(15) The First Intimate Contact

  Xu Yuanjin washed Yang Shuo's wound with clean water and simply bandaged it, then ordered two security guards to take Yang Shuo back immediately. "Go back and find a doctor as soon as possible, there are good doctors at Huang Lao Cai's place. Don't look at this small injury, if not treated in time, it can be life-threatening."

  Yang Shuo Ming nodded, looked again at the bandit lair where the smoke had not yet dispersed, and suddenly felt a sense of fatigue he had never felt before.

  Yang Shuo Ming, who couldn't ride a horse, returned to Double Dragon Town when the sky was already bright.

  It was probably the continuous fighting that made Yang Shuo Ming's physical strength severely depleted, and when he saw Wu Jie running quickly towards him, he felt a dizziness and almost fell off his horse.

  Wu Jie noticed the wound on Yang Shuo's shoulder and immediately arranged for someone to send him back to the Huang family's mansion. After returning to his own room, Yang Shuo moved his shoulder a bit and felt that it didn't hurt as much as before. At this time, Yang Shuo felt exceptionally tired, he just wanted to sleep well, completely forgetting Xu Yuanjin's reminder to find a doctor to check on the wound after he returned. After sending away the servant, taking down the gold bars tied around his waist and putting them under the bed, Yang Shuo didn't even take off his clothes before falling onto the bed, drowsily falling asleep.

  At this time, Yang Shuoming did not think that he would sleep for a long time before waking up.

  Dreams, memories of time and space, clear but somewhat unreal.

  "A true hero dares to face the bleakness of life, and stares straight at the blood-soaked reality... I think that's what Mr. Lu Xun said? Young man? Hehe, but now Lu Xun is no longer in vogue. If you were my son, how wonderful it would be... My useless kids are far inferior to you..."

  "Wouldn't I become a turtle grandson then?"

  "You're excellent, young man, I appreciate you, but what I want to remind you is that you are walking on a path destined for failure. Whether it's the procuratorate, the police, or any other department, I have an unshakeable background that you can't afford to mess with. Any method you can think of is just child's play to me. Listen to my advice: don't waste your energy anymore, now is still a chance to turn back."

  Those piercing sounds gradually transformed into vicious and arrogant jeers.

  His answer was with his own knife and actions.

  "Stop doing those silly things, okay?"

  "Can you kill all the bad people in this world?"

  Those eyes, which had once captivated him with their intoxicating charm, seemed to be gazing at him with concern once again.

  In that ugly world, it was these eyes alone that he could never forget.

  "I'm going to kill them all! All of them! All of them!" He roared, waving the knife in his hand.

  Eternal, endless darkness.

  He felt a hand gently stroking his forehead, as if he had returned to his childhood when he was ill, and his mother's anxious caress.

  "Mom...... mom......" He involuntarily called out.

  A string of silvery laughter echoed around me.

  "Hey! Hey! Did you all hear that? He's calling Rhythm Mama!"

  "Yuzhi, when did your kids grow up so big?"

  "Right, and didn't even tell us."

  "Yu Zhi, come on, you need to put your hair up tomorrow, the kids are all grown up now, can't still have a maiden's hairstyle, hehe..."

  It was probably that gentle hand that gave him strength and dispelled the darkness in front of him, Yang Shuo Ming suddenly opened his eyes.

  What caught his eye was the figure of several young people, a man in a black suit and a woman wearing a half-sleeved cheongsam and a long skirt, who looked like students from their attire. When they saw Yang Shaoming wake up, all of them showed joyful expressions on their faces.

  Perhaps startled by Yang Shuo Ming's sudden awakening, Huang Yunzhi withdrew her hand that was stroking his forehead and simply stared at him, Yang Shuo Ming noticing that the beautiful big eyes were filled with shyness and surprise.

  Yang Shuo Ming only then discovered that he was now lying on his back on a clean bed, and the wound on his shoulder had also been re-bandaged.

  "Did... did I sleep for a long time?" Yang Shuo Ming asked in a hoarse voice, shaking his slightly stiff neck.

  "It seems like... about five or six days, right? Isn't it, Yunzhi?" A big-eyed, round-faced girl with short hair and a white embroidered dress smiled in response, then turned her head to look at Huang Yunzhi.

  Huang Yunzhi nodded slightly, looking at Yang Shuoming with a shy gaze, revealing a lovely smile that was an adorable smile that couldn't help but feel happy.

  "Let's withdraw for now and let them have a good talk." The white-clad girl smiled, gazing at Huang Yunzhi with profound meaning.

  "Hey! I haven't even thanked you for saving my life yet..." a male student in Western-style clothing protested.

  "We'll talk about it later!"

  He met the severe gaze cast by the white-clad girl, and he smiled somewhat awkwardly, gesturing to Yang Shao Ming with his hand before leaving with the others.

