Chapter 183: Sober

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In the end, Ye Shuo was the first to speak.

Leaning over and gently lifting the gauze covering her body, Ye Shuo asked, “Are you okay?”

“No, it’s okay…” Yao Zhi dodged and didn’t dare to look the young man in the eye. She had none of the heroic spirit she had outside.

After she calmed down a little, Yao Zhi quickly realized that something was wrong.

“Ah! Your neck!” Yao Zhi noticed two bee stings on his neck. When she thought of the gauze dress he had just given her, she immediately became anxious.

But in fact, the bees had already found Ye Shuo before she came, and it had nothing to do with her.

Ye Shuo told the truth, but Yao Zhi didn’t believe it at all. She just thought he said it on purpose to make herself feel better.

The timing of her passing was so unfortunate. Yao Zhi didn’t know when she became so reckless, messing up even the smallest things.

Yao Zhi felt extremely guilty.

But now is not the time to talk about this. Yao Zhi said quickly: “Don’t touch these two places. Wait here. I will find some herbs for you.”

Yao Zhi is still very intimidating when she is serious.

Ye Shuo thought about it and finally sat down obediently.

About an incense stick of time later, Yao Zhi brought back a huge pile of herbs. The number was so large that even Ye Shuo was shocked.

Perhaps because she walked too fast, Yao Zhi was sweating and her peach-like face turned red.

Ye Shuo was about to speak, but he saw her raise her chin without saying a word, and then took out a few needles from her waist.

Seeing this, Ye Shuo immediately shut his mouth.

Carefully picking out the two bee stings, Yao Zhi crushed the dandelion leaves and applied them to the two places that were covered by the bees. After everything was done, she breathed a sigh of relief: “I hope it doesn’t cause heat poisoning.”

Ye Shuo blinked.

Yao Zhi then noticed how close the two of them were. The young man looked at her with pure kindness in his eyes. She looked at her hand again, which was now placed on his chin. As the young man swallowed, his Adam’s apple rolled up and down…

Yao Zhi felt as if she was scalded and quickly retracted her hand.

Ye Shuo smacked his lips, and actually felt a little moved.

Then Ye Shuo cleared his cough, and Yao Zhi immediately woke up.

“The wild honey has been collected, and it’s time for you to return.”

“But…” Ye Shuo couldn’t help but raise his hand.

“I haven’t finished preparing the food for today yet.”

The valley was too far away from the outside world. It would take Huo Tianyi a whole day to go back and forth using his lightness skills, so there was naturally no way for him to get fresh fruits and vegetables.

Fortunately, Master Five is very good at making traps, and the surrounding natural resources are extremely abundant, so the people in the entire Medicine Valley can meet their daily needs by relying on these mountains and rivers.

Nowadays, Ye Shuo is basically in charge of the food ingredients in Yaoren Valley.

“I plan to catch some fish and pick some mushrooms and wild vegetables…”

Before Ye Shuo finished speaking, he saw Yao Zhi picking up a few stones from the ground. She noticed some movement in the water not far away and immediately threw one of the stones out.

Then, a fish floated up with its belly turned upside down.

Yao Zhi has lived in the Medicine Valley for more than 20 years. She knows everything here very well, and is especially familiar with how to hunt.

Ye Shuo had only been outside for two years, so he was naturally far inferior to her in this regard.

This move by the opponent made Ye Shuo’s eyes light up immediately, and he did not hide his curiosity and amazement: “How did you do it?”

“Young apprentice, can you teach me?”

This is actually a very simple skill, but in the eyes of the young man, it seems like something extraordinary.

Although Ye Shuo thought it was indeed amazing, if it were placed in modern times, it would be a unique skill and one would have no problem making a living from it.

For some reason, under such gazes, Yao Zhi suddenly felt a little overwhelmed.

When Yao Zhi woke up, there were six fish, a pile of wild vegetables and mushrooms, and a little wild boar lying at her feet.

Ye Shuo and Yao Zhi took great pains and moved all the things back in three trips.

Previously, in order to treat Ye Shuo’s bee sting, Yao Zhi collected too many herbs. She had no place to process them, and it would be a waste to throw them away, so in the end she gave them all to Mei Yingzhuo.

Mei Yingzhuo looked at these herbs that were picked in a rather rough manner and couldn’t help but feel puzzled. Didn’t he teach his apprentice medical skills a long time ago, and even taught her how to prepare medicinal materials? Why did she forget them after growing up?

Ye Shuo lit the fire skillfully. While he was cooking, Huo Tianyi walked in and threw something into Ye Shuo’s arms.

Ye Shuo hurriedly caught it and it almost fell to the ground.

Ye Shuo took a closer look and found that it was actually a hairpin and a hair crown. Although both were made of peach wood, they were extremely delicate, especially the cloud pattern on them, which showed the ingenuity of the person who made these two things.

Huo Tianyi didn’t want to give it at first, but there were only so many people in Yaoren Valley. If he didn’t give it, his disciples would soon know about it.

