Chapter 364: It turns out that he was once engaged to Ye ngyan_1
This revelation left utterly shocked.
I had never known.
Gu Yuanzhou and Ye ngyan had such a history together?
When was he being chased to be killed?
No wonder he chose Ye ngyan first among that group of poor college students—was it to repay a debt of gratitude?
Why didn’t he tell ?
I wanted to find out more, but these people seed to realize the topic was getting too sensitive.
So they changed the subject.
After the al was served, I joined the Shen family’s relatives for dinner.
An hour later, when I left, Mother Shen gave a red envelope.
Once outside, I opened the red envelope and counted it—ten thousand and one yuan.
I asked Shen Yishu with a smile,
“What’s the aning of this?”
“It ans ‘one in ten thousand.’ It ans my mom is very satisfied with you! She hopes you can beco the daughter-in-law of the Shen family!”
“Hahaha, well then… I’m afraid she’s going to be disappointed, I’m already soone’s wife! Okay, here, take this back, my mission is accomplished.”
I handed the red envelope back to Shen Yishu.
I was just playing a guest role, not the lead; it wouldn’t be right for to take this money.
Shen Yishu took out his car keys,
“Let drive you back!”
“No need, I’m not going back, I’ve got so errands to run! I’ll go back later.”
“Where are you going? It’s getting late…”
“Oh, it’s nothing, I already called a car online.”
The ridesharing car arrived quickly.
As I was about to get into the car, Shen Yishu caught up with ,
“Xiaoyun, you still don’t trust . What do I need to do for you to consider your best friend?”
I waved at him,
“You overthink it, I actually trust you quite a lot, we’ll always be friends.”
With that, the car drove away.
Shen Yishu stood there, watching go.
The driver chuckled,
“Miss, that young man clearly doesn’t just want to be your friend; he wants to be soone more important in your life.”
I chuckled lightly in response,
“There’s no fate there; so people are ant to just be friends for life. Master, please take to City First Hospital.”
Half an hour later.
The car stopped at the entrance of City First Hospital.
It was about ten o’clock at night by this point.
Ye ngyan had taken here before, when Mother Ye was hospitalized.
I bought so fruit baskets and then walked into the ward.
At this ti, Ye ngyan was not here, only her mother lay alone on the hospital bed.
Her face was sallow, her eyes shut tight. After I called to her twice, she finally opened her eyes, and it took a long while before she recognized .
“You’re here for ngyan, aren’t you? She’s working the night shift outside, and will only co over tomorrow.”
“Auntie, I want to ask you about your involvent with Mr. Gu.”
Upon hearing this, tears started flowing down Ye’s mother’s cheeks. Clearly, she already knew about Gu Yuanzhou’s execution.
“He’s gone. What’s the point of bringing this up now?”
I fell silent.
“I understand that Gu Yuanzhou sponsored Ye ngyan’s education?”
“Yes, indeed! He was a truly good man. He showed utmost kindness to ngyan. It’s ngng who wasn’t satisfied and wanted more.”
“I heard… that you once saved Gu Yuanzhou’s life!”
I asked as calmly as I could.
“Who told you that? That happened so many years ago—I reckon nearly twenty years! ngng was only two or three years old at the ti.”
“I overheard so people in the village discussing it.”
“Oh, I see. Sigh, our village is so small, a little news spreads to everyone.”
“It’s not a bad thing. You don’t have to mind it.”
Encouraged by my consolation,
Ye’s mother pondered for a long ti before she slowly began to speak.
“Indeed, there was such an event, but it happened a long ti ago. Let’s see, it’s been about twenty years. It was a winter morning, heavy snow had fallen, and when I got up to clean the courtyard, I saw a boy lying in the snow, bloodied and frozen stiff. It was just getting light, and there were no adults around. I called out a few tis, but no one answered, so I carried him into the house.”
“Then I called ngng’s father to get up; we made a fire, boiled so water, gave him a bit to drink, and used a warm towel to wipe down his body. We later called a doctor from our community to stitch up his wounds. The boy was lucky to be alive. We were very poor at that ti and didn’t have much to give him, just so millet porridge every day, and we saved the eggs from our silly chicken, which we couldn’t bear to sell, for him to eat. After nursing him for a month like that, he surprisingly recovered.”
I nodded, “And after that?”
“The boy was very quiet and wouldn’t speak. No matter what we asked, he said nothing… However, the news quickly spread throughout the village. So knowledgeable elders in the village comnted that there was an air of nobility about the boy’s features and that he must have co from a wealthy family. They suggested we establish a kinship with him. Back then, we didn’t have a male child in the family, so we thought when he grew up, he could marry into the Ye Family. So, without consulting anyone, we arranged a child betrothal between him and ngyan. But he only stayed with us for half a year before he disappeared. We had no idea where he ca from or where he went.”
I nodded again, utterly astonished to discover that Gu Yuanzhou was child-betrothed to Ye ngyan.
“Later on, after you found Gu Yuanzhou, did you ever bring up the betrothal and ask him to fulfill it?”
“Ah, no, how could we dare… We had no idea who he was before. It was when ngng started university that she said a benefactor sponsored her, a man nad Gu Yuanzhou. But later ngng ntioned that he was already married and had a family. I thought that since the child betrothal was arranged by us adults and the child did not understand such things back then, it didn’t really count. And since he was married, we couldn’t very well disturb his family. So I told ngyan to forget the idea and not to destroy soone else’s family…”
Ye Mother’s words were a revelation to .
So that was the truth.
Why had he never told about it?
Ye’s mother was right, the child betrothal wasn’t sothing Gu Yuanzhou had decided himself, nor did it carry any legal weight.
Even if he had told , I wouldn’t have held him accountable, would I?
Why didn’t he say anything?
What was his reason?
After talking to Ye’s mother, when I stepped out of the corridor, I happened to see Ye ngyan pleading with the doctor,
“Dr. Zhou, please give a few more days’ grace. I really will find a way to make up my mother’s dical expenses.”
“No, you’ve been delaying for a month; if you don’t pay up, we’ll process her discharge tomorrow. Our hospital isn’t a charity!”
Although I had intended to leave, I instead went around to the outpatient hall to pay and settled all the dical bills for Ye’s mother.
Since she had saved Gu Yuanzhou’s life all those years ago, I might as well treat this as a way to repay her favor on Gu’s behalf.
After walking out of the hospital’s main gate, I shockingly realized that the envelope containing Gu Yuanzhou’s letters, given to by Zhou Chenming, was inadvertently left in Shen Yishu’s car.
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