School Beauty Personal Bodyguard Chapter 137-138

Chapter 137 - So It Was You

Lin Yi made sure to wait until Tang Yin was out of sight before calling Huaijun.

"Yo, Old Yang. Where are you?" Lin Yi asked after the call connected.

"I'm at w.a.n.g Alley behind Songshan's First…… Wait, Lin Yi, what did you say? Old Yang? Why're you calling me that?" Huaijun asked in response. "You can call me Jun or even Hound, just no Old Yang, okay? I'm not that old."

"Alright, Jun Bro then- you're older than me out here, can't really call you Jun." Lin Yi said. "I'm here at the bus station, right in front of the school gates."

(the Jun Huaijun suggested here is kinda like Junny, so it'd sound a bit disrespectful and nickname-ish)

"I'll be right there." Huaijun said.

A police car stopped in front of Lin Yi not long after, and Huaijun poked his head out the car window. "Lin Yi! Get in!"

Lin Yi nodded as he seated himself in the co-driver's seat before Huaijun started moving the car. "I say, that stuff you gave me- the effects are insane! I've just used it for one day and my body doesn't hurt anymore when I sleep!"

"One day? You think it's a miracle medicine or something? I'm not a G.o.d, dude…" Lin Yi said with a bitter smile. "It's probably just a psychological effect."

"Well, maybe a little, but I do feel a lot lighter. I don't even need the sedatives you gave me to fall asleep now." Huaijun continued. "Though it does hurt a bit."

"That's more like it……" Lin Yi said, expecting some effect to have taken place- curing the pain in just one day was pure bulls.h.i.+t, and even Lin Yi himself didn't believe that. "Why aren't you using the sedatives, though?"

"I wanted to tough it out. I thought continuous use of sedatives is bad for you, right?" Huaijun explained.

"Who told you that……" Lin Yi asked, speechless. "There's no side effects, it's just to help support you…… I mean, it's fine too if you wanna tough it out."

"s.h.i.+t, why didn't you say that sooner……" Huaijun said, regretting what he'd decided to do last night. The pain was lessened, but it was still a little h.e.l.lish to endure it as he went to sleep."

"Heh." Lin Yi shrugged. "I didn't expect Hound to be r.e.t.a.r.ded."

"You-!" Huaijun only shook his head. "Oh, that's right- did Song talk to you yet?"

"Song? Song Lingshan?" Lin Yi guessed. "Why would she?"

"It's the bank robbery case- she can't seem to find the suspects, and she'd told the director that she'd crack the case in fifteen days……" Huaijun said with a bitter smile. "She asked me for help, but I directed her to you since I don't have too many ideas. Hope you don't mind."

"No, but you're asking me to help her find the suspects right?" Lin Yi said, squinting his eyes a little. He was planning on sorting this thing out sooner or later even if Huaijun hadn't mentioned it to him. After all, it was made clear by Chu Pengzhan that Chu Mengyao was a central part of the mission. There'd be no mission left if something were to happen to Mengyao, and he wanted to eliminate all possible threats as soon as possible.

The robbers were the least of his problems- the police were enough to handle them. What Lin Yi was concerned about, on the other hand, was that Cihua Bro backing the robbers up. What kind of character was he?

"Well, you're Eagle, after all- everyone in the team knows that no target of yours ever gets away." Huaijun said with a smile. "Song actually has it rough- she wants to prove herself after getting transferred into the force, but out of nowhere comes this complicated case to screw her up."

"Ha, aren't you compa.s.sionate." Lin Yi said with a laugh.

"Be a cop long enough and that happens, I guess." Huaijun said with a nod. "I don't know what stage the two of you are at, but I thought I'd tell you about this. You decide if you wanna help out or not."

"Then I'll wait for her to ask me, I suppose. She still hasn't contacted me yet." Lin Yi said.

Huaijun drove the car into Songshan's University of Medicine, and headed directly into the villa area.

"Your doctor teaches here?" Lin Yi asked, remembering this guy he'd met at the bookstore once, who'd given him a card… Guan Xuemin, the dean of some medical university.

