Su Yi paid Jiang Chao no mind and said mildly to Ye Xiaxuan, "There's nothing much to tidy up in the house, so find yourself a stool and sit down first. So rash and restless-what sort of behavior is that?"
Rash and restless?
Ye Xiaxuan was already so angry she was on the verge of exploding.
She had no idea what wire had gotten crossed in her head for her to agree to come here and become his disciple.
Even more absurdly, after discovering that Su Yi was a young man, she had still agreed to kneel and offer him the disciple initiation tea.
She must have gone mad!
Su Yi clearly looked even younger than she was, yet he put on the air of an old elder and called her rash.
It sounded more like an elder lecturing a junior.
Somewhat puffed up with anger, Ye Xiaxuan stared at Jiang Chao and said, "May I ask, Master, how should his current condition be treated?"
Su Yi heard the displeasure in Ye Xiaxuan's voice but paid it no mind. "How do you think it should be treated?"
Ye Xiaxuan raised an eyebrow. "All it takes is a silver needle in the Neiguan acupoint."
Su Yi slowly sat up, stretched, and said, "Why go to all that trouble? Just go over and give him a good hard slap, and he'll be fine."
Ye Xiaxuan's brow rose. She truly doubted whether Su Yi knew any medicine at all.
Someone had suffered a fright, and all he needed was a good hard slap?
Why not burn incense and perform a shaman's dance while he was at it?
Jiang Chao had yet to recover from his fright, and hearing Su Yi say this made him shudder again in terror.
He regretted it completely. Why had he gone and provoked such a weirdo for no reason?
A single cold shout had scared the gall out of him, leaving him unable to muster any strength anywhere in his body.
But what if Ye Xiaxuan did nothing and Su Yi took matters into his own hands?
Wouldn't one slap kill him outright?
That was fucking terrifying!
"Xuanxuan, hurry up and hit me!" Jiang Chao's features had twisted out of shape, and tears streamed down his face as he spoke to Ye Xiaxuan, looking almost pleading. "Hurry up and slap me! I promise I'll never pester you again."
Ye Xiaxuan's lips parted slightly. She suspected Jiang Chao had been scared senseless.
He was actually begging her to slap him.
Most importantly, this fellow had always clung to her relentlessly, and nothing she said worked, yet now he was swearing never to pester her again.
That really was a good thing.
"Remember what you said!" Ye Xiaxuan no longer cared whether a slap could actually cure him. Hadn't he just suffered a fright? At worst, she could give him an acupuncture treatment afterward. What was the big deal?
The most important thing now, of course, was making sure Jiang Chao would never pester her again.
"As long as you slap me, I swear on eighteen generations of my ancestors that I'll never pester you again." Jiang Chao could hardly wait any longer. An intense fear of Su Yi had already taken root in his heart, and he truly feared Su Yi might suddenly spring up and slap him.
Su Yi sat in his chair, watching coldly without a word.
Ye Xiaxuan slowly approached, crouched down, and gave Jiang Chao a gentle slap.
The slap barely tickled, and Jiang Chao remained sprawled on the ground like a dog.
"Such a light touch. Haven't you eaten?" Su Yi finally stood up. "Do you need me to teach you?"
"No!!" Jiang Chao shouted. If he could still get onto his knees, he would certainly have knelt before Ye Xiaxuan. "Big Sister Ye, I'm begging you, put some strength into it! Use every bit of strength you have."
Ye Xiaxuan had never heard such a self-abasing request before.
But since he had gone that far, she raised her hand and slapped him with all her strength.
Smack!
That slap really hit the mark!
The sound rang out loud and clear.
It sent stars bursting before Jiang Chao's eyes!
Yet after that slap, Jiang Chao discovered that his strength had actually returned. He stood up and fled the courtyard at top speed.
"Sorry for the intrusion!"
Jiang Chao's shrill cry came from outside the courtyard. Su Yi had done almost nothing, yet he had already scared the gall out of him.
Jiang Chao's reaction left Ye Xiaxuan utterly bewildered as well.
Had one slap really made him completely better?
Su Yi smiled. "Now you believe what I said, don't you?"
She really had no choice but to believe it.
Just moments earlier, Jiang Chao had been so frightened that he lay on the ground like a puddle of mud. One slap later, he was full of life, running faster than a rabbit.
In truth, it had nothing to do with whether Jiang Chao was slapped or not. If Su Yi wanted him well, it took only a thought. He did not need to do anything at all.
For a moment, Ye Xiaxuan had nothing to say. She stared at her hand in silence.
Was this just a coincidence?
Or was Jiang Chao acting?
The more Ye Xiaxuan thought about it, the deeper her brows furrowed.
Could Su Yi actually come from an even better family, and her grandfather had arranged for Jiang Chao to come and put on an act with him?
In fact, Jiang Chao had never suffered any fright at all. Everything he had done was merely to play along with Su Yi.
After turning it over in her mind, that seemed to be the only possibility.
Once she started thinking that way, Ye Xiaxuan no longer thought much of Su Yi.
Hmph! He was merely putting on an air of mystery.
Su Yi could actually see through other people's thoughts with ease, but he truly could rarely be bothered to do such a thing.
Things were already boring enough. If he also knew what everyone else was thinking, wouldn't that make them even less interesting?
"You two know each other, don't you?" Ye Xiaxuan asked, raising an eyebrow.
Although Su Yi had no desire to look into her thoughts, once she said that, he naturally knew what she was thinking.
"If you think we know each other, then we know each other." Su Yi could not be bothered to explain anything. Ye Xiaxuan was the one asking to become his disciple, so why should he care what anyone else thought?
"It's not as though I can't become your disciple, but you should at least show me some genuine ability." Ye Xiaxuan scoffed at this sort of "behavior" from Su Yi. Was all this smoke and mirrors really necessary?
Amused, Su Yi laughed. "Young lady, you'd better get one thing straight. You're the one who wants to become my disciple, not me begging to take you on. Since you haven't formally become my disciple yet, leave if you want. I'm certainly not stopping you."
"..." Ye Xiaxuan realized that talking to this young man really would anger her to death.
Over the years, she had met countless people.
The men who wanted to pursue her could come up with every trick imaginable. Su Yi's ploy really was nothing clever.
Playing hard to get and pretending to be unfathomable?
"Fine, I'll leave!" With that, Ye Xiaxuan turned and walked out of the courtyard.
Su Yi strolled back into the house. The water was still heating on the stove. Once it boiled, he could brew himself a pot of tea, and it would taste just as good.
After leaving, Ye Xiaxuan immediately called her grandfather.
"Grandpa, just who is this Su Yi? What could he teach me at his age?" Ye Xiaxuan said discontentedly. "Don't think I don't know. You must want me to date him. I've already told you, you don't need to rush me about my affairs. I'm not in any hurry."