Chapter 108: I Want Her
Everybody was stunned.
Grandma Gu also whispered to Luo Qu in confusion, “Do you still have something to say, master?”
Luo Qu responded after a weak groan, “I want her.”
With her clear and melodious voice, as well as the childlike grievance on her face, she seemed to be a little girl who insisted on getting her doll.
Grandma Gu was surprised and couldn’t figure out Luo Qu’s intention for the moment.
An Rushuang turned around and gazed at Luo Qu, her face full of doubt. It was after a long while that she broke the silence. “You want to teach me medicine?”
Though Luo Qu talked incoherently, there was no other reasons except for this.
Luo Qu answered with a chuckle, “What a smart girl! Come here every evening at 19:00 and stay for two hours. However, I must warn you I know nothing about medicine.”
She chuckled again.
An Rushuang frowned slightly before asking her in bewilderment, “Why at the evening?”
“Because I am blind. At evening, you are no different from the blind after the sunset. Isn’t it a good idea?” Luo Qu explained.
She smiled cunningly.
An Rushuang echoed with a fake smile, “Great, really great. But how should I learn the medicine after the sunset?”
In fact, she should tell Luo Qu that even at daytime, this room was also totally dark without the candle light. However, no one could guess what Luo Qu was thinking about. If she was really a legendary doctor who was also adept at poisoning as Bian Wen had said, it was indeed worthwhile to come here every day.
Upon hearing An Rushuang’s words, Luo Qu was a little troubled. She tilted her head with her bun touching grandma Gu’s shoulder and hummed for a long time before saying, “I have an idea. Come here.”
With a frown, An Rushuang intended to step forward, but her arm was seized by a big hand all of a sudden. She turned around, finding Ye Chengzhi, with his face completely crimson, removing his hand in a hurry. “Don’t... Don’t go!” He stuttered.
He actually seized her arm in emergency. Ye Chengzhi couldn’t help blaming himself for his rudeness and frivolity. But at the same time, he knew he must do it. Who knew what plot Luo Qu, that eccentric woman, was harboring? How could they defend themselves once falling into her trap at her home?
Raising her eyebrows, An Rushuang murmured with a smile after glancing at him, “Set your mind at ease. It’s okay.”
She strode forward without hesitation. As she got nearer to Luo Qu’s bed, An Rushuang caught a light smell of blood mixed with other things, seemingly a very strange puff of medicine.
At such a freezing place, she could hardly get other smells. The pungent puff squeezing into her nose made her a little panic.
In the dim light, An Rushuang could, at least, see clearly the seriously damaged wooden puppet scattered at the corner of the room. Some of them were without bodies or heads, while others’ head had turned very sharp. Thrown randomly at the corner, they were no different from the garbage.
They also looked like fragmented corpses, too gruesome to even cast a glimpse of them.
An Rushuang would rather stay in the darkness with this woman. Though darkness could easily invoke one’s imagination on horrible things, it could also hide things. Even if there was a corpse before you, it didn’t exist if you didn’t think about it.
Darkness was also fair enough. It did blur your vision, but everyone could grope for whatever he wanted freely.
An Rushuang stopped before Luo Qu’s bed. She walked very quietly, but Luo Qu still heard her footsteps.
She outstretched her hand and said with a tender smile, “Here. Sit here.”
She patted the place next to her.
Gazing at her shroud-like black robe, as well as the square bed, An Rushuang suddenly had an illusion that she would be locked here forever. She turned to Luo Qu’s hand wrapped by gauze, and hesitated for a moment.
Finally, she seized Luo Qu’s outstretched hand and sat down slowly, even though she somehow felt stuffy in this room. There was suddenly a sting in her palm. Was there a needle on the gauze? An Rushuang frowned. Luo Qu curled her lip corners, her long eyelashes trembling slightly, as if she would open her eyes soon which still kept closed finally.
Luo Qu removed her hand. With her head still on grandma Gu’s shoulder, she whispered to An Rushuang, “Remember it clearly. From now on, you can only live for one year. Three hundred and sixty-five days. Have a count how long you can survive every day, in case you would feel panic on the last day of your life.”
She chuckled before continuing, “It’s so terrible.”
An Rushuang’s face remained unchanged, with her hand still in Luo Qu’s palm, but her body stiffened at once as if she was frozen. Though seeming to be calm, she would surely fall into the ground if someone pushed her.
An Rushuang wasn’t afraid, but she all of a sudden felt that her body had lost control when Luo Qu was speaking. With her body like a piece of ice or wood, she opened her mouth, but couldn’t lift her tongue any longer.
If someone touched her at the moment, he would definitely be frightened. Because her skin had turned cold gradually like that of a corpse.
Ye Chengzhi was still staring at her in the distance. An Rushuang was as peaceful as usual, while Luo Qu also regained her kindness. Setting his mind at ease, Ye Chengzhi wrapped himself more tightly with his clothes and stood against the wall. He was waiting for Miss An to return.
However, An Rushuang couldn’t even control her own tears.
Noticing An Rushuang was in trouble, grandma Gu asked with a frown, “Why did you do this to her, master?”
She didn’t want to hurt anyone here, especially this girl. Though An Rushuang seemed to be rude to Luo Qu, she was indeed a smart and kind-hearted girl.
There was no expression on Luo Qu’s drop-dead face. She merely responded lazily and waved another hand. “I have said she can live for one year. How can I let her die now? Won’t it ruin my reputation? You have turned hastier than before, A’Si.”
She actually blamed grandma Gu in the end.
“Since you have agreed to teach her medicine, why do you...” Grandma Gu sighed lightly.
Why did she take pains to make the disciple her own enemy?
With a coquettish smile on her face, Luo Qu released An Rushuang’s hand, put her palm on her shoulder and stroked her arm down to her fingertip as if caressing a puppet. “Don’t you think it’s fun?”
Of course not!
An Rushuang could merely move her eyes now. Since Luo Qu was blind, she couldn’t see An Rushuang’s piercing look as if she wanted eat Luo Qu alive.
“Don’t be afraid. I just want you to have a try. This poison is called the Bereaved. Is it great enough? From today, I will impart all my knowledge about medicine to you, but...”
She curled her lip corners slowly.
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