Chapter 582: Chapter 574: Have Your Lips Tasted a Hundred Poisons?
As the words were uttered, it was like a thunderbolt from a clear sky, stunning everyone present, their faces flushing with embarrassment.
Second Grandma Sun glared at Sun Lixun fiercely. So this was why he insisted on sleeping in the small study room, fearing that she would discover the truth?
Since Sun Lixun’s incident, the couple had not consummated their marriage; firstly because his injury was at the waist, requiring bed rest, and secondly, she was too heartbroken about his injury to feel any such desire. Besides, having both a son and a daughter, they felt no pressure to produce an heir, so it wasn’t urgent to see whether they could share a bed.
But not being in a hurry didn’t mean she was willing to accept a reality where it wasn’t possible.
Second Grandma Sun, who had to take care of both the children and manage her husband’s emotional state, was spread thin and naturally did not have the capacity to think about his sexual impotence.
Seeing the shock and astonishment on his wife’s face, Sun Lixun’s face turned purple with a mix of panic and fury as he flailed his wheelchair, saying, “Kick this little scammer out, I don’t want her treatment.”
Everyone instinctively looked towards Second Grandma Sun.
Second Grandma Sun spoke grimly, “I’d like to see who dares. If you, Sun Er, dare to make a fuss again, I’ll break your legs and then there will truly be no need for treatment.”
“You…you…am I still the head of this family or…ah!” Sun Lixun suddenly saw stars before his eyes, feeling something entering his body, a prick and tingling sensation, and then he could no longer make a sound.
He grabbed his own throat in horror. What’s going on?
Second Grandma Sun was also stunned, immediately stepping forward anxiously.
“Don’t panic, I sealed his Dumb Acupoint with a Flying Needle,” Qin Liuxi said coolly. “He’s making too much noise, and if he continues, we won’t be able to conduct the examination even by nightfall.”
What, sealed the Dumb Acupoint?
Sun Lixun instinctively reached for the spot where he felt the tingling, and sure enough, he found a thin needle. He became frantic with anger, glaring at Qin Liuxi, his originally pale face now flushed with rage, his eyes ceaselessly accusing her.
If you have the guts, release my acupoint, and we can engage in a verbal battle of three hundred rounds.
Second Grandma Sun laughed, “It seems the Junior Temple Master has her ways.”
“Put him on the couch,” Qin Liuxi ordered the servant directly.
The servant looked at Second Grandma Sun, who nodded in agreement, and they carried Sun Lixun to the couch.
Poor thing, unable to move or speak, could only emit muffled groans and a gaze filled with murderous intent.
Let me go, I want to duel her!
Second Grandma Sun slapped his arm as she saw him still trying to move, “Be honest, let the Junior Temple Master take a good look, and later I’ll settle the matter of you deceiving me.”
It was both a scolding and a reminder to him that since she had pointed out his problem in a single statement, it indicated that she was no sham. There might still be hope.
Sun Lixun gritted his teeth and sullenly turned his head away, unable to face anyone.
“Junior Temple Master, sorry to trouble you,” Second Grandma Sun then gave her an apologetic bow.
Qin Liuxi nodded as if she knew it all, and stepped forward to take Sun Lixun’s hand to feel his pulse. From the initial glance at his complexion, she had some ideas, and after taking the pulse, she looked at Second Grandma Sun, “Has he taken any medicine after the injury?”
“He has had some. The prescriptions the doctors gave were mainly to relax the muscles and strengthen the tendons,” Second Grandma Sun glanced at a maid beside her, who quickly fetched the left-over prescriptions.
Qin Liuxi asked, “Recently, has he taken any medicine from Peace Pulse?”
Second Grandma Sun said with a bitter smile, shaking her head, “He’s seen many doctors and taken lots of medicines without any improvement. He has refused to see any for the last month.”
Sun Lixun pursed his lips and closed his eyes.
Since I’m already a broken man, why bother with check-ups?
