The younger brother looked at the skewers covered with dust, took a deep breath, knelt on the ground and kowtowed several times, then picked up the skewers and ran back into the house immediately.

"Brother! There's food!"

Nan Xiaoxiang finally couldn't help but speak after her brother returned to the room.

"Mr. Chen, why do you have to humiliate others like this? The child just wanted some food--"

“…Someone has to play the good guy.”

Chen Yin grilled the skewers calmly, his expression not changing at all.

"If kindness comes too easily, people will be dissatisfied."

"If you give them food for free with a friendly face, they will just think you are a pushover. Even if you give them more food, they may not be grateful to you."

"In their hearts, you are still the bad woman who prevented my brother from entering the immortal realm."

Nan Xiaoxiang frowned her beautiful eyes, and was about to say that she didn't need their gratitude, but Chen Yin took the lead.

"It may not really matter to you whether you are grateful or not."

"But I hope you understand. The most difficult disease to cure in the world is always the disease of the heart."

Chen Yin's eyes were calm: "If you really want to save him, then it's not just about not letting him die."

"…but to let him live well."

Nan Xiaoxiang was stunned.

"These skewers are also grilled. Eat them while they're hot." Chen Yin handed the skewers to her.

She didn't answer, but stared at Chen Yin with her beautiful eyes shining brightly.

"Why are you looking at me like that?"

Chen Yin scratched his face awkwardly: "Are you in love with me?"

"...If Master Chen hadn't said this, his image in my mind might have been much greater."

"Tsk, you don't know how to cherish me." He curled his lips, "There are so many women out there who are vying for a man as good as me."

"Forget it, if you don't like it, just find a way to solve it yourself."

He slowly stood up: "Anyway, I've already roasted it, it would be a waste if I don't eat it."

"It's up to you."

After saying that, he put out the campfire, put his hands behind his back, and walked back unsteadily like an old man taking a stroll.

Nan Xiaoxiang was looking at the handful of delicious and tasty skewers on the grill and fell into deep thought.

After a long time, she probably figured out the meaning of Chen Yin's words.

...Someone always has to play the good guy.

That too.

Someone also needs to play the good guy.

From the beginning, he planned to give himself this opportunity to be a good person.

Looking at those grilled skewers, Nan Xiaoxiang felt extremely complicated.

But in the end, she picked up the kebab.

Walk towards the brothers' cabin.

One hundred and seventy-eight, it is really a poisonous mosquito

In the room, the younger brother was trying hard to pry open his older brother's mouth so that he could feed him the skewers of meat.

But the next moment, Nan Xiaoxiang's soft and gentle voice sounded behind him:

"Stop. Your brother has a cold in his stomach and can't eat such a large piece of greasy food."

My brother turned around in astonishment, and his eyes subconsciously darkened when he saw who was coming.

But then he remembered the skewers of meat they gave him as charity, and he didn't dare show it on his face immediately.

Nan Xiaoxiang didn't care. She just put the remaining skewers on the table under her brother's eager gaze.

"You seem to have been hungry for a long time, eat a little."

"I'll take care of your brother's food." As she said that, she rolled up her sleeves, picked up the skewers of meat with chopsticks and put them into the bowl, then mashed them into a paste.

This is a very strenuous job.

Nan Xiaoxiang was just an ordinary person after all, and as she was pounded into a pulp, sweat dripped down her neck and her beautiful eyebrows furrowed slightly.

The younger brother watching from the side couldn't help but whispered: "I, I'll do it..."

"You need to add powder to the food. You can't control the amount."

As he spoke, Nan Xiaoxiang took out a small bottle from his arms and carefully sprinkled the powder into the bowl with his wrist.

My younger brother hesitated for a long time, but finally he made up his mind and grabbed the skewers on the table and started eating them in big mouthfuls.

Before long, only a pile of iron skewers were left on the table. Nan Xiaoxiang finally mashed the meat, poured some water into the bowl, and helped her brother up to feed him.

After drinking it, my brother's complexion improved visibly.

Nan Xiaoxiang also carefully felt his pulse and diagnosed him, and only breathed a sigh of relief after making sure that he was stable.

"These medicines must be taken once a day. You must keep them for a long time. You will be able to get out of bed within a week."

My brother lowered his head silently without saying a word.

Nan Xiaoxiang thought for a moment and added, "By the way. That guy just now...didn't mean to humiliate you."

"He's not a bad person."

The younger brother finally raised his head, but in the end he only said weakly:

"So what if it is so? After all, we still have to rely on the food provided by adults to have a full meal."

