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Chapter 345 Finding the Medicinal Herbs
Su Zui was worried about her going to the mountain behind the mountain alone, so he decided to go with her.

"What kind of medicinal herbs do you need? I'll go with you to dig them up, or you can tell Qiufeng what kind of herbs they are and let him find them!"

Su Zui felt no guilt about ordering his subordinates around, but he couldn't let his wife get tired.

Qiu Feng's lips twitched. "Madam, please tell me what medicinal herbs you need, and I will go and dig them up for you."

When did our master become so shameless?
He doesn't know anything about medicinal herbs, okay?

Lu Yaoyao waved her hand, "No need! You'll only be a burden to me, and you don't even know the medicinal herbs I need. Just stay home and wait!"

The medicinal herb 'Stone Heart' needs to be found in special stones.

Over time, this special stone has developed a heart-like core, which is a rare and valuable medicinal material.

She had seen this kind of stone before in the back mountain of Wangjia Village.

Previously, Lu Yaoyao had not learned medicine from Grandpa Lu, so she naturally did not understand medicinal herbs. When she encountered those stones, she simply threw them away as ordinary stones and did not pay any attention to them.

Lu Yaoyao carried a basket on her back to the back mountain. The snow was very thick, making it difficult to walk.

Lu Yaoyao followed her memory to find the cave with those kinds of stones.

The mountain behind Wangjia Village is a large mountain range, but there are very few trees, all because the villagers cut down trees for firewood.

People today don't understand the importance of cutting down a tree and planting another, or protecting forests. They just keep cutting down trees, which is why these huge mountain ranges are all bare.

Only in the middle of the mountain range do some sparse trees grow.

Hunters from Wangjia Village also come to this mountain to hunt, but they dare not go deep into the mountains, and almost all the small animals in the outer areas have been hunted to extinction.

Even though it's the dead of winter, some small animals still need to come out to forage for food. We haven't seen a single pheasant along the way.

Lu Yaoyao didn't care whether there was prey or not, and headed straight for the cave from her memory.

The cave was very well hidden; Lu Yaoyao discovered it by accident.

When Lu Yaoyao married Wang Hechuan, her mother-in-law forced her to go hunting in the mountains behind the village to bring him some game to nourish his body.

Lu Yaoyao didn't refute and went to the back mountain. Since she was a woman and didn't know how to hunt, she thought it would be good to find some wild eggs.

Just as she was searching for prey, she lost her footing and tumbled down the hillside; the cave was right below the hillside.

She noticed that the rocks in the cave were very beautiful, so she remembered the place.

It took Lu Yaoyao a long time to find the cave.

The cave wasn't very big; Lu Yaoyao's plump body could just squeeze through the entrance.

"This cave looks to be about this size."

Lu Yaoyao crawled inside, but she couldn't stretch out at all; the hole was just too small.

Ignoring the crowdedness of the cave, they began digging at the stones on the cave walls.

She could tell at a glance what a stone with a core looked like.

Holding a small pickaxe, they dug out more than ten stone cores, and the stone cores in this cave were all dug out.

With these stones, those people's illnesses will be completely cured.

Lu Yaoyao carried the stone down the mountain. She passed a trap and found that there was no prey inside, but there was a person.

The man was pierced through the thigh by a bamboo sword found in a trap.

Lu Yaoyao recognized the man; he was a hunter in the village and one of the few people who had shown her kindness.

"Uncle Qi, don't move, I'll get you up here." Lu Yaoyao put down her basket and prepared to go down to rescue the person.

Qi Huan had been trapped in the cave for a long time and thought he would freeze to death there.

Unexpectedly, there were still people on the mountain. "Yaoyao, don't come down! If you come down, we won't be able to get out. Please go back and call someone to save me."

Qi Huan was somewhat surprised to see that it was Lu Yaoyao. This girl had been divorced, yet she didn't cry or make a fuss. Now she was living alone, and who knew what the future held for her.

Why would he let a young girl risk her life to save him?
"It's alright! I can get you out of here." Lu Yaoyao jumped down from the trap and checked his injuries first.

Fortunately, only one bamboo sword pierced his thigh. If he had fallen in, the countless bamboo swords inside would have pierced him through.

"Uncle Qi, thankfully your injury only pierced your thigh. You can just apply medicine when you get back."

Lu Yaoyao pressed a few points on his leg to seal the acupoints, then pulled out the bamboo sword.

Blood was gushing from her thigh, so Lu Yaoyao took out a pill, crushed it, and sprinkled it on the wound.

The blood flow was instantly stopped.

"Girl, you also know medicine?" Qi Huan was surprised.

He never knew that this girl knew medicine. If outsiders found out, wouldn't she become a hot commodity?
Lu Yaoyao helped Qi Huan up. "My father was a very good doctor. I learned medicine from him since I was a child, and my medical skills are better than his. It's just that my father stopped practicing medicine a long time ago."

What she said was half truth and half lie.

Her father did indeed know medicine, but he stopped practicing medicine before she could remember, so many people didn't know that her father knew medicine.

Qi Huan thought to himself, what a wonderful girl. Although she is not good-looking, she has such medical skills, and her future will not be difficult.

If the Wang family found out that their divorced daughter-in-law was a highly skilled doctor, wouldn't they regret it to death?
In this world, doctors who know medicine are highly respected.

"Uncle Qi, I'll take you out." As Lu Yaoyao spoke, she led a grown man out of the trap.

Qi Huan was still bewildered when he emerged from the trap. "Girl, you know kung fu?"

Lu Yaoyao nodded, "Yes! I used to know it, but after I married Wang Hechuan, they were afraid that I was too strong and knew kung fu, so they added muscle-weakening powder to my food and slowly weakened my strength."

"After being abandoned, I healed myself and regained my powers."

Previously, Lu Yaoyao knew neither medicine nor martial arts; she only possessed brute strength.

When you speak, you need to be half-true and half-false to make people more likely to believe you.

Qi Huan believed it completely and gritted his teeth in anger, "Wang Hechuan's family is truly ungrateful! How could they treat you like this? If Master Lu were still alive, how heartbroken he would be to know you've suffered like this?"

Lu Yaoyao carried a basket on her back and supported Qi Huan with her other hand as they descended the mountain.

"Uncle Qi, all that is in the past. One day those people will pay the price!"

"Your injury can't be left untreated any longer. Let me help you back."

The two of them stumbled down the mountain, one step at a time.

The snow was too thick and the road too slippery; it took the two of them a long time to tumble and crawl down the mountain.

Lu Yaoyao first took Qi Huan back to his home, where his wife and children were still at home.

"Aunt Qi, I've already applied medicine to Uncle Qi's leg injury. He'll need to take the medicine for a few more days. I'll have Ting-ge come to my place to get the medicine, brew it, and he'll be fine after drinking it."

Ting-ge is the child of Uncle Qi and Aunt Qi, and he is only ten years old this year.

Aunt Qi wiped away her tears, "Alright! Thank you so much, Yaoyao! If it weren't for you, your Uncle Qi would..."

She dared not imagine that if her man hadn't been rescued, he could have frozen to death that night.

Fortunately, I met Lu Yaoyao.

"No need to thank me! You and Uncle Qi have taken good care of me in the past, how could I ignore something like this?"

"I'll head back now to prepare the medicine for Uncle Qi."

Lu Yaoyao left with her basket on her back.

(End of this chapter)