Chapter 22 The Hardest One
"Uncle San doesn't want you to worry about this, but he hasn't taken his medicine in a day." Xie Cuicui's voice choked with sobs, her face flushed red. "Uncle Zhou said that if he wants to get the herbs, Mom must agree to a settlement and personally go to the town to pick up Zhou Beibei and bring her back to the village. Only then will he forgive our family."
Su Cheng lowered his eyes to hide the darkness that flashed across his eyes.
Xie Suzhou was concerned about his brother and rushed into the house first, "Jinyu!"
Xie Jinyu was lying on the bed with his clothes on, flipping through the bamboo slips in his hand. He was reading them attentively when Xie Suzhou suddenly rushed in, giving him a fright.
"Second brother?" Xie Jinyu supported herself on her arms as she stood up. Seeing his worried expression, she also frowned. "What happened?"
"You're asking me this?" Seeing his nonchalant expression, Xie Suzhou felt a surge of anger. "Xie Jinyu, if you really don't want to live, just let me know. I'll personally send you off. It's more comfortable than dying of illness."
"I..." A hint of confusion appeared on Xie Jinyu's sickly pale face.
"I haven't even gotten to the bottom of it yet, so why are you rushing here to accuse me?" Su Cheng tugged at the corner of Xie Suzhou's clothes, her pretty face full of helplessness. "Cuicui is so young, and she's probably gone too far out of her mind.
Hearing this, Xie Jinyu seemed to have thought of something, and her frown relaxed. "That little bitch Cuicui is talking nonsense again. Why do you take a child's words to heart?"
"Your health has always been the most important thing in the family. Your second brother's impatience is understandable." Su Cheng walked to the table, lowered his head, picked up the teacup on the table, and handed it to Xie Jinyu. "What do you think about the Zhou family's affairs?"
Speaking of the Zhou family, Xie Jinyu leaned on the pillow, her face gloomy, her eyelids half drooped, and she scraped the tea foam with the cup lid.
"Zhou Kai wants to use herbs to force you to compromise in exchange for his precious daughter. He has such a strong plan, and I will definitely not let him succeed. I used to take medicine from him just because we live in the same village, so it would be convenient to get medicine. I don't know where he got the confidence from, but he thought that he was the only one who could take care of my illness."
Xie Suzhou's face was displeased, his brows knitted into knots. "That being said, Zhou Kai is familiar with all the clinics in town. He's very cunning. If he wanted to target us, he must have given us a heads-up."
Xie Jinyu turned his head slightly, not daring to look at his brother, and said in a low voice, "Don't be nervous, I have my own plans in mind."
"you……"
Xie Suzhou wanted to say something else, but was stopped by Su Cheng's look.
Su Cheng raised her chin slightly towards him, motioning him to leave first.
Xie Suzhou's thin lips turned pale as he pursed them. He looked at her deeply, turned around and left the yard, and happened to bump into the police.
"Thank you, Scholar, we've finally found you." The official put on a flattering smile and stepped aside to make way behind him. A few dozen steps away, a low-key and plain carriage stopped. "Our Lord Wang would like to invite you to have some tea to relieve your boredom."
Xie Suzhou was stunned at first, but after he came to his senses, he nodded slightly, followed the official into the car, and headed straight for Pingchuan Town.
In the room, Su Cheng sat on a stool, looking into the eyes of the man on the bed.
Xie Jinyu had a faint smile on her lips as she leaned against the headboard in a lazy manner. "Sister-in-law, what do you want to say to me in private?"
Su Cheng curled her lips, looked at him with a smile, and said gently, "Cuicui is right, you don't want to be treated, right?"
Xie Jinyu's smile faded a little. After a moment's silence, she suddenly laughed out loud, her eyes teasing, "Sister-in-law already has the answer in her heart, why bother asking me?"
Su Cheng placed his fingertips on the teacup and said calmly, "I'm asking you just to confirm what I'm thinking."
