Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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At the same time, another major event happened in Ning Wang’s mansion.
The old lady had suffered from rheumatism since her early years. Whenever it rained or snowed, her knees would hurt. In fact, it was just a pain and there was no threat to her life. She would just get over it as time passed by.
But who would have thought that after being dragged into the cold stream by that idiot Lu Wenxiu last time, her rheumatism got worse! She could hardly get out of bed these days!
This was also the reason why she didn’t even bother to check on Lu Wenxiu even though he was seriously ill.
After the imperial physician from the palace examined the old lady, he only prescribed some moxibustion and told her to rest. After all, this chronic illness could not be relieved in a short period of time.
But the problem was that after the old lady heard about the miracle doctor who had appeared in the capital recently, she wanted to invite the miracle doctor to take a look. After all, she was a relative of General Zhenyuan, so why couldn’t she invite the miracle doctor?
The old lady thought so in her heart, but the problem was that the people she sent out could not hire him at all!
As a result, there were three groups of people in Ning Wang’s Mansion alone looking for the miracle doctor.
While Su Xi was watching this group of people searching everywhere like headless flies, she was also watching the cub returning to the firewood yard as usual, taking off his clothes and changing them. She felt a sense of satisfaction in her heart, as if “I have a big treasure hidden at home and no one knows about it.”
However, she quickly remembered the first main task, gaining the old lady’s favor, which she had only completed halfway.
Now there was another plot related to the old lady. Did it mean that the chance to complete the remaining half had come?
So that night, she left a few packets of medicine for the cub, which were the medicine for rheumatism exchanged from the mall as usual. Rheumatism was almost impossible to cure, it could only be relieved, but the 100% effective medicine in the mall was definitely much better than the imperial doctors in ancient palaces.
….
Lu Huan saw the medicine the next day. He opened the medicine package and looked at the ingredients inside. He then determined that it was medicine for rheumatism.
Lu Huan naturally also knew that the old lady had been bedridden due to rheumatism in recent days, so he guessed it at once – that person wanted him to treat the old lady?
Why?
During all these years in Ning Wang’s Mansion, Lu Huan had always been struggling alone in the mud. He grew from a child to his current young age all by himself.
When he was young, the wife of Ning Wang found a way to force poison into his mouth, causing him to have a high fever in the middle of the night. When he had almost died, Ning Wang’s mansion was hushed and silent, and no one cared about it. Even the old lady did not.
At most, only the Fourth Aunt came to say a few words of greeting afterwards.
It’s not that the old lady didn’t know what was happening, she was just too lazy to ask.
Therefore, it was no wonder that Lu Huan was cold-hearted. Even though he was well-versed in medical books and had knowledge that was no less than that of ordinary imperial doctors, and he also knew that moxibustion could relieve the old lady’s pain, he had never even been to Mei’an Garden many times and had never taken the old lady’s pain seriously.
He was extremely indifferent and didn’t care whether the old lady lived or died.
But now that person asked him to save the old lady… Since that person wanted to do it, he would do it for that person.
During this period of time, that person did a lot for him. In addition to care and tenderness, Lu Huan gradually judged that person’s purpose –
That person helped him administer medicine to save people and establish a reputation in the capital;
Helped him make friends with wealthy businessmen and officials and pave the way for them;
Helping him develop the farm was probably to resolve the crisis of frost disasters and further help him gain prestige in the capital.
And now, he must have a purpose in saving the old lady, which should be to win over the old lady and the lineage of General Zhenyuan behind her…
Could it be that all that person did was to——
Intentionally involve him in the power struggle in the capital?!
There was no other answer except this reason.
Lu Huan’s eyebrows twitched, and his expression became a little complicated and gloomy for a moment.
Naturally, he was unwilling to be anyone’s pawn.
If he had been wary of this man like before, he would have ignored his request and tried to find the hand that had been pushing him and figure out what this man’s purpose was.
But he didn’t know since when, that person’s purpose was no longer the most important thing to him.
For him, the most important thing became whether that person could always stay with him.
He had been walking alone in the snow for too long.
Although he always had doubts in his heart, he was worried that all the good things he got were just his greed, and when the kindness and companionship disappeared, he would face an even more devastating blow.
But at this point, these doubts were no match for his desire and greed.
No matter what that person’s ultimate goal was, no matter why that person came to him, he no longer cared. All he cared about was that this kind of companionship could last a little longer and never disappear.
All he cared about was that person.
….
Thinking of this, Lu Huan spread out the paper on the table calmly as usual and dipped the brush into ink, but he did not ask any questions in his mind.
After all, if he was really a chess piece, when a chess piece asked the person playing chess, “why”, it meant that the game was about to end.
He would not tolerate the slightest possibility of this happening.
There was a 90% chance that the person was simply being nice to him. If that was the case, he would be happy.
But if there was a 10% chance that the other person treated him as a chess piece, was using him, and the kindness he showed to him was just a supplement, if that was the case… he would turn this 10% into the above 90%.
Anyway, there was still a long way to go.
Of course, Su Xi outside the screen had no idea what he was thinking. All she could see was the boy standing in front of the desk, with his face slightly drooping in deep thought. He looked just like a kindergarten kid staring blankly at the 1+1=? in front of him.
Su Xi was looking forward to what he would write to his mother today, and saw that what the cub wrote on the paper today was not a question, but a request:
——”I promise you to treat the old lady, but can you agree to one condition?”
Oh, Su Xi, he has started to put forward conditions. The kid is getting bolder and will tear down the roof if he is not beaten for three days.
The cub picked up the pen, pondered for a moment, and continued writing on the paper.
——”During the hunting season at Qiuyan Mountain, there is an early blooming pear tree on the mountain. I will wait for you under the tree.”
The cub picked up the pen again. This time he paused a little longer and pursed his lips slightly. But after seeming to hesitate for a while, he still wrote down four words in one go.
His face rarely lost its usual coldness and indifference and instead showed a bit of the nervousness and hope of a young man who wanted to see the most important person in his life. His ears even turned slightly red.
However, he calmed himself down and quickly suppressed the emotions that were showing.
——”I want to meet you.”
When Su Xi outside the screen suddenly saw these four words appear on the paper, she was frightened.
Wait, meet?
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