in2ebook Chapter 245 Hope or Despair
Chapter 245 Hope or Despair
Chapter 245 Hope or Despair
Ye Wenyan stood up from the soft chair, walked to the table outside, spread out paper and picked up a pen, and hastily drew a map of the sea.
The sea is a shoreless sea. The northern shore is written as Northern Qi, and the western shore is written as Dashun. She once built a pavilion near the east, and saw from afar that there were countries in the east, with many people, but she didn't know what the country over there was called, nor did she know whether A'ran was among those people.
Now she is in the north, Ah Heng is in the west, if Ah Ran is also in the same direction, then where is Qing Qing? In the previous life, the disappearance of Feng Qing Qing had almost driven the people of the Feng family crazy. Although they knew that the Ye family had prepared a time and space passage for Qing Qing, they did not expect that it was triggered by accident, and there was no news of her afterwards.
The Feng family's divination lasted for 49 days, and finally before the 50th day, they calculated that the person was still alive, which made everyone feel relieved. But the person was alive, but she was living in a parallel time and space. You knew she was there, but you couldn't see, touch, or go.
Now she knows that the parallel space is here, but where will Qingqing and A Ran be? When the four seas are connected, will they meet? And what about Jingyu, what is her chance?
On New Year's Eve, the Phoenix danced, and Feng Ling said that when the four seas were connected, the five veins would reunite. But the Wu'an Sea was the largest sea area within her knowledge, and there were countless mazes on the sea. Even Ye Wu'an, the ancestor of the Ye family, could not deal with it. Even Master Liyuan had invested more than 90% of his cultivation power to suppress the tsunami. How could she connect the four seas?
Ye Wenyan leaned over the table and sighed, saying, "Feng Ling, Feng Ling, what do you give me? Is it hope or despair? You don't just want to tell me to give up? Then my trip would be in vain."
The door was pushed open, and Xiangdong came in with lunch. Seeing that she was not resting, but leaning over the table writing something, he said, "Miss, what are you writing? Come and have lunch! It's past the end of the hour now, and dinner will be postponed for another two hours."
She was really hungry, so she picked up a stack of paper and covered the drawn sea map, then walked to the table and called Xiangdong, "Let's eat together. I can't finish all this food by myself."
Xiangdong thought about it and decided not to show any emotion. He went out to get another set of bowls and chopsticks, then sat down to eat with her.
Ye Wenyan never had many rules. Things like not talking while eating and not talking while sleeping were all off limits to her. When she asked someone to eat with her, it actually meant that they were talking with her. Xiangdong also knew this, so she took the initiative to bring up a topic: "Why doesn't the young lady open a clinic?"
Ye Wenyan asked back: "Why should I open a clinic?"
Xiang Dong said: "In this disaster, Miss treated so many injured people. I think Miss has this intention. Besides, you have such good medical skills. Wouldn't it be a waste if you don't open a clinic?"
Ye Wenyan shook his head, "I don't think it's a waste. Just like what I said to the Right Prime Minister, I can't do something just because I know how to do it. I know a lot of things, and I can't treat everything as a business."
"Then what do we need the Li Family Clinic for? And the shop next to it, are you planning to rent it out, Miss?"
She thought for a while, but couldn't think of what the two shops could do. Generally speaking, owners who don't know how to run a business would choose to rent out the shop, collect rent on an annual or monthly basis, and live a good life. Those who have some business sense would probably do some business on their own. In this era, there is not too fierce competition between shops, and there won't be the situation of similar shops next to each other on the same street as in the past, so if you can do something on your own, it will definitely be more cost-effective than renting it out.
But she didn't want to do business, open a clinic, or get involved in other businesses. She didn't lack money, nor did she have much free time to help the world. Rather than practicing medicine, she wanted to understand why the world only gave humans a lifespan of sixty years.
This question was like a mountain pressing on her shoulders. She would not be able to rest until it was removed. "What are you thinking about, young lady?"
She came back to her senses and asked Xiang Dong directly: "Have you ever thought about why the people on this continent only have a lifespan of 60 years?"
Xiang Dong was stunned for a moment, then shook his head, "I haven't thought about it, because it has been like this since birth. Is there any other place where humans can live over 60 years old? Impossible!"
"Why not?" She said, "You should have heard that before the spiritual power disappears, spiritual practitioners can live for many, many years as their cultivation level improves. Even mortals have never heard of dying at the age of sixty, otherwise where would the saying of seventy or eighty come from? And where would the saying of living a hundred years old come from?"
Xiang Dong thought for a moment, "That means what the book master said is probably just a beautiful wish! In reality, where does one live to be 70 or 80 years old? In this world, apart from the Emperor, I have never heard of anyone living past 60."
"Yes." Ye Wenyan lowered his voice, as if he was talking to Xiangdong, or talking to himself. "Yes, but it was so long ago that people today don't remember it." Xiangdong was very puzzled, "Why do you ask this, young lady?"
