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Gu Chengfeng gritted his teeth. No matter how unwilling he felt, he also understood that what Gu Jiao said was true. Gu Chenglin already lost his will to survive. Even though his injury was cured, his heart was dead.
Compared to Concubine Ling's betrayal, the fact that the blow on him was to this degree was even more unexpected. Gu Chengfeng would never have thought that this bossy and arrogant younger brother would become like this one day.
Pine Crane Courtyard's people were here too. They were Old Madame Gu's confidant elderly maid and two nimble servant girls.
The confidant elderly maid was surnamed Gui. When she saw her young master like this, she immediately burst into tears, "That heartless bitch! The Old Madame treated her so well, but look at what she had done. Is this something a human would do?"
Gu Chengfeng didn't speak.
He no longer had the strength to speak.
Grannie Gui said to Gu Chengfeng, "Second young master hasn't slept all night, you should go back to the estate first. We servants are here to watch. This servant will take good care of the third young master."
Gu Chengfeng stubbornly replied, "I'm not leaving. I have to wait for my third brother to wake up."
Wake up, as in get back to his senses, not as if his soul had been taken away.
Grannie Gui couldn't persuade him, so she just said, "Then have something to eat."
Gu Chengfeng had no appetite but nodded his head anyway.
Grannie Gui opened the food box, which contained two bowls of millet congee, a bowl of pork blood and tofu soup, a plate of stewed crucian carp with radish, a container of steamed spareribs and several fried side dishes.
When Gu Chengfeng saw the pork blood in the bowl, as well as the spareribs, he suddenly recalled a picture in his mind—— Gu Chenglin's blood suddenly splashed three feet high, then his skin and flesh were cut open, cleaned and stitched. Every single detail was vividly etched in his mind!
"Put it away!"
He simply couldn’t eat those!
Grannie Gui was confused, "What's the matter, second young master? Are the dishes not well cooked? These are all good supplements to the body. Third young master had lost a lot of blood, so this servant specially had someone buy some fresh pork blood, which came from a freshly slaughtered pig. It’s still warm after buying it back——"
It was still fine when she didn't mention these, but now that she did, Gu Chengfeng couldn't stand it even more.
In the end, he toughened his scalp just to eat a bowl of millet congee and nothing more.
Meanwhile, Gu Jinyu also heard about Gu Chenglin's accident. The women’s academy was just next door, so she came to the medical hall right after school.
Gu Chengfeng was in the backyard, taking a breath of fresh air. As soon as he saw Gu Jinyu, his eyebrows furrowed, "What are you doing here?"
Gu Jinyu replied in a small voice, "I heard that third brother was hurt, so I came to see him. How is third brother doing? Is he out of danger?"
Gu Chengfeng's attitude towards Gu Jinyu could be described as ‘the well water does not interfere with the river water.’ He didn’t like her, but he didn’t dislike her either. Unfortunately, he was in a bad mood today, and Gu Jinyu could be said to have pounced on the gun head first.
"What the hell do you want?" Gu Chengfeng answered grumpily.
Gu Jinyu choked up.
Second brother wasn’t normally so fierce.
Gu Jinyu said softly, "Second brother, I don't mean anything, I'm just worried about third brother."
Gu Chengfeng sneered, "Worried about him? I think you’re rather secretly delighted in your heart! Don't think I don't know that the four of you in your family all want him dead!"
Gu Jinyu felt wronged, "I don’t!"
Too lazy to bother with her, Gu Chengfeng simply ignored her, turned into the room, closed the door and forbade her to come in.
Gu Jinyu was indeed unfairly targeted. It was true that Yao shi, Gu Jiao and Gu Yan didn’t like Gu Chenglin, but she sincerely hoped that Gu Chenglin would get better!
Biting her lip, Gu Jinyu gloomily intended to leave, but she accidentally caught a glimpse of Gu Changqing coming out of the storeroom with a basket of herbs in his arms.
Eldest brother?
She was about to come forward to greet him when she saw Gu Jiao also coming out of the storeroom with another basket of herbs in her hand.
"Just leave it there, I'll move it." After Gu Changqing put the basket of herbs on the rack, he turned to get the basket in Gu Jiao's arms. "How many more baskets are there?"
"Five baskets." Gu Jiao answered.
Gu Changqing went back into the storeroom and moved all the five baskets of medicinal herbs out, after which they went to dry the medicinal herbs under the sun together.
Gu Changqing still had his usual unsmiling look, but, perhaps he himself didn't notice it, his brows were not as fierce as before, and his interaction with Gu Jiao even seemed to have a trace of intimacy between brother and sister.
When Gu Jiao passed under the rack, Gu Changqing placed his hands underneath it to prevent Gu Jiao from hitting the top of her head.
Gu Jinyu suddenly tasted all sorts of flavor in her heart.
How come after making so much effort, her eldest brother wouldn't even say a word to her?
Meanwhile, this wild girl from the countryside, just because she was a medicine girl of this medical hall, got eldest brother's favor?
She wasn’t even the one who treated third brother!
She was just a medicine girl!
Gu Jinyu pulled her handkerchief tightly and was about to leave when she saw Yao shi coming out of the nearby courtyard.
Gu Jinyu was slightly stunned. Mom was here too?
Glancing at Gu Jiao and Gu Changqing not far away, she suddenly felt a burst of joy in the bottom of her heart. Her mom hated it the most whenever she tried to associate with her eldest brother, second brother and third brother. She would like to see what Gu Jiao would do once mom discovered them!
"JiaoJiao, are you drying medicinal herbs again?" Yao shi walked over and said, "Go and take a rest, let me do it."
"It’s almost done." Gu Jiao responded.
Gu Changqing and Yao shi glanced at each other. Gu Changqing bowed slightly while Yao shi nodded her head.
Without unnecessary words; very polite and estranged.
This wasn’t the reaction that Gu Jinyu imagined. Shouldn't her mom take Gu Jiao away, reprimand Gu Jiao and tell her not to get involved with her three older brothers?
Why wasn’t she allowed to talk to her eldest brother, but Gu Jiao was?
Yao shi only stayed there for a while before she went back inside.
Gu Changqing said to Gu Jiao, "Wait a moment."
He went to the stable, took out a small box from the baggage hanging on the saddle and handed it to Gu Jiao, "Here."
“What’s this?" Gu Jiao asked.
"Open it and take a look." Gu Changqing said.
Gu Jiao went ‘oh’, then she opened the small box and found four little figurines inside—— one made of jade, one made of gold, one made of wood, and lastly, one made of... iron.
She didn’t have to guess. The jade figurine was for Gu Yan, the golden figurine was for Little Jing Kong, and the wooden figurine was for Gu Xiaoshun. But why was hers a little iron figurine?
Gu Jiao:“…”
This was a craftwork from the State of Liang, which couldn’t be bought on the market.
Gu Changqing gave her these things not because Gu Jiao saved Gu Chenglin. As early as the last time he won playing leaf cards, Gu Changqing had found this set of handiworks and planned to take it to Bishui Alley next time.
Gu Changqing explained, "There is also a deck of leaf cards under the box."
Gu Jiao: So you really just want to play cards?
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