Chapter 439 - Who Listens to Broken Strings (1/2)
The woman in red in the quiet hall was Huangfu Xin’er. The female disciple outside heard her cold voice and could not help but tremble, and her voice quivered as she said, “It’s Xiao Chen… Master Xiao. Now he’s over in the Fragrant Bamboo Pavilion…” Her voice was getting softer and softer.
“Boom!” Several skeletons and bones beside Huangfu Xin’er were shattered into pieces, and she bellowed, “Such audacity! Who permitted you to bring him in?” In the end, she looked up at her ten blood-red nails, and with a wave, she shattered another bunch of skeletons.
The female disciple outside was so frightened that she could not stop shaking, and she said in a quavering voice, “Empress, don’t be angry. We saw that Master Xiao was unconscious, and was in danger, that’s why we…”
“What did you say?” Huangfu Xin’er suddenly stood up, her fingernails slowly receded, and her pupils gradually changed back to her original color. The female disciple trembled and said, “We found him 1,500 meters northwards from the valley entrance. Master Xiao is unconscious, and he may have been severely injured by someone…” Before she finished speaking, the door of the hall shook and Huangfu Xin’er was already gone.
There was a bamboo forest in the south of Falling Flowers Valley. In addition to many mottled bamboos, there are patches of snow wattle flowers. When the summer solstice, the breeze blew, the bamboo leaves fluttered, and the flowers fell into the pond. The view would be scenic. This was the Fragrant Bamboo Pavilion of Heartless Palace. A bamboo house was built next to the pond at the end of the bamboo forest. It was newly built by Huangfu Xin’er a year ago. In every full moon of the month, she would come here alone to play the zither.
At this moment, in the bamboo house, Xiao Chen was still unconscious, his breath was getting weaker and weaker, and even a trace of wrinkles appeared in the corners of his eyes. The two female disciples of Heartless Palace stood in the house, both helpless and afraid to act lightly.
Suddenly, a red shadow moved in instantly, and the two female disciples immediately stood upright and said respectfully, “Empress!”
Huangfu Xin’er lifted her hand. She looked at Xiao Chen who was lying on the bed and could not help but trembled. She immediately walked over. Looking at his white hair and wrinkles at the corner of his eye, she bellowed, “How did this happen!”
The two disciples trembled, and one whispered, “The Koo-chee beast suddenly ran into the valley and pulled us there, and when we went over, we saw Master Xiao fainted under the tree. Then we brought Master Xiao in… We have made the decision without Empress’ authorization, and we’ll accept your punishment!”
Huangfu Xin’er stretched out her hand and said, “Forget it; you can step down first.”
“Yes, Empress.” The two disciples stood upright and went out. Huangfu Xin’er put her fingers on Xiao Chen’s pulse, felt his heartbeat, frowned, and turned to look at the Koo-chee beast on the bamboo chair and asked, “Who hurt him?”
“Koo-chee… Koo-chee, Koo-chee.” The Koo-chee beast shook its head.
Huangfu Xin’er frowned. “You don’t know? Or was he not hurt by someone?”
“Koo-chee…” The Koo-chee beast continued to shake its head. Huangfu Xin’er sighed. “Forget it. You go out too.”
The Koo-chee beast hummed and looked at Xiao Chen with its pair of big eyes, and finally jumped off the bamboo chair and walked out the door.
Huangfu Xin’er flicked her sleeves, closed the doors and windows, and turned her head to look at the unconscious Xiao Chen. She gently picked up his white hair, swiped it between her fingers, and touched the wrinkles on the corner of his eye with her fingertips. Her eyes were inexplicably red, but this little heartache hurt her began to take its toll on her. Her chest started to hurt violently.
It took a moment before the pain slightly eased. Huangfu Xin’er immediately lifted Xiao Chen, then she sat cross-legged behind him, her palms pressed against his back, and sent in a burst of True Qi. She immediately detected the injury. The injury was not serious, though there was still some congestion, and the internal organs did not suffer much trauma, but they seemed to be slowly failing…
“How could this be…”
Huangfu Xin’er frowned deeply and was particularly puzzled. Suddenly she remembered something. A long time ago, when the two were in their teens, there was a birthday party for Xiao Changfeng, the owner of the Xiao family. That afternoon, at about the same time as the present, the two ran to the back mountain behind the Xiao family to play, Xiao Chen went to pick flowers for her, and accidentally fell off the hillside.
At that time, Huangfu Xin’er already had some basic martial arts skills. When she inserted an internal strength into Xiao Chen’s body, she noticed that there were two special Qi in his body, alternately slowly repairing his damaged internal organs, but just now, she could not feel those two Qi.
At this moment, Huangfu Xin’er’s frown was getting deeper and deeper. She was not proficient in medicine, and she did know what was going on. She gritted her teeth and injected another True Energy into Xiao Chen’s body again to take up the roles of those two Qi and repaired his failing internal organs.
In this way, Huangfu Xin’er healed Xiao Chen’s wounds in the most stupid way, which lasted until sunset. Xiao Chen’s mouth was stained with blood as the bruised blood was forced out. Naturally, Huangfu Xin’er’s mouth was stained with blood as well and she did not look great.
When it was getting dark, Huangfu Xin’er helped him to lie on the bed and watched him for a while before she left the bamboo house and went to the entrance of the bamboo forest. When Huangfu Xin’er came out, the Koo-chee beast was outside and the two female disciples who were still guarding the entrance immediately respectfully said, “Empress.”
Huangfu Xin’er nodded and said, “Go and guard the night; I will come back tomorrow.” After that, she walked towards the direction of the Heartless Temple, after about more than 10 meter’s distances, she turned around and asked, “Right, what about Chu Lingjiao? Haven’t found her yet?”
The two disciples froze, and one bowed her head and said, “We will surely find this rebellious thief as soon as possible!”
Huangfu Xin’er did not speak, but her eyes gradually became cold, making the two disciples as quiet as a mouse. After a while later, she said, “By the way, this person acts carefully. Before she fully understands the fourth volume of the mind cultivation method, she will not show up.”