Chapter 11
"A Zhao, I don't know when you'll be back. There are bound to be many dangers on Changhuai Mountain. This may be the last time we see each other. You're still young, yet you have to shoulder this heavy responsibility. It's us brothers' fault for our incompetence. I will do what you ask... Junior Brother, take care."
Liu Huaizhao looked at the receding figure and wanted to speak, but no sound came out. The figure was getting farther and farther away from him. Liu Huaizhao wanted to chase after it, but he was trapped in the spot and could only watch the figure slowly disappear...
"Senior Brother!" Liu Huaizhao sat up suddenly and just saw the figure of Senior Brother in front of him, so he reached out to grab him, but touched the needle on his hand, and then the figure disappeared.
"Hey, hey, hey, don't move." The nurse who was changing his dressing stopped him.
"Where are the people who were here just now?" Liu Huaizhao was a little anxious.
"There isn't anyone here. I'm the only one here. Oh, no, there's someone staying with you." The nurse was changing the medicine in her hands and could only point to the other side of his bed with her chin.
Liu Huaizhao turned his head following her gaze and saw Qin Zunyue curled up on a camp bed.
Not Big Brother...
Seeing his serious expression, the nurse jokingly said, "You've been sleeping for two days. Are you confused and can't tell the difference between dreams and reality?"
"Is it a dream?" Liu Huaizhao said softly.
Creak——
There was a noise from the camp bed; it was Qin Zunyue getting up.
"Did I wake you up? Sorry."
"I'm here to accompany you. It's not right for me to sleep while the patient wakes up." Qin Zunyue smiled and asked, "How do you feel? Are you feeling uncomfortable?"
Liu Huaizhao shook his head and replied, "It's fine, but..." He hesitated and glanced at the nurse.
"The medicine has been changed." The nurse smiled at them and said, "Call me if you feel any discomfort."
"Thank you." Qin Zunyue smiled back.
After the nurse left, Qin Zunyue asked, "What happened?"
"I don't have any spiritual power now." Liu Huaizhao frowned, "But I will recover."
Qin Zunyue nodded, "Then we will protect you during this time."
"That's not necessary. You can't beat me even if I have no spiritual power." Liu Huaizhao raised his chin with a look of pride.
After the two chatted for a while, Qin Zunyue told them about Tong Le.
"The wound can't heal because of the foul qi." Liu Huaizhao said: "I can't use my spiritual power to help her force out that qi now, so I can only try to use the pure qi in the golden elixir."
After Liu Huaizhao finished the injection, the two walked to Tong Le's ward. Her face was still pale, but she was still full of energy. There was a large bowl of rice in front of her, and she was eating it hard.
Yan Liao was watching her from the side to prevent her from choking if she ate too fast. When he saw Liu Huaizhao coming over, he stood up suddenly.
It was the first time Tong Le saw her like this. He was so scared that he almost threw the food bowl away.
"How are you today?" Qin Zunyue looked at her wrist wrapped in bandages. It seemed that the bandages had just been changed, but because she was bleeding, blood was still seeping through the white bandages.
"The bleeding is getting slower and slower, but it's still flowing," said Yan Liao.
Liu Huaizhao nodded and said, "Maybe the clear air in the golden elixir overcomes the turbid air." He just didn't know why he couldn't overcome the turbid air when he was injured.
"I don't have any spiritual power now, but I can try taking the Golden Pill to restore my spiritual power and then help you expel the turbid qi. This will be a bit painful." He thought for a moment and added, "You can also slowly overcome the turbid qi by taking the Golden Pill."
Tong Le: "Please help me, otherwise I don't know how many golden pills I will have to take to completely stop the bleeding. It's such a waste. And I can't stand it anymore. I don't know how many bandages I have to change."
Liu Huaizhao nodded and asked, "Can you give me a golden elixir?"
Yan Liao quickly opened the medicine box and took out a pill for him.
Liu Huaizhao swallowed the golden elixir and felt the abundant fresh energy within it.
The fresh air entered his body and he immediately began to meditate. The abundant fresh air in his body gradually restored his spiritual power. Although it was not much, it was enough to expel the turbid air in Tong Le's wrist.
The whole process was very painful. Tong Le held Yan Liao's hand tightly, tears streaming down her face.
Tong Le is the youngest and had been in an orphanage before being adopted by Dean Xu. They all took care of her as their own sister. Qin Zunyue felt distressed and couldn't help but think of the injury on Liu Huaizhao's wrist.
