CH 8

Just as Li Huowang turned around and walked back, he saw the pale girl shyly take off one shoe and remove a gold ankle bracelet wrapped in red thread from her almost transparent ankle.

Wide-eyed, Li Huowang took the gold ankle bracelet and shook it in his palm. Although it was thin, it was still made of gold and worth a lot of money.

Satisfied, he stuffed these things into the wide sleeves of his Daoist robe and pointed at the white-haired girl, "Listen up, from now on, she's in charge of the ingredients room, and you all listen to her."

Seeing everyone hesitate and nod, Li Huowang picked up his prepared ingredients and rushed towards the alchemy room.

As he walked, he secretly glanced at the waists of the others, hoping to find another jade pendant. Unfortunately, he was disappointed to find that he did not find one.

When Li Huowang returned to the alchemy room, he saw the depressed furnace slowly open.

Several dark blue pills were quickly arranged into a soil-colored gourd around Danyang Zi's waist with a wave of his sleeve.

Li Huowang was envious of this skill. This must be the supernatural power Xuan Yin mentioned. He didn't know if he could learn it. "I'm too small-minded to make money. If I can bring this ability to reality, then..."

Li Huowang bent down and put down the ingredients in his hand, ready to stand aside and observe. He still didn't understand anything and needed to listen and watch more.

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"Xuan Yang~"

"You're back already? So soon? Am I really just a messenger now? I can't keep running errands. I have to find a way to get this baldy to teach me his supernatural power."

Li Huowang clasped his hands together and bowed to Danyang Zi, who was shouting. "Master, what can I do for you?"

"Go and bring Bai Lingmiao, a medicine guide from the ingredients room."

Li Huowang's heart skipped a beat. He reached into his sleeve with his right hand and touched the ankle bracelet with the red thread. Bai Lingmiao seemed to be the name of the pale sick girl.

"Hmm?" Danyang Zi turned his head to look at the new disciple who had been unresponsive for a while.

Li Huowang suddenly felt a toothache. Honestly, he had just said that he would protect her, but now he was going to send her to her death. This really didn't sit well with him.

"Didn't you hear what I said?"

Feeling Danyang Zi's tone turning unfriendly, Li Huowang sighed and closed his eyes.

When he opened his eyes again, he was back in the white sickroom. "What should I do?"

In the past, he would have just followed orders without question, but the problem was that the other world might be real now. If he really brought someone over, he might have to kill them, and that was a difficult hurdle for him to overcome.After the nurses released him, Li Huowang paced back and forth in the room, biting his thumb nail. "What should I do? What should I do?"

Before he could come up with a solution, the door to the ward was pushed open from the outside, and Li Huowang saw his attending physician walk in.

He gave a bitter smile. Great, now he was trapped on both sides and couldn't escape.

The doctor pointed at him with an exasperated expression. "You, wait until your visitor leaves, and we'll talk alone."

"Visitor?" Before Li Huowang could react, he saw his haggard-looking mother hurrying in from outside, carrying a bag of oranges.

"I heard you got into a fight with someone in the hospital? What happened to your head? Why is it bandaged like that? Does it hurt?" The woman rushed over, her expression tense as she examined him.

"Mom, it doesn't hurt, I'm fine, really. They're the ones causing trouble," Li Huowang quickly reassured her.

After calming her down for a while, Li Huowang managed to prevent his mother from shedding any tears.

In front of his closest kin, any trouble could be put aside for now.

"Don't worry, I'm doing much better now, and I haven't fallen behind on my studies. I'll be able to take the college entrance exam when I'm discharged," Li Huowang reported only good news to his mother.

"Don't lie to me, the doctor already told me everything. Now tell me, what really happened that day? Who started the fight?"

Li Huowang tried to speak in a soothing tone to his mother, but it didn't seem to help much.

"We were in the right, why should we pay any money? They were the ones in the wrong, even if they were sick, it's still the hospital's responsibility to take care of them! Our family never bullies anyone, but we can't let others bully us either! If we have to sue, we will! We're in the right even in court!!" Sun Xiaoqin pounded the table, her voice rising.

Seeing the embarrassed doctor next to them, Li Huowang continued to calm her down. "Mom, Mom, don't get worked up. You came all this way to visit me, so just spend some time with me."

Sun Xiaoqin suppressed her anger and took out some fruits from her bag. "Don't worry about this, let Mom handle it. Here, this is your favorite milkwood fruit. Eat more, you're so thin now. The hospital food isn't good, is it?"

"No, no, the food in the hospital is actually pretty good," Li Huowang said as he sat next to his mother and started eating.

Listening to his mother's complaints and eating the sweet grapes, Li Huowang felt a sense of calm.

He liked this feeling, as he hadn't experienced any warmth from his family since he entered the hospital.

Looking at his mother, Li Huowang seemed like he was about to tell her everything that had happened to him, but when the words reached his lips, he swallowed them back down.No, she's different from Yang Na. If I tell her, she'll only think my condition has worsened. I can't let her worry anymore. I'll tell her when everything stabilizes.

While the mother and son were chatting happily, the attending physician's phone rang. "Ms. Sun, Liu's family members have also arrived. What do you think?"

"Son, stay here and eat more. I'll buy you more after you finish."

Sun Xiaoqin turned around and walked towards the door like a rooster about to fight, after saying this to Li Huowang with a smile and a straightened chest.

For some reason, Li Huowang felt extremely relieved when he saw her leaving.

Although his mother was strong-willed, Li Huowang felt very safe as long as he was with her. She was like a big umbrella that sheltered him from wind and rain, and all the anxiety caused by previous troubles disappeared at this moment.

"Hehe, the lobby must be very lively later." Li Huowang took another yellow-green grape and bit it open, and the sweet juice burst in his mouth.

Just as he was thinking this, Li Huowang's body suddenly shook, and everything around him started to change colors again. "Oh no, my mother came to make me forget how to cheat the blind man. What should I do now?"

When everything around him stabilized again, Li Huowang found himself standing in the material room, and Danyang Zi was standing not far away with an unpleasant expression. The other medicine boys were gathered around with their heads down.

Danyang Zi flipped his filthy right hand, and a sticky, wriggling black thing appeared in his hand. Every twist made a sound like a toad licking its eyeballs.

"Hmm? Weren't we supposed to use Bai Lingmiao for alchemy? Did we turn over a new leaf?"

After hesitating for a moment, Li Huowang asked, "Master, what is this?"

"Hmph, good stuff. Tai Sui, Black Tai Sui."