Cang Lan Dao - Chapter 18.1

Chapter 18.1
I trusted you, so don’t you —

“You!”

“Okay, okay, okay.” Seeing Luo Wanqing’s anger, Qin Jue hurriedly apologized. “I’m the wrong one. Just kidding. It is only a candy.”

“Next time you joke with me about this kind of nonsense, then don’t blame me for not being polite.” Luo Wanqing withdrew her hand and said coldly, “Come here and mend my meridians.”

“Yes, yes, yes.” Qin Jue braced himself to get up from the table, following behind Luo Wanqing while apologizing. “It’s me being frivolous. But did you really give me poison? How come I didn’t feel a thing?”

“This drug has no feeling normally.” Luo Wanqing took off her shoes and got on the bed.

Qin Jue got on the bed, and they sat cross-legged. Luo Wanqing explained solemnly. “But when the poison is released, the whole body suffers severe pain, and it starts to rot from the inside. After half an hour, you’ll turn into a puddle of blood. The pain is excruciating.”

“So terrible?” Qin Jue inquired solemnly. “Then how do you detoxify it?”

“One antidote a month to detoxify the poison. Seven months to completely expel it. As long as you don’t harm me, I’ll give you the medicine on time.” Luo Wanqing pursed her lips and finally explained. “The matter of tendons is important. I can’t entrust it to others.”

“Okay, understandable.” Qin Jue nodded magnanimously. “I’m a cultured person. I forgive you. I will let you know that there is still true love on earth. Come, give me your hand.” He stretched out his two hands towards Luo Wanqing.

Luo Wanqing put her hands into his palms and heard him say, “Close your eyes, feel my true qi first, and then follow it.”

Luo Wanqing felt a warm current wandering from Qin Jue’s hand. That warm current gently crawled through her tendons to her dantian, drawing her true qi, slowly flowing into her tendons.

He managed the warm current precisely, stretching her tendons, wrapping around her true qi, guiding it to where her broken tendons were, and slowly flowing through.

Luo Wanqing felt like she was submerged in warm water. Wherever her true qi passed, everything was extended and repaired.

“Listen to my chant.” Qin Jue’s voice came vaguely, “Holding the Yuan as one, generating qi in the dantian, focusing the qi to achieve softness, sweeping away the dust and removing the dirt ……”

Qin Jue’s internal martial arts seemed to come from the Taoist school, with a neutral atmosphere, different from Liu Xiniang’s path.

Luo Wanqing listened to Qin Jue’s words and followed his lead, carefully repairing the broken tendons and veins. She didn’t know how long it took. She opened her eyes when Qin Jue said, ‘It’s done,’ and she realized it was already the middle of the night.

She realized she was sweating as she’d just come out of the water. The person across from her was no better than her, pale and looking as if he would collapse at the slightest touch. But his expression was normal. When he saw she opened her eyes, he smiled and said, “You can meditate on your own like this every night. Slowly and gradually, when you reach Dongdu, your tendons and veins will be repaired.”

Luo Wanqing didn’t say anything. She tried the tendons she had just repaired, and there wasn’t any problem.

Qin Jue sized her up. Seeing her confirm there was no problem, he pounded his waist and stretched, “Just learn by yourself. I have to rest. You’re in good health, but I’m a seriously injured patient.”

“I’ll sleep outside.” Luo Wanqing sniffed and got up.

Qin Jue pulled her back and shook his head. “I’m not that petty to let the girl keep watch.” Qin Jue fell lightly from the bed, and with a point of his toes, he rolled over and leaped to the window.

He leaned on the window bars and sat with his knees bent, his small fan lightly tapping her shoulder as he closed his eyes and said, “Sleep.”

Luo Wanqing turned her eyes to look at him. The moonlight fell on him. He wore a white robe with red and white hair ribbons embellishing his body. When the small fan in his hand lightly tapped her shoulder, his posture was graceful.

Although she felt that he was pretentious, she had to admit, if not for his ordinary facial features, that this picture was gorgeous.

Luo Wanqing glanced at him, got up, and washed herself. She returned to the bed and lay down comfortably.

Qin Jue saw her sleeping peacefully, opened his eyes, and laughed. He scolded, “Heartless.”

Hearing this, Luo Wanqing gave a start. Remembering the poison that she had swallowed just now made her inexplicably uneasy. After thinking about it, she finally said, “What do you want?”

Qin Jue did not expect her to pay attention and was a little surprised. He thought before saying, “For now, let’s just …… get to Dongdu safely.”

Hearing this request, Luo Wanqing was silent for a moment. After a long time, she finally said, “You’ll make it to Dongdu alive.”

“Huh?” Qin Jue hooked up the corner of his mouth, “Are you sure?”

Luo Wanqing closed her eyes and only replied, “I’m sure.”

In that dream, not only would he go to Dongdu, but he would have a great future ahead of him, becoming the second head of the Inspection Department. But that was that dream.

In that dream, no variable like her, no ‘Liu Xiniang’ accompany him. She wasn’t sure if her presence would bother his life.

But if she was disturbing —

Luo Wanqing was unsure of what would happen for a moment. But once she thought nothing was happening now, she decided not to think so much and closed her eyes to sleep.

After sleeping through the night, Luo Wanqing opened her eyes at dawn and saw that Qin Jue was already sitting at the table drinking tea. He had changed into blue clothes. The wine jug was still on his waist, but he had already removed the fan.

“Everything’s packed. Count it,” Qin Jue said as he sipped his tea. “If there’s no problem, let’s start the journey after washing up and eating something. We don’t have a map, nor do we have identity documents. So we’ll be traveling the mountain roads. We won’t enter the city unless it’s necessary. Quickly prepare anything else that you need.” Qin Jue instructed.

Luo Wanqing got up and went to look at the things Qin Jue had packed. He looked nonchalant, but the things he had prepared were complete. He had even prepared some that Luo Wanqing hadn’t even thought of.

Luo Wanqing nodded, then was puzzled: “You seem to travel a lot?”

“In the past, I often followed the elders to travel.” Qin Jue spoke while putting down his teacup. “That’s where my cooking skills came from.”