"Yueyue, is Xiao Lu married yet?" Old Zhuang asked quietly after the two left.

Li Xiyue smiled and shook her head, "No."

Old Zhuang was overjoyed. "Could it really be fate?"

"Definitely." Li Xiyue covered her mouth and chuckled.

Old Master Zhuang was very satisfied with Lu Feng. If... then he could close his eyes and rest easy now.

Li Xiyue took out the refined pills and said, "Grandmaster Uncle, take three of these pills every day."

"I heard from the girl that you've been making medicine for me. Yueyue, thank you so much. My illness..." Old Zhuang shook his head, not holding out any hope.

His life is nearing its end; how can medicine cure him?

Li Xiyue advised, "Grandmaster Uncle, give it a try, maybe it will work?"

Old Zhuang couldn't refuse her kind offer, so he took the medicine. Well, he figured it was better to try anything than nothing.

Next door, Lu Feng and Zhuang Le sat in the courtyard, drinking and watching the moon.

The cold wind was howling. Seeing that she was dressed in thin clothes, Lu Feng took off his coat and put it on her. "It's cold. Don't catch a cold. Or, shall we go back inside and have a drink?"

"It's stuffy inside, it's more comfortable outside." Zhuang Le shook his head and took off his coat. "I'm fine, I'm not afraid of the cold, you can wear it."

Lu Feng put on his coat, went back inside to get a blanket, and said, "Then put this on."

Zhuang Le didn't refuse again. He took a swig of wine and sighed, "At first, when the old man said he wanted to come to the capital, I was quite reluctant. I was very resistant to the people here. But after I came, I met a lot of nice people. I think the capital is quite interesting."

"How have you and Dr. Zhuang been doing all these years?" Lu Feng asked, looking at her profile.

Zhuang Le took a sip of wine and smiled bitterly, "When I was more than ten years old, I wandered around with the old man, without a fixed place to live, eating the wind and sleeping in the dew."

When we were teenagers, we went to Yunnan Province and settled down there. We treated patients and managed to make a living.

In recent years, however, with the elimination of the Four Olds, witchcraft has become so forbidden that it is not only unacceptable to use, but it is also unthinkable to even mention it. We can only use traditional Chinese medicine, but traditional Chinese medicine is also suppressed. We have no power or influence, and it is difficult for us to survive.

During the hardest times, my husband and I went three days without a single grain of rice. We were so desperate that we had no choice but to go to the black market…

When she first went to the black market, she was terrified, her voice trembling. But in order to save herself and the old man, she mustered her courage, gritted her teeth, and had no choice but to continue down this dangerous path.

Lu Feng felt both heartache and sadness. He had experienced what she was going through and could empathize with her.

“When life was tough, I resented my parents for abandoning me.”

Brother Lu, I don't understand. You were seriously ill, which is why your family abandoned you, but I'm perfectly healthy. Why don't they want me either? Is it just because I'm a girl?

How could they be so heartless? If I hadn't met you, if I hadn't met the old man, I would have frozen to death in that winter.

"I'm their child, do they hate me that much? Do they wish I were dead?"

Her brows were full of sorrow, her eyes glistened with tears, and she was surrounded by loneliness and desolation.

Lu Feng felt a pang of heartache, "Miss Zhuang..."

"If they didn't like me, why did they give birth to me?" Zhuang Le turned to look at him, tears streaming down her face. "Was it because I was naughty when I was little that they didn't want me?"