At night, when sleeping, the feet and legs can become cold and cause muscle cramps.

There are various other reasons, such as muscle fatigue from prolonged exercise while continuing to exercise; poor local circulation; excessive loss of fluids and salts; severe diarrhea, vomiting, and insufficient mineral intake (such as magnesium, calcium) in the diet.

Sudden changes in environmental temperature; slight muscle or tendon tears; excessive emotional tension; inappropriate posture during exercise or poor muscle coordination; some undiscovered or uncertain reasons; and some chronic diseases, pregnant women have a higher incidence of cramps and need to be cautious.

For foot cramps, there are many causes.

The most dangerous situation occurs when someone experiences a foot cramp while swimming, which can easily lead to drowning.

According to traditional Chinese medicine, it belongs to the category of convulsions, sore back, and leg cramps are typical characteristics of cold evil harming the body.

In medical terms, cramping is called spasms, in the cold attribute it is called contraction. Contraction means tightening and tension. When the skin surface encounters cold, the pores will shrink, cold evil further invades the meridians and joints, causing spasms, which makes the joints inflexible and difficult to bend or stretch.

Because cold represents Yin energy, it most easily damages the body’s Yang energy. When Yang energy is damaged, losing its warming function, the body or specific areas show obvious cold symptoms, like fear of cold, cold hands and feet.

If cold air invades the body inside, the meridians and blood lose the warmth of Yang energy, leading to stagnation and obstruction in the blood, causing pain—when it’s not smooth, it hurts—then symptoms like headaches, chest pain, abdominal pain, and lumbar spine soreness will appear.

And what Cao Ling said about foot cramps, seems not to be a serious illness, but during an attack, the stabbing pain in seconds or even a minute or two is truly indescribable.

She thinks that Ye Qiu’s medical skills are so amazing, if he can help, that would be great.

"Is it the left calf or the right calf?"

"Both," answered Cao Ling.

Ye Qiu didn’t massage her, instead, he sat behind her, and when Cao Ling felt a bit shy, Ye Qiu directly placed her legs on his knees and then rolled up her sleep gown from her calves.

Cao Ling belonged to the category of long legs, after all, she was about one meter seventy something tall, and her legs were fair, smooth-skinned, very elastic, and felt comfortable to touch.

Seeing Ye Qiu looking at her feet, Cao Ling felt even more embarrassed.

"Is this the position?" After careful checking, Ye Qiu found that there were injuries on the left and right calves, apparently, it had been there for a long time, the meridians had been affected, long-time training could lead to blood clotting, and those blood clots could cause those foot cramps.

According to Chinese medicine, all meridians in the body are interconnected; if they’re blocked, they cause pain.

This is essentially what’s happening here.

It’s clear this is a leftover effect from Cao Ling’s past over-training.

"These two spots were the first to start hurting,"

Cao Ling quickly said.

"This is a post-training leftover effect; you didn’t tell me earlier, otherwise it wouldn’t have hurt so much."

"What should we do now?"

"It’ll be fine in a bit."

Ye Qiu gently massaged her utilizing his spiritual energy, quickly letting those areas slowly recover.

When Cao Ling felt a refreshing sensation in her calves, she looked again and found that those two spots seemed fine now.

"This is merely a minor ailment."

Actually, in this aspect, Ye Qiu feels Western medicine’s explanation isn’t as good as traditional Chinese medicine.

Moreover, in folk remedies within traditional Chinese medicine, it’s often seen to use cramps vine to boil pig trotter, a few rounds of eating could solve the issue effectively.

However, Ye Qiu’s treatment speed is faster now.

When Ye Qiu massaged Cao Ling’s back, Cao Ling watched Ye Qiu.

Today, they rode a horse together, shot deer, and kissed in the small woods. Now, Cao Ling feels shy.

Initially, she thought everything was good about Ye Qiu, except this rascal seemed to have a lot of luck with the ladies, surrounded by beauties.

"Ye Qiu, is what you said last night true?"

"What do you mean?"

Ye Qiu asked puzzledly.

"About the mayor’s daughter."

"Is it true? Try it and see."

"Wouldn’t this benefit you?"

"I don’t want it."

Thinking of those cosmetic surgery women, it doesn’t mean much to doctors. Isn’t it just a piece of fat? Doctors have seen many cases like this, no matter the silicone or fillers they get, looks disgusting. Now, no need for surgery, can achieve similar results, only he in the world can do it.

"You."

Clearly, it seems Ye Qiu took advantage, yet he didn’t want it.

Cao Ling couldn’t figure it out.

Ye Qiu stopped and said, "I’m not a lecher."

Looking at Ye Qiu’s serious face, he’s not a lecher, yet this afternoon in the woods, Ye Qiu still took her first kiss?

Even though it was by her willingness, if it weren’t voluntary, no one could come close within three meters.

"I feel I’m good now."

Cao Ling said.

"Just like this then."

For Cao Ling, still studying at the military academy, often in training sessions, overly large size can be inconvenient.

After massaging, Ye Qiu went to wash his hands and said, "I’ll head back now."

Watching Ye Qiu truly leave, Cao Ling didn’t expect, she’d hinted so obviously, yet this rascal didn’t notice.

Is he dumb, or playing dumb?

"I never said not to let you."

"Head to your room then."

Ye Qiu knows Cao Ling’s current state is much like Li Qianqian’s initial coy state, even though Li Qianqian improved a bit, because after Ye Qiu initially treated her, his glance covered her entire body, allowing the subsequent treatments to seem relaxed after the first tense one. By the third one, it was she who found him.

Thinking about these, Ye Qiu finds it amusing. Cao Ling resembles her too.

Back on the big bed, Ye Qiu saw Cao Ling sitting there, Ye Qiu asked, "Do you want to turn off the light?"

"Yes." Cao Ling was surely embarrassed.

When Ye Qiu went over and turned off the light, at this moment, when Cao Ling undressed herself off the nightgown, she became increasingly tense, breath heavy, heart rate speeding as if increased.

Up until she removed her bra and placed it aside, then covered herself with the blanket.