Chapter 268: His Hidden Condition 3
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
She would do her best to convert Lu Yan into a normal person in one hundred days.
After Lu Yan was done emptying his stomach, he rinsed his mouth with tea, and once he was feeling better, he sat over to the side.
He looked at Qi Qingyao, who was deep in thought with a hand on her chin.
He said his next words very seriously.
“If you can cure me, I’ll let you decide the price of the treatment. You can have anything you want.”
“We can discuss this after we’ve cured you.”
Qi Qingyao waved her hand indifferently.
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The pond in the house had a beautiful name—Yanyu Lake. Three men were standing by the lake. Jiang Yeqian was watching the fish swim around in the lake. After a long silence, he asked Dong Jing a question.
“Why did Lu Yan come to see her?
“It’s regarding an important matter.” Dong Jing could not help laughing when he said this.
He knew why the master had come.
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If the master was willing to take this first step, then the things he said yesterday had not been in vain after all.
Jiang Yeqian did not understand. “How important?”
Dong Jing replied smugly, “It concerns the master’s lifetime happiness.”
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Jiang Yeqian prodded a soft spot tactlessly. “Is it about him not being able to get it up?”
Dong Jing, “…”
His face turned green for a second.
However, he neither dared to confirm or deny the statement.
Dong Jing was feeling a little awkward. “The master isn’t ill, he just has a mental barrier toward certain things. He’ll be fine once he is cured of that,” he defended his master anxiously.
Jiang Yeqian wanted to laugh, but felt that laughing out loud would be too mean.
While others may not know about Lu Yan’s illness, how could he not? Regarding the things that happened in Jiangzhou back then… even including that incident where every living soul in that house was killed!
Si Jin tilted his head curiously as he listened to the conversation between the two.
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He subconsciously lowered his head and glanced at a certain part of himself.
Then, he asked with grave seriousness, “What does it mean by not being able to get it up?”
Dong Jing, “??”
Jiang Yeqian, “??”
Both men turned to look at him simultaneously.
Si Jin pressed earnestly, “Tell me.”
Dong Jing was quite speechless. “You don’t know what ‘to get it up’ means?”
“I don’t,” Si Jin replied.
“Not being able to get it up means…” Dong Jing was at a loss for words at Si Jin’s question. He scratched his head and then asked the man in the ox-head mask, “Isn’t this boy with you? Why doesn’t he know this?”
Jiang Yeqian’s expression turned dark beneath his mask. “How should I know?”
Dong Jing, “??” ‘Aren’t you both Qi Qingyao’s people?’
Si Jin hurriedly asked again, “You guys haven’t told me what it means.”
“To not be able to get it up means you cannot perform as a man!! One cannot perform! Get it now?” Dong Jing felt annoyed being asked that question.
“I don’t.”
“…”
“What do you mean by ‘cannot perform’? I think I can. I can perform.”
“…”
“Tell me then.”
“You’ll understand when you embrace a woman.”
“Embrace a woman?”
Si Jin thought internally that he could do that. He would just go and hug Qi Qingyao later, then he would know whether or not he could perform.
After Qi Qingyao was done chatting with Lu Yan, she let Jiang Yeqian and the others back into the side hall. It was definitely much warmer inside the house. Si Jin sat directly in front of the burning fire of the brazier. It was so hot that he threw the mask aside.
Jiang Yeqian looked at Lu Yan with an odd expression through the mask.
Just as Lu Yan was preparing to say goodbye…
Qi Qingyao suddenly asked.
“Won’t you stay for a late afternoon meal?”
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“No, thank you. I shall take my leave now,” replied Lu Yan.
“As if.” Qi Qingyao retorted leisurely. “You’ll stay here under my roof these one hundred days until you’re cured of your illness.”
Jiang Yeqian, “Ah.”
Lu Yan, “…”
Si Jin, “?”
Dong Jing clenched his fist lightly, it seemed that there might be some hope with the master’s illness.
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Qi Qingyao calmly said, “Isn’t this house huge? You can bring your servants back and save me the trouble of looking for new people. I think your servants really wiped down the floors and tables well. It means they are good at what they do! After that, you can find a compound to live in. I will try to turn you into a normal person within three months.”
Jiang Yeqian pulled Qi Qingyao to one side and asked in a low voice, “You actually want him to stay here?” Although he had not had many interactions with Lu Yan before, Lu Yan was from the Capital City! Getting too close to him will easily result in his ident.i.ty being leaked.
“He’s now my patient.” Qi Qingyao patted his shoulder. “His condition is special, that’s why I need to keep a close eye on him.”
“Just prescribe him something,” said Jiang Yeqian.
Qi Qingyao replied, “His condition doesn’t require medicine.”
