Chapter 129

"What, Sister Hong Qu ran away?!"

Aunt Liu almost jumped off the bed—if her body were healthy and intact.

She just straightened her body excitedly, her neck just raised, when she was turned wax-white and covered in cold sweat by the severe pain in her chest.

"Your internal organs are injured, don't get angry!"

Xiao Yu sat on the edge of the bed, pressed her shoulder, helped her wipe the cold sweat from her forehead, and said slowly: "Sister Hong Qu was taken away by an immortal called the 'Divine Nun of the South Sea.'

Has Aunt heard of the Divine Nun of the South Sea?

She wears a monk's robe, but is dressed more romantically and beautifully than the girls of Hongxiu Pavilion, and there is not much compassion of a Bodhisattva between her brows."

Praising the compassionate Bodhisattva last night was to hug a thigh.

Even if she couldn't hug the Divine Nun's thigh, the "Great Destroyer" had already been activated.

Now the Divine Nun was long gone, and she left cleanly and neatly, and the Great Destroyer had also been opened amidst shouts of "Divine Nun Mother," so Xiao Yu naturally didn't need to disguise herself anymore and spoke her true feelings directly.

"Divine Nun of the South Sea..." Aunt Liu shook her head gently and said: "Among the human immortals of the West, I have never heard of this person."

"She is not a human immortal, but a true immortal. Sister Hong Qu knows her; it is said that when Sister Hong Qu was just born, the Divine Nun once found the Prime Minister's Mansion of the Lu Kingdom and wanted to take her away, but was declined by Dou Yilin." Xiao Yu said.

Aunt Liu lay on the bed board and said helplessly: "I can't handle this matter; I must go find Chief Clerk Li."

She turned her head to look at Xiao Yu, with a look of scrutiny in her eyes, "Why are you only saying now what happened last night?"

Xiao Yu said lightly: "If you were at the scene and witnessed the boundless magic power of the Divine Nun, let alone waiting a night, you would probably feel that waiting three or five years to say it would be fine.

Because in front of an immortal like the Divine Nun of the South Sea, saying it at any time has no meaning!"

She didn't feel she needed to report to anyone, nor did she feel Aunt Liu needed to find Chief Clerk Li.

Hongxiu Pavilion had always had people secretly watching Xiaojing Pavilion.

They didn't jump out to stop it last night, so what are she and Aunt Liu in a hurry for now?

Aunt Liu thought for a while and said: "You are lucky."

Xiao Yu was stunned and nodded: "Indeed lucky, it wasn't someone from the 'Eight Immortals of the West' who came."

After a pause, she added: "The timing of the Divine Nun of the South Sea finding us was too coincidental; I suspect she had been eyeing Xiaojing Pavilion for a long time.

What 'Fate-Seeking Small Sword,' it's all an excuse.

Not taking Sister Hong Qu away at the first opportunity might be hoping that the Eight Immortals of the West would bear the karma.

Wait for the Eight Immortals of the West to take Sister Hong Qu out of Hongxiu Pavilion and out of the Shu Kingdom, and then she would jump out to take a disciple.

As a result, I killed the 'Ten Great Human Immortals of the West' to extinction, hahahaha."

Xiao Yu actually guessed right; the Divine Nun of the South Sea did indeed plan that way at first.

However, Xiao Yu only guessed part of the reason.

The most direct reason was the "Jade Pendant Golden Dang Taiji Golden Book."

Previously, Sister Hong Qu had a firm Dao heart, insisted on pursuing the immortal Dao and immortal fate, and was determined not to cultivate immortal martial arts techniques that would ruin her foundation.

But she was a little girl after all, and after her hope—the Eight Immortals of the West—was beaten to extinction by Xiao Yu using the Investiture of the Gods, her determination began to waver.

After receiving the Taiji Golden Book from Xiao Yu, Sister Hong Qu had even more thoughts of cultivating immediately.

