Chapter 44 Good News and Bad News
Fu Ning carefully carried Song Jinghe to the small cliff, then he climbed over and hugged him, saying to Sun Huchang, "I'll go back first."
Sun Huchang said hurriedly: "Okay, Sister Fu, go back and treat Brother Jing's leg."
Fu Ning was on her way to Pingzheng County when she heard the system ask her, "Boss, there is good news and bad news now. Which one do you want to hear first?"
"Let's talk about it together, don't make these unnecessary things."
The system paused for a second and said two different sentences in her left and right ears at the same time.
Fu Ning didn't hear a word clearly, but was amused by it. "Little system, are you trying to piss me off on purpose? I'm going to take out your travel expenses and spend them."
The system quickly said: "Boss, don't, I'll tell you straight away!"
"The good news is that the villain's favorability has risen to eighty-five points!"
Fu Ning raised his eyebrows, not very surprised, "What about the bad news?"
The system said listlessly, "The bad news is that my hacking into the host to open permissions was discovered. Now the host has punished us by not being able to convert our favorability into points for six months."
"Six months?" Fu Ning almost cried out, "Then I have to wait half a year to redeem the 5,000 points I just got?"
System: “Yes.”
Fu Ning was somewhat discouraged, "I suddenly lost my fighting spirit."
The system quickly consoled him, "It's alright, sir. The villain's favorability is so high now, it will definitely be even higher in half a year. Let's save it up and exchange it together when the time comes."
"Okay." Fu Ning looked at the pale Song Jinghe in her arms. He always had a special kind of beauty when he was weak. She found that she quite liked seeing him vulnerable.
She cheered herself up and said, "It's just half a year, it's not a big problem."
She took Song Jinghe all the way back to the inn, patted Xiaoya and told it to go back and rest. She supported Song Jinghe's back with one hand and his knees with the other, carried him to the second floor and put him on the bed.
She had already applied hemostatic powder to Song Jinghe when she was in Jinshan, and now she needed to take out the knife and suture his wound.
Fu Ning rushed to the nearby clinic without stopping, borrowed a needle, cotton cloth and mulberry bark thread, then borrowed a steamer from the inn's kitchen, steamed these things in it, and then ran to a nearby tavern to buy a jar of the strongest white wine.
In March when the temperature had not yet fully warmed up, she went back and forth several times and worked up a sweat.
About an incense stick of time later, Fu Ning returned to the inn, fetched a basin of water from the kitchen, took some white wine and carried the steamer back to the second floor, only to find that the door of his room was wide open.
She hurried in and saw Shen Qingning and Yan Qu standing beside Song Jinghe's bed.
Fu Ning frowned. Did these two people think that the entire inn belonged to them? They entered and exited other people's rooms so casually. She asked impolitely, "Excuse me, who are you two? Why are you in my room?"
Shen Qingning turned around and saw Fu Ning holding a lot of things in her hands, with a complicated look in her eyes. She saw in the magic mirror how Song Jinghe rushed to Jinshan to save her. The young man riding on Lu Wu gradually overlapped with the high-spirited Song Jinghe in her impression, but the concerned expression on his face was something she had never seen before. Jinghe was willing to hurt himself for her. She pinched her fingers and admitted that she was jealous.
She said, "Miss Xiaoshuang, we met before in Suman County. I am...Jinghe's fiancée."
The system called out, "Boss, the heroine is definitely provoking you, right?"
"Maybe." Fu Ning replied to the system, nodded indifferently, and said to her, "I see, what are you doing here?"
Shen Qingning didn't expect her to react so calmly. She didn't even ask any more questions, as if she was so insignificant. She bit her lip and said, "Yan Qu knows medicine. He is helping Jinghe with his treatment."
Fu Ning said coldly: "No need, I can treat him, please make way."
Yan Qu raised his head and said, "Miss Fu, now is not the time to lose your temper. Young Master Song's injury is no small matter. Believe me, I can handle it."
Fu Ning was so angry that she almost laughed after hearing this. When did she lose her temper? It was clearly Shen Qingning who was in a bad temper.
This person is really blind and heartless for taking sides.
