9 Chapter 9 What the Heart Desires
◎ Yunhe holds my heartbeat in his hands◎
Hearing this, Yuliu's fingertips that were fiddling with the edge of the teacup suddenly stopped. Due to the force applied by her fingertips on the wall of the cup, another cluster of ripples appeared, which slanted into the ripples that were originally spreading slowly from the center of the water surface.
She stared at the mess of light blue tea and suddenly realized that she was not actually surprised by Yunhe's answer.
That's why she just sat aside and said nothing at the beginning.
On the other hand, when Li Shengshou heard this, his expression became complicated, and combined with his face with dark eyes, he looked very funny.
However, Yunhe had already said it so clearly, so he didn't know what to say. He pretended to take Yunhe's pulse and left in a hurry.
Yu Liu didn't personally see Li Shengshou off this time. She watched him leave with a slight frown, "He's leaving now?"
"Leave."
Yun He had been half-sitting on the bed when he was talking to Li Shengshou just now. But when he was talking to Yu Liu, he turned over and got off the bed, casually put on a robe, and sat on the other side of the soft couch. He poured the tea that had been sitting for a long time for Yu Liu, and then filled a new cup. He handed the steaming hot cup to Yu Liu across the mahogany coffee table and said, "Drink it hot."
Yuliu took it and took a sip. She felt the hot tea's refreshing aroma was indeed better than the half-cold herbal tea. She felt such a treat that her tone was filled with satisfaction when she spoke again: "I paid so much for the consultation, and he just left like that?"
Yun He didn't take it seriously: "People from the Poison Doctor Valley have been taking medicinal baths since they were young, so they always have many life-saving talismans in times of danger."
"If you don't write the prescription, do you not need to change the medicine for the wound?" Yuliu frowned and looked in the direction where Li Shengshou left, then turned back to look at Yunhe. Her eyes inadvertently swept across Yunhe's tall figure, and she thought to herself, his patient's body really looks much stronger than hers, and she didn't smell any blood today.
Yuliu stared at Yunhe's broad and clean chest, her thoughts wandering.
Could Yunhe be a medicine man who was raised through medicinal baths in the Poison Doctor Valley?
Although Yunhe's quick recovery was indeed due to the superficial influence of the long-term medicinal bath, the real reason was that Yunhe woke up early in the morning and thought that if Yuliu came to see him, his wound would bleed again, which would scare Yuliu, so he changed the medicine on his wound in advance.
Yuliu couldn't see it, but Li Shengshou had been practicing medicine for many years and knew it at a glance, so he didn't bother Yunhe any more.
Yun He watched Yu Liu sitting by the side, sipping slowly from her small teacup. He didn't explain the cause and effect, but simply asked, "Miss, do you feel that Li Shengshou's consultation fees are too easy and you feel bad about it?"
Yuliu didn't answer, but glanced at Yunhe meaningfully, and suddenly asked, "Are you serious about what you said just now?"
Yun He straightened his sleeves, thinking Yu Liu was analyzing the Fourth Prince's wife's inner grievances before asking him, and nodded, "Of course, the Fourth Prince's wife's decisive action doesn't seem to indicate she has a grudge. It's just that she thinks too clearly, which has disappointed those around her."
What if it is true as Li Shengshou said, that the Fourth Prince's wife is indeed depressed?
Yuliu wanted to ask this, but when the words came to her lips, she turned them into: "Who asked you this? I was asking, with whom did you make the agreement to stay with me?"
Yunhe turned his head and stared at Yuliu, who looked back at him without any hesitation.
One breath.
Two breaths.
"Okay." Yun He was the first to give in, his tone helpless. "I thought we agreed yesterday that after my injury healed, the young lady would keep me in the mansion as a doctor. I didn't expect that after you said it, I was the only one who took it seriously."
Yu Liu Ning choked: "..."
She clearly said, let’s talk about it after you’ve recovered from your injury, she didn’t mean anything else!
Don't look at her like that and don't say anything so sentimental. It will make her look like a heartless person who makes a promise today and forgets it tomorrow!
Yun He glanced at Yu Liu and nodded with an expression that said, "Although, as I expected," and said, "Okay, although the young lady just said it casually, I will still keep your words in mind."
"I don't know why, but you're so capable that you could be a high-ranking official anywhere, yet you chose to stay in this remote courtyard of mine." Yu Liu didn't want to continue arguing with him about whether to stay or leave. Shi Ran put down his teacup, turned sideways, and said to Yun He, "But have you ever thought about how you would cope if the Fourth Prince found out about your public rejection of Li Shengshou today?"
"Hmm?" Yun He raised his tone slightly and raised his eyebrows in surprise.
Yuliu felt that she had to get everything out in the open as soon as possible: "When the time comes, I won't be able to protect you."
After hearing this, Yun He didn't worry about whether his life could be saved. Instead, he seemed a little happy: "Have you... started to think about what will happen if you keep me?"
Yuliu pursed her lips, feeling that this person always seemed to grasp some strange key points when he was obedient, so she had to change to a more straightforward statement: "No, I'm advising you not to regret it."
"Regret?" Yun He rubbed his fingers together, his eyebrows slightly raised. "Miss Yu, perhaps you haven't even noticed it yourself?"
"What did you discover?" Yu Liu frowned and keenly brought the topic back to where it had strayed. "So, have you ever thought about this carefully?"
Yunhe was indeed thinking, but he did not follow Yuliu's thoughts to measure his own retreat. Instead, he went against Yuliu's point of view and traced back to something deeper.
Yun He raised his hand, slightly spreading his five fingers, and pressed down his wrist as if to comfort her, but it only lasted a few blinks. He then refilled Yu Liu's half-empty teacup: "This tea is good, it clears heat and moistens the lungs."
