Chapter 65 Poisoning the Doctor

Seeing Nie Jiu’s figure, Shen Nian was speechless: “This old man loves to court death. He’s not afraid of me killing him to silence him.”

Nie Jiu didn’t know martial arts, he wasn’t good at tracking, and his night vision wasn’t as good as a young man’s. He tripped and fell several times climbing the small mountain.

But he was old and bold, and he got up and continued to follow after falling.

As he followed, he looked up and wondered, “Why is there no one ahead?”

Just as he was wondering, a small figure flashed out from the side.

“What are you following us for?”

Shen Nian’s voice suddenly rang out, her soft baby voice sounded extremely eerie in the silent night.

“Ah!” Nie Jiu was startled and sat down on the ground.

“You’re so cowardly, yet you dare to follow me.” Shen Nian sneered.

Ma Chenggong walked out of the darkness, his eyes fierce as he looked at Nie Jiu: “Little Master, this old man has discovered our secret, I’ll kill him.”

Nie Jiu was so scared that he got up: “Don’t kill him, he’s one of us. I’m your Little Master’s Grandpa Nie.”

Shen Nian said lightly: “You have no blood relation to me.”

Nie Jiu said: “Don’t be so heartless! After all, I’m your fourth uncle’s doctor who treats his face!”

Ma Chenggong frowned: “You’re a doctor?”

He had seen the scar on Shen Bei’s face. Could such a scar be cured?

Shen Nian smiled and said: “He said his name is Nie Jiu.”

Ma Chenggong was surprised: “What?”

Nie Jiu frowned. This man knew his name?

Oh no! I knew I shouldn’t have been curious and followed!

My identity is going to be exposed!

He quickly straightened his back, expecting Ma Chenggong to recognize him, to kowtow and show respect.

But Ma Chenggong just looked him up and down and said: “Little Master, don’t be fooled by him. I’ve seen Doctor Nie, Doctor Nie doesn’t look like him.”

Nie Jiu: “…Are you blind? The one you saw was the liar!”

Ma Chenggong snorted: “I saw with my own eyes that Doctor Nie saved a dying person. How could he be a liar? You’re the liar.”

Shen Nian touched her chin and said: “There’s only one way to prove whether Grandpa Nie is the real Doctor Nie, let Grandpa Nie treat Uncle Shu.”

Ma Chenggong clapped his hands: “Yes, that’s a good idea. Master Shu’s illness is even more serious than the patient I saw before. If this old man can cure Master Shu, it means his medical skills are higher than the Doctor Nie I saw, which is enough to prove that he is the real Doctor Nie.”

Shen Nian looked up at Nie Jiu and said solemnly: “You only have one chance, Grandpa Nie, you must seize it!”

Nie Jiu finally realized that he had been tricked by these two, one big and one small, and shook his head in refusal: “No, no, no, I don’t need this chance to prove myself. I’m not Doctor Nie, I just share the same name with him!”

Close call, I almost got led by the nose by the little girl!

Shen Nian smiled: “Are you sure? If you’re not Doctor Nie, then I’ll have to kill you. Why did you follow us? But if you are Doctor Nie, for the sake of your superb medical skills and far-reaching reputation, I can spare your life.”

Nie Jiu couldn’t believe it: “I said, little girl, how can you be so cruel? Are you really a child? You, you, you…”

Shen Nian waved her hand: “What you, you, you? Who told you to be so stupid and follow me? My family is not a place for ordinary doctors to come to. Only a great figure like Doctor Nie can come.”

Nie Jiu took a deep breath.

Shen Nian smiled: “Okay, I won’t waste any more time with you! Just say, are you going to my Uncle Shu’s place to prove that you are Doctor Nie?”

Nie Jiu gritted his teeth: “You won’t let me go tonight if I don’t go?”

Shen Nian nodded.

Nie Jiu sneered, flicked his sleeve, and released a puff of powder, instantly knocking Ma Chenggong unconscious.

“Little girl, don’t underestimate me! Uh?”

As soon as he finished speaking, he felt a prick on his leg. He looked down and saw Shen Nian holding a strange thing, stabbing his right leg.

