Chapter 482: The Cinnabar Mole She Planted for Him
”Zhiqiu…” she called him by his name, and managed a smile, yet her pupils were sapped.
As soon as she opened her mouth, blood gushed out.
”Don’t be afraid, you’ll be fine. I can save you. You will be fine soon, soon!” Liu Zhiqiu pulled the cord around his neck and fished up his gourd pendant.
He bit off the bottle cap and poured the potion into her mouth with trembling hands.
Nannan said this could save lives.
It must be able to.
”Poof!”
As soon as the potion was poured in, the woman vomited out a large mouthful of blood, which she spat out together with the potion.
”Li Junyue!” Liu Zhiqiu panicked, utterly petrified.
Li Junyue smiled while gasping for breath. She could feel her life drifting away.
She had a lot to tell him.
”Zhiqiu, I…have something to tell…you.”
”Don’t talk, don’t talk. If you have anything to say, you can take your time telling me later!” He kept pouring the medicine in the gourd bottle like crazy, trying to pour the remaining potion into her mouth.
She grasped his hand and stopped him. “Zhiqiu, before you… met me, I actually l-liked you… for many… years. You are… buried in my… heart… a c-cinnabar mole. I plotted against… m-many people, but I… never… deceived you…”
”I believe you, I know!” he responded. He threw away the gourd pendant, and raised his hand to wipe the blood that kept gushing from the corner of her mouth.
The blood was so red, so blinding.
The stinging of his eyes kept heating up and hurting.
”I went to the academy…stole glances at you … countless times. It’s only later that I learned… y-you’re surnamed Liu … After I die… throw me on the roadside. Leave me alone… the Li family will swindle you…”
Seeing how nervous he was for her, Li Junyue smiled contentedly.
In a trance, the picture of her reunion with him on the second day of the new year seemingly flashed before her eyes.
In front of the theater, she was talking to Kang Ziyu in a low voice, and heard someone calling, Zhiqiu, from behind.
She heard that person say, Zhiqiu, your eldest brother is about to get married, so it’s time for you to find someone, right?
At that moment, her heart skipped a beat, and an uncontrollably wild wish sprouted in her heart.
Despite knowing that she shouldn’t bother him, given her current circumstances, she still selfishly approached him.
”Li Junyue, don’t sleep, Li Junyue!” He yelled at her back to regain consciousness, but his face gradually darkened in front of her eyes, and finally she sank into oblivion.
Her eyelids sagged, and the hand that held him fell slowly.
A cinnabar mole buried in the heart could not be removed forever.
In order to be close to him, she has done plenty of efforts.
It was a pity that in the end he still didn’t like her.
In the end… it was impossible to defy God’s will.
When Wei Hong came back, she saw Liu Zhiqiu hugging Li Junyue, covered in blood.
Yet the woman in his arms remained silent.
”Aunt Hong.” He looked up at her blankly. “Couldn’t that medicine save her? Why? Why is she getting colder?”
Wei Hong squatted down, stretched out her hands on the woman’s acupoints, took out the medicine she had on her, pinched the woman’s jaw, poured the medicine inside, and watched the medicine flow out from the corner of her mouth, diluting the unsolidified bloodstains.
”No matter how good the medicine is, it can’t save people’s lives without Nannan’s medical skills,” she commented lightly, with no expression on her face.
She was used to life and death.
At the foot of the mountain, a cacophony of noise erupted just in time.
The villagers in the village swarmed up with sticks and farm tools in their hands.
They were far slower than Wei Hong, they were a little late and only saw the end.
They saw a man in black with a hole in his head lying on the ground, but Wei Hong and Zhiqiu were both there.
The people who came running first were Liu Erlin and Du Juan. After seeing Liu Zhiqiu safe and sound, they both breathed a sigh of relief.
After seeing Li Junyue’s appearance and the dagger stuck in her heart, their expressions froze.
”Miss Li? She…” Du Juan covered her mouth and stepped back.
”She is dead,” Wei Hong pronounced.
”She’s not dead! She’s not dead, her heart is still warm!” Liu Zhiqiu insisted stubbornly. He picked up the woman and ran down the mountain.
There were plenty of medicines in Nannan and Xue Qinglian’s consultation room, all of which were for life-saving use. Li Junyue would not die!
There was so much more he wanted to hear, and she wasn’t finished!
”Wei Hong, why was there an ambush? Where are the other assassins?” Liu Erlin was a man. At times like this, he still maintained some sanity and asked the key point.
”They’re all dead. Go back, everything’s fine,” Wei Hong said lightly and urged the villagers to leave first.
She still had to dispose of the corpses on the ground.
And this time, this attack must be reported to His Highness as soon as possible.
The entire Xinghua Village was under her surveillance. It was just that Xinghua Ridge was behind the village. To get here, people had to pass through Xinghua Village first, so she didn’t pay much attention to it.
She never thought an accident would happen.
Their enemies must have been secretly investigating for a long time to have uncovered this breach.
And from where exactly they infiltrated, she would have to investigate again.
In the Liu family compound, Liu Zhiqiu frantically searched inside Xue Qinglian’s consultation room, and all the life-saving drugs he recognized were all fed into the woman’s mouth.
If she couldn’t swallow them, he crushed them and fed them to her with water.
Wei Hong, Liu Erlin and Du Juan watched his seemingly deranged behavior, but no one tried to stop him.
In the end, Liu Zhiqiu sat down in front of the bed.
Useless, it was useless.
She has not moved a muscle, and her whole body was already cold.
Wei Hong then stepped forward, reached out, and slowly took out the dagger stuck in the woman’s heart.
Stabbed in that organ, blood should have been spurting out the moment the dagger was plucked out, but not Li Junyue’s. Only a bit of blood oozed out of her wound after, and stained her already bloody dress red yet again.
Liu Zhiqiu stared blankly at the wound.
The woman’s words came to mind. That was the cinnabar mole in her heart, the mole she planted for him.
”Send her back to the Li residence,” Wei Hong said. She was part of the Li family, and they had to send her back to let her be buried in peace.
”No,” Liu Zhiqiu disagreed suddenly. Surprisingly, he spoke calmly, “Aunt Hong, report this to the authorities.”
”Zhiqiu—”
”Report this to the authorities, and it’s imperative for them to solve this matter.” He looked Wei Hong straight in the eye.
He knew exactly about the virtues of the Li family. Li Junyue had an accident in Xinghua Village. For her accident, the Li family would never let go of this lucrative opportunity, and they would definitely ask the Liu family for compensation and demand an exorbitant price.
He would never give them that chance.
Similarly, he would never return Li Junyue to them.
The Li family didn’t deserve her.
Before she died, she was worried that the Li family would plot against him.
She didn’t know that he had never been afraid of the Li family’s persecution. He just didn’t like trouble.
Liu Erlin and Du Juan looked at their son who had suddenly changed into a different person. His usual toothy grin was gone, replaced by a sensible calmness they hadn’t seen before.
It was as if he grew up in an instant.
”Dahong, report it to the authorities,” they supported their son’s decision.
Wei Hong nodded and sighed.
The authorities would definitely investigate the crime scene after the matter was reported. She had thrown all the four corpses into the deep forest of Luofu Mountain, and now she had to carry them back by herself.
”Liu Erlin! Du Juan! Bad news, someone from the Li family is at the entrance of the village looking for you in search of someone! Everyone is blocking them. Think, what should we do?!”
Peek-Aboo 
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