"Well, I see." Qiu Yutong stroked Lu Xiao's hair lightly, feeling a little soft and inexplicably heavy in her heart.
Lu Xiao quietly rested his forehead on his shoulder, and did not speak for a long time.
But Xu Qiushi became impatient: "Since it's settled, His Majesty the Emperor of the Chen Dynasty, please hand me your hand, I'll take your pulse and check your physical condition, and see if you can get some blood from your heart. Hurry up, It's already mid-March, and I'm getting married at the end of the month, so I don't have time to spend time with you guys."
Lu Xiao sat up in silence and stretched out his hand.
Xu Qiushi put three skinny fingers on Lu Xiao's pulse gate, and said in a deep voice, "Well, the pulse is strong and powerful, and the young man is in good health."
"Eh? It's a bit strange." He touched it, and suddenly frowned, "Are you... the Heaven's Absolute Spiritual Vein?"
Lu Xiao nodded sadly: "Yes."
"But, that's not quite right..." Xu Qiushi murmured.
Lu Xiao said listlessly: "What's wrong?"
"Don't interrupt! It's not right, it's just wrong! It's very wrong!" Xu Qiushi suddenly became agitated, and switched his other hand to check his pulse. His long thin face was wrinkled into a ball, as if he was thinking hard about something.
After a while, he simply put both hands together, and ten slender fingers touched Lu Xiao's wrist endlessly like playing a piano.
Qiu Yutong stared at Xu Qiushi's expression, and suddenly realized something: "Master, could it be... Xiao'er, isn't he the Heavenly Absolute Spirit Vein?"
Lu Xiao was slightly shocked, and suddenly raised his eyes to look at Qiu Yutong, then turned his head to look at Xu Qiushi, and even his voice trembled: "Master, I..."
Xu Qiushi's fingers were like the wind, his brows were furrowed, and he didn't answer.
"Don't worry, let the owner take a look again." Qiu Yutong nodded lightly to Lu Xiao in a soothing manner.
He knew that his little apprentice had always wanted to practice Taoism. But Tianjue's spiritual veins and spiritual orifices were congenitally blocked. Even if the spiritual orifices were barely opened, they would not be able to absorb spiritual energy, let alone turn them into spiritual power.
Moreover, unlike Qiu Yutong's two-hundred-year-old powerful spirit, Lu Xiao's spirit is also an ordinary person, who can't even reshape the physical body, and has no chance to practice Taoism in this life.
Xu Qiushi touched Lu Xiao's wrist with ten fingers, and even sweat broke out on his cold and thin face.
After a long time of burning incense, he slowly put down his hands and murmured: "No, no, I... can't see it."
Qiu Yutong said cautiously: "How is it?"
"Master, can I... can I practice Taoism? My pulse, what's going on?" Lu Xiao's voice became hoarse, and a pair of pitch-black phoenix eyes stared at Xu Qiushi, as if he was extremely nervous and longing. .
"Don't ask me, I don't fucking know!" Xu Qiushi paused, looking extremely frustrated and annoyed.
He was silent for a moment, as if realizing that his attitude was a little too much, he slowed down his tone a little: "Emperor Chen Chao, your pulse condition is very strange. It won't be so blocked, so I said, I don't know either. However, judging from this, it is impossible for you to practice Taoism in this life."
Lu Xiao stared at Xu Qiushi blankly.
That look almost looked a little pitiful, as if there was a little bit of hope just now, and it was shattered mercilessly.
Qiu Yutong couldn't bear it in her heart. Just as she was about to comfort Lu Xiao, Xu Qiushi waved his hand listlessly: "Although I can't see anything, your pulse is very strong. It's no problem to take a little blood. I'll prepare first. Yao Tang, you two should come over tomorrow morning."
Afterwards, the two were unceremoniously kicked out by Xu Qiushi.
Xu Dongqing re-arranged accommodation for the two of them, in the guest room next to Xu Qiushi's courtyard, each in a hut, but it was very clean.
Early the next morning, Qiu Yutong and Lu Xiao got up and waited in Xu Qiushi's yard.
It was still early at this time, and the yard was quiet, and there was no one there, only an extremely strong smell of bitter medicine, which permeated the whole yard, almost making people want to vomit.
Qiu Yutong couldn't help covering her nose: "This smells too bad."