However, she did not want to argue with them for the time being, so she just crossed her arms and asked, "Okay, how do you plan to deal with this?"
Yan Qu pondered and said, "Pull out the knife, apply hemostatic medicine, and bandage the wound."
Fu Ning nodded, "I know everything you said, can you please move aside now?"
Yan Qu looked at her determined eyes, remembered his letter of recommendation, and wanted to see what her abilities were. After hesitating for a moment, he finally gave up his seat.
Shen Qingning was so anxious that he grabbed him and said, "Yan Qu, are you kidding Jing He's life? What if Jing He gets hurt? How can I explain to Uncle Song and Aunt Song?"
Fu Ning turned a deaf ear to Shen Qingning's distrust. She moved the things she had prepared to Song Jinghe's bedside, fed him an anesthetic pill, washed her hands several times with liquor and water, pressed cotton cloth around Song Jinghe's knife wound with one hand, and pulled out the knife with the other hand, so neatly that almost no blood came out of the wound.
Song Jinghe just groaned unconsciously.
Shen Qingning came over and held his hand, his face full of worry, "Jinghe..."
The system shouted into Fu Ning's ear again: "Boss, the heroine is too arrogant, can you tolerate this?"
Fu Ning found time to reply, "Saving people is the most important thing, as long as she doesn't get in the way."
She carefully rinsed Song Jinghe's wound with clean water, took out a needle and mulberry bark thread, sewed it up from the inside out, and finally tied a knot on the epidermis. She cut the thread with scissors and finished.
Fu Ning wiped the sweat from his forehead, stood up, and looked at Shen Qingning’s still tightly clenched hands, “Since you don’t want to leave, then help take care of Xiao Jing.”
Shen Qingning raised her head unexpectedly, “What about you?”
Fu Ning held the spiritual weapon in his arms, "I'm going to the Xiuzhen Club to exchange it for a teleportation stone."
Shen Qingning gritted her teeth and watched her turn around and leave without any reluctance. She actually left Song Jinghe behind so confidently. Wasn't she worried that he would say bad things about her and steal her credit?
But then she thought again, Jinghe was already Fu Ning's husband, so how could she care about her ex-fiancée?
She lost this duel from the very beginning.
Yan Qu exclaimed: "This Miss Fu is really talented. I have never seen her suturing technique before."
Shen Qingning said disdainfully: “It’s just a rustic method from the countryside.”
Yan Qu frowned slightly, rarely agreeing with Qing Ning's point of view.
After a while, Song Jinghe murmured something and seemed to be waking up.
Shen Qingning quickly put his ear closer, and his mood suddenly fell to the bottom after hearing the word Fu Ning.
Then Song Jinghe opened his eyes. Shen Qingning clearly saw the disappointment in his eyes.
She was completely stimulated by this look and asked, "Song Jinghe, do you want to see Miss Fu?"
Song Jinghe did not answer, Shen Qingning said in a sharp tone: "It's a pity that Miss Fu ran to the Cultivation Association to exchange the teleportation stone. It seems that in her heart you are not as important as the teleportation stone."
Song Jinghe's face darkened. She felt heartbroken and happy at the same time. "Jinghe, don't you understand? She doesn't like you at all."
"Qingning..." Yan Qu frowned slightly. He didn't expect her to speak so carelessly. Miss Fu has been busy running around for most of the day since Young Master Song was injured. It is obvious that she cares about Young Master Song very much.
But in the end, he only cared about Shen Qingning. It was Song Jinghe who was wronged by her first, so he always had to let her vent.
He held back and didn't tell the truth.
Song Jinghe lowered his eyes, remained silent for a long time, and said, "I know."
Shen Qingning's cheerful mood came to an abrupt end, and she raised her voice and asked, "What do you know? Do you know that she doesn't like you?"
Song Jinghe nodded gently and repeated, "I know."
Shen Qingning looked at him in disbelief, wondering what had happened during the time they were apart to make a person become so strange.
Song Jinghe looked at Shen Qingning, "I am sorry for you."
Shen Qingning's tears suddenly flowed out, "I don't want to hear sorry, I don't understand why everything has changed after coming to the human world! You obviously...you should like me...we were so good before..."
