Chapter 97 Blame him for being blind, but he was being wronged by the repeated breaths he received...
He gradually cooled down as Bai Yuan breathed on him repeatedly. The cold air entered his throat like a cold wind sweeping through his internal organs and limbs, dispelling the nameless and intense internal fire.
When Zhou Yaren woke up the next day, she was still not fully warmed up. Her blood and flesh felt cold all over, as if she had just breathed in the last breath of cold air. Therefore, the root of her tongue was also cold...
Upon realizing this, Zhou Yaren was in a daze for a long time. Countless dazzling memories flashed through his mind in a chaotic manner, with real and illusory memories taking turns to appear, almost causing him to go mad.
So he couldn't lie on that bed for even a moment longer; he had to go out for some fresh air.
Even after he left the house, the seemingly teasing voice of Bai Yuan would occasionally flash through his mind: "You're still young, and you have a short temper."
What's going on?
He clearly has a fever, what does that have to do with being young and having a hot temper?!
Although the recurring fever was normal, after all, his old wounds hadn't healed and he had suffered new ones, so he was really badly injured. However... whenever Zhou Yaren thought about this, his thoughts would easily wander to other places, and he simply couldn't calmly analyze the crux of the problem.
"Are you not confused?" Bai Yuan even asked him, "Are you feeling better now?"
The voice was low and elusive, making Zhou Yaren's head buzz.
He walked through the streets with a troubled mind. Fortunately, the cries of vendors and shopkeepers filled the air. A shopkeeper's abacus beads clicked loudly, an old woman haggled with a vegetable vendor, and there was even an unfilial son cursing his mother in the street...
He used the surrounding noise to suppress his thoughts and was about to continue forward when a white shadow suddenly flashed into the vast, dark world. Zhou Yaren turned around abruptly as if facing a formidable enemy and almost hastily "avoided" a shop.
The group of young people from Taihang Road, who had been busy for most of the night, happened to pass by. Lin Mu, looking dejected, uttered a soft "Ee," and asked, "Tingfengzhi?"
The other teenagers looked in the direction of the sound, then turned back around inexplicably.
"Where did this knowledge of the wind come from?"
"Isn't Tingfeng Zhi recuperating at the inn?"
“It’s Tingfengzhi,” Lin Mu pointed ahead, “He went into the pharmacy.”
The group hurried toward the pharmacy... Sure enough, the shopkeeper was asking Tingfeng whether he wanted a symptom checkup or medicine.
Tingfengzhi frantically searched his sleeves for a moment, and finally took out the prescription from his bosom and handed it over.
The shopkeeper unfolded the prescription and glanced at it, then rolled his eyes and looked at the sickly but handsome young man over the prescription: "Young master, with your health, I'm afraid..."
Zhou Yaren sensed the shopkeeper's hesitant worry and concern, and said, "It's nothing."
"We still need to be more careful," the shopkeeper said, handing the prescription to a nearby apprentice and instructing him, "Go and get this young master some aphrodisiacs."
Before Zhou Yaren could even react to the shopkeeper's words, a chorus of surprised voices rose up behind him.
"What kind of medicine?"
"What kind of aphrodisiac?"
"What kind of aphrodisiac?"
The Taihang Mountain youths asked three soul-searching questions: Could it be that they were all hard of hearing and had misheard?
Zhou Yaren: "..." Her face turned green, even greener than her blue dress.
He turned around abruptly, only to be caught off guard by Bai Yuan's gaze. She had somehow already appeared behind the group of teenagers.
This was the first time Zhou Yaren had ever been so flustered and at a loss, and she couldn't simply ignore the group of young men: "No... that... how come..."
Bai Yuan, who had been raising his eyebrows, subtly suppressed them as Zhou Yaren turned away, returning to normal. Then, amidst Zhou Yaren's stammering voice, he calmly said, "If you're sick, get treatment."
Caught off guard, the people from Taihang Road were suddenly confronted by an evil spirit. They turned to look at Bai Yuan, then at Ting Fengzhi: "..." What kind of illness requires aphrodisiacs? Is Ting Fengzhi suffering from kidney deficiency?
Zhou Yaren's greenish face suddenly flushed red, and she stammered, "I don't... I don't have this disease."
Bai Yuan seemed unconcerned: "It doesn't matter whether it's fine or not."
“No, this prescription…” Zhou Yaren’s ears turned so red they looked like they were about to bleed.
Bai Yuan interrupted him: "You don't need to explain to me."
