Su Su gazed at the sight before her with shining eyes. Blocking her line of sight was a piece of fine and soft clothing material. The many folds of the elegant skirt swayed like pendulums; the glossy sparkling jade-like stone passes through the white tassels along with the owner’s movement. The way the person’s body swayed when she walked was like passing by a divine and wonderful spirit. Su Su looked up again; this woman has a beautiful appearance. Earlier, she did not have the opportunity to look at this woman’s face, but from what she gathered was that she’s extraordinary. Su Su carefully examines the woman and can only sigh for the beautiful woman’s outstanding beauty, her bright friendly eyes, and soft and creamy skin. Usually when Su looks at people, she liked to look into their eyes, but at present, both the woman’s eyes are pretty. Needless to say, she has a faint smile, but what a pity…it lacks warmth.
Su Su sizes up the woman’s eyes with her staring. One might call her impudent for the way she was looking. It was so blatant that the woman should be feeling it. The corners of the woman’s mouth hung a light smile as she speaks up,
“I can treat them.”
You are…a physician?
The woman slightly nodded, and the person before Su Su’s eyes was now shrouded in a soft light. (TL:…sound of chimes…like a miracle…an angel! Remember how helpless she felt from previous chapter.)
Su Su could still hear the voices of the rickety pirates. The scent of the wine and grilled meat, mixed together, filled the air. The strong contrast between the surrounding environment and this person’s femininity was inexplicable. Su Su thinks this woman was strange; she coughs lightly to conceal her surprise expression and asks with a smile, “Miss, what is your name?”
“Sang Nuan.” The woman’s voice was clear and smooth; she pauses for a moment and then continues to say, “You can call me Ah Nuan, that’s ok.”
Su Su’s mind suddenly went blank. In this pirate’s nest, there were hostility among them and each had different standpoints. Can’t this name appear too excessively intimate? Fortunately, Miss Su didn’t bother the trifles and says with a smile, “Well, I am called Xiaoshu.”
“Come on, first let us leave and bring them to my place for treatment where there is plenty of medicine.”
“Go?” Su Su momentarily celebrated until she realizes something was not right, “Are you sure we can go out?”
“You cannot escape.” Sang Nuan’s voice became gentler with a smile and had a touch of indifference that people cannot refute.
Su Su casts away her habit of twitching her mouth. Very well, even if they cannot escape, it wa still good too because she does not want to run away yet. She bends down to help Qin Yan up and easily points towards Qin Qian who was still in a state of stupor, and asked the woman, “I’ll trouble you to help her.”
After some efforts, Sang Nuan managed to pick up Qin Qian and then the four people walk toward the cave exit. The pirates guarding the two sides of the cave did not even bother to block them unexpectedly. Su Su could not help but turn her head back to look at the center of the cave. Sitting on the short table were several people. There were few eyes staring at them but strangely, no one stopped them. In addition she was standing on the left side of the Moyi man , a moment ago, now he does not even look at her and continues to drink his bowl of wine. For them, this kind of outcome was truly surprising and beyond reason; however, Su Su was the only who anticipated it.
Su Su followed the woman out of the cave and noted her difficulty with holding the fainted Qin Qian as she appeared strained, kept staggering every few steps, and had irregular breathing patterns. She looked rather awful struggling to balance the both of them. Can she not do martial arts? Outside the cave, the dark clouds billowed like before. The rain was smaller but under the strong wind, they have to cheer themselves to keep going. The wind and rain pound against their body but their optimism does not make them feel any better. She keeps up her good spirit because the medical shed Sang Nuan mentioned was not far from the cave. Seeing the place, a log house, it was obviously bigger than the hut next to it. While Su Su walked, her attention was on the three lookout towers. Since the moment they left the cave, those guards’ eyes were fixed on them. If at this time she was to do some action, she would surely be discovered by them. Su Su ends her surveys, refocused her attention, and faithfully follows Sang Nuan to the log cabin.
They enter the cabin and Su Su routinely swept her eyes around the cottage. The room was simply furnished, three chairs for tea, a swing on the right, two small narrow wooden beds behind it, and a medicine cabinet on the wall to the left. Next to the cabinet was a door; she marveled what was beyond it. Sang Nuan laid Qin Qian down on a wooden bed then moved towards the medicine chest. Su Su leaned Qin Yan near Qin Qian’s wooden bed and then quietly thinks to herself.
Based on her observation earlier, Sang Nuan doesn’t know any martial arts. Even though the pirates were afraid of her, she was incredibly warm. There were only two possibilities: one, she is not as harmless as she looks on the surface and second, she is not as important. Even if they were to catch her, they wouldn’t be able to coerce her into managing a household.
