A thousand enlightenments in one night, starting from being a menial apprentice.

Chapter 60 Acupuncture
"It doesn't matter if you don't have money, but..." Duan Rong's eyes swept over Zhu Xiaoqi's right foot and hesitated.

"But what..."

"Xiao Qi, I see you are wearing a silver bracelet on your foot. Can you lend it to me for a look?"

When Zhu Xiaoqi heard this, his face suddenly turned red and he looked at Duan Rong with a strange look.

The meaning of that look couldn't be more obvious!

I just wonder if Duan Rong is a fetishist or a pervert!
Duan Rong waved his hands repeatedly and explained: "Don't misunderstand! My mother originally had a silver bracelet like this, I just want to take a look..."

As Duan Rong spoke, he lowered his head, looking sad.

After all, Duan Rong has lived two lives, so when it comes to lying, not only is he very convincing, but he also keeps his face calm and his heart steady, and he is quite sincere!
Zhu Xiaoqi's heart was indeed moved. The silver bracelet on her foot was also left to her by her mother when she died.

It seems that she and Duan Rong are both miserable people who share the same fate...

"I see... In that case... I can show you..."

Duan Rong raised his head and smiled when he heard this, saying, "Then it's settled!"

Zhu Xiaoqi also smiled, revealing two rows of bright white teeth, and said, "Let's go to the main room. It's brighter than here!"

As Zhu Xiaoqi spoke, he picked up the brushes and dyes on the table and excitedly took them to the coffee table in the main room and placed them there.

Zhu Xiaoqi sat opposite Duan Rong. Duan Rong stared at her, thinking about the painting plan!
Zhu Xiaoqi has always been a neat and generous girl, but when she suddenly sat face to face with a man and was stared at by him, she suddenly felt a little shy and two blushes appeared on her face.

Duan Rong was about to put pen to paper when Zhu Xiaoqi suddenly stood up and said, "Wait for me, I'll go to the kitchen and add some firewood to the stove!"

As Zhu Xiaoqi said this, she lifted her skirt and ran out. She was still steaming buns with hot and sour dried bean filling on the stove!

After a few breaths, Zhu Xiaoqi ran back and sat on the chair. She was panting and her chest was rising and falling...

Duan Rong suddenly discovered that there was a black charcoal mark on Zhu Xiaoqi's face, which went straight to the tip of his nose. He immediately smiled, pointed to his right cheek, and said, "Xiaoqi, there is something black on your face..."

"Where is it?..." Zhu Xiaoqi rubbed his face with his hands, but the spot on the tip of his nose was still not wiped off.

Duan Rong smiled and stood up from his seat. He leaned over the coffee table and touched the tip of Zhu Xiaoqi's nose with his finger, and wiped off the charcoal mark.

Then he stretched out his finger to Zhu Xiaoqi, and saw his index finger pointing to his stomach, with a faint black spot. Duan Rong smiled and said, "That... is on the tip of the nose..."

Zhu Xiaoqi smiled shyly. In her red lips, which were as tender as lychees, the little white teeth jumped between her lips and tongue, like little rabbits wandering in the fields in the distance...

Duan Rong only took about a quarter of an hour to paint this picture of Zhu Xiaoqi!
Because girls like Zhu Xiaoqi are also a type of client, that is, they are petite. Duan Rong has already done a thorough study on how to draw this type of client!
At this point, it’s easy to get it!
Zhu Xiaoqi took the painting and looked at himself in the painting. His eyes sparkled and he kept laughing...

Which girl doesn’t love beauty!

Women's obsession with beauty is probably the same as men's greed for power and status!

They are all engraved deep in the most primitive genes!
Xiao Baiqiao was in her own boudoir, watching Duan Rong and Zhu Xiaoqi leave. Her eyes dimmed immediately...

She was in poor health and stayed in her room all year round. She couldn't even go out to play, let alone go out to play like her sister Xiao Yu...

Although my father was the head instructor, he was always cold and indifferent to his apprentices. He taught one batch and then sent another batch away, but Duan Rong was an exception.

Last time, I actually kept him at home and had a simple meal with him.

