Chapter 1201 — Cured! "It Can Be Treated, Though I'll Have to Break the Plaster on Your Auntie's Leg. Is That All Right?" Wei Zhao Asked, Looking at Yu's Mother.
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"The boss is a master of the martial arts," Ergoudan explained.
At his words, Yu's mother, Yunhai Shuku and Yu Yuanyuan all thought at once of Ergoudan's earlier startling feat. If Ergoudan could kill Master Li with a single punch, then plainly his own skill was no small thing; and Ergoudan's boss must be stronger still. If he was not a master of the martial arts, what was he?
"Zhou Qiming, you're a master of the martial arts too, aren't you?" Yu Yuanyuan asked, looking at Ergoudan with something like worship in her eyes.
"Me? No, I don't count. I'm just a bit stronger than most, that's all. I'm no martial arts master..." Ergoudan was speaking the truth; the distance between him and Wei Zhao was a wide one.
"But in my eyes you're a great hero..." Yu Yuanyuan said softly, a little embarrassed.
"Huh? Heh heh..." Ergoudan scratched the back of his head and laughed with simple, honest good humor. It seemed that, thanks to the boss's earlier words, things between the two of them had advanced in earnest.
"There. Done." Wei Zhao withdrew the silver needles from Yu's mother's leg and rose to his feet, speaking with perfect ease.
"Done?" Yu's mother was struck dumb; so were Yunhai Shuku, Yu Yuanyuan and even Ergoudan.
None of them had imagined that after so brief an effort Wei Zhao would declare the thing cured. Even Ergoudan was shaken. Old Man Wei was a famous physician for ten li around, true enough, but even he, treating a leg wound, would need ten days or half a month before there was any improvement. For someone like Wei Zhao to settle the matter in half an hour was unheard of.
"Auntie, get down and walk about a little. You've lain here all these days — you must be tired of it by now, surely?" Wei Zhao said to her with a smile.
"I..." Yu's mother was about to say something when her gaze fell upon her own leg: there was not the slightest wound left on it. Smooth and fair as it had ever been, without even a scar. Only then did she feel that her leg truly did not hurt — not in the least. For a moment she was too overcome to speak: "My leg... my leg..."
"Mom, what's happened to your leg—" Yu Yuanyuan hurried over; but when she saw her mother's leg, she too gave a cry and clapped a hand over her mouth in disbelief: "Ah!"
Yunhai Shuku and Ergoudan crowded in as well. Seeing that the wounds on Yu's mother's leg were utterly gone, they stared, their eyes wide.
At the astonishing change in her own leg, Yu's mother now half believed it. Gritting her teeth, she sat up in bed and set her feet on the floor.
At first she swayed and nearly pitched over onto her face; but a moment later she discovered that her leg truly was healed, without a trace of anything wrong. Not only did it not hurt, she walked without the slightest hindrance, as though she had never been bitten by the Lion at all. There was nothing whatsoever the matter with her.