The streets, alleys, and mountains are full of fallen leaves. They have just fallen from the branches and have not yet dehydrated. The ones hanging on the trees are still half green and half yellow. The crops are almost ripe and the fruits are ready to be picked. From a distance,
Towards the orchard, there are abundant and crumbling fruits, and a sweet smell permeates the air, making people feel comfortable.
The woman was walking on this road, watching the farmers busy in the orchards, but her pace did not slow down. She walked softly, making no sound at all. However, her steps were clearly a bit messy, and her footprints were of different shades, half and half.
Most people wouldn't be able to tell anything at first glance, but a martial arts expert would definitely be able to tell the fact that she was injured.
After autumn, people add clothes one after another, and she is no exception. She wears a long coat, long boots, and a wide-brimmed straw hat from an unknown source, covering most of her face. Her hairstyle is a bit strange, half of it is
Her short hair, which did not reach her shoulders, was cut neatly. The lower layer was very long and tied into a thin bunch hanging down her back. A sword was hung on her waist.
She has some weird metal accessories on her body, but no one pays attention to it. People who know a little bit about it will say, oh, this is a member of the Tang family.
I heard that there is a wandering doctor nearby who has been living here for a long time. Maybe she will leave before winter comes, so she needs to find her quickly and have a look. Her disease is also strange, and many people have never heard of it.
She kept asking around and finally found a village at the foot of the mountain. It was said to be a village, but people had slowly moved to the city. This place was equivalent to a transit point between the valley and the big city. Many people who stayed here changed their homes to
Most of the hotels are run by old people.
The woman came to a door without a sign and paused for a long time. It didn't look like a hospital in any way. It was said that the owner of the hotel next to it rented out an empty room. There was no sign and no one. She opened the door and walked in.
Holding the handle of the knife tightly in his hand, he took silent steps.
"You're finally here."
"..."
That low female voice seemed to understand her very well. This made her slightly unhappy.
"You are not sick." Another woman said in the dark room, "Let me take a look first."
So she took off her boots and stepped on the edge of the chair. Under her boots, there was a thick layer of gauze wrapped around her. But it was not to keep warm from the cold. After untying them layer by layer, she revealed her pale skin.
, and sprouted fine green shoots.
The plants growing out of the human body did not convey any sense of prosperity. Although the gauze kept squeezing them, they still grew stubbornly and twisted, which made people feel hairy when they looked at them. The area where the buds meet the skin is red.
, but there is no wound, it is like drawing blood to the lower layer of the skin.
"Well... sure enough." The female doctor shook her head, "Miss Huailan, have you heard of Luo Shen Sha?"
"I've heard of it."
"They are the seeds of a plant that grow in water. After drying, they turn into dark red Roselle sand. However, if you have a wound on your body and come into direct contact with the seeds in the water, the seeds will also release spores in the water.
Or take root in an animal."
Tang Huailan thought about it. Indeed, Cuipingtan probably had such a thing. And at that time, she suffered many injuries in the battle, especially those fine silk threads, which unknowingly scratched many places on her body. She
After standing in the water for a long time, it was natural for her to be parasitized. It's a pity that she only knows it now.
"How to cure it?"
"Perhaps it has been several months... These seedlings will take root in your meridians in less than half a year, and by then your martial arts will probably be useless. However, it looks like their growth has been inhibited.
This kind of gauze is useless alone, they can even pass through stones. Did you pull it out yourself? "
"Well, I cut it out with a knife."
"Oh... you are so cruel to yourself. It should be too late now. I'll go get the anesthetic and the razor blade."
With that said, Lord Ruyue lit the candle on the table, turned around and got into a small door, and rummaged in the cabinet. Tang Huailan put down his trousers, sat on the stool blankly, looking at the flickering candlelight. It was actually still bright outside.
Yes, but it's too dark here.
She has done something similar to "scraping bones to heal wounds", and she has done it more than once. Walking around the world, she can always be injured by various poisons, but they come from a poison-making family and have been through many battles since they were young.
It’s not too scary. Mr. Tang Huansheng has
A small finger was cut off. He was injured by a poisoned blade when he was young. There was no antidote at the moment, so he made this decision in desperation. She and Tang Qinglan had learned this, digging out arrowheads with their bare hands, and burning knives to shave them.
Stinging is something they often do.
She was not afraid of pain. When she cut off these buds, although there was no pain, they grew quickly. So she dug out the flesh, but her technique was probably not professional enough and she could not cut according to the plant's root system and its own meridians.
The method is to cut the grass and root out the roots.
Come on, when she used the blade to cut off the roots of the buds, blood would flow out and she felt a little stinging. By chance, she heard that Lord Ruyue was practicing medicine near Xueyan Valley, so she came to visit. People are always confused by the unknown.
Abnormal fear, this is normal.
She suddenly remembered that during a mission, both of them were injured. Although the part they were responsible for was successfully completed, there was a flaw in the next part. The entire team was scolded and did not receive enough medicine. She was just injured.
The knife cut his arm, but the entire arrow did not enter the side of Qinglan's shoulder blade. But he felt that Huailan was in more pain than himself, so he insisted that she apply medicine first. Anyway, there was no rush to pull out the arrow, and the gauze to stop the bleeding would be enough.
Even
If there is more, let Huailan use it tightly. Huailan usually takes care of the wounds by herself. Although it hurts, she knows when it hurts and how much it hurts, so she is prepared. Including accidental injuries when fighting with others, she can't take care of them for a moment.
