"Mom, Mom, I'm back."
Huo Yuhao ran all the way to the woodshed behind the servants' quarters. There was no bed in the room at all, only a few thin quilts spread across the floor. A woman lay there, her face pale and her brows tightly furrowed. The arm exposed outside the quilt was covered in bruises.
Seeing his mother in such a state, Huo Yuhao could not stop his tears from falling. Just a few days ago, while helping his mother hang out the laundry, he had accidentally bumped into Dai Huabin and been surrounded and beaten by Dai Huabin's guards.
When Huo Yun'er heard the commotion, she came out and shielded him in her arms. But Huo Yun'er was only an ordinary person. After being brutally beaten, she came down with a high fever and had been bedridden ever since. With no other choice, Huo Yuhao had taken out the only savings the mother and son had, hoping to beg the apothecary for some medicine.
But the servants in the Duke's Mansion had all received the Duchess's instructions. Who would possibly help them?
Fortunately, fortunately...
At that thought, Huo Yuhao carefully opened his right hand. The pill was still giving off a faint emerald-green glow.
He searched around the room for a while and found a battered waterskin. After filling it with clean water, he placed the pill inside.
The emerald-green pill sank into the water and, moments later, dissolved into streams of light that blended with it. As Huo Yuhao leaned slightly closer to the mouth of the waterskin, he could feel a cool aura rising from the water, as though a gentle breeze had swept through every part of his body. Even the wounds on his body no longer hurt as much.
Huo Yuhao hurriedly helped