ADWMCES Chapter60

The jar of Snow Jade Ointment rolled to Ji Yujin’s feet. He squatted down, picked it up, and touched his upper palate with the tip of his tongue.

Ji Yujin had not expected to see such a scene, and his face became hot for a moment, “Are you… injured?”

Chu Fengqing pursed his lips heavily. “No…”

“No? I saw it all. How did you get hurt?” Ji Yujin had just finished asking when he suddenly thought of something. “Did you get hurt while riding the horse?”

The town was at a moderate distance. Chu Fengqing had likely never ridden for such a long stretch before, and with improper posture, it was easy to chafe the skin. Accustomed to riding, he hadn’t given this much thought.

Chu Fengqing didn’t say anything, so Ji Yujin took it as his consent. He closed his eyes, blaming himself for not being careful enough and also blaming himself for being too reckless and doing things based on his mood.

Even though he only took a quick glance, but he could see that the inside of his thighs were red.

“Why didn’t you tell me when we were riding?” Ji Yujin turned around and asked with some concern, “How could you just endure the pain?”

Chu Fengqing turned his head and looked into the distance, not meeting Ji Yujin’s gaze. He said softly, “I didn’t feel any pain when we were riding.”

“Bullsh*t.” Ji Yujin immediately refuted him. Although the skin break wasn’t severe, it was extremely painful, he had felt that burning sensation before. “I think you only realized it too late and were worried we’d be delayed on your account. We won’t die from walking a few steps. At worst, I can carry you back.”

Ji Yujin knew that he was always considerate of others and was too thoughtful, but he wanted to be the one who was more thoughtful. He hoped that one day Chu Fengqing wouldn’t hold anything back in front of him, wouldn’t worry about him at all, and could rely on him as freely as he wished.

He clenched the ointment in his hand. “There is still a long way to go.” Ah, at least he didn’t see any dependence in Chu Fengqing’s eyes.

“I’m going out for a while.”

Ji Yujin took the bottle of ointment and walked out.

The door closed with a creaky sound. Chu Fengqing looked at the closed door and rubbed his temple, he always lost his composure in front of Ji Yujin.

Was he angry?

Chu Fengqing pursed his thin lips. He was not good at guessing what others were thinking, let alone how to deal with them. He was indeed a bit clumsy when it came to handling personnel matters.

It was a little painful when he was riding the horse, but he didn’t expect it to be so serious and was blinded by the feeling of the horse galloping. Because of asthma and weakness, his life since childhood can be described in one word—”boring”.

People are like that, they long for a life they’ve never known. Being a worldly person himself, he craved the pleasures of revenge, poetry, wine, and the wider world.

The rarer something is, the more careful he becomes. He won’t go out of his way to please others, but at least he won’t provoke them, this is how he navigates the world. For example, riding a horse, he was afraid that after he said it, Ji Yujin would consider his health and stop taking him on a horse ride. Although it was just a small thing, it meant something different to him.

He was afraid that… Ji Yujin would kick him out of his life without any explanation…

Chu Fengqing lowered his eyes and suddenly buried his head in the quilt. After a moment, he looked up again and returned to his cold and aloof look.

Ji Yujin soon came back, and this time he knocked on the door sensibly.

Chu Fengqing: “Come in.”

Ji Yujin went somewhere unknown and walked in with a shroud of moisture.

Chu Fengqing had put on his clothes neatly and meticulously, and he didn’t look embarrassed at all. Only the lingering blush on his ears betrayed him.

He was half-reclined on the bed, flipping through a book in his hands, appearing deeply focused, but in reality, it was all a pretense; he hadn’t turned that page in a long time.

Ji Yujin furrowed his brows and approached Chu Fengqing. Seeing him made his adam apple slide involuntarily. He then pulled out a bottle of ointment from his arms, noticeably more expensive-looking than the Snow Jade Ointment.

He put the ointment on the table and said, “You’re a physician, yet don’t you know how effective the Snow Jade Ointment is? Can it really be used on such a large area of broken skin?”

Before Chu Fengqing could take the ointment, Ji Yujin suddenly withdrew his hand and half-knelt in front of the bed. “I’m still worried, can you let me take a look at the wound?”

Chu Fengqing: “……”

Is he crazy? Chu Fengqing’s face, which had just calmed down, turned red in an instant, and the veins on the back of his hand that was clutching the quilt were throbbing.

Ji Yujin stared at Chu Fengqing with a roguish look. Through clenched teeth, Chu Fengqing muttered, “Get lost.”

Ji Yujin frowned. “We are all men, what are you afraid of? I also have what you have.”

Chu Fengqing thought to himself, You don’t have.

But he didn’t dare say it, for fear of hurting some people’s self-esteem. After all, being a eunuch is not a glorious thing from any perspective.

Ji Yujin didn’t give up yet, “I will just look at the wound, it’s not like I’ll do anything else. Besides, it’s not like I haven’t seen it before.”

He had watched it all during last winter’s hunt, and in the end, he even dressed him in the clothes.

Chu Fengqing’s face was so hot that he could fry an egg on it. His crowfeather-like eyelashes trembled wildly. He didn’t understand how there could be such a shameless person in this world.

Seeing Chu Fengqing’s face becoming increasingly ugly, Ji Yujin froze for a moment and didn’t dare to say anything more. “Alright, rub it yourself.”

As he said that, he stuffed the ointment into his hand and sat down at the table in front, with his back to Chu Fengqing, of course.

Chu Fengqing took a deep breath and didn’t want to rub it at all.

Just as he was struggling over whether to rub it or not, Ji Yujin, who was sitting there, suddenly whispered, “I’m sorry.”

Chu Fengqing was stunned for a moment, and Ji Yujin continued, “I will never do such a rash thing again. I didn’t consider your situation.”

Chu Fengqing’s pupils shrank slightly, he knew it.

It has been like this since he was a child. His elder brother took him to learn martial arts, but he had a high fever the next day. After he recovered, he begged his elder brother to teach him again, but his elder brother did not agree. From then on, no one dared to take him to learn martial arts anymore. He was not even given a chance to try riding a horse. He was sent away with a sentence saying that his body was not suitable for it.

It was meant to protect him, so he never voiced it, yet deep down he still longed for it, longed for the exertion, the intensity and fierceness, and the feeling of a strong, healthy body.

He lowered his eyes, let it be.

However… the next moment, all the mental preparation he had made collapsed.

“I’ll teach you how to ride properly once your injury heals. This happened because your posture was wrong.”

“After you learn it, I’ll take you there. There’s a big prairie in the northwest where you can enjoy horseback riding. But you have to wait until spring. It’s too cold now. There’s still snow all over the place.”

Ji Yujin tilted his head slightly and spoke lazily, word by word.