Chapter 37
He Sure was Unappreciative
The disgust in Xie Yunjin’s eyes dissipated after he heard Lu Jiao’s words.
Lu Jiao helped him sit up and fed him some medicine.
Under the dim light, the man’s eyes had gathered some liveliness. His already delicate eyes appeared especially structured. While he lowered his head, his long lashes fanned up and down. His nose was high and straight. Though there was no color to his lips, they looked sexy.
Him without his normal coldness looked just like a well-taken care wealthy young master.
Lu Jiao watched him and suddenly remembered how the book described him: The First Assistant, even when he reached his middle age, was a rare handsome man in the Zhou Dynasty.
Such an intelligent and good-looking man turned out to be a great villain.
Lu Jiao mourned for the First Assistant when Xie Yunjin looked up in disdain, “I’m done.”
Lu Jiao instantly pulled back to reality. What was she being sad about? This guy hated her. The way he looked at her made it clear that he wanted her dead as soon as possible. So it was her priority right now to cure his legs.
Lu Jiao took away the bowl and placed it on the broken side table. She then helped Xie Yunjin lie down.
Just then, she asked thoughtlessly, “Is the medicine bitter? Do you want a piece of candy?”
Xie Yunjin looked at her and hissed, “No.”
Lu Jiao cursed at herself. However, when she remembered how Xie Yunjin forced himself out of bed and went outside, she lectured him in a serious manner.
“From now on, don’t get out of bed. You need to heal and how do you do that if you are out of the bed?”
Though she’s decided to perform surgery on him, she needed to wait for his concussion and his internal bleeding to subside.
On the bed, Xie Yunjin heard her but said nonchalantly, “I think my body is much better. I should be fine.”
Lu Jiao’s face turned cold. That was not because his body was strong, it was because she fed him spiritual water. Spiritual water can only help nourish the body but it couldn’t cure concussion or bleeding.
Lu Jiao couldn’t speak of that of course, so she only warned Xie Yunjin, “I don’t care if you are healed or not. From now on out, you must be bedridden and pee and poo in bed.”
Xie Yunjin’s face drastically changed. What did she say? Was that a phrase a woman should say?
At that moment, Xie Yunjin suspected that there might be a man inside that person’s body.
“Are you a woman?”
Lu Jiao laughed, “What is it? A woman can’t say eat, pee and poo?”
Xie Yunjin stared at her. He realized that when she spoke, she sounded genuine and not fake. Now that he thought about it, this person never really acted like a man. So she really was a woman?
Just then, Lu Jiao left the room. Xie Yunjin figured she had more chores to do.
Later though, Lu Jiao came back in with a strange thing made out of bamboo. She waved it around, “Do you see this? You can use this to poo while lying in bed.”
Xie Yunjin glanced at the object and his face turned black while coldness covered his eyes.
“What a weird thing.”
Lu Jiao wasn’t scared of the negative and dismissive way he acted. On the contrary, she felt rather happy about it.
“Ah, this. If I place this below you, you can…?”
Before she could finish, the man in the bed gritted his teeth, “I don’t need it, get it out of here.”
He was confident that he wouldn’t be able to go with that thing beneath him.
Even if he got hurt, he could force himself to get out of bed. There was no way he would stay in bed and use that thing to relieve himself. It was obvious that he wouldn’t be able to do it.
Xie Yunjin suspected that this was a prank. With an emotionless expression, he asked, “Are you doing this on purpose?”
Lu Jiao rolled her eyes. On purpose? To be nice, she made him a portable potty yet he suspected her intention? He sure was unappreciative.
Lu Jiao unhappily took away the portable toilet and headed out, “Whatever you want then.”
As she got out of the door, she suddenly remembered something and turned to look at Xie Yunjin curiously.
The look on her face signaled to Xie Yunjin that she got another idea and he wanted to shoo her away.
But Lu Jiao managed to speak, “Xie Yunjin, I want to ask you… when you got out there from the east bedroom, did you crawl out of bed, onto the floor, then out the door, or did you walk to the door and then collapsed?”
Lu Jiao was worried that he had put too much weight on his legs and thus had broken them another time. So she preferred it if he crawled today. However, the moment she spoke, Xie Yunjin clenched his teeth, “**** off.”
Lu Jiao didn’t humor his ferocious response and walked away.
Inside the room, Xie Yunjin drowned in fury. Today, his children got bullied right outside this room and he was too hopeless to help.
He never expected there to come a day where he couldn’t even protect his own sons. Therefore, he didn’t think twice about his broken legs and tried to walk out while he used the wall as support.
However, there was not the slightest strength in his legs. So he collapsed. When he heard his sons cry out, he crawled out of the room.
He imagined how awful and defeated he must’ve looked and darkness eroded his mind and his eyes subconsciously turned red. For the first time, he was impatient to heal his legs. He needed his legs to get better so he could protect his sons. Then, he would be able to stand up again gloriously.
Before, Doctor Zhou had told him that there were military doctors who could perform the surgery. Only then could his legs heal. So he must find such a person.
Xie Yunjin suppressed the negativity he felt and pondered hard over ways to find the person he needed.
Though Lu Jiao had offered to find him a doctor, Xie Yunjin just didn’t trust her. Why would a stranger who came out of nowhere help him find a doctor? So he had to fend for himself with this.
Inside the kitchen, the pig head was fully braised. Lu Jiao took out the pig head. Worried that the heat would make it go bad, she closed the kitchen door and snuck the braised pork into her space.
Nothing in her space went bad. Just like the medicinal herbs, fruits, and vegetables she grew there. They will always be fresh and only grow stronger.
Lu Jiao entered her space. She felt comforted by the space she was in and relaxed instantly. Not far away, she saw her peaches, grapes, watermelons, strawberries, and cherries.
She couldn’t help but pick off a few peaches to try. She ate a few grapes too. Honestly, she very much wanted to feed these to the four little ones.
But it would be too hard to explain where she got this stuff from. These were all rare items that were hard to find in town.
Lu Jiao ate her grapes and thought, tomorrow, she could pick a few peaches for the kids.
She’s been to town before, so she could say that she bought these there. Xie Yunjin wouldn’t think too much of it.