Doctor Wang looked extremely serious with a straight face. "It's okay for you to tell me these things, but don't mention them in front of His Highness the King of Mu and His Highness the King of Xuan."
Ye Wanmian was taken aback. "Why?"
"Whether the corpse is the Crown Prince's or not will naturally be clear after we return to the Supreme Court of Justice," Doctor Wang said. "Under the current circumstances, it can only be the 'Crown Prince'. This is also to protect this corpse. Do you understand?"
Ye Wanmian was still a bit confused, but Xiao Jingcheng immediately understood.
So that's how it was!
If it was proven to be the "Crown Prince", then this corpse would be strictly guarded, and no one would be able to get close to it easily. Instead, the evidence on it could be preserved.
But if it was proven that it wasn't the Crown Prince, it would surely involve another case - who had forged the Crown Prince's corpse and deliberately confused the public? And where was the real Crown Prince?
The longer the corpse stayed in Dongli Town, the greater the risk. If the person behind the scenes intended to damage it, and there was the slightest oversight, the evidence would be completely destroyed. It would be even more difficult to dig out the mastermind behind it.
He couldn't help but take a few more glances at the old man.
This old man's knowledge exceeded that of an ordinary rural doctor. He was definitely not as simple as he seemed.
If Uncle Huang really intended to return to the capital early for this reason, had he misunderstood Uncle Huang before?
Since Doctor Wang would leave Dongli Town with the King of Mu in three days, Ye Wanmian made a decision that even surprised Doctor Wang. She planned to move to the medical clinic to stay temporarily during Doctor Wang's absence, under the pretext of "helping Master watch the shop".
Doctor Wang was quite touched. He immediately took out a string of coins and asked Qi Wen to go to a nearby restaurant to pack some delicious food. Ye Wanmian went back to her home in Qingyu Alley to simply pack her luggage.
When she returned to the medical clinic with her change of clothes, Qi Wen had already bought the wine and dishes, which were neatly arranged on the table.
When they saw Ye Wanmian take out a silver bowl from her luggage and place it in front of the yellow dog, both Doctor Wang and Qi Wen were shocked.
"Mian'er, your dog even eats from a silver bowl?!"
"Lady Jiang, you spoil your Dahuang too much!"
Xiao Jingcheng stood upright, gave them a slight glance, and snorted through his nose.
What was there to be surprised about? It was her choice to spoil him and buy this silver bowl for him. What did it matter to them?
Ye Wanmian scratched her head embarrassedly and said with a smile, "It looks like silver, but actually it's copper. It's just mixed with silver sand. Dahuang even bargained for this bowl himself. The shopkeeper didn't charge a single cent."
When she told them about her experience in the market that day, Qi Wen was full of admiration, but Doctor Wang sized Xiao Jingcheng up and down with a look of disdain in his eyes.
"A divine hound from the sky has descended to the mortal world? I might as well be the Supreme Lord Lao Jun who can refine pills in the sky. It's only because you spoil it that you've indulged it to be so lawless. If you weren't smart, with your family background, a single silver bowl would have been enough to bankrupt you."
Xiao Jingcheng couldn't bear it any longer and barked loudly at Doctor Wang.
He had already said it was a temporary measure! When he returned to his own body in the future, he would surely compensate her!
Ye Wanmian didn't dare to say that she had more than three hundred taels of silver on her. She just smiled and gently hugged the yellow dog. "Dahuang only has a lifespan of about a dozen years. If it's unlucky and gets sick or injured, it can only accompany me for a few years. It's okay to spoil it a bit."
Doctor Wang smiled and didn't say anything more.
Behind the medical clinic was a private house where Doctor Wang stayed. There were already one or two empty rooms. After a full meal, Ye Wanmian and Qi Wen simply tidied up. During Doctor Wang's absence, this would be her residence.
After nightfall, everything around became quiet. Maybe because she knew that everyone in the yard was trustworthy, Ye Wanmian felt more relaxed than when she was in Qingyu Alley. After resting in the room for a while, she took some medical books and went to find Doctor Wang.
Doctor Wang would be away for at least two or three months, or at most half a year. Since she had stayed to watch the medical clinic, she had to take on the responsibility of treating patients.
With her current medical skills, she was actually not yet capable of taking on such a heavy responsibility. But Ye Wanmian had thought it over. According to the medical records, she could still handle some common diseases, such as colds, fevers, sprains and bruises.
For more complicated cases, she could only ask the patients to go to other medical clinics first.
She was sincerely eager to learn, and Doctor Wang was also willing to teach her. So he told her a lot, and the lamp in the room burned until the second half of the night.
When Ye Wanmian left Doctor Wang's place, it was almost midnight. She clearly hadn't slept well last night, but at this moment, she had no sign of sleepiness.
She blew out the oil lamp and sat quietly on the bed without lying down to rest. Her black and white eyes were especially bright in the darkness.
Xiao Jingcheng had originally planned to wait for her to fall asleep and then secretly take out the handkerchief she had hidden and ask Sang Biao to take the little dog brothers to investigate it carefully. But since she didn't go to sleep for a long time, he felt a bit irritated and just lay on the bed, staring at her.
I don't know how much time had passed. When there was no sound outside and Doctor Wang and Qi Wen had already gone to bed, Ye Wanmian finally moved.
She stood up, took out a pre - prepared package from the cabinet, waved to the yellow dog, and then carefully opened the door and tiptoed out.
What on earth was she planning to do?
It couldn't be that she wanted to sneak into the morgue again, could it?
Ye Wanmian had scouted out this yard during the day. She quietly walked to the back door, removed the latch, and crouched down to slip out.
Noticing that the yellow dog had also followed her out, she squatted down and whispered to the yellow dog, "Dahuang, I promised you yesterday. Let's find a safer place to reward your friends."
Xiao Jingcheng looked at the package in her hand and was both angry and amused.
So this was why she didn't sleep in the middle of the night?
Thinking of his own plan, Xiao Jingcheng couldn't help but feel a bit anxious. There wasn't much time left for him. He had to find his own body as soon as possible. If he delayed any longer, he didn't know what would happen.
But the handkerchief was on her, and she was still awake at this moment. He couldn't leave her alone and act on his own. He had no choice but to follow her.
Xiao Jingcheng suppressed the restlessness in his heart, turned his head and barked softly at her, and then ran in a certain direction. Ye Wanmian curled her lips into a smile and followed him.
After the experience of sneaking into the morgue last night, Ye Wanmian was now quite familiar with the process. She could use the shadows to hide her tracks well.
Every time she turned a corner, Ye Wanmian would notice a few more dog shadows appearing in the shadows. However, the yellow dog in front never made a sound from beginning to end. She didn't know how it communicated with the other dogs in the town. It could gather its friends in the blink of an eye. It was really amazing!
When Xiao Jingcheng led Ye Wanmian to the "secret base" where he and Sang Biao and the other dogs stayed, he saw Ye Wanmian staring at him with bright eyes, with undisguised affection in her eyes.
Xiao Jingcheng paused for a moment. The anxiety in his heart was inexplicably soothed by this look, and he even felt a bit awkward.
Why was she looking at him like this?
He turned his back to avoid her gaze, but the tail behind him was wagging so fast that it was just a blur!