiognomy. If the benefactor wants, I can read her palm for her."
"No need." Gu Jiao lightly refused.
Generally, no woman would be able to refuse such a handsome monk. Gu Jiao should be the first.
The monk couldn"t help but feel curious. He stared at her longer but Gu Jiao had put on a hat and her face couldn’t be seen clearly, only her delicate chin was clearly visible.
The monk hooked up the corners of his lips and was about to retract his gaze, but suddenly he saw the bronze plate that Gu Jiao was playing with.
He raised his eyebrow in doubt and said, "So the girl is originally from Marquis Xuanping Estate."
"What?" Gu Jiao turned to him.
The monk"s eyes swept the birthmark on her left face, but there was not the slightest difference in his expression. He said, "The bronze token in your hand."
Gu Jiao looked at the bronze plate and then at him, asking, "Do you know what this is?"
The monk curved up his lips into a smile as he extended his pair of long legs. Then, raising one arm behind his head, he leaned against the big tree behind him, and looked at the fine rain, saying, "That’s right, this poor monk here knows what that is."
"Tell me about it." Gu Jiao said.
The monk glanced at Gu Jiao playfully and said, "So you don"t know? Then how did you get this token?"
"I picked it up." Gu Jiao responded.
"Ho." The monk"s expression became more and more amused, and his beautiful peach blossom eyes narrowed into two curved crescent moons, just like the bright eyes of a beautiful woman, full of charm. He said, "Then you’re really lucky to find such a valuable thing."
As he spoke, he withdraw his gaze from Gu Jiao, and continued to look at the heavy downpour that he didn"t know when would stop, "Marquis Xuanping Estate, a hundred-year aristocratic family of high-ranking officials, the emperor’s relatives, a hegemon existence in the capital, veteran of three dynasties, the family of the empress, which one does benefactor Gu want to hear?"
Instead of asking him why a monk in the mountains knew a lot about the situation in the capital, Gu Jiao said, "Anything’s fine."
The monk smilingly said, "In other words, you want to hear everything. Unfortunately, I can"t finish telling you about the Marquis Xuanping Estate without talking for three days and three nights. Does benefactor Gu want to inquire about people or interesting incidents?"
Gu Jiao thought about it and said, "People."
"The master or the servants?"
"Up to you."
The monk’s smile deepened as he said, "It"s obviously you who was asking for information. How can it be up to me? Anyway, if you’re actually asking for information about some servant, I don"t know any. Instead, let"s start with Marquis Xuanping. He inherited his Marquis position from the former Marquis. Marquis Xuanping is the eldest son and also the son of the official wife, so it was just logical for him to inherit the family, nothing there to comment about."
"He has a biological younger sister and a concubine-born younger brother. His younger sister is the current Empress. Ah, I forgot to mention that he also married Princess Xinyang. He gave birth to a son with Princess Xinyang, which was a wonderful son, but unfortunately he died young."
"Is that all?" Gu Jiao asked.
"He also has a few sons from a concubine, but it’s not worth mentioning." The monk said, and once again looked at Gu Jiao with a smile, and this time, there was a warning in his smile, "Girl, since you already picked up this token, then that’s that. Just don"t take it out and show it around, else you’re going to easily get killed. Also, don"t get involved with the people of Marquis Xuanping Estate, lest you also attract disaster to yourself."
When he got serious, he even changed his term of address.
Gu Jiao didn"t pay attention to his warning though. She was never a person who let others judge the risk for her.
However, this Marquis Xuanping Estate sounded very powerful. Why did Xiao Liulang
have the token of the Marquis Xuanping Estate on him? What was his relationship with the Marquis Xuanping Estate?
"What if....." In the middle of Gu Jiao"s speech, she suddenly realized something. When she turned her head to look, however, she found that the monk who had been chattering around her suddenly disappeared.
Even weirder, Gu Jiao didn"t know when exactly he left.
Gu Jiao had been in this other world for so long, but this was the first time he met a real expert.
Gu Jiao looked at the spot where the monk had just been sitting, and there was a word written on the ground: Xiao.
Gu Jiao mused, "Marquis Xuanping Estate’s people... are surnamed Xiao?"
Xiao Liulang was also surnamed Xiao. What a coincidence?