Chapter 1427 — An Appointment
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"Qiu Lingshan, don't you think your request is somewhat presumptuous?" Sun Jingyan decided she had best speak honestly. Where a matter of principle was concerned, she had no way to deceive Qiu Lingshan.
"That... I know it is presumptuous of me. But this is his last hope..." Qiu Lingshan said with a bitter smile.
"If you will forgive my bluntness: if I heal his wounds, then the true qi generated within my body can thereafter be used by him alone. He and I are neither kin nor friends. If you were in my place, would you do it?" Sun Jingyan said flatly. "Unless he is to be my future husband — otherwise, I am sorry!"
"Never mind... In fact, I knew the answer long ago. Jingyi, don't be angry." Seeing that Sun Jingyan had grown somewhat annoyed, Qiu Lingshan hastened to explain.
"I know you are worried... but this truly cannot be done," Sun Jingyan refused. "Rather than coming to beg me, you would do better to find some way to obtain a Meridian-Clearing Pill for him."
"A Meridian-Clearing Pill..." Qiu Lingshan smiled bitterly. "Among the hidden families, those are treasures. How could I ever lay hands on one?"
Sun Jingyan shrugged, equally helpless. Indeed, even at the level of the hidden families, a Meridian-Clearing Pill was rarely seen — to say nothing of someone like Qiu Lingshan. Otherwise, the Sun family's standing could never have been so transcendent, raising them into the ranks of the great families!
The Sun family's mental cultivation method was not solely for healing wounds; it could also raise a person's strength. But had Meridian-Clearing Pills been commonplace, it would have been impossible for that method to lift the Sun family's standing so high.
"I'm sorry, but that is not something I can consider." Sun Jingyan nodded to Qiu Lingshan. "Lingshan, if there is nothing else, I will be going..."
"All right. Thank you all the same..." Qiu Lingshan sighed. She was just about to call the waiter over to settle the bill when she suddenly heard a piercing alarm!
Qiu Lingshan looked up and saw a commotion break out over at the bank across the street from the café, and the alarm was coming from inside the bank!
"Oh no!" Qiu Lingshan grasped at once what was happening. She said "Sorry, I have to go" to Sun Jingyan, tossed two bills onto the table without waiting for change, and dashed out of the café at top speed!
Even so, Qiu Lingshan was a step too late. Out of the bank across the street ran a figure carrying a hemp sack, his movements and his speed extraordinary; in the blink of an eye he vanished into the mouth of the alley beside the bank!
Watching that vanishing figure, Qiu Lingshan was suddenly struck by a sense of familiarity, but she had no time to think it through. She crossed the road and charged toward the alley beside the bank — yet when she reached it, the alley was already empty. Where was there anyone to be seen?
Qiu Lingshan had witnessed the entire bank robbery with her own eyes. From the moment the alarm blared to the moment she left the café and rushed toward the bank, scarcely five minutes had passed — and yet the robber had completed the whole robbery in one unbroken, continuous motion. The speed of it was simply astonishing!