AWB Chapter 16 A Skilled Pig Slaughterer
Chapter 16 A Skilled Pig Slaughterer
"What did you say?" Yan Yue was stunned again.
Sheng Yunjiao jumped back a step, covered her eyes with her hands, and turned around: "Don't look at what you shouldn't see, don't listen to what you shouldn't hear, don't look at what you shouldn't see, don't listen to what you shouldn't hear..."
Yan Yue: "..."
Lu Yangyang looked at the two of them, puzzled: "What are you doing?"
Then he asked Yan Yue, "What are you spacing out for? Take your clothes off!"
"I, I, I..." Yan Yue's fair and pretty face turned completely red, and she stammered, "This, this isn't appropriate, is it? I, I, I..."
Lu Yangyang: "Didn't you want me to treat your leg? How can I treat you if you don't take your pants off? How can I give you acupuncture through your pants?"
"You, you can even give acupuncture?" Yan Yue was even more dumbfounded: "Didn't you just twist it and it would be fine?"
Lu Yangyang: "Twisting it is just setting the bone. I don't even know what's wrong with your broken leg. If you want it to heal quickly, I'll definitely give you acupuncture. Otherwise, would I just snap it and break it again?"
Lu Yangyang thought Yan Yue looked clever, but in reality, he looked silly no matter how she looked at him.
"Are you going to take it off or not? Do you expect me to rip it off for you?"
"You, you're so rude!" Yan Yue's face turned red.
"How pretentious! Treat me or don't, it's up to you!" Lu Yangyang rolled her eyes at Yan Yue. "If you're not going to treat me, then please get out of here. I'm busy!"
She hasn't even had breakfast yet, she's starving!
Although Lu Yangyang was reluctant to part with the ten taels of silver, her harvest today was decent. If she sold all this stuff, it would be worth at least ten taels of silver.
It's not a huge loss.
Sheng Yunjiao quietly pulled her fingers apart and said to Yan Yue, "I think what she said makes sense. How can you treat your leg if you don't expose it? Are you scared?"
"Who's scared? I am, I am... men and women shouldn't touch each other!" Yan Yue shouted angrily.
“In a doctor’s eyes, you’re no different from a lump of pork. When I slaughtered pigs in the village, I didn’t see them making such a fuss!” Lu Yangyang replied expressionlessly.
Sheng Yunjiao became even more curious: "You can slaughter pigs? Can you even carry a pig? You're so strong, you didn't develop that strength from slaughtering pigs, did you?"
Lu Yangyang: "There were no butchers in our village. Later, they saw that I was better at killing pigs than the butchers in the next village, so they let me do it. I not only killed pigs, but I also disemboweled the corpses."
"Ah—" Sheng Yunjiao jumped three feet away this time, her body and voice trembling: "You, you, you touched, touched a corpse?"
She changed her gesture of covering her eyes to covering her mouth, making a gagging motion, as if she couldn't take it anymore.
Lu Yangyang: "In our small town, the county government didn't even have a coroner. They would hire butchers to examine the dead. Once, when I went out to help slaughter pigs, I happened to run into the county magistrate solving a case, so I helped him out. The magistrate saw that I was good at it and called me over several times afterward. Each time he would give me dozens of copper coins and treat me to a meal!"
"You, how could you, how could you do all that, all of that!" Sheng Yunjiao was dumbfounded. She glanced at Yan Yue, almost unable to hold back, but still managed to suppress her emotions.
She was incredibly curious. Lu Yangyang was so thin, like a monkey, how could she have done such an unbelievable thing!
"When I was a child, I was rescued by a hunter in the mountains. There was no food, so I secretly followed him to learn how to hunt. Over time, I learned a little bit of everything," Lu Yangyang replied casually.
Actually, it wasn't all hunting skills she learned. Her best skills were using knives and needles. The crazy woman she lived with would sometimes dismember the prey she brought back, bit by bit, when she was lucid. She learned by watching her do it.