"No!" If this isn't explained clearly, how will he save face in the future? How will he ever be able to face anyone again? Besides, the truth is, Zhou Yaren said urgently, "You clearly gave me this prescription!"
The teenagers stared wide-eyed and gaping mouths, their gazes, though silent, directed at Bai Yuan with a mixture of shock and disbelief.
Shocked: Why did you give Tingfeng this prescription? Does he have kidney deficiency?!
The question is raised: What are your intentions? How could you possibly have such a plan!
Bai Yuan never expected the other party to lie so blatantly, even blaming her. It's absurd: "It's not shameful to get treatment for an illness."
“What nonsense are you talking about?” Zhou Yaren was utterly humiliated. “I don’t have that disease.”
Bai Yuan said, "The seven emotions and six desires are also very normal."
Even if you're perfectly normal, you don't need to drink aphrodisiac soup!
Besides, is it really necessary for him? Is it even worth it?!
Zhou Yaren had never blushed so much before: "I'm blind, I can't see the words on them. These two prescriptions were clearly handed to me by you in Fengkou Village. You said they were written by Doctor Ding, so..."
So he went to get this medicine yesterday, but the apprentice at that other pharmacy didn't say a word like the owner of this one, so he just swallowed it all at once, thinking it was a good medicine for his illness.
But in front of all the Taihang Mountain youths, he simply couldn't bring himself to say it!
Bai Yuan vaguely recalled from the other party's words that there was such an ordinary incident. At that time, Xiao Dinggua found two prescriptions written by his grandfather at the place where the carriage crashed. Bai Yuan glanced at them and casually slapped the prescriptions into Zhou Yaren's arms, saying casually, "That's right, it's the prescription that Doctor Ding wrote for you."
Bai Yuan stepped forward and took out the two prescriptions from Xiao Yaotu's hand. The one on the front, a potent aphrodisiac and kidney tonic, belonged to Zhao Moumou, while the other belonged to Zhou Yaren. Both were in Ding Langzhong's handwriting.
The blind man, unable to see, assumed both prescriptions were his.
"There's a mistake." Bai Yuan said, handing Zhou Yaren's prescription to the apprentice and casually instructing him to fetch it.
Zhou Yaren: "..." What a nonchalant way of saying he made a mistake.
Zhou Yaren's face turned red, her blood rushed to her head, and she stood there, steaming: "Bai Yuan, you did this on purpose, didn't you?!"
Bai Yuan suddenly realized something, recalling the empty medicine bowl on Zhou Yaren's bedside table. A ripple finally appeared on his usually calm face: "You didn't yesterday..."
Zhou Yaren suffered multiple heart attacks, but she couldn't vent her anger in front of the younger generation, so she turned around and left in a huff.
The teenagers looked around blankly, not knowing exactly what had happened, and were arranged by the evil spirit to help Tingfengzhi fetch medicine and send it back to the inn.
Bai Yuan never expected that something so outrageous would happen because Zhou Yaren took the wrong medicine—a really strong one at that. He quickly chased after her, trying to explain, "You've made a mistake."
"Is it my fault for being blind?"
Why are you getting so worked up? So Bai Yuan good-naturedly changed the subject: "I made a mistake."
"Are you deliberately trying to mess with me, or just want to see me make a fool of myself?!" Zhou Ya was furious. "Just because I sealed your spiritual veins?!"
“Not really,” Bai Yuan said calmly. “I don’t have that kind of fetish.”
"Preferences?"
“I wouldn’t stoop to such underhanded methods, feeding you this kind of medicine and then having to help you relieve it in the end,” Bai Yuan said frankly. “It would be more worthwhile to skin you alive and force-feed you a cup of poison.”
"You..." Zhou Yaren completely ignored the excruciating pain and was speechless by her nonchalant "I'll help you relieve it."
“Besides, I didn’t feed you that medicine. You didn’t understand the prescription when you got the medicine yourself,” Bai Yuan recalled Zhou Yaren’s intoxicated state last night, which was completely different from her current state. It turned out that it was because of the passion induced by the wrong medicine. As the saying goes, the two people in bed and out of bed are absolutely right. Well, Bai Yuan said, “It’s just a wrong medicine, it’s not a big deal. Just take it as a lesson and don’t be so careless next time.”
Seeing that the other party was taking it so lightly, Zhou Yaren was almost at her wit's end.
In the end, this matter really can't be blamed on Bai Yuan; it can only be blamed on his blindness.
