Chapter 85 Reunion
Mu Jianjian turned around in surprise and saw a tall, upright young man wearing a veiled hat smiling at her. A breeze blew, blowing open the veil in front of the young man to reveal his handsome face and heterochromatic eyes, one black and one gray.
"Yu Yu?" she asked in disbelief.
Because they didn't react in time, they even forgot to put down the books and plants they were holding.
Seeing the girl's stunned expression, Linghu Zhuoyu's smile widened behind his veil. He gently soothed the thin black and red snake wrapped around his shoulder with his fingers, then slowly squatted down beside the girl and picked out a branch from the grass on his right.
"Sister, this is the mugwort. The two look similar, so it is easy to confuse them."
The boy's earnest face drew closer to Mu Jianjian's side. She subconsciously stepped back, took the mugwort from Linghu Zhuoyu's hand, and compared it with the one in her own hand. A thought flashed through her mind of what her Uncle Guo had once said.
In order to cure Mu's father of the poison, a renowned doctor was invited.
Could it be Yu Yu?
"you……"
Linghu Zhuoyu chuckled softly, seemingly unaware of the other's evasiveness, and moved closer to the girl. The veil under her hat brushed against the girl's cheek in the wind. "I'm using the alias Sun Yu now, so don't let it slip, sister."
"You're the miracle doctor that Uncle Guo invited?"
"Hmm." Linghu Zhuoyu nodded slightly, and no one saw the smug smile curving up at the corner of his mouth under his veil. "I will go in after the Second Elder comes out from the back hall."
Originally, there was a big operation going on in Yingzhou, so I shouldn't have been able to come. But since it was my sister's Xuanshuang Sect, I wanted to rush over immediately.
When Linghu Zhuoyu returned to Yingzhou after leaving the secret realm, he sent people to investigate his sister's identity. However, he did not expect that his sister was Mu Jianjian, the sickly young lady of the Xuanshuang Sect.
The girl, rumored to be a spoiled brat and pampered by the leader of the Xuan Shuang Sect, showed no signs of being spoiled at all in the secret realm.
"Then I'll leave it to Yu Yu, okay?" Mu Jianjian asked happily.
Although the sacred lake water can detoxify and cure, it is still something unknown that Uncle Guo brought out from the secret realm. With the arrival of the divine physician Linghu Zhuoyu, everything can be guaranteed to be safe.
It's about the Grand Elder's side...
In recent days, Mu Jianjian, as a young lady who has just been able to cultivate, has been invited by the faction of the Grand Elder, who use the excuse of caring about her to try to get information out of her. She has been passing the buck every time, but she is still worried that something might go wrong.
The fact that Mu's father's poison could be cured was not spread, for fear that the Grand Elder's faction might do something bad in desperation. The longer it goes on, the more trouble there might be. If Mu's father could wake up earlier, she wouldn't have to be so worried every day.
“Sister, you don’t need to be so polite with me,” Linghu Zhuoyu said in a deep voice, her fingertips twirling a small flower that seemed to be spitting out tiny snakes. “But if you ask me for a favor, I will be even more serious.”
Mu Jianjian still doesn't understand how such a cute child could turn into a pervert who randomly throws people into snake pits in the original story.
She resisted the urge to lift his veil and scratch his head, and waved to Uncle Guo who came out from the back hall.
Uncle Guo squinted at the two people huddled together in front of the herb garden, a question mark slowly rising in his mind.
The legendary healer appears to be kind and gentle, but is actually a very detached person. He always wears a veil and is shrouded in mystery. He has refused countless people who have offered expensive magical artifacts to ask him to treat them—even those from the seven major powers of the continent have received the same answer.
When Uncle Guo chose to invite the divine physician to the Xuan Shuang Sect, he didn't have high hopes. After all, if the Grand Elder's faction colluded with the poison cultivators of Yingzhou to poison them, he would definitely have thought of that.
He made this choice more to create the illusion of being desperate for a cure, but he didn't expect that the other party would agree to secretly rush to the Xuan Shuang Sect as soon as he revealed his identity.
They arrived in just a few days, and now they're hanging out with their young mistress?
"Please, please." Mu Jianjian clasped her hands together under her chin, watching Linghu Zhuoyu stand up.
“Okay, sister.” Linghu Zhuoyu made no attempt to hide his affection for Mu Jianjian in front of others. He looked into the girl’s eyes, which seemed to sparkle like stars, and felt a surge of joy in his heart.
Looking at the veiled boy who had parted ways with Mu Jianjian and was walking towards him, Uncle Guo was once again amazed by the young man who was famous as a divine doctor on the mainland. His starting point was already at a height that others could only look up to, making it hard to imagine his future achievements.
If only I could become close to him...
Uncle Guo withdrew his gaze from the white-clad girl who was starting to tend to the plants again.
——
When Linghu Zhuoyu came out of the back hall again, the sun was already setting. He went down the stone steps and saw the girl still holding a book and reading.
"elder sister."
A soft, sweet voice came from behind, and Mu Jianjian immediately stood up and ran to his side, then shifted her gaze to Uncle Guo behind them, "How is my father?"
“Jianjian, Sect Leader Mu is alright now. After some residual poison is cleared, he will wake up in a few days,” Uncle Guo paused, “but this news should be kept secret for now.”
"Yes, I know." Mu Jianjian finally relaxed.
After letting Uncle Guo, who had been working hard for several days, rest well, Mu Jianjian received a strange look from him.
"Hmm?" she asked, puzzled.
"Second Elder, Miss Mu and I met before and became friends," Linghu Zhuoyu explained.
Although Uncle Guo had already guessed the answer, he was still extremely surprised when the other party admitted to saying it himself.
Since birth, Jianjian has stayed in the courtyard on Xuanshuang Mountain due to her physical condition, rarely venturing out. When will she meet the divine doctor and become friends with him?
Was it in a secret realm... or at some other time?
However, this is good news for them.
After Uncle Guo left, the shadows of the trees swayed beside the herb garden of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hall. The setting sun cast shadows on the two of them, and the faint fragrance of Chinese herbs filled the air. For a moment, the two of them looked at each other in silence.
Mu Jianjian took off the silver bracelet from her wrist and handed it to Linghu Zhuoyu. She saw a thin black and red snake with its tongue sticking out from under the veil on the young man's wrist.
The memories of when she first entered the secret realm flooded her mind through constant flashbacks, and a nostalgic smile appeared on her face. When she saw Little Flower trying to crawl over, she reached out and took it, rubbing its head with her fingertips.
"This is the silver bracelet you gave me after we parted last time. I used up all the pills and paper talismans you gave me before," Mu Jianjian said apologetically, feeling embarrassed herself. She then added, "But after I returned to the sect, I took some more pills and added them to it."
Linghu Zhuoyu gently scanned the contents of the silver bracelet with his divine sense and saw that, apart from the pills and paper talismans which had been replaced with new ones, all the other magical artifacts were intact inside.
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