Chapter 517 Box with an Abstruse Secret
By the ti Lin ngya woke up from her slumber, it was already the next day.
She opened her eyes, and absent-mindedly, she looked at Long Tianyu, who had fallen asleep beside her.
In her mory, she vaguely rembered that Long Tianyu seed to have caught her taking her dication.
She stuck out her tongue. She did not intend for Long Tianyu to find out about this.
She did not wish for that to happen...
“You’re awake. Are you still in pain? Are you hungry?”
As she sat up, she alard Long Tianyu.
It was then that she realized that Long Tianyu was holding on tightly to her right hand.
Therefore, her movent, albeit unintentional, would wake Long Tianyu instantly.
Lin ngya shook her head as she looked at Long Tianyu’s bloodshot eyes as a result of exhaustion.
“I’m totally fine. You are the one who is not so well. Why don’t you take a good rest?”
Long Tianyu gazed at Lin ngya anxiously from top to bottom.
After making sure that she was truly alright, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
“I can’t bear to see you in pain.”
He used his big hands to gently massage Lin ngya’s right shoulder.
When he was sure that she was not feeling any discomfort, he supported Lin ngya so that she could get up slowly.
Long Tianyu could not get rid of the image of how she writhed with pain on the ground.
It was difficult to imagine that Lin ngya had to go through such agonizing pain every day.
He helped her sit on the chair, quickly poured her a cup of warm water, and urged her to drink it.
His eyes were literally glued to Lin ngya. There was no way he could take his eyes away from her.
“I’m no longer in pain, really.”
Lin ngya did not know whether to laugh or cry. Nevertheless, she was filled with a warm feeling because of his concern.
With a gentle voice, she comforted Long Tianyu. It was as if Long Tianyu was the one suffering the agonizing pain.
“Stop eating this dicine. Let’s go slow. There’s no doubt that your right arm is very important to you, but it’s not worth all the pain you suffer every day.”
Lin ngya breathed a sigh of relief when she could tell that Long Tianyu seed unaware that she had wanted her arm to be healed so she could treat him with her acupuncture needles.
As she fixed her gaze on Long Tianyu, there was a look of yearning in her watery eyes.
“I understand that you’re worried about , but Cousin Yu told that the longer I delay the treatnt, the worse it is for my arm.”
Imdiately, Long Tianyu held on to her small hand and said, “It’s alright. If your right arm does not heal, I will be your right arm!”
Lin ngya’s heart softened when she saw how worried he was.
She gazed steadily at Long Tianyu with eyes filled with tender love.
“But, if my right arm is disabled, it will be equivalent to making half my dical skills void. Long Tianyu, I’m a physician. It will be a charitable deed in itself if my arm heals. Moreover, it just ans that I have to go through so pain. Zuo Qiuyu told that once the dicine started working, it would naturally be painless. Trust ; I’m not going to let any more harm co upon .”
If Lin ngya insisted on using this dication, Long Tianyu could be firr with her.
However, this girl had managed to tug at his heartstring.
He was clearly aware that the more she spoke gently to him, the more he was unable to refuse any of her requests.
He could not help but sigh quietly. He had finally t with his nesis.
“You... sigh...”
Long Tianyu cast a doting look on her, especially when he saw how her eyes lit up from excitent.
It made him believe that Lin ngya was the only girl who blossod in his heart despite many beautiful won in the world.
“Thank you.”
She planted a mischievous kiss on Long Tianyu’s forehead, but to her surprise, her head was clamped between a pair of large hands.
Lin ngya, who almost could not breathe for a mont, shot Long Tianyu an angry glare of disdain.
However, there was no way she could conceal the smile in her eyes even though she had forced a furious expression.
“Tsk tsk, you two are indeed husband and wife. However, can’t you just close the door when you are acting so intimately?”
A sarcastic voice sounded from outside the door. Lin ngya was not expecting anyone to be watching this live broadcast.
Her cheeks blushed and she glared furiously at Long Tianyu.
Such a bashful expression on Lin ngya was hard to co by.
Long Tianyu, on the other hand, did not feel a tinge of embarrassnt. He gave Zuo Qiuyu a look of indifference before he spoke up briefly.
“What’s up?”
His voice clearly sounded impatient amidst the tone of difference.
Zuo Qiuyu could hear the hint that Long Tianyu wanted him to get lost
He coughed and said, “I’m here for so serious matter. Sigh, I thought there were dangers lurking on all sides. Who would have known that it turned out to be two people enjoying romance!”
Although Zuo Qiuyu had ant to be speaking to himself when he spoke those last words, the two could tell his intention was otherwise.
It was only when they simultaneously looked daggers at him that he stopped his teasing.
“Out with whatever you want to say, otherwise get lost quickly.”
