36 Accomplice (1/2)

Qin Fuhua decided to trail Suyin behind, not letting her know that he was stealthily following her. It seemed to him that her spirits were lifted back up after talking to her, so she bustled off to her destination. Qin Fuhua had to keep her distance from her so that he could find out where she was staying. Every time she took a turn to a corner, Qin Fuhua had to hide behind a wall, pottery, or cart to make sure that she wouldn't discover him at the corner of her eye.

The two soon reached the gates of Junli's manor. Although she crossed by the entrance and made a sharp turn to the left, Qin Fuhua took a glimpse at what she was doing: the lady raised the bamboo ladder from layers of stacked hay and climbed up the roof and bounced down to the other side after she took the ladder to the other side of the manor.

Qin Fuhua was curious about the identity of her savior since she wouldn't have possibly known someone in a higher rank due to her unfamiliarity with the city (based on the manor that he was living in). He secretly flew over to hide behind a large tree to see the maid that Qin Fuhua had been following!

”Sir Shu, the young master Junli is waiting for you in his room,” Jiayi declared. Suyin grinned as she nodded her head, with Qin Fuhua observing from afar. He examined their actions. Suyin lifted a small black bag about the size of a coin bag (Junli's medicine) and walked to knock on the sliding door.

”That stupid idiot. Does she not know how to take care of herself?”

Qin Fuhua was disturbed that she was barging into a random person's room. Although Qin Fuhua wanted to investigate more and find out about what was going on with Suyin, he had to go back to attend the pighead in the brothel.

With one last look back at the manor, he hopped over to the outside of the manor and walked back to the brothel.

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”I'm here with medicine,” Suyin lifted the black little bag. ”Oh, and Shao Feng will be spending the night at his mother's place. There was a little problem that needs to be fixed.”

Junli was sitting up this time, putting his weight on the right side of the bed. Although it looked like he had more energy than the day before, his face still appeared to be pale than ever.

”That's fine by me.”

He glanced at her appearance. Although Suyin was dressed up as a medicine man, she still looked gracefully stunning in the outfit. He had to shake off the reminder that she was a married woman and aimed at the table about five feet away from him with his eyes, ”Do you mind putting the medicine on the table and lay it out? I will be there by then.” Junli softly requested. Suyin nodded her head, ”Mn”

She headed straight to the table to lay out the little black bag. The bag had a couple of things in there: dried poisonous scorpion, small herbal plants that looked like buds of a flower, little balls of what looked like dried pill bugs, and finely grounded green herbs.

From her guess, the medicine that Junli has been taking is critically important for his health. Poison? Herbs? It could only mean one thing: fighting against the Yin and Yang in his body.

Suyin had studied about this while she was trained by Wansun, a good friend of hers she had met that was a medicine scholar.

*Mini flashback when Suyin stayed over at Wansun's place*

”In our body, we have a Yin and a Yang. Without either one of them, our body will not properly function well. They are the function in our body, being the Yin as the organ and the Yang as our function of the organ.”

Suyin had a scroll about the body's function as a Yin and Yang.

”Some poison will be given as a treatment to balance the body out. The only circumstance that this would happen is when the person is seriously ill and need to have a negative effect to hinder the illness.”

*end of flashback*

Someone knocked on the door as Suyin swung her head to see who it was.

”Come in,” Junli stated. A maid carried a wooden tray with her. A small, white porcelain pot was in the center of the tray. ”Place it on the table and leave,” Junli added.

He deliberately held himself up, enough to hold back his groan.

After putting the tray on the table, the maid hurried out.

”I know there's a lot to process, but this is what I have to deal with every day,” Junli remarked, trying to laugh it off as he sat on a chair next to Suyin.

Suyin didn't respond to him, modestly sitting there with no emotion on her face.

”Hey..... hello?” He leaned a bit forward to look at her face. ”Are you okay?” He inquired, wondering if there was something wrong with her.

”With an illness so serious as this, why are you taking this so lightly?” Suyin abruptly blurted out, her eyes directly looking at his now.

”What do you mean?” Junli leaned back this time with her sudden outburst.

”Looking at all of these medicines, having to take it every single day... it has to mean one thing only: your illness is incurable!”

Junli was surprised at her prediction. How did she know that he had an incurable disease?

”Wait... did you just figure that out by looking at all of the medicine that was in the bag?”

Suyin bit her lip and nodded her head. ”Mn. There's poison that's working against other herbals that are good for you.”

Junli's eyes lit up. ”I knew you were a great person! It was a good idea to have you pick up the medicine!” he excitedly said, standing up from his seat. As he stood up, he could feel the immense pain at his back, causing his butt to slowly fall back to the seat.

”What do you mean by that?” Suyin questioned. ”A good idea to have me pick up the medicine?”

”According to the way how you dealt with the wound and your gentle, caring nature, I had a feeling that you have some knowledge in medicine.” He said, all proud. His smile never left his face throughout this whole time.

”So, what do you have?” Suyin questioned, putting all the herbal in the teapot.

”Nothing much....” the smile that was on his face began to fade into a little pout. ”Ever since I was born, the doctors couldn't find out what was wrong with me. The doctors cannot figure what is wrong with me but all they know is that I was not allowed to go out during the day because of the sun.” Junli stated, pouring the medicine in the teacup.

”I've always hated drinking these.” He said before taking a whole gulp of the medicine. He made a sour expression before continuing, ”I've tried to go out in the sun before, but red dots appear all over my body.” Junli laughed, remembering something in the past, ”I nearly died because I couldn't even breathe too!” He said, shaking his head.

Suyin began to put the pieces of the puzzle together. ”That explains all of the layers of clothing you wear to go out. Not to mention how white your skin is.” Suyin blurted out without thinking.

”Most likely.... maybe a sun allergy. Solar urticaria?” Suyin thought to herself. It was the only crime to the illness that correlates with the problem. There was no doubt that he would have to take the medicine if he wanted to go out. There would be consequences after all.

Junli chuckled, shaking his head. ”That's only if I take this medicine. Without this nasty stuff, though, I wouldn't bear to get out of here without breathing or having these red bumps on my body.” He then silently watched her, with a bitter grin this time.

”Because of this disease though, I grew further apart from my father” Junli added on.

Suyin gazed at him, disregarding the disease.

”When I was a bit younger, a couple of years back, I heard that my Uncle Jianhong and his wife tried poisoned my father.”