Open a Clinic to Cultivate Myself Chapter 189 The Destined Concubine

“Brother Ning, is it because my cook is bad, so you stop me cooking?” At the table, Qing Zhui asked Ning Tao with the chopsticks.

Ning Tao smiled and answered, “No. The food you cooked is delicious. I think you've had a hard time recently, so I reward you with a meal.”

“Really?”

“Really. When did I deceive you?” lied Ning Tao.

Qing Zhui giggled. “Then I'm relieved. Can I dine now?”

“Yeah, talk less while you eat.” Ning Tao took a piece of meat and put it in her bowl.

Qing Zhui ate the meat, and began to babble out praise, “It's delicious!”

When Ning Tao cooked the dishes, he added the spices refined by the delicately perfumed tripod, so the meals were very fragrant.

After dinner, Ning Tao said that he was going back to the clinic to refine pills, but Qing Zhui pressed him down on the couch and made him a cup of tea. Ning Tao got a little nervous at times like this.

Qing Zhui sat next to Ning Tao and turned on the TV.

There was a cartoon, Boonie Bears, on the TV, and Briar and Bramble were fighting Logger Vick.

“You watch cartoons?” Ning Tao asked, somewhat speechless.

“Why is my sister suddenly engaged?” Qing Zhui murmured.

She didn't want to watch cartoons, but to talk to him. It just happened that Boonie Bears was on TV.

“You should know why your sister is engaged to Xin Zhiyu. It's not that she wants to marry Xin Zhiyu, it's that Bai Sheng wants her to do it,” Ning Tao responded.

“She invited us to the Prosperous House for her engagement with Xin Zhiyu, but I didn't want to go. She does not love Xin Zhiyu, but she is going to be engaged to Xin Zhiyu. She won't be happy.” Qing Zhui seemed a little sad, and was in low spirits. She rested her head on Ning Tao's shoulder.

Ning Tao hastened to comfort her. “We all have moments like this. There are things we don't want to do, but we have to do.”

“I'm happy being with you,” Qing Zhui stated in a quiet voice. “I want my sister to be happy too, but tomorrow she's engaged to someone she doesn't love…”

Ning Tao put his arm around her shoulder and asked, “Why didn't your sister leave Bai Sheng?”

“She has Bai Sheng's Viper-like Insect in her body. When Bai Sheng put a spell on her, it hurt her almost to death. I saw Bai Sheng punish her when I was a child. Since then my sister has been afraid to disobey Bai Sheng's orders. Bai Sheng gave up on me early on, and the Viper-like Insect is very precious, so he didn't put the Viper-like Insect in my body. But the last time I went to the First Building in the Yinyue Mountain, Bai Sheng was going to put it in my body. I threatened him with death, and my sister said to see your betrothal gift first. Then he didn't give me the Viper-like Insect.”

Ning Tao went into a rage. “How dare he try to hurt you? Why didn't you tell me? I'll kill that stupid snake!”

“Brother Ning, don't be angry. It's not that I don't want to tell you. Moreover, Bai Sheng is so powerful that my sister and I are no match for him. How dare I tell you that?” Qing Zhui reached to Ning Tao's chest and caressed his chest to calm his anger.

Ning Tao was still furious, but he was also surprised by Bai Sheng's power. Now that Qing Zhui and Bai Jing couldn't beat Bai Sheng together, he was even less likely to beat him. If Bai Sheng beat him with his bare hands, he could probably fight Bai Sheng about a thousand rounds, thus killing him. The problem was Bai Sheng had his fingernails. Even Qing Zhui's nails could poke holes in people's bodies easily, not to mention Bai Sheng's!

“Brother Ning, now that you can save me, can you save my sister? I ask my sister to be your demon slave too and we wait on you together, okay?” Qing Zhui's eyes were full of pleading.

Qing Zhui was tough enough. If the more powerful Bai Jing also became his demon slave, could he still live? “It's okay to save your sister, but I can't let her be my demon slave. It's enough to have you,” Ning Tao hurriedly refused.

Qing Zhui made a thin sound and fell into Ning Tao's arms.

“What are you going to do?” Ning Tao was suddenly nervous. The flame within him grew stronger. It was not anger but an ineffable flame.

“Brother Ning, you are so kind. I am the happiest demon in the world.” Qing Zhui was full of sweet happiness, and her eyes were so soft as if there was a layer of mist.

Ning Tao realized something was wrong. He tried to get up, but every time he moved, Qing Zhui pressed hard to stop him. Faced with this situation, he could not push Qing Zhui away with his hand or kick her away with his foot. But if he didn't stop her, he knew exactly what she was going to do.

“Brother Ning, I…” Qing Zhui began to speak and then hesitated. Her body had always been cold, but now it was hot.

Ning Tao quickly diverted her attention and said, “I have an idea to save your sister. Tomorrow we will go to the Prosperous House. Tell her to find a room, and I will take the Viper-like Insect out of her body. If I can't treat her on my own, I'll take her to the clinic. It doesn't matter if there is another bad loan.”

Bad load was like the case that he treated Lin Qinghua, which he failed to receive the payment. He could write a prescription pact for sins of evil intention, but did not enforce the terms of the pact on Bai Jing. Once bad load occurred, the ledger of bamboo slips would record a dark line for him. However, Bai Jing was Qing Zhui's sister, and he had to help her anyway.

“Well, I'll talk to my sister tomorrow.” Qing Zhui's eyes were softer and softer, and the mist in her eyes was heavier and heavier.

Ning Tao struggled again, but still couldn't get up. He was more nervous, and he said, “Qing Zhui, don't do that. I'm going back to the clinic to refine… Mmm!”

Before he could finish, Qing Zhui kissed him on the lip.

