The Dishonest Son and The ‘Ghost’ Doctor Mother – Chapter 53

Pulling the jade pendant out

Yu Qingluo face became blank, suddenly realizing that the position she and the man were in at the moment was quite ambiguous, her face began to flush slightly. Quickly pushing him away, she said: “Let’s quickly get down.”

Sure enough, Qing Gong is this world’s most annoying skill. She can’t use it, so getting down the roof by herself is a problem.

Ye Xiudu pursed his lips and, tightening the arm he had around her waist, he stood on his tiptoes and jumped down, descending lightly towards the ground.

Yu Qingluo raised her eyes (TL: the text says: ‘open her eyes’. But there was no mention of her closing them beforehand, so I made a change) and noticed that Jin Liuli was not the only person in the backyard, Shen Ying, Mo Xian, Wen Tian and … Nannan were there as well.

The little guy’s eyes went wide as he stared at their clothes fluttering in the air like a celestial immortal’s as they landed, his eyes were lit up with uncontrollable excitement.

After they finally stood over the ground, the little guy immediately rushed towards them and hugged Ye Xiudu’s tights, pulling onto his clothes vigorously: “So handsome! So handsome!! Uncle Ye, you are too handsome! I also want to fly, bring me with you to fly once too!”

Yu Qingluo’s lips twitched, her fingers curled up into a fist as she brought them near her mouth^[1], letting out a ‘heh’, then she used her fist to hit the top of Nannan’s foolishly cute-kissing-up-to-a-certain-someone little head.

Nannan rubbed the spot he was hit on his head and shrank his body behind Ye Xiudu’s, saying pitifully: “It’s not the same. Aunt Jin’s flying pose isn’t as handsome as Uncle Ye’s. Mother, you being unable to fly yourself has already made me lose a lot of opportunities. And now, without even examining your own conscience properly, you still mistreat me so.”

‘Examine my own conscience’?

He still wants her to examine her own conscience?! This damn brat.

Yu Qingluo raised her fist again and gave another ‘heh’, like she was preparing to beat him again. But as she was about to do so, her hand was stopped by Ye Xiudu, pulling her away from the boy. Ye Xiudu glanced at Yu Qingluo coldly, moving to bend over to hug Nannan in his arms: “Do you want to fly? Go, I’ll take you to fly, and I can teach you how to fly as well.”

Saying that he didn’t spare another glance to the other people in the backyard as he carried the high spirited and starry-eyed baby, Nannan, away.

Shen Ying and the other two were left completely dumbfounded, the Lord is so… gentle, so patient, so… similar to Nannan’s own dad.

Yu Qingluo rubbed her forehead. He was indeed acting like a father. Looking at his distancing back, she felt terrified in her heart, afraid that Nannan was about to embark on a road of no return.

That was not right. She still must find a way to separate that brat from Ye Xiudu and it would be better to make them keep some distance.

While thinking about this, she lifted a foot to step forward.

But who knew that after just taking a step, three figures would block her way swiftly? Yu Qingluo was taken aback, looking up she met the eager eyes of Shen Ying and his mates.

“You… what are you doing?” Yu Qingluo couldn’t help but tremble, thinking that the look in the eyes of these people was way too fiery, and also too… wretched.

“Miss Yu, are you really, really the Ghost Doctor?” This time, Wen Tian was already very impatient when he opened his mouth to speak, his voice even shuddered slightly.

Yu Qingluo frowned at the question, giving him an inquisitive look: “Could it be that Shopkeeper Jin didn’t tell you clearly?”

“N-no, that…” Wen Tian laughed at his helplessness to speak. It could be reckoned that he was still somewhat unwilling to believe.

Shen Ying chuckled as he leaned closer to Yu Qingluo’s side to whisper some inside story: “Wen Tian has great admiration for the Ghost Doctor. 2 years ago, he was injured and fainted in the middle of the woods. Someone rescued him and left him two medicinal pills and a piece of paper with the words ‘Ghost Doctor’ written on it. Miss Yu, don’t you… remember doing that?”

Also because of this, he had always been suggesting the Lord to rope in the Ghost Doctor as an underling. What a pity that he wasn’t even able to take a glance at him. But later on, the Lord master met the Qiongshan Old Doctor, and he asked the Lord to keep Wu Dong by his side, which was also of great help.

Yu Qingluo was taken aback, ‘2 years ago’? How could she remember the events from two years ago so clearly? Besides, she had saved a lot of people who she later forgot about. So how could she remember Wen Tian?

