"well."
Knowing Lu Pianpian's kind nature, Qu Surou didn't forget to loudly remind him before leaving: "Be careful, or you'll end up like me, getting bitten again!"
Only Lu Pianpian and Huan Changming were in the room. Lu Pianpian picked up the blood-stained wedding dress that had fallen to the ground and put it on the table. "Are you scared?"
He looked up at the other person and found that the other person's vigilance and wariness had not diminished in the slightest.
Lu Pianpian continued, "The person just now was my senior sister. She's not a bad person; she just wanted to help you. Also... I don't know if you remember, the person who brought you out of the river cave was..."
“It’s you,” Huan Changming said in a hoarse voice. “I remember.”
Not only did they save him, but they also stayed by his bedside all night.
Lu Pianpian scratched her face, as if she was a little embarrassed. "I know you were injured in that river cave. It's normal to be wary when you wake up and see people you've never met before. But don't worry, we won't hurt you. You still have some wounds that haven't been treated. My senior sister just wants to apply medicine to them for you."
He mistakenly thought that Huan Changming's injuries were caused in the river cave. Huan Changming changed his mind and did not explain the misunderstanding. "Changming knows that his body is ugly and does not want to offend the eyes of the immortals and fairies."
Lu Pianpian hadn't expected there to be another reason. She didn't want others to touch or see the scars on her body, probably because she didn't want to recall that painful memory.
Thinking of this, Lu Pianpian felt pity for her, but also some self-blame. If he had gone to that cave earlier, perhaps she wouldn't have suffered such a terrible fate.
He channeled his spiritual power into Huan Changming's body. "Miss Changming, the medicine is to help your wounds heal faster, but it's okay if you don't want to. I will use my spiritual power to heal you, though it will be slower."
Lu Pianpian's spiritual power was the same as when she appeared in the cave that day—gentle yet dazzling. Huan Changming felt that the whip marks on his body were being healed by a gentle force, and the intense pain was relieved.
He silently scrutinized Lu Pianpian's eyes, which held a pure and bright expression. He smiled at her and said, "My surname is Lu, and my given name is Shaoyan. Miss Changming, please stop calling me Immortal Lord."
The celestial lord with clear eyes not only saved him, but also felt pity for him.
Huan Changming lowered his eyes, and when he looked up again, a hint of gentleness appeared in his deep blue pupils. "Okay."
A note from the author:
See you tomorrow night at 9 PM!
Chapter 6
Huan Juntian explained the whole story to the villagers in the village, and after settling things, he returned to his sect in the evening.
It was his turn to cook today. He went to the kitchen first and saw Qu Surou standing in front of the cutting board rinsing rice. "You're back?"
Huan Juntian nodded and stepped forward to take the work from her hands, saying, "I'll do it."
Qu Surou wiped her hands clean. "Did it go smoothly?"
"Yes, everything went smoothly."
Qu Surou stood beside Huan Juntian cooking and said, "You know, Master is really something. He made it sound so serious when Lu Er could have solved it, and he even made the two of us go with him. In the end, we didn't even see what that evil cultivator looked like."
“The three of us will go together, so we can help each other out if anything goes wrong.” Huan Juntian skillfully started steaming the rice. “How are the injuries of the woman we brought back?”
"Just thinking about her makes me angry. You have no idea what she's like—"
"My dear disciples! You've had a hard time coming down the mountain!" Qu Fuyi rushed in, carrying a dying chicken. "Tonight, your master has prepared a special meal for you..."
"This chicken was raised as my spirit pet!" Qu Surou grabbed a kitchen knife, threatening to chop it up. "You actually killed my spirit pet!"
"You've betrayed your master and ancestors!" Qu Fuyi immediately raised the chicken above her head and started playing a chase game with Qu Surou in the kitchen. "Rou'er, listen to your master's explanation! This time it really has nothing to do with your master! It was all Lu Er's doing!"
"I don't believe it! Pianpian would never kill my spirit pet just to eat. You must be greedy again!"
“It’s absolutely true, Rou’er! Lu Er is messing around with herbs again. You know his medical skills; he’s afraid to give people the medicine he’s prepared for fear of killing them. So, he’s just using your fat chicken… oh, I mean, your spirit pet to test the medicine!” Qu Fuyi showed the poisoned chicken to Qu Surou. “You’ve truly inherited my skills; can’t you tell that this chicken was poisoned?”
The chicken's eyes were rolled back, clearly indicating it had died a violent death. Qu Surou couldn't bear to look any longer, put down the cleaver, turned around, and rushed out of the kitchen, calling out, "Lu Pianpian!"
As soon as Qu Surou left, Qu Fuyi immediately handed the chicken to Huan Juntian and said happily, "My dear disciple Huan, I want to eat stir-fried chicken today."