"Besides," Bai Yuan added seriously, "you took the wrong medicine, and I helped you relieve it. Shouldn't you thank me afterwards? Why are you throwing a tantrum?"
Zhou Yaren couldn't catch her breath and almost suffered internal injuries.
Perhaps his defeated appearance was particularly pleasing to people, because when Zhou Yaren looked over, she saw Bai Yuan's slightly upturned lips, a smile that was not quite a smile.
He could never bring himself to say thank you.
Zhou Yaren stared blankly for a while, then finally gave in: "It's my fault."
“Well,” Bai Yuan wasn’t petty, “You’ve weighed things carefully. As for the debt of you sealing my spiritual veins…”
Zhou Yaren said, "If a person is injured, excessive movement can easily cause the injury to stretch. The same applies to injuries caused by torture. The injury you suffered from the Gaotao torture was caused by the great formation, so I mixed talisman ash to seal it for you, also because I was afraid you would not be careful."
As it turned out, Bai Yuan was indeed reckless and definitely not a peaceful person. If she were allowed to cause any trouble, her injuries would likely tear open hundreds of times, leaving her with raw flesh and blood on display at the drop of a hat, and she wouldn't recover easily. Otherwise, why would someone with broken bones be bound with two boards to immobilize them? Although it would make movement inconvenient, it would at least prevent secondary damage. The purpose of the talisman was to restrain her and make her stop.
Furthermore, what if Bai Yuan still can't see the light and insists on tearing down the foundation of the Northern Qu Ghost Office at any cost?
“Mind your own business,” Bai Yuan said without any appreciation. “Why don’t you put a talisman on yourself too?”
Zhou Yaren didn't engage in a verbal battle with her: "Once your injuries heal, the seal will become ineffective. Actually, I never..."
In fact, as his injuries gradually healed, Bai Yuan already had a plan in mind: "What? You want me to remember your act of kindness?"
"Yes, what if one day we go our separate ways and become strangers..."
Bai Yuan didn't like hearing this: "Stop worrying about those meaningless things. There are three thousand paths to the same destination. You and I are destined to be strangers."
“What I mean is…” He and Bai Yuan were never on the same path, and they were bound to part ways eventually. During this time, there was likely to be a dispute, which could be big or small. Zhou Yaren succinctly pointed out, “Yin Sui.”
This is indeed a difficult problem. Bai Yuan stated clearly, "I cannot let you take Yin Sui away."
"Without the Yin Sui, I can't complete my mission."
"What? Feeling uncomfortable in this vast world? Still thinking about going back to your prison to be a blind official?" Bai Yuan chuckled. "Why insist on doing this job? Why not consider coming with me? Maybe I can still help you out."
It took Zhou Yaren a long time to realize the implication of her words: if he refused to go with her, he would have to go back to where he came from and be imprisoned. Because he would be punished, he would never be able to clear his name and would be unable to bring Yin Sui back, which would only compound his crime. Zhou Yaren asked helplessly, "Is this coercion or bribery?"
"Know that no matter where you are, no matter how the world changes, you will die in front of me." Bai Yuan stared intently at him, his gaze heavy with menace. "Tell me, isn't that what you call different paths leading to the same end?"
Zhou Yaren froze, as if she had been hit by a huge shock.
Just then, the Taihang Road youth carrying the Tingfengzhi medicine bag caught up. They had been distracted by the "aphrodisiac" and were so engrossed in watching Tingfengzhi's antics that they almost forgot about their business.
Fortunately, Bai Yuan and Ting Fengzhi hadn't gone far. Li Liuyun stepped forward and said, "Early this morning, a coachman came to the county government office with a notice saying that Chen Ying and the Iron-Faced Man had bought his carriage."
Zhou Yaren's expression hardened: "When?"
"It was on the day we entered the capital to observe."
Do you know where they went?
"The coachman wasn't sure, but he vaguely heard Chen Ying mention Fengling Ferry."
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A note from the author: Comrades, please remember, you can't take medicine indiscriminately.
Since we've mentioned Fenglingdu, we can't help but think of the famous line, "The first encounter at Fenglingdu, a single glance at Yang Guo and a lifetime of regret!"
A salute to Mr. Jin Yong!
Volume Two is complete.
The drafts are all finished. As my old friends know, I'm a snail, and I write incredibly slowly. I won't be able to update daily anymore. I bow deeply here. If there's no update by 8 PM, don't wait for me.
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