[GL]Whose Wife Is Always Acting Pitiful? Oh, It Turns Out It’s Mine 127

Chapter 127: Holding Her Up

“Wind and sand rise, a lonely shadow walks. Camel bells ring, the night is not yet bright…”

Early the next morning, concerned about Diwu Miaofu, Xue Mu came to the wing room to check the situation. Dugu Huansheng looked tired. Diwu Miaofu was still sleeping on the bed. After a night of internal energy transmission, her heart vessels had been protected, but she was still not clear-headed, chanting repetitive sentences. Hearing this, Xue Mu said to Dugu Huansheng, “It should be a ballad from the Western Regions.”

After repeating it many times, Diwu Miaofu suddenly started chanting the next part of the ballad.

“Solitary city in the desert… soul does not return to the solitary city in the desert… endless long night… endless long night breaks one’s heart…” Diwu Miaofu mumbled in her dream like this, then suddenly cried out, “A-Ta! A-Ta! Why don’t you want me!” Hearing this, Xue Mu’s eyes felt hot, and she held her somewhat cold fingers tightly.

From the few words Diwu Miaofu blurted out from time to time, Xue Mu knew that Diwu Miaofu wasn’t abandoned at birth. At least her father from the Western Regions had raised her, taught her to speak and hum folk songs, and then disappeared, leaving her alone in Jiangnan to survive.

Sigh, thinking that Han Yan also said she was abandoned, and she looked so much like Xue Wuluo, Xue Mu couldn’t help feeling pity. There were too many people with miserable fates in the world. How could she ignore them? Whenever she encountered one, she always tried to take care of them, otherwise it would be against her conscience.

Pain appeared on Diwu Miaofu’s face, and her voice gradually lowered, but she still repeated those lines of the ballad, calling “A-Ta” from time to time. Dugu Yuan’an sat in the wheelchair, looking at the rising sun outside the window, and said, “They have already arrived at Huangding Mountain.”

Today, many Jianghu chivalrous warriors didn’t stay under the cliff north of Huangding Mountain early like yesterday. The novelty of the first day passed, and they began to climb the mountain slowly to enjoy the scenery. Anyway, the martial arts competition wouldn’t start so quickly. Therefore, only the group of people who climbed the fastest and steadiest yesterday climbed the cliff. The rest walked up along the mountain path. Clouds and mist covered the cliff wall, making it impossible to see how many people were in it.

Dugu Huansheng touched her forehead and said, “Yuan’er, you and Mu’er go to Huangding Mountain first. I’ll stay here to look after this child.”

“Mother, can Miaofu wake up?” Xue Mu said.

“It was Sect Leader Qing Lan’s sword qi that hurt her.” Dugu Huansheng sighed. “She struck quite ruthlessly. Fortunately, Miaofu’s internal energy is deep enough, and the protective true qi helped her protect other meridians. Otherwise, Sect Leader Qing Lan’s sword qi would have been enough to damage the vital acupoints all over her body along the heart vessels. At that time, I’m afraid even immortals couldn’t pull her back from the gates of hell.”

Xue Mu frowned, gritted her teeth, and said, “I’m going to beg Old Madam Yan of the Goose Shadow Mountain Villa to help treat Miaofu’s injury!”

“Old Madam Yan?” Dugu Huansheng was stunned for a moment, then her face became serious. “Absolutely not! That Old Madam Yan seems easy to talk to, but actually her temperament is extremely eccentric. You don’t know, the people of the Goose Shadow Mountain Villa only order others to do things; there is absolutely no possibility for others to beg them for help! Don’t be fooled by her willingness to offer a peerless secret manual like ‘Origin Returning Wonderful Method’ this time. I still haven’t figured out what her intentions are!”

Xue Mu was stunned for a long time before murmuring, “But what if Miaofu doesn’t wake up? She is talking nonsense. Could the sword qi have damaged her brain?”

