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Yunqi Que was still pondering his words. Before Aci could hear the answer, his body became weak and powerless, and he fell backward uncontrollably.
Before he completely passed out, her figure began to blur in his sight. Looking up at her, Ah Ci murmured bitterly: "Why can't you just like me..."
Yunqi Que was too late to catch him, and he fell heavily to the ground, unconscious.
She subconsciously wanted to run out and ask for help, but when she recalled his words, she walked back to the bed, dragged the bedding and pillows to the ground, gently and carefully picked up his head, put the soft pillow under his head, and covered him with the quilt.
Fortunately, the place where Lan Zhuochi was lying was covered with carpet, so the coldness of the floor tiles would not invade his back.
Sitting beside him, Yunqi Que was worried and anxious, helpless and could only accompany him quietly, frequently reaching out to check his breath.
Lan Zhuochi felt no better in his coma than when awake. His brows were furrowed with sweat, and no matter how hard she rubbed them, they wouldn't loosen. He looked like he was trapped in a terrifying nightmare, unable to wake up, and he kept muttering something to himself.
At night, Lan Zhuochi's condition worsened. He began to have a fever, his whole body felt hot to the touch, and his clothes were soaked with sweat.
He even started talking nonsense. This time Yunqique could hear him clearly. He kept muttering:
Magpie, don't abandon me.
Yunqique remembered that she had heard a maid in the Western Regions say that when she was young, she had no money to buy medicine, and her mother could only beg for a bowl of wine to wipe her body to reduce her fever.
After asking for water, a handkerchief and wine, Yun Qique locked the door and carefully cooled him down as the maid had instructed.
In the second half of the night, he seemed to be even more emotionally broken as he was trapped in a nightmare. Tears kept flowing from the corners of his eyes, and his muttering tone became more and more sad and aggrieved, even with a tearful tone.
Yunqi Que felt very uncomfortable after hearing this.
The most taboo thing for an illness is losing control of one's emotions, and now he is confused due to fever. She is afraid that if he continues like this, the condition will get worse.
She thought that even if Ah Chi, such a magical and extraordinary existence, could not wake up and occupy her body, perhaps he could hear what she said.
So she took another pillow, lay beside him, wiped his tears, and whispered in his ear, following his cries, repeating over and over again firmly that she would never abandon him.
Regardless of whether it was useful or not, Yunqi Que responded patiently until he couldn't resist the sleepiness and fell asleep.
The next day.
The Yunqi magpie was awakened by the heat.
When she opened her eyes, she saw Lan Zhuochi's face beside her, and her arms hugging Lan Zhuochi.
She tiptoed out of his bed. The coolness outside the quilt was very pleasant, but it also made the sticky feeling of her sweat more obvious.
I bent down and smelled it, and it smelled of sweat.
She really disliked herself for being like this.
He stopped talking nonsense. She touched his forehead with her hand. Fortunately, it wasn't too hot.
Yunqi Que finally breathed a sigh of relief.
She wanted to change into comfortable and dry clothes, but she couldn't let anyone see her coming out of Lan Zhuochi's room so early in the morning. She was even more afraid that if she left, someone would enter Lan Zhuochi's room and discover his current condition, and she would not be able to return to her room at all.
Glancing at his wardrobe, Yun Qique walked straight over, picked up a few pieces at random, and went to the corner to change quickly.
Lan Zhuochi's clothes were too big for her, so she tied them tightly with a belt inside and outside to prevent them from falling off.
After she packed up her changed clothes and placed them neatly in the corner, she sat back down beside him, wiped his upper body, and put a clean handkerchief on his forehead.
Hunger makes people particularly alert. She was bored waiting, and now she had the mind to calm down and think about her messy thoughts. She thought about her feelings for him, which were different from those for others, and the worry and fear she had when his life was in extreme danger last night.
The more I think about it, the more confused I become, but the result is obvious.
But the more this result came to her mind, the more her past with Yun Jinglu kept popping up in her mind.
Compared with her feelings for Lan Zhuochi, she has realized that her previous feelings for Yun Jinglu were not love between a man and a woman.
Even though she understood, deep down, she didn't want to believe it, even avoiding the true face of Yun Jinglu that she later saw. She didn't want to believe that the brother she knew would kill her. So, when she confirmed that she loved Lan Zhuochi, she still felt a complicated feeling of betrayal to Yun Jinglu. After all, it was she who had pestered him to make a marriage contract.