Su Su looks up and her eyes fell onto a slim and small figure standing in front of the medicine cabinet picking up a prescription. She preferred the first possibility; a woman who can sit in the center of the cave, how can she possibly just have an ordinary role?
If Sang Nuan’s attempt to rescue was stemmed from being nice and kind, Su Su doesnt believe Wu Mu’s antics began with Qin Qian. That double beauty’s reactions revealed indifferences. Clearly the woman has already seen these kinds of things before and was already accustomed it because if it was just fundamental introductions to her and has only occurred on this one occasion, why did the scene not arouse not even a little of her interest? But if the woman had malicious evil intentions, Su Su didn’t feel the woman was voluntarily lending a hand to help; but she was instigated by someone to do so. But why? For what purpose? Su Su was still pondering when Sang Nuan returns, carrying a tray. Resting on the tray were few bottles, scissors, and thin cottons and so on.
Su Su approached her and picked up a bottle, reading ‘hemostasis’, and a cotton cloth from the tray then fell back to the nearby chair and said, “You treat them. I have a cut on my skin from playing. I’ll treat it myself.”
Cut skin? The cut was big and the skin was now swollen.
Sang Nuan’s general appearance still wore a smile and nodded in understanding. She touches and traces Qin Qian’s chin, and discovered the dislocated jaws have already been joined. She inspected the rest of her body; except for some bruises, there was nothing else that needed treatment. Sang Nuan went to Qin Yan’s side and looked at his right shoulder. Sang Nuan roughly knew about Wu Mu’s strength, thus, this boy’s arm might probably become crippled. She proceeded to check Qin Yan’s shoulder bone and after just a touch, Sang Nuan immediately realized that something was not right. She was secretly surprised that the boy’s bone have been returned to its original position. The position was exactly right, such a beautiful bone manipulation, it was even better than her. Sang Nuan’s eyes swept to the fellow sitting on the wooden chair. From her view, the fellow was sitting sideways biting the wooden cork to open the bottle. He quickly spread the medicine powder on the wounds neatly, then tied the wound with a thin cloth. He put the bottle down and wrapped the wound several more rounds. His hands were very agile; tugging the ends of the cloth, he made a simple knot. The movement was very coherent and the whole process was finished in one swoop. This fellow seemed to have done this countless of times.
Sang Nuan finished her observation and took the acupuncture needle on the tray to Qin Yan to treat his internal injury. She focused on the treatment and didn’t look at the young fellow with the hat again.
After binding the wound on her arms, Su Su returned the medicine onto the tray and comfortably leaned back on the chair and casually started to chat, “Ah Nuan, I thought you look similar to the man with the silver gun. You two look very much alike, are you brother and sister?”
This “Ah Nuan” was quite freely spoken, with a relax and familiar tone. Those who did not know will naturally think they were really friends. With her hands still pinching the acupuncture needle, Sang Nuan smiled deeply and gently answered, “His name is Sang Leng, he is my younger brother.”
“You are twin brother and sister.”
“Umm.”
** The name of the twins actually meant : Mulberry Cold (Sang Leng) and Mulberry Warm (Sang Nuan) — opposite. I don’t know if there were any significance to these names.
Su Su’s goal for questioning was to spy for information on the actual situation. She did not expect Sang Nuan would reply earnestly. At this moment, her accidental coordination was paying off. Su Su decided to continue on the selected issues that she was really interested in! Leaning forward with quite a curious expression, Su Su continued to ask, “That man who said I have to stay around him, is he not your Island’s people? What is his name? The other pirates were called the pirate chief,Dang Jiade, but only the black cape man called him, “YiDang Jia”, therefore, she felt there was a possibility he was not a person of Pirate Island.
Sang Nuan’s eyes narrowed as she smiled. The chaos was only for half an hour but unexpectedly, he can already perceive he was not from the island? He even only spoke a few words. It seems like paper mulberry eyes were hidden under that small felt hat and were considerably observant and critical. She did not plan to reply to the question but changed her mind. She suddenly showed a faint smile and answered, “His name is Mo Yuan and is the island’s honorary guest.”
Honorary guest? Su Su had guessed correctly that the status identity of the black clad man was not simple, but not think and was surprise it would be this remarkable!
What status should one have to be called ‘honorary’ by pirates?
The pirates suddenly caught so many vigorous and healthy men…was this also associated with him?!
Miss Su felt there were several kittens scratching inside her chest…scratch…ah nicely scratch! Ah, she’s very curious!
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