"Sister Xinyi, are you feeling well? Have you seen a doctor?"
After they were seated in the hall and the maid brought tea, snacks, and other special fruits, Fengming finally asked Xinyi. As for why he asked this, after all, he had fallen off the cliff and lived for so long at the bottom of that seemingly empty cliff, he still felt a little worried.
"Your Highness, you look younger than me. Why are you asking the same questions as my father? As soon as I got home yesterday, I yelled for a doctor to check me out. Actually, there's really nothing wrong with me. I'm fine."
Xinyi was obviously cheerful when she teased Fengming about his maturity at such a young age, but when she said the second half of the sentence about how he was doing, her tone suddenly dropped, and she was visibly sad.
"What's wrong, Sister Xinyi, why are you suddenly..."
Xinyi smiled bitterly, shook her head and waved her hands, as if to get rid of the sad mood from her mind.
"I am in very good health. I don't need any doctor to check me because I have already had the best doctor in the world who has risked his life to heal all my injuries."
It’s true!
There must be a Whitebeard falling from the cliff. There must be an old man with a Whitebeard on the cliff. This setting has indeed appeared!
Everyone else looked surprised, especially Uncle Xin Jiu. Only Feng Ming remained calm.
After all, in most of the novels I'd read in my past life, whenever the protagonist fell off a cliff, they would inevitably meet a peerless master with a white beard at the bottom of the cliff. Then, the protagonist, who was originally a weakling and bullied, would be favored by this white-bearded old man, who would teach him martial arts and make him a top master, standing tall among the crowd, and then going back to beat up the bad guys who had bullied him one by one...
And this time, Xinyi fell off the cliff and was found and rescued by Fengming and the others without any harm, which was obviously due to the contribution of the white-bearded uncle. Fengming had guessed it yesterday, and when he heard the definite answer from Xinyi's mouth today, he felt really - how cliché!
Fengming even thought that if she was really the protagonist of a novel, then the author's imagination and writing skills were really not good enough. Looking at the story, anyone could guess the plot at once. If she were to write it...well, it seemed like she might write it like this.
"Sister Xinyi, can you tell me in detail what happened after you fell off the cliff? Is that the best doctor in the world the uncle with the white beard you mentioned several times yesterday?"
"Yeah, yes, that's him!"
It turned out that when Xinyi fell from the cliff into the deep pool, the collision with the cliff wall, the scratching of the branches on the cliff, and the huge impact when she fell into the water almost caused her already unhealthy body to suffer a devastating blow. Her bones and muscles were almost broken, and her internal organs were damaged. It was obvious that she was not going to survive.
When she was in a state of confusion, she felt someone pulling her out of the icy water. When she regained consciousness, she found herself wrapped like a dumpling, her entire body wrapped in thick white cloth, with only her eyes exposed.
As for why Xinyi knew that she was in that appearance at the time, it was all thanks to the bad taste of the white-bearded uncle. He actually took a small palm-sized mirror to look at Xinyi's whole body, letting Xinyi know how funny she looked.
The one who saved her was the uncle with white beard. Xinyi also asked the uncle with white beard his name, but he refused to tell her. He just said, "Don't you call me uncle with white beard? Just call me that."
I don't know what medicine the uncle gave Xinyi. Anyway, Xinyi's life was saved, but her body was seriously damaged. While her body was repairing under the power of the medicine, the fine and dense numbness and pain coming from her limbs made Xinyi feel so painful that she wanted to die. During that time, she even thought it would be better to fall off the cliff and die. Why bother to be rescued and suffer so much.
It had been many years since the old man with white beard had seen outsiders. Except when sleeping, he would always sit by Xinyi's bed and talk to her. However, his words were always incoherent and it was often difficult to understand what he was saying. He was like an old madman.
However, it was from the white-bearded uncle that Xinyi learned something despairing, because in the phantom forest outside, anyone who fell into the valley would not be able to leave.
At that time, Xinyi didn't believe that there could be such a magical forest in the world. How could it be possible that anyone who walked into it would fall into an illusion and eventually die from starvation?
When she heard about this, her only thought was, "I'll go when I'm better. I'll show this wicked old man where the Phantom Forest is. They must just be unable to find the way."
The uncle with white beard seemed to know what Xinyi was thinking. He found a wheelchair from somewhere and threw Xinyi into the wheelchair without caring that she was still as fragile as an egg roll, and pushed her towards Huanlin.
Then he pushed the wheelchair into Huanlin.
At first, Xinyi was complacent and thought that it was just gentian flowers all over the mountains, but later... when Xinyi saw the white-bearded uncle again, it was already dark.
The old man with white beard was staring at her with a mixture of pity and gloating. "Awake?"
After trying a few more times, Xinyi fell into deep despair, because she already knew that Huanlin was in a desperate situation from which she could not escape.
Upon hearing the news, Xinyi almost lost all desire to live. Even if her wounds were healed, she would still have to live in this place that she could see only by sight, relying on a weird white-bearded uncle and her Yuanbao. For someone like her who particularly liked to run around, this was tantamount to being imprisoned for life.
Seeing that Xinyi's will to survive was weak, the white-bearded uncle, who had treated her as a toy that had fallen from the sky at the beginning, panicked and began to tell her stories, saying that he used to be the best doctor in the world, and had cured countless rare diseases and had met many rare and important people.
But all these had no effect except making Xinyi think he was even crazier.
The old man with white beard was helpless. He brought a pile of pamphlets from somewhere and forced Xinyi to read them.
By then, Xinyi was able to sit up. Although she desperately refused treatment, her body, under the influence of the medication, diligently repaired the damaged muscles. Annoyed by the white-bearded uncle's nagging, she finally started reading the pamphlets. Only then did she realize that this valley had actually received so many people in succession.
There are herbalists, hunters chopping wood, travelers seeking adventure, and gangsters being hunted by their enemies... Anyway, this valley seems to be never empty, there is always someone falling down and eventually being "jailed" here.
Some of them went crazy, some died in the Fantasy Forest, but more of them survived bravely. Isn’t it just a life isolated from the world?
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