Chapter 384: Chapter 384: The Gratitude and Grudges of the Two Families
"Tsk, tsk... Don’t be fooled by her pretty, flower-like looks. She’s a ruthless one."
"Exactly. That black-hearted girl won’t even leave an old woman’s corpse alone."
The Mu Family’s bodyguard was furious. "What do you people know? She’s performing CPR! You don’t even have that basic knowledge and you’re here spouting nonsense."
"Well, we know she’s doing CPR, but it’s been a long time. Even a living person couldn’t withstand that kind of rough handling."
A middle-aged man with gold-rimmed glasses tried to reason with them, genuinely concerned for the young woman.
"What resuscitation? The way I see it, that girl is just trying to latch onto the Bao Family. That dead old lady has four sons and a daughter, and every single one of her grandchildren is top-notch."
"Her? As if the Bao Family would ever look her way. Look at those skinny arms. She probably thinks she’s so amazing, just showing off in front of everyone."
A stout woman said sarcastically. She had pulled a lot of strings trying to set her daughter up with one of the Bao grandsons, all to no avail.
"She wants to marry into the Bao Family? In her dreams! Don’t young girls have any self-awareness these days?"
"She doesn’t have to dream about marrying into the Bao Family. She could be a maid, I suppose."
"For real. The world isn’t as vast as the common sense she’s lacking. And she still wants to latch onto the Bao Family? Pfft!"
"Tsk, tsk... Honestly, I’m actually jealous of her skin. It’s so well-cared for... and so thick," a woman, who also had good skin, sniped.
"Haha, it’s definitely thick. Probably a lot thicker than the walls of an ancient imperial palace."
"Tsk, tsk, but you know, if you look closely, the girl isn’t bad-looking at all. Maybe she really has caught the Bao Family’s eye!"
"Hmph, what’s the use of being pretty? Can she pay for things with that face of hers?"
"She doesn’t actually think she can bring a dead person back to life just by pressing on them like that, does she?"
"Why not? If someone was pushing on me like that after I was dead and gone, I’d jump right out of my coffin too."
Bao Zhaoyang was heading home from work. The moment he entered the compound gate, someone told him that his elderly mother had died on her way home.
He ran, breaking out in a heavy sweat, and from a distance, he could see a crowd of people chattering away.
The chatter stopped the moment they saw him. They quickly parted to make a path, allowing him to walk into the center of the crowd.
Bao Zhaoyang’s sharp eyes spotted an unfamiliar young woman desperately performing CPR on his mother.
They had all learned basic first aid in the army, so he knew the young woman was doing her best to save his mom.
But those so-called neighbors, instead of helping, were all talking over each other, attacking the young woman.
He was just about to shout at the crowd when he heard the young woman’s breathless warning.
"Your mouths are so toxic they must be coated in arsenic. How have you not poisoned yourselves to death? Now, all of you, get lost."
Gu Jiaojiao shouted, raising a hand to wipe away her sweat. Her cold eyes, frosted with an icy glare, swept over the crowd.
Then she continued using her aching arms to perform CPR compressions on the old woman. She didn’t have time to get into a fight right now.
If so many people weren’t watching, she would have definitely taken a defibrillator out of her spatial storage to save time and effort.
’She was working herself to exhaustion, and these people were just making trouble. How could she not be furious!’
"Oho, where did this little girl come from, daring to tell us to get lost? Don’t you know this is our home?"
"Young girls are so arrogant these days. Daring to tell us to get lost? Watch me beat you to death."
"Don’t just talk, do it! Go on, hit her!" a woman who loved to stir up trouble shouted maliciously.
"Hit her? Why? Just wait. The Bao Family’s ruthless eldest son will beat her to death when he gets home from work." The person who had just been yelling about hitting her now backed down.
"That’s right! When the Bao Family’s ruthless eldest son sees his dead mother’s body being desecrated like this, it’d be a miracle if he *didn’t* kill her. We can just stand by and watch the show."
The Bao Family’s ruthless eldest son, Bao Zhaoyang, let out a cold snort. "I’ve been standing here for a while. Did none of you see me?"
In a sudden flurry, the crowd scattered and vanished.
A few people even had their shoes trampled off but didn’t dare turn back to get them, fleeing barefoot.
Gu Jiaojiao: ... ’Just how ruthless is this old woman’s son? A single sentence sent everyone running for their lives!’
"Cough... cough..." The old woman on the ground spat out a date pit that still had half the fruit’s flesh on it.
She looked at Gu Jiaojiao in a daze and said, "Am I in heaven? My consciousness was fading... I was this close to seeing King Yama."
"Suddenly, I felt a force pull me back. So it was a little fairy who pulled this old lady up to heaven, huh?"
"Was it your Jade Emperor? Did he see how hard it was for me to raise several children on my own and couldn’t bear to let me go to hell?"
"Hehe, ma’am, I’m so sorry, but I’m afraid I have to disappoint you. I don’t have the power to pull you up to the Heavenly Court."
Gu Jiaojiao smiled and helped the adorable old woman up, carefully patting her on the back.
"It’s fine if you can’t pull me to heaven. If hell has a tender young girl like you in it, this old lady wouldn’t mind going down there either."
"Mom, your son is still standing right here! What are you rambling on about!"
Bao Zhaoyang was so embarrassed his toes tried to dig into the floor. His mother had just taken a trip to the Ghost Gate and back, and she was still as talkative as ever.
Hearing her eldest son’s voice, the old woman was shocked and burst into tears. "Zhaoyang, my son! How did you end up here too? WAAAH..."
"Mom, you’re alive and well. You’re fine. This young lady just saved you."
Bao Zhaoyang bent down to help his mother up, patiently comforting her. For the moment, he had no time to thank Gu Jiaojiao.
The old woman must have been truly frightened, as she clung to her son and cried her eyes out.
Gu Jiaojiao glanced at the Bao Family’s "ruthless" eldest son. The man was around fifty, with deep, well-defined features.
He had an elegance about him that could only come from a cultured upbringing, yet mixed with that elegance was a forbidding aura of aggression.
Coupled with a pair of sharp, fierce eyes, he inspired fear at a single glance. No wonder everyone called him ruthless.
Gu Jiaojiao watched for a while longer. The mother and son were still comforting each other, so she had no choice but to walk over to the Mu Family’s car.
’Saving a life was exhausting, but it would be too embarrassing to ask for a reward. After all, she’d been the one to step in.’
The perceptive Mu Family bodyguard opened the car door for her. At this point, the main road was empty of people and cars.
The Mu Family’s driver sped away, as if afraid the Bao Family’s ruthless son would come looking for trouble with them.
That was what Gu Jiaojiao assumed. In reality, it was because the Bao Family and the Mu Family didn’t get along.
The Mu Family’s driver and bodyguard were both orphans taken in by Mr. Mu, so they naturally considered the Mu Family their home.
In their hearts, they didn’t want the Divine Doctor to have any connection to the Bao Family, so of course they fled quickly.
In truth, both the Mu Family and the Bao Family were war heroes, and there was no deep-seated hatred between them.
It was just that the Bao Family was large and prosperous, with an abundance of children and grandchildren, while the Mu Family was withering away, with only a grandfather and grandson remaining. Considering they were also connected by marriage, it would have been a miracle if they got along.
"Even though there aren’t many people on this main road, we’re still inside the compound. You really shouldn’t be driving this fast," Gu Jiaojiao couldn’t help but remind him.
