Chapter 385 Lee Sang-hyun's Growth Plan 2
Damn it! How can he be such a responsible person?
It seems he can no longer simply use the Nan Yin people without doing something for them, Li Xiangxian thought.
The story goes back to the time when the senior brother swiftly persuaded his master and mistress, and then swiftly bought a perfectly suitable courtyard in a small town at the foot of the mountain. Then the three of them—oh, Xiangyi—were left behind. Because his mistress felt he could only take care of one unruly child, he had no choice but to take his senior brother down the mountain to live.
Yes, he was responsible for looking after his senior.
Li Xiangxian had no objection, but he felt that his master's wife was prejudiced against his senior brother. How could his senior brother be a naughty child? When he wasn't causing trouble, he would lie in his rocking chair and barely turn over twice a day. He was so easy to take care of!
As for when he was causing trouble... his senior brother was causing trouble, so he must have been involved too. Saying he was just looking after him is too polite.
They're called... accomplices, right?
There's no way around it, that's just how reliable the bond between fellow disciples is.
But I digress. Getting back to the main point, his medical skills did indeed improve considerably after he had a courtyard at the foot of the mountain.
Of course, they didn't open a clinic at first; they just provided free medical consultations and gradually put the medical skills from the books into practice.
He seemed to have a real talent for medicine, and his progress was rapid. In less than two years, "Li's Medical Clinic" was opened.
At the same time, settling down at the foot of the mountain made it easier for him to visit Feng Pan and others.
Li Xiangxian wasn't sure when his senior brother found out, whether it was on the mountain or down below. But he didn't seem curious at all; he didn't say anything, and his senior brother never asked.
Even after he asked to temporarily keep it from Xiang Yi, his senior brother agreed, and somehow managed to keep it from the cunning Xiang Yi.
As for Feng Pan and his group, they went from sneaking around to gradually interacting openly, and eventually all the people working in the clinic were from Nan Yin.
After spending more time with these Southern Yin people, Li Xiangxian realized that they weren't particularly intelligent. Especially their leader, Feng Pan; however, his loyalty to him over the years had proven genuine.
But one day, Li Xiangxian noticed that whenever the Nan Yin people came and went, they would habitually place a pastry on the small table next to his senior brother's rocking chair. Then, he learned from them that this was a rule set by Feng Pan, and from Feng Pan that he treated his senior brother as a "mascot," Li Xiangxian was truly shocked by his thought process and didn't know how to comment.
Feng Pan argued that Lan Yan not only saved the lives of their two young masters, but also provided a place for them to gather, so that they, the people of Nan Yin, had a backbone and were getting better and better. What else could he be but a lucky charm?
If it weren't for the young master's refusal to overthrow the kingdom, he felt that Lan Yan could have been a good candidate to serve as the national advisor.
Seeing Feng Pan's regretful expression, Li Xiangxian couldn't help but twitch his lips. To be honest, Feng Pan hadn't given up on restoring the kingdom at all, had he? This reason was truly sincere yet absurd, clumsy yet comical.
Yes, Yi Sang-hyeon made it clear very early on that he did not want to overthrow the kingdom.
He had no intention of becoming emperor, much less of stirring up chaos in the country.
Although Feng Pan and the others verbally agreed to his request, Li Xiangxian knew they were unwilling to accept it.
Even though he had spent several years with them, and even though he had learned the Southern Yin Gu Technique from them, Li Xiangxian, unfortunately, had no intention of disrupting his peaceful life.
Occasionally, a sense of confusion would arise, wondering how Feng Pan and others' obsessions came about. What good would it do them to overthrow a country if the world were at peace?
It wasn't until Li Xiangxian chose to travel far away in order to improve his medical skills and came to the place where the people of Nanyin lived for the first time that he understood how Feng Pan and others' obsessions were formed.
The people of Nanyin are suffering terribly.
Even though the Southern Yin have been destroyed for a century, there are still many strange and ghostly legends surrounding the people of the Southern Yin, and Gu magic is not considered a righteous thing by others.