Tong Le's wound was small and there was little turbid air, so the turbid air was quickly eliminated.
Yan Liao immediately sprinkled hemostatic medicine on her and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the bleeding had really stopped.
Liu Huaizhao tried it. Although he had stopped using the spiritual energy in his body, it was still slowly decreasing. It seemed that the spiritual power obtained in this way could not replace the spiritual power he had obtained through his own cultivation.
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In order to save trouble, Liu Huaizhao and Tong Le were admitted to the same ward, and the others took turns to look after them.
Fortunately, neither of them had any injuries other than their wrists, they just lost too much blood. Although Liu Huaizhao's wrist was more seriously injured, he didn't care. He said that as long as his spiritual power could slowly recover, no injury would be serious.
The days in the hospital were idle and boring. Liu Huaizhao took the ancient book and taught Tong Le how to read.
Tong Le likes to learn these things and is very active. She is also smart, and Liu Huaizhao enjoys teaching her.
They were going to be discharged from the hospital in a few days. When Qin Zunyue came to pick them up in the evening, Tong Le was sitting beside Liu Huaizhao's bed, their heads put together, muttering to each other, and no one knew what they were talking about.
Liu Huaizhao himself was not a dull person, and Tong Le was lively and talkative. The two of them got along very happily during the days in the hospital. After Qin Zunyue entered the ward, no one looked up at him.
"What are you talking about?" Qin Zunyue asked.
"Nothing." Tong Le smiled, not daring to tell Qin Zunyue that he was talking about his childhood.
"Are you leaving?" Liu Huaizhao got up from the bed. He was still wearing his hospital gown, with long hair hanging down to his waist. He was so beautiful that it was hard to tell whether he was a man or a woman.
Qin Zunyue smiled at him and said, "Yes, the doctor said you can go home and recuperate. Zheng Shu made a soup for you two to nourish your blood and qi."
When Tong Le heard that there was something to eat, he immediately started packing.
Liu Huaizhao didn't have much stuff with him. He had been wearing a hospital gown in the hospital and only needed to bring a toothbrush and a toothbrush cup - without his spiritual power, Master Liu couldn't even use the cleansing technique.
When they got home, Zheng Shu immediately urged them to take a shower first.
Liu Huaizhao didn't know how to use a shower, so Qin Zunyue taught him briefly, gave him shower gel and shampoo, and finally wrapped his wrists with plastic wrap before leaving.
But after a while, he heard Liu Huaizhao shouting his name in the room.
He was startled and ran over quickly.
Liu Huaizhao wanted to wash his hair, but his hair was too long. When he was a child, he had a servant at home. After he became a disciple, he had been using magic to clean his hair. He had never washed his hair by himself and his movements were very unskilled. At the beginning, he got water into his eyes. After his long hair got wet, it got entangled in his arms and pulled his scalp when he moved, which made him very annoyed. He called Qin Zunyue over without thinking.
It was only when Qin Zunyue opened the bathroom door and came in that he realized he was naked.
Qin Zunyue also realized this problem. He originally thought that they were all men, and he often rubbed Qiao Lang and Wei Zhirong's backs. But for some reason, when he saw Liu Huaizhao, he suddenly didn't know where to put his eyes.
"Hiss--" Liu Huaizhao cried out in pain as his hair was accidentally pulled again. Qin Zunyue hurried forward and took off the hair wrapped around his wrist.
"Just stand there and don't move." After smoothing Liu Huaizhao's hair, Qin Zunyue went to Zheng Shu to ask for a hair tie.
The three girls in the family all had short hair. Zheng Shu searched for a long time before finding two strands. Qin Zunyue quickly took them and tied up Liu Huaizhao's hair.
While tying her hair, Liu Huaizhao suddenly laughed and said, "Tong Le told me today that you braided her hair when she was a child, but each time you braided one side thicker and the other thinner, one side tighter and the other looser."
Qin Zunyue smiled when he thought of this memory. At that time, the safe city had just been established and humans were still struggling to survive. There was no one to look after the children in the shelter, and the older ones had to take care of the younger ones. Tong Le was only seven or eight years old at that time. It seemed that she was well taken care of by her family before the end of the world. She had not yet learned to tie her hair by herself. He really couldn't bear to see her sitting there with her hair loose all day long, so he learned to tie her hair and taught her to read.
"I'm not good at tying twintails, but I'm pretty good at updoing my hair."
