Chapter Seven: Leaving Behind a Letter

  Genius slightly bright, Yu Feng got up quietly and washed his face, took the package and wine gourd, put a written letter on the bed, and walked out of the door lightly closing it behind him. Then he turned around and flew over the wall, without even touching the corner of his clothes to the wall, and landed outside. He touched his nose, Yu Feng looked back, then headed towards the city gate. At this time, the sky was still a bit dark, there were almost no pedestrians on the road, only some restaurants could be seen with lights.

  The city gate had not yet opened, but the young man in green clothes flew up to the top of the wall at an incredible speed that ordinary people could hardly imagine, tapped three times on the wall and then floated down from the other side. After landing, he flashed a few times and left the field of vision from the top of the city head.

  The young man in green reappeared in people's sight, it was already late in the day. He had been traveling since dawn and galloped for nearly seven hours without rest.

  The young man in the green shirt just wanted to try how long he could last, and after a day's journey, his energy consumption was simply a terrifying number. He stopped only because he could already see his destination, Fuzhou City.

  Yu Feng had often seen in books people known as "divine walkers" who could travel over 500 miles a day. So he also tried to test his own limits.

  He believed that the gods mentioned in the book were definitely internal martial artists who were skilled in footwork, after all, relying on his innate great perfection of internal strength to walk like this already had a hint of fatigue. From Nanping to Fuzhou is over 700 miles, and by the end of the day, his true energy was less than one-fifth of what it used to be. Guessing, Yu Feng thought that he could still rely on the remaining one-tenth of his true energy to walk 150 miles, and then rely solely on his physical body to walk another 150 miles or so, perhaps walking 1,000 miles a day was his bottom line.

  Yu Feng walked to a big tree and looked up at the dark sky, guessing that it would rain soon. He didn't care about anything else and decided to take a rest first. In his mind, he thought of finding a place to sit under the tree and calm down. It had been a long time since he had consumed his true energy like this, the last time was under the waterfall. After a whole week passed, Yu Feng felt that the speed of his true energy circulation seemed to have increased a bit, so he guarded his spirit, calmed his mind, focused on one thing and introspected the running state of his true energy inside his body.

  Half a time later, Yu Feng opened his eyes, and there was a hint of disappointment in them. Although his true energy had recovered, he hadn't found that breakthrough feeling, the sky was already starting to flash with lightning and thunder, and it was estimated that the heavy rain would come down soon, Yu Feng guessed that the city gate had not been closed yet, so he walked straight towards the direction of the city gate.

  Standing in the city, Yu Feng patted his own pocket and then smiled wryly as he brought back empty hands. It turned out that the last copper coin on him was spent buying half a gourd of wine in Nanping. At that time, he thought about making a big profit at the Li Mansion to continue on his journey, but later, although he earned some money from seeing patients, it was all spent within those few months.

  Li Xiangcheng, for the sake of his apprentice, left early and even wrote a letter to go out. He had long forgotten that he was a poor man. Now it's good, it's really hard for a hero to spend a penny. There are still some medicinal materials in the bag that can't be rained on, but they can't bear to sell them either.

  He saw a few people inside the shop next door, possibly also hiding from the rain, but they seemed to know the owner. Yu Feng hesitated for a moment before entering, and the owner, seeing him wearing the cheapest green shirt, guessed he was there to hide from the rain, since this was a jade store and someone dressed like that wouldn't be buying jade. The owner just pursed his lips but didn't say anything.

  The people in the jade shop stopped talking as soon as they saw the stranger, and Yu Feng nodded slightly to everyone with some embarrassment, but suddenly felt a hard-to-describe aura, just like... it seemed similar to the true energy inside his own body.

  He walked in that direction, his eyes fixed on a two-finger-wide jade slip placed in the western corner, the jade slip was somewhat worn out and should have been there for some years, the closer he got to the jade, the clearer the feeling became. Just as he was about to reach out and pick up the jade to take a look, a voice with a somewhat cold tone appeared beside his ear.

  "You poor guy, if you're not going to buy anything, then get out! The shop owner was already a bit unhappy when he saw him wanting to take that piece of jade, letting this poor wretch come in to escape the rain was already giving him enough face, and now he even dares to touch things in the store."

  Although the jade was pawned by a vagrant here earlier, it has not been redeemed and the pawn period has expired. At that time, the store had just opened, and the jade looked like it was from an early dynasty, so I gave a relatively high price for it. Now it seems that I overestimated its value. Although the price of the jade has been lowered repeatedly, no one pays attention to it, but it's definitely not something this person can afford.

  "Sorry, I'm leaving now." Yu Feng heard this and furrowed his brow, but still responded with a sentence. Since he didn't have a single copper coin on him, he definitely wouldn't be buying anything, so the other person's words weren't wrong. He should go back and earn some money before coming back to take another look at this jade, maybe even buy it. He felt that this piece of jade was somewhat strange. Thinking this in his heart, Yu Feng walked out of the store, completely ignoring the mocking gazes of the people inside.

