After Li Mu finished treating Liang Huan, he looked at Liang Xiao, who was still in a daze, and thought to himself, "Don't you need to treat your birthmark?"
However, the girl was still in shock. Li Mu's treatment methods were truly unique and completely beyond her comprehension. As a medical student and a highly educated woman who relied on science, she found it hard to accept.
No matter how much she couldn't accept it, the facts were right in front of her, and Liang Xiao still had to accept them. Coming to her senses, she acted cute and said to Li Mu with a smile, "Li Mu, could you please help me treat this too?"
Seeing Liang Xiao remove her mask with a smile in her eyes, Li Mu felt a little uncomfortable. He thought to himself, "Just say it, why do you have to smile and have that silly grin on your face? Isn't that scary?"
“Okay!” Li Mu quickly replied.
"Smack!"
Li Mugang was holding a stool, preparing to let Liang Xiao sit on it for treatment, when the woman slapped Liang Huan on the thigh, pulling the still unconscious Liang Huan off the treatment bed.
"Get up quickly, give me your seat."
"Hey! Xiaoxiao, what are you doing!"
Liang Huan was somewhat dazed. With the snake venom and melanin toxins completely gone from her body, she felt an unprecedented sense of ease and was sleeping soundly when this crazy girl disturbed her. What confused her even more was that after her sister woke her up, she ended up on the treatment bed.
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"Li Mu, hurry up, I'm ready, let's go!"
Looking at her sister's half-face where the birthmark had been removed, Liang Xiao felt a surge of excitement. What young girl doesn't dream of love, and what woman doesn't love beauty? She couldn't wait any longer.
"Xiaoxiao, what are you trying to do? Don't do anything stupid!"
Seeing Liang Xiao's actions, Liang Huan became anxious. What did she mean by "prepared"? Why did she lie down first? Could it be that she agreed to some condition from Li Mu—that she would repay him with her body—in order to cure her illness?
Hearing Liang Xiao's words and seeing Liang Huan glancing back and forth between him and Liang Xiao, Li Mu, who had lived two lives, blushed a little. What did she take him for? I'm here to treat your illnesses!
"Oh! Sis! Just stay over there, what are you thinking about? I'm asking Li Mu to treat my illness."
Liang Xiao also realized the problem; her sister had misunderstood, and she had just been too anxious.
"Let's begin!" Li Mu took the stool he had prepared for Liang Xiao, sat down by the bed, and began to remove the birthmark from him.
Before starting, Li Mu pressed Liang Xiao's acupoints to induce sleep, which would have allowed him to wake her up for treatment. However, this girl was a bit unpredictable, and her words were often ambiguous. If she were to say halfway through the treatment that it hurt, itched, and felt good all at once, she might accidentally mess up her breathing.
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Having already treated Liang Huan once before, treating Liang Xiao was a breeze.
Just half an hour later, Li Mu burned away the birthmark with another fireball. He couldn't blame himself for showing off; the thing really did look disgusting.
This time, Liang Huan was dumbfounded, but Li Mu didn't care anymore. No one else could learn his methods, and it was pointless for anyone to ask if he didn't want to talk about it. Hiding things would only make him uncomfortable.
After Li Mu released Liang Xiao's pressure point to stop her from falling asleep, she quickly woke up on her own. The two sisters stared at each other with wide eyes, looking left and right for a long time, touching their own faces, and then hugging each other and crying, making Li Mu restless.
"Li Mu, we...we kneel before you, please accept..." After calming themselves down, the two sisters came to Li Mu, knelt down directly, and were about to perform a kneeling ceremony.
"No, please don't bow. Meeting you is fate, and as for healing you, it's just something I did on the side. Don't be so polite." Li Mu gently waved his hand, lifting the two sisters who were about to kneel down.
"Li Mu, um, Xiaoxiao, please keep Master Li company for a while. I'll go cook." Liang Huan was more thoughtful. This man hadn't even had a sip of water since coming down from the mountain, let alone a meal. She handed him a cup of tea first, and then went to prepare the food.
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Liang Xiao originally wanted to learn more about Li Mu, but seeing that Li Mu was not very willing to talk about himself, she started talking about herself and her two sisters.