Huan Juntian said expressionlessly, "Master, the chicken was poisoned."
If you eat poisonous chicken, everyone will get poisoned.
Qu Fuyi looked confident, "I have already prepared the antidote, so you can eat as much as you want!"
On the other side, Lu Pianpian squatted in the courtyard, holding a prescription in one hand and putting medicine into the medicine jar with the other. He looked very serious. There weren't many chickens left for him to test the medicine, and he couldn't afford to make any more mistakes.
"You're poisoning me!"
Hearing Qu Surou's voice, Lu Pianpian trembled guiltily and shoved all the medicinal herbs in her hand into the medicine jar. "Senior sister, I'll buy you chickens again next time I go down the mountain, don't be angry."
Qu Surou crossed her arms and looked down at me, saying, "You think I'm petty because I refused to prescribe medicine for anyone after that woman bit me, so you went back to your old ways of dispensing medicine?"
Upon hearing that Lu Pianpian was testing medicine, she guessed that it was for that woman. Lu Pianpian immediately denied it, "No, I was worried that you would be angry, and you have already done so much for me, I don't want to trouble you anymore."
"Hmph, isn't that just a roundabout way of saying I'm petty?"
"I really didn't..."
Qu Surou pushed him aside, poured out all the medicine from the jar, washed it clean with water, and put new herbs back in. "You blockhead, I'm angry with her, not with you... Besides, with your medical skills, you couldn't even come up with a good medicine even if you poisoned all my spirit pets."
She was always tough on the outside but soft on the inside. Lu Pianpian wasn't angry when she was scolded; instead, she felt a warm glow in her heart. "Senior sister, you're so kind."
Qu Surou quickly selected the medicinal herbs and even started a fire. "Knowing I care about you, you still poisoned my spirit pet. You really are my good junior brother."
Knowing she was in the wrong, Lu Pianpian said, "Senior sister, I will definitely give you a real spirit pet next time. This chicken is too easy for Master to covet."
"You said it yourself, I've got it in mind..."
"My dear disciples, come and eat!" Qu Fuyi ran out of the kitchen excitedly, carrying dishes. "We're having chicken tonight!"
Huan Juntian followed behind, carrying bowls and chopsticks. When he met the inquiring gazes of Qu Surou and Lu Pianpian, he explained to them, "It's the one that was poisoned."
Qu Surou: "Master, you are truly heartless and insane! You will stop at nothing to get food!"
Lu Pianpian shivered, quickly used her magic to brew the medicine and put it in a bowl, then went to the dining table and scooped out a separate portion of food. "You guys eat first, I'll go take care of the patient."
Qu Fuyi asked considerately, "Wouldn't you like some diced chicken?"
Lu Pianpian quickly left, saying, "No, no."
Qu Surou asked Qu Fuyi, "Master, why aren't you curious at all about the extra patient in Pianpian's room?"
"Who am I, your master? Do you think I wouldn't even know that someone else has joined my sect?"
Qu Surou thought about it and realized that, apart from being a little gluttonous, her master was so skilled that even if there was an extra insect in the sect, it wouldn't escape his notice.
Inside the room, Lu Pianpian helped Huan Changming sit up on the bed, scooped some food with a spoon and fed it to her, but dared not look directly into her eyes. "Although men and women are different, you are a patient now, so just treat me... treat me as a doctor. A doctor takes care of a patient, regardless of gender."
Huan Changming nodded and swallowed.
Just as Lu Pianpian was about to feed her a second bite, a tear suddenly slid down her cheek and landed on the blanket.
The tears fell without warning, and Lu Pianpian hurriedly asked, "Miss Changming, do you feel that I have offended you? I'm sorry, I didn't mean it!"
Although Qu Surou healed Huan Changming's injuries, the tendons in her hands and feet had been severed. Even with the treatment of cultivators, it was impossible for them to fully regenerate overnight.
Therefore, Lu Pianpian had to take on the task of feeding and administering medicine. Although it was reasonable, feeding was still a bit too intimate. In his eyes, Huan Changming was still an unmarried girl and would definitely not accept such an overstepping of boundaries.
"I don't blame the Immortal Lord, I just feel that the Immortal Lord has been too good to me." Huan Changming suddenly burst into tears, sobbing softly, "Changming has a lowly life, and in all the people I've met up to this age, the Immortal Lord is the first person to have been so good to me..."
Huan Changming possessed a captivatingly beautiful face. Even though his left cheek was wrapped in white cloth due to a whip wound, his tearful eyes and pitiful appearance still made him breathtakingly beautiful and evoked pity.