Xu Qiushi strode out from the room, raised his eyebrows and raised his eyebrows and said: "It smells bad? You know nothing! My medicinal soup is made from eighty-nine kinds of incomparably precious medicinal materials, and it took a whole night to make it. Do you still think it smells bad?"
"I'm talking nonsense, it doesn't smell bad, it doesn't smell bad."
People under the eaves had to bow their heads. Qiu Yutong gave Lu Xiao a sneaky look while apologetically smiling.
According to his understanding of Lu Xiao, if it was usual, this little apprentice would have raised the corner of his mouth slightly, but at this moment, Lu Xiao lowered his eyelashes, and there was no smile on his face.
Qiu Yutong knew in her heart that this kid was afraid of taking blood again when he was about to die.
He thought for a while, then patted Lu Xiao's shoulder lightly: "Xiao'er? If you're afraid, forget it. The world is so big, there must be other ways."
Lu Xiao shook slightly, and then he came back to his senses as if waking up from a dream, and forced a smile: "I'm not afraid."
Xu Qiushi was getting impatient, and he dragged the two of them into the house: "Okay, don't dawdle, come in quickly, I'm ready!"
As soon as I entered the room, the smell of medicine became stronger.
I saw a huge oak bath barrel in the middle of the room, and inside it was a whole barrel of dark and thick medicinal soup, which was daunting.
Xu Qiushi stared at Qiu Yutong: "Why are you still standing there, take it off!"
Qiu Yutong was a little stunned: "Uh, is it right here?"
Naturally, one had to take off one's clothes in the medicinal bath, but Qiu Yutong was not used to undressing in broad daylight, in front of his little apprentice and this great doctor.
"If you don't take it off here, where should you take it off? What are you doing, you're not a big girl, do you think I like to watch it? In my eyes, you patients are all lumps of meat!" Xu Qiushi urged impatiently .
Qiu Yutong didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and had no choice but to tear off her outer robe indiscriminately, took off her inner shirt, and bravely stepped into the tub.
Xu Qiushi looked him up and down without hesitation, and kept muttering: "It's just such a frail little body, he still practiced swordsmanship, tsk tsk..."
Qiu Yutong was soaked naked in the pitch-black medicine soup, only her shoulders were exposed, and she suffocated without answering.
Lu Xiao tilted his head and looked out the window stiffly, not looking at him.
Alas, the little apprentice is more considerate.
"At the beginning of the first day, it won't be too painful. However, after a while, it will become more and more painful, and it will become more painful every day. You have to be mentally prepared."
Qiu Yutong nodded: "I understand."
Xu Qiushi waved at Lu Xiao again: "Follow me."
The two walked into the inner room next to them, Xu Qiushi asked Lu Xiao to sit on a chair, took off his outer shirt to expose his chest, and then the genius doctor took out a roll of cowhide and spread it out on the table next to him.
Inside the cowhide are a row of large and small knives, scissors, and dozens of thin copper pipes.
"Young man, hold back." Xu Qiushi picked up a small knife with a bloodletting groove at the end, weighed it in his hand, and carefully touched Lu Xiao's ribs with the other hand, counting to the fourth intercostal space.
He took a deep breath and gently sent the knife in.
The knife is sharp and makes no sound at all.
Lu Xiao let out a low snort, and then immediately clenched his teeth tightly, with blue veins popping out faintly on his forehead, but he didn't say a word.
"Good job." Xu Qiushi praised.
After a while, he slowly pulled out the knife, and put in a thin copper tube for blood collection.
The bright red hot blood dripped out of the copper pipe drop by drop.
Xu Qiushi took a small snow-white porcelain cup, carefully took half of the cup of blood, and said to himself: "Today's portion is enough."
He put the porcelain cup aside, gently pulled out the copper tube, and handed a piece of cotton wool to Lu Xiao: "Press it yourself."
"En." Lu Xiao responded in a low voice, his handsome face was bloodless, and he pressed his hand tightly to the wound on his chest.
Xu Qiushi walked to the bathtub with the small half cup of heart blood in his hand: "Heart blood is coming, it will hurt a little, hold it back."
Qiu Yutong was a little nervous, but she still nodded: "I can hold back."
Half a cup of boiling blood from the Emperor's True Dragon was slowly poured into the tub, and the originally dark and bitter medicinal soup immediately gave off an extremely strong smell of blood.
Qiu Yutong slowly closed her eyes, feeling a very slight itching, which gradually came out from the bone marrow.