  As Yang Shuo Ming's forehead sweated, Huang Yunzhi got up and twisted a hot towel, bent down to wipe his face. Yang Shuo Ming stared at her gentle movements, smelling the faint scent from her sleeves, his heart swayed involuntarily.

  She noticed him looking at her and slightly turned her head, as if she didn't dare to look at him. Yang Shuo Ming felt a kind of youthful charm and elegance that was naturally revealed on her, which couldn't be concealed. At this moment, her eyes shone like starlight, her teeth were white and beautiful, her cheeks were flushed with warmth and shyness, and the green jade earrings on her ears seemed to be dripping with dew. The soft sunlight outside the window illuminated her face, outlining her profile in an exceptionally beautiful way, making her radiant. When she finished wiping his sweat and put the towel back on the rack, her soft hair lightly brushed against his face, and Yang Shuo Ming smelled a faint scent of hair fragrance. At such a close distance, he saw for the first time the full outline of her chest, and a feeling of infatuation swept over him.

  For a girl of the "rites and propriety" era, it was usually kept hidden from view, but at this moment, she intentionally or unintentionally dropped her guard in front of him.

  Yang Shuo Ming carefully sized her up, and she seemed to feel his gaze on her, becoming a bit flustered. Yang Shuo Ming realized that his intense stare was making her uncomfortable, and he couldn't help but let out a dry laugh, breaking the silence.

  "Have I really slept for so long?" Yang Shuo Ming asked with a smile.

  Huang Yunzhi nodded slightly and got up to a small, exquisite mud fire stove not far away, where something was simmering on it. "You've sweated so much, have some soup." She took a beautiful Qinghua porcelain bowl, filled him a bowl of soup, and placed it on the small table beside the bed.

  Yang Shuo Ming had the intention to pretend that he couldn't move, letting her feed him personally. After thinking for half a day, he still didn't have the nerve to do it. He straightened his body and looked at the bowl of soup. The faint aroma and the hint in his eyes told him that it was a bowl of chicken soup stewed with silver ear mushrooms.

  The aroma of the chicken soup stirred up his appetite, Yang Shuo Ming picked up the still slightly hot chicken soup and drank it down with a few gulps. Perhaps afraid that he would scald himself, Huang Yunzhi wanted to hand him a spoon, but seeing his vigorous drinking manner, she couldn't help but laugh quietly.

  A bowl of hot chicken soup down, Yang Shuo Ming felt that his spirit and strength had recovered a lot. He sat up in bed, moved his shoulders, and immediately winced in pain.

  "The doctor said the poison has all been removed, but after all, a piece of flesh is gone, and it will take some time to heal. He told you not to move around and to change the dressing on time." Huang Yunzhi said to him, her voice sweet and pleasant to hear. Yang Shouming still had the feeling of being completely attracted by a woman's voice for the first time.

  After hearing Huang Yunzhi's words, Yang Shuoming only realized that this gunshot wound had almost brought himself to the brink of death.

  In an era without penicillin, even a minor wound infection could be fatal.

  Thinking of the serious consequences caused by his momentary carelessness, Yang Shuo Ming's forehead couldn't help but sweat again.

  As he sweated again, Huang Yunzhi took a towel and gently wiped his forehead. Yang Shao Ming suppressed the urge to hug her and began to divert his attention with conversation.

  "Were all those people who were just here your classmates?" Yang Shuo Ming asked.

  "Hmm." Huang Yunzhi nodded, "They've been wanting to thank you all along."

  "How did you get caught by bandits and taken up the mountain?" Yang Shuo Ming found it somewhat strange that she would say this.

  "It's too far from the city, and there are often bandits on the road," Huang Yunzhi said. "Every year when the holiday ends and we return to school, the town's security team sends someone to escort us. This time, because there were many people walking and few escorts, the result..." She seemed unwilling to recall those frightening experiences and didn't continue speaking.

  "Don't worry, from now on, I'll protect you." Yang Shuo Ming didn't know how he blurted out such a sentence, but Huang Yunzhi might have been the first to hear someone say that to her. Her pretty face turned bright red with embarrassment, but Yang Shuo Ming could feel the unparalleled joy emanating from her body.

  Just then, a commotion came from outside the house, with sounds of people falling and laughter. Yang Shuoming knew that it was probably the students eavesdropping on them at the foot of the wall.

  After a few more days, under the careful care of Huang Yunzhi and the students, Yang Shuoming quickly recovered. During this period, Huang Shiye, Wu Jie, and the parents of the rescued students all came to visit him, but Xu Yuanjin, the captain of the Xu team, never showed up.

  After Yang Shuo Ming's recovery, Huang Yunzhi no longer came alone with her maid. Every time she came to see him, it was always with Madame Huang by her side. Yang Shuo Ming naturally understood her intentions. Although her father had intended for her to marry him, they were not yet married, and being together was still quite inconvenient. After all, this era that emphasized etiquette and propriety was vastly different from the time and space he originally came from.