My restaurant connects to the demon realm, and I've become incredibly wealthy!

Chapter 86 Pay Back the Money

Dong Lijue stopped and pulled her petite body into his arms, his large cloak completely enveloping her.

He rested his chin on the top of her head and said, "Yaoyao, you'll have to go to the demon realm sooner or later, there's no rush. You're safest in the human realm right now, the demon realm isn't peaceful."

The Dark Demon race has become so unrestrained.

Those people were all after Yaoyao, so they had to be careful.

The white fox Yaoyao poked her little head out from his arms, "I can't go there now even if I wanted to. I'm just curious about where you live."

"It's a good thing you can't go to the demon realm right now, so let me tell you some interesting things about the demon realm."

Dong Lijue's deep voice seemed to possess a magical quality, captivating Bai Hu Yaoyao.

When she hears something funny, she occasionally lets out a silvery laugh.

The two walked hand in hand down the street, like a golden couple descended from heaven.

Today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, and there aren't many people on the streets.

Only a few people went visiting each other with gifts in their hands.

People are having a hard time these days; even getting enough to eat is a problem, so they just go through the motions during the Lunar New Year.

I wonder if anyone is home at the house she's going to today?
Upon arriving at the destination, Baihu Yaoyao stopped, looked at the dilapidated courtyard in front of her, and sighed.

"Yaoyao, where is this?" Dongli Jue frowned as he smelled the odor emanating from the courtyard.

The senses of the demon race are very sharp; he could smell that someone was sick from a great distance.

"This is Uncle Xiao's house. Ma borrowed money from Uncle Xiao and didn't pay it back. I was thinking of coming to pay them back before the New Year, but no one was home. I heard from Uncle Xiao's neighbor that they went to Yunzhou City for medical treatment."

"I came here today to see if they had returned, and it looks like they have."

White Fox Yaoyao pushed open the dilapidated fence gate and went inside.

Dong Lijue followed closely behind.

"Uncle Xiao, are you home?" Bai Hu Yaoyao entered the yard and suddenly smelled a foul odor.

Dong Lijue stopped her, "Someone in this family has contracted the disease, eat this."

To ensure the safety of Baihu Yaoyao and her child, he had to proceed with caution.

After swallowing the elixir, the white fox Yaoyao entered the house.

"Who's here?" The aged voice was accompanied by a cough.

An old woman with a hunched back came out of the inner room, her cloudy eyes staring at the white fox Yaoyao.

I looked for a long time but still couldn't recognize who it was.

"Girl, who are you looking for?" The old woman's voice was weary.

"Are you Aunt Xiao? What happened to you?" Bai Hu Yaoyao asked in surprise.

Aunt Xiao is Uncle Xiao's wife. She is only in her thirties, while the woman in front of her looks like a woman in her sixties.

"Who are you?" Aunt Xiao squinted, unable to recognize the incredibly beautiful woman in front of her.

Because it was Chinese New Year, Baihu Yaoyao wore a red dress with a Western Region style, just like the outfit worn by Xiangfei in the TV series.

The red clothes, paired with a snow-white woolen hat, are both festive and warm.

This is a dress that Dong Lijue prepared especially for her.

No wonder Aunt Xiao didn't recognize her.

"It's me, Yaoyao! I'm here today to return the money to Uncle Xiao. How did Aunt Xiao end up like this?"

Bai Hu Yaoyao's eyes welled up with tears. Seeing the people who used to follow her father suffering made her feel sad.

Uncle Xiao used to work with my father at the docks; they were good brothers who had been together for many years.

Since Dad's health deteriorated and he opened the restaurant, everyone has gone about their own business.

Ma had thoroughly investigated the backgrounds of her father's friends before borrowing money from them.

These people lent Ma a lot of money because of her father.

Mr. Ma only borrowed money and had no intention of repaying it.

She still had a sense of shame, so she had no choice but to pay back all the money she had borrowed before.

