Looking at Ye Feng before him, Village Chief Li Qiang couldn't help but recall his grandfather—Old Master Ye.
It was just ten years ago that Old Master Ye took the opportunity of treating an illness to seduce a young wife from the neighboring village and slept with her, provoking over twenty young men from that village to come and make trouble. In the end, Old Master Ye slapped each one to the floor.
Furthermore, after he knocked them down, all these twenty-some young men became mute and couldn't speak. It wasn't until they each kowtowed to Old Master Ye that they recovered their ability to talk.
Although it was improper for Old Master Ye, at his advanced age, to have slept with another man's young wife, in terms of his abilities, there was no one within ten miles who didn't respect him, especially his medical skills, which were held in high esteem.
It was for this reason that Village Chief Li Qiang insisted on bringing Ye Feng over.
With a silver needle pinched between his fingers, Ye Feng lifted Han Xiaoyun's clothes at her abdomen and inserted the silver needle.
Ye Feng's hands didn't stop as he inserted a total of nine silver needles in succession, and Han Xiaoyun's flushed face gradually returned to normal.
The toxins had been gathered in one place and would be excreted from the body with the feces.
As Ye Feng pulled out the silver needles and was about to help her straighten her clothes, Han Xiaoyun's eyelids twitched, and she opened her eyes. The moment she saw Ye Feng, her expression turned ugly, and she snapped, "You scoundrel, what are you doing here?"
As she spoke, she turned over but when she saw her clothes lifted at her abdomen, her expression grew even uglier.
What shameless thing had this scoundrel done to her?
After having been seen by Ye Feng relieving herself in the mountains previously, Han Xiaoyun had already branded him a scoundrel in her heart. Just as she was about to explode with anger, she noticed that aside from this scoundrel, the Village Chief, Zhao Dafu, and Wang Jun, who was lying on the ground, were also in the room.
Li Qiang stepped forward and asked, "Teacher Han, how do you feel now?"
"I'm fine..."
Han Xiaoyun rubbed her temples but kept her eyes fixed on Ye Feng.
It seemed Li Qiang noticed something, and he chuckled, "Did you eat something you shouldn't have, got food poisoning? It was Ye Feng who saved you."
"I just ate some mushrooms, could it be..."
Han Xiaoyun scratched her head and was speaking, but before she could finish, Ye Feng interjected, "If you don't recognize poisonous mushrooms, don't eat them recklessly. Be careful or they may poison you to death; you might not be so lucky next time."
Han Xiaoyun immediately fired back, angered, "You scoundrel, don't think I will be grateful just because you saved me!"
"Returning kindness with resentment, some teacher you are," Ye Feng said, shrugging his shoulders. He wasn't one to quarrel with women, but this girl calling him a 'scoundrel' over and over again was really irritating. Even if he was a scoundrel, when had he ever smelled bad, when?
"You!"
Han Xiaoyun pointed at him, at a loss for words.
Li Qiang asked with puzzlement, "Xiao Han, do you have some kind of misunderstanding about Ye Feng?"
"Misunderstanding? This scoundrel, he peeped at..."
Han Xiaoyun spoke in exasperation, but stopped abruptly, thinking that she couldn't possibly disclose such an embarrassing thing!
Feeling the strange looks from Li Qiang and the others, Han Xiaoyun felt insecure, her face heating up. Her complexion, which had just returned to normal, turned red once again, not from being poisoned this time, but from shame...
"He peeped? Peeped at what?"
Da Fu, standing on the side, looked at Han Xiaoyun with a puzzled face, his curiosity piqued by her words.
With her face blushing all the way to the neck, though Han Xiaoyun had reacted quickly and had not revealed the situation, Da Fu's question made her feel an infinite sense of embarrassment deep inside.
Although Li Qiang and Zhao Dafu did not understand what Ye Feng had supposedly peeped at, the guilty Han Xiaoyun always felt that they must have guessed it.
Thinking this, her face turned even redder with shame.
Seeing that Han Xiaoyun remained silent for a long time, Ye Feng on the side was starting to find it hard to contain himself.
"If things continue this way, the village chief and the others will definitely think I've done something beastly and indecent to Han Xiaoyun, so shameful that she can't speak of it. If that's the case, then my reputation as a gentleman would be destroyed in an instant.
No, absolutely not!
Ye Feng quickly stepped forward and said, "Peeping? Teacher Han, you're really using the wrong words. I admit, I did see you relieving yourself that day, but that was purely by chance. You went into the mountains to pick mushrooms, and I went to gather herbs, and just happened to..."
"You... you shut up! Shut up!"
Before Ye Feng could finish his sentence, Han Xiaoyun, with her face flushed with embarrassment, screamed out loud.
Seeing her so annoyed, Ye Feng realized it was indeed inappropriate to speak of seeing her relieve herself in front of Li Qiang and the others.
"Ahem..."
Ye Feng cleared his throat and said, "Regardless, I absolutely did not peep!"
"You're still talking!"
With her face red, and puffing with anger, Han Xiaoyun pointed towards the door and coldly snorted, "You hooligan, just get out, I'll pretend it was a dog that saw me."
Upon hearing this, Ye Feng immediately felt indignant—
"Look here, Xiao Han, I call you 'teacher' out of respect, but don't push it. You relieving yourself marred my pure eyes, and I didn't hold it against you. Now, I've saved your life, and instead of showing gratitude, you repay me with accusations, calling me a hooligan. I've let that slide too, but you..."
"You shameless jerk, you… you still have the nerve to talk!"
Han Xiaoyun cut him off again, her chest heaving with fury as she pointed at Ye Feng's nose and scolded, "What do you mean I marred your eyes? Am I that unsightly? You'd better apologize to me today, or I won't let this go!"
She had been beautiful since she was young and had always been the object of pursuit by all the boys; no one had ever spoken ill of her.
But now, this bastard Ye Feng actually dared to say that she had marred his eyes!
Marred!
How despicable was the implication of those words?
Shameless hooligan!
It was clearly me who was at a disadvantage, okay?
Han Xiaoyun had the impulse to strangle Ye Feng even though, in her heart, she also felt grateful that he saved her life. However, one thing was one thing, and what Ye Feng had said infuriated her immensely.
Seeing Han Xiaoyun with eyes that seemed ready to shoot fire, Ye Feng shrugged and said, "Alright, alright, you haven't marred my eyes. It's your ethereal aura that has cleansed my tainted soul, you're flawless from head to toe."
"You... you!"
Han Xiaoyun, grinding her teeth, pointed at him with a face full of rage, nearly choking with anger.
Initially, Han Xiaoyun rather enjoyed Ye Feng's initial remarks, but as he went on, they felt increasingly off, especially the last sentence, which almost prompted her to bite him—
She nearly enunciated each word, seething, "Bastard! You're nothing but a bastard!"
Ye Feng, with disdain, shrugged, "That's right, I am a bastard, and just for your information, I even have a government-issued certificate of a bastard, want to see it?"
"You!"
Han Xiaoyun was at a loss for words.
He even admits he's a bastard, what more could she say?
And just then, Ye Feng looked at her with a face full of disdain, "What now, you disagree?!"
"You… just get out! Get out!"
Han Xiaoyun could no longer tolerate it and pointed towards the doorway as she yelled furiously."