He was not bragging. Liu Huaizhao's hair was thick and long, but he could still easily style it.
"Take a shower first, and I'll wash your hair later."
While waiting for Liu Huaizhao to take a shower, he flipped through the ancient books that Liu Huaizhao had placed on the table. He didn't recognize any of the words and couldn't understand the formations, so he could only flip through them hastily to pass the time.
Liu Huaizhao took a long shower, and only came out of the steaming bathroom when Qin Zunyue was almost asleep.
Qin Zunyue found a stool and placed it at the end of the bed, asked Liu Huaizhao to lie on the bed, and prepared two basins for him to wash his hair.
It was very comfortable to soak his scalp in warm water. Qin Zunyue also gently massaged his scalp with his fingertips, making Liu Huaizhao a little drowsy.
Qin Zunyue doesn't look like an easy person to get along with. He has a very fierce face. When Liu Huaizhao first met him, he was a little wary of him. But after getting to know him, he found that this person has a really good temper. Tong Le also said that he had almost never seen Qin Zunyue lose his temper.
Liu Huaizhao suddenly remembered the storybook that his junior sister had read. The male protagonist in the storybook was just like Qin Zunyue. His junior sister said that if you want to get married, you should find a man like this so that you can love each other for a lifetime. In a daze, Liu Huaizhao thought, if anyone can marry Qin Zunyue, will he be able to wash his hair so comfortably every day.
Liu Huaizhao had too much hair and it took a long time to wash it, but fortunately Qin Zunyue was patient. After Liu Huaizhao fell asleep, he became gentler.
Qin Zunyue's inky hair spread out in the water. He washed it carefully. After all, he had been staying in the hospital recently. But while washing, his eyes unconsciously looked at Liu Huaizhao who was sleeping with his eyes closed.
He knew that he was not normal now. He noticed that he was always looking at Liu Huaizhao recently, but they had only known each other for about a month. He thought it was impossible for him to have any special feelings for Liu Huaizhao - at most it was a comradeship, just like Qiao Lang and the others. Perhaps it was because he was different from everyone he had met, and he was so handsome, so he couldn't help but pay more attention to him.
He didn't expect that he was such a superficial person. He smiled self-deprecatingly, then gently picked up Liu Huaizhao's long hair, put it in a clean basin, then picked up the used basin and went to the bathroom to change the water.
Liu Huaizhao was sleeping soundly, and Qin Zunyue deliberately moved lightly, so he didn't wake up at all.
Qin Zunyue collected his thoughts and controlled himself from looking at him. Only after he had washed his hair and dried it with a towel did he gently wake him up and use a hair dryer to blow dry his hair.
Liu Huaizhao sat cross-legged on the bed, yawning, letting Qin Zunyue behind him toy with his hair.
When the two went downstairs, Tong Le had already drunk two bowls of soup by himself. After seeing Liu Huaizhao, he winked and asked him how he washed his hair in the end.
"Qin Zunyue washed it for me."
"I told you! Qiao Lang, your cake belongs to me!" Tong Le slammed the table and yelled at Qiao Lang.
"What cake?" Liu Huaizhao became interested.
Zheng Shu poured him a bowl of soup and said, "Yan Ming sent us a few small pieces as a reward for us, and Boss Yu also sent us a whole one, saying thank you for saving her earlier."
Liu Huaizhao nodded and asked, "Why did Qiao Lang's cake belong to you?"
"We made a bet. I bet on whether my brother would wash your hair. I said my brother is so caring, so it's no big deal for him to wash your hair."
"Brother Qin, why don't you wash me?"
Looking at Qiao Lang's accusing eyes, Qin Zunyue said calmly: "Your hair feels prickly, I don't want to touch it." After he paused, he unconsciously recalled Liu Huaizhao's silky hair. He curled his palms slightly, cleared his throat and sat down.
It had been a long time since the few of them had sat together to eat, and the table was particularly lively. Even Yan Liao, who didn't talk much, tried to tell a joke, although the joke only made Tong Le laugh.
Only Qin Zunyue remained silent. During this time, Liu Huaizhao looked at him frequently, but he deliberately avoided his gaze.
At night, Liu Huaizhao stood at his door wearing the pajamas he had bought earlier and asked, "Why didn't you talk to me tonight?"
Qin Zunyue didn't expect him to ask directly. He only felt his solar plexus jump suddenly, and for a moment he didn't know how to answer him.
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