"Son of a b * tch! Son of a b * tch!" Miao Chengtang kept cursing after leaving the clinic. He felt that he and Xu Xinyuan had been tricked.
He turned around and looked at the clinic behind him. He wanted nothing more than to burn the place down.
He opened the door and got in the car.
"You've recovered so quickly, Mr. Miao?" the driver hurriedly asked.
"Let's go," Miao Chengtang angrily said.
The driver did not ask any more questions. He started the engine and turned the car around to leave the village.
"He has a bad temper." Wang Yao chuckled in the clinic.
"Plus, he has other hidden ailments in his body."
The man had been poisoned by curses, which were easily cured with a bowl of medicine. Miasma grass was capable of killing venomous bugs. That had been proven more than once. Miao Chengtang had cured that illness, but his internal organs were damaged. While the venomous bugs had been cured, the damage they had caused to his body had yet to heal. He needed further treatment. It was a pity that the man had run out of patience.
"It's a shame," Wang Yao said. "If it weren't for him, he wouldn't have lived more than 15 years."
Those Gu worms were indeed powerful. In a very short period of time, they had damaged his lungs very badly. Moreover, they had entered his internal organs through his blood vessels. They had damaged the root of his organs. Although they had been removed, the damage caused had not been repaired in time. From now on, his body would become very weak and he would get sick easily.
"Valley of Thousands of Medicine, Miaoxi River, Blood Orchid, and sacred medicine?" Wang Yao recalled what the man named Miao Chengtang had told him about the Valley of Thousands of Medicine.
"That Miaoxi River guy can't really be immortal, can he?"
A car sped along the road outside the village.
Cough, cough, cough. He started coughing again. His chest felt stuffy, as if something was constantly crashing against it, trying to gush out.
"Stop the car, stop the car," he hurriedly said to the driver beside him.
With a squeak, the driver kicked the car and brought it to a stop.
"What is it, Mr. Miao?"
Miao Chengtang did not say anything. He opened the car door and ran to the side of the road. He spat out a mouthful of blood and sprayed far away.
Huff, huff, huff.
His mouth was filled with the smell of blood, but he felt that after spitting out the blood this time, his lungs felt much better. It was no longer as stuffy and painful. He lowered his head and looked at the blood he had spat out. There were dark red blood clots in it.
"Damn that Miaoxi River, damn that doctor."
Rumble. His stomach suddenly started to churn, and he felt as if water was boiling.
"What now?"
He couldn't help but hide behind a big rock by the side of the road. After unbuttoning his pants, he had a bout of diarrhea. The diarrhea didn't stop, and his legs were numb from squatting.
"Will Mr. Miao be alright?" The driver sat in the car and looked outside through the window.
"Sigh, it's already so late. It'll be Chinese New Year in a few days. Please don't let anything go wrong." He was in a hurry to return to Tianjin and reunite with his family.
"It's all my fault for being greedy. I shouldn't have done this!" He felt very frustrated.
Miao Chengtang, who was hiding behind the rock, was even more frustrated. He sadly found that he didn't have any toilet paper on him.
"Damn it!"
He wanted to call out to the driver, but the situation was very awkward.
"Forget it." They were on the side of the road, and they were in the wilderness. He could get whatever he needed.
He picked up a few rocks from the side of the road and solved the problem.
"Mr. Miao, you don't look too good." The driver was just about to get out when he saw Miao Chengtang walk over from behind the rock. He got into the car and looked a lot paler.
"Drive."
"Where to?"
"Back to Tianjin," Miao Chengtang said after thinking for a while.
"Sure." The driver started the car right away and headed straight for Tianjin. He wanted nothing more than to get back to Tianjin as soon as possible.
Miao Chengtang reclined in his seat, feeling extremely weak.
The car sped along. There were quite a lot of cars on the road at the moment. Most people were rushing home in the days before Chinese New Year. The roads, highways, and highways were all the same.
He reclined in his seat.
"What should I do next?"
"They'll eat my lungs, heart, and intestines clean," Miao Chengtang said. "They'll eat my lungs, heart, and intestines clean before bursting out. Blood will spill all over the place. I'll die, but I don't know where I'll die. Maybe in Tianjin, or maybe on the way back. There's no hope."
"Mr. Miao, you don't look too good. Maybe you should get some sleep."
"Got it. Just drive," Miao Chengtang weakly said. He didn't feel like talking at the moment. He was in no mood.
There was only one way to describe what he was feeling: his heart was dead.
He wanted to die peacefully, but that was not the case.
The car sped along. The scenery on both sides of the road continued to recede. The sky outside continued to darken. He was so tired that he fell asleep before he knew it.
By the time he woke up, the sky was completely dark. The car sped along the highway.
Huh?
"You're awake?"
Miao Chengtang sat up and stretched his body.
"Do you feel better? You've been sleeping for two and a half hours," the driver said.
"Two and a half hours?"
"Yeah."
Miao Chengtang looked out the window. He did not know where the city was, but it was filled with lights.
"Are you hungry? Let's find a place to get something to eat."
"Sure." He did feel a little hungry.
The car drove for a while before coming to a rest area on the highway. They got out of the car, ate something, and rested for a bit.
"Phew, I'm exhausted." The driver stretched his back and moved his body.
He ate something and drank some water. He then sat in a chair and smoked a cigarette.
"That doctor sure is something," the driver said.
"Huh?" Miao Chengtang was dumbfounded.
"It's been more than three hours since you came out of the clinic," the driver said. "You've only coughed three times. Except for the first cough, which was more serious, the other two coughs were very mild."
"Yeah."
Miao Chengtang came back to his senses after hearing what the driver said. He had been feeling dead on the road. He kept thinking that he was going to die. He did not notice the changes in his body at all.
He coughed less and did not cough up blood. The pain and stuffiness in his chest had been reduced by half.
"Is his medicine really that effective?" Miao Chengtang was dumbfounded.
"Have I really recovered?"
"Let's go." The driver had rested enough. He was in a hurry to go home and reunite with his family.
"Let's go." Miao Chengtang's vigor had been somewhat restored.
"Maybe I've really recovered."
The car sped all the way and arrived in Tianjin after midnight.
After expressing his gratitude and giving Miao Chengtang a few hundred yuan, Miao Chengtang got out of the car and entered his "home."
He did not even bother to wash up when he got home. He collapsed on his bed and thought about the journey. Most of his experiences were in the village and meeting the young doctor.
"Looks like I've really recovered."
He had not coughed for several hours after leaving the rest area. The discomfort in his chest had been getting weaker and weaker.
I've recovered?
He still found it hard to believe.
The journey had been too tiring. He fell asleep before he knew it. By the time he woke up, the sun was already high in the sky.
That night, he slept very early. When he woke up, he felt a little tired and hungry. He cooked a bowl of noodles for himself and added two more eggs. He ate very happily.
Ring! Buzz!
Before he finished eating, a phone call came in. It was from Xu Xinyuan, who asked about his situation with the doctor.
"What? You're too rash!" Xu Xinyuan was upset when he heard that Miao Chengtang had spoken to Wang Yao in an unpleasant manner.
"He's a capable man. Didn't I tell you that?"
"It's my fault. I lost my mind back then," Miao Chengtang said. "By the time I came back to my senses, I was already out of Qi Province. I've made up my mind. I'll go there after the new year and apologize in person."
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