The itching became more and more severe, he couldn't help pinching the edge of the barrel tightly, and snorted: "Master, it's a little itchy."
"Be patient, this is a normal reaction."
Qiu Yutong reluctantly nodded.
After a while, the strange itching gradually turned into an unbearable pain, as if thousands of little bugs were scurrying about in his bone marrow...
"Um..." Qiu Yutong was so painful that even his consciousness was a little blurred. He really wanted to hiss and scream, but that would be too embarrassing, so he could only bite his teeth desperately. Strong bloody smell.
"What's wrong with him? How did this happen?!" It seemed to be Lu Xiao's voice.
"Hey, you just took blood from your heart, and you're still alive and kicking. Don't worry, he's fine, he's just driving away... cough cough, driving away the heavy load in his body."
"But, he vomited blood..." Lu Xiao's voice trembled.
"Oh, it probably hurts too much, I bit my tongue. Um... by the way, I have a piece of wood for the patient to bite on, why don't you give it to him to bite on."
Lu Xiao didn't answer, the sound of footsteps stopped by the tub, and then two warm and slender fingers forcefully pried open Qiu Yutong's lips: "Bite this."
Qiu Yutong was in so much pain that she couldn't distinguish anything, so she bit those two fingers hard.
"Hiss..." Lu Xiao seemed to gasp, but he didn't move. Instead, he comforted softly, "Don't be afraid, I'm here."
I don't know how long it took before Qiu Yutong gradually woke up.
He only felt that his whole body was limp, and his limbs were as heavy as mercury, and he opened his eyes slowly after almost struggling to feed.
In front of him was the snow-white bed curtain of the guest room. His body was clean and fresh, without any smell of medicine. It seemed that he had been wiped clean, and he had also changed into a clean underwear.
Lu Xiao sat on the head of the bed, drooping his dark eyelashes, as if he was thinking about something.
Qiu Yutong opened her mouth and said hoarsely, "Xiao'er."
"Master, are you awake?" Lu Xiao suddenly came back to his senses, and quickly poured him a glass of water, "Drink some water."
Qiu Yutong gulped down half a glass of water in one gulp, before recovering slightly: "Did I pass out?"
"Yeah." Lu Xiao whispered, "I didn't even know that washing the marrow of the Book of Changes would be so uncomfortable."
"Actually, it's okay, but it's only four hours a day, and it will be over in seven days." Qiu Yutong waved her hands nonchalantly, "By the way, how are you? Does it hurt to take blood from your heart?"
"The master's technique is very fast, and it doesn't hurt much." Lu Xiao hesitated for a moment, and then said, "Master, after washing the essence of the Book of Changes, will your path of cultivation be smooth sailing?"
"This body is congenitally deficient, and my mood is too gloomy the day after tomorrow, resulting in too much load in my body. After such a cleansing, with my current state of mind, I dare not say that the road to cultivation in the future will be smooth, but it will not be too difficult."
Lu Xiao pursed his lips, but did not speak.
Qiu Yutong naturally knew what he was worried about, so he comforted him: "Xiao'er, after the I Ching is cleansed, I will definitely go back to Daning Palace with you. After returning to Daning Palace, the shortest is eight years, and the longest is ten years. Then I can pray for rain and snow for the Great Chen Dynasty at the Snow Prayer Terrace. This time, I will protect you for the rest of my life as a teacher, and I will never break my promise."
"...What about after that?" Lu Xiao's voice was very soft.
Qiu Yutong didn't hear clearly: "What did you say?"
Lu Xiao shook his head lightly: "It's nothing."
…
After six days and six nights like this, Xu Qiushi bled Lu Xiao every day and gave Qiu Yutong a medicinal bath. As the Gu insects became more active, the pain became more and more intense. On the sixth day, Qiu Yutong was in pain almost to death, and his whole body convulsed several times. Lu Xiao had to hold his shoulder tightly to keep from tipping over the bathtub.
Today is the last day, and Qiu Yutong has no strength left. After lying down in the tub, he closed his eyes, preparing for the severe pain.
Lu Xiao followed Xu Qiushi into the inner room as usual.
Xu Qiushi sighed while preparing the knife and the copper tube for blood collection: "I didn't expect his willpower to be so strong, and he survived until now. I saw that he looked weak, and thought he would give up halfway."
"He has always been a very strong person." Lu Xiao whispered.
"Well, I can also see that his character is not worse than his father's, but his body is a bit weaker. After my I Ching washes the marrow, I guess his practice will definitely improve by leaps and bounds, tsk tsk."