Ning Tao's senses and struggle failed at that moment. The suppressed desire burst forth like a torrent. After a few seconds, he became more eager and impulsive than Qing Zhui.

Qing Zhui's sky-blue denim shorts fell to the floor. They didn't know whether Ning Tao or Qing Zhui did it. Anyway, that was not the point. There was no point. Both of them on the couch lost their focus. They were all tangled up and couldn't wait…

Knock! Knock! Knock!

There were several knocks on the door, and a familiar voice called “Ning Tao, are you in there?”

On the couch, the two who were going to do something immediately froze in the spot.

“I know you're in there, Ning Tao. Open the door. I have something urgent to talk to you about.” Yin Molan knocked on the door again. He sounded worried.

A second later Ning Tao got up from the couch and urged, “Quickly, come on, tidy up your clothes. I'll open the door.”

Qing Zhui stared at the door, fire almost coming out of her eyes. Of course, it was not the kind of fire that Ning Tao started, and it was the kind of fire that indicated that she wanted to kill someone.

“Hurry up. What a shame if he sees us,” Ning Tao urged, and his face was red.

Qing Zhui got up from the couch, the sky-blue hot pants back on her.

Ning Tao straightened his clothes and opened the door.

Yin Molan walked in with a plastic woven bag, placed it in the living room, and said, “I found a female bone of 100 years. I knew you wouldn't dig graves, so I did it.”

Ning Tao said, “I do lack this material. What else?”

“There are also several herbs and materials in the bag.” After a pause, Yin Molan looked straight at Ning Tao and asked, “Why is your face so red, buddy?”

“Er… Nothing, I just had a few drinks,” Ning Tao lied.

Yin Molan took another look at Qing Zhui and grinned. “What did you drink? Is it Maiden Wine? Buddy, the same reminder, once a month at most, or it will hurt you and even shorten your life.”

Ning Tao was quite embarrassed. He wanted to deny it, but he and Qing Zhui did make out just now, and the agent from the Ming dynasty did see it. He couldn't lie.

By contrast, Qing Zhui didn't look embarrassed at all. She gave Yin Molan a stare and yelled, “We did make out. So what? I am Brother Ning's destined concubine. What's wrong with us making out? And you say only once a month? What do you know? It'll be okay even if we do it 1,000 times every month!”

Her words became more and more gibberish.

Ning Tao couldn't say those words anyway, but Qing Zhui could say them.

Yin Molan shrugged. “I don't want to quarrel with you. If you say the sun is black, the sun is black, okay?” Then he turned to Ning Tao and said, “Buddy, did you find any herbs?”

Ning Tao replied, “Yes, with the herbs you brought, it's all ready.”

Yin Molan said anxiously, “So what are you waiting for? Hurry to alchemy. I'll watch the door for you so that no one will disturb you.”

“All right, I'll go to alchemy right now.” Ning Tao didn't have an excuse to get free. He grabbed the bad Yin Molan had brought with him and walked out.

“Brother Ning…” Of course, Qing Zhui didn't want Ning Tao to go, but after she called, Ning Tao didn't look back. She swallowed back what she wanted to say.

Yin Molan shook his head as if disappointed in her.

Qing Zhui snapped, “Why are you still here? Get out! You are not welcome here!”

“I don't want to stay here.” Yin Molan felt guilty for disturbing them. He didn't quarrel with Qing Zhui and left immediately.

Back at the Sky Clinic, Ning Tao practiced his spiritual power near the good-evil tripod to calm the flames in his body. However, after finishing cultivating his spiritual power, he could not help thinking of the scene he had just been on the couch with Qing Zhui. Then his desire rose again, and he became thirsty. If Yin Molan hadn't happened to be there, he and Qing Zhui would have gone on.

In that case, Qing Zhui would be his concubine, which was not conducive to his practice.

“I'll be on my guard next time, or…” Ning Tao didn't dare think further. He shook his head violently, forced out the mental stimulus, and began to process the medicine and prepare the alchemy.

He busied himself until the middle of the night.

Om!

The delicately perfumed tripod issued a buzzing; the black and white spiritual fire disappeared; a misty green elixir light released from the delicately perfumed tripod.

Ning Tao was surprised in his heart. “The elixir light was pure when I refined the Ancestor-seeking Elixir last time. Why is it like this?”

He endured the curiosity in the heart, and came to the delicate perfumed tripod carefully. As a result, what he saw stunned him. The elixir in the delicate perfumed tripod was pale green all over, faintly sending out evil energy. It was not the incomplete Ancestor-seeking Elixir that he wanted at all.

He found a pair of tweezers and picked up the elixir from the delicate perfumed tripod to put it on the account on the bamboo slips in order to recognize it.

The result on the ledger of bamboo slips was that, “An extremely poisonous elixir, which can corrode flesh and bone, and cannot be preserved in iron vessels.”

Ning Tao was utterly dumbstruck. What he wanted to refine was the Ancestor-seeking Elixir. The elixir prescription was from the two bone fragments, so what went wrong?

A few minutes later, Ning Tao walked out of the Sky Clinic. Yin Molan couldn't wait to walk to him and asked, “Buddy, have you refined the elixir?”

Ning Tao handed the ledger of bamboo slips to Yin Molan and said, “The bamboo slips can recognize all kinds of elixirs. See for yourself.”

Yin Molan took one look, and his face turned green. “How is that possible? What's going on?”

Ning Tao said, “Tomorrow I'm going to the Prosperous House with Qing Zhui to Bai Jing's engagement party. We'll know the reason tomorrow.” His eyes turned cold and his face was horribly dark. “Senior Yin, be prepared for this. Tomorrow's gonna be a little rough. You await me and Qing Zhui outside the Prosperous House.”

“Got it.” Yin Molan nodded, his voice also cold.

Chapter end