Chapter 109: Eternal Separation

  Quiet in the house, the wind blows outside the window, but no sound of falling leaves is heard.

  After a long time, the woman in red continued: "The two of us parted ways due to our differing views on medicine and healing. I stayed by this creek with peach blossoms, while Ye Feng Lou went upstream and built the Medicine King's Hut to heal the local villagers. His departure was resolute and heartless."

  The woman in red stopped suddenly as she spoke, and a hint of hatred could still be seen in her eyes.

  Hualang saw this and asked: "What happened later? How did it become like this again?"

  The woman in red glanced at the flower gentleman, with a sorrowful smile, and said: "Yefeng's departure made me very sad. I didn't expect him to leave me just because I used poison. After he left, my temperament changed greatly, so I scattered a kind of poisonous medicine around, a kind of poisonous medicine that can wither living things."

  After hearing what the red-clothed woman said, Hua Lang felt that it was really terrifying. The destructive power of this poison was like a nuclear weapon, making it difficult for living things to survive, but its power was much smaller.

  What made Hu Lang even more frightened was that a woman would become like this because of a man, so how heartbreaking must she be!

  It's only because of love that one gets heartbroken, this woman is heartbroken because she loved Ye Fengluo too much.

  The woman in red seemed unwilling to say any more, but the flower boy had some questions that needed to be answered.

  "Was it you who poisoned the beggar and Yuan Jin's mother?" Hu Lang asked, staring at the woman in red.

  The woman in red was somewhat surprised and sneered: "You found out?"

  Hualang nodded: "Although they have become a pile of white bones, I still found out that they died of poisoning."

  The woman in red thought of the poison on Ye Fengluo's body and suddenly understood. If Hualang could find out the poison on Ye Fengluo's body, then what difficulty would there be with just two skeletons?

  "What you said is right, the poison on both of them was mine, and it's all because I wanted Ye Feng to fall into a difficult situation. Isn't he known as the King of Medicine? Can't he cure any illness? Then I'll create a poison that will make him unable to cure it forever."

  The woman in red became excited at this moment, as if she had returned to the day when Ye Fengluo abandoned her. She stood in the peach blossom forest, looking at Ye Fengluo's departing back, the peach blossoms were blown away by the wind, scattered on the creek water, and sprinkled on her red dress.

  After hearing what the woman in red said, Hua Lang also became agitated because he couldn't accept this kind of thing.

  "They are innocent people, how can you play with human lives?" Hua Langyi spoke righteously, as if he hadn't considered that provoking the red-clothed woman would put him in a very dangerous situation.

  The woman in red still sneered and smiled: "They are innocent, am I not innocent? Why should I not get Ye Fengluo's respect and his love just because I practice poison?"

  Seeing the woman in red like this, the flower gentleman sighed and said: "He loves you!"

  "Hum, he loves me, if he loved me, how could he leave me?"

  The young man looked at the woman in red and asked, "Do you know how I found this place?"

  "How did you find it?"

  The young man took out the painting and said, "This is what I found in Yefeng's room. He painted this place and it has been hanging in his room all along. This shows that his heart is still here, but for the sake of medical progress, he had to leave you!"

  The woman in red saw the painting and suddenly rushed over, taking it in her hands and reaching out to touch it. Her eyes were distant and tears flowed from them. She didn't say a word, just stared at the painting. The flower vendor continued, "Medicine is three parts poison, and poison is even more so. Although sometimes poison can be used to cure diseases by attacking with poison, this method of curing diseases is still too dangerous. Ye Feng Lou isn't opposed to you making poison, he just doesn't want to play with the lives of patients. He left you because he wants you to understand that poison is mostly used to kill people, not to heal them. If poison spreads throughout the land, can the safety of the common people still be guaranteed?"

  Although the flower gentleman did not know whether what he said was Ye Fengluo's true thoughts, nor did he know if the red-clothed woman would suddenly awaken to her mistakes, his words were sincere; he merely wanted the red-clothed woman to put down the hatred of over a decade.

  After Hua Lang finished speaking, the woman in red suddenly looked at him and said: "What you said is right, he is indeed such a person, for the sake of the people, he does not hesitate to sacrifice his own life."

  This remark left Hualang somewhat perplexed - a doctor treating someone's illness shouldn't involve risking his own life, should it?

  At this time, the woman in red said: "You don't want to know why Ye Fenglou was willing to take the poison I gave him? Now I'll tell you, I've developed a new poison and I need someone to test it on. After Ye Fenglou found out, he snatched the poison from my hand and swallowed it himself. He told me that he didn't want me to harm innocent people anymore, and he'd rather be the one to test the poison than let me use innocent people as guinea pigs."

  At this time, everything finally became clear. Ye Feng had taken the poison, but he had no way to detoxify it and died in the end. Or maybe he did have a way to detoxify it, but in order to prevent the red-clothed woman from continuing to harm people, he could only die, because only if he died would the red-clothed woman not oppose the world.

  The woman in red finished speaking, her eyes filled with tears, as if regretting why she had done so many foolish things, and why she had forced Ye Feng to take the poison.

  After a long time, she took a box from the head of the bed and handed it to Hualang, saying: "You are a scholar, having nothing by your side is very dangerous. Inside this is a hidden weapon I designed, wearing it on your arm will do, maybe it can save your life in case of danger, here you go!"

  The young man had not yet taken the box when the red-clothed woman suddenly pulled out the silver needle from Ye Fenglu's body and inserted it into her own, and as soon as the needle was pulled out, Ye Fenglu's corpse suddenly became extremely haggard, while the red-clothed woman also spat out a mouthful of blood and fell onto Ye Fenglu's body.

  After witnessing this scene, Hua Lang's heart was shattered. In this world, there are people who have feelings for each other, but how many can truly be together? They often end up regretting their entire lives due to slight misunderstandings and miscommunications.

  The young man buried the two of them behind the small cottage, and he believed that as time passed, this place would once again become a peach blossom forest, with peach blossoms floating on the water bringing gentle breezes.

  On the way to Yao Wang Cao Lu, it was already dusk, with a thin mist and a beautiful sunset.

  Hualang opened the box given by the woman in red, inside was an exquisitely designed hidden weapon, which could be launched with just a lift of his hand. After putting on the hidden weapon, he threw away the box and rushed to the Medicine King's hut, where his loved ones and friends were.