The garden was silent again after Xi Ling left.
Xi Ying put his attention on the old physician again. However, before he could say anything, the old physician spoke before him.
"Young man…I really don't know how to take care of these plants. You better hire some gardener instead of letting me destroy these plants."
Xi Ying just smiled mockingly but didn't say anything. It was Li Rui who looked at the old physician calmly and said
"Elder doesn't need to worry. Rui will teach Elder how to take care of them."
The old physician looked at Li Rui with a frown.
Did she even know that there can be done nothing to save these plants in the Imperial City? What will she even teach him?
What bothered him most was that just a few moments ago, Xi Ying had called him an Imperial Physician. The old physician was not a fool not to understand that Xi Ying knew something about him.
Something he had been hiding until now!
But how come Xi Ying knew it? He didn't know it. However one thing he was sure of was that Xi Ying was not some ordinary man.
Seeing how beautiful the manor was and how different the aura around him was, the old physician who had lived in the Imperial Palace once in the past obviously understood that Xi Ying couldn't be a normal person to have all of this while living in the Imperial City.
Now his desire to leave this manor was increasing more as he could feel nothing but danger surrounding him.
To save himself, when he could run away from the Imperial Palace then what was Xi Manor!
However, inside his heart he knew very well that it was not that easy. Just when he was thinking all this, he heard Xi Ying asking him
"You want to leave from here?"
The old physician immediately nodded his head. Xi Ying nodded his head once and said
"Alright!"
Xi Ying looked at Li Rui after this and Li Rui looked at Liu Lan who immediately walked towards the table placed inside the garden. She picked a bowl from the table and then walked towards the old physician.
The old physician looked at the bowl and then at Xi Ying with a confused face who generously told him
"Drink this soup from the bowl and you will be allowed to leave!"
The old physician eyes brightened for a second and then narrowed. He could not believe that Xi Ying was allowing him to leave so easily.
Could it be that it was poison and what Xi Ying meant by letting him leave was letting his dead body leave?
His old and delicate heart was filled with fear when he though this but he could not really think of any way to avoid this. He doubted if it was really the poison and he refused to drink then Xi Ying would just ask the servants to force it down his throat.
So it would be better for him to drink it and then not swallow it! The old physician's eyes brightened again and with suspicious eyes to hide his original intentions, he took the bowl from the maid's hands and sniffed the scent of the paste.
However with one sniff, he could not find anything wrong so he sniffed twice and then thrice.
Xi Ying's eyes were cold and indifferent as he noticed the old physician's actions. He wondered if he would be able to tell what kind of medicinal soup he was going to drink.
There was a very low chance as Li Rui had told him that this soup was discovered by her and no one except her knew about the consequences of drinking it.
He didn't care whether it would really work or not. If it didn't then he would really stand by his words and let the old physician go. However, he had never said that the old physician could not be brought to Xi Manor back.
If the old physician had known what was going on inside Xi Ying's mind then he would have perhaps vomited the blood in rage.
However, the poor physician was currently busy in examining the bowl of soup in his hands.
Sure enough, on not finding anything wrong, the old physician silently drank it.
Li Rui's lips were pressed in a thin line when she noticed no movement on the flesh of old physician's throat. She turned to look at Xi Ying.
Xi Ying's eyes flickered slightly and he understood what she was trying to say, His lips twitched slightly when he saw the old physician's giving the bowl back to Liu Lan and then standing at the same spot with a foolish smile on his lips.
He smiled coldly and walked to the old physician. When he was in front of him, he suddenly took out his sword and put it on his neck.
"Swallow it"
He said coldly and the old physician immediately swallowed the medicinal soup that was still in his mouth.
"Young Man…"
The old physician spoke as soon as he swallowed the soup.
"Tell me…was it some poison?"
Xi Ying was however in no mood of being generous at this moment and said indifferently
"You will get to know soon."
The old physician's eyes widened and he immediately tried to vomit by bending down his body. However, Xi Ying held his hand and twisted it behind his back and kept his mouth up.
"Don't even try what you are thinking of doing! Because if you do then it will be your dead body that will leave this Manor today."
The old physician was terrified on hearing Xi Ying's words and didn't try to do anything stupid.
For the next few moments, he stayed in the same position and started to feel pain in his arm. Just when he was about to cry out loud, Xi Ying loosened his hold and asked him
"Hm…now tell me had you ever worked in the Imperial Palace for the Emperor?"
The old physician's eyes narrowed and he wanted to deny instantly.
"Yes!"
However, what came out of his mouth was a loud 'Yes'.
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