Chapter 77 Sense of Security (2/2)

Zhou Donghuang shook his head. “No.”

“Medicine Master Zhou, you look just one or two years older than me… can I call you ‘Brother Zhou’? You don’t have to address me as Lady Yang either, just ‘Zixi’ will do,” said Yang Zixi with a smile.

“Sure,” said Zhou Donghuang with a nod. To him, it didn’t matter.

“Brother Zhou, my… how can I treat it?” As she remembered the hidden illness that the young man had mentioned earlier, Yang Zixi was embarrassed. Her cheeks flushed red.

“Yours is just a small illness… once the golden needles are ready, I’ll do some acupuncture on you, and you’ll be fine,” Zhou Donghuang said dismissively. “But you must make sure to rest and monitor your emotions to prevent it from coming back.”

“As for you…” Zhou Donghuang looked at the lady behind the young girl. “Tomorrow morning, come and collect your prescription from me… if you take the medicine for three days, your pain will subside. After a month, your hidden illness will be treated,” he said.

“Thank you, Medicine Master Zhou,” the lady thanked him profusely, her face full of joy.

“Aunt Mei, you get back to work first… I’ll stay here and talk to Brother Zhou,” the young girl said to the lady.

“Yes, Ma’am,” the lady said as she left.

After the lady had left, the young girl was about to kneel before Zhou Donghuang but was stopped by him. He asked with a frown, “What are you doing?”

“Brother Zhou, I want to thank you for treating my uncle,” said the girl.

“You don’t have to thank me.” Zhou Donghuang shook his head. “I helped to detoxify your chief only because of your Yang family’s ten-year survival weed.”

“Brother Zhou, not just one stalk of the weed, even ten stalks of the ten-year survival weed would not be enough to repay your help,” said the girl seriously. “Saving my uncle is akin to saving our whole Yang family!”

If her uncle died from this poison, the whole Yang family would go from a grand family to just a preeminent family and lose all of their current glory. Of course, she did not care whether the family was a grand or preeminent family. As long as her uncle was fine, even if the Yang family became a lesser family, she could accept it. All she cared about was her uncle’s health.

“And I kneel not on behalf of the family, but as myself.” Finally, the girl insisted on kneeling down and kowtowing to Zhou Donghuang. “Since my parents passed away when I was young, my uncle raised me. To me, he’s my father.”

Seeing the stubbornness on the girl’s face, even Zhou Donghuang was moved. Chen Dandan could hardly compare to this young girl.

“Don’t worry. As long as your second elder prepares the needles within three days, your uncle will be fine.” Zhou Donghuang helped the young girl up. This time, his tone was gentler than before. In some ways, the young girl had earned his recognition.

“Thank you, Brother Zhou.” In Yang Zixi’s memory, this was the first time that she had been in such close contact with a man. Instantly, she blushed even redder. Usually, she disliked those rich playboys and steered clear of them, but she felt no animosity towards this young man in front of her.

In fact, after he had helped her up and let go of her, she had felt a strong sense of disappointment. When he had helped her up, although she did not understand why, she felt a strong sense of security as if she did have to fear anything as long as she had the young man by her side. Once the young man had stepped away, this sense of security had dissipated, and in that moment, she felt as if she was just a lone boat in the middle of the vast ocean, with nobody to depend on.

“Brother Zhou, where are you from?” Furthermore, the young man’s abilities had filled her with admiration. She was curious about where someone like him had come from.

“Yunfeng prefecture,” said Zhou Donghuang.

“Yunfeng prefecture?” Yang Zixi was shocked because she had never heard of such a prefecture. Within Yunyang country, she knew all the superior and intermediate prefectures, but she was not as familiar with the inferior prefectures. “Brother Zhou, are you not from Yunyang country?”

Yang Zixi had not imagined that Zhou Donghuang had come from an inferior prefecture, because she believed that an inferior prefecture could not possibly have produced a man of such caliber. She thought that Zhou Donghuang had come from another country.