Chapter 247: Waking Up
“What? What did you say?”
Ye Beiyao slammed his palm on the table and stood up, shouting loudly.
“Luo Niangzi’s life and death are uncertain. She was sent to the clinic in town overnight the day before yesterday for treatment.”
“You’re saying that woman said she hanged herself?” Young Master Jiang said in disbelief.
“Reporting to Young Master Jiang, that person called Xiao Zhou Shi is Luo Niangzi’s eldest sister-in-law, and she did say that.”
“Outrageous, it’s simply a joke, a joke within a joke!”
Ye Beiyao was like an ant on a hot pan. “Which clinic is she in?”
“The specific clinic—because Song Wu had to rush back first to inform the master, he’ll go scout it out first and then report back.”
“Good!”
“Song Wu, go quickly, and by the way, find out what caused her coma.”
“Yes!”
Not to mention Luo Niangzi’s personality isn’t that of someone who would hang herself, and with her build, what kind of rope and beam could even hold her up?
There are five or six clinics in town; he just needed to check them one by one, but it would take time.
At this moment, Ye Beiyao and Young Master Jiang wished they could rush to her immediately to see what was really going on.
What Song Wu hadn’t expected was that all the clinics said they hadn’t received this patient.
With Luo Niangzi’s physique, any visit to a clinic would leave a record.
If he couldn’t find out, wouldn’t he have to go back with his head bowed today? Fortunately, he finally got some information from a waiter doing odd jobs.
He said it might be that fat woman in a coma who was taken to Zhu Ming Residence that night.
Song Wu went straight to Zhu Ming Residence and stealthily flew to a dark spot to observe.
Soon he saw a medicine boy in the backyard boiling medicine in the yard, but no sign of Doctor Du.
However, he saw Luo Niangzi’s husband Li Sanmao.
He came from the front courtyard to the backyard, full of anxiety, pleading with the medicine boy to go find Doctor Du again.
“Brother Li, didn’t I tell you?”
“Doctor Du went to the clinic early in the morning to see patients. It’s no use looking for Doctor Du; it all depends on Luo Niangzi’s own fate!”
“Waiter, my wife is still in a coma. I… I can’t just watch my wife die!” Li Sanmao, a big man, was crying tears like rain.
“Sigh, thousand-year ginseng—you find that first. As for that poison gu, you must find someone to detoxify it. That might save her life!”
The medicine boy sighed, still repeating those same two things.
Song Wu turned serious upon hearing this and hurried back nonstop to report to Ye Beiyao.
“Thousand-year ginseng? Why does she need thousand-year ginseng? Could she be injured, making it this serious?”
“Yes, severe blood loss requires replenishing qi and blood.” Young Master Jiang said.
“And that poison gu? What exactly is that poison gu?” Ye Beiyao suddenly fell silent. “Poison gu?”
……
Li Xi’er blinked her eyes hard and moved her sore eyeballs.
After that man left that day, she had opened her eyes and could clearly see the stalactite-like stones on the ceiling.
She slightly turned her head and saw misty fog rising around her. She seemed to be in a mysterious cave, sleeping on a crystal bed, with faintly glowing warm stones on the ground…
She realized her body was alternating between cold and hot—it was coming from those two strange beads.
Next to the crystal bed, inside a sculpture with two huge eyes, there were two beads: one emitting red light, the other green light.
They were like two human eyes silently emitting unique light and aura.
Around her crystal bed on the ground, and inside and outside the cave, some orchids were planted.
At the cave doorway, someone was vaguely guarding. After a few words, that person came in, walked around, checked her condition, and inserted a bunch of wild mountain camellias by the bed. This was the master’s order—General Hua loved those flowers and plants, and the wild flowers on this mountain were changed out for her bedside all year round…
Considering she knew nothing about this place yet, she naturally couldn’t act rashly then, so she pretended to close her eyes and fell asleep again…
In her dream, she saw Li Sanmao with disheveled hair running wildly in the rain, snot streaming, going mad, shouting for his wife to come back. It scared her; she really didn’t want to see him, so she turned and ran.
Running and running, because she ran too fast, she fell into a bottomless mountain abyss…
And now, she woke up in this body, able to move. She didn’t know exactly what was going on.
But why had she returned here? She hadn’t gone home or back to Luo Zhi’er’s body! It was all a mystery.
Could it be she had possessed another body again?
“Hey, is anyone there?” Li Xi’er sat up and shouted crisply toward the person at the cave doorway.
She was really too thirsty; she didn’t care what they thought right now.
The people at the cave doorway had first thought they misheard a woman’s weak call, but hearing the second one, both showed fear in their eyes.
“Gugu gu!”
Besides thirst, her stomach was rumbling from hunger.
The two exchanged a glance, peeked inside, and shuddered; the weapon in their hands nearly dropped to the ground.
That woman… how had she woken up and appeared before them so lively?
Could it be a ghost?
“You, you, you…”
“You you you, you little bro, just finish what you’re saying!”
Luo Zhi’er interrupted one of the servants, hugged herself with both arms, and blinked her big watery eyes playfully. “Excuse me, where is this place? Why is it so cold?”
“R-Reporting, General Hua, this is Phoenix Mountain in Feng Lan Kingdom. D-Do you remember? Two years ago, Si Kingdom and Feng Lan Kingdom were at war. You died, and your body… was swapped by the master and hidden here…”
Only they few knew this; everyone in the two countries outside thought Hua Linglong had died in battle for her country, her body long buried in the Hua family tomb.
General Hua? Who was General Hua?
“Died?”
Li Xi’er was speechless. Died, and she’d been dead for two years? What was this? She really had possessed a corpse, and crucially, she didn’t remember the previous memories.
But this was easy; pretending to have amnesia was something she was familiar with.
“Hehe, is that so? The past is the past, not important. Anyway, I don’t remember. Hey, you two little bros, can you get this young lady something to drink and eat first?”
“Food? Drink?”
Two years, and now she felt hungry?
“Yeah, my stomach is rumbling. Could it be from sleeping too long?”
Li Xi’er stretched her arms and kicked her legs. Slept too long—time to move around!
One of them, called Little Box, gave an eye signal to the other servant to hurry and report.
He scratched the back of his head and steadied her. “Alright, General Hua, please wait a moment. This one will go right now.”
“Forget it, I’ll go with you.”
By the time Feng Qingcheng rushed over in a panic, he saw the person he’d thought of day and night sitting at the cave doorway with a pile of firewood burning.
She held a wooden stick eating the grilled fish on it, with charred bits on her nose, bending down to dig out roasted yams.
Feng Qingcheng’s mouth curved up, his eyes nearly melting, revealing a deep, immeasurable smile.
Murmuring,
“It’s really you, back.”
Li Xi’er sat on the ground full of earthy scent, took a bite of grilled fish and picked out the bones. “Delicious! With a pot of fine aged wine, it would be perfect!” She felt from afar that someone was watching her.
She looked up and nearly choked.
