Seeing Shen Yuan's pale face, Xiao Ling crumpled the paper in his hand into a ball.

The person who wrote this note is truly disgusting, taking advantage of the fact that they've read a few books to bully a little girl who can't read!

In this world, it's already difficult for poor women to learn to read and write. Shen Yuan wrote each character so carefully, showing her genuine eagerness to learn. Yet, the person who taught her to read and write deliberately deceived her, teaching her wrong things! Leaving her completely in the dark!

That's absolutely vicious!

Xiao Ling didn't know why, but even though Shen Yuan was the one who had been deceived, he was even angrier than her. He wasn't even that close to Shen Yuan; their relationship was merely one of temporary exploitation.

"Young Master Xiao, please let me know which words are wrong!" Shen Yuan looked down at the medicinal herb labels she had been writing all morning and asked in a low voice.

Xiao Ling stepped forward, picked up a pen, and circled all the wrong words on the white paper.

Of the hundred characters, Shen Yuan could make ten mistakes. Three of them were related to the IOU written by Chu Yuning.

Shen Yuan took the revised note by Xiao Ling to a nearby shop selling stationery and asked the shopkeeper. The shopkeeper told her that Xiao Ling's version was correct.

Xiao Ling didn't lie to her!

Even someone she'd only known for a day hadn't lied to her, yet Chu Yuning had lied to her for a full ten years!

Shen Yuan returned to the pharmacy in a daze, clutching the slips of paper. She stood at the entrance, looking at the signboard that read "Affordable Pharmacy".

There was nothing wrong with those four words, and Shen Yuan instantly perked up.

Once she opens her pharmacy and earns money, she wants to open a private school exclusively for poor girls, so that these girls from impoverished backgrounds can also learn to read and write, and won't be deceived by ill-intentioned men like she was due to her lack of education!

She wanted to save those women, but before that, she had to save herself!

It's just a few words she misread. She can find a teacher to relearn them. Making mistakes isn't terrible; she can just correct them in time!

Both her life and the words she writes have the opportunity to be revised!

Having figured this out, Shen Yuan smiled and ran into the pharmacy, calling out to Xiao Ling, "Young Master Xiao, could you please rewrite all these medicine names for me?"

Her handwriting showed signs of being altered, and it didn't look good on the medicine cabinet. Xiao Ling's handwriting was excellent, and it would look much better on the medicine cabinet.

Xiao Ling didn't refuse; he was free anyway.

He just didn't expect Shen Yuan's emotions to come and go so quickly. She had just been looking gloomy, but now she was smiling sweeter than a flower, like a happy little butterfly.

Xiao Ling held the brush and wrote with his head down. Shen Yuan leaned over the table and watched Xiao Ling write, silently memorizing every stroke.

After writing down the names of all the medicinal herbs, Granny Liu also prepared the rice paste. Shen Yuan spread the paste on the back of white paper and then pasted it onto the corresponding medicine cabinet one by one.

After finishing this task, Shen Yuan realized that she hadn't changed Xiao Ling's dressing yet.

She hurriedly said, "Young Master Xiao, your medicine needs to be changed. Please go to the woodshed and wait for me. I will prepare the medicine and bring it to you."

Xiao Ling nodded slightly and returned to the woodshed.

Shen Yuan took out several medicinal herbs that were good for wound healing from the medicine cabinet, ground them into powder and made them into a paste. Then she carried the medicine bowl from the front hall across the courtyard.

Granny Liu was picking vegetables in the yard when she saw Shen Yuan and said, "Ask Young Master Xiao what he wants to eat for lunch. After all, he has paid for his meals, so we should take good care of him."

"good!"

Shen Yuan, who had reached the door of the woodshed, answered and pushed the door open.

Inside the room, Xiao Ling was cleaning his wounds. He needed to wipe off the ointment he had applied yesterday, so he took off his shirt.

When Shen Yuan entered, she happened to see Xiao Ling's bare upper body.

His back was broad and straight with smooth lines, and because he had practiced martial arts, the muscles on his back looked particularly firm.

Shen Yuan suddenly felt that the medicine bowl in her hand was a little hot.

At this moment, Xiao Ling also grabbed his clothes and put them on because he heard the noise. He turned around and saw that the person who came was Shen Yuan, and then awkwardly looked away.

He didn't expect her to arrive so quickly!

Shen Yuan forced herself to remain calm, "Sorry, I was so busy talking to Grandma that I forgot to knock."

Xiao Ling coughed as a response.

Seeing that Xiao Ling was busy getting dressed and hadn't noticed that the water droplets on his body hadn't been dried off, Shen Yuan couldn't help but say again, "You don't need to wear it anymore, we'll be applying medicine later anyway..."

Xiao Ling paused in her dressing, and then heard the second half of Shen Yuan's sentence.

"Besides, I already saw your body the day before yesterday."

Xiao Ling stood rooted to the spot, the anger on his face spreading like wildfire to his ears.

For a young woman like her to say that... is truly shameless!

As soon as she blurted out those words, Shen Yuan blushed instantly. What had she just said? What kind of thing had she said?!

She simply meant that she thought it was a bit troublesome for him to take off and put on the same clothes repeatedly!

Why is her tongue giving commands and she's talking nonsense?

Yes! When she rescued Xiao Ling on Nanlu Mountain that day, she did strip him of his clothes, but only half of them. At the time, she was only trying to stop the bleeding and apply medicine, and she didn't look at anything except the wound!

However... the wound was a bit long, running from the left chest down to the right waist.

Shen Yuan's face grew hotter and hotter as she thought about it. She quickly shook her head, then shoved the medicine bowl into Xiao Ling's hands, saying, "You'll have to apply the medicine yourself later!" before running out of the woodshed as if fleeing.

Xiao Ling looked down at the medicine bowl in her hand, the redness at the base of her ears gradually fading.

Thinking of the girl's blushing and embarrassed expression just now, he couldn't help but smile.

At lunchtime, Shen Yuan served herself a bowl and took it to her room on the second floor to eat.

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