In the prison, the lights were dim, Tan Xingzhi sat cross-legged, his eyes following Zhou Yuan.
Outside the prison, Zhou Yu'an took out a bottle of blood-stabilizing medicine, passed it through the gap, and placed it on the ground: "Three times a day, one pill at a time. No water is needed. Just swallow it."
"No need, sooner or later you will die." Tan Xingzhi smiled: "Is he good to you? I always feel that there is something weird between you two."
Zhou Yu'an didn't answer and looked at him with wide eyes. Tan Xingzhi lowered his head and said slowly: "Are you here because of the case? I told them that I will only talk to you."
"You are already the son of the Tan family. There is no reason or need to kill them at this time. Even if there is a reason, according to your character, you should know how to exercise restraint and make choices." Zhou Yu'an said: "You are no longer the one in Cicada Temple. I’m a young novice monk.”
"Do you know how the real Tan Xingzhi died?" Tan Xingzhi closed his eyes.
"You said in the secret room that he died of illness!"
"Epidemic!" Tan Xingzhi lowered his head and smiled: "It's surprising, right? The Tan family has contributed a lot to the epidemic in Suizhou, but the real son of the Tan family died because of the epidemic."
Three years ago, a mysterious man came to Mr. Tan and said he wanted to negotiate a deal with him. At that time, the Tan family was not what it is now. Although it was a well-known medicinal herb dealer, it was suppressed everywhere. The other party has both power and background, and can completely become the Tan family's support in Suizhou. This is a business that can only make a profit, but not a loss, provided that one's conscience is discarded.
The Tan family has an orphanage, which is specially used to adopt orphans who have no father or mother. This was originally a good thing of the Tan family, but in the end it turned into a sinful debt of the Tan family. At that time, Tan Xingzhi had already burned down the Cicada Temple. The Tan family members thought that he and the monks were burned to death in the fire. However, they did not know that after escaping from the Cicada Temple, he disguised himself as a beggar and came to the Tan family orphanage.
His thoughts and purposes at that time were very simple: to find Mr. Tan, kill him, and heal the grievances of himself and his mother.
The first time I met Mr. Tan, he brought those people to the courtyard to give out porridge and snacks. The children ate happily, but he, being too distracted, hardly ate much. That night, a child fell ill, and the child was taken away by a stranger who stayed in the orphanage.
In the following days, one after another children fell ill. Some of them were taken away and never came back. Some came back, but they were left with various sequelae. The most serious ones were not only completely unrecognizable, but also had deformed limbs.
Although Tan Xingzhi was careful, he still contracted the disease and was taken away by the strangers who stayed in the yard.
Although he was very sick, his consciousness was very clear. He remembered that after leaving the orphanage, the carriage went all the way west, turned south after exiting the city gate, and arrived at a village along the bumpy path.
The village was quiet, with only stone houses.
He was taken to one of the stone houses, where a doctor examined him and gave him medicine. At first, his illness was not serious. In the words of the doctor, it was just a minor infection. After taking the medicine, the condition became serious, with blood blisters appearing on his body, itching and pain, and he also moved from the stone house to another place.
It was a cave, and there were children like him in the cave. Some of them were dead, and their bodies exuded a strong stench. Some of them were still alive, and they were only a moment away from death.
Xu's experience of living in the Cicada Temple gave him a great desire for life. He took advantage of the time when the guards were changing shifts and ran out of the cave. He didn't remember the road, so he stumbled in the mountains, sleeping when he felt uncomfortable, and eating wild fruits in the mountains or leaves he could pick when he was hungry.
On the third or fourth day, he was found by those wearing turbans. At that time, the blood blisters on his body had faded, and his mind was gradually returning to clarity. He did not die, he survived and became the only survivor in the orphanage.
They gave him the last dose of medicine and sent him to Tan's house after confirming that he was fine, and his father recognized him at that time.
Only then did he know that his father and those mysterious people were using the children in the orphanage to test poisons that could cause epidemics.
Their conversation was heard by the real Tan Xingzhi who accidentally broke into the study. The teenage boy, the child who grew up in the hands of his parents, the extremely upright boy who was taught by the masters of the academy, could not tolerate his father. Do this kind of thing with those people. He clamored to go to the government to report to the government, but he was imprisoned. The person responsible for guarding him was his younger brother who had just returned from the Palace of Hell and whom he had never met before.
Master Tan did not want to kill his son, but the gang did not allow any flaw in their plan. They fed the real Tan Xingzhi poison. They tried every means to save their child, and even asked him about the details of his survival and copied the same thing, but they forgot that the real and fake Tan Xingzhi were always different.
One is pampered, the other is free-range, one is like an orchid in the house and cannot see the wind and rain, but the other is growing wantonly in the mountains and fields. He lives and he dies, he dies and he lives, it is fate and destiny.
It is true that Tan Xingzhi died, and his traces in the Tan family were wiped out just like the little novice who was hidden in the Cicada Temple. The little novice suddenly transformed into the legitimate son of the Tan family.
They had been preparing for three years and finally came to the most important moment. An epidemic broke out in Suizhou, and people were dying. When the government was in urgent need of help, the Tan family stepped forward.
The government ignored a very important fact. While the whole city was experiencing an epidemic, no one in the entire Tan family, from the master to the servants, was infected.
It's not that they are lucky, it's that they took antidote beforehand.
Except for Mr. Tan and Tan Xingzhi, no one in the mansion, including Mrs. Tan, knew about the medicines mixed in their daily diet.
Mr. Tan and Mrs. Tan quarreled because Mrs. Tan knew what happened that year and how her son died.
Tan Xingzhi originally went to break up the fight, but Master Tan, who was furious at the quarrel, wanted him to help kill people and silence them. In desperation, Mrs. Tan revealed another secret.
It turns out that Mr. Tan has long been involved with those people. The reason why he took his mother as a concubine was because her mother knew medicine, and he wanted her to verify a prescription for him.
Mrs. Tan was indeed the reason for my mother's dystocia, but the most important reason was Master Tan. He kept forcing her to the point where she became anxious and ill.
Tan Xingzhi had never seen the prescription, and he was not interested in their activities, but he wrote down some things and placed them in the tomb in the secret room. If Zhou Yu'an needed it, she could go to the tomb to get it.
Zhou Yu'an didn't expect that the Tan family's incident was related to that prescription, nor did he expect that the Tan family's tragedy happened like this.
When she was about to leave the prison, Tan Xingzhi rushed over. He told Zhou Yuan that the Tan family was involved with the He family in Fuyang County. His father and He Hongyi were sworn brothers. He sent people to Fuyang County not only for Zhou Yuan but also for Zhou Yuan. He Hongyi.
He understood Zhou Yuan's temperament, but he didn't want her to get involved too deeply. They couldn't afford to offend those people.
Later, he asked Zhou Yuan, if he died, would she remember a little novice monk who had no name?
