novelhk Chapter 237 Wang Shusheng
Chapter 237 Wang Shusheng
Chapter 237 237 Wang Shusheng
A quarter of an hour later, the two guards from the Zhao family were tightly bound next to a stinking latrine. Their clothes were stripped off, and the four blood-red characters "I am a lecher" were written on their bellies. Their mouths were stuffed with rags, and they were rolling their eyes from the stench of the latrine, barely clinging to life.
After doing all this, Ye Pianran and Ye Lingyue, mistress and servant, fled out of a side alley as if escaping, and only breathed a long sigh of relief when they could no longer smell the stench.
Recalling what they had just witnessed, the two women exchanged a glance and immediately burst into laughter, clutching their stomachs.
"Hahahaha," Ye Pianran laughed so hard her voice trembled, and she said incoherently, "Yue'er, how did you come up with this method? This move is truly a case of being unable to live or die!"
“Yue’er has been wandering around since she was a child, and she has learned a lot of dirty tricks from a group of old beggars,” Ye Lingyue said with a smile, then snorted coldly, “I really want that old bastard Zhao to taste this kind of feeling too.”
"Don't worry, he'll get to experience that soon," Ye Pianran said with a light snort.
Ye Lingyue's eyes lit up: "What does Miss mean?"
"You also know that I have a vine that can paralyze people and put them into a hallucination. Just now I used that vine to punish him a little. Although I don't know what kind of hallucination the vine created for him, it is connected to my mind. I think it will definitely cast a huge shadow on Master Zhao's heart and make him unable to get close to women again."
After a pause, Ye Pianran continued, "Besides, to prevent him from harming women again after he overcomes that trauma, I also added Polygonatum and Cinnabar to his antidote, so that he will never be able to have sex again."
Upon hearing this, Ye Lingyue suddenly took two steps back and bowed respectfully to Ye Pianran.
"What are you doing?"
Ye Pianran was startled and quickly helped her up.
Ye Lingyue said somewhat embarrassedly, "At first, Yue'er couldn't understand why Miss insisted on saving that Master Zhao. She thought that Miss was perhaps too kind-hearted. Now she understands that Miss has her own decision in mind. It's just that she is not like us Jianghu people who only know how to shout and kill. Miss's gentle knife is the sharpest knife in this world."
[Ding~ Ye Lingyue's favorability +20, current character favorability 100, reward: Good/Evil Value +5, acquired one 'Heart of Loyalty'. Please claim the reward for reaching maximum character favorability.]
Unexpectedly, this incident actually increased Ye Lingyue's favorability towards her. Ye Pianran chuckled and said:
"Actually, I don't know if what I did was right or wrong. Although I have a way to cure him, I don't want to see evil people get away with it. Everything in this world is about cause and effect. His bullying of women and incurring public wrath was the cause; being poisoned and almost dying was the effect. Good deeds are rewarded and evil deeds are punished. In the end, it was his own fault."
“Indeed, he brought it on himself.” Ye Lingyue nodded in agreement, then took Ye Pianran’s arm and smiled, “Miss, shall we go back to Mr. Green Ivy’s place, or head straight home?”
Ye Pianran pondered for a moment and said, "Let's go back to Master's."
Zhao Yuanwai's series of tasks was only 10% complete. The system didn't give any hints about the next task, so she could only go back to her master and try her luck to see if she could trigger the next round of tasks.
The master and servant were engrossed in their conversation and didn't notice their footing. As they turned a corner, Ye Pianran was about to take a step when she suddenly tripped over something and almost fell to the ground.
Ye Lingyue barely managed to catch her, and immediately turned around to look. What she saw startled her greatly.
A thin man in a blue robe lay motionless by the roadside, his eyes closed. Drawings lay scattered around him, and several identical ones were pasted on the wall behind him. He must have been putting something up when something unexpected happened, causing him to collapse.
"How did a man end up lying here?"
Ye Pianran and her servant Ye Lingyue exchanged a glance and immediately went forward to check on the man's condition.
The man was thin and haggard, but his face was flushed with an unusual redness, and his breathing was very heavy, which looked very bad.
As Ye Pianran was thinking this, a dialog box suddenly popped up in front of her:
[Triggered Quest 2: Treat this stranger. Quest difficulty: Medium. Accept quest?]
Is this the second part of the chain of missions? Ye Pianran was stunned for a moment, then clicked "yes" and asked Ye Lingyue to open the medicine box and take the man's pulse on the street.
His pulse was sometimes deep and sometimes shallow, sometimes short and sometimes long, indicating liver qi stagnation, qi and blood stasis, and emotional depression. In addition, he had not eaten for many days and was extremely weak, which led to his unstable spirit, persistent fever, and fainting here.
Ye Pianran thought about the symptoms mentioned in the medical book, took out the Tai Su Nine Needles from the medicine box, and inserted a needle into each of the four acupoints: Shen Ting, Yin Tang, Qing Ming, and Ren Zhong. Then she fed him two antipyretic and calming pills made by Liu Luluo, and then stepped aside to observe his symptoms.
Stimulated by the Tai Su Nine Needles, the pills made by Liu Luluo quickly took effect. The man began to sweat profusely on his face and body, and his complexion slowly returned to normal from its flushed state, but he looked even more haggard.
Having regained some of his senses, the man suddenly realized where he was. He trembled as he opened his heavy eyelids and saw the silver needles right in front of him, as well as Ye Pianran and her servant Ye Lingyue.
Knowing that these two had saved him, the man struggled to get up, but his limbs were too weak to support himself. Seeing this, Ye Pianran stepped forward and retrieved the Tai Su Nine Needles. Together with Ye Lingyue, they helped him to his feet, supporting him against the wall behind him, before asking:
"Young master, what happened to you? Why did you faint here?"
The man took two heavy breaths, and after catching his breath, he sighed, "Thank you both for your help. Please forgive me, I am too weak to stand up and bow to you in gratitude."
“It’s alright. I am a doctor. If I encounter you in such a condition on the road, how could I not treat you?” Ye Pianran said. She hesitated for a moment before saying, “Young master, there is something I want to say, but I don’t know if I should.”
The young master coughed twice and said in a hoarse voice, "Please speak, doctor."
"Although I have medicine to cure the illness, I cannot cure the heart's ailment. Young Master's health is truly not good; if this continues, I fear his life may be in danger."
Ye Pianran said solemnly.
The man seemed to have anticipated this outcome. Hearing Ye Pianran's words, he showed no surprise, only a bitter smile, and said:
“I know that a heart ailment needs a heart remedy, but I can’t let go of all this. If I can’t find her, I’ll have no hope for the rest of my life.”
"Judging from your accent, young master, you're probably not from the capital, are you?" Ye Pianran glanced at the drawings scattered on the ground not far away, and vaguely saw a portrait of a woman on them. She thought to herself that it must be a missing person notice, and asked again, "Young master, did you come to the capital to look for someone?"
The young master Wang remained silent for a while before saying, "Yes and no."
"What do you mean by that?" Ye Pianran asked.
“My wife and I came to the capital together to make a living, but when we first arrived, she disappeared without a trace. I searched for her in the capital for more than half a month, but I couldn’t find her anywhere…” At this point, perhaps because he was too sad, the young master’s face turned even paler. He sighed heavily, his face becoming more and more depressed, and he was unwilling to say another word.
"In any case, thank you for the medicine today, young lady. This is to pay for the medicine. Farewell."
He took out a tael of silver from his pocket, casually placed it on the ground, and then staggered toward the notices he had scattered on the ground.
at the same time--
[Second Quest Discovered: Help Wang Shusheng find someone. Difficulty: Medium. Accept quest?]