Chapter 18: The best combination of work and rest Du Ruo was treating his wound with his upper body naked when a voice was heard outside the yard. It was Yang Chenguang, whom he hadn't seen for a few days. "How did you come?" "How dare you ask? My dad called me while I was in a meeting. He insisted on asking me to come over to see you. What's wrong with you? Which bitch got you arrested?" Yang Chenguang was originally outside. He walked into the yard while complaining. When he saw the wounds on Du Ruo's limbs, he couldn't help but ask a question. After all, it seems impossible for a normal person to become like this. Not to mention, the wounds on the limbs really look like they were scratched by a woman's fingernails. "You're here just in time. Stop talking nonsense and go buy me some breakfast. It's best if it has meat. At least three servings." Du Ruo was very hungry at this time. When he saw Yang Chenguang coming in, he told him to buy breakfast without saying a word. After such a huge consumption in the morning, plus the consumption from the extra food, Du Ruo already felt stomach pain, but the wound had not been treated yet, so it was inconvenient for Du Ruo to go out. "Okay, wait a minute... Really, you didn't call me earlier, otherwise I would have brought it to you."
Yang Chenguang saw that Du Ruo only had superficial injuries and walked outside muttering to himself. Du Ruo was left alone to apply medicine to his wound very awkwardly. After all, it was very inconvenient to apply medicine on himself. He couldn't see many places, let alone apply medicine. "I'm afraid iodine alone won't be enough for your wounds." Originally, Du Ruo was still thinking about waiting for Yang Chenguang to come back to apply medicine to him, but unexpectedly, another voice sounded not far away. "Hey, Madam Boss, you live upstairs." Du Ruo looked up and saw Xiang Yuanyuan looking at him with a bottle of beer on the small balcony not far away, so he started to talk to her. "Well, wait, I'll get you some medicine." Xiang Yuanyuan drank the beer in her hand in one gulp, then turned around and apparently went in to get medicine. Seeing this, Du Ruo simply stopped worrying about applying medicine to himself since there was ready-made labor. After a while, Xiang Yuanyuan came down carrying a small bottle. Today, Xiang Yuanyuan is wearing silk pajamas. The pajamas are relatively loose, but they can’t hide her proud figure. "It hurts a little, please bear with it." Xiang Yuanyuan said something first, then opened the small bottle, and a faint smell of medicinal wine came out. Xiang Yuanyuan took a cotton swab and dipped it in some medicinal wine to remove the iodine that Du Ruo had originally applied. The cotton swab was placed on Du Ruo's arm, and goose bumps immediately appeared on Du Ruo's body, but they quickly disappeared again. The pain is one thing, but more importantly it’s because of the cool touch of the cotton swab. Xiang Yuanyuan's movements are very gentle, and sometimes if there are sharp thorns left in the skin, she will use tweezers to remove them. "Tsk tsk..." After a while, Yang Chenguang came back with breakfast in his hand and put it on the table in front of Du Ruo. Seeing Xiang Yuanyuan helping Du Ruo treat the wound, he sat aside without saying anything, clicked his tongue twice, and then looked at the two of them with complicated eyes. That look seemed to be questioning Du Ruo: "You two's relationship is progressing so fast? How come I didn't know?"
In fact, not only Yang Chenguang didn't know, Du Ruo also didn't know why Xiang Yuanyuan suddenly came downstairs today to help him apply medicine. He had never realized that Xiang Yuanyuan lived on the second floor of the tavern. "Okay, your wounds are not serious, just some superficial injuries." After a while, Xiang Yuanyuan put away the small bottle and said something to Du Ruo, but he didn't look like he wanted to leave. "What are you looking at? Make some tea, boss lady. Have you had breakfast? Want some?" Du Ruo asked Yang Chenguang to make tea, while he picked up the breakfast on the table and stuffed it into his mouth, not forgetting to ask Xiang Yuanyuan next to him if she wanted to eat something. "Thank you, I just ate." Xiang Yuanyuan shook his head and had no intention of eating the breakfast on the table. Du Ruo remembered the other party holding a beer bottle on the second floor just now, and wondered if he had drunk a bottle of beer as breakfast in the morning. "What's wrong with you? My dad called and said you seemed to have fallen off the mountain? Why are you climbing up the mountain so early in the morning when you have nothing better to do?" Yang Chenguang casually made a pot of tea, then frowned and asked Du Ruo a question. He was also shocked in the morning. Nothing had happened on the mountain for a long time. Let alone Du Ruo, even if something happened to other people in the village, he, as the deputy secretary of the village, would be in trouble. "I've been practicing martial arts recently. I went up the mountain to build up my physical strength. I didn't roll down, but was scratched by thorns. I'll be more careful next time." Du Ruo's words were somewhat understated, and he wasn't lying. "..." After listening to this, Yang Chenguang felt that Du Ruo had become a little unfamiliar. The previous Du Ruo would rather sit than stand, and he had never touched anything related to sports since he was a child. He didn't expect that he would talk about physical exercise today, which left him speechless for a moment. "You still want to do it next time? You... forget it, just be careful, and... just walk around the top of the mountain, don't go inside. Last year there were rumors that someone spotted a clouded leopard in the mountains, and there were also a lot of wild boars. If you accidentally encounter one, it could be fatal." Yang Chenguang originally wanted to say that they could not go up the mountain in the future, but looking at Du Ruo, he knew that such words were basically useless, so he could only give a reminder. This is not alarmist. As a village cadre, he is the most informed of the news. "Okay, okay, okay..." Du Ruo responded casually. It was not that he did not listen to the advice, but he went into the mountain because he was sure. Today was just an accident. He did not expect that the small hill would be left unattended for so long, resulting in it being covered with thorns. The three of them fell into silence for a moment, with only the sound of Du Ruo eating breakfast. "Madam Boss, the medicinal wine I bought last time is almost used up. Please prepare another bottle for me." Seeing that the atmosphere was a bit dull, Du Ruo changed the subject. "So fast?" Xiang Yuanyuan raised her eyebrows after hearing this. Those medicinal liquors were enough for an average person to use for half a year. You know, medicinal liquors are only used for injuries or when you need to activate blood circulation and remove blood stasis to avoid injuries after a lot of exercise. However, she thought of what Du Ruo had just said about a man who went up the mountain to exercise and got injured like this. It was obvious that the other party must have worked really hard in practicing martial arts. "The medicinal wine is fine. I'll bring it to you later. But medicine is toxic. It's not a good thing for you to use it so frequently. The damage to your body can't be repaired by medicinal wine alone. Continuous and high-intensity exercise, let alone snake wine, even if you keep using tiger bone wine, it will inevitably cause irreversible damage." Xiang Yuanyuan thought about it and finally reminded Du Ruo that she didn't understand martial arts, but she knew about medicinal wine. "That's right. Thank you for the reminder, Madam Boss. As for the wine, please don't bother to bring it over. I'll go to the tavern tonight to have a drink. Chen Guang, do you want to have some in the evening?" When Du Ruo heard this, he felt that what the other party said made sense. Perhaps he was too anxious and forgot that the best way was to combine work and rest. He now felt extremely tired both physically and mentally, and it might not be suitable for him to practice martial arts at night. Since he had already gained today's experience and attribute points, he might as well take a rest at night. As for subsequent training, Du Ruo didn't want to stop yet. He had only practiced martial arts for a short time, so the situation he described would not happen.
(End of this chapter)
