The Blessed

After they left, Zhao Shan came out from the inner room. He meant to come to ask his shifu some of his doubts on medicinal herbs and happened to see that his shifu was entertaining the guests.

“Yeah, from His Majesty and His Empress. What brings here?”

Not wanting this pure and hard-working young man to know those nasty things, Ling Jingxuan tried to switch the topic. Zhao Shan was a good kid. If possible, he’d like to teach him all the medical skills and poison skills he knew and then he could pass it down. Now after the big win at the boarders, the nomads in the north would dare not come offend them in three or five years. Then they could take such an opportunity to improve their medical skills. And when the wars came again, they could put it into use.

“Shifu, isn’t His Empress your friend? Why doesn’t he help you?”

Rarely, Zhao Shan didn’t get distracted, but asked out his doubts. He was not familiar with His Empress, only met twice. But from others’ mouths, he more or less heard about their friendship. In his heart, His Empress was the noblest person through the whole kingdom. Why couldn’t he let his shifu stay in peace?

“Hehe…a lot of things are not that easy as you see. Shan, people are capricious, people’s hearts are the hardest to predict, including His Empress. He also has his helplessness. In the future, after you learn all things from me, you will definitely become the most famous magic doctor. But I wish that before you save people, you need to think if that person is worth you saving. Although it’s our job to save people, if the one you are gonna save would backbite you, why waste your energy saving him?”

The boy was still a little too simple, and he only had medical skills in his head. It was his bad. He seldom taught him some other thoughts but only things about medical skills.

“Is this the reason why you have such superb medical skills but still don’t want treat people?”

Zhao Shan frowned at him, not to refute, but simply puzzled. He never understood why his shifu who was so good at medical skills but never treated any patients.

“Not really, I just simply don’t like saving people. Rather than being a saint to restrain myself on this and that, I’d rather be a bad person who can do whatever I want. Medical skills to me is only an accessory for survival, like poison skills and shapeshifting skills. I can save people, but also can kill people, it depends on my mood. But letting me to save people for the so-called moral criteria, it’s impossible.”

In fact, in his previous life, the first thing he had learn was to kill people using poison, medical skills were only an accessory. Later, after he made his name in killers’ circle, he had only started to work on all kinds of medical skills. So he had never thought he was a doctor, so he had no obligations to save anyone. If he was not in the mood, however others paid, he wouldn’t lend a hand. On the contrary, he’d like to save the other side even if he only paid on copper coin. That was also why he was like a combination of good and evil. And between killing people and saving people, it was only a moment’s thought.

“Really?”

Zhao Shan lowered his head murmuring. Ling Jingxuan laughed and said, “You don’t have to imitate me. Everyone’s experience and way of doing things are different. Just follow your heart.”

“Hmm, I know, shifu. But I think what you said is right. Saving people is a doctor’s job. But a doctor shouldn’t save people against his heart sometimes. Shifu, how about you teach me shapeshifting skills?”

Maybe even Ling Jingxuan himself had never thought he would say such words today. In the future the Qing Kingdom would have a famous magic doctor, but unlike others, he often hid himself and always didn’t play by the conventional wisdom, which would definitely give those who came for his help a big headache.

“OK. Strictly speaking, shapeshifting skills are interlinked with medical skills and poison skills. I will teach you some other day.”

The commitment now also indirectly became the foundation for Zhao Shan to become a wandering magic doctor through the whole world.

“Hmm!”

Zhao Shan’s eyes were beaming as he nodded firmly. Yan Shengrui happened to come back. Ling Jingxuan gave a faint smile to end the topic between them. Seeing that, Zhao Shan decided to solve his doubts some other day.

“What are you two talking about?”

Sitting by his side, Yan Shengrui asked casually. Today’s court meeting was a lot quieter. After yesterday’s thing, those people quite behaved now.

“Nothing, we were just discussing about some medical skills. Oh right, Yunhan sent his personal maid over, and Eunuch Zhao An from His Majesty. I saw that Chunxiang seemed to have something to say to me, in case Zhao An might suspect, I shushed her.”

Handing a cup of tea to him, Ling Jingxuan chuckled, then as he thought of those people from the palace, he resumed his shrewdness on the fac. After taking a sip, Yan Shengrui only said slowly, “Chunxiang is my imperial sister-in-law’s personal maid when he married into the palace, who is very loyal to him and would even sacrifice herself for him. Since he sent her here, he should have something wanting her to convey. Zhao An has served my imperial elder brother since he was young. Although he hasn’t got a promotion these years, he has never annoyed my imperial elder brother, so he should be a smart one. Since my imperial sister-in-law sent them together, maybe Zhao Shan is already my imperial sister-in-law’s people now. If he doesn’t do anything suspicious, we don’t need to be hard on hm.”

Having stayed out of the palace didn’t mean he wasn’t clear of things in here. For those trustworthy servants or maids of those important figures, he had paid extra attention.

“Hmm. At first, I meant to let that Zhao An get out of here. It was Chunxiang who spoke for him. So I was thinking if Eunuch Zhao has thrown himself under Yunhan’s shelter. Later we’ll summon Chunxiang alone.”

Both of them were so shrewd, so what they thought was more or less the same.

“You make the decision. At home, I am no longer the highness, but only your own Shengrui.”

Taking his hand and leaving a kiss on it…For his nearly thirty years’ domineering life, Ling Jingxuan was the first one who could let him admit to the second, then the kids.

“Haha…”

Ling Jingxuan’s smile was infected with sweetness and happiness. Was there anything he was not satisfied with having such a husband? Even if he had to fight for him, so what? Even if he had to fight for him for the rest of his life, he’d love to!