Chapter 374: You Want to Camp Out with Divine Doctor Jiang?
"Mom, I came here last night to warm Divine Doctor Jiang’s bed. Even though Sixth has recovered, I have to keep my promise. How is that any different from casting someone aside after they’ve served their purpose? I can’t just leave now," Lv Que said with a straight face.
Niu Xiaolan looked embarrassed. "That’s not what I meant. I’m just saying, Divine Doctor Jiang is in seclusion, and we don’t know when he’ll awaken. Are you just going to wait here indefinitely?"
"Mom, your daughter is grown up now. You don’t have to worry about me so much. I have my own plans."
Lv Que giggled and turned to look at Jiang Xinghai, who was sitting cross-legged in meditation. A glint of anticipation flashed in her eyes.
Jiang Xinghai was still in a tank top and shorts.
Lv Que was an experienced woman. Seeing the way he swayed when he jogged that morning had struck a chord with her.
’Li Huanyan has already tried it, so why can’t I?’
Besides, even though Mu Jianni had left for school today, Li Huanyan was still here.
She had to seize this opportunity as well.
"Mom, Third Sister is right," Lv Xiao reasoned seriously. "We’ve already pledged our loyalty to Divine Doctor Jiang. Even if it requires her to make a sacrifice, we can’t show any hesitation, can we?"
Niu Xiaolan was very pleased. "Good boy. What you said makes sense!"
With that, the mother and son departed.
Lv Que, however, stayed behind. She sat down cross-legged nearby, gazing at Jiang Xinghai, lost in thought for a long while.
At some point, Li Huanyan appeared, wearing a pale-yellow puffy dress. "Your brother has recovered. Aren’t you leaving?"
"I’d like to stay and learn the Bedroom Technique from you, Sister Huanyan." Lv Que looked up, a peculiar smile playing on her lips.
The corner of Li Huanyan’s mouth twitched. "The Bedroom Technique is an esoteric secret of my Li Family. You can forget about it."
With that, she also sat down cross-legged on the ground.
"Hiss..."
But as soon as she sat, the lawn pricked her. She quickly pushed herself up with her hands and shifted her position.
But!
She was wearing a puffy dress without even any stockings. Her fair, tender skin was no match for the lawn; no matter how she sat, she was uncomfortable.
"I wonder if the Mu Family has any spare tents," Lv Que said, suddenly standing up.
"You want to camp out with Divine Doctor Jiang?"
Li Huanyan smiled knowingly. "I just saw one. Finders keepers."
With that, she got up, jogged over, and returned with a tent.
Lv Que was utterly speechless. She simply ignored her, too proud to stoop to fighting for it.
The moment Li Huanyan finished pitching the tent, Lv Que caught her off guard and dove inside.
"Lv Que, you’re infuriating!"
Li Huanyan dove into the tent as well, jostling with Lv Que as they both lay down.
"Sister Huanyan, don’t be so stingy, okay? I won’t compete with you for him. I’ll at least get in line behind you. Isn’t that enough?" Lv Que gestured meaningfully toward the spot where Jiang Xinghai was meditating, giving Li Huanyan a look that said, *You know what I mean.*
"That’s more like it." Li Huanyan smiled.
As time passed, the sky soon grew dark and hazy.
The Mu Family was at a loss with Li Huanyan and Lv Que, so they could only send meals out to the two women, as well as to the Butcher who was stationed nearby. Each person received a meal with two meat dishes and two vegetable dishes.
Since Jiang Xinghai was still in seclusion and had not awoken, the Mu Family didn’t disturb him.
「The night grew deeper.」
Li Huanyan and Lv Que finally couldn’t stay awake any longer and fell asleep, sharing the single tent.
The Butcher, however, became more energetic as night fell.
He could relax a little during the day, but the dead of night was when incidents were most likely to occur.
He never crossed the ten-meter perimeter Jiang Xinghai had established, pacing back and forth on the outside.
「In the dead of night.」
’The Spiritual Qi around Master has suddenly grown much richer!’
The Butcher noticed that in the area centered on Jiang Xinghai, a hazy, misty stream of energy was constantly seeping out from underground and being absorbed by him.
’Is that the special energy of the Medicinal Vein?’ The Butcher was green with envy.
But as Jiang Xinghai’s servant, he wouldn’t dare go over and snatch that tempting Spiritual Qi, not even if it killed him.
「A night passed quietly.」
Only then did the Butcher feel at ease enough to doze off.
A short while later, Li Huanyan and Lv Que woke up as well.
Seeing that Jiang Xinghai was still sitting cross-legged and perfectly motionless, they could only continue their silent vigil.
「Around noon.」
A red Porsche Cayenne suddenly pulled up outside the Mu Family estate.
It was none other than Leng Ning and Chuchu of the Black Cloaks.
"Chuchu, Jiang Xinghai has been at the Mu Family’s home for two days. Rumor has it that after he cured a chronic illness for someone from the Lv Family on the first day, he’s been in seclusion ever since. To get close to him, we must find a way to get an invitation from the Mu Family to stay for a bit," Leng Ning said after getting out of the car, gazing at the Mu Family compound.
From their angle at the gate, the medicinal garden wasn’t visible.
"You’ve been mulling this over for a whole day and are only just now deciding?" Chuchu was in no hurry to see Jiang Xinghai.
After all, Leng Ning needed to get close to Jiang Xinghai to learn his parents’ whereabouts. Doing so would be a meritorious deed that would get her promoted to a core member of the Black Cloak organization.
She, on the other hand, had three identities.
One, she was Jiang Xinghai’s informant. Two, she was the head of the local branch of the AM Company, a subsidiary of the Shen Group. And three, there was her personal relationship with Jiang Xinghai.
"BEEP BEEP!"
Just then, a commercial van approached from a distance. It began honking frantically before it even neared the Mu Family’s gate.
Then, without waiting for anyone from the Mu Family to open the gate, the van rammed right through it.