The little girl smiled at him: “Don’t underestimate me either!”

She said as she pulled out the syringe. Nie Jiu instantly felt his leg go numb and he fell to the ground, his right leg lost all feeling.

His eyes were full of shock and bewilderment.

“What did you do to me?”

Shen Nian squatted beside him, playing with the syringe: “This is called local anesthesia. How does it feel? Is it comfortable? I also have a general anesthesia. Do you want to try it? It’s free.”

Nie Jiu looked at her in disbelief: “You, you, you, you, you know medicine.”

Shen Nian nodded: “I know a little. But I’m too young, I can’t let people know. Now you know, you have to die.”

Nie Jiu felt like he had encountered a monster. He was so startled that he raised his hand again and sprinkled powder, trying to knock Shen Nian unconscious.

But Shen Nian didn’t faint. Instead, she had a strange little thing in her hand. The thing blew out a gust of evil wind, blowing all the powder back onto his face.

Fortunately, he had been testing his own medicine for years, and his physique was special, so he didn’t immediately faint from the poison. He took out a pill from his pocket and swallowed it.

Shen Nian put away the small fan. As Nie Jiu opened his mouth to take the medicine, she slipped a pill into his mouth.

Nie Jiu swallowed it without warning. He wanted to spit it out, but he couldn’t: “What did you give me?”

Shen Nian said concisely: “Poison, the antidote is one dose per month.” This medicine was the same as the one Ma Chenggong and Bai Xiaohui were taking.

Nie Jiu was shocked, his worldview shattered: “You’re so vicious at such a young age!”

Shen Nian said: “You’re so stupid at such an old age!”

Nie Jiu: “…”

He never imagined that he would fall for such a little girl in his lifetime.

He took a deep breath and asked: “What do you have to do to let me go?”

Shen Nian didn’t answer, but asked instead: “Are you Doctor Nie?”

“No.”

“Then go die!”

“Don’t kill me, I am!”

“I don’t believe you.”

“I’ll go to your Uncle Shu and treat him to prove it.”

“That’s barely acceptable. If you can’t cure him, you’ll die!”

Nie Jiu: “…How can there be such a hateful child in the world.”

Shen Nian smiled: “How can there be such an old man who loves to court death in the world!”

Nie Jiu was so angry that he had a heart attack.

Indeed, he was the one who chased after them and courted death. He couldn’t blame anyone else.

He covered his chest and said: “I’ve already agreed to you. Can you give me the antidote? I can’t just lie here forever!”

Shen Nian spread her hands: “It’s not that I won’t give you the antidote, but anesthesia has no antidote. You can only wait for the effect to wear off on its own.”

Nie Jiu was so angry that he lay on the ground weakly.

He didn’t know if he was crazy or what, but he suddenly started laughing strangely.

“Hahaha!”

“They say I, Nie Jiu, have been abnormal since I was young. I love to drink and I love medicine and poison. I spend all day with all kinds of herbs, and I taste the medicine I make myself. Besides practicing medicine and saving people, I don’t do anything else. People who don’t know me call me a doctor, people who know me call me a monster, but I think you’re the real monster.”

Nie Jiu laughed at Shen Nian: “Yesterday, I just woke up from a nap in the tree, and as soon as I opened my eyes, I saw a book appear out of thin air on the ground. Then you came over to pick up the book, and I was so scared that I fell out of the tree.”

Shen Nian nodded: “I saw that you weren’t very scared.”

Nie Jiu continued to laugh: “I was just curious about the book, so I followed your family, got the book, and then I was attracted to you! You look really fun, so I came looking for you!”

“As expected, you are indeed a very interesting little monster, just like me when I was a child.”

Shen Nian said lightly: “We’re not the same.”

Nie Jiu chuckled: “We are, we are, we’re both little monsters.”

“Little girl, I can tell that you’re not a fake child. Your body can grow normally, you’re a real child. You must have had some kind of adventure, which is why you’re so powerful!”

“But you’re too young. Even if you’re powerful, you can’t show off some of your skills. For example, the person behind you, and the medicine that poisoned me.”

“How about you become my apprentice? I’ll teach you medicine, and you’ll use my name to make a name for yourself.”