127: Chapter 126: He Must Have Agreed to Marry into Our Shen Family_1 127: Chapter 126: He Must Have Agreed to Marry into Our Shen Family_1 A subordinate approached, glanced into the unfathomably deep river waters, and said, “Master Long, River Ling has always been known as the Soul-Snatching River.
Not only are the waters rapid, but there are also many undercurrents.
Once soone is swept into them, it’s almost certain death.”
“In Cloud City, even those with good swimming skills wouldn’t dare to swim in River Ling.
Although they escaped by jumping into the river, it’s rely another form of death.
Therefore, Master Long shouldn’t be too angry; they won’t survive.”
Long Tianya narrowed his eyes and said coldly, “I hope so.”
At this mont, the subordinates responsible for watching Gu Hongzhuang ran over, each and every one of them panic-stricken.
The leader said, “Master… Master Long, just now Sister Hong said she wanted to use the restroom, and we didn’t dare to stop her excessively, so we let her go.
But to think, she actually escaped through the ventilation duct in the restroom…”
Gu Hongzhuang was Long Tianya’s forbidden delight, holding a very high status in the eyes of these subordinates; no one dared to provoke her.
Even when Long Tianya had ordered her capture, these subordinates had not dared to be too rough, which provided Gu Hongzhuang the chance to escape.
Long Tianya glared at the n, barking, “A bunch of trash!
Thirty lashes each, go and receive your punishnt when you return!”
“Yes, yes!” None of the n dared to disagree and hastily complied.
Long Tianya returned to Long Hao’s side, squatted down, and said, “River Ling is perilous, and Lu Chuan is seriously injured.
Even Gu Hongzhuang is just a fragile woman.
The two of them jumping down, it’s highly likely they won’t survive, and your vengeance will have been served.”
“You should focus on healing for the ti being.
Once your injuries have recovered, I will arrange your wedding with Chu ngyao.
The woman my son has set his heart on will be taken by no one!”
…
Blooming Beauty Costics Company.
In the President’s office, Chu ngyao sat in front of the desk, her mind feeling restless.
Today, Long Hao suddenly sent her a ssage: “I will prove to you that I’m the only man in this world who is worthy of you.”
She didn’t understand why Long Hao would suddenly send such a ssage, but she had so guesses in her heart.
She made more than a dozen calls to Lu Chuan, but couldn’t get through, which caused her mood to plumt.
Knock, knock, knock.
The sound of knocking arose, and Chu ngyao pulled back her thoughts, saying, “Enter.”
Secretary Zhang walked in.
Chu ngyao quickly stood up and asked, “Did you find out anything?”
Secretary Zhang hesitated a mont, but still nodded solemnly.
“Master Long and Young Master Long have already returned so ti ago.
I bribed a subordinate from the Long family, and from him, I learned that the Young Master has sustained severe injuries.”
Chu ngyao frowed and pressed urgently, “What about Lu Chuan?
Did they go to make trouble for Lu Chuan?”
Secretary Zhang sighed and said, “Yes.”
“How is Lu Chuan now?”
Secretary Zhang slowly said, “According to that person, the Young Master and Lu Chuan fought.
Lu Chuan was no match for the Young Master and was badly injured, but at the end, sohow, he managed to call down a bolt of lightning from the sky, striking the Young Master into serious injury.”
“Master Long ordered his n to kill Lu Chuan.
At that mont, one of Long Tianya’s lovers, the one called Sister Hong, suddenly rushed out, helping Lu Chuan up, and they both jumped into River Ling together.”
Upon hearing this, Chu ngyao’s legs gave way, and she sat down on the office chair behind her.
“Jumped… into River Ling…”
“Did they… survive?”
Secretary Zhang’s face showed helplessness as he said, “River Ling is also known as the Soul-Snatching River.
Statistically, about twenty people fall into the river each year, most of whom are fishern with good swimming skills.
However, less than one in ten survive, and most of the ti, even the bodies are not recovered.”
Chu ngyao’s eyes filled with tears in an instant.
She stared at Secretary Zhang, asking, “So… did Lu Chuan die?”
Secretary Zhang tried to comfort her, saying, “President, although River Ling is dangerous, there have been cases of people falling in and successfully surviving.
Maybe Lu Chuan was lucky and managed to save his life.”
Chu ngyao, her face ashen, said, “Please leave be for now; I would like to be alone.”
Secretary Zhang sighed and, without saying more, turned and left.
As tears fell, Chu ngyao leaned over the desk and began to sob uncontrollably.
…
In an obscure old district with no particular na.
Su Ming arrived at a corner wall, and after checking that there was no one around, he leaped over the wall and entered the courtyard.
Mu Nanqing was anxiously waiting.
Seeing Su Ming return, he imdiately ca forward, asking, “Any news about Xiaochuan?”
Su Ming pondered for a mont, then said, “I have found out.
It was that Long Tianya who led people to kill him.
But he’s lucky and managed to escape by jumping into the river.”
“I heard he was heavily injured, so even if he escaped, he likely won’t co looking for us soon.
Sister-in-law, for the ti being, you can rest assured and stay here.
Once he’s recovered from his injuries, he will surely co to find us.”
Mu Nanqing finally breathed a sigh of relief, saying, “That’s good, that’s good.”
A touch of helplessness flashed in Su Ming’s eyes as he murmured to himself, “The waters of River Ling are treacherous.
An elder from the Profound Sect once accidentally fell into it and lost his life; can he truly survive?”
…
The next day at noon.
In a small forest on the outskirts of town.
Shen Yourong leaned against a large tree branch, idly fantasizing about her own wedding day.
“That guy said that the only way to completely cure my physical condition is through that kind of thing.
If he agrees to marry into our family, does that an I’ll have to do that kind of thing on our wedding night?”