This is the last one. After paying off these debts, there will be no more debts. "It's Yaoyao, little girl! You look so different! Come in and sit down." Aunt Xiao invited them into the house.

There was no charcoal fire burning in the room; entering it felt like falling into an ice cellar.

cough cough.

A series of rapid coughs came from the inner room.

Aunt Xiao's expression changed. "Yaoyao, please sit down first. I'll go in and see your Uncle Xiao."

He went into the inner room, leaning on his cane.

The white fox Yaoyao didn't sit down, but followed them into the inner room.

Uncle Xiao must be sick.

"Uncle Xiao." Bai Hu Yaoyao entered the inner room and saw Uncle Xiao coughing up a mouthful of blood.

Uncle Xiao lay weakly on the bed, his eyes struggling to move.

Looking at the white fox Yaoyao, I finally saw some familiar figures.

"Is that Yaoyao? Hurry up and go out. Let your Aunt Xiao take care of you. My tuberculosis is contagious!"

Uncle Xiao chased people away.

Aunt Xiao stood up. "Yaoyao, let's go outside to talk. Don't let yourself get infected. The doctor said it's tuberculosis, which is incurable and contagious."

Bai Hu Yaoyao didn't leave. "Aunt Xiao, Uncle Xiao, my husband can cure your illness. It's not an incurable disease."

At this time, tuberculosis was indeed an incurable terminal illness.

She could heal him using the healing techniques from the Five Elements Arts, but she's currently pregnant, so Dong Lijue certainly wouldn't let her use the Five Elements Arts so easily.

Then he'll be the only one left to treat the illness.

Who told him to be the great pharmacist of the demon race!
Treating tuberculosis is a piece of cake.

"What? Your husband can cure it?" Aunt Xiao exclaimed excitedly.

Looking at the man following behind the white fox Yaoyao, she thought, "This must be Yaoyao's husband, right?"
This young master looks to be of noble status, so why would he help these common folk get medical treatment?
His eyes dimmed again.

Dong Lijue gently stroked the white fox Yaoyao's hair and gave her a reassuring look, "If Yaoyao speaks up, I will definitely heal him."

Aunt Xiao knelt down and kowtowed excitedly, "As long as you can save our husband, we are willing to be your slaves to repay you!"

Bai Hu Yaoyao helped the person up. "Aunt Xiao, let him treat Uncle Xiao's illness. Let's go out first."

Bai Hu Yaoyao helped Aunt Xiao out.

The two sat down, and Aunt Xiao then recounted their experiences over the years.

After Lu Laosan died, they planned to find work and ended up at one of the Lin family's estates.

I thought I was going to farm, but I was sent to a mine to mine iron ore.

I don't know what's going on in that iron mine, but people die there all the time, and many of them age very quickly, just like her.

"Your Uncle Xiao noticed something was wrong, so he led me out of the mine by hiding among a pile of corpses."

"We hid here and there, and finally returned to Peach Blossom Town. But your Uncle Xiao contracted tuberculosis. In order to treat him, I took him to Yunzhou City. The doctor there said that your Uncle Xiao was beyond cure."

"Since there is no cure, we plan to come back. Even if we die, we want to die in our own home."

Aunt Xiao always felt like it was all a dream when she thought back to what she had experienced in the first few years.

A terrible nightmare.

The white fox spirit Yaoyao used the Five Elements Technique to probe into Aunt Xiao's body and discovered that she was actually poisoned.

It's mercury poisoning.

There must be mercury-producing ore in that mine.

“Aunt Xiao, don’t worry, my husband will definitely cure Uncle Xiao. Your health is like this because you were poisoned while mining in the mine. Your illness can also be cured.”

"Once you're all better, go find Uncle Zhou! Go work at his glass factory."

She didn't want to mistreat those who had been kind to her and her father in the past.

"My illness can be cured too?" Aunt Xiao looked at her withered hands and remembered the doctor's words.

(End of this chapter)