Since this pill was targeted towards dying people, it was unlike the longevity pill, which nourished and repaired with moderate medicinal effects in a gradual fashion.
It was just as if this life-extending pill had stabbed a stimulating needle in the heart meridian. It could instantly extend a person’s life for three to five years, but that was it.
When the extension period was up, even the most accomplished immortals couldn’t save the person.
Regardless, if she intervened, then she would carefully administer a series of acupuncture on the elderly lady. Afterwards, she would nourish her body by feeding her a longevity pill mixed in with various types of medicine.
However, even then, she might not be able to save her, but she could absolutely extend her life.
But she… Didn’t! Want! To! Intervene!
“Isn’t my heart terribly ruthless? I am a wolf that bites whatever it can catch, isn’t that so?” Qiao Mu hung her head, restraining the chilliness in her eyes as she dully questioned Mo Lian.
“Not ruthless.” Mo Lian shook his head. “Didn’t you ask me before whether I believed in karma?”
“I believe it.” Mo Lian nodded steadfastly, grasping her small hand as he comforted, “She treated you and your family like that, after all. Saving her shows that you are benevolent, but it isn’t enough to show that you are ruthless even if you don’t.”
Bad karma begets retribution. If the elderly lady hadn’t stirred up so much trouble in the past, then she wouldn’t have ended up in this state today.
She even ground away all of the Qiao Zhongbang couple’s filial sentiments. The fact that the couple was willing to head to Hualing Street to see her one last time was merely due to filial duty.
“Even if you are a wolf, you are the wolf cub that is dearest to me in the whole wide world.” Mo Lian suddenly stretched out his hands to lift this little one straight up.
Qiao Mu was caught off guard, and she hastily circled his neck with her arms, glaring down at him with puffed-out cheeks. “Quickly set me down!”
Yet Mo Lian shook his head and said very seriously, “No can do. What do you want to eat tonight? I’ll cook it for you.”
Qiao Mu gave a light harrumph before reciting, “Braised eel, catfish roasted in a pot, sweet-and-sour fish fillet, five-spice seasoned lamb, simmer-fried beef, braised three delicacies, diced eight treasures, two-flavored shrimp with egg white…”
As Qiao Mu reeled off a long list of dishes, Mo Lian was simply nodding repeatedly. Afterwards, he could not help but ask, “How come they are all big meat dishes? What will Kongkong eat?”
“Make him a veggie soup! With a bowl of white rice!”
Mo Lian chortled in amusement, and an unexpected protest rang out. “Benefactress! Isn’t this meal of mine too crude?”
With this, Qiao Mu’s mood turned better, and she hammered Mo Lian with her fist. “Quickly set me down.”
“Not going to.” Mo Lian drifted off, carrying her all the way towards Nanzhu Garden. “What do you want for soup?”
Meanwhile, the Qiao Zhongbang couple had arrived at a residence on Hualing Street. Mother Xu came out to welcome, “Madam, Old Madam says that she wants to talk to you alone.”
After giving an indifferent nod, Wei Ziqin followed Mother Xu into a small side room on the southern side.
Elderly Lady’s emaciated body was lying on the bed, with two pillows cushioned under her head. When she saw Wei Ziqin walk in, she became slightly invigorated.
“Where is Qiao Mu? Where is Qiao Mu that d*mn lass.” Elderly Lady cried miserably, “I’m about to die, yet she is hard-hearted enough to not see me one last time?”
Wei Ziqin swallowed her anger as she tightly clenched her fists. “Qiaoqiao is in closed-door cultivation. Old Madam, if you have something to say, then please do so.”
After giving several hacking coughs, Elderly Lady pointed at Wei Ziqin and said, “You, all of you, very good.”
Even at this time, Elderly Lady still loathed her and her daughter.
