"Buying medicine? To save his life?" Fu Tianlong and his wife exchanged a glance, both visibly moved.
Ye Tong looked at them and said, "To be honest with you both, my body differs from ordinary people's. That I have lived until now is already a miracle. Even so, I still need highly poisonous substances to fight poison with poison and temporarily preserve my life. You two have just lost a daughter. Surely you would not want to suffer the pain of losing a son someday as well, would you?"
"So, regarding what Madam Fu proposed, Ye can only apologize."
Without giving Fu Tianlong and his wife time to speak, he picked up a jade pendant from beside him and placed it in the middle-aged woman's hand. "This is a protective talisman I made. Wear it on your person; it will bring benefit and no harm. Consider it the closing of a fated bond between us."
A pained expression appeared in the middle-aged woman's eyes. Looking resolutely at Fu Tianlong, she said, "Go seek out famous physicians. You must cure his illness. Even if we have to squander the family fortune, we must find one."
Fu Tianlong fell silent for a moment, then shook his head. "I think... I have already guessed Ye Tong's origins. Old Medicine Slave, we have met before. Do you remember?"
"Did that happen?" Medicine Slave said blandly. "I am old. My memory is not so good."
Fu Tianlong said, "How could the old servant by Poison Demon Huo Lanqiu's side have a poor memory? If I am not mistaken, Ye Tong is also Huo Lanqiu's Medicine Boy, isn't he?"
Ye Tong said in surprise, "You know that old fellow?"
Fu Tianlong looked at Ye Tong with pity and murmured, "So my guess was indeed correct. I