Min Shenyi Nun of the South Sea had a sudden whim, felt something was wrong, and immediately came over to pull her back from the "entrance to the evil path."

"How do you know she is afraid of bearing karma? Do you understand what karma is?" Aunt Liu said suspiciously.

"I am very lucky; the one who came to find Sister Hong Qu wasn't the Eight Immortals of the West; I am also very unfortunate; I knelt and kowtowed to the evil nun a few times last night, but she was cold and heartless, ignored me, and said the karma on me was too heavy." Xiao Yu's words carried obvious resentment.

Aunt Liu laughed, "You also wanted to worship the Divine Nun of the South Sea as your master and escape Hongxiu Pavilion with Sister Hong Qu?"

"If it were you, what would you do?" Xiao Yu asked back.

Aunt Liu said immediately: "I would not only kowtow, but also hug her legs and wail, exhausting all means of begging.

If she didn't agree, I wouldn't even hesitate to threaten her with death.

In short, no matter what, I wouldn't let go of this immortal fate that I might not encounter again in this lifetime.

You, you are still too reserved, too unable to let go, and don't yet know the hardships of the adult world, and haven't been crushed of all self-esteem and pride by reality."

Xiao Yu was speechless.

Aunt Liu sighed with envy again: "Sister Hong Qu has such good fate! Falling into the dust, we can only struggle in the mud pit, but she not only escaped the sea of suffering but also encountered an immortal fate.

Next time we meet, she will be an immortal traveling in the blue sky!

Of course, once she becomes an immortal, she will be among the gods, and she will definitely not look at the mud pit that makes her unbearable to recall again."

When she said this, she also turned her head and glanced at Xiao Yu meaningfully.

Xiao Yu was silent for a moment and asked: "I want to worship Divine Physician Min as my master; what do you think?"

Aunt Liu was stunned and said: "Are you crazy? Even without Sister Hong Qu's fortune, and unable to worship the Divine Nun of the South Sea, isn't it bad to practice sword techniques more? What's the use of learning medicine?"

Xiao Yu said: "I can handle all kinds of sword techniques, no need to waste time. Now I spend a few hours every day teaching other girls sword techniques, and I don't gain much myself, so it's better to spend some time studying medicine.

In the future, when Aunt has a headache or fever, you don't need to find a doctor; I can help you take your pulse and prescribe medicine, which can save a lot of money."

Aunt Liu said solemnly: "You must understand your situation; the Eight Immortals of the West will definitely come to you for revenge.

Aunt has no ability, and even if I wanted to help, I couldn't; you can only rely on yourself.

You run to Bao'an Hall every day, and after forming a fixed route, it's very easy to be ambushed.

Just like Daoist priest Qingsong."

"Sigh, you also said that you and Hongxiu Pavilion can't help me, so I'm fighting alone wherever I am. I would rather die outside than implicate Aunt and the sisters in the courtyard." Xiao Yu sighed.

Aunt Liu frowned and said: "Look at Bao'an Hall; Divine Physician Min doesn't take female disciples."

"If I don't try, how will I know the result?"

Divine Physician Min was busy until the Shen hour, probably two or three in the afternoon, before ending the free clinic.

It wasn't that the time was up and he stopped the free clinic; it was that the villagers waiting to see a doctor outside the door were all gone.

The wide street at the foot of the wall was empty, and he ordered the medicine boy to put away the wooden fences.

"You want to see me?"

Xiao Yu met Divine Physician Min in a small side hall in the back kitchen.

His dark face had obvious signs of fatigue, and his bright little eyes were also slightly dim.

At this moment, he was sitting by the table drinking small wine, with a plate of salt-mixed green beans, a plate of shredded bean curd skin stir-fried with pumpkin leaves, and half a bowl of stir-fried wood ear with red chili and pork slices.

A pot of clear wine, a small wine cup the size of a thumb, picking up a green bean, taking a sip, a satisfied comfort appeared on his black face.

