dognovel Chapter 73 Token
Chapter 73 Token
After taking the medicine, Jing Han fell asleep.
Yunyi stayed by her side, worried that the fever might return in the middle of the night. Fortunately, the fever only lasted for a short while and the fever quickly subsided.
Jing Han woke up when he faintly heard a rooster crowing outside.
“You need to rest now. You can contact your people now, and people will be coming here soon, so you can’t stay here any longer.” Yun Yi got up, stretched her limbs, and then looked at Jing Han.
Jing Han nodded: "I left a message on my way here, they should be here soon. But you saved me twice, I owe you my life..."
"Just give me the money." Yunyi interrupted the other person before she could say anything.
Jing Han's lips twitched: "You..."
"If you don't have it now, you can owe it to me first, of course, you can decide based on your own conscience."
Jing Han smiled, then quickly frowned and suppressed his smile, as smiling would aggravate his wound: "Okay, I... won't go back on my word." As he spoke, he slowly raised his hand and pulled a jade pendant off his neck, "This is a token."
Yunyi took it and saw that it was a jade pendant carved from three colors of jade: Fu, Lu, and Shou (representing fortune, prosperity, and longevity). The pattern on it was quite interesting: "Your jade pendant is quite special."
The three-colored jadeite of Fu, Lu, and Shou (representing fortune, prosperity, and longevity) is red, purple, and green, a testament to the skillful craftsmanship of the artisans.
Jing Han's eyes flickered: "You know him?"
“It should be a lingyao, right? The Southern Mountains section of the *Classic of Mountains and Seas* records that twenty li west of Pingfeng Mountain is Mount Gui, where a strange bird called a lingyao lives. Its entire body is as red as a maple leaf, except for its beak, which is blue. It is said to ward off evil spirits, and some people have even placed it in their bedrooms to prevent nightmares.” Yunyi looked at the jade pendant repeatedly. “This three-colored jade pendant with the symbols of fortune, prosperity, and longevity has mostly red, and the color is quite deep. The craftsman carved it into a bird's body, and the green is quite heavy, so it can be considered blue, which happens to form the beak…”
She had been to an ancient plane during a mission and had once saved a leopard. Later, that bird became her pet. So, even though the carving was somewhat abstract, she recognized it at a glance.
Jing Han's eyes widened slightly for a moment, but he quickly regained his composure: "It is indeed the legendary Ling?"
“However, it’s rare to see such patterns engraved on a jade pendant.” Yunyi put the jade pendant away. “And the quality is quite good. Even if you don’t come back to pay me back in the future, this pendant is probably worth several hundred taels of silver. I won’t lose out.”
Jing Han laughed: "You're such a money-grubber."
"What can I do? I'm a widow with a mother-in-law and seven children to support. How can I not be greedy? I'll starve to death!"
Jing Han opened his mouth, then nodded in the end: "Don't worry, I won't break my promise."
Just then, two crickets chirped outside.
Yunyi glanced out the window: "Your people must have arrived. I'm going to rest next door for a bit." She paused, then handed over the bottle of Ginseng Nourishing Pills. "Take one a day; it will help with your recovery."
Jing Han took the bottle, but before he could even thank her, the other person had already left. His expression became conflicted again. The cricket's chirping was so ordinary, and there were even other chirping sounds around, yet the other person had noticed something different in an instant. This woman... really was someone he couldn't understand.
However, Yunyi had already gone to the room opposite, and he didn't have time to think about it. He responded with a cricket chirping, and soon someone jumped in: "Master."
Jing Han nodded, and then was helped away from the courtyard by the two people who came in.
Yunyi stood by the window watching the person leave before finally letting out a sigh of relief. She glanced down at the jade pendant in her hand, sensing that they would likely meet again soon.
Since it was already daylight, Yunyi did not rest any longer, but left the courtyard directly and went to Xue's Medical Clinic.
"Sister Yunyi, you're here." Xue Xiaodie was cleaning with the young helper when she saw Yunyi and waved happily.
"I came to ask if you still need ginseng?" Yunyi went inside and took off her basket. "I have one here that's even better than the one I had before."
"Grandpa," Xue Xiaodie called out towards the inner courtyard.
"What's wrong?" Xue Buwei asked as he came out, nodding at Yun Yi. "Are you alright?"
"It's nothing." Yunyi knew what the other person was asking, smiled, and then took out the largest ginseng she had dug up yesterday. "I just dug it up yesterday, do you think I can accept it?"
Xue Buwei couldn't help but gasp, glancing at Yun Yi with an expression as if she were a monster.
Yunyi wasn't surprised. After all, the ginseng she sold before was already quite rare. She didn't expect that just a few days later, another one would be delivered that was even bigger and older than the previous one. It would be strange if she wasn't surprised.
“Girl, you…”
"I dug it up in the mountains." Yunyi didn't hide anything. "Perhaps few people go into Qinglong Mountain, which is why I was able to find it."
Xue Buwei nodded slightly, thinking that it was possible, because there were many examples of people who went into Qinglong Mountain and never came back, so neither hunters nor herb gatherers would go to Qinglong Mountain, and it was normal that there were many things there.
"You don't need to take any risks."
“I know,” Yunyi nodded. “Can you buy it here?” She knew last time that the old man didn’t have much money, and this one would definitely be more expensive than before. If he really didn’t have any money, perhaps she could go to the prefectural city to check the market price.
“Yes.” Xue Buwei nodded. “However, I’m not using this ginseng. I need to ask that person how much silver they’ll offer.”
"Okay." Yunyi nodded. "Then leave the ginseng here. I'll come back tomorrow."
"You...believe me?"
"Why don't you believe me?" Yun Yi smiled, then turned her back, waved, and left.
Xue Buwei hurriedly found a box, carefully arranged the ginseng and put it inside, then gave Xiaodie some instructions before carrying the ginseng out the door.
After Yunyi went out to find a place to have breakfast, she returned home.
To her delight, she could hear the sound of children reading aloud even before she entered the room, which showed that the children were quite self-disciplined.
The moment Xia Songshi saw Yunyi enter the room, her eyes reddened.
Yunyi pretended not to see her, and naturally greeted her and Jia Liushi before going into the bathroom. She had been up and about in the mountains all day and night, and her body was filthy.
Madam Jia Liu also breathed a sigh of relief. If Yunyi really didn't come back, this family probably wouldn't be able to afford her husband's tuition. Now she was at ease.
Yunyi came out quickly, then packed up all the weapons that were in the room and put them in her basket: "Mother, don't wait for me at noon." Then she asked Uncle Zhou to drive her to Zhao Family Village.