Chapter 76 - Unblocking Meridians (2/2)
A palm was pressed against his back and Ling Zhang’s heart lurched on this physical contact.
“Stay cool and concentrate your mind. You’ll feel a little uncomfortable later on. Just hang in there.”
After these words, Yuwen Tong became serious. He confirmed that Ling Zhang was ready, and then mobilized his internal energy and slowly sent it into Ling Zhang’s body. His Qi started circulating in Ling Zhang’s meridians bit by bit.
Ling Zhang began to feel numb, itchy and painful all over. When that mysterious stream of warmth went through some joints of meridians, the pain was so unbearable that he felt as if numerous ants were gnawing at his heart. Ling Zhang’s face blushed scarlet and he gritted his teeth against the agony.
Those positions were probably those partially blocked acupoints in his meridians network that Yuwen Tong had mentioned. Yuwen Tong was using his internal energy to slowly expand them, which was definitely not an enjoyable process.
Ling Zhang was sweating buckets. As the stream of warmth circulated inside him, the medicine contained in the water began to permeate into his body again, which made the numbness, itch and pains intensify. Blue veins stood out on his forehead.
Yuwen Tong was also sweating profusely. He knew Ling Zhang was in anguish, but he didn’t pause for a single instant.
Vapor in the bathroom was getting thicker and thicker. When it thickened to a certain degree, it suddenly began dissolving at a gentle pace. The medicine carried by the vapor was slowly absorbed by Ling Zhang worming its way into his body.
As time pa.s.sed bit by bit, Ling Zhang’s mouth was filled with taste of blood due to tightly gritted teeth. Fighting against agony had cost him so much mental strength that his consciousness began to blur. The only thing he could feel was the mixture of numbness, itch and pain.
The water was gradually becoming cleaner. When it became completely clean, Yuwen Tong finally stopped.
Ling Zhang’s tense nerves abruptly relaxed and he blacked out falling backwards.
Yuwen Tong hurriedly stretched out his hand and caught him. Heedless of the fact that both of them were nearly naked, he held unconscious Ling Zhang in his arms, stood up from the bathing pool, and took a piece of soft thick cotton cloth to wrap him up before carrying him out of the warm-room.
The moment Xia Feng waiting outside saw Yuwen Tong, who was half naked and holding Ling Zhang in his arms, walk out, he immediately hurried over and asked in anxiety, “What happened to my childe?”
Yuwen Tong glanced at him and said, “The medicine was too potent for him to withstand and he pa.s.sed out. Get him some clean clothes.”
Xia Feng was unwilling to leave, since he didn’t know Yuwen Tong well enough to place trust in him.
“Hurry,” Yuwen Tong looked at him with piercing eyes.
Xia Feng felt a s.h.i.+ver from head to toe. Eventually, he still obeyed and went to look for clean clothes for Ling Zhang.
Yuwen Tong carried Ling Zhang into an inner room, put him down on the bed and wiped him dry with a piece of cloth.
When Xia Feng returned, he quickly covered Ling Zhang with a quilt and said with a sullen look on his face, “Put the clothes down and get out.”
“My lord, please let me take care of my childe.”
“Get lost.”
Xia Feng had an intense feeling of pressure once again, which was even more intense than the one he had had a while before, and which nearly caused him to lose his footing. Gritting his teeth, he eventually chose to draw back step by step, but he stopped in the corridor between the inner room and the ante-room, silently standing there staring fixedly at the bed behind a curtain in the distance.
Naturally, Yuwen Tong had sensed that Xia Feng didn’t really leave the room. But there was a distance between them as well as a curtain which made it impossible for him to have a clear view of the inner room, so he said no more.
He lifted the quilt, took off Ling Zhang’s wet pants and after that he was briefly transfixed, unable to move his eyes.
After a while he took a piece of cotton cloth, wiped Ling Zhang dry, quickly clothed him in clean clothes and tucked him in.
He removed Ling Zhang’s hair stick, reached out and felt his forehead as well as his pulse. After confirming that everything was steady, he stuffed Ling Zhang’s hand back under the quilt, stood up and left the bedside.
When walking past Xia Feng, he said, “Keep a close eye on him tonight. If anything happens, come to the Green Bamboo Mansion to inform me immediately.”
“Yes,” Xia Feng slightly lowered his head and answered.
Yuwen Tong retrieved his clothes from the bathroom and left.
Xia Feng hastily walked to the bed and checked Ling Zhang. It was not until he confirmed that Ling Zhang was fine that he exhaled in relief and wiped the sweat off his brow.
Just now, the aura about that man was so horrifying that he could barely bear it. His young master would surely be angry with him the next day if he knew that he was so useless. Fortunately, he had eventually managed to withstand it.
Well aware that he couldn’t afford to let anything go awry, Xia Feng stayed on the bed in the outer room keeping watch at night himself.
After returning to the Green Bamboo Mansion, Yuwen Tong took a bath, changed his clothes, picked up a doc.u.ment on the desk and started reading, sparing part of his attention for the room next door.
It was fairly cold at night. Yao Yi put a thick cape on him and said, “Marshal, let me keep watch here. I promise I’ll inform you if anything happens to childe. Why don’t you go and have some sleep?”
Xia Feng had just woken up when he heard Ling Zhang’s voice. He was just about to go inside to check when a figure flashed past him and entered the room before him.
Watching Yuwen Tong who had abruptly shown up, he widened his mouth in shock.
Ling Zhang knitted his eyebrows as if in pain, and his limbs briefly twitched.
Yuwen Tong held him in his arms and started giving him a ma.s.sage. The ma.s.sage seemed to be very effective. Gradually, Ling Zhang’s body relaxed and his eyebrows unknitted. Against Yuwen Tong’s chest, he resumed his deep sleep.
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