Jiang Yeqian was surprised. “There are illnesses that don’t require medicine?”
“It’s a mental disorder, that’s why I need to keep close observation!” After Qi Qingyao said this, she turned around and went back to the brazier. After thinking for a bit, she pulled Si Jin up. Dragging the handsome young man along, she walked toward Lu Yan and pushed Si Jin in front of him.
Qi Qingyao smiled brightly and said, “Little Yan, don’t you think he’s good-looking?”
Lu Yan was confused, but thinking that she was probably trying to figure out the source of his illness, he answered honestly, “Yes.”
“Do you feel anything?” Qi Qingyao asked.
The corners of Lu Yan’s lips twitched. He replied heavily, “I don’t feel anything—he’s a man.”
Qi Qingyao asked, “Can you hug him?”
“I can try?” Lu Yan frowned.
Si Jin wanted to back away but was held firmly in place by Qi Qingyao and could not move.
He was forced to stand there.
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Lu Yan took two deep breaths and stepped forward. He did not hug him; he just pulled up one of Si Jin’s hands and held it. After holding it for a while— about ten seconds—his face turned pale and he let go.
After Qi Qingyao determined the period had been around ten seconds, she said with her eyebrows raised, “It seems that it’s just a slight PTSD for humans in general, and a more intense PTSD for women!”
Jiang Yeqian heard that word curiously and asked, “What is PTSD?”
“Post-traumatic stress disorder,” Qi Qingyao answered.
“What is that?” Jiang Yeqian asked.
Qi Qingyao said, “The name of the condition.”
Lu Yan suddenly blurted out insistently, “You have to be Su Hexiao.”
Qi Qingyao had just turned around and was preparing to take a piece of paper to scribble down a treatment plan when she heard this. She could not help but exclaim rashly, “You stupid fool. If I really was Su Hexiao, would I be hiding myself? I would’ve openly admitted it, alright? Who wouldn’t want to enjoy the wors.h.i.+p of thousands of people? But I’m not! Besides, I was only a few years old around ten years ago, and you’re calling me Su Hexiao? You whack noggin!”
Lu Yan, “…”
Jiang Yeqian realized that the person who was being rebuked was Lu Yan. Not only that, he was being chastised pretty intensely. All of a sudden, he found that it no longer mattered that Lu Yan was living here. Looking at the woman’s att.i.tude, she would never fall for Lu Yan anyway. For such a heartless woman like her, Lu Yan was just a patient who cannot get it up now!
Qi Qingyao mumbled as she scribbled out the plan, “Black cat or white cat, as long as they catch the mouse they are a good cat! I’m Qi Qingyao! What matters is I can help cure your disease. What a drag!”
Lu Yan just stood there. He stared at her back for a bit before suddenly thinking that perhaps this time, he could finally overcome the darkness in his heart!
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Qi Qingzhu did not return to her village. She went directly to her mother’s home in Linquan Village. Her father and mother had already left her elder brother’s house. Since her elder brother died, it would not be reasonable for them to be in her sister-in-law’s care all the time. Hence, Qi Boli and Madam Wu moved to their fourth uncle’s home.
She was looking for her younger sister. In the end, the village head told her that although Qi Qingyao had visited them on the first day of the new year, she never really lived in that house. Qi Qingzhu anxiously asked where her younger sister might have gone. The village head pointed her to some Longmen Inn, saying that her younger sister mentioned that she often lived there.
Qi Qingzhu thanked Ma Sanye profusely and decided to steal the keepsake first before heading off to look for her sister.
Qi Yuanxiu was said to be the fourth oldest of the Qi family by order, but Qi Yuanxiu was actually the second son of the Qi family.
After Qi Qingzhu returned to Linquan Village, she realized that her sister-in-law had already brought the children back to her maiden home. She heard from others that they would only return after the lunar new year. So she went and stayed in Qi Yuanye’s home.
After chatting with her sister-in-law the whole night, the first thing Qi Qingzhu did the next morning, despite the rainy weather, was to go to Qi Yuanxiu’s house.
She spoke with Madam Liang a bit and had breakfast.
Then, her mother, Madam Wu, took one look at the weather and told her that there was no need to rush home.
Qi Qingzhu pretended to accept what she said.
She also added that she would go back to her husband’s family after the rain stopped.
However, she was secretly figuring out when was the best time for her to steal the two keepsakes. Her mother had just moved here, so Qi Qingzhu did not know where she kept the keepsakes.
That afternoon, Madam Wu and Madam Liang were chatting in the hall of the house as they coaxed the baby.
Qi Qingzhu gave an excuse of using the toilet, but turned around midway and sneaked into her mother’s room. She looked around but could not locate the keepsakes. Finally, her eyes fell onto a box in the corner.
The box was locked.
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