Yuliu is actually quite greedy.
It's just that she is always forced to maintain her image when she is out, and she always restrains herself and behaves more reserved and gentle. Now it is rare that someone takes care of her so attentively and meticulously, and even delivers food and drinks directly to her.
The aroma of tea was steaming, and white mist was wafting in the air. She was tempted by the aroma of the tea that Yunhe brought to her. She pursed her lips but still couldn't help but reached out to take it, held it in her hands and continued to drink it in small sips.
Yunhe sat aside, watching Yuliu take a tentative sip of sex, and his brows relaxed slightly with enjoyment, his cherry-like red lips glowing with passion under the nourishment of tea.
He took in Yuliu's gesture, then glanced away with a knowing look in his eyes. "Actually, sometimes when encountering something, there's no need to overthink. Since we're living in the present, we should just enjoy it."
Yuliu almost choked at his sudden sermon. She patted her chest to catch her breath. Before she could say anything else, Yunhe took advantage of the opportunity and continued, "You've said so much just now, always thinking about how difficult my situation will be, but have you ever considered that things won't develop to that point?"
"No matter which country the Poison Doctor Valley is in, it will be treated as a guest of honor. Moreover, the reason I just refused was true. No matter how powerful the Fourth Prince is, he can't do anything to me. So there is no need to be so pessimistic."
"Yes." Yuliu finally caught her breath, her voice half hoarse, and she could only speak with a very faint whisper. Her tone, originally full of concern and worry, suddenly took on a hint of teasing for no reason. "You want to be treated as a guest of honor by the king, but here, you can only sit on a small soft couch."
Seeing that Yuliu was weak, Yunhe took her tender white wrist. As Yuliu looked at him with slightly open eyes and a bit of panic, Yunhe calmly responded with a gentle smile. Then, he pressed his slender knuckles hard on a certain acupoint on the girl's soft hand. Yuliu gasped in pain, and her pink and white fingertips curled up slightly, as if she wanted to withdraw her hand.
Unexpectedly, Yunhe still smiled at her, and the fingertips that were originally pressed on the soft flesh were slightly lifted up, and slid against the palm of his hand to Yuliu's slender white wrist, then he clasped it with his backhand, and stretched out two fingers to gently place on Yuliu's meridians.
Yunhe's movements were as gentle as a layer of smoke-like aphrodisiac. Taking advantage of the moment when Yuliu was confused, he quickly captured the target.
Yuliu only felt that Yunhe was holding her heartbeat in his hands.
Bang, bang—bang.
The joyful beating in her chest was transmitted all the way to her wrist along the warm blood vessels. All the reactions of Yuliu's body and mind were suddenly magnified under Yunhe's fingertips without any hiding.
When Yun He took the pulse, his face was expressionless. His eyes were half closed and his tone was calm: "Relax."
To some extent, Yuliu felt like she was being "forced into a sale" and "bullying into a relationship." She immediately said angrily, "Yunhe! I've just calmed down. Why are you suddenly taking my pulse?"
Yun He's face was expressionless. "Liver Qi stagnation leads to a thin and rapid pulse. Qi and blood deficiency leads to a tight and stringy pulse. Heart Fire is strong, leading to a floating and weak pulse."
Yuliu didn't know any medical skills, so she was silent for a moment, which was unusual for her. Then she asked, "...what do you mean?"
Yun He finished his sentence and withdrew his hand. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Yu Liu immediately retract her hand and hide it in her sleeve the moment he let go of her hand. Feeling unhappy, he added another sentence to the sentence: "Hide your illness and avoid medical treatment."
This time Yuliu understood, but pretended not to hear.
"What I mean is, hey..." Yun He was halfway through his words when he suddenly sighed.
Yuliu felt that she saw some pain in Yunhe's eyes: "...Is it really that serious?"
Yuliu knew that there was some harmless toxin in her body, but there was no way she would let a skilled Chinese medicine doctor sit by and sigh, right?
Yun He nodded: "Of course."
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Seeing that he was truly sad, Yuliu asked curiously, "But I only drank a sip of the Distracting Powder, and it's not even as much as my rabbit drank in one meal?"
"So you knew what poison you were in." Yun He looked at Yu Liu with a sudden resentful look in his eyes. "But you still drank it?"
"Really?" Yu Liu was baffled by Yun He's gaze. "I know this Soul-Splitting Powder is difficult to resolve, but I also know that for the poison to take effect, it would take at least three to five years of drinking just this one cup of tea, morning, noon, and night, day and night, for it to accumulate, right? And I've only had a few sips, so it shouldn't be a problem, right?"
Yun He shook his head: "Even if the Soul-Distracting Powder is difficult to dissolve, I have a solution, but that's not a reason for you to drink poison as if it were water."
Yunhe has been practicing medicine for so many years, and this is the first time he has thought about curing a patient's heart disease. It is also the first time he has met a girl who does not take her life seriously.
What's worse is that he can't do anything with her.
I can't bring myself to hit him.
I can’t bring myself to curse.
Yet, this man, with an innocent expression on his face, approached him and asked, "Since the poison can be cured, then why did you look so distressed just now?"
That look...
If Yuliu hadn't known that he wouldn't die, he would have been so confused by that emotion that he would have thought he was going to die soon.
Yun He tilted his head back slightly, clearly in a low position, but when he looked straight into Yu Liu's misty eyes, he locked her firmly in front of him with his gaze, unable to escape: "Do you know?"
"What?" Yuliu blinked slowly.
"What you call guests of honor and guests on the couch are not important to me."
"What I care about is whether the person sitting opposite me is what I want in my heart when I sit down."
【Author’s words】
Yunhe (seeking shelter version): I want to cure your heart disease, Qiuqiu, give you a chance, the next update will be at 0:00~
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