Chapter 10: Buns
Li Huowang curled up into a ball, like an unborn baby, motionless and self-absorbed in a corner of the material room.
The other pharmacists didn't dare or want to disturb him, they were quietly doing their own work.
Night fell unconsciously, the oil lamps on the wall were all extinguished, and darkness covered Li Huowang's body like a quilt.
He lay there like a corpse, unresponsive to the changes in the outside world.
On the third night, the faint glow of a candle lit up from the doorway, illuminating the shelves next to it and dispelling the darkness from Li Huowang's body.
The timid Bai Lingmiao rolled up a ball of withered grass and walked to Li Huowang's side, carefully spreading it over his body.
Immediately after that, she took out a piece of mixed grain bun from her bosom and put it on his mouth.
Seeing that Li Huo Wang remained motionless, she pursed her lips and gently pushed him. "Elder brother, eat something, you haven't eaten anything all day today."
Li Huowang's eyes were open, his eyes that hadn't blinked for hours looked numbly at the cold ground and didn't move halfway towards Bai Lingmiao.
Bai Lingmiao wanted to leave, but after she hesitated for a moment, she ended up pulling out a jade pendant from her bosom and placing it in Li Huowang's hand.
"Senior brother, this is your thing, take it back."
This time Li Huowang finally reacted, he looked at the object and realized that it was the round jade pendant he had stolen from the previous Xuan Yang.
Li Huo Wang still remembered that he had given this thing to Yang Na and took it to exchange for money. As soon as he thought of Yang Na, his heart with thousands of holes began to ooze blood once again, "This thing ..... How come it's here with you?"
"It's .... Brother Li you gave me ah, I said I don't want it, but you had to stuff it to me."
Li Huowang slowly sat up, and through the dim candlelight of the candles, he carefully surveyed the cloud patterned circular jade pendant.
In this moment, he had never felt that everything was so real. But there was only real despair and real pain in this reality.
If he could choose, how he would like to stay trapped in that beautiful illusion.
Seeing Li Huowang's response, Bai Lingmiao softly asked, "Senior brother Li, where were you captured by master? I am from Liang, where are you from?"
Li Huowang froze for a moment before shaking his head disheveledly, "I don't know."
He really didn't know, for the past he did have memories, but after what happened during the day, Li Huo Wang himself couldn't tell how much of those memories were real and how much were illusory.
Even here, he himself was a madman, a madman who couldn't distinguish between reality and illusion.
Just as he was shaking his head, Li HuoWang suddenly felt something strange in his head, he touched it with his hand and realized that his hair was clotted with some blood scabs, he had been injured before.
Seeing Li Huo Wang touching his head, Bai Ling Miao spoke up and explained, "That was Senior Brother Wang's doing."
Li Huo Wang knew that this Senior Brother Wang was the fat hare-lipped man who had tried to make a move on Bai Ling Miao earlier. "Where is the person surnamed Wang?"
"By you ..... By you... Kicked to death."
Hearing these words, Li Huo Wang's mind flashed to Old Liu Tou who was kicked away by himself in his hallucination, he hung his head down and laughed silently, he really had enough crazy.
Li Huowang reached into his pocket and pulled out a gold anklet wrapped in red thread and sent it to Bai Lingmiao. "This is yours, isn't it, take it back."
Bai Lingmiao looked at her anklet and pushed it back with her hands forming palms, "Senior Brother Li, you were right before, this thing is of no use here, you take it."
Li Huo Wang's eyes froze as he looked at the golden ring, but this thing was not of any use to him now, everything he cared about had disappeared.
"That, Senior Brother Li, can I use this item as payment and ask you to do me a favor?" Bai Lingmiao's words caused Li Huowang to turn his gaze to her.
"If you can get out of here alive, can you bring a message to my parents for me? They live at the foot of the Oxheart Mountain in Liang, so tell them that their daughter is unfilial and can't provide for them in their old age." Speaking sadly, Bai Lingmiao's voice turned choked.
"Senior brother Li, I really don't want to trouble you, but I really don't have any other way, I guess they will soon take me to the Dan room, I ......"
Li Huowang, whose face was full of disheveled numbness, heard these words, his heart condensed, and his voiceless eyes once again had a light.
He looked at the withered grass covering his body, and then looked at the steamed buns on the side, and with a pull of his hand, he re-stuffed the red threaded golden ring into his arms.
"I'm true to my word. Since I took your things before, I'll help you."
Bai Lingmiao's sad eyes instantly lit up, but quickly dimmed again. "Senior Brother Li, this won't work, it'll get you into trouble as well."
"Hehe ...... do you think I'm afraid of this now?" At this moment, Li Huowang had already looked away. He had completely gone out of his mind, since everything he cared about was gone what was there to be afraid of?
"Good, Senior Brother Li is mighty!" A male voice suddenly rang out from outside the door of the material room, startling both of the people in the room.
As the candlelight illuminated the man, he saw a playful and sharp-tongued face, his face was yellow and white looking like he was suffering from a vitiligo-like skin disease.
The man took out two mixed grain steamed buns and placed them beside Li Huowang.
"Hehehehehehehe, senior brother Li eat buns, when I was eating dinner, I thought that senior brother Li hasn't eaten yet, and purposely left two for you."
"You may not recognize senior brother, kid I was born and raised in heaven, there is no big name, you call me Dogwa on the line, hehehehehe, just yesterday, I also filial piety to you seventeen Wenzhi."
Dogwa fidgety rubbing hands look, almost on the face of pandering hung, it is clear that he wants to Li Huowang as a backer, not to be sent as a medicine guide, smart people where there are.
Li Huowang did not say anything, grabbed the three somewhat hard steamed buns wolf swallowed up, he has been hungry for a day.
Because of eating too fast some choked, the dog waifu immediately knowingly ran out to bring Li Huowang a cup of water.
When under the cold underground water, Li Huowang stuffed the three mixed grain steamed buns into his stomach, he shook and struggled to stand up.
He shook and struggled to stand up, his legs were numb from the pressure after lying on the ground for so long.
Bai Lingmiao reached out to assist, but Li Huowang pushed her away.
His eyes were fixed on the darkened exit of the material room in the distance, and he staggered out.
At this time, his enemy was no longer his mutated disease, but had become that mangy-headed Taoist priest Danyangzi who took people to make pills.
When Danyangzi's big ugly and disgusting face appeared in his mind, Li Huowang's eyes gradually surfaced with thick hostility, and his teeth began to clench and creak.
He, who was still lifeless just now, was filled with motivation, the only thing he had to do now was to find a way to get him killed!
