[Part Two] Genius Doctor: Black Belly Miss

Chapters 631 - 635

Jun Wu Xie and her group were dressed in civilian clothes to not draw so much attention to themselves.

After they confirmed their lodgings and settled down, Rong Ruo went with Fan Zhuo to the smithy to retrieve the Black Silver.

On the other hand, Jun Wu Xie and the others made their way towards Mu Qian Fan's residence.

Mu Qian Fan stayed in a far corner of the Chan Lin Town. The houses there were all simple and crude, and according to the address Mu Qian Fan gave them, the group came before an old and tattered little house, and Qiao Chu went up to knock on the door.

Moments later, the badly battered wooden door opened.

Mu Qian Fan was fully covered in bandages as he appeared behind the door. The moment his eyes saw Jun Wu Xie, they brightened up visibly.

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Chapter 632 : Coming to Chan Lin Town Again (2)

"Young Master Jun, you're here." Mu Qian Fan's voice was filled with joy.

Jun Wu Xie acknowledged with a slight nod.

Mu Qian Fan hurriedly stepped back to allow them in as he said enthusiastically: "Come in and take a seat please."

Jun Wu Xie and her companions went into the house and found the interior of the house even more dilapidated than its exterior. Besides only having an old and tattered wooden bed and a worn wooden table and chair, the whole house could be said to be empty with the four walls.

"Sigh, why does all of this feel so familiar?" Qiao Chu surveyed his eyes over the incredibly bare interior of the room and could not help but remember the dire straits they were all in, before they met Jun Wu Xie.

In all those years, they had not been in a situation much better than Mu Qian Fan.

"You got so much money for that piece of black rock previously, why are you still....." Qiao Chu asked, as he stared puzzledly at Mu Qian Fan.

The black piece of rock had been sold for several hundreds of thousand tales and it was no small sum. Just taking a few hundreds taels out from there would have made Mu Qian Fan's days a whole lot easier.

Mu Qian Fan was a little conscious of himself as he looked at the youths before him, slightly embarrassed by his state of poverty as he said: "I gave all that money to the families of my brothers in arms. Many of my brothers were the main breadwinners of their families and most of them have elderly and young ones sorely dependant on their income. Now that they are no longer in this world, leaving behind their orphaned children and widowed wives with no one to care for them, how could I allow myself to prey on that money? At least I am still alive and active enough to keep myself alive. Their families need the money more than I do."

Mu Qian Fan had not only given all the money he had received at the auction away, he had even dug out all his savings he had painstakingly accumulated all these years and had not kept a single cent for himself.

Qiao Chu and Fei Yan exchanged a glance and their eyes were filled with pity, together with an underlying tinge of respect.

Mu Qian Fan was already living in such poverty himself but he had not allowed himself to take a single copper from the sum of money. He had felt so deeply ashamed towards his brothers in arms who had departed from this world that he would rather allow himself to suffer than to touch the money that had taken his brothers' lives in exchange.

Maybe it was due to Qiao Chu and Fei Yan being too obvious with their pity filled eyes, but it made Mu Qian Fan even more embarrassed.

"My place is rather tiny, please forgive me. Do you want..... to have a seat on the bed?" Mu Qian Fan quickly walked over to the bed and pulled off the blanket that had already turned dark from a lack of being washed. He attempted to smooth out the badly crumpled bedsheet with his hands and then stepped aside with a sheepish grin, inviting Qiao Chu and the others to sit down.