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"The house may be a bit messy." Li Yuyan fumbled to open the door. "Little Tiger."

"Big brother!" The twelve-year-old child hopped over. The scholar pulled the child and said, "You two, this is my younger brother, Li Hu. My daily life is taken care of by Xiao Hu. Please forgive my inconvenience."

"It's fine, as long as there's a place to lie down." Hua Yu pulled the unconscious Luo Ling and gave him a big smile. The child shyly hid in Li Yuyan's embrace: "Big brother."

"Sorry, he's shy." Li Yuyan hugged Li Hu and spoke into the air, but Tang Ming knew that she was speaking to them.

"Nothing." "What a strong smell of medicinal herbs."

"Really? I'm used to living here, so I don't feel anything." Li Yuyan smiled embarrassedly as she was helped to sit down by Li Hu. "Why are you two here? What's the recent situation in the Li Family Village …" "Not really."

Although his words were spoken, Tang Ming could still hear the euphemism in Li Yuyan's words. The Li Family Village was not only not good, the robust man would probably be able to run away.

"My name is Tang Ming, and I've heard that the matter of the Li family village was caused by the Devil Dao of the Jianghu, so I brought junior brother here to investigate. The person next to me is Hua Yuzhu, Young Master Hua. Tang Ming looked around at the small room and said, "Sorry for disturbing you."

"It's nothing." Li Yuyan put down the bamboo pole and asked, "Do you two want to take a look at the sick people?"

"Can I?" Hua Yu's eyes lit up.

"Of course, I have most of the patients in the village." Li Yuyan was silent for a moment, "I heard there is a method to point acupuncture points in the martial arts world. Do you two want to point your acupuncture points?"

Tang Ming was puzzled at first, but when he recalled the stench of the child when he entered the village, he instantly understood.

Li Yuyan touched the bamboo pole and knocked on it in the room. It was a noise that should have been very loud, but Li Yuyan knocked on it to the point it made her feel extremely at ease.

The patient was staying in a spacious room. A foul stench filled the entire room. Tang Ming looked at Li Yuyan and asked, "Doctor Li, do you need me to point the acupuncture point for you?"

Li Yuyan lightly shook her head, "No need, I'm already used to it."

Tang Ming was clueless as to why he was looking at Hua Yuzhu. Perhaps he had seen Tang Ming's doubt, but Hua Yu explained: "The stench is also a symptom of the patient. If one's sense of smell is sealed, it will affect one's judgement."

"Young Master Hua is also a doctor?" Li Yuyan put down the bamboo pole and touched the wall.

"Not as good as my master." Hua Yu looked at Li Yuyan seriously. "Speaking of which, Doctor Li is very similar to my master."

"Really? That is my honor." Li Yuyan pushed the door open, and Hua Yu almost fainted.

The hall was deathly silent. Tang Ming could see bed after bed by the light of the outside. The people were obviously lying on the beds in a deathly silence.

"Where are their families?" Tang Ming asked puzzledly. The people on the bed all looked over, young and old. Many of them didn't have families to accompany them.

"Let's go." Li Yuyan's voice was very sad, "Five days ago, it was unknown where the rumors came from that the people who got sick had offended them. The heavens were angry, but they were allowed to become like this, and the villagers believed it, one by one, without a doubt. These patients who did not have a family to accompany them had been abandoned by their families a long time ago, and that was the reason why Elder Sister Chun was abandoned by her husband."

Thinking of what he had seen at the entrance of the village, Tang Ming didn't know what to say.

He was already thinking of the worst situation, but he didn't expect the situation in the Li family village to be like this.

"Pa —"

Tang Ming and Hua Yu turned their heads at the same time.

"What's wrong?" Li Yuyan turned her head around in confusion and suddenly became anxious, "Where is Little Tiger?"

Hua Yu was silent for a moment before he looked at Tang Ming seriously: "I just casually threw Brother Luo on the ground."

Tang Ming fell silent when he heard this.

Judging from the time, junior apprentice-brother should be awake by now.

So, the commotion in the hall, could it be that junior is the one who caused it?

Tang Ming held Li Yuyan up and said, "Don't worry, Doctor Li. It might have been caused by my naughty junior brother."

Li Yuyan seemed to be relieved. "Can you give me my bamboo pole?"

Lonesome Flower immediately handed the bamboo pole to Li Yuyan and looked at Tang Ming, "Let's go take a look."

Tang Ming nodded.

Inside the house, the three people had just entered when they saw the interior of the house was in a mess. Tang Ming frowned as he looked at Luo Ling, "What happened?"

Luo Ling felt wronged as he said, "This has nothing to do with me. I was the one who pushed him away because he stuffed something into my mouth. Senior Brother, you can't wrongly accuse me!"

Tang Ming was so angry that he started laughing, "I don't think you've had enough of the gunny sack!"

"No, I'm not!" Luo Ling anxiously hugged Tang Ming's thigh, "Senior Brother, I'm already sixteen, why don't you just put on a sack? It's very shameful. Also, we're going out to train, why would you bring a sack?"

"Oh, when Uncle-Master told me what to do, he conveniently stuffed it in. I didn't expect it to really be useful." Tang Ming answered in all seriousness.

Luo Ling: "…"

Senior Brother, what's with that happy tone of yours?

Tang Ming replied Luo Ling with an innocent expression.

While the two brothers were arguing, Hua Yu used her fingers to wipe the powder on the ground and sniffed it. "It's just some medicine. This kid probably thought Brother Luo had fainted because of the heat."

When Tang Ming heard this, he looked at Luo Ling with hatred, "Even if it really is poison, what are you afraid of?"

Luo Ling: "…"

Is this really my senior brother?

"Big brother …"

A voice that sounded like a mosquito entered Tang Ming's ears. Li Yuyan quickly hugged Li Hu, who was running over, and touched Li Hu's body. "What happened to Little Tiger? Did he get injured?"

"No …" Li Hu complained in a low voice, "It's this big brother that's so fierce."

Tang Ming glanced at Luo Ling snappily.

It's only been a while and you're already causing trouble for me without even looking at you!

Being looked at in such a manner by Tang Ming, Luo Ling felt that he was the most wronged person in the world.

Anyone who was inexplicably fed medicine would probably push that person away, right?

"I'm fine." Li Yuyan patted Li Hu's head, "Sorry about that, but Little Tiger is timid, so he made you come back and forth with me."

"It's nothing, but Doctor Li seems to be very afraid that something might happen to the child." Hua Yu pushed Luo Ling away and asked with a smile.

"Yes, because of the rumors, the villagers think that the patients are an ominous sign and want to drive them out, so they often come looking for trouble." Li Yuyan sat down while fumbling, "Little Tiger has been injured several times."

"There's such a thing?" Luo Ling's eyes widened in disbelief.

Tang Ming didn't know whether to be angry or to laugh when he heard this.

"Dong Dong Dong …"

Knocking sounds came from the messy wooden door. All of them turned around at the same time. Li Hu hid in Li Yuyan's arms and said, "Big brother …"

"Open the door! Open the door!"

The wooden door was knocked until it started to move. Luo Ling shouted in anger, "What are you arguing about?"

"Shut up!" Tang Ming growled in frustration, "Don't you think it's messy enough?"

Luo Ling shut his mouth with an unhappy expression.

"Doctor Li, what do you usually do with this kind of situation?" Hua Yu touched the jade ring on her hand and asked.

"Just wait a bit. If they get tired, they'll leave." Li Yuyan sighed, helpless.