Chapter 1856 - 1851: Improvement

After one minute, looking at Cao Lingbing, whom he had carefully placed on the wooden bed, Xiaobei lightly coughed and said, "You should rest for a bit now, I’ll head out first!"

Seeing Xiaobei turn around, Cao Lingbing lifted her head. "Xiaobei-gege, weren’t you going to take my pulse?"

"That can wait a little. You rest first!"

"Oh! Got it, I’ll call you once I’m done resting!"

"Alright!"

With that said, Xiaobei didn’t hesitate at all and strode out at a run.

Seeing Xiaobei’s slightly flustered appearance, a faint smile appeared at the corner of her lips.

She knew she was obviously super attractive, otherwise Xiaobei wouldn’t have ended up so flustered.

At this moment, she slowly accepted it...

So she wasn’t as shy as she had been just now.

Stretching out her lotus-like arm, she tugged the thin silken quilt over, and after covering herself, she glanced outside.

Seeing Xiaobei return to the gazebo, she gently closed her eyes.

...

"What the hell, have some backbone, will you? Can’t even handle a little scene like that?"

In the gazebo, Xiaobei was quickly cursing himself in his heart.

The reason he was scolding himself like that was because he realized he had almost had a nosebleed just now.

If he hadn’t rushed out when he did, his nose might really be gushing blood by now.

If it really came to that, the scene would be beyond awkward...

Feeling a bit embarrassed, he snuck a glance behind him, then picked up his cup and gulped down several big mouthfuls of water.

Only after he thoroughly pressed down the inner fire in his heart did he set the cup down.

Right then, Xiaobei heard hurried footsteps.

Turning around, he saw Yao Ling walking over quickly.

"Good thing she only came now. If she’d come earlier, things would’ve been way more awkward."

Murmuring under his breath, Xiaobei looked at her and took the initiative to greet her, "Yao Ling-meimei, I heard you went to the Medicinal Garden earlier. Done with your work?"

"There actually wasn’t much to do. I just went to see if there were any good tonic herbs, so I can make something for Sister Cao to eat later."

"I see. So, did you find any?"

"Mm, I found quite a lot. Oh right, has the treatment already started?"

Giving Yao Ling a look, Xiaobei explained softly, "Started? The first round of treatment is already over. She’s resting now. In a bit you can come in with me to take a look and you’ll know how she’s doing."

"Okay!"

Yao Ling nodded happily...

Before, she’d been very on edge; now she knew she didn’t have to be anymore, because Xiaobei really had arranged everything extremely well...

In the room, leaning against the bed, Cao Lingbing finally calmed down again.

Letting out a long turbid breath, she carefully felt around and discovered that her legs had regained a bit of sensation!

"Thank goodness!"

Earlier, she’d worried they would never regain feeling again.

Now she knew she’d totally overthought it...

The loss of sensation had just been temporary.

Stopping her wild imaginings, she started carefully feeling every part of her body and found that her condition had really improved by a lot, a lot.

"Looks like this kind of treatment really does work! But the process is seriously terrifying!"

Even now, thinking back to the treatment just now, she still felt lingering fear.

Thinking about how she’d have to continue with this kind of treatment, she couldn’t help feeling a bit resistant.

"No, I can’t resist it. Absolutely cannot, because this is for my own good!"

The instant the thought of resistance appeared, Cao Lingbing quickly shook her head.

Better to rip the bandaid off than suffer long-term!

She knew this was pain she had to endure.

Because only by enduring this could she welcome a better future...

Just as she straightened out her thoughts, she heard an even voice from outside. "How is it? Have you more or less finished resting? If you’re ready, we’ll come in."

"That’s right!"

Hearing the voice chiming in, Cao Lingbing knew Yao Ling was here too.

"If you’d come earlier, it wouldn’t have been so awkward just now!"

Muttering that to herself, she tugged at the thin quilt and said softly, "I’m more or less rested, you can come in."

...

"Let’s go."

Hearing the soft reply, Xiaobei knew Cao Lingbing was really ready!

Turning his head to glance at Yao Ling, Xiaobei spoke softly.

"Okay!"

At her excited response, Xiaobei stretched out his hand and pushed open the half-closed door.

As it swung open, wisps of a strange smell drifted out.

"What’s that smell?"

Yao Ling immediately wrinkled her brows.

She’d smelled all kinds of strange odors before, but none as pungent as this one.

She couldn’t quite say what it was exactly, she just knew she really disliked it.

Seeing Yao Ling’s tightly furrowed brows, Xiaobei quickly explained, "That’s the smell of the toxins. The treatment just now forced a lot of the poisons that were scattered through Cao Lingbing’s body to leave her."

"I see!"

"Mm."

With a light nod, Xiaobei didn’t say anything more. Instead, he quickly walked up to the wooden tub.

Looking at the pitch‑black poisonous water, Xiaobei narrowed his eyes.

He had already examined it before, so he’d learned quite a bit about this poison.

But now he realized his understanding was still a little too shallow.

It was clearly much more terrifying than he’d imagined.

"I have to find a way to dispose of it, or it’ll be a real problem!"

Thinking that he couldn’t just leave it here, Xiaobei quickly picked up the wooden tub.

"Such strength!"

Seeing Xiaobei carrying it off as leisurely as if he were taking a stroll, Yao Ling muttered to herself.

Very soon, she walked to the bedside, looked at the shyly flushed Cao Lingbing, and said, "Jiejie, how are you? Do you feel any better?"

"Mm! Much better, I really do feel much better now!"

Cao Lingbing looked at the nervous concern in Yao Ling’s eyes and spoke softly...

"That’s good, that’s good!"

Yao Ling happily clasped her hand...

Outside, Xiaobei carefully set down the wooden tub brimming with poisonous water...

After making sure it wouldn’t spill, Xiaobei looked off into the distance, lightly coughed, and said evenly, "Move it, I actually have time to call you over!"

...

Up on the mountain, the Treasure-hunting Rabbit twitched its long ears and said quietly, "Did you hear that? It sounded like Master is calling us!"

"I heard it. I thought I was imagining things!"

"Me too!"

Giving them a look, the Treasure-hunting Rabbit said with certainty, "It shouldn’t be our imagination. We can’t delay when it comes to Master’s business, let’s hurry back!"

"Okay!"

With their confirmed answer, the Treasure-hunting Rabbit hopped directly onto Hei’s head...

Hei glanced at the Treasure-hunting Rabbit, then shot forward at high speed...

Seeing this, Xiaobai quickly gave chase in Hei’s direction...

Two minutes later, they appeared in front of Xiaobei!

"Master!"

Hearing them speak in unison, Xiaobei gave a slight nod. Very soon, he pointed at the black poisonous water. "I’m leaving this stuff to you to handle!"