However, she was strong and couldn't control her strength, so she was forced to practice acupuncture. Only when she could precisely control every bit of force when she pierced the needle did she consider herself to have mastered it.
However, she couldn't tell anyone about these things.
“You…” Sheng Yunjiao stared at Lu Yangyang, somewhat stunned. She, a young lady from a wealthy family, could never have imagined the life Lu Yangyang led.
Especially when she thought about Sheng Yunzhu, who was also in the manor, and who always outshone her and made her suffer countless losses, yet could never surpass her, Sheng Yunjiao felt a strange feeling for the first time.
She couldn't tell.
It's really strange. Everything that Sheng Yunzhu enjoys should belong to Lu Yangyang, but Lu Yangyang goes to kill pigs, touch corpses, and hunt for a few dozen copper coins.
The least valuable things she had seen in the Duke of Sheng's mansion were gold and silver ingots, and small pieces of silver.
If it weren't for her mother managing the kitchen, she probably wouldn't even see a penny.
“Yangyang…” Sheng Yunjiao bit her lip. She wanted to say something to Lu Yangyang, but she was used to being proud and didn’t know how to say it.
Lu Yangyang didn't care what she wanted to say, but instead urged Yan Yue, "Are you leaving or not?"
Don't keep her from eating!
"You, you can really cure my leg, right?" Yan Yue asked, blushing.
Lu Yangyang: "Of course, why would I lie to you? I'm not going to treat you for nothing."
"Then, then my injury is, it's my calf, can I, can I not take off the top?" Yan Yue's voice was so soft it was almost inaudible.
Lu Yangyang was speechless: "I didn't ask you to take your top off. Besides, you look like a boiled chicken, what's so interesting about that?"
"You, you, you..." Yan Yue's face turned red again.
He gritted his teeth, reluctant to let this opportunity slip away, but also afraid of being found out. So he could only ask Sheng Yunjiao, "Hey, could you go outside and keep watch? I don't want anyone to know..."
Sheng Yunjiao immediately refused: "No, why should I go out? I still want to see how to treat it! Besides, what if you bully Yangyang if I leave?"
"You, you..." Yan Yue couldn't argue with her, so he looked to Lu Yangyang for help.
Lu Yangyang was in a hurry to eat, but she figured she might as well make ten taels of silver if she didn't want to, so she glanced at Sheng Yunjiao and said, "Then you can leave. Don't delay my business."
Yan Yue secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Sheng Yunjiao was a little reluctant, but she was a grown woman and was indeed embarrassed to keep it to watch.
"Then I'll keep the door open for you and keep this a secret..." She looked at Lu Yangyang expectantly, "You have to promise to be my ally, understand?"
"Okay, okay, hurry up and go, don't delay my meal," Lu Yangyang urged.
Sheng Yunjiao walked away, turning back every few steps, and when she reached the door, she closed it for them with a serious expression.
Lu Yangyang pointed to the bright, soft couch by the window: "Go sit there and show your injured leg."
Yan Yue walked over hesitantly.
Lu Yangyang turned around and went back to her room. She took a pack of needles from the tattered bag of luggage she was carrying and walked back to Yan Yue's side.
Yan Yue's face turned bright red as he looked at Lu Yangyang, seemingly wanting to say something but holding back.
"Don't worry, if you help me with this, I'll definitely help you out in the future." Yan Yue is fifteen this year, and many of his peers are already getting engaged. Of course, he knows the importance of proper conduct between men and women. Logically speaking, since Lu Yangyang has seen him, he should at least take responsibility for her, but...
But facing Lu Yangyang, this dark-skinned little dwarf, he really couldn't bring himself to say he would take responsibility.
For the first time, Yan Yue felt that he was a little bit shameless.
Lu Yangyang didn't pay any attention to what he said. Her dark, thin hand pressed on his leg, and when she pressed on a bulge, she opened her needle case, took out a silver needle, and stabbed it in without hesitation.
"Ugh—" Yan Yue reacted quickly and covered his mouth tightly.