Chapter 127: Must Not Be Known To Outsiders
The leopard walked over with elegant steps and crouched down to bow.
Shang Wan followed Yuan Yuan’s intention and placed the little one on the leopard’s back.
“Go!” Yuan Yuan straightened her small body, the blush on her little face not yet faded, her big eyes sparkling, small hand waving forward.
The leopard immediately stood up, carrying Yuan Yuan into the pack of wild beasts, heading deep into the mountain forest.
All the wild beasts followed orderly behind the leopard.
Shang Wan leaped onto a tree and quietly followed.
She had thought she would witness a bloody fight, but unexpectedly saw an unprecedented animal military training.
That’s right, military training.
Yuan Yuan sat high on the leopard’s back, and in the blink of an eye, she formed several teams, appointed captains, and methodically trained them in movements.
The more Shang Wan watched, the more familiar these movements seemed; thinking of the animal army’s purpose, her eye corner twitched.
Weren’t these movements digging ground, loosening soil, shoveling earth, and watering?
Her own child staying up half the night instead of sleeping, running to the mountains to train a land reclamation team?
Just now seeing Yuan Yuan’s expression, she thought the little one’s ability was about to upgrade.
Just this?
She watched a bit longer, seeing that Yuan Yuan’s side was completely fine, Shang Wan worried about Lu Chengjing’s situation and flew back home.
“Older sister, you’re finally back!” Xiao Huan paced anxiously in front of the shed, her eyes lighting up upon seeing Shang Wan, “How’s Yuan Yuan?”
“She’s fine, what about brother-in-law?”
“Brother-in-law seems to have an upset stomach.” Xiao Huan frowned, “Not long after you left, brother-in-law suddenly woke up saying his stomach hurt, Shi Tou helped brother-in-law to the toilet, and he’s been in there without coming out.”
Shang Wan: “…”
Burning with such a high fever just from an upset stomach?
She inexplicably felt this matter was somewhat related to the bok choy.
He SIZhi heard the movement, put on clothes and came out to look.
Shang Wan explained: “Probably upset stomach causing some fever, he’ll be fine after drinking a bowl of medicine in a bit.”
Hearing this, He SIZhi also felt relieved and went back to sleep.
Tomorrow they had to go to work, not sleeping well meant no energy to work.
Lu Chengjing had been in the toilet until he was exhausted from diarrhea before Shi Tou helped him out.
His face was already pale, now even paler, almost transparent.
Xiao Huan didn’t pay attention to Lu Chengjing’s complexion; she stared straight at Lu Chengjing’s standing legs, excitedly stammering, “Older sister, brother-in-law, your legs don’t hurt standing anymore?”
Lu Chengjing looked down at his legs; besides some numbness, they indeed didn’t hurt.
Shang Wan said: “Walk a couple steps.”
Lu Chengjing signaled Shi Tou to let go of his arm, slowly moved his legs, and paced back and forth a couple steps.
Long without walking, the walking movements weren’t that smooth, but indeed didn’t hurt.
“How is it?”
“Doesn’t hurt.” Lu Chengjing made a movement he basically never did normally, hopping in place several times like a child.
Doesn’t hurt, not at all, just like before he was injured—no, perhaps even better than before he was injured.
Lu Chengjing stared at his legs in shock and uncertainty.
Every night after soaking his feet in the medicinal water, he would try to stand up using the wheelchair to check his legs’ recovery.
Clearly, before sleeping, taking one step still hurt, but now the legs surprisingly didn’t hurt.
Why?
He subconsciously looked up at Shang Wan, wanting to ask something, but mindful of Shi Tou and Xiao Huan nearby, afraid the question would trouble Shang Wan, his lips parted and closed again.
Shi Tou excitedly circled around Lu Chengjing, laughing until wrinkles appeared on the young man’s smooth face.
“Brother-in-law, you’re finally better!”
He excitedly wanted to hug Lu Chengjing and spin him around, but suddenly cried out and clutched his stomach, “Hiss—hurts hurts hurts! Can’t take it!”
Clamping his legs while covering his butt, he dashed madly to the toilet.
After staying in the toilet for nearly half an hour, Shi Tou walked out trembling in the legs, voice weak, “Xiao Huan, tell the truth, did you put croton in the vegetables?”
Xiao Huan rolled her eyes at him, “Did you just poop out your brain? How could I put croton in the vegetables?”
“Ouch, can’t take it, legs weak.” Shi Tou plopped down on the ground, raising his hand toward Xiao Huan, “Quick, help me up.”
Xiao Huan went to help him, Shi Tou asked: “Where are older sister and brother-in-law?”
“In the shed, older sister is checking brother-in-law’s leg injury.”
Shi Tou nodded, “Let’s go take a look too.”
Xiao Huan had just helped him into the wooden shed when suddenly her body stiffened, a strange expression flashing across her face.
“Why aren’t you walking?” Shi Tou turned to look at her.
“You go in yourself, I have something.” Xiao Huan’s cheeks flushed red, she let go of Shi Tou’s arm and turned to run to the toilet.
Shi Tou was stunned, then revealed a knowing, schadenfreude smile.
Diarrhea, though late but arrived.
In the compartment, Shang Wan rolled up Lu Chengjing’s trouser leg, borrowing the oil lamp’s light to carefully look at the scars on his leg.
These days with both external application and internal consumption, the shallower scars had disappeared, leaving only some deep long scars like centipedes winding on the calf, destroying the skin’s original beauty.
Shang Wan said: “Faded a lot.”
Slender fingers slid down along the scar, stopping at the smooth skin connecting to the end, “The scar here has disappeared.”
Lu Chengjing softly hummed.
Shang Wan looked up at him, “You’re not asking?”
Lu Chengjing lightly pursed his lips, meeting the watery almond eyes in front of him for a moment, then softly asked: “Related to that bok choy?”
“Probably.”
“Where did that bok choy come from?” After asking, Lu Chengjing nervously clenched his left hand, softly adding, “If you don’t want to say, you don’t have to…”
“Like this.” Shang Wan opened her hand, only to see white light flash, and a fresh bok choy as if just picked from the field suddenly appeared in her originally empty palm.
Lu Chengjing’s pupils shrank sharply, ripples spreading in his dark eyes; he stared unblinkingly at the bok choy in Shang Wan’s palm, even subconsciously lightening his breathing.
“You…” His voice was dry, the syllables almost broken, showing his shock.
Shang Wan chuckled lightly, “Want to ask how I did it?”
Lu Chengjing nodded, his gaze toward Shang Wan containing expectation.
“Here.” Shang Wan raised her hand and pointed at her head, “There’s a space.”
“Spa…ce?” Lu Chengjing felt his mind blank for the first time, “What is that?”
Shang Wan said: “You can think of it as a room, a field, and a spring.”
Lu Chengjing: ???
Can a person’s head hold these things?
His first reaction was that niangzi was teasing him, but that bok choy really appeared out of thin air, and that white light, he definitely didn’t see wrong.
So… everything niangzi said was true?
Was niangzi an immortal, a demon, or some hermit expert?
Lu Chengjing’s mind raced, instantly assigning Shang Wan countless outrageous identities.
“Hey hey hey, come back to your senses.” Shang Wan waved her hand in front of his eyes, “Can’t accept it or scared silly?”
“Niangzi, this matter absolutely cannot be known to outsiders.” Lu Chengjing came back to his senses, nervously grabbing Shang Wan’s hand.
People are mostly greedy and ignorant; if they knew of niangzi’s special ability, who knows what they would do.
