As everyone marveled at Leng Ruo Li’s medical skills, a maid in the crowd, her eyes burning with a fire that seemed intent on consuming Leng Ruo Li, stealthily moved away. She took advantage of the moment when everyone's attention was focused on Leng Ruo Li. However, she couldn't escape Jun Mo Han's sharp gaze.
Jun Mo Han signaled to Yin Chen behind him. Yin Chen immediately followed the disguised maid.
After Leng Ruo Li cured the child of the snake venom, she instructed Manager Hu to arrange a guest room on the third floor for Madam Su and her son.
Su Xun then took his men to apprehend the culprit. Subsequently, the guests who had finished their banquet in the first-floor hall dispersed one by one.
Leng Ruo Li even sent the people from the Xia family home. As they were leaving, Leng Ruo Li’s second uncle, Xia Ling Xuan, slyly pocketed the deck of playing cards that Leng Ruo Li had given them to play with earlier.
Half an hour later, Madam Su awoke in the bed. She glanced around the unfamiliar room and, seeing no one, anxiously got up and opened the door to look for someone.
As she passed by the corridor, she spotted a familiar-looking woman in the adjacent room, her back turned, playing with a child.
Upon entering, she realized it was Leng Ruo Li playing with her son.
"Madam Su, you're awake!" Leng Ruo Li said with a sweet, charming smile.
Madam Su nodded slightly. Seeing her child alive, her heart was filled with emotion, and she quickly thanked Leng Ruo Li.
"Thank you, Miss Leng!"
"You're welcome, Madam Su."
Then, Leng Ruo Li bent down and gently placed the child into the cradle.
At this moment, Madam Su, standing beside her, with her sharp eyes, noticed a red plum blossom birthmark near Leng Ruo Li’s right ear, which shocked her immensely.
She recalled that more than three months ago, the masked divine doctor who had saved her and her son at the Hundred Herbs Hall medical clinic also had a red plum blossom mark on her right ear, and they looked identical.
Could Leng Ruo Li be the masked divine doctor who had saved their lives?
"Miss Leng, do you know medicine?" Madam Su asked tentatively.
"Madam Su, I have a basic understanding of medicine," Leng Ruo Li replied humbly.
Just then, a clear male voice was heard from the corridor outside.
"Wife, are you awake?"
Su Xun, at the staircase on the third floor, had overheard their conversation in the room. He hurried into the room and saw both women doting on the child.
"Wife, Miss Leng just saved our son's life."
Upon hearing this, Madam Su looked up and seriously observed Leng Ruo Li’s beautiful apricot eyes, becoming increasingly convinced that Leng Ruo Li was the masked divine doctor who had performed a caesarean section on her.
Thus, she pulled Su Xun outside the door and whispered, "Brother Xun, take a closer look at Miss Leng. Doesn't she resemble the masked divine doctor who performed our caesarean section more than three months ago?"
Hearing this, Su Xun glanced at Leng Ruo Li in the room and then nodded.
"Wife, when I first saw Miss Leng, I thought she resembled that masked divine doctor. And now that she so easily cured our son of the snake venom, I am even more certain she is the masked divine doctor."
"Heavens, the masked divine doctor is so close to us again and has saved our lives multiple times. We are truly fortunate."
Madam Su’s eyes welled up with tears of excitement. She quickly turned and re-entered the room, softly calling out to Leng Ruo Li, "Miss Nightingale~"
Leng Ruo Li, hearing this, was slightly startled. She turned around, a faint, enigmatic smile on her lips.
"Alas, I didn't expect you to see through my disguise so soon. This is no fun," Leng Ruo Li said with a hint of helplessness, clicking her tongue.
"My goodness! Miss Leng, you really are that masked divine doctor." Madam Su was almost jumping with excitement.
Leng Ruo Li blinked her bright, clear eyes a few times, her face displaying evident helplessness.
"Haha, Miss Leng, I understand. You don't want to reveal your identity, do you?"
Leng Ruo Li nodded.
"I hope General Su and Madam Su can keep this secret for me."
