Chapter 93: Treating Song Yulan
Ye Lingyue’s eyes twitched when she saw the sight in the room.
She already had a bad premonition when she saw the conflicted look on Ye Jincheng’s face, but Song Yulan’s condition still surprised her.
"I had moved her here after staying a few days in your house, but... an accident happened, so I have to bring her back to your house. I only brought her here again yesterday," Ye Jincheng explained.
They stepped inside.
Song Yulan was roused from her sleep in an instant. She was startled when she saw the twins.
"Lingrui, Lingyue, you all have come back safely!" She seemed to heave a sigh of relief despite the flash of occasional pain in her eyes.
"Sister Yulan, it must have hurt so much, right?" Ye Lingyue recalled the pain in her shoulder.
With her twin brother around, her condition would never be as bad as Song Yulan’s arm, and she already found it painful.
[Host, have you forgotten about me?] The System weakly chimed in.
[Do you give things for free?] Ye Lingyue shot back. [Do you help me as much as my third brother does when I was injured?]
The System wilted and tactfully kept its mouth shut.
"How long has she been injured?" Ye Lingrui asked.
Song Yulan’s arm was swelling so badly that the red area spread farther than it should have. There was also a sign of infection—a faint foul odor.
"Over a week," Ye Jincheng muttered. There was a flash of guilt and conflict in his eyes. "We have tried to use as many as common herbs we can find to treat her injury, but it didn’t get better."
"Has her wound been reopened before?" Ye Lingrui asked again.
Ye Jincheng let out a breath. "Yes... my mother came and..."
There was no need for him to continue. They already knew the gist of what happened after that. So, it was all because of Zheng Huizhen.
"Cousin, can it be cured?" He finally asked Ye Lingrui hopefully.
At this moment, Ye Lingyue suddenly heard a few system notifications.
[Recruiting a resident: 6000 system points.]
Just as Ye Lingyue thought she was hallucinating when her eyes landed on the number, another one rang out again.
[Recruiting a resident: 6000 system points.]
She wasn’t seeing it wrong! Recruiting residents for the village actually could trigger so many points!
[System, are these fake notifications? You want to deceive me as revenge?] Ye Lingyue immediately questioned the System.
The System:...
[Host, where is the basic trust between a host and her system?]
Although it understood that its host had trust issues because she had been deceived by an evil system before, it still felt sad.
Ye Lingyue snorted and didn’t answer. She was satisfied; it meant that the points were actually real.
[It’s usually real time notification. Why is it delayed now?] She couldn’t resist asking.
[The bandits were still in the middle of choosing a house for themselves, so they weren’t counted as residents yet.]
Ye Lingyue let out a hum to show that she understood.
"We brought back quite a lot of medicine from the market," Ye Lingrui said, answering Ye Jincheng’s worry. "There should be suitable herbs there."
Ye Lingyue immediately opened her cloth bag, bringing out several wooden boxes filled with medicine. They already put the herb’s name on each box.
"Third Brother," she called out once she was done.
Ye Lingrui turned his head, and walked beside her, opening the boxes for the medicine he needed. His twin sister acted as his assistant, helping him grind the medicine.
Meanwhile, Ye Jincheng was already heading to the kitchen to boil some water.
The twins could see that their cousin’s house was small but in a good condition. There were no holes in the walls, so Ye Jincheng must have worked hard by himself during the past two weeks to deal with these walls.
Everything was clean and tidy, which showed that he really cared about his wife.
Once they finished grinding the medicine, they boiled it in the kitchen. Ye Lingyue recognized the water from their second branch’s well.
Ye Jincheng didn’t take much, only two wooden buckets with him.
"Cousin, take more water from our house. We will need more," she told him.
He nodded and quickly exited the room and headed to the second branch’s place to find water.
She suddenly remembered she hadn’t gone to check the house around the well. Since the walls around the bigger house were already fixed, her parents should have finished fixing with that one too.
Not long after, Ye Jincheng come back.
They boiled more medicine and let Song Yulan drink it. Her face was already all scrunched up at the bitter medicine, but Song Yulan forced herself to drink all of them.
"Cousin, we will need to apply the medicinal paste on your wife," Ye Lingrui handed the bowl to Ye Jincheng.
The latter nodded, and he applied it himself. Song Yulan winced during the process, but she gritted her teeth and forced herself to hold on.
"Ah Yu, just a little bit more, a little bit more," Ye Jincheng coaxed his wife.
The twins stayed by Ye Jincheng’s house for a while. After the latter finished with applying medicine, Ye Lingrui gave him a few medicine packages and explained how to use them.
"Cousin, remember to boil the medicine for your wife three times a day. I will come back to check again after two days," Ye Lingrui said.
He would need to see whether the medicine was effective on Song Yulan or whether they needed to increase the dose.
"Thank you, Lingrui," Ye Jincheng thanked him solemnly, and he turned to Ye Lingyue. "Thank you, Lingyue."
When the twins left his house, they were planning to go back home to get some sleep. However, as fate had it, Zhu Yi went to find them.
"Young Master, Young Miss..." he took a deep breath, his face filled with slight urgency and exasperation. "I will need some help from you."