But the fact is that she and Yun Jinglu, who is determined to kill her, can never go back to the past.
After some random thoughts, Yun Qique decided to find something to do to divert her attention, so she began to pray in her heart that there was a kind-hearted god passing by who would bless Lan Zhuochi to wake up safely.
Just as she had this thought of praying to God, the next second, accompanied by bursts of wonderful fragrance and fairy mist, a fairy with her face half covered by a veil appeared before her eyes. Petals fell from the fairy's body, and the moment the petals hit the ground, they turned into smoke and bubbles and disappeared.
The fairy's attire was very similar to the clothing depicted in the portraits of gods in temples and Taoist temples. However, she had not seen many portraits of gods from the Central Plains, so she could not guess which god's robe the fairy was wearing.
"I am the Broom Star Lord. I heard you prayed sincerely, so I came to help you."
After saying this, she twisted her fingers and cast a spell on the Lanzhuo Pool.
When a thin, translucent, colorful mist slowly flowed from the fingertips of the Broom Star God and floated towards the Lanzhuo Pool, Yunqi Que, not knowing whether the so-called "Broom Star God" in front of her was real or fake, subconsciously blocked him with her body, but the colorful mist went straight through her body and merged into his.
He coughed violently, coughing up a mouthful of black blood. His fingers moved, and then there was no movement again.
Yun Qique anxiously turned to check his breathing. It was steady now, more even than at any point during his coma, and his forehead and cheeks were no longer hot. Slightly lifting a corner of the quilt, she reached in to feel the warmth of his chest, feeling whether its rise and fall was steady, only then did she feel at ease.
"I cannot change the fate of mortals. I can only temporarily protect his heart meridians. Whether he can survive this disaster and wake up successfully depends on him."
Regardless of whether she was real or fake, a god or a demon, he had helped her and saved his life, so she should repay him with all her heart.
"Thank you so much for saving me, Lord Broom Star. In this lifetime, I will build a temple and burn incense for you to repay your kindness."
The Broom Star Lord shook his head and motioned her to stand up. "I have one more word for you. You must not use the fox mind technique again. Otherwise, no medicine or stone can cure you, and even gods and immortals cannot save you."
After saying that, she disappeared into the room, along with the fragrance that came with her.
"Thank you, Lord Broom Star, for your words." He bowed and stood up. Yun Qique took the handkerchief from his forehead, turned around and sat down, continuing to wait.
However, this time, she felt reassured and no longer worried. Even though she was starving, there were no dried fruits or cakes in his room, so she could only sit and wait, drinking water when she felt extremely hungry.
Fortunately, as evening approached, Yunqi Que, whose stomach was rumbling with hunger, finally waited for Lanzhuochi to wake up.
However, the embarrassing thing was that the moment their eyes met, her stomach growled particularly loudly.
"It's my fault. I'll have dinner prepared right away. How many days have I slept? Your clothes..."
He propped himself up weakly, and the quilt slipped off, revealing his bare chest. He found that Yun Qique was no longer shy when looking at him, and seemed accustomed to it.
Smelling the alcohol on his body, he guessed that Yun Qique was used to looking at his upper body when she wiped the alcohol off him.
He secretly regretted in his heart: Is the novelty gone already?
"I'll order my own food when I get back to my courtyard. As for you, you can order it after I climb over the wall. You passed out yesterday and didn't wake up until this evening. When I was rubbing you with alcohol yesterday, I spilled it on myself. The smell of alcohol was terrible, and I couldn't go back to change it, so I borrowed yours. I'll return it to you after I'm clean."
Yunqi Que had no intention of telling him the real reason.
"How can I let you use your hands to wash clothes? I brought you back to enjoy yourself. You don't want to do such hard work. Just change and give it to me. I will ask the servants to wash it."
"Well, then you have a good rest, I'm going back."
"etc!"
"What's wrong?"
"Forget it. I'll tell you after you've eaten well, slept well, and rested well. Anyway, you'll take me with you wherever you go. You won't abandon me, right?"
Hearing this, and seeing his cautious and worried look of confirmation, Yun Qique recalled what he had repeated countless times last night.
"Yes, I'll have something to tell you then. Once you've recovered, we'll set off for Yangmei Village in Lynx Town."
"I won't hold you back. I'm ready now. I can leave anytime you want."