Her voice became weaker and weaker, and gradually turned into sobbing. Yan Qu pulled her up and comforted her gently, "Mr. Song is still injured. Let him recover first, okay? Let's talk outside."
Shen Qingning covered her face and ran out of the house.
Yan Qu tried to chase after him but was stopped by Song Jinghe.
He asked, "Who sewed my wounds?"
Yan Qu looked at his hopeful eyes and said with certainty, "It's the person you were thinking of."
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"System, can you check Song Jinghe's favorability towards the heroine?"
"Sorry, sir, I don't have this function." The system said, "Why are you asking this?"
"I'm thinking about whether bringing Shen Qingning and Song Jinghe together will increase their favorability."
The system warned: "Boss, be careful that your favorability will decrease instead of increase. The villain already likes you very much now, and is only one step away from being his true love. Can you please not do anything else?"
"Okay." Fu Ning temporarily gave up the idea and walked into the courtyard of the Cultivation Association. There were still many cultivators gathered inside. They made way for her when they saw her come in.
She walked up to Mr. Zhou and took out the spiritual weapon. "Although I didn't hand it over in Jinshan, it should count for me to give it to you, right?"
Mr. Zhou smiled and said, "Of course, you deserve to be the winner this year."
Someone in the crowd said, "Eh? I remember the man in the wheelchair bet on Miss Fu Ning. He actually won the bet."
Fu Ning had sharp ears. She took the white stone that Zhou Lao handed to her and put it in her bag. She walked into the crowd and said, "The one in the wheelchair is my husband. Just give me the money he won."
Originally, everyone was just betting small amounts of money, so the man readily handed a small bag to Fu Ning and said, "Congratulations, you will be able to go to the cultivation world to study soon. These are our gifts to you."
Fu Ning took it with a smile, weighed it in his hand, and said, "Thank you."
"I don't accept it!" A shout came from outside the door. Yu Chunyuan walked in with two followers. They had just arrived in Pingzheng County and asked people who didn't participate in the competition for information. "I heard that Miss Fu joined the Cultivation Association with a letter of recommendation?"
Fu Ning raised his chin and asked, "So what?"
"Mr. Zhou, Miss Fu relied on luck to get the teleportation stone. If she catches up with the cultivators in the cultivation world, won't it bring shame to Quzhou?"
Several people began to whisper.
Elder Zhou stroked his beard and said, "We have seen in the magic mirror that Xiao Fu's fighting skills, defense capabilities, and even medical skills are all very good. I believe she will be able to adapt to life in the cultivation world soon."
Seeing that Mr. Zhou didn't agree with him, Yu Chunyuan cursed him inwardly, and turned to look at Fu Ning, "Miss Fu, since you are so powerful, you should not be afraid of us testing your ability again, right?"
Fu Ning squinted at him and asked, "Who do you think you are to test my ability?"
Yu Chunyuan's face turned pale, and he wanted to kill Fu Ning immediately, but he wanted to make her look bad in front of everyone. "We just heard that your alchemy skills were recognized by Master Minglu, but no one has ever seen it, so we want to see how powerful your alchemy skills are."
It was clear that the letter of introduction that Fu Ning was holding was from Yan Qu, but he insisted on praising her as Master Cheng Minglu's, just to heighten everyone's expectations and embarrass her.
Someone in the crowd immediately echoed, "Wow, Master Minglu? He is the most famous alchemist in the world of cultivation."
"Miss Fu is so powerful? Please show us some of your skills."
"That's right, you don't dare anymore, do you?"
"It's very likely. Think about it, she relied on the explosion of the thunderbolt to snatch the spiritual weapon from Master Yu. I guess she doesn't have any real skills."
The system said to Fu Ning, "Boss, this is too obvious a provocation. It seems that several people in the Cultivation Association have been bribed by Yu Chunyuan. We must not fall for this."
Fu Ning said that she really fell for it. She raised her chin and asked, "Tell me, what do you want to see?"
Yu Chunyuan was secretly delighted. He didn't expect that this stupid woman would fall into the trap so easily.
【Author has something to say】
Current system: Can’t redeem points? Don't panic, it's not a big problem!
The system six months later: This is a big problem.
Sister Fu: My fist is hard.
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