But his fists were still clenched tightly. Obviously, he still couldn't let go of what Nan Xiaoxiang had done.

Nan Xiaoxiang did not argue much, just gave a few instructions and prepared to leave.

Just as she was about to go out, her brother finally called her: "Wait a minute!"

"Sir... Why on earth do you have to stop my brother?" He finally mustered up the courage to speak out.

Nan Xiaoxiang half-closed her eyes and whispered, "If he can make it, there's no need for me to save him."

“But he couldn’t resist.”

"How can you be sure? What if my brother persists?"

"Because I'm a doctor." Nan Xiaoxiang stared at him seriously, "I've seen more dead people than you have."

"If I had saved him an incense stick of time later, he would have been dead."

My brother bit his lips tightly and kept his head down.

Seeing his unwilling expression, Nan Xiaoxiang couldn't help but soften her tone.

"You are still young. There is no need to take risks and gamble your life on such an illusory fate."

"In this world, becoming an immortal is not the only way to survive. There are so many professions to do, why bother——"

"What do you know!" the younger brother growled rudely.

"In our village...it's been many years since our village produced two brothers with the aptitude to practice cultivation!"

"In order to get us to Wuxuan Cave, the village chief gave us almost all the food in the village as dry food!"

"In order to raise food for us, my parents went to many villages around us to ask for help. Everyone hopes that we can start practicing and return to lead them to a good life!"

The younger brother's body was trembling slightly, and his voice was filled with sobs: "We, we are obviously qualified enough... we just lack a little bit of poison resistance..."

"We can't go back... the hope of the whole village depends on us!"

"How can you understand this feeling!"

"I know."

Nan Xiaoxiang's cold voice made her brother stunned.

"When I was a child, I was also sent to Wuxuan Cave by my own village."

And maybe even worse than you.

She had no choice. As soon as she arrived at Wuxuan Cave, she was thrown into the dark poison cave.

Either die, or survive all the poison.

"In the end, I was also left with nothing. My foundation was destroyed and I was driven out."

"I just don't want you to repeat my mistakes." There was no emotion in her eyes, as if she was not talking about her own business.

The younger brother didn't seem to have expected that the woman in front of him, who looked completely dressed in Central Plains clothes and was as gentle as water, was actually from Wuxuan Cave. He was stunned and at a loss.

Nan Xiaoxiang just told the story calmly.

"It's also called expectation. It's also called hope."

"No matter how much others impose on you."

“But when you die, there is nothing left.”

"If you go back now, at least your parents will have someone to take care of them and they will have no worries in their old age."

She whispered, "If you die here in vain, will they be proud of you?"

"I will only spend the remaining decades of my life thinking of my two children every night and crying until dawn."

My brother on the bed trembled, and tears flowed from his eyes.

My younger brother couldn't help sobbing.

Indeed, no child can imagine such a scene without being moved.

Nan Xiaoxiang looked at them quietly, and waited until her brother's sobbing subsided before she slowly said:

"If you are unwilling to go back like this, I can give you another choice."

"I opened a clinic in Yanxia Prefecture in the north of the Central Plains, and have connections with many immortal cultivation sects."

"You two do have decent qualifications. You are qualified to become formal disciples in some ordinary sects."

"If you are interested, you can follow me back to Yanxia Prefecture and I will introduce you to a few families." Her voice was soft, like that of a fairy.

The younger brother stared at Nan Xiaoxiang in a daze for a long time, then suddenly knelt on the ground and kowtowed desperately.

The knock was so hard that Nan Xiaoxiang couldn't help but feel frightened.

"sorry."

"Your Excellency is kind-hearted and willing to save my brother from death."

"But I... didn't appreciate it and insulted you like that..." His forehead was bleeding and his lips were bitten.

Nan Xiaoxiang looked at him silently, and finally shook her head slowly.

"I'm not a saint."

"I'm just doing my duty as a doctor."

In the narrow wooden house, the brothers hugged each other and cried, while Nan Xiaoxiang stared out the window in a trance.

She was thinking about what Chen Yin said.

...If you really want to save him, then it's not just about preventing them from dying.

...but to let him live well.

"Indeed." She laughed at herself, "No matter how good a doctor is, he can't save someone who is determined to die."

"Maybe he is more suitable to be a doctor than me."

-

When Nan Xiaoxiang returned to her house, Chen Yin was still squatting at the door of her house with a skewer in his mouth.

Seeing her come back, Chen Yin greeted her with a smile: "Hey, how are you?"

Nan Xiaoxiang didn't say anything, just nodded slightly.

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