Chapter 227: A Blessing in Disguise

Du Ruo walked a few steps toward him, then suddenly stopped and shook her head, "I haven't washed yet."

Just as she finished speaking, she was pulled into a warm, broad embrace. The man's clean, pleasant scent lingered in her nose, thread by thread, into her bones and heart.

Du Ruo struggled a few times.

*Hiss*, Jiang Li let out a muffled groan of endurance.

"What's wrong? Are you hurt?" Du Ruo hurriedly went to lift his clothes.

Jiang Li wrapped her hand in his palm and smiled, "It's nothing, just superficial wounds, they'll be better in a few days."

He pulled her into his arms again, his chin rubbing against the hair on her head, and changed the subject.

"Wife, I want to ask you something."

Du Ruo didn't dare move anymore, "Go ahead."

Jiang Li paused, then said, "If I had died on Yugui Shan this time, would you... really have remarried?"

Du Ruo: "..."

Good fellow, he still remembers her previous nonsense?

She was deliberately stimulating Jiang Li so he wouldn't rush forward recklessly and lose his life in a muddle.

Her eyes rolled, and Du Ruo hummed, "Of course it's true. I'm still so young, and I haven't officially tasted the flavor of a man yet, so of course it's impossible for me to remain a widow for a lifetime."

Jiang Li's hand holding her tightened suddenly, as if he wanted to strangle her in his arms.

After a long while, until Du Ruo couldn't breathe, he slowly loosened her, "That's good."

Good? Du Ruo touched his forehead in confusion, "You don't have a fever, do you?"

Could it be that the stimulation was too great and he was muddled with anger?

"I'm serious." Jiang Li pulled her down and smiled, "At the moment I fell off the cliff, thinking I might die, I suddenly understood everything. If you remained chaste for me, I would certainly be happy in the afterlife; but thinking of you living a lonely and miserable life for the rest of your days, I would feel even more heartbroken."

"Rather than that, I would rather you remarry; at least someone could take my place to take care of you and cherish you."

Wow, that sounds really touching.

Du Ruo poked his chest in annoyance, "Fine, since you can understand that, then I won't be polite."

As she said this, she pushed him away, turned around, picked up a wooden bucket, and walked out.

Jiang Li was stunned, "Wife, what are you doing?"

Du Ruo smiled like a fox ready to steal a fish, "Oh, nothing, I'm going to get some water, wash off these messy things on my face, and then go out and wander around."

Jiang Li's handsome face froze.

Du Ruo continued to stab at his heart, "I don't know if General Shen has woken up yet. It was my fault for using this fake face to deceive him earlier, so I have to go and apologize to him."

Jiang Li hesitated.

"Husband, you are busy catching thieves and suppressing bandits all day, it's really too dangerous. I'd better find a backup early. That way, if something happens to you, I won't be left alone and make you heartbroken, don't you think?"

Jiang Li: "..."

He hurriedly grabbed the infuriating little demon back and coaxed her repeatedly, "Alright, alright, it's my fault, I shouldn't have said one thing while meaning another. Actually..."

"Actually what?" Du Ruo hummed.

"Actually, I don't want you to remarry at all, even if I die." Thinking of Du Ruo sharing a bed with another man, intimate and close, he wanted to kill that person's whole family!

Du Ruo knew that Jiang Li said those words out of concern for her.

But that wasn't what she wanted to hear.

"Jiang Li, promise me, no matter how many difficulties you encounter in the future, you must protect your own life, okay?"

Jiang Li hugged her, as if holding a rare treasure, "Okay, I promise."

The couple was lovey-dovey for a while, then Du Ruo urged Jiang Li to rest.

There was no bed in the tent, but there was a bamboo couch, which was very narrow and could only accommodate one person lying down.

Jiang Li had fought fiercely for a night and was already exhausted, so he soon entered dreamland.

Du Ruo sat by his side, keeping watch.

She closed her eyes and held Jiang Li's hand.

In her mind, the system gave the test results, "Two knife wounds on the chest, one on the left arm, three on the back, but none are deep. They count as superficial wounds and will be mostly fine without medicine."

Du Ruo, "Help me exchange for a box of premium Yunnan Baiyao."

Although he can heal himself, it hurts.

"Oh right, Jiang Li was also poisoned by the old monster's 'See Tears Seal Throat', is he okay?"

"'See Tears Seal Throat' is indeed quite powerful, but Jiang Li has already eaten the detox pill produced by this system. The detox pill can cure a hundred poisons; dealing with this kind of crooked path is a piece of cake."

Hearing this, Du Ruo was completely relieved.

Just as she was about to apply medicine to Jiang Li, the system suddenly said 'eh' again, "Host, your man's body seems to be a bit strange."

Du Ruo's heart skipped a beat, "What's strange about it?"

The system hesitated, as if it didn't know how to speak.

Du Ruo was anxious, "Just say it, is it that he's not capable?"

The system couldn't help but roll its eyes, "Whether he's capable or not, the host should know best; why ask this system?"

Haven't eaten pork, but have seen a pig run, right?

"It's like this: this system just scanned him carefully and found that Jiang Li's root bone is excellent, a good seedling for martial arts, so although he is not old, his martial arts in the Jianghu can already be called a first-class expert."

