Once, I was bitten by a venomous snake, and she fed me a pill. After that, I felt something crawling inside my body. It didn't hurt, but it felt very strange.
Before I could even ask her what it was, I saw a black worm crawl out of my snake bite wound, fall to the ground, and then stay still.
Seeing my terrified expression, she told me that she was a Gu master and had just used Gu worms to absorb the snake venom from my body.
My master told me from a young age that there are very few Gu masters in the world, but most of them are sinister people. If you see them, stay as far away as possible and don't provoke them. Otherwise, if they want to harm you, you will have no way to defend yourself.
Upon learning that this woman was a Gu Master, I was in a state of confusion. As if sensing my doubt, she smiled and asked me if I was afraid.
Of course I couldn't admit it. She told me that Gu Masters could indeed kill people invisibly, but if used properly, they could also save people. And now she has saved me, hasn't she?
At that moment, looking at her sincere smile, I suddenly realized that I had been judging a gentleman by my own petty standards.
At that very moment...
At this point, Ye Xunzhi stopped speaking.
Su Ruojin and Xiao Yanchu exchanged a glance, knowing what their master meant before he finished speaking. At that very moment, their master fell in love with her.
Su Ruojin sighed inwardly, "When love comes, no one can stop it. It has nothing to do with age, but rather with when and with whom you meet it."
After a pause, Ye Xunzhi continued, "A year later, the appointed time arrived, and I waited at the foot of the mountain for three days and three nights but she didn't show up."
She once told me that if she couldn't come to collect herbs, she would definitely let me know; she wouldn't fail to come without a reason. So I concluded that something had happened to her.
Based on the bits and pieces of information she had given me, I pieced together where she might live and set off to find her.
When I finally found her, it was half a month later.
She collapsed in a stone chamber, her body covered in sores, her face riddled with holes as if she had been bitten by countless insects. She had survived until now by eating the herbs found in the stone chamber.
She only completely lost consciousness the moment she saw me.
I am incredibly grateful that I know medicine; otherwise, given her condition at the time, she wouldn't have survived long enough to find a doctor to treat her.
After six months of treatment, her health began to improve, but her face was completely ruined, and I was unable to help her recover to her former state.
I told her that I didn't care about her appearance and that I wanted to marry her.
But one day, I went down the mountain to buy something, and when I came back, she was gone. There was a letter and an earring on the table.
In the letter, she thanked me for saving her life, saying she owed me and would repay me if she had the chance. She said she was already a useless person and that I deserved a better woman.
I searched frantically everywhere around me, but there was no trace of it.
However, since then, a carrier pigeon has come to my side every year. I know it is her carrier pigeon. No matter where I go, the pigeon can find me.
I picked up my pen to write letters and sent them to pigeons to carry my longing, but all my letters sank without a trace, and there was no response.
Linglong didn't reply to my letter until Xiaojin had her accident last time.
I tried to find her by following the pigeons' tracks, but I failed every time. In the end, all I knew was that she was in Xiaoyue, but I didn't know exactly where.
Upon hearing this, Su Ruojin couldn't help but ask, "Master, since you know that Senior Fu is in Xiaoyue, why don't you come to Xiaoyue to find her?"
Xiaoyue is only so big; if you put in the effort, you can always find it.
Ye Xunzhi gave a bitter smile. "I once tracked a carrier pigeon to the border of Xiaoyue and received her letter. If I were to look for her again, she would simply die."
I see.
Ye Xunzhi couldn't guarantee that he could find Fu Linglong immediately upon arriving in Xiaoyue. If Fu Linglong found out he had come to Xiaoyue and did something terrible, he would regret it for the rest of his life. Therefore, he dared not continue his search.
This time, knowing Fu Linglong's exact location, he couldn't resist coming to search for her.
But to his surprise, Fu Linglong refused to see him.
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