"Divine Physician Min, I want to worship you as my master."

Xiao Yu had already knelt and kowtowed three times when she last saw Divine Physician Min, thanking him for his life-saving grace.

So there was no grand ceremony today.

"Why?" Divine Physician Min narrowed his small eyes and chewed the green beans carefully.

Xiao Yu said: "Because Divine Physician Min's medical skills are divine; just by tapping the wrist pulse three times, you can accurately diagnose even the conditions of their family members, and even calculate the past and future.

I admire the immortal Dao, but I have no immortal fortune.

Divine Physician Min's medical skills are close to the Dao, at least it counts as a side door of the immortal family."

Divine Physician Min laughed a few times and said: "I thought you would say you want to save the dying and heal the wounded like me!"

Xiao Yu said: "Xiao Yu dare not deceive the Divine Physician. Moreover, Xiao Yu doesn't think that saving the dying and healing the wounded can be the reason for the Divine Physician to teach me medical skills.

Regardless of whether I have medical skills or not, if I meet a good person who needs help, as long as I can help, I will reach out to assist."

"Hehe, you are very good at speaking, and I will also tell you the truth; learning medicine cannot help you get rid of your current situation."

Divine Physician Min put his chopsticks on the edge of the plate and said seriously: "As long as there is determination and perseverance, I don't mind teaching medical skills to anyone.

Bao'an Hall has dozens of medicine boys, all of whom are my apprentices.

Getting started is very simple, just be honest and obedient; there are no too many requirements.

Easy to enter, hard to leave; if the medical skills cannot satisfy me, don't even think about finishing your apprenticeship in a lifetime.

But I cannot teach you the 'medical Dao strange arts' you want, because I am not qualified enough."

Xiao Yu said in shock: "Teacher's medical skills are divine; how can you say you are not qualified enough?"

Divine Physician Min sighed: "You are a smart child; haven't you considered where my medical skills came from?

The Great Dao is three thousand, and there are countless Dao methods.

There is the Dao of the Golden Core that makes people live forever, and there is also the medical Dao that cures diseases and saves people.

What I learned is one of the 'eight hundred left paths,' the medical Dao.

But my teacher was not someone who only knew the medical Dao.

The medical Dao is just one item among the many immortal family subjects mastered by the old gentleman.

I am dull and have only learned a little fur of the medical Dao; how can I learn from my teacher and teach disciples the medical Dao?

I can only teach you medical skills.

Just like a failed scholar with insufficient ability going to teach others classics and articles, that is misleading students and teaching good students bad."

"But if it's for enlightening young children, teaching them to read 'Three Character Classic' and 'Qionglin Youxue,' it's barely qualified."

Xiao Yu was excited in her heart, looked at Divine Physician Min with longing, and said: "Then can Teacher introduce me to the Ancestor?"

Divine Physician Min glanced at her and sneered: "Not doing the old man's disciple anymore, wanting to be a fellow disciple of the same generation as the old man?"

"Teacher wrongs me; I clearly want to pay respects to the 'Ancestor'." Xiao Yu shouted aggrievedly.

Divine Physician Min shook his head and said: "You are not the first person to come to me for immortal fate; they all returned disappointed, and you are no exception.

If you think about it carefully, you will understand; if I could introduce you to the teacher, why would I come down the mountain to open Bao'an Hall?

Wouldn't it be better for me to accompany the old gentleman for a lifetime?"

"Uh, were you driven down the mountain?" Xiao Yu said in shock.

Divine Physician Min laughed at himself: "Saying driven down the mountain is not wrong. The teacher said I have no immortal fortune and will be like this for a lifetime; instead of doing nothing on the mountain and turning into a pile of dust after a hundred years, it is better to enter the red dust to temper myself and repay the world with what I have learned, which can accumulate some good deeds for the next life."

"Teacher, please accept this disciple's bow; disciple Yu Fengxian is willing to follow Teacher to learn medical skills!"