Diwu Miaofu’s injury seemed not serious, but her heart vessels were damaged, which was a fatal injury that people of the Jianghu avoided like the plague. Even if her life was temporarily saved now, if the injury to the heart vessels was not healed in time, the best result would be inability to practice martial arts or use true qi and internal energy anymore, otherwise her life would be hard to preserve.

And with Diwu Miaofu’s temperament, she would absolutely be unwilling to become a “cripple”!

“Don’t worry too much.” Dugu Yuan’an looked out the window and said softly, “I will take the stage when necessary.”

Dugu Huansheng and Xue Mu were both shocked. Xue Mu only thought about taking action herself, not letting Yuan’er expose her identity. Dugu Huansheng thought the same. If Yuan’er exposed the martial arts she learned on the martial arts competition stage, who knew how much turmoil it would cause in the Jianghu? They were in the light, and the murderer was in the dark. Maybe they already knew the identities of all of them!

“Mother, don’t worry. If I take action, the premise must be that someone has revealed a clue.” Dugu Yuan’an said calmly.

Xue Mu walked over, bent down to hug Dugu Yuan’an, holding her hands placed on her legs, tenderness filling her heart. She whispered, “Yuan’er.” Then she said nothing more, just quietly accompanying her to look at the blue sky, white clouds, and towering mountains outside the window.

Half an hour later, the two arrived at the foot of Huangding Mountain. Dugu Yuan’an looked up at the cliff and smiled slightly. “Mu’er, do we still have to walk up from the original mountain path?”

After yesterday’s experience, Xue Mu also felt that walking from the mountain path was too troublesome, so she said, “Yuan’er, doesn’t your wheelchair have cowhide straps? I’ll put the straps on both sides of the wheelchair directly on my shoulders, so I can carry your wheelchair up the cliff on my back.”

Dugu Yuan’an laughed involuntarily. “Others have to use 100% of their internal energy to climb up. If you carry me up, wouldn’t you have to use double the internal energy? But you don’t have double the internal energy, how can you carry me up? By the time you climb this cliff of several hundred zhang, the Discourse on the Dao Conference will be over.”

Xue Mu blushed and snorted. “How can I not climb up?” With that, she circulated her internal energy and leaped towards the cliff. Climbing up with internal kung fu, in the time it took to blink five times, she had already climbed more than ten zhang. Then she jumped down with force, put her hands on her hips, and said, “How was that?”

Dugu Yuan’an clapped her hands and smiled. “A-Mu competed with my Second Sister yesterday, and your internal energy has improved again.”

“That’s right, who practices kung fu and regresses?” Xue Mu enjoyed it very much. Looking up at the cliff so high that the edge couldn’t be seen, she sniffled with lingering fear, having to admit that she couldn’t climb up carrying a person at all. So she said, “Forget it, I’m afraid you can’t stand the stimulation. I’d better carry you up the mountain path!”

Dugu Yuan’an suppressed her laughter. “Okay.”

Xue Mu carried the wheelchair on her back and shouted, “Don’t fall off yourself!”

Dugu Yuan’an grabbed the wheelchair armrests and said, “Mm, I’m ready. Go up the mountain!”

“Alright—!” Xue Mu shouted loudly, using her lightness skill to run up along the stone steps.

Her steps were nimble, making light sounds on the stone steps. The stone steps wound upwards. Although the slope was steep, under her lightness skill, it seemed like walking on flat ground. Dugu Yuan’an didn’t feel much bumping in the wheelchair either, knowing that Xue Mu was deliberately holding the wheelchair steady. Her hands padded under the wheelchair, almost holding it up to prevent violent shaking.

Although the center of gravity of her body shifted backward, causing a little discomfort, Dugu Yuan’an pursed her lips and snickered happily, tucking the hair blown by the wind behind her ears. A thought suddenly occurred to her—Mu’er carrying her like this, it feels as if the whole world has made way for them.