  With one hand using his true energy to protect the package, Yu Feng walked towards the end of the street like this. Although this could temporarily prevent the medicinal materials from getting wet, it was not a solution in the long run. He had to find a place to take shelter from the rain. Yu Feng continued to walk while adjusting his breath with one hand protecting the package. Although practicing breathing techniques while walking was not as effective as sitting still, it was better than making no progress at all. The young man walked like this until he reached a dilapidated house. At that moment, the old door creaked open and an elderly woman came out to pour water. However, Yu Feng remained preoccupied with his own thoughts and did not notice her.

  "You young fellow, don't you know to find a place to hide when it's raining? Come on in quickly, take off your clothes and I'll get you something dry to change into."

  "Take off your clothes! Take off your clothes!" Suddenly Yu Feng's mind was filled with this sentence.

  "Is that so? Just adding more clothes won't do, will it? My body can only get so sturdy, and my internal meridians can only get so wide, there's a limit to it! So that's how it is, I see!" A powerful aura enveloped Yu Feng's surroundings, the rain within a ten-zhang radius around him seemingly frozen in place. Yu Feng chuckled foolishly at the sky.

  The old woman didn't notice anything unusual about the boy and simply dragged him home with one hand.

  "Madam, your water didn't splash on me, look, most of my body is dry, and the few wet spots are just a small area. Thank you! Madam." Yu Feng was willing to say "thank you" this time, as madam's one sentence had freed him from his usual restraints, and from then on he felt carefree and unrestricted.

  "You young man are quite lucky, with such a big rain, you didn't get wet at all, and the water I splashed also didn't splash on you? Come take shelter from the rain for a while, I'll bring you a bowl of water." The old lady carefully looked at Yu Feng's clothes and found that they were indeed not very wet. She was puzzled in her heart, wondering if she had seen things incorrectly earlier. Hadn't the water just splashed over him? Alas, as people get older, their eyesight gets worse and worse. In fact, she didn't know that although Yu Feng hadn't noticed her, when the water splashed over, he subconsciously dodged out of the way.

  As the rain grew heavier, the old woman handed a bowl of water to Yu Feng and then went to the back to prepare food for him.

  "Old lady, where are your family members? Are you alone here at night?" Yu Feng asked after finishing the bowl of pumpkin rice.

  "Alas! My husband passed away early, my two sons are working as long-term workers in the Zhang family in the east of the city, they come back only once or twice a month. My eldest daughter has brought her children back home, so I've been living alone these days. Fortunately, my sons still remember me, their old mother, and occasionally send things over."

  That night, Yu Feng stayed at his aunt's house and didn't mention it again.

  "Madam, I notice that your legs and feet seem to be a bit clumsy, let me take a look for you. I've been learning traditional medicine from my family since I was young, and I have some experience with treating leg problems." Yu Feng said to the madam after they finished breakfast the next day.

  "Hmm, I didn't know you young man could treat legs. Come and take a look at mine, it's been like this since many years ago when I fell while carrying water. Whenever the weather changes, my bones ache and feel sour inside." The old lady saw that Yu Feng knew how to treat legs, although she was surprised, but still let him take a look, not entirely believing but also not wanting to reject his kind intentions.

  Yu Feng carefully helped her check her lower leg, took out the silver needle from the package, and began to help the old lady with acupuncture. Finally, he helped her use true energy to comb and massage those withered meridians on her leg. In less than a stick of incense time, the old lady actually fell asleep.

  Yu Feng carefully laid her down on the bed and covered her with a quilt. Then he took his package and walked out the door. He entered a large pharmacy and asked the shop assistant if they collected high-quality medicinal materials. These medicinal materials were all picked in the deep mountains by him and Zhang Lao many years ago, and after processing, they would not lose their efficacy even after several years. If they could be kept dry, they could be preserved for an even longer period of time. Although life had been difficult lately, he hadn't been willing to sell them, only using some when accepting Li Xiang as his apprentice.

  After several rounds of negotiation, the owner of the pharmacy bought more than half of the medicine in Yu's package for twenty-seven taels of silver. The old man and Yu Feng talked for a few words, knowing that Yu Feng's understanding of the medicine was not inferior to his own, so he didn't cheat Yu Feng out of much money, and the price he gave was still fair. This amount of silver can support a family of five for three years, which can be imagined how precious those medicines are.

  Yu Feng bought some common medicinal herbs at the pharmacy again, which he wanted to keep for that old lady to use to nurse her body back to health. Although she seemed fine except for having some trouble with her legs, due to overwork in her earlier years, she had also developed some underlying illnesses, and her children were not always by her side. If she didn't take care of herself soon, things might deteriorate further.

  Because of what the old lady said, Yu Feng felt that he owed her a lot, and this didn't even include inviting him in to avoid the rain, giving him water and food, and letting him not sleep on the streets at night, etc. These kindnesses Yu Feng remembered in his heart. If it were a wealthy family, perhaps Yu Feng wouldn't have treated the old lady with such dedication, but seeing that her family was originally poor and yet she could treat a stranger like this, then this emotion was truly precious.

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