Therefore, the people of Nanyin were ostracized wherever they went, and the elderly, weak, women and children who posed the least threat were the easiest to be bullied.
People fear Nan Yin's Gu magic, yet they are not afraid to unleash their greatest malice upon Nan Yin's innocent people.
The more afraid he was, the more he was oppressed. This was the first time Li Xiangxian had truly witnessed the evil of human nature.
Seeing the suffering of ordinary people in Nanyin, who lived in hiding and rarely saw the light of day, he finally understood why people with some ability, like Feng Pan, wanted to overthrow the country.
Because the fall of their kingdom had become their only hope for a legitimate and honorable life.
This won't do, Li Xiangxian thought. Overthrowing the kingdom is a hopeless abyss, only burying more corpses of the Southern Yin people. In fact, the first to be buried would be the Southern Yin people like Feng Pan, who have high combat strength.
Without the protection of Feng Pan and others, the remaining people of Nanyin are like lambs to the slaughter, and they won't live much longer.
The clearer Li Xiangxian understood, the more troubled he became. He struggled with how he could possibly have a conscience and a sense of responsibility.
He had agreed to take full advantage of him, but looking at the expectant faces staring at him, Lee Sang-hyun simply couldn't bring himself to refuse.
Overthrowing the country was impossible, but he thought that helping these Southern Yin people should be much simpler than overthrowing the country.
"Feng Pan, you'll be working for me from now on."
Upon hearing Li Xiangxian's words, Feng Pan nodded heavily, his eyes filled with tears: "Yes."
He wasn't particularly clever, but he clearly understood that at this moment, the young master had truly accepted them, and also accepted his identity as a descendant of the Southern Yin royal family.
"Senior brother, what should I do if I want to support more people?"
Li Xiangxian removed the book that Lan Yan had been using to cover his face and gave him a fawning smile.
Lan Yan lazily opened his eyes: "How many should I raise?"
"one thousand……"
"Sure?"
"Ten thousand..."
"Not going to change it?"
Lee Sang-hyun touched his nose guiltily, "Okay, it might be around seventy, eighty, ninety... or even a hundred thousand."
Lan Yan stared at Li Xiangxian quietly for a while, until he saw Li Xiangxian's eyes darting away, before slowly speaking: "First, you need to be rich; second, you need to be powerful; third, you need to be famous."
Lee Sang-hyun blinked: "That's it?"
Lan Yan nodded. "That's right, it's very simple. You study medicine diligently, and then let your subordinates go into business. When you become the world's number one divine doctor, they will become the world's number one wealthy merchants, and everything will be solved."
“Senior brother, you’re even more daring than me…” Li Xiangxian took a deep breath, then quickly accepted it, “But it makes sense. If you think about it carefully, I have a much better chance of becoming a divine doctor than they do of getting rich.”
"That's right, keep that confidence and go for it."
"Alright!"
In short, one dares to speak, and the other dares to believe.
As a result, Li Xiangxian, who had "a little bit of talent," made rapid progress in medicine, poison, and Gu, and soon his name as a "divine doctor" spread throughout the martial arts world, even reaching the ears of the emperor in the capital.
As Li Xiangxian had predicted, Feng Pan and his group were not afraid of being robbed while traveling as merchants. However, they did lack some talent; it could only be said that the people of Nanyin had escaped poverty, but had not yet become truly wealthy.
Therefore, Li Xiangxian made a decision that went against his ancestors' wishes: he would lead people to find the First-Rank Tomb, the mausoleum of King Fangji and Princess Nanyin.
On the one hand, it was to study the Luo Mo Ding and improve the art of Gu poison; on the other hand, it was naturally to take out the burial objects inside and use them as funds for business development.
I believe our ancestors will forgive him, after all, it was all for the sake of Nan Yin!
Little Li Xiangxian has grown into a mature young man, possessing the best quality of an adult—thick-skinnedness.
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