Chapter 85: Chief Xie: Go and Kneel for me
"Ruan Chanchan! Nan Wu is awake, but she is not looking good. Can you take a look at her and see what is wrong with her?" Mother Nan came running to look for Ruan Chanchan the second her daughter woke up. In her eyes, Ruan Chanchan was the only one who could save the life of her daughter now. Thus, when Nan Wu said that she was not feeling well, she came looking for Ruan Chanchan. Her eyes were red with anxiety as she looked at RuanChanchan, who was in a daze. If not for the fact that she couldn’t carry Ruan Chanchan, this big person, to her cave, she would have done it in a heartbeat.
Ruan Chanchan frowned when she heard that Nan Wu was not feeling well, but she didn’t panic. According to Xiao Xi, Nan Wu was lucky and didn’t get poisoned by the Black Snake beastwoman and only got injured by her claws. As long as the wound was cleaned up, the remaining poison would be cleaned up. Most probably, the woman was having a fever, something that she could deal with in a jiffy.
"Is she awake? Did she tell you something? You can bring me over, and I will check up on her."
Since she had taken on the task of healing Nan Wu, she might as well see it to the end.
However, before she could get to her feet, Ruan Zeqiu said to her, "But you are sick, Sister!"
"Zeqiu", Ruan Chanchan sighed as she said to the mer, "I took the responsibility to heal her, so I will have to work hard. Don’t you do the same thing? When you go hunting, you give your best to hunt the beast even though you are not feeling well. Sister is also doing the same thing."
Ruan Zeqiu’s eyes widened when he heard Ruan Chanchan’s words. He opened his lips to say that his sister didn’t need to work hard, that it was fine if she didn’t, but he couldn’t bring himself to say those words. His sister was doing her best to change, and she was growing up; he couldn’t drag her down, could he?
"It seems like she is getting better, huh?" Priestess Yuan glanced at Ruan Zeqiu, who simply snorted. He was glad that his sister was getting better, but at the same time, he was worried. His sister was naive and way too kind. But the people of this tribe were not as simple! Now that her skills were known to others, who knows how the others might react to this?
On the other hand, when Ruan Chanchan arrived at the cave where the Nan family lived, she could hear a quarrel happening.
"I told you that she is not capable of doing something so miraculous; why did you not listen to me?"
"Hah? As if you could have done anything better! Zhao Laosan, don’t forget that you are no better. At least Ruan Chanchan did try to help out; you, on the other hand, keep yelling that she can’t do this and that Nan Wu is destined to die. Just say that you are cursing her to die; why dance around the bushes!?" Xie Daiyu yelled at the woman who was making a fuss from the second she heard that Nan Wu was not feeling better.
"That’s right. Do you think that you are something special? You are the lowest-ranking hunter of the tribe, and the meat that you hunt is just as low as your rank. Don’t go around making a fuss bigger than your position! At least think of your status first," said Ye Qian Qian angrily.
Sun Cao also seemed to have joined the fray as he shouted in that soft voice of his, "I am telling you that Chanchan saved the life of my daughter, and she can certainly save Nan Wu! Stop making trouble for no reason, Laosan."
Zhou Laosan was so angry that she couldn’t help but turn to look at Chief Xie, but at that moment, even Chief Xie felt that Zhou Laosan was making trouble for no reason. Ruan Chanchan had done a great job by taking care of Nan Wu’s wounds, and even though the woman was moaning about not feeling well, it was evident that she was alive and no longer in danger of dying.
Anyway, Ruan Chanchan had already seen it happening earlier and told them that there was a chance that Nan Wu might end up getting a fever and asked them to bring her to Nan Wu when that happened. How come Zhou Laosan turned the entire situation around and made Ruan Chanchan a killer?
"You go and kneel in front of the holy flame," not wanting to listen to her nonsense anymore, Chief Xie decided to punish Zhou Laosan. The woman was getting more and more out of control just because she was related to her. Because her brother was determined to follow the Zhou woman, she allowed him to do whatever he wanted to do, but it seemed like things had gotten way out of control when she was not watching. Look at this, Zhou Laosan was stirring shit like she was entitled to do it. Nan Wu was not even dead, but she was already screaming at the top of her lungs, saying that she was dead.
If others didn’t know better, they would have really believed her.
Chief Xie was getting tired of wiping after Zhou Laosan. Now she dared to quarrel with Xie Daiyu; who knows if her courage got more emboldened, she might even start quarrelling with her? After all, she couldn’t kill Zhou Laosan, as she was her niece. Right? So who cared what she said? She could spout any nonsense that she wanted, and as she liked!
"Chief!"
Zhou Laosan was shocked. She turned and looked at her aunt; she didn’t believe her ears when she heard the woman say that she wanted her to go and kneel in front of the Holy Flame. How humiliating that would be!?