Quick Wear: True and False Life

"Can I ask how good Miss Gu's martial arts are?" Wei Jingming asked hesitantly.

"At the beginning of last month, my martial arts skills advanced to the fourth level of foundation building." Quan Wenyou said proudly.

"What is foundation building?"

“The existing martial arts secrets are divided into nine levels. After practicing to the extreme of the ninth level, you will reach the first level of foundation building after sudden enlightenment and advanced marrow cleansing. I heard Chuchu say that the peak carrying capacity of this plane is the ninth level of foundation building. After breaking through the great perfection of foundation building and entering the golden elixir stage, you can break through the void and enter other planes.” As he spoke, Quan Wenyou turned around and saw the stunned expressions of Wei Jingming and Tan Yanhui.

“Haha…ha…, your expressions are just as stupid as when I first heard it.” Quan Wenyou pointed at the two of them and laughed, as if this could restore his dignity when he was mocked.

Wei Jingming and Tan Yanhui were speechless because of his laughter, but they felt that it was okay to be laughed at since they could hear so much useful information. Later, the three of them walked and stopped until they found a food stall halfway up the mountain, intending to wait for Gu Nan and Wang Jinghao who had fallen behind.

Gu Nan and Wang Jinghao were standing in front of a boy who was holding a wooden basin with a five-colored flower with three slender leaves. Gu Nan didn't recognize the flower when she saw it, so she asked the system to scan it and confirmed that it was a medicinal herb, and she decided to buy it.

After carefully examining the herbs, the two looked at the boy. He was very thin and had a yellowish complexion, which showed that he was malnourished. He was wearing a tattered shirt that had turned white from washing, and a pair of shoes that were too small for him, with his big toe sticking out. As the two of them were watching the flowers he was holding, he seemed even more nervous. It must be his first time selling flowers.

"How much do you sell these flowers for?" Gu Nan asked softly after looking at them.

"One...one tael of silver," the boy said nervously, holding the flowers in one hand and raising a finger with the other hand, then quickly lowered his head.

"This flower has wilted, it's not worth that much. I can only give you 100 coins. Will you sell it to me?"

"Sell," the boy said after a long silence.

"Then follow me and help me deliver it."

The boy followed them in silence for a while until they came to a deserted tree.

"Where did you find this flower? Do you still have it?" After Gu Nan and the others stopped, they found a stone under a tree to sit on and said to the boy.

"I picked them from the cliff behind my house. There are still a lot of them on the cliff, but I can't pick the others."

"Can you take me there? You decide the conditions. I said I would only give you a hundred coins because I was afraid you would be targeted by someone and you might not only lose the money but also hurt someone."

"I want you to hire a good doctor. My mother is sick. Even if I have money, I may not be able to hire a doctor to see her. Please, young lady."

"Okay, we'll go there later. Jingran, go to the front and say hello to Quan Wenyou so he won't have to wait."

"Okay, don't run around, I'll be back soon." After Wang Jinghao said this, the person who jumped disappeared from the boy's sight, making him very envious.

He also hopes that he has martial arts skills so that he can protect his mother and himself from being bullied.

"Chu Chu, are you hungry? I brought you some pastries." Wang Jinghao came back after a while.

"Chu Chu, I'll go wherever you go." Quan Wenyou came back and said after standing still, followed by Wei Jingming and Tan Yanhui.

"Chu Chu, ignore him, he just went there to see something strange." Wang Jinghao looked at the questioning look in Gu Nan's eyes and answered as he sat down.

"Oh! Then Mr. Wei and Mr. Tan will also join us?" Gu Nan took the cake, gave a piece to the boy and whispered to him, "You eat too." After saying that, he turned to Wei Jingming and Tan Yanhui and said.

"We plan to go and have a look together." Wei Jingming had asked the secret guards to go back and prepare silver and gifts when Quan Wenyou suggested buying the elixir, and they would only visit after they returned this time. Now that his worries were settled, he relaxed and had nothing to do, so he wanted to go with them to have a look.

"Okay then, let's go see the boy's mother first, and then go to the cliff to look for this kind of flower." Gu Nan said, pointing at the flowers on the ground.

"We'll talk about this on the way. Drink some water first, and don't choke." Wang Jinghao opened the water bag and handed it to Gu Nan.

"Jingran, eat too!"

They ate and talked like this. After the meal, Gu Nan waited for Bai Qi to come back and went down the mountain together. He rode the horse and took the boy to the village where he lived. Along the way, Bai Qi's unique appearance attracted Wei Jingming and Tan Yanhui to look at it frequently, and Quan Wenyou also satisfied their curiosity.

When they arrived at the boy's house, they could only hear coughing coming from the door from time to time, which made people feel nervous. The boy got off his horse and ran back to the shabby house. He comforted his mother and said that he had met a noble person when selling flowers. When he found another noble person, he would hire a good doctor for her and he would definitely be able to cure her. But his mother weakly told him to be careful and not to take risks if he couldn't find one.

Gu Nan released Bai Qi into the forest and followed him in. It was inconvenient for the others to wait outside the house. After she went in, she looked at the woman and said.

"I just asked him to lead the way. There's no need to find a doctor! Stretch out your hand and let me take a look at it for you." Gu Nan said as she asked the woman to stretch out her hand so that she could feel her pulse and see the situation.

The woman felt relieved after hearing this. As long as her son was not put at risk, she was not worried. She knew her physical condition very well and was afraid that she would not survive, so she let Gu Nan feel her pulse. As for what she was thinking, perhaps only she knew.

"Don't lose heart, there is still hope. At most, she will be in excruciating pain for a while. But you have to hold on for your son, right?" After taking the pulse, Gu Nan thought that it was just as she had guessed, that she was poisoned by the heart-eating poison, so she asked the boy to help her mother sit up so that she could treat her later.

"Jingran, go get a basin of water." She looked at the little boy and thought he was too young to control, so she shouted outside the door.

Wang Jinghao looked around the broken house and turned to leave. After a while, a villager brought Wang Jinghao's purchases. There were a lot of things, including food and vegetables. After the villagers left, Wang Jinghao came back with a bucket of water, poured half a basin of water into the house, and said suggestively: "Chu Chu, I'm coming in?"

"Come in." Gu Nan was listening to the woman telling her story at the moment, and said when he heard it.

After Wang Jinghao entered, he followed Gu Nan's instruction and placed the basin of water on the ground in front of the bed for later use, then stood behind Gu Nan. After all, apart from the board that could be called a bed, the only other thing in the room was the wooden stool on which Gu Nan was sitting.

The story did not end here. The three people outside the door listened while packing their things. It turned out that the woman was called Tian Xiangqin, a daughter of an official. She went out for a banquet and was framed and fell into the water. She had physical contact with Master Yu and was forced to marry into the Yu family. Later, her husband met a woman outside. The woman put a spell on her and forced her to divorce in order to gain his position as wife. For this reason, she could not return to her parents' home. Her husband was also a bastard. He actually listened to the woman's pillow talk and didn't even want their child Yu Mingyang. The mother and her husband moved to many places and came here to spend the rest of their lives, but they could not let go of their son and have been holding on until now.

Gu Nan didn't need to prepare anything. After listening to the woman's story and just as he was about to treat her, Wei Jingming quickly put down what he was holding.