13 The Five Days |Part 3| (2/2)

”What do you mean?” She said, as she took in the strange looks of everyone around her. Had something gone wrong? Why had her hair colour changed?

The Old poison master smiled, giving her a bowl of water to look at her reflection.

”The poison in you had affected your meridians and dantian greatly. Now that I have removed all of it, all it's side affects have disappeared as well.”

XieRong gasped at the girl in the water and she gasped back. Her wheat skin had turned a pleasant cream, her eyes had turned a deep brown like her hair and her lips had become plump and a dark peony pink.

She looked at her reflection strangely. It would take some time getting used to her new look.

Master turned to FeiHong and began to treat her.

Hui Nuo and Hui Zhen hugged their Young miss from happiness.

”Rong Jie, I'm so happy you're okay now,” Hui Zhen said, hugging XieRong's arm.

”Young miss, I'm just glad you won't have to go through that painful treatment anymore!” Hui Nuo said, hugging XieRong's head.

”Okay, okay, I get it. Now let me be!”

Hui Zhen then left XieRong to go be with FeiHong.

XieRong waited for her master to finish treating FeiHong as she made a list of the things she would have to do before they left for West province tomorrow.

The brush felt very odd in XieRong's hand as she wrote down her list. Her mother had taught her and FeiHong to write and read using wet mud and sticks. Once, XieRong remembered asking her mother why she didn't have any brushes or paper. Her mother had replied that Fa LiHua had taken away all her writing equipment so that she would not be able to write to the old general in the West province.

XieRong looked through her list with Hui Nuo by her side.

”Trade mother's jewellery, get food, get a map, get more clothes, get two daggers, pack two water skins, find someone who's going to West province,” XieRong listed.

”Do you think anything is missing?”

”No, young miss, but I'm worried. It's a one month journey to West province, and who knows how much longer it will take you to reach your Grandfather's estate. When I was with the slave traders, I heard that there are bandits on the road to west province.”

”Hm. Thanks for telling me. I'll see what I can do.”

It seemed that XieRong had a long day ahead of her tomorrow.

Soon, the old lady was done treating FeiHong who looked extremely tired.

”Feeling better?” XieRong asked as she put FeiHong on one of her thighs as she sat cross legged.

XieRong now knew how FeiHong, Hui Nuo and Hui Zhen felt when they'd seen her new look.

XieRong's eyes had widened momentarily when she saw her little sister. Her hair had turned from brown to lustrous jet black. FeiHong's eyes had turned the colour her own used to be, obsidian. FeiHong's skin didn't change as much as hers had but it obtained a slight glow which made her milk white skin more youthful, better than it's previous dry and sickly looking state.

XieRong laid FeiHong gently on a mattress and went to the old master who was storing herbs in one of her shelves.

”Master, why did the colour of my eyes and hair lighten, while those of FeiHong's darkened?”

”The poison was concentrated more in your Dantian when compared to your meridians, so your features lightened, while in FeiHong's case, the poison was concentrated more in her meridians, so her features darkened.”

XieRong felt like her hands weren't her own as she helped her master store the herbs away.

”Now, tell me why have you actually come.”

”Master, I want to learn how to feel presences and open the bond.”