Xie Jinyu raised the corner of her lips and smiled nonchalantly, "Why, sister-in-law wants to go to second brother and report me?"
"I'm not that much of a troublemaker." Su Cheng slowly stood up, staring at him with a smile, "You don't have to worry about the Zhou family's affairs. I will find a way to solve them. Your life is your own, and whether you live or die is up to you. But now that I've married into the Xie family, we're one family. Whether you want treatment or not, I will do my best to save your life. The choice is yours."
Xie Jinyu was stunned for a moment, looking at her with surprise in her eyes.
"You should have a good rest."
She only uttered this sentence, the hem of her green skirt swayed slightly, and the sound of the door closing echoed in the room.
Xie Jinyu came back to her senses, a gloomy look flashed across her phoenix eyes, and she lowered her head and murmured, "If possible, who wouldn't want to live..."
Su Cheng didn't hear the familiar system sound and was puzzled. "Strange, Xie Jinyu's favorability value hasn't changed?"
【No. 】
Su Cheng sat on his bed and sighed deeply, "This kid is really hard to deal with."
Among the only three men left in the Xie family, the third brother, Xie Jinyu, seems to be the easiest to talk to. He is always smiling and gentle to others. Who would have thought that he is actually the most difficult one to conquer.
On the contrary, Xie Suzhou, who is called the black-hearted dumpling in the book, has the biggest contrast. His face can be turned red by just two or three sentences.
"It seems Xie Jinyu isn't fooled by sweet talk. If I don't take some concrete action, I'm afraid I won't be able to take him down." Su Cheng lowered his eyes in thought. Suddenly, he thought of something and asked quietly, "System, what is the new reward you mentioned earlier?"
【A piece of mutton pie.】
Su Cheng blinked, "No more?"
【No more.】
Su Cheng laughed in anger, wishing he could pull the system out of his head and give it a good beating. "What can a piece of mutton pie do? Is it to satisfy my hunger? Or is it to let Xie Jinyu have a bite of meat before she dies?"
[In the original book, Xie Jinyu's miraculous doctor, Du Heng, is located in the back mountain 500 meters away from the host. He is starving to death, and mutton patties are his favorite food.]
"Miracle doctor..." Su Cheng frowned and spoke hesitantly, "You want me to lure him home with a piece of mutton pie?"
The system fell silent and did not give any more prompts. A piece of warm mutton pie wrapped in brown paper appeared out of thin air in Su Cheng's palm.
Su Cheng had no choice but to go to the back mountain with the meat pie in his pocket to try his luck.
The door of the house opposite was opened from the inside, and a woman hurried out of the house, as if she had something important to do.
Xie Jinyu leaned against the window, her eyelids slightly raised, her beautiful black eyes fixed on the woman's thin back, and a complex look flashed in her eyes.
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The back mountain is not far from the Xie family and is next to the river ditch.
Su Cheng walked around the mountain for a long time, but didn't see any people, not even a ghost.
"Help—help—"
Su Cheng paused and looked behind him suspiciously. There was a man hanging upside down on a big tree in the distance. His silver beard covered his face, so his appearance could not be seen clearly.
It's that animal trap again!
Who set the rope? We didn't catch any wild animals all day, only people were hanged.
Su Cheng trotted over, hurriedly loosened the rope and rescued the white-haired old man.
I don’t know how long the old man was hanging there. After he came back to life, he collapsed to the ground and didn’t even have the strength to lift his head.
Su Cheng squatted beside him cautiously and spoke hesitantly, "Are you okay?"
Perhaps it was because the meat pie hanging on Su Cheng's waist was too fragrant, the old man sniffed, forced himself to open his eyes, staring at the meat pie, and said with a dying breath, "Girl, is that... a mutton pie?"
Seeing him like this, Su Cheng's eyes flashed with suspicion.
This old man is in such a miserable state, is he really the miraculous doctor Du Heng in the book?
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