Chapter 72 So shocked he ripped off his beard.
"You silly girl, would I lie to you?"
"By the way, I've had you watching me perform acupuncture these past few days. You just said that you have a photographic memory. Did you remember the acupuncture points I used on your brother?"
Thinking of Lin Luoxi's boasting earlier, Doctor Yang couldn't resist testing her.
"I've got it!" Lin Luoxi nodded truthfully.
"Really?" Doctor Yang didn't believe it. You see, it used to take him a month to memorize the acupuncture points.
Lin Luoxi didn't say much. She walked to Lin Tao's side and ran her slender fingers over the spot where Doctor Yang had just inserted the needle, the position was perfect.
"Hiss~" Seeing Lin Luoxi's actions, Doctor Yang was so shocked that he plucked out a few strands of his beard.
"You, you are truly a genius." Doctor Yang was overwhelmed with shock, but could only use the word "genius" to express the astonishment in his heart.
"No, it's because Master deliberately slowed down these past few days that I was able to remember," Lin Luoxi said modestly.
"Yes, yes, starting tomorrow—no, starting now—I'm going to give you lessons in reading." After discovering Lin Luoxi's talent, Doctor Yang didn't want to waste a single moment.
He wanted to teach Lin Luoxi to read and write as soon as possible, so that she could learn other more profound medical skills.
“Master, there’s no need to rush. We haven’t prepared any writing materials. I plan to go to the county town this afternoon to get everything ready. We’ll start classes tomorrow.”
Not to mention Dr. Yang's anxiety, Lin Luoxi was even more anxious.
"Alright then!" Seeing that Lin Luoxi had arranged everything in an orderly manner, he gradually calmed down and nodded.
Lin Luoxi knew that Doctor Yang liked her family's food, so she made a point of having him stay for lunch before sending the grandfather and grandson back to the neighboring village.
Meanwhile, in the back mountain, Xie Hanchuan, who had been waiting there since early morning, still hadn't seen Lin Luoxi.
Images flashed through his mind of him rescuing the dying Lin Luoxi and carrying her thin, delicate body all the way back to the Lin family.
In the mountains, they encountered Lin Luoxi, who dared to fight a wild boar alone.
Lin Luoxi bravely fought the tiger, but covered in blood, she collapsed weakly to the ground…
He didn't know when it started, but Lin Luoxi's image gradually filled his heart.
Wanting to know why Lin Luoxi hadn't been going up the mountain these past two days, Xie Hanchuan lost interest in hunting and hurried down the mountain to Lin Luoxi's house.
As a result, he came up empty-handed. Lin Wenqian told him that Lin Luoxi had taken Dr. Yang and his grandson home.
For some reason, Xie Hanchuan actually went to wait for Lin Luoxi on her usual route.
On the way back from the next village, I saw Xie Hanchuan standing under a big tree by the roadside, his face covered by the tree's shadow, his gloomy expression vaguely visible.
"Brother Hanchuan, what are you doing here? Are you waiting for someone?" Lin Luoxi greeted him with a smile as she walked up.
"I'm waiting for you." Xie Hanchuan noticed that Lin Luoxi's family and Doctor Yang's family were getting too close.
Especially Yang Xiaofeng, who is the same age as him, made Xie Hanchuan feel jealous.
"Wait for me? By the way, Brother Hanchuan, are you going up the mountain this afternoon? I'm planning to hunt some game to sell in the county, and also buy some writing brushes, ink, paper, and inkstones..."
Xie Hanchuan knew that Lin Luoxi had become Yang Feng's apprentice, but he didn't expect that Yang Feng was so kind as to teach Lin Luoxi and her siblings to read.
Xie Hanchuan's beautiful eyes darted around in their sockets, and he nodded, indicating that he also wanted to buy writing brushes, ink, paper, and inkstones.
With the same goal in mind, Xie Hanchuan and Lin Luoxi went back to get their baskets first, then called Lin Wenqian to go up the mountain together.
When the villagers saw Lin Luoxi walking with Xie Hanchuan, that cursed lone star, all sorts of rumors started circulating.
Among them were some clever people who followed them and saw Xie Hanchuan and Lin Luoxi enter the Lin family home and then come out again, making it a trio.
Seeing the equipment on Lin Luoxi and Lin Wenqian, he immediately ran back home, grabbed his own gear, and planned to scavenge for any remaining items.
"Second sister, someone is following us." Ever since Lin Wenqian discovered that the villagers wanted to follow them up the mountain to scavenge for scraps, they had been looking back as soon as they started climbing the mountain.
This time, he also noticed that someone was following behind him, and immediately turned to Lin Luoxi and said something.
“These mountains belong to the public, and they have the right to go up the mountains. We can’t stop people from going up the mountains.”
"Don't worry about them. Once we're in the mountains, it's our freedom to go wherever we want." Lin Luoxi wasn't a generous person, nor did she have a saintly heart to give away the fruits of her hard work to others.
Xie Hanchuan sensed the annoyance in Lin Luoxi's words, glanced behind him, and indeed saw several villagers glancing in their direction from time to time. His eyes darkened slightly.
It seems that the benefits Lin Luoxi gained from hunting a tiger have tempted many people.
“Come on, I know a shortcut, a path that will get us deeper into the mountains faster.” After all, he had survived by eating wild game from the mountains and was quite familiar with the terrain.
"Oh, then you lead the way." It would be best to get rid of those people behind us; I don't want unimportant people to affect my hunting mood later.
Xie Hanchuan didn't waste any time. He first led Lin Luoxi into a dense pine forest to make sure they were out of sight of the others, and then quickly headed down a path he knew.
The path was uneven and covered with bushes, allowing only one person to pass at a time.
This path must have been one that Xie Hanchuan had walked many times over the years; otherwise, in such a remote place, they might have wandered around in the mountains until dark and still not found it.
The path was narrow, so they couldn't walk side by side. Xie Hanchuan led the way, Lin Wenqian, who had no martial arts background, walked in the middle, and Lin Luoxi brought up the rear.
The three of them walked for an unknown amount of time, only knowing that the waist-high bushes on both sides gradually thinned out and eventually turned into large trees.
"Shh! Don't go any further." Lin Luoxi, who was walking behind, had amazing hearing. She heard a loud noise coming from the bushes on the left and immediately told the two people in front to stop.
"Second sister, what's wrong?" Lin Wenqian turned his head and asked Lin Luoxi cautiously.
"There's some noise over here." Lin Luoxi said softly, carefully parting the branches on the left that were blocking the sound source with both hands, her breathing becoming heavier.
"Second sister?" Lin Wenqian saw Lin Luoxi staring intently at the gaps in the leaves, looking excited, a sight he rarely saw.
"Shh, a herd of wild deer has appeared over there." After saying that, Lin Luoxi wanted to slap herself twice.
Deep in the mountains, this herd of elk, if not wild, could they be kept by someone else?
"Really?" Lin Wenqian became excited when he heard that it was prey. He reached out, parted the leaves himself, and imitated Lin Luoxi's action, opening his eyes wide to look.
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