Xiao Feng, pleased with the praise, hopped back to his room. He finally had a room of his own.
Mo Lingxi asked Tao Lengshuang to wait for an hour.
Indeed, an hour later, Tao Lengshuang received the silver needles and the medicinal herbs she needed.
Looking at the excellent quality of these herbs, she harbored more guesses about Mo Lingxi's identity but revealed nothing.
"I'll give you acupuncture first, but it will take a few more days to detoxify you."
She was unwilling, of course, to help Mo Lingxi detoxify so quickly; she wanted him to suffer a bit more.
Mo Lingxi was fully aware of her thoughts and merely glanced at her coldly.
"Just wear your underwear."
Tao Lengshuang's words caused a murderous aura to cloud Mo Lingxi's eyes, and he looked at her as if she were dead, "You're seeking death!"
"Oh, I'm so scared."
Tao Lengshuang rolled her eyes and said impatiently, "If you don't take off your clothes, how can I give you acupuncture? If I perform acupuncture through clothes, aren't you afraid I'll hit the wrong acupoints?"
"Don't worry, I'm not interested in your meager flesh."
She curled her lips in disdain, "Just by the short duration of your sessions each time, I know you're all talk, a 'wax spearhead.' How dare you pretend to be something you're not."
The veins on Mo Lingxi's forehead throbbed, his gaze growing darker inch by inch. He clenched his fists, making cracking sounds, and desperately wanted to snap Tao Lengshuang's neck.
However, the only one who could save him now was this fat, foul-mouthed woman before him.
"You remember this!"
With a livid expression, he stripped down to just his underwear.
Tao Lengshuang grunted indifferently and, after appraising his physique, whistled, "Nice body."
This man was a typical example of looking slim in clothes and muscular when undressed, especially his abs, which were quite alluring at first glance.
However, he had several deep knife wounds on his chest and legs.
To endure them without a sound and still negotiate with her was truly remarkable.
"You..."
As Mo Lingxi spoke, Tao Lengshuang inserted a needle, "I praised your physique, and you're still unhappy? Do you want me to say, 'Oh, your body is so ugly, even your meager flesh is ugly'?"
Mo Lingxi's handsome face turned as dark as ink, and he detested her even more, "Vulgar!"
Tao Lengshuang continued her acupuncture, unfazed, "If I, a village woman, am not vulgar, should I be elegant? What a joke you're making."
"Heh, only a village woman like you is vulgar."
"That's because you haven't seen others. Those people in their homes and villages are far more vulgar than I am. It would only dirty your eyes, so look less in the future, preferably be blind."
Mo Lingxi was so enraged that blood rushed to his head. He simply closed his eyes to rest, no longer paying attention to Tao Lengshuang.
Tao Lengshuang snorted heavily, feeling a sense of triumph, finally winning a round.
After the acupuncture, she went to the kitchen to brew medicine and also prepared a considerable amount of medicinal powder and poison, just in case.
While casually checking the medicinal herbs in her spatial medicine garden, she was surprised to find that another plot of land had appeared.
It was a plot of safflower.
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How did the area of her spatial medicine garden expand?
Tao Lengshuang's head ached from thinking about it, but she couldn't figure it out. She made a mental note to observe the spatial medicine garden closely and find out how its area expanded.
Once she figured out how the area expanded, she could gradually increase the size of her spatial medicine garden and obtain more medicinal herbs, thus earning money quickly.
After the medicine was brewed, she woodenly handed the bowl to Mo Lingxi, "Choose a room to rest in yourself. Don't come into my room."
With that, she returned to her own room.
It was the room originally occupied by Old Master Tao and his wife.
This room was the best, having been renovated only a couple of years ago, and it was the only room renovated.
Looking at the empty room, Tao Lengshuang thought about furnishing it, but she would wait until she truly obtained the house.
At the latest by tomorrow, the Tao family, having received the news, would come running back to settle accounts with her.
She was waiting for the Tao family.
Just as Tao Lengshuang had predicted, the Tao family, upon hearing the news, rushed back before dawn. They pounded violently on the door, attracting many curious villagers.
"Tao Lengshuang, you wicked creature, get out here! This is my house!"
"You heartless wretch, how could I have such a daughter? She's occupied her parents' home and even sold their belongings. Is there no justice?"
"We must not let Tao Lengshuang off lightly this time, or who knows what malicious things she'll do next."
"Why shouldn't you let me off lightly?" Tao Lengshuang opened the door, holding a wood-chopping knife, and looked at Old Master Tao's family with a faint, cold smile.
Upon seeing her, Old Master Tao's family tried to rush in.
But then they saw a wood-chopping knife slash past their eyes, startling them into retreating.
"Tao Lengshuang, what are you doing? This is my house!" Old Master Tao truly regretted not drowning Tao Lengshuang when she was born.
Tao Lengshuang waved the wood-chopping knife expressionlessly a few times, quite satisfied with the terrified look on Old Master Tao's family's faces, "It's my house now."
"If your family refuses to compensate me, then I'll have to do it my way. Coincidentally, my family needs a house."
Old Master Tao was so angry that his vision blurred. He berated his son and daughter-in-law, "What are you waiting for? Hurry up and grab her! Do you want to sleep on the floor tonight?"
Hearing this, Tao Da and the others found various suitable weapons and ferociously lunged at Tao Lengshuang, "We'll beat you to death today!"
Tao Lengshuang calmly sprinkled a handful of itching powder and said with a smile, "This itching powder was just developed yesterday. You're lucky to get it."
"Pah, you? Can you even tell the difference between *Sanqi* and *Huangqi*?" Yu Shi spat, her face full of disgust.
Tao Lengshuang ignored her and began to count, "One, two..."
As soon as she reached two, Tao Da and the others suddenly dropped their weapons, scratching themselves incessantly, their postures bizarre and comical.
"So itchy, so itchy, why is it so itchy?"
"Husband, quickly scratch my back, my back is so itchy."
"It's Tao Lengshuang's doing, it's because of the itching powder she sprinkled."
The onlookers were astonished and fearful.
"Wow! Is Tao Lengshuang's medical skill really this good?"
"Don't you know about Zhuzi being able to move around? I saw Zhuzi wandering in his own yard last night."
"It's really hard to tell that Tao Lengshuang has such abilities. Our village has produced a doctor, which will be more convenient if anything happens in the future."
"Do you think it'll be free? That will cost money."
"Money or life, which do you choose?"
Tao Lengshuang readily admitted, "Yes, yes, it's the itching powder I just sprinkled that's making you itch so much."
"If there's no antidote, you'll keep itching like this.
To get the antidote, you must exchange it for the house deed."