It was also because of the familiarity from the last time that she dared to let Zhu Xiaoqi ask Duan Rong to paint this time.

However, when she was chatting with Duan Rong in the room just now, she found that the dark loneliness that was entangled in her heart had dissipated for a short time... She had always thought that she had sunk into the depths of darkness and could not be saved, but now, she could actually see the light...

That light can penetrate the darkness and drive away her loneliness!
However, she was ill and would not live long!

Thinking of this, she felt heartbroken!
Although Xiaoqi is a girl, she can live healthily, get married, and have her own family and children in the future!

But, she...

When Xiao Baiqiao thought of this, the pain flooded her like a flood...

Her defenses collapsed, her body twitched uncontrollably, her eyes rolled up, and white foam began to come out of the corners of her mouth...

With a thud, he fell to the ground...

Zhu Xiaoqi was holding the painting and laughing when he suddenly heard a plop sound coming from the inner room on the east side!

Zhu Xiaoqi didn't care about the painting in his hand, he moved his body, swift as fire, and flashed past!

The painting floated in the bright main room, swayed a few times, and then fell to the ground.

From the inner room, Zhu Xiaoqi's panicked cry was heard, with a faint cry in his voice!

"Master, the second young lady is smoking!"

Just as Duan Rong rushed over with an anxious look, Xiao Zongting also rushed over and pushed Duan Rong away.

Zhu Xiaoqi handed over the ebony chopsticks wrapped in cotton cloth and the needle bag. Xiao Zongting immediately reached out to take them and said in a hoarse voice, "Go find Doctor Gu!"

Zhu Xiaoqi saw tears flashing in Xiao Zongting's eyes, and he jumped out with a flash of his body!
Xiao Zongting first used ebony chopsticks to clamp Xiao Baijiao's upper and lower teeth, then opened the needle bag, picked out seven silver needles in turn, and inserted them into Xiao Baijiao's seven acupuncture points!

This is the first aid acupuncture method that Gu Suxiu specially taught to Xiao Zongting, so that he could save Xiao Baiqiao in an emergency.

Normally, after seven injections like this, Xiao Baiqiao's convulsions would be alleviated, his breathing would become more stable, and he could wait for Gu Suxiu to come and treat him!
But today, after these seven injections, Xiao Baiqiao's convulsions were still very severe, his breathing became more and more rapid, he kept spitting white foam from his mouth, and his eyes rolled more and more...

It turned out that he was about to die!

Seeing his daughter like this, Xiao Zongting's legs suddenly became as limp as mud, and he cried, "Bai Jiao, you can't leave! Come back here! Dad, you can't leave! Come back here! Do you hear me?"

Duan Rong suddenly rushed over, picked up the silver needle from the needle bag, and without hesitation and with skillful technique, he inserted the needles into several acupuncture points on Xiao Baiqiao's forehead and the front and back of his neck.

Xiao Zongting came back to his senses and was about to stop her when he suddenly saw that Xiao Baiqiao's breathing had recovered a little, his eyelids were not drooping as violently, and his whole body was twitching less...

It was like I had breathed a sigh of relief!

Xiao Zongting calmed down a bit. He didn't care how Duan Rong knew acupuncture. He just cried with joy. Tears kept flowing down. He kept wiping the foam around Xiao Baiqiao's mouth with his hands, fearing that the foam would flow into his nostrils and block Xiao Baiqiao's breathing...

After a while, Gu Suxiu walked in breathlessly, pushed by Zhu Xiaoqi.

When he saw the silver needle on Xiao Baiqiao's body, his eyes moved and he asked in surprise, "Who stabbed him with this needle?"

Xiao Zongting glanced at Duan Rong and said, "Save people first!"

Gu Suxiu took a breath and looked over. Xiao Baiqiao's breathing had temporarily stabilized. He wiped the sweat from his forehead, put down the medicine box, and said, "You two go out first. Let Xiao Qi help here."

Duan Rong then supported Xiao Zongting, whose legs were weak, and limped out of the inner room and came to the main hall. Duan Rong helped Xiao Zongting sit on a throne.

(End of this chapter)