Chapter 151 - Chapter 151: All Filth Must Be Cleaned Up
Chapter 151: All Filth Must Be Cleaned Up
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
Su Ying turned back to glance at the old man. She then said slowly, “Old man, you’re not saving people by doing this.”
The old man was slightly taken aback. He didn’t expect Su Ying to be able to tell what the wine was. After pausing for a while, he smiled. “I’m not a good person. I’m just trying to earn a living.”
Su Ying glanced at him and took the wine to the people lying on the ground. Before they could react, she checked their pulse.
“Eh? What… what are you doing?” The drunkard regained his senses and tried to struggle, but Su Ying released his hand the moment he moved.
Li Yong, who was following right behind her, was baffled. “Madam Su, is there a problem with these people?”
Su Ying furrowed her eyebrows. “These are the people who had been implanted with the venomous bugs previously.” Furthermore, they had been implanted with different types of venomous bugs, so even though they had used her medicine to kill the bugs in their bodies, their bodies had suffered great damage. They would get angry easily and hallucinate, and their bodies would feel so uncomfortable that they went into a mania.
And this Divine Wine was just strong enough to calm their anxious emotions and uncontrollable mania when they acted up.
However, the suppressing effect of this drug-like liquid was only temporary, so every time they felt unbearably uncomfortable, they would want to take a sip. As such, they developed an invisible dependence.
Su Ying pondered for a moment and turned back. The old man was somewhat surprised to see her return.
“Isn’t one cup enough, young lady? You don’t look like someone who needs this.”
“Mister, do you have time? I want to talk to you.”
“No. You should go.” The old man refused without a second thought.
Su Ying frowned.
The old man said, “If you want to live a peaceful life here, go to another district. The West District is not a place that ordinary people can stay in. In every place, there will be filth that should rot to death. No one will spend the effort to clean them up.”
Su Ying looked at the old man and her eyes turned dark. She said with exceptional determination, “Then you may be wrong. Even if they’re filth that are rooted in the ground, I’m still going to clean them up.”
While the old man was still stupefied by her words, Su Ying turned around and walked out of the narrow street.
“Madam Su, are we still going somewhere else for a look?”
“No need. Let’s go.”
Although she had not explored the entire West District, she already had a rough understanding of what it was like.
“Madam Su, then… then this child…” Li Yong looked at the kid behind him with a troubled expression. The child had been following them obediently all the way without any intention of running away at all.
“Isn’t the Tiger Base short of people?”
Li Yong had a helpless look on his face. The base camp wasn’t short of kids!
The child suddenly blurted out, “I… I can do anything. I can do anything.”
“Even so, you’re not worth five taels of silver!” Li Yong thought.
“Enough. Get in the carriage, get in the carriage.”
When he saw that Li Yong was willing to take him along, the child broke into a smile.
“Madam Su, do you want to go back or go somewhere else?”
“Let’s go back first,” Su Ying said as she looked at the sky.
“Yes, Ma’am.”
When Su Ying returned home, the sky had already darkened.
Xiao Jin stood in the courtyard and said helplessly when he saw her enter, “You’re still running around when you’re not feeling well.”
However, Su Ying was in high spirits. “I don’t feel unwell. I wanted to check your legs earlier but didn’t have time. Let’s do it now.”
Xiao Jin followed her into the house.
He sat down obediently on the chair and pulled up his pant legs.
Although the wound on Xiao Jin’s leg had almost recovered, the crisscrossing scars would not fade away in such a short time.
Su Ying took out a silver needle and inserted it into an acupoint on his leg.
Xiao Jin grunted, and all the muscles in his body instantly tensed up.
Su Ying looked at his reaction and nodded in satisfaction. “Not bad. Your tendons and muscles are growing well. Your nerves are already so sensitive.”
A moment later, she pulled out the silver and confirmed that Xiao Jin’s legs had completely recovered.
Although he had already stood up on his own, Xiao Jin’s heart was still suspended in his throat. Now, when he heard Su Ying say there were no more problems, he couldn’t help feeling overjoyed. “There arc no problems anymore?”
Su Ying murmured her affirmation. “That’s right. But try not to use your legs too much for a while. Other than that, there’s no problem.”
“Alright.”
Xiao Jin then looked at her and asked, “Where did you go?”
Su Ying told him about her visit to Tiger Might.
Xiao Jin immediately understood what Su Ying meant. “You want to unite the Tiger Base?”
“Otherwise? As long as the Tiger Base isn’t well-organized, I won’t be able to let Ling and the others step out of this courtyard with peace of mind.” There were so many unrestrained demons and monsters. If the whole place was not organized, they could not really live a peaceful life.
“What do you plan to do?”
“The West District is the hardest to deal with. Let’s start with the West District and let those people there live like normal people first.”
Su Ying then told Xiao Jin about the people in the West District suffering from the after-effects of having the venomous bugs implanted in them.
“It’s not that there’s no medicine for this disease. The first step is to give them the medicine and see the effect.” Not all those people who couldn’t control their bodies deserved to die. She would use medicine first. If that still didn’t work, she would think of other ways.
“Alright.”
Su Ying took the wine she bought from the old man to the kitchen.
Uncle Hea was cooking when he saw Su Ying walking over. He asked curiously, “Mistress, why are you here? There is a lot of smoke and heat when we are cooking. You should go to the front courtyard to rest.”
“I have something to ask you, Uncle Hea,” Su Ying said straightaway.
Uncle Hea handed the ladle to Zhang Cuiniang and walked out of the kitchen. “Mistress, please go ahead and ask whatever you want to ask.”
Su Ying waved the wine in her hand and said, “Uncle, can you smell what this thing is made of?”
Hea Shouyi took the wine cup and sniffed it. After sniffing for a while, a look of astonishment appeared in his eyes. “Mistress, where did you get this wine from?”
“The West District of the Tiger Base.” Su Ying explained to him the problems of the East, West, South, and North Districts.
Hea Shouyi was a little excited when he heard that. “Mistress, can you take me there to take a look?”
“What’s the matter? Is there a problem?” Su Ying asked with a puzzled expression.
Hea Shouyi said, “This wine seems to be brewed from the root of a tree called the devil banana. We don’t have it in the Chu State, but other states have this. In the past, when I was traveling, I had drunk this kind of wine. Although I haven’t drunk it for many years, I can recognize it with one sniff. However, this version is a little impure. Something must have been mixed in it.”
“It should have been drugged,” Su Ying said.
“Mistress, can you take me to see the seller tomorrow?”
“Alright.”
Upon seeing that she had agreed, Hea Shouyi smiled happily. Su Ying had never seen him with such an expression. He seemed very excited as if he was looking forward to something.
Looking forward?
What was there to look forward to?
At night, Su Ying went into the interspatial store to prepare some medicine while she was in the outhouse. When she came out, four hours had passed.
The moment she came out, Su Ying saw a figure squatting at the back of the courtyard. The moonlight cast a long shadow behind him..