Lu Pianpian almost couldn't look at his face. She hurriedly pulled a handkerchief from her bosom and handed it to him, then remembered that he couldn't move. So she looked at his face again and wiped away his tears. "Miss Changming, although I don't know what happened to you in the past, now that you're here, just focus on recovering and don't dwell on those bad memories. And you... don't belittle yourself. There are far more good people than bad people in this world. I believe you will meet many more people who treat you better in the future."
"Really?"
"Really, I'm not lying to you."
"I believe in the Immortal Lord." Huan Changming slowly stopped crying and looked at Lu Pianpian with a gentle smile. "But Changming still feels that no matter how many people I meet in the future, the Immortal Lord, you will always be the best one for me."
Lu Pianpian's face flushed, unsure how to respond. She picked up the soup spoon again and changed the subject: "I'll feed you the food first, then I'll give you your medicine..."
Huan Changming nodded obediently, "Alright, thank you for your trouble, Immortal Lord."
After taking care of Huan Changming, Lu Pianpian went to the kitchen to wash the bowls he had used, and happened to run into Huan Juntian. "Junior brother, are you finished eating?"
"I've finished eating." Huan Juntian lifted the lid of the steamer, which contained the food he had left for Lu Pianpian. "Senior brother, are you hungry?"
"Thank you, junior brother!" Lu Pianpian was starving, and she picked up her chopsticks and started eating. "Junior brother, you're still the best cook. Neither my senior sister nor I can compare to you..."
Huan Juntian washed the bowls that Lu Pianpian had brought and stood beside her watching her eat, saying, "Eat slowly."
Lu Pianpian looked up at him and smiled, "I just love your cooking so much, hehe..."
Huan Juntian's lips curled up slightly, almost imperceptibly. He wiped the rice grains off Lu Pianpian's face with his fingertips. "Your senior brother gave his room to that woman. You can sleep with me tonight."
"Alright, but junior brother, I might have to sleep with you until that girl heals. You won't mind, will you?"
"I don't mind." Huan Juntian poured him a cup of tea and handed it to him. "Tomorrow I'll go up the mountain to cut some timber and make you a bed."
"I'll just sleep on the tatami in your room, Junior Brother, don't bother with me." Lu Pianpian finished her meal in a few bites. "I'm full, let's go back to our rooms to rest."
"Um."
Huan Juntian washed the bowl, and the two of them had just reached the door when Lu Pianpian patted his shoulder, "I almost forgot to say goodnight to Master and Senior Sister!"
Although Xiao Shu said he had successfully completed the task, this had already become a habit that Lu Pianpian had developed. If he didn't say this tonight, he might not be able to sleep all night.
He raised his hand and summoned his sword, then flew towards Lu Fuyi's residence on the mountaintop.
Huan Juntian gazed in the direction where Lu Pianpian had disappeared, and finally shook his head with a wry smile.
Huan Changming lay in bed for more than ten days. Lu Pianpian took on all the responsibilities of caring for Huan Changming, getting up early and working late every day to prepare medicine and meals for him, doing her best without the slightest slack.
After his tendons were severed, Huan Changming had already resigned himself to being a cripple for life.
But perhaps because he had suffered too much in the past ten years, God finally opened his eyes for him and by chance he was rescued by Lu Pianpian, a disciple of the immortals, who took good care of him, and even his severed tendons and veins regenerated.
Lu Pianpian helped Huan Changming down to the ground and led him slowly a few steps. "After a few more days of rest, you will be fully recovered, Miss Changming."
Huan Changming suppressed his excitement, "Thank you, Immortal Lord..."
"Just call me by my name." Lu Pianpian noticed that Huan Changming was only wearing undergarments, which was fine inside the room but still somewhat indecent outside. "Miss Changming, would you like to take a bath? I'll go find you some clothes."
Huan Changming looked down at his clothes. During the time he had been bedridden, he hadn't allowed anyone to get close to him, so he hadn't changed his clothes.
It's a mystery how this immortal lord could tolerate his filth and personally take care of him.
Lu Pianpian followed his gaze to his clothes and knew he had misunderstood. "Miss Changming, please don't misunderstand. I didn't mean anything by it. I just felt that you are a woman after all, and it is somewhat inconvenient for you to wear undergarments."
“I understand. Then I’ll trouble you, Immortal Lord, to find me a new set of clothes.” Huan Changming touched the undergarment he was wearing. “If possible, I would also like to take a bath.”
Lu Pianpian dragged the bathtub into the room, filled it with hot water, and was about to leave when Huan Changming grabbed her robe. "What's wrong, Miss Changming?"
Huan Changming's beautiful face fell. "Immortal Lord, Changming has old scars on his body, which are quite unsightly. I hope that I can bathe without being disturbed..."