When Su Lanqing was fifteen, his eldest senior brother brought a child back from the mortal world. The child was named Xu Dumei.
Looking at his silent senior brothers and sisters and the small, frail-looking child in the middle, Su Lanqing understood. He brought over three bottles of pills, but before he could say a word, his junior nephew blurted out, “Thank you for the generous gift, Uncle Master!”
Su Lanqing smiled faintly, though inside he felt terribly unsure. Those three bottles of pills had been refined who knew when. They should still have some potency left... right?
Actually... Su Lanqing had always felt that something was off about their sect.
For instance, one day he was gathering herbs outside the sect when he came across an unconscious young man who was gravely injured. He had barely glanced at him before his sixth senior brother, who happened to be traveling with him, hurriedly dragged him away and sternly scolded him: “As a healer, you must be free of worldly desires. You absolutely must not become attached to anyone!”
Then, one month, he accompanied his junior nephew into a secret realm to gather herbs and came across another gravely injured, unconscious young man. Su Lanqing recognized him at a glance as the same person from last time. To his surprise, his nephew’s eyes went wide with alarm, and he immediately pulled Su Lanqing away, cursing the man in the most vicious terms as they left.
Even his eldest senior brother, second senior sister, third senior brother, fourth senior brother, and fifth senior sister were worried and anxious when they heard about it. They told him that next time he saw that freeloader, he should forget all about medical ethics and let him die!
Su Lanqing didn’t really understand, but he did as he was told. There was just one thing he couldn’t figure out.
...What was a freeloader?
Theme: Be careful when falling in love.
