Chapter 4107 — Quite the Actor, Aren't You?
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And once the matter blew up, even as nominal disciples of Zhang Lifeng, they feared they could hardly shield Wei Zhao. After all, with their master Zhang Lifeng absent, the Elixir Hall was run by the deputy hall master Zheng Dongjue. They nominal disciples had lofty standing but no real power to contend with Zheng Dongjue—and besides, if the affair were truly examined, the fault would lie with them in the first place.
At this, Wei Zhao glanced lightly at Zheng Tianshuo and said, his manner unchanged, "Is this, then, how the Elixir Hall treats its guests? I was invited here to diagnose and treat Di Xingdao—I did not deliver myself to your door to swallow this unjust insult. This man, it seems, is not exactly glad to see me."
Hou Guanqi's eyes lit up, and he at once chimed in with a rebuke. "Zheng Tianshuo, did you hear that? Now get out!"
Zheng Tianshuo nearly burst with rage at this. As Zheng Dongjue's grandson, with his position in the Elixir Hall now at its zenith, when had he ever suffered such a scolding? He jabbed a finger at them all. "You—you dare—"
Before he could finish, Hou Guanqi cut him off. "I'll ask you once more: are you leaving or not? Treating Lord Tian's injuries was ordered by my master, the Elixir God himself. To obstruct it like this—are you trying to defy my master's command and turn traitor to the sect?"
At the word "traitor," Zheng Tianshuo gave a violent start. With a charge that grave hung over him, no matter how strong his backing, such things ended in death.
"You—you people—" Zheng Tianshuo ground his teeth in fury, yet under the glare of Hou Guanqi and Cai Zhongxuan, two nominal disciples of Zhang Lifeng, he dared not press his luck further. He could only give a furious snort. "Fine. Then I'll wait at the door and see just how you mean to end this!"
"Sister-in-law, you come out with me too!" Still uneasy about Tianchan, Zheng Tianshuo made to seize her hand.
But Tianchan deftly sidestepped him and said coolly, "No need. I'll stay here."
Not daring to use force before the others, Zheng Tianshuo had no choice but to slink out the door alone in sullen resentment.
Inside the room, Hou Guanqi and Cai Zhongxuan could only exchange a bitter smile. Zheng Tianshuo had been driven out, but the wretch would surely haunt the doorway like a persistent ghost. Paper can never wrap up fire—sooner or later the truth would out. For a time, neither of them knew what to do.
Just then, Wei Zhao calmly took a seat beside Di Xingdao, gestured for him to extend his hand, and began taking his pulse straight away—every inch the accomplished physician.
Tianchan was privately astonished. Since when had Wei Zhao become a physician, and one invited by Hou Guanqi and Cai Zhongxuan to treat Di Xingdao?
Yet astonishment aside, Tianchan still had considerable faith in Wei Zhao. Back in the mortal realm she had known his medical skill to be superb; even if he could not fully cure Di Xingdao, he ought at least to form some insight from the diagnosis.
Hou Guanqi and Cai Zhongxuan, however, knew none of this. They took Wei Zhao's performance for mere posturing, and their expressions stiffened at once.
Hou Guanqi shot Cai Zhongxuan an unobtrusive glare that said: this youngster you've brought is unreliable too—quite the actor, isn't he? Instead of promptly confessing the truth to Lord Tian and enlisting his help to fend off Zheng Tianshuo, he keeps up this act—is he courting death? R1152