After giving it some thought, she raised her head and took a serious look at Wen Tian for a while. After a moment she stared sharply at him and asked: “Were those woods the ones in Yong Cheng?” (TL: City of Yong, Yong City)

“Yes, yes, yes, it was there!” Wen Tian now had no doubt that the person who saved him at that time was Miss Yu right in front of him.

Thinking that he had caused her to be treated unjustly before and had been planning on embarrassing her he felt very apologetic, so he hurried to apologize: “Miss Yu, I’m so sorry, I’ll absolutely never wrong you again. You are a good person.”

“Pfft…” Jin Liuli laughed very impolitely, with how much she knew of Yu Qingluo, the reason for her to save someone in the middle of some woods was definitely not out of the kindness of her heart, she was unquestionably not a good person. Otherwise, why would she leave him a note behind informing him of her name so that the other party would come to know to who he owns his gratitude?

Yu Qingluo’s lips twitched, and she waved her hand displaying a ‘very generous’ look: “Oh that! It was just a small effort of my part, there’s no need to be grateful.”

It seems as if after saving him before she conveniently took the silver he carried in his pockets. Could it be that he didn’t notice that? But even after seeing Wen Tian’s face so many times, she really didn’t realize that he was one of the people rescued before by her hands.

Wen Tian’s heart beat even faster and his admiration for her rose a notch when saw that she was such a righteous person. The fiery expression in his eyes almost felt like they were boring into her skin.

At the very least, that was how it looked in the eyes of the person who had just returned, that expression of his was really upsetting.

Ye Xiudu snorted coldly, looking at his three subordinates his voice sounded cold: “What is all this? The tasks I handled you before, did you finish it all?”

Shen Ying immediately came back to his senses and proceeded to pull back Wen Tian, whose sights were still fixed on Yu Qingluo’s body. He then said: “Lord, don’t worry. Those people have already been disposed of.”

“Disposed of? Disposed of whom?” Nannan face was flushed, and his cheeks looked tender like two fresh apples, his eyes were still basked in excitement.

He was still been held by Ye Xiudu, his feet swayed from side to side: “Mother, I flew twice! Two times! One time more than you did and it was so fun! Uncle Ye told me that he’ll teach me Kung Fu in the future and that my perception (TL: for martial arts) is very high! He told me that my body is very apt (TL: for studying martial arts), and also told me…”

“Study? Study what?” Yu Qingluo glared at Nannan, her expression wasn’t kind. “If you study Qing Gong, you’ll go around getting into trouble. It’s better if you just follow your mother and learn medicine well. You can also use your medical skills to protect yourself, it won’t make a difference in the end.”

You’ve got to be joking, to let them stay together? If so, she’ll be done in sooner or later.

If Nannan wants to learn Kung Fu (gong fu) then she’ll naturally ask someone good in martial arts to teach him, but that person absolutely cannot be Ye Xiudu.

As Yu Qingluo was thinking so, she raised her hands to pick Nannan from Ye Xiudu’s arms.

Nannan didn’t look satisfied, ‘My mother is upset because she only got to fly once, so she won’t allow me to study Kung Fu. That’s so immature of her! This attitude of hers isn’t good, I don’t know how she’ll be able to get married later.’

Nannan felt that he had to find a suitable opportunity to let his mother grow up.

Therefore, this time, he was determined to not compromise with her.

“I want to follow Uncle Ye to learn Kung fu.” Nannan nodded his head firmly, both his arms went around Ye Xiudu’s neck tightly, unwilling to release no matter what.

Yu Qingluo narrowed her eyes, she extended her arms and grabbed his small body.

But how could Nannan be obedient? If he can’t hold to the man’s neck, then he’ll grab his clothes, to make it short – he won’t let it go!

“Let go.” Yu Qingluo grew furious, and her movement became stronger.

Nannan turned his butt at her, grabbing into Ye Xiudu’s clothes even tighter.

Ye Xiudu’s clothes couldn’t stand all this pushing and pulling, so they ended up ripping wide open.

‘Peng!’ a split jade pendant fell as Nannan’s hands pulled open the fabric of Ye Xiudu’s clothes. (TL: he’s not getting naked, there are many layers of clothes, and even after ripping this outermost robe, you can’t even get close to his inner robes, yah~)

Nannan lowered his head to look, and his eyes popped wide open, he then shouted: “Ah! This jade pendant! This jade pendant…!”

Translated by C, The Apostle of Coffee
Edited by NoveLeo, Life is a Drama