"Yep, a really good old guy, famous throughout the world. He got so excited after looking at your recipe, especially so when I told him how effective your stuff was on me. He's cancelled all his appointments and stuff for the morning just to meet you……"

"Jeez, he's making me look like a big shot or something." Lin Yi laughed in response. "Let's hurry up then, don't wanna keep the old man waiting."

Lin Yi was someone who treated the elderly with respect- the old man's medical abilities weren't as good as his was, but that was really because of a lack of an appropriate mentor. Old Lin back home was the ideal kind of teacher, a real master of Eastern medicine. He'd heard that Old Lin had spent half his life in Miaojiang, Yunnan merging the fields of witchcraft, Eastern medicine, and bacteriology together. It was also that period that he had met his master……

That history was left untouched by Old Lin most of the time, save for a couple instances of drunk storytelling… Yet Lin Yi could tell that the bond between his master and Old Lin ran very deep indeed.

Lin Yi's strength in both medicine and kungfu were due solely to his luck- he'd be a normal guy if he hadn't met that old man and his powerful mentor.

They went through a proper registration before the car drove on, parking itself in front of a villa.

"We're here." Huaijun announced as he got off the car. He pressed on the doorbell after walking up the door.

Lin Yi took in the view as he followed behind- you'd probably have to be quite a somebody to be an inhabitant here.

There was a remote that could've been used, but the owner had wanted to greet his guests personally. The door was opened shortly after, a solemn and respectful expression on the owner's face as he greeted Huaijun and Lin Yi.

"Eh?" Both Lin Yi and the owner watched each other in disbelief and surprise as their gazes met.

"You… You're……" Xuemin couldn't believe what he was seeing.

"Heh…… Elder Guan, it's me- we met at the bookstore before!" Lin Yi smiled politely as he greeted him. "Nice to see you again, Elder Guan. I apologize that you had to come receive me personally……"

"So it was you…… I say……" Xuemin said, completely stunned as he looked at Lin Yi. "This old man's really underestimated you, it seems. I apologize… Seems like you don't need that school recommendation I suggested to you……"

"Grandpa Guan, you…… and Lin Yi?" Huaijun was stunned as well- the two looked like they knew each other already!

Chapter 138 - Used To Be Warmates

"Jun Bro- Professor Guan and I met once at Newchina." Lin Yi explained with a laugh. "We were talking about medicine…… Ah, that's right, there were a couple of things regarding the medicinal properties for some of the prescription's ingredients I wasn't sure of, and I didn't remember to bring any medical books with me. So I went to a bookstore."

"So the two of you know each other already- I won't have to introduce you guys then." Huaijun let out a breath of relief after having completed the task. They'd get along easier if they knew one another.

Huaijun was pretty unaffected by what Lin Yi had said, but Xuemin was only sent into further surprise upon hearing the words! He'd a.s.sumed that Lin Yi had to be from a hidden family of doctors with a couple of ancient, lost recipes in his hands, seeing how young the lad was and all…

But the kid was doing research at a bookstore to have a prescription made for Huaijun! It was something Xuemin was not expecting- it would mean that Lin Yi had written the recipe himself instead of using an existing one, and that, in turn, proved loud and clear the level of comprehension in Eastern medicine Lin Yi had already accomplished.

Yet… To not have a clear enough understanding of the ingredients he was using, to the point where he'd needed to go do research at a bookstore… Wasn't it a bit too daring for the guy to make a prescription for a patient just like that? And Huaijun just believed it as well, even using the medicine- what kind of relations.h.i.+p did the two have?

Xuemin may have been old, but he was able to tell that it was no simple bond connecting the two through the slightest of behavioural actions, and att.i.tudes. How far that depth went, however, was beyond Xuemin's conjecture abilities.

Just the effects the medicine had had on Huaijun was enough to stun Xuemin- it seemed that Lin Yi had made the recipe with his own abilities instead of relying on a family recipe. It was a fact by now that the kid was good, that the meeting was well worth the wait.

"I apologize." Xuemin shook his head, a little embarra.s.sed as he spoke. "I'd even suggested that you apply to my university of medicine… none of our teachers would've been able to mentor you- it'd be more appropriate for you to be teaching us!"

