Chapter 2: Unfortunate Luck

It took a tremendous effort for Mingwei and Xier to drag the man back to the cottage after dismantling the bed board.

They also made a soup from a thumb-sized fish to nourish him.

Xier felt a pang of sympathy. She wasn't feeling sorry for the little fish, but for the man's plight. "His right leg is broken. If no one comes to save him, are we going to support him for the rest of his life?"

Indeed, they were struggling to support themselves, let alone a grown man. Even if he didn't starve to death, he would be nothing but skin and bones.

No matter how handsome a man is, being emaciated would diminish his charm.

However, Mingwei wasn't worried. She smiled and said, "It's just a broken leg. I'll set the bone first, and then I'll grind two golden needles out of a golden hairpin. I can make him stand up."

Xier was stunned by Mingwei's words. A broken leg, and this girl had the ability to make him stand up? It sounded like an exaggeration.

Xier was afraid and reached out to touch Mingwei's forehead.

Mingwei sat still, and Xier blinked. Her temperature was normal. Why did she keep talking big?

Mingwei smiled and, thinking that the man would take a while to wake up, left Xier to look after him while she went to the mountains to gather herbs.

For the first half of the month, she had been in a daze. Now, encountering a patient with such severe injuries, she was suddenly invigorated, as if she had been injected with chicken blood. This was the occupational disease.

In the mountains, there were plenty of herbs, but it all depended on whether she had the discerning eye of a pearl.

Soon, Mingwei found a pile of herbs and was about to head back when she heard Xier calling, "Miss, where are you?"

"I'm here!"

Xier rushed in, her eyes red. Mingwei felt that something was not quite right. "What's wrong?"

Xier hugged her and cried, "The man has woken up. He can't see, and he asked me to kill him. I was too scared. He grabbed my neck, and I... I got scared and accidentally killed him."

No way!

Don't scare her!

Mingwei hurried back to the cottage. The man was lying on the ground, blood on his forehead. Mingwei checked his breathing and breathed a sigh of relief. "He's not dead, just passed out."

Given the severity of his injuries, it was understandable that he didn't want to live.

But now, whether he lived or died was not up to him.

Never mind that she was overbearing. Who made him so handsome that it was an affront to both gods and men?

Mingwei crushed the herbs and used a wooden stick to set the man's bone.

It was a very painful process, but unfortunately, she had no anesthetic or silver needles. He had to endure it.

In no time, the man groaned in pain.

Mingwei brought a piece of cloth and looked at him. "I am a doctor. I can mend your broken leg and cure the poison in your body. As for your blindness... it's caused by the poison. Once the poison is neutralized, you will be able to see again. However, the antidote requires two herbs that are not available in the mountains. We can only wait until we leave. I will set your bone now. If you don't want to die, bite down on this cloth. I'm afraid you'll be in so much pain that you'll bite off your tongue."

Mingwei handed the cloth to his mouth. The man, unable to see, stared directly at Mingwei. "Are you really a doctor?"

Another person who didn't believe her. Mingwei smiled. "You should be clear about the poison in your body. If no one had come to save you in time, you would have met the King of Hell by now."

The man fell silent.

When Mingwei handed the cloth to his mouth again, he bit down on it.

The process of setting the bone was excruciating, but the man endured it. Beads of sweat the size of soybeans washed away the veins on his forehead. Xier worried countless times that he would faint from the pain.

But in the end, he did faint, after Mingwei had set his bone and removed the cloth from his mouth.

A piece of fine silk cloth had been torn to shreds by his teeth.

When he woke up, it was already the next morning.

There was only one bed in the room, and he had taken it, leaving Mingwei and Xier to sleep on the floor.

When the man woke up, Mingwei fed him mashed fruit. He frowned, and Mingwei said, "Just make do. There's no rice to make porridge."

"No rice to make porridge, but I don't need fruit mash. My teeth are fine."

What a foolish woman. Was she really a doctor?

The man frowned, but Mingwei's words made him stiffen.

"I know your teeth are fine. It's just that the low-hanging fruit on the trees is all gone, and I couldn't reach the high ones. I had to knock some down, and they got smashed."

"Yes, you guessed right. This is the smashed part."

Mingwei said lightly, and Xier stared at her dumbfoundedly.

She had eaten the smashed fruit herself. The girl clearly found the man handsome and took the opportunity to feed him, but why deceive him? He didn't want to live in the first place.

Seeing that he eventually swallowed the fruit mash instead of spitting it out, Mingwei smiled lightly. For someone like him, only sincerity could move and convince him. She had it easy, and she still had the desire to live. This was a good thing. She asked, "When will your people come to find you?"

The man felt around his waist, as if looking for something, but he didn't find it. He stood there for a long time, then weakly said, "Under the cliff, there's a bamboo tube. If you find it and send a signal, someone will come to get me within half a day."

Xier volunteered, "I'll go find it!"

This person had saved them.

As long as they found the bamboo tube, they could return to the Marquis's mansion. She wanted to eat, she wanted to eat meat... she could eat a whole cow!

But the bamboo tube was so small, and the cliff was so large. It was not easy to find it.

It took Xier and Mingwei a full seven days to find it.

The bamboo tube was a bit high above the cliff and out of reach. Xier couldn't climb up, so in the end, Mingwei risked her life and almost lost it before she managed to get the bamboo tube down.

The bamboo tube couldn't get wet, and the sky was getting cloudy. Mingwei was afraid of rain. This was their only hope of getting out. Even if it meant death, she had to try.

In the end, the bamboo tube was obtained, and Xi'er helped her into the cabin, limping.

"Are you injured?" the man asked.

Mingwu, in pain, pretended to be casual, "Just sprained my foot, and got a little wrist injury, it's nothing."

The man couldn't see, so he thought she was really not seriously injured.

As he had said, after sending the signal, in just half a day, the people looking for him arrived.

Those people had been searching for him desperately, with such serious injuries, and after so many days, they had lost hope. When they entered the cabin and saw the man still alive, seven or eight secret guards were overjoyed and knelt down to apologize.

Mingwu was furious, she didn't want to stay at the bottom of the cliff for a moment longer. She urged, "Don't apologize, just hurry and leave, it's about to rain."

The secret guards bowed to her, "Thank you for your help, is the lady a hermit living here? When we return to the mansion, we will definitely prepare a generous gift to express our gratitude."

Thanks a lot!

Mingwu felt extremely frustrated. They were so eager to leave, couldn't they see it? Their master was blind, were they blind too?

"We, like your master, also fell from the cliff, just half a month earlier."

"Is the lady from a noble family?"

"My name is Su Li."