The two sisters are 28 years old this year. They are twins and were born with ghost masks. Their family was poor and they were disliked by others since childhood, even by their parents.
After starting school, because of the birthmarks on their faces, they were discriminated against by their classmates except for their academic achievements. So, the two of them began to study hard until they graduated from university with master's degrees. During a physical examination, the two unfortunate people were diagnosed with melanin poisoning.
Because of their medical background, they had a deeper understanding of their own conditions. This deadly toxin was like a guillotine hanging over their heads, ultimately threatening their lives. After starting their careers, they made breakthroughs in the research of synthetic pharmacology combining traditional Chinese and Western medicine, and reaped substantial rewards.
After working for two years and saving some money, the two returned to their hometown without hesitation because Western medicine had not found a better treatment for melanin poisoning. They began to develop and treat their own medicine based on traditional Chinese medicine, essentially using themselves as experimental subjects to conduct drug research and save themselves.
At this point, Liang Xiao got up to show Li Mu around his family's pharmacy. The pharmacy was next to the laboratory and contained no fewer than several hundred kinds of Chinese medicinal herbs. Some of the herbs still had a little soil on them, as if they had just been picked.
With a shy blush, Liang pointed to the samples of medicine and herbal decoction in the cabinet and said to Li Mu:
“A few days ago, we just harvested some Polygonum multiflorum and formulated two research plans. One was to make a medicine by adding a few Chinese herbs to snake venom diluted a thousand times, and the other was to purify Polygonum multiflorum and add it to a few Chinese herbs. My sister was injected with the snake venom medicine, and I ate the decoction with Polygonum multiflorum. That’s what happened to what you see today.”
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After hearing Liang Xiao's story, Li Mu thought of Yang Yixiao, who "wrote a miraculous remedy, took it, and died," and couldn't help but laugh.
"Li Mu, please don't laugh at us. We had no choice but to try everything. We were going to die anyway, so we might as well die by our own hand." Liang Xiao felt even more embarrassed when she heard Li Mu laugh.
To say these two sisters are ignorant is an understatement; they are highly educated. To say they are professionals is an understatement; they are incredibly audacious to risk their lives for experiments. It's hard to say what to say.
"By the way, Li Mu, your medical skills are so amazing, see if there are any medicinal herbs you need here. If you see any you like, I'll give them to you," Liang Xiao said.
"Oh! Then I won't stand on ceremony. Do you still have that thousand-year-old He Shou Wu?" Li Mu said with a smile.
"Ah! A thousand years? How could that be? But I still have a few He Shou Wu roots left. Shall I show them to you?" Liang Xiao knew Li Mu was joking, so she opened a temperature-controlled cabinet and took out a small sealed box from it, handing it to Li Mu.
Li Mu took the box and opened it. Inside were three pieces of He Shou Wu (Polygonum multiflorum), one large and one small, emanating a faint spiritual energy. They were estimated to be ten or twenty years old, which was quite good. Li Mu picked up the smallest piece and immediately sensed something was wrong; this shouldn't be He Shou Wu.
"That doesn't look like a he shou wu (Polygonum multiflorum). I dug it up myself. It has a lot more vines and leaves than a he shou wu, and there's almost nothing growing around it. I didn't expect it to be so small when I dug it up," Liang Xiao explained.
"boom!"
It was as if a thunderclap had struck Li Mu's mind. This was no ordinary He Shou Wu (Polygonum multiflorum), but a rare and naturally occurring spiritual plant called Zi Yun Teng (Purple Cloud Vine)!
Purple Cloud Vine, with its abundant vines and leaves, is a companion plant to Polygonum multiflorum. It absorbs the essence of heaven and earth, and the breath of the surrounding environment, taking a thousand years to grow to an inch. This Purple Cloud Vine is exactly one inch long, a thousand-year-old medicinal herb.
A thousand years is enough time; even a radish that grows for a thousand years becomes a spiritual object.
As expected, good deeds are rewarded. I had just helped someone cure an illness and immediately encountered such a miraculous object, a rare medicinal herb that I would hardly have seen even in my previous life.
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