"No need to thank us, we should be thanking you."

"Huh?"

Tan Wenbin replied, "What do you mean by that, sir?"

The old doctor spoke with a heavy tone, "When I was young, every time we encountered such strange weather, my grandfather would tell me, there's trouble brewing in the mountains.

I asked my grandfather, shouldn't we hurry and escape then?

My grandfather said, there's nothing to fear, no need to run, capable people will come to settle the matters in the mountains."

The old doctor pointed at Run Sheng's gruesome wound on the back and shook his head, "I don't believe that was caused by slipping and falling."

Some people, though not part of Xuanmen, still know some things about the Jianghu.

In the childhood of many, there are always strange and twisting stories told by their grandparents; who can tell what's true and what's false in them?

Tan Wenbin took out a cigarette pack and pulled out a cigarette for the old doctor.

The old doctor: "I don't smoke."

Tan Wenbin put the cigarette in his own mouth.

The old doctor: "You should smoke less too, you're still young, don't ruin your health."

Tan Wenbin: "I think I'll live a long life."

"If you ruin your health, getting sick or bedridden, the longer you live, the more painful it is."

"Whoa, your words really scare me."

"Since you're scared, what should you do then?"

"Better light one up to calm my nerves."

"You rascal, go smoke outside."

"Thank you for your hard work."

Tan Wenbin walked out with a smile, came to the outside of the clinic, and lit his cigarette.

As he exhaled a smoke ring, a little girl bumped into him.

The little girl, about four or five years old, looked up at Tan Wenbin and then ran into the clinic.

The place where Tan Wenbin was standing happened to be outside the window of the clinic's side room. Standing there, he could see the little girl running in. Inside there were beds and chairs, a place specifically for IV drips.

The little girl came to a hospital bed, where a woman was lying down, receiving an IV, with a man beside her, presumably her husband, and a boy of the same age and similar appearance to the little girl, they seemed to be fraternal twins.

The woman on the bed glanced at Tan Wenbin outside, and said a few words to the man.

The man stood up, holding the hand of the little girl, and walked out of the clinic.

"Come on, Huahua, how did mom and dad teach you? If you cause trouble by bumping into someone, you need to apologize. Go on, apologize to the uncle."

"Haha, no need, no need."

"Uncle, I'm sorry, I accidentally bumped into you just now."

"Alright, uncle accepts your apology, uncle's fine, it doesn't hurt, you're very good."

"Hehe."

The little girl smiled and ran back into the clinic, back to her mother's bedside, to play with her brother.

The man stayed in place, probably also feeling it was too stuffy inside and came out for some fresh air, he took out a cigarette and offered it to Tan Wenbin.

Tan Wenbin, with an unfinished cigarette already in his hand, placed the received cigarette behind his ear and took out a lighter to light the other man's cigarette.

"Oh, thank you."

The man cupped the lighter with both hands, lowered his head, and lit his cigarette.

"Brother, from your accent, you're not local either, are you?"

"Yeah, no. I'm from Nantong."

"Nantong? In Shandong?"

"In Jiangsu, next to Yangzhou."

"Oh, I know that, haha, sorry about that."

"It's alright."

Tan Wenbin had gotten used to it, mainly because Nantong wasn't well-known, of course, it's also because other cities in the province are so famous and recognizable.

"Brother, you're from the north?"

"Why don't you guess where I'm from?"

"From Jinmen?"

"Is my accent that obvious? I am indeed from Jinmen."

"Came here for a tour?"

"No, accompanying my wife to look for her relatives."

"Have you found them?"

The man blew out a smoke ring, shook his head, "No, these days, finding someone isn't that easy."

"Is it somewhere around here?"

"Well, we only know that it's in Zhangjiajie."

"How did you end up here then? This place is quite remote, you know."

"It's like this, ever since my wife got pregnant, she started having heart palpitations and headaches, quite serious. Since she was pregnant with twins, seeing her condition back then, I didn't plan on taking the risk to have the children. But my wife insisted on giving birth. Fortunately, the pregnancy went smoothly.

But this issue, has gotten worse over the years, acting up from time to time, it's really troublesome.

This time, the four of us just got to Zhangjiajie, and her condition flared up again. We went to the hospital in the city, and a doctor there said that there was an old doctor in Meiling Town, who had a knack for treating this kind of thing, so I rented a car, brought her and the kids here.

You wouldn't believe it, but after drinking the herbal decoction in the morning and getting an IV, her condition improved immediately by noon, can you believe it?

This problem, we didn't only look for treatment in Jinmen, even in the big hospitals in Beijing, but they couldn't figure it out.

Here, it got better all of a sudden."

"Congratulations, that's wonderful news."

"Indeed, so, since we're going to look anyway, I'll take my wife to search around the villages near Meiling Town once she has rested a bit more."

"Since luck is on your side, seize the opportunity, and keep trying."

"Yes, that's my point; you know, people sometimes need a bit of superstition to have the energy to do things."

"Was your wife kidnapped as a child?"

"No." The man shook his head, "It's like this: when my dad was traveling by train and passed through Zhangjiajie, a boy pushed my wife, who was then a little girl, through the window, forcibly handed her to my dad."

"Oh?" Tan Wenbin showed a change in expression.

"You know, train windows are up high, and this little boy picked up a little girl and pushed her through, wow~ My dad, even now when he recalls the event, still says that although that boy was small and thin, he was really strong."

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