Qingshui Village, nestled in a small mountain gully.
A group of over a dozen ragged delinquents surrounded two people in the center of an open field.
In the midst of the open space, a young girl in a dress was protecting a muddy young man who seemed a bit foolish. The girl in the dress, however, out of her concern, hid the boy behind herself and protected him cautiously.
The girl in the dress was exceptionally pleasing, emanating a graceful ancient beauty from afar. Her hair cascaded down her shoulders; her face was immaculate, as if sculptured on ivory; and her red lips split into two halves. Her large, watery eyes seemed to draw people in.
With the wind's gentle breeze, her dress danced lightly.
Upon seeing this, the crowd exchanged looks and then began to make faces at each other.
One of the blond lads amidst the crowd held a cigarette. Amid the curling smoke, he pointed at the girl in the dress and sneered, "Su Ruoxue, we've spent considerable effort to lure you here. If we knew earlier how much you protect Ye Shazhi, we would have succeeded long ago."
"Brothers, we're in luck, ha-ha......" said the young men as they enclosed Su Ruoxue.
Su Ruoxue, maintaining her grasp on Ye Chen, whose stupidity seemed to have increased, her pretty face chilled, snapped, "What are you all planning?"
Su Ruoxue and Ye Chen were university classmates. They harbored feelings for each other, although not too deep, probably because they were neighbors in adjacent villages and were of the same age, hence they could relate to each other quite well. Their relationship heated up only after their graduation from the university.
However, two years ago, Su Ruoxue encountered a landslide. It was Ye Chen who blocked the tumbling rocks with his shoulder for Su Ruoxue, becoming a "fool" in the process due to a head injury. It's been nearly two years since.
What Su Ruoxue didn't know was that in these two years, Ye Chen was anything but a fool. When the rock hit him, his jade pendant shattered, and a streak of light from it incorporated into Ye Chen's body.
For the past two years, Ye Chen had been receiving the blessing of the ancestral jade pendant, or to phrase it another way, the modification of the jade pendant!
The power from the jade pendant divided into two parts—one was there to provide strength to Ye Chen, and the other was medical skills, or precisely, "Shen Nong's Canonical Scripture".
The knowledge in the Divine Farmer's Classic covered a vast range, with the bulk of it being about medicine and healing techniques — what Ye Chen had learned the most in the past two years.
From the Eight Extraordinary Meridians, curing diseases and healing others, both by suspending a pot to treat the world and the opening of a cauldron to refine pills... All these fascinate Ye Chen, giving him a broader perspective for the first time. His medical skillset practically included all techniques for treating sickness, and he had basically mastered numerous therapeutic methods such as traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture, massage, cupping, Qi Gong, diet therapy, and so on.
If not for the personal experience, Ye Chen would absolutely not believe in these things. Yet, the Divine Farmer's Classic was embedded in his mind, and the magical power was within his body, thus, he had no choice but to accept the reality.
However, due to the continual focus on studying the Divine Farmer's Classic, Ye Chen's body was always in a dazed and muddled state.
Just as these teenagers were approaching Su Ruoxue, Ye Chen's body suddenly shook, the confusion in his eyes gradually fading, being replaced with a sight of a familiar silhouette of a young girl standing in front of him.
"What are you trying to do? Ha-ha, ask our brothers here what we want to do..."
"We heard you and this fool used to be in love. Now we want to know if he will wake up due to the stimulation?" A couple of them said, and one of them suddenly grabbed Su Ruoxue's hand.
"You beasts, I swear I'll call for help!" Su Ruoxue was terrified.
"Call for help? You know exactly where we are. Are you planning to ask Ghost Old Two to help you? We lured you here with the help of Ye the fool. Do you think we would be unprepared?"
The yellow-haired leader inhaled a deep drag of a cigarette, then chuckled coldly before pouncing towards Su Ruoxue.
However, the next moment, the yellow-haired leader suddenly felt a sharp pain in his nose...
He instantly fell backwards.
"You damned wench!" The yellow-haired thug, fueled by his rage, tossed aside his cigarette and rolled up his sleeves.
Thump!
This time, a kick landed directly on the thug's stomach. With a painful cry, he immediately clutched his stomach and fell to the ground.
"It's you, Ye the Stupid!"
Huang Mao looked up, only to realize that the footing he was excited over didn't belong to Su Ruo Xue, but to Ye Chen.
Ye Chen loosened his grip gently, turned his head, and said in a cold tone, "My woman, and you dared to touch her?"
"What? You are pretending to be an idiot?" Several people were shocked and looked at Ye Chen.
Huang Mao, clutching his chest, roared, "Boys, attack him, take him down! Since he is not stupid, then let's beat him back into stupidity! Playing the pig to eat the tiger!”
Boom!
The fastest man suddenly found a fist flying towards his face.
The second one incoming was greeted by Ye Chen's foot, while the third one stumbled and fell at Ye Chen's feet. The fourth was kicked away by Ye Chen, and as for the fifth...he didn’t even reach Ye Chen, he just kneeled down!
The fifth man immediately kowtowed, crying out, "Spare me, Brother Ye!"
Because above his head was a foot.
The others just about to charge were so shocked by this scene that they dared not continue rushing forward...
Possessing the power imbued by the jade pendant, Ye Chen looked contemptuously upon their petty ruffian tactics.
Just at this moment, a man grabbed a wooden stick and fiercely slammed it down towards Ye Chen's forehead.
"Watch out!"
Su Ruo Xue let out a scream, and the next moment, there was a clang, the wooden stick snapped into two pieces, while Ye Chen remained unscathed.
Ye Chen turned around and glanced at this man holding a wooden stick, instantly collapsing on the ground, his hand still numb from the impact.
Thump!
The man with the stick was sent flying by Ye Chen's kick, landing hard on the far-off dirt.
"You guys having fun bulling my woman, huh?"
Ye Chen walked over and stepped directly on the chest of the yellow-haired man, bending over to glance at him and snorted coldly.
"Ye, Brother Ye, I hope you wouldn't mind the small offenses..." Yellow-hair grimaced in pain, watching Ye Chen in a plea.
"Or should I castrate you right now and send you to be an eunuch?"
Yellow-hair was so scared that he collapsed on the ground.
Fear-stricken, the men quickly knelt in front of Ye Chen, swearing, "Brother Ye, I promise you, I swear, I will never let my sister-in-law be bullied again..."
"Get lost!"
Ye Chen kicked Yellow-hair away.
Seeing the men scramble away, Su Ruoxue threw herself into Ye Chen's arms like a little kitten, hugging Ye Chen and asking in surprise, "Ye Chen, you, you woke up?"
Gently holding Su Ruoxue, Ye Chen said, "Fool, from now on, I will protect you for the rest of my life, okay?"
Su Ruoxue trembled, hot tears uncontrollably fell onto Ye Chen. Her aggrieved feelings of two years burst out instantly, all pouring out onto Ye Chen's shoulders.
Ye Chen pushed away the soft Su Ruoxue and gently said, "Stop crying, okay? Look at me, my hands are so dirty, I have made your face look like a little kitten." As Ye Chen said, he gently caressed Su Ruoxue's delicate face.
"No, you're the one who looks like a kitten."
Su Ruoxue's face turned slightly red, her tears gave way to smiles, blossoming like a fresh flower.
