Chapter 39: Treating Shao Xian
“You’re awake?” Yun Jiao asked calmly.
Shao Xian blinked, dazed for a moment, unable to react. Yun Jiao walked forward and deftly removed a few silver needles from his body, her expression serious as she instructed, “Your body has almost fully recovered. Once you take this medicine, you’ll be fine.”
“My illness… is cured?!” Shao Xian’s eyes flew wide, staring in shock at his own hands as though he couldn’t believe it. His sickness could actually be completely healed?
“Mm.” Yun Jiao nodded, unconcerned. She packed away the needles and turned to leave. “I’ll go bring you the medicine.”
Even as she left the room, Shao Xian still felt like it wasn’t real. He had seen every famous physician for years, yet never once improved—only worsened—until even his father had been helpless. He had long prepared himself for death. Yet now… he was cured.
Thinking of his crazed father, his heart sank again, sorrow shadowing his expression. He disapproved of his father’s actions, but blood ties were blood ties.
Yun Jiao didn’t bother with his mood. She walked straight to the kitchen. Bai Yu, who had been tending the fire, immediately bustled over. “Girl, that kid’s awake?”
“He is.” Yun Jiao nodded, pouring out the decoction.
“So when are we going home? Old Zhou cast a hexagram—my fortune’s lousy lately. First trip out, and we hit a nest of ghosts. Safer to be back at the temple.”