Third marriage

Long San received the news and rushed back, taking over the affairs of the Long family when Long Er had completely lost control. He reorganized the staff, supervised the business, dealt with the government officials, and also gave a grand funeral to the guards who sacrificed their lives in the incident, and settled their families.

Even in his worst condition, Long Er personally erected tombs for the guards and generously thanked their families. Apart from handling this matter, he never left Ju Mu'er's house again.

The head steward apologized to Long San, explaining that the incident occurred while he was in charge. He saw a female corpse in the house and assumed it was the Second Madam, so he didn't arrange for anyone to search for her in the woods. If they had found her sooner, there might have been a glimmer of hope, and things wouldn't have dragged on like this.

After hearing the whole story, Long San sighed, "Even if you send people to search the woods, you won't find it. Only Second Brother can understand Second Sister-in-law's message. It's called telepathy; outsiders can't interfere at all."

Long Er felt that he and Ju Mu'er truly shared a telepathic connection. Despite the dire situation, he remained convinced that Ju Mu'er would not die.

“She won’t leave me,” he always said. “She knows I’ll be sad if she leaves, and she can’t bear to.”

These words brought tears to Feng Wu's eyes. She had intended to advise her second uncle to take things easy and to face anything unexpected with strength. But before she could say anything, she was overwhelmed by Long Er's words.

“Do you know which blind person in this world is as capable as my Mu’er? She doesn’t know martial arts, she can’t see, but she still managed to kill the person who wanted to kill her and escape into the woods to wait for me to come back. She was injured, frightened, and she was cold, and there were pursuers behind her, but she still managed to leave a message for me and climb such a tall tree with all her might. She’s amazing, isn’t she?”

Long Er kept talking about Ju Mu'er's bravery, but no one dared to agree with him. If they agreed with him and gave him hope, how disappointed and sad he would be if they were really separated by death in the end?

But Long Er didn't need anyone's approval. He told himself, "Mu'er has already done something so difficult. It's just a minor illness now. She's just being naughty. She loves to annoy me. She's making me worry for a few days, but she'll be fine in a few days."

Everyone looked at each other, unable to bring themselves to offer any words of comfort, and could only press the doctors to come up with a better solution.

On the fifth day after Ju Mu'er was saved, several doctors came to see Long Er and announced that they had tried all available methods, but the patient's condition had not improved. To make matters worse, she was unable to drink water or eat, so after discussing it, they could only tell Long Er that the patient probably wouldn't survive another day or two.

Long Er didn't say a word. He stared coldly at them, as if he hadn't understood a word they were saying. After staring for a while, he turned to look at Ju Mu'er. He held her hand tightly, as if keeping her hand in his palm would prevent her from leaving.

Long Er ignored everyone else. The doctors left, and the servants stood by, not daring to speak. Long Er sat there, holding Ju Mu'er's hand, until night fell.

Granny Yu brought in the food, trying to persuade him to eat a few bites. But Long Er suddenly spoke up: "She won't die. She told me she won't leave me."

Granny Yu opened her mouth, then closed it again. She thought to herself, when has the Madam ever spoken?

Long Er bent down and hugged Ju Mu'er, saying, "You stink. But you can't wash your hair now, you have to wait until you're better. What? I stink too? I didn't complain about you, so don't complain about me."

Seeing him talking to himself like a fool, Granny Yu almost burst into tears. She remembered how the Second Master insisted on marrying Ju Mu'er. He said he wanted to marry someone special, someone so special that you wouldn't care about her appearance or her personality. She had never understood before, but now she suddenly did.

The atmosphere in the room was somber. Long Er held Ju Mu'er in his arms, but he couldn't hear her breathing. He dared not let go; he simply couldn't believe she would leave him.

He felt cold inside.

It's not even winter yet, so why is it so cold?

Just then, hurried footsteps burst in. Feng Wu called out loudly, "Second Uncle, Second Uncle, Xiaoxiao is here! Xiaoxiao is here! She's at the gate!"

Long Er was momentarily stunned. Who was Xiao Xiao?