Putting the things into Ye Shuo’s hands, Huo Tianyi couldn’t help but said angrily: “Here, these two things are for you.”

After all, it was his disciple’s good intention, Huo Tianyi felt uneasy, and emphasised: “Protect it well, if it is damaged or broken, I will hold you accountable!”

Ye Shuo didn’t expect that the girl would specially make these two things just because of his words.

As for why Ye Shuo knew that these two items were from Yao Zhi, he had just finished talking about the hairpin when he got up in the morning, and the hairpin was in his hand at noon. Who else could it be if not her?

The master didn’t have the leisure to do that.

Ye Shuo pondered for a moment and temporarily handed the work at hand to the servant beside him. Then, under the gaze of Huo Tianyi, he untied his hair that he had tied up with great difficulty and put on the peach wood hair crown and peach wood hairpin.

“Thank you, Master. I have received your kindness.”

Huo Tianyi always felt weird when he heard this.

“Just take it, why are you talking so intimately?!”

Ye Shuo smiled but did not answer.

Seeing her disciple suddenly becoming uneasy, the beautiful woman’s hands under the table creaked.

When his adoptive father and the others were around, Ye Shuo usually didn’t eat with the people in Yaoren Valley. The Eighth Prince was able to move freely now, and his injuries were almost healed, so Ye Shuo was not as careful with him as he was with his adoptive father.

“Look at this crown and hairpin on my head. What do you think?”

The Eighth Prince was caught off guard and was stunned. After he realised what was happening, he didn’t know whether to laugh or cry: “Xiao Jiu, it seems that you have been doing well these days.”

None of his other brothers, including his father, lived as freely as he did.

Even in these deep mountains and forests, Xiaojiu feels like a fish in water.

At first, the Eighth Prince was a little worried that carrying such a heavy burden on him would make him depressed, but now he is relieved. However, the Eighth Prince still has to remind him what needs to be reminded.

“Okay Xiaojiu, stop playing.”

The Eighth Prince and others were not used to dealing with these people from the underworld, so they basically just stayed at the other end of the Medicine Valley.

But even so, it doesn’t mean that the Eighth Prince knows nothing about what’s happening outside.

“Be careful not to overdo it, or you’ll lose yourself.”

Hearing this, Ye Shuo couldn’t help but frown: “Who said I was playing?” Ye Shuo is not like this to everyone, and not everyone is worth his attention.

The Eighth Prince laughed: “Otherwise, can you really marry that girl into our family?”

This Medicine Valley might be very impressive in the eyes of the people in the martial arts world, but it is nothing in the eyes of the royal family. Any team can annihilate them all here.

And how could a mere chivalrous woman be a match for the prince?

A woman like Yao Zhi could be played with outside, but how could she be brought home? Wouldn’t that make people laugh?

“Play is play, but don’t make it too ugly. It’s best not to have children, otherwise it will be very troublesome.” The eighth prince rarely reminded someone like this, and this was considered earnest advice.

In an instant, the dream was shattered.

Ye Shuo returned to reality almost instantly.

Perhaps to My cheap dad and the others, everything that happened in the Medicine Valley was just a dream, and they might even regard it as a shame.

Ye Shuo alone may never be able to change their minds.

Ye Shuo said word by word: “Eight bearers in a grand sedan chair, with a formal matchmaker, what’s wrong with that?”

“Xiaojiu!”

“Ye Chen!”

Ye Shuo took a deep breath and said, “If you say this, you only say it once, and I only listen to it once.”

Over the years, except for the time with the diplomatic corps, the Eighth Prince had never seen him really get angry with anyone.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

At first the Eighth Prince thought he was playing tricks again and wanted to laugh, but he unexpectedly met his eyes. There was not a trace of frivolity in those Ruifeng eyes which were always bright and cunning, but a terrifying depth.

The Eighth Prince couldn’t help but widen his eyes: “Are you crazy!?”

If he really married a woman from the underworld as his principal wife, he would basically have no chance of becoming the emperor, and there might even be other punishments.

Only a madman in this world would cut off his own path so easily.

“Xiao Jiu, don’t be willful. Father won’t agree!”

As for this, there is always a way.

Seeing this signal in his brother’s eyes, the Eighth Prince couldn’t help but gasp.

Seeing this, Ye Shuo didn’t say much and left quickly.

Yao Zhi soon found out that Ye Shuo was showing off his hair crown and hairpins everywhere. For a moment, Yao Zhi really wanted to give him the best things in the world.

Yao Zhi felt a little regretful. If she had known this would happen, she would have been more careful when travelling around to see if there were any good jade materials.

After all, peach wood is not as precious as jade.

In addition, all the work that originally belonged to Ye Shuo was taken over by Yao Zhi, such as going up the mountain to hunt and going to the river to catch fish every day. These were no problem at all.

Ye Shuo was a late riser, and sometimes Yao Zhi had already prepared food for the next two days by the time he got up.

When Emperor Jingwen was able to move around normally again, what he saw was a girl in a bright red dress piling all kinds of things in front of her son as if they were free.