Chapter 105: Chapter 105 Hallucinations
Several days later, they finally arrived at Northern Ridge.
As the supervisor, Qu Wei naturally returned to his own supervision station.
Qi Yue continued to escort Huang Zai’an back to the valley.
Little Shanzi was a clever spirit; when Prefectural Magistrate Hu’s n ca looking for him, he ran away, and therefore was not taken back to the Longnan County Governnt.
The reunion of teacher and student certainly had its joys.
Once everything was settled, seeing that Qi Yue had yet to visit the Zhao Family, Huang Zai’an leisurely strolled over.
“Why haven’t you left yet? The lodging conditions here aren’t nearly as good as your man’s house.”
Qi Yue paused montarily, continuing her work at hand.
This ti, from the Longnan County Governnt, a lot of items were arranged for Huang Zai’an, and taking advantage of the number of people around, they were all brought over.
Quilts, clothes, etc., much had been procured.
“Master, why don’t you co back with ? Didn’t my adoptive father ntion that he could approve of opening a pharmacy? You could help out.”
“Old man isn’t going anywhere. A golden nest, a silver nest, none are as good as my own dog’s nest,” Huang Zai’an took a swig from his flask of Spiritual Spring Water and glared at Qi Yue.
“Hey, don’t change the subject. Why haven’t you gone yet?”
He glanced at the bedding and quilt cover that had already been tidied up, “Just how long do you plan to dawdle over such a trivial task? If you don’t go now, does your man still want his leg treated or not?”
“…Master, how about I go tomorrow?” Qi Yue hesitated.
At this mont, she wanted to see Zhao Xiyan imdiately, but was also afraid to see him too soon.
Because she hadn’t yet adjusted her excitent at the prospect of eting him, in case she saw him, she feared she would lose control.
“No way, go now!” Huang Zai’an rudely snatched the bedding she had already organized several tis out of her hands and tossed it aside.
“Get going quickly. Don’t you want your man to stand up sooner?”
“We’ve already divorced; he’s no longer my man.”
“Even if you’ve divorced, if you want to be with him, you can remarry, can’t you? What’s so hard about that? Or shall your master speak for you?”
As Huang Zai’an spoke, he was already walking outside.
Qi Yue hurriedly went forward and pulled him back.
“Master, you absolutely must not go. The matter between him and can only be resolved by ourselves.”
“Really don’t want your master to speak for you?”
“Really, not now or ever.”
“Why?”
“If others speak for us to reconcile, how would our relationship be any different from all other husbands and wives in this world? I would rather not have such a relationship.”
Huang Zai’an mumbled to himself as if he half understood.
“How co you, girl, are unlike anyone else?”
“I’m Qi Yue, the one and only Qi Yue.”
Qi Yue laughed, and imdiately felt the layer of unease in her heart vanish.
Yes, there was nothing to be uneasy about.
She would simply et him with a normal state of mind, as if he were a family mber.
Thinking this way, she imdiately bid farewell to Huang Zai’an and headed towards the Zhao family’s wooden house.
More than one Shichen later, as the sun was about to set, she finally reached the end of the forest to the east. There was a small path there, which led to the view of the wooden house.
Qi Yue quickly arrived at the small path and indeed saw the last rays of the setting sun resting on the roof of the wooden house.
While she was still hesitating how to make her appearance, she saw several indigenous people in front of the wooden house, sneaking peeks around and seemingly up to no good.
Without further thought, she imdiately rushed up and knocked down two of them. Another indigenous person suddenly started shouting loudly.
Then she saw Shen Yu poke her head out of the house.
These tribal people, upon seeing Shen Yu, quickly placed so wild vegetables at the entrance of the courtyard and took off running.
Qi Yue was puzzled about what was going on when Shen Yu excitedly approached.
“…Yueyue…Yueyue, is it really you?”