"Haha, you exaggerate, Professor Guan." Lin Yi said politely. "It's just a little something more isolated from the world, I'm no Eastern medicine specialist, after all……"

"What? You're not an Eastern doctor?" Xuemin couldn't believe what he was hearing- was the kid starting to put on airs after he praised him like that? Specialists scratched their heads at Huaijun's condition, and the kid was telling him he'd cured him on a whim, with no effort whatsoever? That he wasn't an Eastern medicine specialist?

One look at Lin Yi's honest face, however, and Xuemin recalled the humble way the kid had acted back at the Newchina bookstore… Xuemin didn't doubt his words anymore, at that point.

"Yeah. I'm a twelfth grader right now." Lin Yi said, scratching his head. "Well, Huaijun knows about my background… right?"

Huaijun felt quite helpless when Lin Yi turned his head to him. Dude, I can't just tell Guan Xuemin about your stuff when you're keeping quiet about it yourself……

"Ah……" Lin Yi decided then that he needn't hide his past too much in front of Xuemin. After all, it'd been Guan Xuemin who'd taken care of Huaijun all this time, and it'd only be natural for him to know about the cause of Huaijun's injury, along with the work he'd been doing. He wouldn't have been able to get Huaijun the best medicine without details like that. His past with Huaijun was just a small part of their lives, too, and there was no harm in telling Xuemin about that. "You see, professor- Huaijun and I were warmates."

"Warmates……" Xuemin's face changed instantly upon hearing the words. He was aware of what Huaijun's old occupation was, so Lin Yi claiming that he was the guy's warmate……

He took a closer look at Lin Yi- the guy couldn't have been older than twenty, and he'd even said so himself that he was a twelfth grader…… Huaijun's warmate? It was only natural for a statement like that to sound a little ridiculous……

But it also explained why Huaijun was so trusting of Lin Yi's medicine. Even without the knowledge of Lin Yi's medical genius, it wouldn't have been a surprise for the guy to entrust his life to a guy he'd fought with in the warfields. After all, the bonds that formed in a setting like that were quite extraordinary.

What Xuemin couldn't quite wrap his head around, however, was Lin Yi's current status as a twelfth grader. He decided to not prod any further into it- there had to be some sort of confidential information involved.

"So you were warmates with Yang…… Ah, pardon me for keeping you all at the door. Come in, come in." Xuemin said, realizing suddenly that they were still at the door. He'd never have made a basic mistake like this if he weren't so stunned, especially not with the kind of status he had.

"It's okay." Lin Yi said with a smile. "You're being too polite, professor- Jun Bro wouldn't be here today if it weren't for your efforts. I should be the one thanking you, so please- you're my elder, after all."

"Age is of little importance- what matters is the learnings we've acquired." Xuemin said with a wave of his hand. "I'm an old man, and I know that much- you're a better doctor than me, making you the expert, the teacher. It'd be uncomfortable for me to follow that rule. Yang's elders are quite close with me, as well, and it was only natural that I treated him with the utmost of my abilities."

"That's different, professor. Jun Bro's my man- it's no less than customary for me to express my grat.i.tude." Lin Yi said as he walked in the villa and into the living room behind Xuemin.

"Hm?" Xuemin paused at the words. "Your man?"

Xuemin was old, but he still paid attentive attention to the news on the internet… His heart chilled a little upon hearing Lin Yi call Huaijun 'his man'... Were the two of them… together? Yet Huaijun didn't look like that kind of man, and neither did Lin Yi……

Xuemin's confused expression informed the two immediately of Lin Yi's phrasing- Huaijun understood what Lin Yi meant by 'my man', but the same couldn't be said for Xuemin, who was an outsider to that part of their lives. He smiled bitterly as he explained to the doctor. "Grandpa Guan, Lin Yi was my team's captain back in the day, well known to the other teams for his protective nature over us… So we're all technically his 'men' and 'women'......"

"Ah? Mister Lin was your captain, was he?" Xuemin was surprised, but it seemed that Lin Yi was speaking the truth about not being a medicine specialist. He'd have to be extraordinarily good at other fields to call himself Huaijun's captain!

After all, Huaijun's team was a suicide squad… Suicide squad, as in a team of high survivability soldiers all unafraid of death. To hold the role of captain over a squad like that… It was apparent that there was much more to Lin Yi than merely his medical prowess.