0p0 Chapter 220: People are so cold-hearted, it’s hard to find someone who cares
Chapter 220: People are so cold-hearted, it’s hard to find someone who cares
"Grandpa, you're here again!" The girl in green put her hands on her hips, expressing her dissatisfaction. "I have the final say on who I want to be with."
Doctor Gu didn't take the green-clothed girl's dissatisfied remarks seriously at all. He just looked at Lu Yunting with an ambiguous smile.
"How about it? Can you possibly meet these three conditions?"
Lu Yunting shook his head. "I can agree to the first two conditions, but I'm sorry, I can't comply with the last one!"
"Why? Is it because my granddaughter isn't pretty enough? Or is it because you don't want to marry into my family?"
Lu Yunting said directly: "I have someone I like."
"You have to think carefully. If you can't meet those three conditions, I won't help you."
"In that case..." Lu Yunting bowed to him, "I will not force you. But I have another matter to ask. Your Majesty wishes to see the miracle doctor. I wonder if the miracle doctor could spare the time to see you?"
"It seems that you don't really want to know who killed your father." The ancient doctor completely ignored Emperor Yuan's words that he wanted to see him.
"There are many ways to find the murderer of my father, but she is the only one."
When these words were spoken, Xu An and the girl in green were shocked.
Xu An and Lu Yunting grew up together, and he had never seen anyone or anything more important to him than finding the murderer of his father.
In the eyes of the girl in green, Lu Yunting is not the kind of person who can be easily bound, especially by love.
She could imagine that Lu Yunting would not agree to the third condition, but she never expected that Lu Yunting would not agree because of a woman.
People in the world are so heartless that it is hard to find a caring person.
Doctor Gu was also a little surprised by Lu Yunting's words, and then he curled the corners of his mouth and smiled.
"What if you don't have a girl you like right now? Would you agree to that condition?"
Lu Yunting opened his mouth to answer, but the girl in green spoke up first, "Grandpa, if you keep doing this, I'll be mad! Then, I'll run away from home like Gu Lan."
Divine Doctor Gu snorted arrogantly, "You young people are so boring! You can't help but laugh at me."
"Why don't you tell me your third condition?" The girl in green looked as if she had seen through him.
The ancient doctor glared at the girl in green, then walked to a recliner nearby, lay down and rocked gently.
He closed his eyes and spoke slowly, "The third condition... the detoxification requires the 'Illusion Heart Grass'. I don't have any here, so you'll need to provide it yourself."
"Where can I find the 'Illusion Heart Grass'?"
"I'm tired. If you have any questions, you can ask my granddaughter. Also, you must pick the edelweiss and green glass fruit I want before you leave."
Seeing this, the girl in green said, "My grandfather needs to rest. Please follow me."
Then they turned and left the room.
The girl in green led them directly to the back mountain, saying as she walked, "If you had agreed to the third condition just now, my grandfather would have kicked you all out of Yaoling Valley.
He hated people who would do anything to achieve their goals, especially abandoning the ones they loved.
Hearing this, Xu An asked in confusion, "How did your grandfather know that my young master has someone he likes? Did Brother Gu mention it in the letter?"
"No." The girl in green stopped and looked back at the red headband on Lu Yunting's head. "The headband on your head was given to you by the girl you like, right?"
The red hairband fluttered gently in the breeze, and the pear blossoms on it seemed to be blooming quietly, vivid and lifelike.
Xu An glanced at the headband and said, "So that's how you knew it! You were so observant."
The girl in green turned around and continued walking forward. "By the way, my name is Gu Ling'er. I don't know your names yet."
"My name is Xu An, and my son's name is Lu Yunting. They are His Majesty's men, so their names don't matter."
Several secret guards: "..."
Thinking of the mission His Majesty had given them, Xu An couldn't help but say, "We came to Yaoling Valley, not only to ask the ancient divine doctor to save people, but also to invite him to meet with His Majesty."
"My grandfather won't leave the valley easily. He agreed to rescue you, not because your young master gave a beautiful answer, but because..." She paused here, "because that was the sin committed by our eldest brother."
"Then he must leave the valley when rescuing people, right? Then he won't be able to meet His Majesty?"
"It's too early to tell. It's not certain whether you can find the 'Illusion Heart Grass'."
"From what you said, the "Illusion Heart Grass" is difficult to find?"
Gu Linger hummed, "Illusion Heart Grass likes to grow in miasma-filled areas, surrounded by poisonous snakes, insects, rats, ants, flowers, plants, and trees. If you're not careful, you could lose your life."
"Where can I find it?" Lu Yunting suddenly asked.
"Silent Valley."
At this time, Gu Linger brought them to the back mountain, where they saw a medicinal field full of various rare medicinal herbs.
At the end of the medicinal field is the ice pool. The temperature here is much lower than normal, and the surrounding area is filled with cold mist.
Xu An shivered from the cold, "It's so cold~"
"The edelweiss is right under the pond."
Lu Yunting looked at the ice pool. He knew without trying that the water must be extremely cold and ordinary people could not bear it.
Xu An tentatively stretched out his fingers to feel the temperature of the pool water, and then his feet instantly felt cold.
"This...this..." He was so cold that he trembled as he spoke. "This person...went down...can he...still...survive?"
"Then I don't know." Gu Ling'er took out a bottle of medicine and handed it to Lu Yunting, "Take one before you go down. It can help you resist the cold. Don't say I didn't warn you. It's not too late to regret it now."
Lu Yunting took the medicine bottle and asked, "Where is the Qingli Fruit?"
Hearing this, Gu Ling'er shook her head and sighed, then took them to the side.
After walking for about half a minute, they came to the edge of a bottomless cliff.
Gu Linger raised her hand and pointed at the stone wall opposite, "That's the Qingli Fruit."
Several people looked in the direction of her hand, and then saw a small tree half a person's height growing in the crack of the stone wall, with thumb-sized green fruits on the tree.
Xu An's eyes widened. "How do I get through this?"
"It is said that there is an iron lock in the middle of the cliff that can lead to the other side."
Xu An frowned, "It is said?"
"My grandfather's master's master's master... wrote it in the notes he left behind, but no one knows now whether it's true or not."
Lu Yunting half-crouched on the edge of the cliff and looked down. "Has no one ever been down to Yaoling Valley?"
"My grandfather went down there once when he was young, but he couldn't go any further after going down a certain distance, and he didn't see the legendary iron lock."
"If you guys in Yaoling Valley don't want to save people, just say so." Xu An was furious. "This is simply impossible!"