She shook her head. "Nothing, just asking casually."
One day this rule will be broken, and she will make it her life's mission. But breaking the rule requires an opportunity, where can she find this opportunity? And why is the life span of humans on this continent restricted to sixty years? Is this destiny or man-made? If it is man-made, who has such great power to control an entire continent? Or... is this controlling the way of heaven?
She believed that she did not have this ability, and she also felt that Shi Liyuan did not have it. So, if it was man-made, there must have been a powerful person more powerful than Shi Liyuan who came here, imprisoned the heaven and earth, and limited the lifespan of humans.
Who is that person and why does he do this?
Xiangdong finished eating and saw Ye Wenyan had also put down his bowl and chopsticks, so he stood up to clean up.
She then remembered that the original topic was the Li family's medical clinic and the Wu family's cloth shop, so she said to Xiangdong, "Go to Yujing Garden and call my eldest brother over, and tell him that I want to talk to him."
If she doesn't run the business herself, someone else has to do it. If she doesn't open a clinic herself, someone else has to open one. Even if she doesn't practice medicine, she still needs a clinic as a cover so that she can study the pills more conveniently.
The opportunity would not come too soon, she could not just sit and wait, she had to do something. If there was a clinic, she could try various ways to mix spiritual power into the pills to see if she could find a spiritual medicine that could break the lifespan restriction.
If she has to do these things, she will have no energy to take care of the clinic, but at the same time, the clinic cannot fall into the hands of others, so Ye Feiyu is the most suitable. As for the cloth shop next to it, it was agreed that Ye Feiyu would have one room and Ye Qingmei would have one room, and then she would give it to the elder sister, so she can do whatever she wants!
Ye Feiyu came over very quickly. He was very happy that the little sister asked him to come over and talk.
She had been close to him since before, but they had not been so close since the second day of the twelfth lunar month. He knew the reason, so he did not ask too many questions, and even less take the initiative to interact with her, for fear of annoying her.
But every time he saw Yan'er helping Feizhou, he still felt a little envious.
Ye Wenyan spoke directly, spreading the two deeds on the table, looking at Ye Feiyu who was already sitting down, and said: "One is the Li family clinic, and the other is the neighbor of the Li family clinic, who used to do cloth business. I want to give the clinic to my eldest brother to run, and the other shop to my eldest sister, all as her dowry."
Ye Feiyu was stunned by what she said, "Yan'er, what do you mean? How can we take your shop?" He really didn't expect that his sister called him here to give him such a valuable gift. Can a shop be given to someone just like that? Even for an official household like the General's Mansion, two shops in the inner city are very good things, usually given by parents when their children get married. How can a sister add to her sister's dowry and also give him, her brother, a share?
He shook his head repeatedly and pushed the deed forward, "No, take it back. I've also taken back Qingmei's share for her."
Ye Wenyan was a little unhappy. "Brother, you are deliberately alienating me. If I gave you these before the twelfth lunar month, you would not refuse them, right? Why do you shake your head without even thinking when I give them to you now? Brother, you don't treat me as your own sister."
"No!" Ye Feiyu was a little anxious, "Yan'er, when did I stop treating you as my own sister? Besides, there is no need to talk about whether you are my own sister or not. You are my own sister, no matter how you say it. But the shops in the inner city are very expensive, and you took out two of them at once to give them away. What are you doing?" He had a bad premonition, "Yan'er, are you leaving?"
As soon as he said this, he felt more and more that he was right, and he became more nervous.
Ye Wenyan was a little dazed when he looked at this elder brother. He wanted to say, "I won't leave! I just want to give you two a good thing to add some value to your future. Why do you get anxious when you are talking about this?"
But seeing Ye Feiyu reaching out and holding her wrist so tightly, she immediately thought of the night when she went to see Shi Liyuan. She herself had taken those imaginary things seriously. With such empathy, she realized that she must have not expressed herself clearly, causing this elder brother to misunderstand.
So he immediately explained: "It's not what you think. I'm not going anywhere. This is my home. My relatives are all here. Where can I go? Don't get me wrong, brother. I just got these two shops and I don't want to run them. In addition, I got too many good things recently, so I want to do you a favor and give one to you and your elder sister. On the one hand, it will add to her dowry, and on the other hand, it will save you money to marry a wife. Don't be afraid, brother, I really won't run away. Let go of your hand first, it hurts!"
Ye Feiyu quickly let go of her hand and rubbed it, "It's good that you don't leave, it's good that you don't leave, Yan'er, you scared me to death."
"Brother, don't be too nervous. Even if I leave, I will definitely take you, my elder sister, and mother with me. I won't run away alone. After all, I still want to eat the dumplings made by mother, and I still count on you and my elder sister to take care of me." She pushed the deed forward again, "Brother, keep it first. After you keep it, I will talk to you about how to use your shop. This is a request from me, so please don't refuse."