NOVEL NEXT Chapter 14 - Healing Medicine
At this moment, Gu Yao finally raised his head and carefully examined Chi Changye’s appearance, then turned to look at Tian Feirong with a puzzled expression: “What’s so curious about it? Brother Ye always looked like this. You didn’t fail to recognize him just because his facial scar healed, did you?”
No wonder he had been making such a fuss earlier—he didn’t even have the discernment to notice. At the same time, Gu Yao was quite pleased with the effects of the medicine. It worked even better than he had anticipated.
Chi Changye slightly moved his fingers and smiled. No wonder Gu Yao’s gaze toward him had always been so indifferent. Unlike others who couldn’t help but want to stay as far away as possible, finding his face repulsive, it seemed that in Gu Yao’s eyes, it didn’t matter whether his face had a scar or not.
Tian Feirong almost tripped. Could the past and present really be the same? How dull must Gu Yao’s eyes be to think they were identical?
“But wait, how did it suddenly heal? Did you buy some healing pills?” Tian Feirong asked. It wasn’t that he didn’t want to help, but this person had been badly injured earlier. To fully heal, the internal medicine couldn’t be of too low a grade, and the external medicine needed to cover the entire body, so Tian Feirong had refrained from acting.
Chi Changye glanced at Gu Yao. Since the medicine was made by Gu Yao, whether to disclose it depended on his decision.
Gu Yao calmly said, “It’s a medicine I made. Do you want it?” Suddenly, his eyes lit up, and he stared at Tian Feirong with great intensity. “Does this kind of medicine have a market? Can it be sold? How much silver can it bring in?”
His experiments would cost a lot of silver and spirit pearls. He couldn’t rely on Chi Changye alone to sell talismans. They were essentially in a partnership, and he would feel ashamed to keep making Chi Changye pay.
Chi Changye nodded and said, “Not bad. It’s a medicine made by Xiao Yao, and it works quite well for healing external wounds. It should have a good market among low-level cultivators.”
Alright, these two are all about the money now. The more Tian Feirong looked at the two of them, the more they resembled a married couple. He stroked his chin and said, “Do you have any ready-made medicine? I’ll take some back to show my brother. Actually, not just outside, but even our Tian family really needs healing medicine and various pills.” It’s not easy to get high-quality pills from the Gu family. “But one thing—did you learn this from the Gu family? If it’s something from the Gu family, I’m worried they might cause trouble.”
Gu Yao squinted and smiled, “Don’t worry, it’s not from the Gu family. It’s all mine. After dinner, I’ll make two more tubes for you to take back and show him.”
“That’s good! Haha!” Tian Feirong could already imagine how regretful the Gu family would be. It seemed that although Gu Yao had poor cultivation aptitude, he had a talent for alchemy. It was a pity that his cultivation aptitude held him back, and he would likely face difficulty making great strides in alchemy in the future.
After dinner, Gu Yao went back to his room and worked for less than half an hour before coming out, handing Tian Feirong two porcelain bottles. The latter hurriedly took his leave, taking the medicine back with him. If the medicine worked well, Tian Feirong’s accomplishments would be huge. Thinking of this, he felt elated.
Of course, when Tian Feirong left, he also took the spirit talismans made by Chi Changye, leaving behind a silver note for ten thousand taels. A low-grade spirit talisman was worth one hundred taels of silver, so for cultivators, silver was hardly something to hold on to. One could imagine what kind of life Gu Yao must have led in the Gu family.
Chi Changye handed all the silver notes to Gu Yao, saying, “I don’t have much to spend at the moment. You need silver for your alchemy, so take it first.”
Gu Yao hesitated for a moment before accepting it. Chi Changye was right—he did have many expenses. At worst, he would find a way to help Chi Changye with his internal injuries: “Alright, I’ll keep it for now. If you need it, just let me know.”
Having a bit more financial freedom meant that the next day, Gu Yao went to the market again and spent over five thousand taels of silver. Perhaps because the younger generations from the Lu and Gu families were too busy to bother with Gu Yao, this trip to the market went very smoothly. After purchasing everything, the two of them returned home with large and small bundles in tow. The only unusual thing that happened on the way back was that Chi Changye attracted a lot of curious gazes. After he left, the discussions about him only grew.
“Didn’t they say that Gu Yao married an ugly man and became his male wife? After seeing the man’s appearance, he’s definitely quite handsome, not much worse than the young masters from those three families.”
“Maybe Gu Yao thought the previous man was too ugly, so he went and flirted with someone else,” someone said maliciously.
“Come on, I saw this man the day before yesterday. He was wearing the same clothes, the only difference is that his facial injuries healed. I didn’t expect him to have such a good-looking face.”
“What status does Gu Yao have in the Gu family? Pfft, even the servants live better than he does. How could anyone not see the trickery behind this? Which family’s young master gets married off like that? No ceremony, just kicked out, and then the legitimate young master of the Gu family had the audacity to accuse Gu Yao of stealing family assets. Little did they know, Gu Yao got his hands on the token from the Changxian Sect in exchange for it. The Gu family people really don’t care about anything.”
The common people couldn’t stand it, but the Gu family had an ancestor in the Foundation Establishment stage, so even if they didn’t care about the details, no one had the right to criticize. They could only gossip behind his back. They could only blame Gu Yao for his poor aptitude and bad luck, which led him to such a situation.