"Isn't that very good? Why is it strange?" Du Ruo expressed she didn't understand.

The system said, "Host, don't be anxious, listen to this system slowly."

"With Jiang Li's aptitude, if one day he can open the Ren and Du meridians, his martial arts will definitely advance by leaps and bounds, becoming a one-in-a-million peerless expert."

"It's just that the Ren and Du meridians are not so easy to open; it requires the right time, place, and people. This kind of opportunity is hard to come by, and some people might not be able to do it in their whole lives..."

Du Ruo's eyes lit up, "You mean, Jiang Li did it?"

The system *hehe*, "Don't think too beautifully, it's not that easy. Before opening the Ren and Du meridians, one must first open the broken meridian between them. Only when the broken meridian is open can everything else be connected."

It was getting more and more mysterious.

Du Ruo was a bit impatient, "Just tell me straight, what happened to Jiang Li?"

The system, "His broken meridian is open."

Du Ruo was overjoyed.

That means Jiang Li's martial arts can go to a higher level, and there will be few rivals in the future?

"That is indeed the case, but this is only the broken meridian. To become a true peerless expert, the most critical thing is still the Ren and Du meridians; it depends on whether there will be that opportunity in the future."

The reason he was able to open the broken meridian this time is, speaking of it, thanks to that old monster.

If he hadn't been courting death by pushing Jiang Li off the cliff, inadvertently stimulating Jiang Li's potential, I'm afraid Jiang Li wouldn't have gotten this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Du Ruo looked at the man sleeping soundly and felt a bit heartbroken.

Being able to activate the potential in his body shows how dangerous he was at the time and how strong his desire to survive was.

Fortunately, nothing major happened, and it was a blessing in disguise.

At least she doesn't have to worry about Jiang Li's safety in the future; there shouldn't be many people in this world who can beat him...

Jiang Li slept very soundly.

Du Ruo was also very sleepy, so she lay down beside him and dozed off for a while.

Perhaps because Prefect Lin had given orders, no one came to disturb their world of two.

Until it was completely dark and the sound of insects chirping started around the encampment, Doctor Ke came to call them.

Du Ruo tucked the quilt in for Jiang Li and walked out of the tent on tiptoe.

On the open ground outside, more than a dozen torches had been lit; although not as bright as during the day, it was enough to see the ground clearly.

Doctor Ke led the way, followed by more than a dozen soldiers, holding long chopsticks made of tree branches.

Everyone was ready for battle.

"Lady Du, sorry to trouble you." Doctor Ke was quite blushing.

If there were really no other way, he wouldn't have come up with this bad idea.

Actually, he also knew very clearly that relying on so-called luck to catch scorpions was purely nonsense.

But now that things had come to this, every method had to be tried; do one's best and leave the rest to fate.

Du Ruo nodded, first looked around, and then walked toward the foot of the mountain.

The light there was neither bright nor dark, most suitable for cheating.

The soldiers all started searching with their heads down, their eyes wide like copper bells, afraid of missing anything.

Du Ruo was still thinking about her husband sleeping in the tent and didn't want to stay outside for long, so taking advantage of everyone not paying attention, she secretly exchanged for scorpions and threw them under a dirt slope.

Newly arrived, the scorpions were still a bit confused.

After reacting, they all raised their tail poison needles and scurried around.

"Scorpion! I saw a scorpion, such a big one!" Soon a hoarse voice rang out.

The scene immediately boiled over.

Everyone couldn't wait to run over here, and Doctor Ke hurriedly urged loudly, "Be careful, don't get stung!"

Scorpions are also highly poisonous; they are to save people, but they can't trade life for life.

The soldiers were worthy of being trained; their hand-eye coordination was very good, one clip and one hit, and in less than a quarter of an hour, all the scorpions were caught.

Doctor Ke couldn't believe his eyes.

This, how is this possible?

"Hahaha, Lady Du, you are indeed a lucky star! With you here, we actually caught so many scorpions so quickly!"

Du Ruo smiled awkwardly, "No, no, just a coincidence."

Afraid that Doctor Ke would continue to ask, she quickly found an excuse to slip away.

After walking a few steps, she suddenly thought of something, turned back, and handed a detox pill to Doctor Ke, "Please trouble you to give this to Wei Ming to eat, it can cure his poison."

Wei Ming was also poisoned by the old monster's 'See Tears Seal Throat' and should have been in a coma for a while.

If he doesn't get the antidote, he probably won't live for many days.

Doctor Ke took the medicine, looked at it over and over, his expression becoming more and more excited, "Lady Du, could this medicine come from the Medicine God Valley?"

Du Ruo originally wanted to muddle through, but after thinking about it carefully, the fact that she knows medicine is no longer a secret anyway. Since that's the case, it's better to just build her own reputation.

She said, "It's not, this medicine... I made it myself."

In her mind, the system laughed with an electric sound.

"Host, your face is really big, ten mirrors couldn't hold it."

Du Ruo: "... Shut up."

What could she say? Say she exchanged it with the system? It would be strange if people didn't treat her as a lunatic! ===== CHAPTER 228 =====