Yun Qique knew exactly what he was thinking when he said this. "Achi, I really won't abandon you, ever. I certainly won't think you're holding me back by recuperating now. Besides, I'm wearing your ring, so I'll never abandon you or hide from you in this life. You can always find me. So, stop overthinking and just rest and recuperate, okay?"
"Actually, I put this ring on you not to prevent you from escaping my control, as I said. It can't allow me to pinpoint your location at all. I won't do anything like this to restrict your freedom or infringe on your privacy."
"So that's why you are here?"
"When I bought it, the merchant said that in his hometown, men would give their beloved fiancées the most beautiful jeweled rings. This way, their marriage would be as eternal as the jewel. And I consider you my future wife, and I want to be with you forever."
After hearing his explanation, Yun Qique was happy, but she didn't intend to let him know her feelings now.
Her stomach growled again at an inopportune moment, giving her an excuse to leave. "I'm hungry. Let's go back and eat."
"You don't need to climb over the wall, just take the secret passage."
After Lan Zhuochi fiddled with the bed for a while, a long secret passage appeared on the right side of the bed.
"Why didn't you tell me earlier! Do you know how much effort it took me to climb over the wall? I almost fell to my death! Wait! Where does this secret passage lead to? It can't be my bed, right? Lan Zhuochi, you! You have ulterior motives! You have bad intentions, you, you hooligan peeping Tom!"
"No, no, no, I didn't. I didn't use it to go into your room once after I dug it. I swear!"
Lan Zhuochi knelt on the bed beside the secret passage and made a swearing gesture.
"Could it be... that they were dug after I moved in?"
"Well, I'm afraid you're in danger."
"My biggest danger is you! You are the only one in the entire Canghua Mountain who cares about me the most." As she said this, she folded her hands in front of her chest, making a posture to protect her body.
Lan Zhuochi was so anxious that he put his hands together and made a "bye" gesture of begging, "How dare I, Master, please believe me."
There was a sudden knock on the door, and Lan Jinchuan said from outside: "Zhuo Chi, are you awake? I heard that you slept all day and didn't eat. Dad came to see you."
"Are you here to see if you're dead or not?" Yun Qique looked towards the door with disgust.
"Qique, please step aside for a moment. I'll come back and explain to you later, okay?"
"Hey! Taking care of you is like having an affair."
Yunqi Que said this, but he actually dug the tunnel more skillfully and quickly than anyone else.
Just as Lan Zhuochi was about to close the secret passage, she stuck her head out again and urgently instructed, "My changed clothes are still on the stool in the corner next to your wardrobe. Remember to hide them so your father won't see them."
"Okay, eat up and see you later."
He smiled and sent Yunqi Que away, closed the entrance to the secret passage, made the bed, then quietly ran to the wardrobe, hurriedly picked up her clothes and put them in his own wardrobe.
This made him accidentally realize that the reason she said that she had to change clothes because the wine was spilled was most likely a lie. After all, if the wine was really spilled, he would be able to smell the obvious odor of alcohol as soon as he picked her up.
Of course, he was not a pervert and would not go close to smell the smell of her clothes.
After putting the clothes in the corner of the closet and covering them with his own clothes, he pretended to be sleepy and went to open the door for Lan Jinchuan.
Lan Jinchuan's injuries were not much better, he was just holding on. The reason why he was holding on and had to find an excuse to come and see him in person at this time was definitely because he wanted to confirm how he had handled the backlash of the Fox Mind Technique.
After all, everyone knows that the Fox Mind Technique is so powerful yet no one dares to use it because the backlash it brings is almost absolutely fatal. Even if you don't die, you will lose decades of your life.
The ancestors of the Lan family relied on this method to establish the Lan family's status to its current level where no one dares to offend.
"Sorry for the long wait, father. Come in and sit down."
He called for his attendants to bring the food into his room, then said with a fake smile, "Seeing you're fine with my own eyes, I'm relieved. Just take good care of yourself. I won't come in and disturb you. Eat well. I've had someone stew you a nourishing dish called snow lotus and wild pheasant. Drink it."
"Thank you, father. You must take good care of yourself and drink more nourishing snow lotus stewed with wild pheasant. It was my fault yesterday because I didn't control my strength."
"In a duel, you should give your all. There's nothing wrong with that. Father is very proud to see you master the Fox Mind Technique to such an extent. Now, I'm leaving."
"Farewell, father."
Lan Zhuochi returned to the house to eat only after Lan Jinchuan left. The silver chopsticks that had been stained by the food he brought did not turn black and were not poisonous.
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