Xiao Yu took two steps back and bowed respectfully.

She breathed a sigh of relief secretly: The Great Destroyer was not triggered.

Worshipping a master would not trigger the Great Destroyer; she had expected this long ago, because in the Pear Garden, she had worshipped several teachers, and there were professional teachers teaching her piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, singing, and dancing.

When she called them "Teacher" or "Master," the Great Destroyer was not triggered.

Actually, this made her very happy.

To this day, she still wasn't sure if worshipping her would definitely bring fatal disaster to her foster father.

It was just that many "foster fathers" had encountered misfortune.

For example, Daoist boy Qingsong, Suiyuanzi, and Thousand-Hand Qianshou Dao Sheng, three new "foster fathers," died that night.

Not to mention that there were many "foster fathers" living well, Xiao Yu didn't think their disasters came from her at all... well, the Thousand-Hand Qianshou Dao Sheng was barely qualified to be called "wronged."

But she still felt it was safer to be careful.

She truly didn't want good people to encounter misfortune because of triggering the "Great Destroyer."

Uh, the evaluation of "good person" was relatively subjective.

Didn't the Divine Nun of the South Sea just refuse to take her as a disciple, and wasn't she still ecstatic because she triggered the Great Destroyer for the Divine Nun?

Divine Physician Min twisted his beard gently and said: "I will only teach you ordinary medical skills; do you still want to worship?"

"Medical skills are just a small skill; I admire Teacher's great virtue more; virtue is the Great Dao!" Xiao Yu said.

—Get started first, then grind slowly in the future; I don't believe you old man can keep your teeth clenched and not loosen them.

She not only wanted to learn the medical Dao but also wanted to climb up to the "Old Ancestor" behind Divine Physician Min.

Xiao Yu left Bao'an Hall with a copy of "Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica."

Before memorizing the book, she didn't need to run to Bao'an Hall.

Aunt Liu also left Bao'an Hall because the medical expenses of Bao'an Hall were too expensive.

"What, five thousand taels of silver? I've only stayed for less than three days, why five thousand taels of silver?"

When Divine Physician Min finished lunch and brought the bill to ask Aunt Liu for money, her excited roar almost shook the roof tiles down.

Divine Physician Min said: "Helping you continue your heart and liver, my consultation fee alone is three thousand taels of silver; from that night until now, how many precious medicinal materials have you taken? Charging you fifteen hundred taels of silver for the decoction is not excessive, right?

The remaining five hundred taels is the cost of taking care of you."

"Two medicine boys, just taking care of me for two days, costs five hundred? Even my Jin Lian isn't this expensive!

And the medicinal materials, I just ate some blood-nourishing and qi-benefiting ginseng, angelica, astragalus... how did it become fifteen hundred taels of silver, plus the consultation fee... you don't even charge others for seeing a doctor..."

Divine Physician Min said frankly: "If I don't collect more money from wealthy people like you, where can I get medicinal materials to give to villagers who have no money? Besides, my family has a big business and raises a hundred medicine boys; don't they eat or wear clothes?"

Aunt Liu said aggrievedly: "Am I not a bitter person? Falling into the dust, I am more bitter than the villagers."

Divine Physician Min shook his head and said: "Whether you are a bitter person or not, I just need to tap your pulse with my finger, and your 'disease energy' and 'life and death energy' will naturally tell me.

Aunt, you are in a brothel, but you eat jade and rice every day, covered in silk and satin; five thousand taels is not even three or five months of your expenses.

Ordinary people suffer from serious illnesses, and if they can spend three or five months of savings to cure the illness, they all go to the temple to worship the Bodhisattva to return their vows.

Aunt Liu, it's not just a serious illness; your heart and liver are broken."

Aunt Liu felt uncomfortable in her heart, feeling that the old man was scolding her in a roundabout way.

But she couldn't refuse the bill issued by the Divine Physician.

She could only be discharged from the hospital immediately.