"… Ok."
"Oh, the way of heaven is really unfair. You said that his father Qiu Yutong grew up like that, and his talent is so high. He looks like this, and his talent is not worse than his father. Although his current cultivation is still very shallow, but decades Afterwards, or a hundred years later, I don’t know how many male and female monks will compete to be his Taoist companion.”
Lu Xiao's thin lips trembled slightly: "Really?"
"Those sword cultivators in Shuo Xuecheng are very popular in the cultivation world, not to mention that he has grown up like this. I don't know which powerful monk will become a Taoist partner with him in the future..." Xu Qiushi interjected Looking at the copper tube for blood collection, he shook his head and gossiped, "Hey, what's wrong with you? Does it hurt? The position of my copper tube is not wrong..."
Lu Xiao closed his eyes forcefully, and reluctantly said: "It's nothing, continue."
Xu Qiushi carefully drew out half a cup of heart blood, and then carefully observed Lu Xiao's face: "Your face is ugly, is it uncomfortable?"
Lu Xiao said hoarsely: "No."
He lowered his eyes and remained silent for a moment, then slowly raised his eyelids, staring at the small half of blood in Xu Qiushi's hand, and suddenly said softly: "Give it to me, I will take care of him. He will hurt later , I’m afraid it’s going to be a toss again.”
"Well, that's fine, let me tidy up here first." Xu Qiushi nodded, and handed the small half of his heart to Lu Xiao, "Just pour it into the bathtub, be careful, don't spill it. "
…
When Qiu Yutong woke up, the room was already full of sunshine.
The dense bamboo forest outside the window made a slight rustling sound in the morning breeze, and a pair of early-rising orioles were singing gracefully on the branches.
Xu Qiushi stood by the window with his back to the bed, holding a slender silver needle several inches long in his slender fingers, observing something carefully in the morning sunlight.
"Are you awake?" Hearing the movement behind him, Xu Qiushi turned around, smiled and handed the silver needle to Qiu Yutong, "Look, what is this?"
Qiu Yutong took a closer look, and saw a small worm the size of a rice worm protruding from the tip of the slender silver needle, shaped like a silkworm, with a translucent body, writhing desperately.
"This is... a Gu worm?" Qiu Yutong asked with some uncertainty.
"That's right, this is the Gu worm of the ice silkworm green blood Gu." Xu Qiushi said triumphantly, "The last medicinal bath yesterday drove all the Gu worms into your blood, and then I spent the whole night using silver The needle drains out 323 Gu worms from your 108 acupuncture points."
"Three hundred and twenty-three?" Qiu Yutong murmured.
There must be too many Gu worms, no wonder when it happened before, it was so uncomfortable.
"Well, there are a total of three hundred and twenty-three. Even if all the ice silkworm and green blood Gu in your body have been pulled out now, for the next three days, use the Five Elements Washing Marrow Decoction every day to wash the marrow in the I Ching, consolidate the foundation and cultivate the essence. Fan, it’s fine. Don’t worry, the Five Elements Washing Marrow Decoction won’t hurt, it’s almost like taking a bath.”
Xu Qiushi's expression relaxed a lot: "Hey, it's okay, this trip is considered smooth, and it won't affect my going to Bifengya to welcome my relatives at the end of the month."
Qiu Yutong also breathed a sigh of relief: "Thank you so much, the owner, for helping me on such a happy day..."
"Healer's parental heart, you don't need to say more." Xu Qiushi raised his hand and interrupted him, "If you want to thank, you should thank the Emperor Chen Dynasty. He took the last blood from his heart yesterday, and his whole body is weak It’s so bad, I have to press you desperately to prevent you from knocking over the medicine barrel. You don’t know, you’re in so much pain, how hard it is, anyway, I can’t hold it down, and he won’t let his servants in .By the way, he is still sleeping in the inner room."
"I'll go and see him." Qiu Yutong felt a slight pain in his heart, barely propped himself up, and walked to the inner room.
The author has something to say: Well, the last two or three chapters are likely to cause controversy. Xiaoxiao is paranoid and insecure, so his brain fainted for the last half of his heart, but he will grow up soon~ About a few chapters After that, he will work hard for Qiuqiu~
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Xiaoxiao is more paranoid, Qiuqiu is more confused, they will continue to grow~ Of course, it will definitely be a sweet ending~
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