Then he suddenly woke up. He jumped up, in disbelief.

Han Xiao! Han Xiao of Baiqiao City!

At the door, Feng Wu nodded vigorously: "It really is her. The carriage has already entered. Do you remember when you asked us to invite her to check on Second Sister-in-law's health? She hadn't replied for a long time, and I had almost forgotten about it. I didn't expect her to arrive at this crucial moment!"

Long Er gasped for breath, his head spinning with excitement.

So he really did hear Mu'er tell him that she wouldn't leave, that she wouldn't abandon him. It wasn't a hallucination.

so……

Long Er stood stiffly at the door. He saw a young woman carrying a large medicine box, being led by a servant, hurrying towards him. Behind her, a man in a wheelchair, looking unhappy, was being pushed by a servant.

Seeing these two, Long Er's eyes welled up with tears. He thought that he would never again be so happy to see Nie Chengyan's sour face.

83. The reason for the miraculous cure.

The city of Baiqiao has a hundred bridges, but the most famous person in the city is its doctor.

It was a nationally renowned medical city.

Although Nie Chengyan is the lord of Baiqiao City, the most famous doctor in the city is not him, but his wife Han Xiao.

Although Han Xiao is young, he has had many extraordinary experiences. His extraordinary medical skills are due to his talent, diligence, and unwavering will. In this respect, Long Er feels that he is quite similar to his own Mu'er.

The situation was critical, and Long Er had no time for pleasantries with his old friend. Han Xiao, knowing someone was dying, didn't bother with small talk either. So the two of them silently rushed into the room. Han Xiao immediately saw Ju Mu'er on the bed; her deathly appearance was even more severe than she had imagined. She rushed over and grabbed her wrist.

Long Er recounted all of Ju Mu'er's medical history, including how she went blind more than two years ago, how she was sensitive to cold and prone to oversleeping, how she had recently had a fever, and the symptoms she had experienced for several days this time, as well as the medications and treatments she had received. He even showed Han Xiao the prescriptions and diagnoses given by the doctors.

Feng Wu and Granny Yu looked at each other in dismay. They had previously thought that Long Er had gone mad and needed to see a doctor and take medicine, but now, in the blink of an eye, he seemed to be clear-headed and logical.

Han Xiao examined both of Ju Mu'er's wrists, then checked her tongue and eyes, and removed the bandage from her palms to examine the extent of her burns. He then took the prescriptions written by the doctors earlier and carefully reviewed the diagnostic methods Long Er had described.

"Judging from the symptoms, the doctors' methods and medicines are correct." She frowned, somewhat puzzled: "Has she really not shown any signs of improvement at all?"

Upon hearing her words, Long Er's heart sank. He patiently recounted the doctor's diagnosis and treatment of Ju Mu'er after bringing her back on the first day, as well as Ju Mu'er's physical condition.

"So she got a little better on the first day, but then she developed a fever and never got better again?" Han Xiao tilted his head and thought seriously, then went to take Ju Mu'er's pulse again.

Does she often have a fever?

Long Er tried hard to recall: "She was afraid of the cold. Even in warm weather, her hands and feet were always cold. Sometimes she would have some symptoms of a cold, but she would be fine after a good night's sleep or a day later."

Han Xiao nodded and released Ju Mu'er's hand. She turned and opened her medicine box, taking out a small white porcelain bottle. She then pricked Ju Mu'er's finger and squeezed out a few drops of blood into the bottle. After a while, she showed the bottle to Long Er.

Long Er frowned as he stared at the chubby little bug in the bottle, wondering what it meant.

"This is a white dragon cottonworm, and it has only one use—testing for poison."

Ryuji's mouth dropped open in surprise.

"It was originally snow-white and translucent, but now it has taken on a pale gray hue."

Long Er stared at the insect. To be honest, the insect was still quite white in his eyes, but it didn't matter that he couldn't see anything wrong with it. He trusted Han Xiao.

"Is Mu'er poisoned?"

“It’s not a recent poisoning, it’s an old one.” Ju Mu’er began rummagi

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