"Pulling at my clothes in broad daylight—didn’t get enough yesterday? It’s fine, we can keep going tonight."
Yang Cheng chuckled, his tone full of teasing.
"Keep个屁,我下面现在还火辣辣地疼呢,走路都走不动了."
Kong Lingwen snapped, glaring hard at him.
"Don’t be mad, okay? Didn’t I carry you down the mountain? Besides, if I hadn’t worked that hard last night, the Snake Source Qi wouldn’t have been extracted so smoothly."
Yang Cheng coaxed her softly, then with a wave of his big hand, green snakescales actually appeared on his face again.
"You... your face!"
Seeing this, Kong Lingwen was startled again.
The next second, the snakeskin flaked off bit by bit, turning into a thin mist, and Yang Cheng’s face instantly turned into Kong Lingwen’s appearance.
She stared, dumbfounded, completely in disbelief. She reached up to touch it—what she felt was warm and smooth skin, not so special mask.
"This is called the Snake Shedding Skill, a powerful Disguise Technique. When it’s used, snakescales appear on the skin; once the scales shed, they turn into smoke. You can shed your skin and escape in battle, and you can also copy your enemy’s face through shedding."
Yang Cheng patiently explained, then waved his hand again and returned to his original appearance.
"You gained the Snake Shedding Skill after absorbing the Snake Source Qi? That’s amazing!"
Kong Lingwen looked delighted. She carefully felt Yang Cheng’s face, thinking he looked even more handso than before.
"Yeah. From now on you don’t have to worry about the Snake Source Qi in your body flaring up, and we can also go back to a normal relationship between a man and a woman."
As he spoke, Yang Cheng gazed at her with deep affection, gently caressing her delicate cheek.
Kong Lingwen tilted her head up, a blush blooming on her pretty face, her brows and eyes filled with shyness. The face was the sa, but her whole aura was completely different.
Right now she was like a blooming rose, radiating femininity from head to toe, every move and every glance utterly bewitching.
They’d clearly gone at it all night yesterday, but seeing Kong Lingwen’s luscious face and fuller figure now, he couldn’t help the desire surging inside him.
He wrapped an arm around her slender waist and lowered his head to press his lips onto her soft ones.
"Mmm..."
Kong Lingwen braced a hand against his chest, struggled lightly for a mont, then sank into his heated kiss.
They clung to each other for a while longer before Yang Cheng finally carried her on his back and headed down the mountain.
"I’ll rub so dicine on you when we get back. It won’t hurt tomorrow."
"No need, I’ll put it on myself."
"It’s not convenient for you to do it. What are you shy about? There’s no part of your body I haven’t seen."
They chatted as they walked, the air between Yang Cheng and Kong Lingwen thick with sweetness. By the ti they got back to Da Shan’s House, it was already noon.
Seeing Kong Lingwen on Yang Cheng’s back, Da Shan hurriedly asked in concern, "Whoa! Ms. Lingwen, what happened? Did you hurt your leg?"
Kong Lingwen’s cheeks flushed with an unnatural red. Yang Cheng answered calmly, "She twisted her ankle, that’s all. No big deal. I’ll massage it for her later and it’ll be fine."
Da Shan let out a breath of relief. "That’s good then. Oh right, Brother Cen, Er Laizi ca looking for you just now, wanted to ask when you could treat him."
"Go tell him to co find after lunch."
Yang Cheng replied, then carried Kong Lingwen into the room.
Ni Qingyao was nowhere to be seen in the house. Yang Cheng knew she had gone next door to take care of Yue Ying and didn’t ask further.
In fact, Ni Qingyao knew the two of them would need to tidy up when they got back, and it would be awkward for her to stay in the room, so she went over to Yue Ying’s place and chatted with her for a while.
Last night the two of them had been drenched in sweat, completely forgetting heaven and earth. Yang Cheng’s body still reeked of sweat. After putting Kong Lingwen on the bed, he imdiately boiled a big pot of water.
He moved the wooden tub into the room and held Kong Lingwen in his arms as they took a lovers’ bath together.
After toiling all night, Kong Lingwen had long since been exhausted. Once they were done bathing, she drifted off into a drowsy sleep.
Right after Yang Cheng finished his lunch, Er Laizi showed up, looking embarrassed. "Little Divine Doctor, you’ve really worked hard. I heard from Da Shan that you went up the mountain early this morning to pick herbs for ."
"I... I don’t have anything good to repay you with. These two chickens and this nest of rabbits are ones I raised myself. Please, just take them."
Er Laizi spoke as he set a cage on the ground; inside was a bunch of rabbits, and the two chickens had already been slaughtered.
Yang Cheng smiled slightly. "Alright then, I won’t stand on ceremony. I’ve been tired all morning anyway, could use sothing good to eat."
Seeing he didn’t look down on his gifts, Er Laizi grinned sheepishly, though the poisonous sores all over his face made him look a bit terrifying.
Hidden Cloud Village was only so big. As soon as the villagers heard that Yang Cheng was finally going to treat Er Laizi, they all rushed over to watch the show.
To satisfy everyone’s curiosity, Yang Cheng brought out two stools and treated Er Laizi right there in the yard.
He put so dicinal herbs into a mortar, pounded them all into a paste, then spread it over Er Laizi’s face, wrapping it with gauze and leaving only his nose exposed so he could breathe.
"This dicine needs to stay on for an hour. Just sit here and hold on for a bit."
After Yang Cheng finished speaking, he lifted his head to look at the gathered villagers.
"Anyone else need treatnt?"
As soon as the words left his mouth, a plump woman in her thirties rushed out, shouting, "! I want to see the doctor."
"Ay yo! Tie Lan, you’re built like a damn ox, what kind of illness could you possibly have?"
An older auntie spoke up, and everyone around burst into laughter.
"Everyone quiet. It’s fine to watch, but don’t disturb while I’m treating people."
Yang Cheng stepped in to stop them, then looked at the woman and said gently, "It’s alright, just tell where you feel uncomfortable. Don’t hide your illness out of embarrassnt."
"Little Divine Doctor, can you help drive away the evil spirits on my body? Otherwise I’ll never get married in this lifeti."
Tie Lan’s face was full of worry, though what she said left Yang Cheng completely puzzled.
He ran his eyes up and down Tie Lan, saw no trace of any evil spirits, and asked, "What evil spirits? I don’t see any."
"Of course won have evil spirits on them. No one is willing to give Enlightennt, so I’ve dragged it out till my thirties and still haven’t married. How about you help out, Little Divine Doctor?"
As soon as Tie Lan finished, her big face turned bright red, and she looked at Yang Cheng a bit shyly.
"Ahahaha!"
"Tie Lan, your skin is too thick, asking the Little Divine Doctor to help you with that!"
"Yeah! Hurry up and go ho, stop embarrassing yourself here."
The crowd erupted in laughter again. Yang Cheng was even more confused—how did driving away evil spirits turn into her being thick-skinned?
He was just about to ask when Yun Chan walked over, displeasure written on her face. "All of you shut up. Who said you could laugh at Tie Lan? She’s just a bit on the plump side. So what if she never marries? She’s hardworking and capable; her life won’t be bad."
As soon as Yun Chan spoke, everyone imdiately fell silent; no one dared laugh anymore.
As the village chief, what she hated most was people stirring up trouble between villagers, so she always gave a bit of extra care to people like Tie Lan and Er Laizi.
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