“…” Qi Yue instinctively opened her mouth to call out ‘Mother’, but then rembered she was divorced from Zhao Xiyan and by all accounts shouldn’t call her that, so she just humd an acknowledgnt.
“Mother has missed you to death!” Shen Yu hugged her tightly, her tears falling onto Qi Yue’s clothing.
It was a hot day, and she had changed into a lighter garnt.
“Why did it take you so long to co? Mother missed you so much…”
Qi Yue did not know how to respond to her enthusiastic and emotional forr mother-in-law, and could only let herself be embraced woodenly.
Soon, the Zhao Family mbers ca out as well.
Zhao Shuanghua, Zhao Shuangyue and the other two young ladies, just like Shen Yu, were especially teary-eyed.
Qi Yue felt like her outer garnt had turned into their tear container.
Cong Zhonglan also ca over, pushing two children ahead of her, calling her “Yueyue” with tears streaming down her face.
Fortunately, she did not pour out her tears on Qi Yue as Shen Yu and the others had done.
Zhao Yongzhe and Zhao Yonglian also ca over, both of them looking excited and happy.
After chatting for a while, Cong Zhonglan said she had learned a new way to cook wild vegetables and wanted to make so for her, pulling Zhao Shuanghua and the others to the kitchen.
Qi Yue looked around several tis, but saw no sign of Zhao Xiyan and finally couldn’t restrain herself.
“…Uh, where’s Zhao Xiyan? Why haven’t I seen him?” As soon as Zhao Xiyan’s na ca up, the faces of Shen Yu and the others instantly fell.
Zhao Yonglian sighed and said, “I don’t know what’s gotten into that child, he’s beco more and more reclusive, barely speaking all day, just staying in the back courtyard. No amount of calling can make him move, not even wind or rain can persuade him to co inside…”
Shen Yu simply dabbed at her tears.
Zhao Yongzhe took over the conversation, detailing what had happened after she left, which wasn’t much different from what Huang Zai’an had told her previously.
The only difference was that after Zhao Xiyan had thoroughly dealt with the natives, not only did they stop interfering with their slash-and-burn farming, they even started bringing over wild vegetables and sotis even helped out with their work.
Even the wood they needed to hand over in these past few months had been chopped and carried over by the natives.
Qi Yue finally realized why she had seen the native bringing vegetables earlier.
It seed that Zhao Xiyan had frightened them into submission.
Finally, after Shen Yu wiped her tear-stained face for a while and cald down sowhat.
She clutched Qi Yue’s hand, almost pleadingly, “Yueyue, it’s good that you’re here. Yanyan will listen to you. Please convince him to pull himself together for Mother, will you?”
Qi Yue thought that Zhao Xiyan must have felt hopeless about getting back on his feet after she left, making him despondent. She imdiately agreed.
“Don’t worry, I found so dicinal herbs on my trip. Once he’s able to stand again, things will be better.”
When they heard Qi Yue had a way to help Zhao Xiyan stand again, everyone was overjoyed and hurriedly pushed her to the back courtyard to find him.
At this mont, in the pavilion in the back courtyard, Zhao Xiyan was staring blankly at the darkening sky in the distance.
Suddenly, his ears twitched, and a gleam of light flashed through his dull, lifeless eyes.
He listened intently, but that haunting voice seed to disappear like the wind once again.
“Ha, I’m hallucinating again.”
He didn’t know when he had developed this problem of auditory hallucinations.
He would often hear Qi Yue coming back, calling his na from afar.
“Zhao Xiyan!”
At first, he would excitedly wheel himself out to greet her, only to realize he’d heard wrong.
After many disappointnts, he learned his lesson and stopped going out.
He tightened the grip of the hand resting on his right knee and gave a bitter smile inwardly. She probably wouldn’t co back anymore.
“Zhao Xiyan!”
There it was, another voice in his head.
He didn’t intend to pay attention, closed his eyes, and savored that echo in his mind, suddenly thinking that hallucinations were a good thing.
At least he could still hear her voice.
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