"Doctor Song treasures her medicinal herbs; she would never abandon them! And several pots of her five-split yellow gentian were smashed. If she really did run away on her own, as they claim, then as long as her life wasn't in immediate danger, she would have found a way to properly handle those plants, even if she couldn't take them with her!"
Gu Ha said it all in one breath, clearly indignant on Song Lianhe's behalf.
Zhou Junlin gave him a cool glance. "Didn't you despise her?"
"I do dislike her, but I can't deny she's a competent physician. What's more, she saved the Princess Consort. How can we let her be unjustly accused like this?"
Gu Ha shot a look at the men behind him, then said indignantly, "Even if Doctor Song did cut Master Chen's tendons, it must have been because he did something awful!"
Zhou Junlin suddenly chuckled. "Gu Ha, I had no idea you and Doctor Song had gotten on so well."
Gu Ha flushed and stammered, "She... she just always likes to play tricks on me."
