Seeing Shangguan Yun silent, Wu Luoluo spoke up again, "Besides, young master, you need to recover soon and go back home. Your family must be extremely worried! Don't worry. I'll surely do my best to cure you."
Shangguan Yun nodded and said indifferently, "I'm indebted to you, miss. I don't know how to repay you."
Hearing his formal words, Wu Luoluo felt a twinge of bitterness in her heart. She waved her hands repeatedly, "It's what I should do! I'll go cook some millet congee for you. My humble abode is simple and the ingredients are limited. I hope you won't mind." With that, she quickly got up and left.
Shangguan Yun pulled the quilt closer to himself and sighed softly with his head down. How strange it was that just moments after Wu Luoluo left, he felt the quilt turning cold and his toes gradually losing warmth.
Not long after, Wu Luoluo came back with thick millet congee. She gently woke up the sleeping Shangguan Yun, helped him sit up, scooped up some yellowish congee, blew it cool, and brought it to his lips. Shangguan Yun took the bowl awkwardly and said in a low voice, "I can do it myself."
Wu Luoluo nodded, "It's a bit hot. Eat slowly." Then she got up to decoct the medicine. The young master had been lying in bed for so long. Just relying on acupuncture and medicinal baths wasn't enough. He had to take some strong medicine to expel the cold from his body.
Wu Luoluo carefully prepared a prescription to expel dampness and cold for Shangguan Yun and started boiling it. Shangguan Yun looked at the bitter - smelling Chinese medicine in the bowl with an innocent look. He frowned and gulped it down in one go. He almost vomited because of the bitterness! To make matters worse, when taking the medicinal bath, Wu Luoluo stripped him naked! He was still hesitating whether to take off his thin robe when Wu Luoluo suddenly yanked it off. To his great embarrassment, he wasn't even wearing underwear!
Shangguan Yun blushed with embarrassment.
But Wu Luoluo wasn't surprised at all. She skillfully pressed him into the medicinal soup. The soup was quite hot and highly penetrative. In an instant, Shangguan Yun felt as if a raging fire was burning inside him, gradually dispelling the cold from his body. Before long, his face turned red and big beads of sweat rolled down his forehead. Wu Luoluo kindly pulled up his long hair and gently wiped the sweat from his forehead with a handkerchief.
He never expected that taking a bath in the copper pot would be so torturous! Not only was the bottom of the pot burning his buttocks, but his chest also felt extremely stuffy. Shangguan Yun stretched out his arms to get a bit of relief. But just as he felt a little more comfortable, Wu Luoluo pressed his arms back into the water. Shangguan Yun looked at Wu Luoluo pitifully and said in a low voice, "Miss Wu, I'm so hot..."
Wu Luoluo nodded seriously, "This is normal. The dampness and cold in your body are much more severe than ordinary people. You need to take the medicinal bath for exactly forty - nine days without fail."
Shangguan Yun: ...
Wu Luoluo: "Don't worry. You've been taking the bath in a coma for about twenty days. If we persevere, the remaining days will pass quickly."
Hearing this, Shangguan Yun's face turned green. It meant that she had seen him naked for nearly twenty days!
No wonder she wasn't surprised when sharing the same bed with him!
Seeing Shangguan Yun's face turning red and then pale, Wu Luoluo stepped forward to wipe the sweat from his head and earnestly admonished, "There aren't many medicinal materials left in the warehouse. It's difficult for me to go down the mountain. Besides, I'm a bit worried about leaving you alone here. So, for your early recovery, you must take the medicinal bath properly! Don't waste the medicinal materials."
In short, he had to take the bath properly. Shangguan Yun frowned with a bitter face, and more sweat broke out on his head.
After two hours of continuous heat, the medicinal bath finally ended. Shangguan Yun felt so weak that he was on the verge of collapse. He didn't care about being naked in front of Wu Luoluo at all. He quickly got up, dried himself, and put on his clothes. Just as he was about to go out to cool off, Wu Luoluo grabbed his arm and pulled him back into the quilt.
Seeing that he was being naughty, Wu Luoluo looked stern and said seriously in his ear, "Young master! I've told you that you mustn't catch a cold again!"
Shangguan Yun felt a bit guilty. He quickly tucked in the quilt and nodded, "I'll do as you say, miss."
"Okay. I'll just tidy up things nearby. Call me if you're thirsty." After settling him down, Wu Luoluo got up and went out to get busy.
During these days in bed, Shangguan Yun had suffered from the cold and pain all over his body. He knew that Wu Luoluo was doing this for his own good. But after the medicinal bath, his whole body felt like it was on fire. He felt like he was about to be burned to ashes. Shangguan Yun endured for a while in bed but still couldn't help but quietly stretch his feet out of the quilt to let the chill dispel the burning heat in his body. But before long, he felt his exposed feet freezing and aching, so he had to quietly retract them into the quilt.
Alas! Being sick and under someone else's roof, he had no choice but to yield.
At night, Shangguan Yun tossed and turned in bed and couldn't fall asleep. The burning feeling from the medicinal bath during the day had completely disappeared. At night, the cold set in, and the coldness in the quilt made him toss and turn restlessly. Seeing that it was almost time for Wu Luoluo to go to bed, Shangguan Yun quickly closed his eyes and pretended to be asleep. He really didn't know how to face Wu Luoluo climbing into bed and hugging his legs to keep him warm, so he could only pretend.
After washing up, Wu Luoluo came up as usual to feel his pulse. After carefully sensing for a moment, she was satisfied and put his arm back under the quilt, tucking it in for him. She blew out the oil lamp, rustled out of her clothes and shoes, and quietly crept to the foot of the bed. Just like the previous day, she hugged his feet and fell asleep.
As soon as she got in, Shangguan Yun felt the quilt warm up a lot. His cold feet were held in Wu Luoluo's arms. He felt a warm current dispelling the cold from the soles of his feet and gradually warming his whole body.
Before long, he could faintly hear Wu Luoluo's soft snoring. Shangguan Yun listened carefully for a long time. He couldn't help but sigh in his heart. This woman must be a celestial maiden who had descended to the mortal world! That's why she met him, did her best to treat his illness, and took such good care of him.
What good deeds had he done to deserve such a considerate person by his side, warming his heart?
Early the next morning, when Wu Luoluo got up to feel Shangguan Yun's pulse, she clearly felt that he was in much better condition than the day before. She was secretly happy. Could it be that the medicine she had prescribed was working?
At noon, Shangguan Yun took the medicinal bath in the side room after taking the medicine. Wu Luoluo wiped the sweat from his head, moved a stool over, and sat beside him, concentrating on reading a medical book. Unable to bear the heat, Shangguan Yun craned his neck to read the medical book with her to distract himself. Whenever he came across something he didn't understand, he would ask her in a low voice.
Just as they were discussing the properties of some medicinal herbs, they suddenly heard footsteps approaching. Someone pushed open the wooden door of the kitchen outside the partition.