Yang Ruban was the least concerned about Yang Baihe running away from home. He held some contempt for her, thinking she was foolish to abandon her comfortable life as the niece of a scholar to endure hardships outside.
"Whoever wants to search for her can go ahead—I won't bother. If she doesn't want to come back, then don't come back. It'd be even better if she died out there; that way the good food at home wouldn't all end up in her mouth."
Three days later, Gu Yuan returned in the evening to report that the two herbalists had regained consciousness.
When Yang Ruxin arrived, the two men were drinking porridge. After sleeping for three days, the black aura around them had significantly diminished. However, they both looked alarmingly thin, almost like skeletons—if not for their breathing, they could be mistaken for corpses.