She was in pain, so most of the time she was not afraid of anything. If others helped her deal with it, she would frown and secretly be worried. Only when Tang Qinglan started, she almost didn't feel anything. For some reason, he was always very careful.
But if she helped Qinglan deal with it, he would scream and scream, even if she tried to cut the nails on his uninjured hand, he wouldn't stop howling.
Ruyue-kun came out with medicine and a razor blade. She asked her to roll up her pants and step on the bench, exposing the devastated "soil". She did so without saying a word. The anesthetic was still effective, she just
I feel like someone is touching my ankle, but I don't feel any pain. This feeling is very similar to when Qinglan handled it.
She didn't dare to miss him at all.
"The Tang family has been looking for you." Lord Ruyue said as he carefully cut open the thin flesh with a blade, "They also jointly issued an order for the arrest with the Zuo Jinmen. I thought you all explained where to weaken Tang Wan.
I didn’t expect that they only found Tang Qinglan’s grave, but you were missing. No one in the world could tell you about you, and your actions were very covert.”
"Qinglan was taken back?"
"Yes. It seems that he was buried in glory after chasing his name."
"Funerals and names can also be used as tools and rhetoric by them."
"Everywhere in this world is the same. However, you have become the target of public criticism and a traitor. But be careful, if they catch you, they will definitely charge you with unwarranted charges."
"What a beautiful contrast."
"Do you have money?" Lord Ruyue said suddenly.
Tang Huailan was stunned for a moment, nodded slightly, and said she had some money. But most of the money was in the bank and it was difficult to get it. The Tang family and Zuojinmen would definitely find it. But she said she would pay for the medical expenses.
"...Well, it's not necessary." Lord Ruyue said slowly, "Just owe it to me for now. Soon, I will have a painting competition, and I will probably choose a big city. By then, if you can
There's nothing better than watching the battle with admiration."
"good."
"I didn't expect that you have so little savings at such a young age."
"Most of the money does not go to the people below, and what they get is always pitiful. But there is no expense for food and clothing, so I can save it after all." Tang Huailan said honestly, "I originally wanted to exchange this money.
Be free."
"How could they let you go so easily? You are so valuable."
"Indeed. I heard about such a thing when I was a child. I thought it was simple. I thought those people were probably treated as traitors and dealt with. Maybe they were afraid that they would have different intentions and used some psychological tricks. But I was still saving money... One day
It's not bad to find an opportunity, suddenly disappear, and change your appearance in a distant place where no one knows. Later, I heard a story about a mission target, and I felt that his parents were not considerate, did not do it beautifully enough, and did not go far enough. If it were us,
It will definitely not be discovered."
"After all, it's two people, it's easy to be discovered."
"It's okay to separate. Anyway, we're just alone now."
"That's right...your partner must have saved a lot of money."
"I don't know. He spends more money than I do, and he never thought about leaving the Tang family. One day he knew that I was leaving. Although he never expressed it, he stopped spending money randomly. I guess he also has some savings, but
Now they will all be recycled by this family."
The two of them stopped talking, and there were only some strange and subtle sounds of the blade peeling off flesh.
Tang Huailan suddenly felt an unspeakable emptiness, and there was nothing in front of her eyes or in her mind. She knew that she was actually a selfish person. If she left the Tang family alone, Tang Qinglan would definitely be stuck in the quagmire if she stayed. With her
It wouldn't be a big deal if the swords were facing each other, but he would definitely be made difficult in every possible way. When she thought of this, one leg had already been treated, and Lord Ruyue asked her to switch to the other side.
"Do you regret it?"
After a long time, Lord Ruyue raised her head and suddenly said something like this. She put the things she picked out from her ankles on the plate at the table. They were very thin and long roots, and there was vague blood foam. No wonder she was pregnant.
As Lan approached the area of her knee where there was no anesthesia, she felt like long worms wriggling out of her body. After Ruyue-kun said this, she began to apply the medicine and was not in a hurry to listen to her answer.
"I don't know." She blurted out, as if she had thought about it.
"If you don't regret it later, why don't you know it?"
"His willingness to go with me is ultimately a kind of kidnapping. I left him with no choice and nowhere to go. Maybe I don't feel guilty about him, and I always take it for granted. I think, because I always
I think he will definitely forgive me."
"That's not necessarily true." Lord Ruyue put a bandage on her and said softly, "He probably doesn't hold any grudge against you at all."
"Although you Six Paths of Impermanence are well-informed, I don't think you can even read people's minds."
"Yes. If I can't do it, how can you have the confidence? He is not related to you by blood, but he is as reliable as a biological brother. You have been together since childhood and have nothing but each other. He is a part of you, why would a part of you become
Blame you?"
Tang Huailan frowned slightly, always feeling that this was not the case, but unable to refute it.
"Then, in turn, I am also a part of him. Why did he have to accommodate me when I didn't compromise with him?"
"That's his choice. You can also choose to compromise, or not. This kind of power is two-way, but the result of the choice is different. So far, he has brought it on himself, and so have you."
"I've lost a part of me forever."
After that, she stuffed her legs wrapped in new cloth into her boots, stood up and stamped her feet, feeling no pain.
Lord Ruyue watched her quietly from behind.
"Antelopes with broken horns can only survive cowardly and run as fast as possible at the slightest disturbance; wolves with three legs are more alert and can survive by bullying the weak; tigers with one eye are more majestic and less easy to mess with. What will happen in the future?
, it never depends on what part you lost, but on who you were in the first place.”
