Wang Daye creaked a bit but worried about being laughed at by others, he then said, “Yes, it’s quite effective. My legs and feet are a lot more nimble now.”
Later, someone asked Li Daye, “Li Daye, aren’t you coughing severely at night? The ’Immortal Water’ claims to cure all diseases, so after taking it, do you still cough at night?”
Li Daye, also concerned about face, coughed twice and suppressed his coughing before clearing his throat and replying, “Much better, I don’t cough as much at night, just a few coughs during the day now.”
“How e I heard your daughter-in-law cursing, saying you wasted so much money and still cough all night?”
“Don’t listen to that woman’s nonsense, it’s my own money I spent, not hers!”
“…”
Xia Dabao understood something, many people have vanity and care about face, reluctant to admit they were deceived.
No wonder mother was unwilling to take action.
After that day, she started to act, returning everyone’s silver and leaving a note, “The Immortal Water is fake. Don’t be deceived again.”
…
Afterward, Peach Blossom Village returned to its tranquility.
Xia Dabao became the village girl she was before, hunting rabbits in the mountains when she craved meat, helping her parents during the busy farming seasons, and occasionally bickering with Axian.
Axian had recently started to voluntarily help with the household chores, which pleased Nan Feng very much.
Yet, for some reason, Nan Feng always felt that there was something off with Axian lately.
Sometimes he would suddenly space out, and it would take several calls for him to turn around, his eyes appearing very blank.
One evening, Xia Dabao brought back a bamboo rat from the mountain, and after Nan Feng had cooked it, she gave Axian a leg of the bamboo rat. Axian suddenly looked at the leg fearfully, as if seeing something terribly frightening, even dropping his chopsticks while muttering, “Blood, so much blood…”
Seeing his pupils dilate and limbs tremble, Yegu immediately pressed on Axian’s sleep acupoint to put him to sleep.
But when he woke up, Axian acted as if nothing had happened.
Xia Dabao couldn’t help but ask Nan Feng, “Mother, is Axian possessed?”
Nan Feng shook her head, she didn’t know what was going on or what had happened to Axian recently, so the family could only coax Axian, trying to find out what people he had seen recently and where he had been.
But Axian knew nothing, he didn’t even remember being scared of the bamboo rat leg at dinner, only plaining of hunger and then eating a lot of the bamboo rat meat.
Nan Feng was deeply worried.
She had a very ominous premonition.
She couldn’t explain where this premonition came from, it seemed like a mysterious force was controlling Axian’s body.
The next afternoon.
Nan Feng was working with Yegu in the Lychee Forest, as it was the season for lychees to ripen, which naturally kept them very busy, especially with pest control.
Nan Feng was working, but soon stopped and looked melancholically at Yegu.
Yegu could feel Nan Feng’s mood and put down his work to e over, “Fengfeng, is something the matter?”
Nan Feng sighed, “I’m thinking about Axian, what exactly has been happening to him recently?”
Yegu first forted Nan Feng, “I also have some doubts and concerns about Axian’s situation. How about we take him to see a doctor this afternoon to see what the doctor says? After all, this situation is too rare for us to handle.”
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