Qin Liuxi glanced at him, “Avoiding doctors out of fear of one’s illness is the height of foolishness. Even the best doctor can’t help if missed, and it’s not only regrettable but also turns a minor illness into a serious one, bringing unnecessary suffering.”
Sun Lixun opened his eyes and glared at her resentfully. How can a doctor speak so harshly? Is her tongue laced with poison?
Qin Liuxi smirked and snorted with laughter: “Had you not been unwilling to see the doctor this past month, how could he have failed to notice your kidney yang deficiency and subsequently prescribe you with a treatment? This is all your own doing. The more anxious you are, the more you avoid, the more you mess things up, until you’ve actually caused kidney deficiency.”
Sun Lixun’s throat emitted a heaving sound like a bellows, infuriated.
So venomous.
“Moreover, there’s an old saying that injuries involving tendons or bones heal in a hundred days. Even a broken leg requires long-term care, much less a fractured spine? Not even divine pills and magic medicines could possibly cure you overnight. It hasn’t been long and you already want to give up treatment. I’ve just treated someone with paralysis who had been incapacitated for two years, and they weren’t half as dramatic as you.” Comparing oneself with others is truly disheartening.
Sun Lixun wanted to play dead, but couldn’t, wondering who had been treated?
Second Grandma Sun was quite curious: “Really? So he was cured?”
“Would I be boasting if he hadn’t been cured?” Qin Liuxi declared proudly with his head held high.
The others: “…”
Rendered speechless.
Second Grandma Sun was thrilled: “Who was it?”
“Yue Ding.” The young general recovering in Li City, wasn’t that his name?
Yue Ding, who hadn’t appeared for a long time, felt not the slightest woe. If his name were Gold Ingot, Junior Temple Master Qian Chuanzi would certainly remember it.
Second Grandma Sun gasped, then let out a pig-like shriek, asking: “Who did you say?”
Sun Lixun, startled by the shrill scream, had a trembling hand and unhappily glanced at his wife. Why so excited? Was that her fancy man?
“That young general from the East Sea.”
Second Grandma Sun felt faint and said speechlessly: “That’s General Zhen Dong.”
What young general from the East Sea could there be that is paralyzed and surnamed Yue, other than that one from the Dongyang Marquis Mansion?
“Oh.” Whoever he is, he’s just the one who couldn’t bring back the Jiao Pearl, right, and I’ve yet to find that Staff Officer of theirs.
Second Grandma Sun, suppressing her trembling heart, asked: “Did you really cure General Zhen Dong of paralysis?”
Sun Lixun also stared intensely at Qin Liuxi, recalling who it was, indeed the young hero once admired by his ex-wife, the epitome of other people’s children, not someone those waste-of-spaces could compare with.
But could this man really have cured his paralysis?
“Lying does me no good,” Qin Liuxi said indifferently.
Second Grandma Sun immediately let out an excited cry of joy, as the news of General Zhen Dong’s paralysis had left many lamenting. Now that he was well, he could return to the battlefield and protect the Wei Country once more.
Sun Lixun was infuriated. Are you focusing on the wrong thing? I’m your man, and here you are, getting excited for another man in front of me. Am I dead to you?
It’s infuriating that Qin Liuxi had sealed his Dumb Acupoint, rendering him speechless.
While seething internally, his body was flipped over, and simultaneously his neck was touched as Qin Liuxi removed the needle.
Sun Lixun, turned over without warning, cursed under his breath, discovering he could speak and immediately wanted to unleash a full barrage, but felt his back pressed down.
Qin Liuxi felt his spine, then moved down to the waist, paused, tugged at his belt, and flipped up his outer robe.
Sun Lixun was shocked: “What are you doing?”
Acting like a hooligan.
“Don’t move.” Qin Liuxi lifted the outer robe and felt the bones through the undergarments. His brows furrowed then relaxed; a schadenfreude expression emerged on his face: “You’re in for trouble.”
This drama queen is in for some real suffering.