"Yes, yes, yes, we will definitely do so," the Su couple promised in unison.
Afterward, Leng Ruo Li took out a delicate small box from her sleeve. She took out a jade longevity lock and hung it around Su Xun’s son's neck.
This jade longevity lock was found among her original body's mother's treasures. Earlier, she had asked her father, who said this longevity lock was a gift from a Nanzhao merchant when she was about to be born.
Now that Leng Ruo Li was over ten years old, she felt it was useless to keep it and decided to give it to Su Xun’s son.
Seeing the expensive jade longevity lock Leng Ruo Li had put around her son's neck, Madam Su immediately refused, saying, "Miss Leng, this gift is too precious. We cannot accept it."
"It's alright, Madam Su. This thing is of no use to me."
But Madam Su and Su Xun still tried to decline.
It wasn't until Leng Jin Yu and Jun Mo Han returned to the Drunken Immortal Pavilion from tracking the culprit that Madam Su and Su Xun accepted the longevity lock after being persuaded by Leng Jin Yu.
"Father, was the maid who infiltrated the inn caught?" Leng Ruo Li asked.
"No! That person must know disguise techniques," Leng Jin Yu said calmly.
"If I'm not mistaken, she is the culprit who released the man-eating worms in Madam Su's courtyard this morning. Her disguise skills are very advanced, and she disappeared into the crowd. We couldn't find her," Jun Mo Han added, standing beside them.
"I didn't see her anywhere either," Su Xun also said with a furrowed brow.
As their words fell, the room fell silent.
Meanwhile, on a street in the capital city, an elderly woman with white hair, disheveled, and in tattered clothes, threw away her walking stick. Her current appearance was a disguise to escape Jun Mo Han's guards, and she had hidden herself among the beggars to don this look. She tore off the human skin mask from her face, revealing a seductive countenance, and continued into an alley.
She arrived at the room where Liu Ru Yi was tending to Lin Feng’s injuries. She forcefully pushed the door open and entered, interrupting Liu Ru Yi and Lin Feng in an intimate embrace on the bed. Enraged, she exploded with anger.
Liu Ru Yi, that shameless woman, her son’s wounds weren't even healed, and she was already seducing her son.
Upon seeing the newcomer, Liu Ru Yi, looking utterly confused, quickly pulled the blanket to cover herself. Like Lin Feng, she was stunned by the sudden intrusion of Aunt Lan.
Aunt Lan looked at Liu Ru Yi and slapped her across the face without hesitation.
"Bitch, practice your charm techniques, but don't target my son. My son has already been drained of his essence and blood, and his health is deteriorating. You should go practice with Black Robe."
Aunt Lan's sinister eyes were as terrifying as a bloodthirsty beast. Her icy hand clamped onto Liu Ru Yi's hand and yanked her out of the covers, throwing her onto the ground. Lin Feng rushed to shield Liu Ru Yi.
Immediately, Liu Ru Yi’s icy eyes looked at Aunt Lan provocatively.
"Haha—"
"You old hag, weren't you the ones who forced me to learn my charm techniques?"
"What? Are you afraid that I’m practicing with your son?"
After speaking, Liu Ru Yi struck Lin Feng with a palm. Lin Feng coughed up a mouthful of blood on the spot. Then, he looked at Liu Ru Yi with a face full of sorrow, his mouth still stained with blood, and smiled bitterly, "Ru Yi, did you ever love me?"
However, Liu Ru Yi callously pushed him away, quickly picked up her clothes from the ground, and put them on, sneering, "In this lifetime, the person Liu Ru Yi loves most is Leng, Jin, Yu!"
Aunt Lan, who had been stunned for a moment, immediately gathered her internal energy and struck at Liu Ru Yi, but her son embraced her.
"Mother, let her go!"
Following this, Liu Ru Yi cast a cold glance at the mother and son and turned to leave.
After Liu Ru Yi left, Lin Feng slowly closed his eyes.
Aunt Lan immediately collapsed and began to wail loudly.