Chapter 541 - 296: When a Wife Gets Polite, Something Big Is Bound to Happen
Chapter 541: Chapter 296: When a Wife Gets Polite, Something Big Is Bound to Happen
After all, Su Changliang was of the Half-demon Race and knew a Technique or two.
In his reverted ancestral form, Su Changliang had a human torso and a snake’s tail, making him an "ancestor" to this little Striped Snake!
This Striped Snake was showing off before a master—like trying to wield a broadsword before Guan Er Ye!
Su Changliang turned, pressed his left hand over his right, and began to form a stance.
But then, the Striped Snake shot straight into Su Changliang’s forehead.
Su Changliang’s head snapped back uncontrollably.
Su Changliang cried out, "I was careless! I didn’t dodge!"
Su Changliang immediately circulated all his Inner Strength to protect his heart meridian, terrified the Striped Snake would devour it.
A cabbage can still live without its heart, but can a man?
After protecting his heart meridian, Su Changliang formed several hand seals and began muttering an incantation.
A green light glowed in his palms, but it suddenly dimmed.
The Striped Snake slithered through his body, wrapped itself around his heart, and squeezed...
A sinister smile spread across Su Changliang’s face. A black light flashed in his eyes, completely eclipsing the whites.
He seemed to have lost all his vitality, his body moving mechanically as he walked out of Doctor Li’s clinic and strode away.
A little over an hour later, the old woman who had cried until she fainted on the floor woke up.
The weeping old woman wiped the tear stains from her face and, ignoring the wide-open clinic door, rushed to her husband’s side.
She gently shook Doctor Li, who lay on the bed, calling out, "Old man, wake up..."
She called out more than ten times, but her husband showed no reaction.
She gently touched the tip of her husband’s nose. He wasn’t breathing.
The old woman collapsed by the bedside again, her left hand gripping the edge of the bed while her right pounded the floor as she wailed:
"Old man, how could you just leave me like this..."
Her voice, thick with sobs, trembled with an emotion so raw it was palpable.
Doctor Li suddenly took a sharp breath. "HAAAH~"
He shot upright and took several more gasps of air, his chest heaving.
Doctor Li looked at his wife, slumped over the bedside and wailing as if at a funeral. He patted her on the shoulder.
"Old woman, what are you crying about?"
Lost in her grief, the old woman brushed Doctor Li’s hand away and continued to weep, completely absorbed.
Suddenly, she realized something was amiss and looked up.
"Aah! He’s come back from the dead!"
She scrambled to her feet to run, but Doctor Li grabbed the hem of her robe.
The old woman shut her eyes and shouted, "Old man, I’ve always been faithful to you! I’ve never done anything to wrong you! Please don’t take me with you!"
Doctor Li said slowly, "It’s me. I’m still alive."
His wife snapped out of her terror, overjoyed. "Old man, you’re alive?"
Doctor Li said angrily, "Is that any way to talk?"
His wife quickly shut her mouth.
Doctor Li felt relaxed all over, all the aches and pains of old age gone. He asked, "Who was it that cured me?"
The old woman thought for a moment and said, "It was the Lord County Magistrate’s brother-in-law, Prefect Lu."
Few people in Taiping City knew that Lu Yuan had been promoted to Third Grade Commander of the Left and Right Guards of the Government Army.
With trembling hands, Doctor Li sang his praises. "My savior! I’ve spent a lifetime treating patients, but I am not truly a good man. Lord Lu, however... he is a true miracle worker."
...
「Taiping City. The Su Mansion.」
Xiaoqian, her belly showing a slight swell, was lounging on the bed, propped against the headboard. She held a handful of preserved plums, chewing them with great relish.
Every so often, she would spit out a plum pit, each one landing with unerring accuracy in a trash can near a table not far away.
Trash cans were a relatively modern household item, all of them produced by the factory workers under Lu Yuan’s direction.
Su Changliang, his eyes completely black, pushed the door open and entered without a sound.
Xiaoqian put down her plums and called out in a sweet voice, "Husband, you’re back. Did you take care of the matter with Doctor Li?"
Su Changliang remained silent and didn’t respond to Xiaoqian. He stood in the center of the room, his body swaying from side to side.
Su Changliang took two steps toward Xiaoqian, then one step back, shuffling back and forth.
This series of strange behaviors from Su Changliang, right from the moment he entered, surprised Xiaoqian.
Normally, Su Changliang was an affable man, and he was always exceptionally courteous to his wife.
Every time he came back from the County Yamen, if he wasn’t bringing Xiaoqian all sorts of snacks, he was at least asking after her well-being with great care.
Xiaoqian secretly readied a Technique with her left hand. With a smile still on her face, she asked again, "Husband, why are you silent?"
Black smoke spewed from Su Changliang’s mouth as he raised his hands and lunged at Xiaoqian, striking her abdomen with his palm.
Xiaoqian clutched her stomach, crying out in pain, "Husband, why would you hurt me?"
A pair of fluffy ears popped up on Xiaoqian’s head as she collapsed.
Su Changliang slurred, "Go... Get out!"
"I won’t go!" Xiaoqian retorted stubbornly, still holding her stomach.
Su Changliang grabbed his right hand with his left, trying desperately to control himself. He muttered, "No, I can’t!"
If Su Changliang hadn’t protected his heart meridian, he would likely be lying motionless just like Doctor Li.
Although Su Changliang now had a sliver of a chance at survival, he was like a living corpse, his consciousness no longer under his control.
The black, triangular-headed Striped Snake was controlling him from within, devouring his consciousness and eroding his ’official fortune.’
It wouldn’t take more than a few hours for Su Changliang to become a completely mindless living corpse.
A puff of black smoke erupted, and Su Changliang’s eyes grew even blacker. A green snake tail burst through his pants.
His pants were torn to shreds, the scraps of fabric scattering across the floor.
Wisps of black smoke coiled around the green snake tail as it whipped back and forth inside the room.
A look of concern crossed Xiaoqian’s face. Enduring the pain in her abdomen, she pushed herself upright.
With a flick of his snake tail, Su Changliang knocked Xiaoqian off the bed and pounced on her...
The moment Su Liyan’s mother and father, who had gone out shopping, returned to the Su Mansion, Su Liyan’s mother sensed that something was amiss.