Across Time and Space Chapter 70

Published at 11th of August 2019 07:51:46 AM Chapter 70

When Mingyue returned to the Imperial Infirmary, a group of physicians gathered at the center of the hall . Her eyes lightened up as she stepped forward to see that the group of the physician who went to the western region has returned . She searched for Ying Yi and saw her stood at the corner of the room, away from the others .

"Ying Yi!" Mingyue waved her hand as she headed towards the girl .

The girl looked up when she heard someone calling up her name . Ying Yi's face brightened up when she saw Mingyue . She gathered her skirt in her hand and ran towards Mingyue . Then, she pulled Mingyue into a hug .

Mingyue laughed at Ying Yi's action . "Did you miss me?" She smiled again when Ying Yi nodded happily . "How was your trip to the western region? Did you learn a lot? Did anyone bully you?"
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Ying Yi lifted her head . She grabbed Mingyue's wrist and pulled her into a corner and sat down .

Soon, her hands moved as Ying Yi briefed Mingyue her experience during her trip to the western region . Mingyue smiled as she listened attentively . Once in a while, she would stop Ying Yi to ask her a few things .

After some time, Ying Yi finally stopped . She lowered her gaze and her cheek reddened with embarrassment . She had not expected that she had been talking to Mingyue for too long . The hall has now emptied, and everyone else has returned to their task .

"What's wrong?" Mingyue asked when she sensed something was wrong with Ying Yi . She laughed when Ying Yi told her the reason . She patted Ying Yi on her hair and said, "Come on . Let's continue chatting later . We should go to the greenhouse first . You have helped me to tend after the herbs, and then we'll visit grandfather later . Maybe grandfather and I will give you a few tests to see how much you have improved . "

Ying Yi widened her eyes at Mingyue's words . She told Mingyue that she was confident that she would pass the test .

The two girls went into Mingyue's greenhouse, and once they were inside, they went straight to tend after the herbs . Ying Yi stood straightened up her body after she helped Mingyue to loosen the soil . Then, she sat at a bench as she waited for Mingyue to finish her tasks . Afterward, the two girls headed to Han Zhenting's place .

Han Zhenting was happy when he saw Ying Yi . He sent his assistant to prepare some refreshment while the three of them chatted about Ying Yi's experience in the western region .

Both Mingyue and her grandfather was shocked upon hearing that Ying Yi almost drowned . The water came too sudden . However, Ying Yi was lucky that she could swim . She swam towards a large tree and climbed on the higher branch to take cover . When the rain stopped, a woman on a raft had rescued her . The woman was shocked when she found Ying Yi took shelter on that tree .

The woman then told Ying Yi how that large tree was cursed . The large tree was famously known as the sacrificial tree among the villagers . It was known for a long time that a few villagers had disappeared when they took sat under that tree . At one time, the villagers forbade anyone from approaching the tree .

After the villagers stopped coming to that tree, disaster struck them . A shaman was invited, and that shaman told them that a spirit guarding the tree was angered as the villagers stopped sending sacrifices . Since then, the villagers started to send someone once a year to appease the spirit of that tree .

However, a few months ago, when they conducted the ritual, the person who was chosen to be sacrifice escaped . Thus, the villagers believed that the flood happened because the spirit from that tree was angered .

Ying Yi scoffed when she finished telling them the story . She was furious upon hearing how the villagers would sacrifice a precious life for a tree . Ying Yi thought that it sounded absurd .

"You can't change their way unless if you have another way to convince them that what they believe was wrong, Even so, it will be hard to change their way . After all, they have been practicing this for years . " Han Zhenting said . He had heard a few stories like Ying Yi's during his younger days .
As a physician, he valued life . He had tried to change the others opinion and never succeed .

Soon, Han Zhenting excused himself when he was needed to attend a patient while Ying Yi offered herself to help him . Mingyue sat in the dining room with the teacup in her hand while she contemplated over Ying Yi's story .

She could not help but thought that the way people disappeared sounded familiar .

Chapter end

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