Chapter 4: Miraculous
Mo Yiyi didn’t go anywhere specific, but went straight to the back mountain in the village. She remembered there were quite a few herbs there, so she would just collect some herbs to apply on her forehead.
Thinking about it, Mo Yiyi’s eyes became inscrutable.
In the last days of her previous life, even now thinking back, she felt a chill running down her spine. Those days were truly unbearable, yet because of them, she acquired medical skills, allowing her to collect herbs for treating injuries, and her agility improved, enabling her to unexpectedly break Jiang Huirong’s head twice today.
Due to the injury on her head, Mo Yiyi walked very slowly, but she was highly focused, not missing even a small grass by the roadside. Luckily, she was quite fortunate and soon found Sanqi and Seven leaf Lotus.
Mo Yiyi walked for a while longer, but didn’t find any other herbs, so she directly took the two herbs and returned home.
After arriving home, Yiyi discreetly kept it from others and crushed the herbs. However, when she was about to apply the medicine, she found her forehead was bleeding again. She just wiped it with her hand and then applied the crushed herbs properly, finally falling into a deep sleep.
But this sleep was very restless for Yiyi, maybe it was an illusion, but she felt the originally hard wooden bed seemed to soften, yet it was somewhat damp.
Frowning slightly, Yiyi turned over intending to continue resting.
However, as soon as she turned, she felt it even more peculiar. It seemed her previous feeling wasn’t wrong; the hard wooden bed indeed softened, but this soft feeling seemed off.
Thinking about it, Yiyi opened her eyes straight away.
When she saw the scene in front of her, she sat up full of surprise.
In front of her was a half-man-tall tree, lush and vibrant, making people feel invigorated at first sight, and beside the tree was...
If she wasn’t mistaken, that was Lingzhi, right?
Seeing this, Mo Yiyi walked forward with joy on her face and took two steps, finding it truly was Lingzhi, fleshy in appearance, with visible age.
Yet, apart from these two things, there was nothing else around her, and she was standing on a patch of black soil.
No wonder she felt it was soft; she was lying on the dirt just now.
But soon, Yiyi realized something was wrong. Where was this place? Why was she here? Wasn’t she just sleeping in her room?
Just as Yiyi pondered this, she noticed the scene in front of her changed again, and she returned to the room she was resting in.
Seeing this, Mo Yiyi was full of shock. Did she luckily obtain some treasure?
The scene from just now flashed through her mind again, and in an instant, she returned to that patch of black soil, with Lingzhi and the half-man-tall tree still before her.
Seeing this, Yiyi jumped up in joy. It seems she might have really acquired something incredible, but then she was a bit puzzled, where did this thing come from?
As Yiyi rubbed her chin in thought, she noticed with sharp eyes that a jade ring had appeared on her finger.
Seeing the ring, Yiyi’s pupils involuntarily shrank.
She was extremely familiar with this ring; it was the old poison master’s ring.
The memories of being used as a medicine boy in her previous life were something she didn’t even want to think about, but seeing this jade ring, those memories flooded her mind like a torrent.
After that incident in her previous life, she was sweet-talked by a scumbag and vicious girl into going to the city to look for work, but all the wages she earned from the job were cheated out of her by those two. Eventually, when she couldn’t make more money for them, they sold her off to that old poison master as a medicine boy in one incident, earning themselves twenty thousand yuan.
In the eighties, twenty thousand yuan was a huge sum, while those two vile persons leisurely spent that money, and she hovered between life and death.
Back then, she was taken to a small valley where she found many others like her, all used by that old poison master for pharmacological research as medicine boys.
Those people were both men and women, all very young.
During the testing of medicine properties, some couldn’t bear it and lost their lives directly, while others, like her, struggled to live on, but even among these medicine boys, there arose conflicts to avoid being pushed out for testing each time.
To avoid being pushed out, one had to be strong enough, more agile than others, and more ruthless.
During that time, Mo Yiyi’s original gentle and kind nature vanished entirely, leaving only ruthlessness.
Thinking of this, Mo Yiyi’s face turned somewhat pale.
But she continued recalling those earlier events. Even though she gradually became stronger during that time, she was still just a medicine boy, always undergoing those old poison master’s medicine tests. After each test, she would think it’d be better to die, but hatred kept her going each time.
Until...
The person she once hated found that small valley, appearing before her like a celestial being, rescuing her.
At that moment, she was amidst a medicine test, and in panic, the old poison master wanted to use her as leverage, but she finally fought back at that moment, dragging the old poison master into the medicine barrel. However, during the struggle, she recalls tearing away that jade ring from the old poison master’s hand, but didn’t notice the ring afterward, nor care, realizing then that the ring wasn’t lost, but had been on her hand all along.
It turned out this jade ring was so magical, with a space inside.
Thinking of this, Mo Yiyi’s face was full of excitement.
No wonder back then the old poison master always regretted it, muttering nonsense while staring at his ring. She vaguely heard things like ’can’t open it’, ’shouldn’t be’ during medicine tests, and other... weren’t those just legends or something?
So back then the old poison master hadn’t actually seen this space, hence the regret.
Just thinking about it made Mo Yiyi feel satisfied.
It’s better that the old poison master couldn’t open the space, and now the jade ring is in her hands, which could serve as compensation for that old poison master’s torture in her previous life. But... if she ever met that old poison master again, Mo Yiyi thought she should poison him directly and let him leave this world, preventing him from harming others again.
Enduring the torment from the old poison master, Mo Yiyi slowly learned a lot. Making poison wasn’t a problem.
Understanding the cause of events, Mo Yiyi laid down to rest again, though before sleeping, an image of that person emerged in her mind.