Lin ngya was at all rciful towards Zuo Qiuyu, and he seed always to forget her temperant.
Now, Zuo Qiuyu no longer dared to tease her. Nevertheless, he entered the room carrying a small dark wooden box in his hands.
There were fine engravings on the box. The words “Pavilion of Herbs” stood out amidst the engravings.
“What’s this?”
Lin ngya weighed the box on her hand curiously. It actually carried weight.
While the box was a cuboid, there was no crevice at all.
This was very strange. Could it be just a solid block of wood?
“This is the question which I’ve drawn. This box is called “Box with an Abstruse Secret”. It has to be opened using a special technique. The question is inside. I will be considered to have lost the competition if I fail to open it by sunset today.”
Zuo Qiuyu looked so dejected. This box must have been given to him as a ‘special treatnt’.
“I’ve heard about sothing like this. If you open it using an external force, its contents will be destroyed.”
Long Tianyu’s words made Zuo Qiuyu grimace more bitterly.
Zuo Qiuyu slamd his hands hard on the table. While he was aware that those people would not let him pass the test easily, he did not expect them to employ such a tactic.
He had thought that he had obtained this chance ‘fairly’; those people might already have bent over from laughter behind his back.
“What’s so difficult? But it is undeniable that what they thought of is a very crafty tactic.”
No doubt Zuo Qiuyu had been tricked.
But who was Lin ngya? The Shen Nung system she had was like an extrely powerful cheating software.
The scanning system had started working automatically so that she had visualized the make-up of the box long ago.
The abstruse working of the box was indeed profound. However, the secret was just within the box. Its lock had a highly complex structure.
However, the Shen Nung System had already formulated a few solutions, and it had also given a clear explanation of the workings of each.
“Are you saying you are still able to solve this?”
Zuo Qiuyu had no intention of doubting his cousin’s intelligence. Even for the Pavilion of Herbs, it was a complex item. How could it turn out to be so easy to deal with when it fell into her hands?
“This chanism is not that complicated. However, sothing seems to be amiss inside.”
The two n exchanged looks upon hearing Lin ngya’s comnt.
Nevertheless, they knew that Lin ngya was good at blurting out astonishing comnts, which were usually proven right eventually.
If she said that sothing was amiss, there ought to be sothing fishy.
“What I saw from the others was that they seed to pull out so kind of paper notes. Unless... is there any other secret chanism in it?”
Zuo Qiuyu sounded grave, but Lin ngya, on the other hand, seed to have her mind drifted away.
It was only when Zuo Qiuyu instinctively raised his voice a little that Lin ngya recovered from her absent mind.
However, she exhaled quietly.
In an instant, the expression on her face beca a little... bizarre.
“Who intended to give this box to you?”
Lin ngya did not know whether to cry or to laugh as she looked at Zuo Qiuyu. She realized that he had been extrely lucky.
She had just searched through the music score for the green stringed instrunt for any reference to the Pavilion of Herbs and realized that soone from the past might have played a joke on them. It looked like Nan Rui, and his company would be extrely disappointed.
“I got this through balloting. However, because I arrived late, the easy questions had all been picked by the rest. This was why I had brought this thing back. It looks like you know the story behind.”
The so-called balloting process was rely a formality.
Otherwise, it would not be so coincidental for Du Zhong to have ‘misled’ him.
By the ti Zuo Qiuyu arrived late for the balloting, everyone had already picked their share and was looking at him as if he were an idiot.
Who would have known that this wooden box might well be a treasure?
“You’ve got a good bargain here. Is there a cold storage around? Also, prepare a pliable and strong golden wire. It’s of great use to .”
Although Zuo Qiuyu did not know what clever idea Lin ngya had regarding opening the box, he glimpsed a ray of hope when he saw the card up her sleeve.
She had yet to disappoint him for the many days past. He believed that it would be the sa this ti.
In order to hoodwink people, the three of them, together with Yu An, managed to find a cold storage, albeit stealthily.
Yu An was a talented informant. Although they had only arrived two days ago, he already combed through every detail in the inner courtyard.
After all, the fighting belonged to the people of the upper hierarchy. Those lower down in the hierarchy had to go on in their lives no matter what happened.
In addition, Yu An’s eloquence and wit had allowed him to befriend people easily.
For this reason, they did not even see any disciples of the Pavilion of Herbs the entire way.
Yu An appeared to be very familiar with the way, and soon, he opened the door to the cold storage.
Lin ngya and the other two looked astonished. Yu An, who seed to be infinitely resourceful, rely smiled bashfully in response.
“I heard that the fresh vegetables and fruits in the Pavilion of Herbs were stored here, so I...”
Yu An scratched his head sheepishly. Obviously, he was responsible for those marvelous tasting fruits they had been eating in the last two days.
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