“Should I take off my shirt first then, or my pants?”
“Or should I just lie there and do nothing, leaving him to do as he pleases?”
“Oh, how embarrassing, why am I starting to think about these things?
What if he doesn’t agree to marry ?”
…
After a while, Shen Yourong got up, took out her phone, and glanced at the ti, realizing it was already noon.
She looked around but saw no one, feeling a small surge of joy in her heart.
“This guy…
does it an he has agreed to beco a son-in-law to our Shen family?”
For so reason, she felt her heartbeat quicken.
“Maybe I should wait a bit longer, what if sothing has delayed him.”
Another half hour passed.
Shen Yourong still hadn’t seen Lu Chuan appear, and she made her judgnt: “He didn’t co, which probably ans he has agreed to marry into my Shen family.
It seems he knows what’s good for him.”
“Wait, could it be that he agreed because he covets my beauty?”
“Oh well, there is a marriage agreent after all.
No matter what this guy is like, I am supposed to marry him.”
“I should go back and tell my parents first; once we have discussed it, then co over to…
propose?”
“Sohow, that word sounds odd.”
…
Muttering to herself, Shen Yourong turned and walked towards the depths of the forest.
…
A week later.
Downstream of River Ling, within the border of Jiangnan Province.
In a slightly remote village by the river.
Inside a mud-brick house.
Gu Hongzhuang, dressed in simple, worn-out peasant clothes, was burning wood outside to boil dicine.
Even though her clothes seed a bit shabby, they couldn’t mask her charming face and her stunning figure.
After a busy half-day, Gu Hongzhuang poured out a bowl of dicinal soup and carefully carried it into the adjoining side room.
On the clay bed, Lu Chuan’s face was pale and his breath was weak.
His eyebrows were tightly furrowed as he lay in a deep coma.
A week before, right before Gu Hongzhuang and Lu Chuan jumped into the river, she had secretly taken a set of life jackets from the crew on the ship.
Thanks to this life jacket, they barely managed not to sink directly to the bottom of the river.
However, the undercurrents in the river were strong, and they were swept downstream.
The water kept pouring into their mouths, and if this continued for much longer, they would have been choked to death.
Moreover, Lu Chuan was seriously injured and had run out of strength.
He lost consciousness not long after falling into the river.
Gu Hongzhuang used all her strength to keep the currents from pulling them apart.
Luckily, the heavens seed to look after them.
Just when Gu Hongzhuang was about to give in, they ca across a floating piece of wood in the water.
Clutching Lu Chuan, she rested atop the wood and, with incredible willpower, held on for an entire day and night.
In the end, she hadn’t an ounce of strength left but refused to let go of Lu Chuan’s hand.
She thought she was going to die, but looking at Lu Chuan unconscious beside her, she felt little fear.
At that mont, a fishing boat passed by and rescued them both.
Gu Hongzhuang’s strained nerves finally relaxed, and she too fell into a coma.
She was comatose for three full days before she slowly regained consciousness.
The fisherman who saved them took them back to his village and settled them in his own ho, where he also found a doctor to stabilize their condition, saving both of their lives.
Gu Hongzhuang was not seriously hard and was back to being lively and active after three days.
Lu Chuan, however, was in a worse state.
He had been seriously injured and drenched in the river for a day, and the fact that he was still clinging to life was a miracle in itself.
Fortunately, the doctor in the village had excellent dical skills and used folk redies to stabilize Lu Chuan’s condition.
But Lu Chuan was so badly hurt that even the village doctor was at a loss.
He could only prescribe so Chinese dicines, hoping that Lu Chuan might regain consciousness.
Zhang Youde and his wife, who had rescued Lu Chuan and Gu Hongzhuang, needed to go out to fish during the day.
Before Gu Hongzhuang woke up, their eighteen-year-old daughter Zhang Huahua had been taking care of them.
Now that Gu Hongzhuang had woken up, the task of boiling the dicine naturally fell on her shoulders.
This was the first ti Gu Hongzhuang had fed soone dicine.
She brought the dicinal soup to the clay bed, placed it on an old table beside, then took a spoon, ladled so soup, cooled it, and brought it to Lu Chuan’s mouth.
However, perhaps because the dicine was too bitter, Lu Chuan involuntarily spat it out.
Gu Hongzhuang frowned and exclaid, “You guy, all the effort I put into boiling this dicine, and you just spit it out?”
Undeterred, she fed him a few more spoonfuls, but he spat those out too.
“You, still so restless even in a coma, if you don’t drink this dicine, when will you ever wake up?”
Gu Hongzhuang placed her hands on her hips in irritation, wishing she could pinch Lu Chuan a few tis.
“Hehe, Sister Gu, I have a way to make him drink the dicine,” a voice ca from the doorway at that mont.
Gu Hongzhuang turned to look and saw Zhang Huahua, with her hair in a ponytail, peering into the room.
Zhang Huahua should have been in high school at her age, but due to poor family conditions and a remote village location, attending high school required traveling over a hundred kiloters to the county town.
For Zhang Youde’s family, even managing to complete middle school was considered enlightened in the village, so Zhang Huahua had dropped out of school to help with chores at ho.
In a couple of years when Zhang Huahua was old enough, Zhang Youde planned to find her a suitable husband to marry her off.
When Zhang Huahua heard Gu Hongzhuang’s complaint, she smiled and asked, “What thod?”
Zhang Huahua walked in, her eyes showing a mix of naivety and burgeoning youthfulness, and then with a mischievous smile said, “First, drink the dicine yourself, then feed him mouth to mouth.
If he tries to spit, just block his mouth, won’t that do the trick?”
Gu Hongzhuang’s eyes widened, and then a thought suddenly popped into her head, asking, “You…
is this how you’ve been feeding him the dicine before?”
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