An Junwang said in a warm voice, "I was passing by, so I stopped by to pick you up while I’m at it. Have you finished your classes today?"
"Yes, our classes are over." Zhuang Yuexi ca up and answered.
She didn't give her guqin to the servant girl to carry. Seeing that she looked tired, An Junwang held out his hands and said, "Give it to ."
Zhuang Yuexi smiled and gave her guqin to his brother.
To reach for the guqin, An Junwang had to pull his arm out of Zhuang ngdie's hold.
Zhuang Yuexi was very satisfied seeing this.
After taking over the guqin, An Junwang didn't hurry to take his two younger sisters into the carriage, but instead looked left and right, seemingly waiting for soone else to co out.
Zhuang Yuexi asked, "Big brother, who are you looking for?"
An Junwang replied normally, "I heard that Young Miss Gu also attends the won’s academy."
Zhuang ngdie suddenly pouted her mouth and said, "You an that Gu Jinyu? I hate her to death! Why does big brother concern himself with her?"
Zhuang Yuexi also looked at An Junwang with doubt.
An Junwang looked at Zhuang ngdie and smiled gently, saying, "Isn't she your friend? I was just asking."
Zhuang ngdie scoffed and responded, "I don't have a friend like her!"
"Is she the only one from the Gu Family who ca to school?" An Junwang asked.
Zhuang ngdie said with a harrumphed, "Who else is there? How could that other girl who grew up in the countryside get an admission card?"
Zhuang Yuexi said, "How did you get it then?"
Zhuang ngdie choked up. Could this sister of hers stop undermining her all the ti?
An Junwang beca thoughtful. Could it be... she sold the admission card he gave her to Zhuang ngdie?
What An Junwang didn't know was that his admission card was sold by Gu Jiao to Du Xiaoyun, and the admission card of Zhuang ngdie was the one Marquis Gu got from Imperial Concubine Shu.
On the second floor of the music hall, Gu Jinyu pushed open the window of the room and accidentally saw An Junwang, who ca to pick up his two younger sisters from school.
Gu Jinyu's heart leapt in an instant.
She hadn’t seen him for so many days, and An Junwang seed to have beco more handso, his aura more mighty.
Why was he looking around? Who was he looking for?
Was it herself?
Gu Jinyu's heart beat harder and faster.
Then, she vaguely heard Zhuang ngdie say, ‘You an that Gu Jinyu. I hate her to death. Why does big brother concern himself with her?’
Gu Jinyu's breathing beca rapid.
An Junwang was concerned about her.
He didn't co here to pick up his younger sisters; he ca to see her! [T/N: Delusional.]
Gu Jinyu quickly put away the guqin in her hands, went to the tea room to put so rouge, rearranged the hairpins on her head, and then went downstairs to see An Junwang.
Unfortunately, An Junwang was already gone.
However, it turned out that it was Zhuang ngdie who inadvertently said, "That girl is working as a dicine girl in the dical hall next door. I saw her that day," and so, An Junwang went to the dical hall.
It was just that An Junwang also pounced on empty air.
Gu Jiao couldn't stand the sound of guqin behind the courtyard wall, so she left work early!
At the mont, the four n in the family hadn’t finished school yet. Gu Jiao first went to the kitchen to stew so soup. The soup was halfway done when Grannie Fang arrived.
"Not good, eldest young miss. Mada has so strange thing on her body! Please go and take a look!"
Gu Jiao reduced the fire in the stove, keeping the soup in the pot warm, and then took a carriage with Grannie Fang to the Marquis Estate.
When Yao shi saw Gu Jiao, she scolded Grannie Fang again, "I said I'm fine. You don't have to go to JiaoJiao for everything."
"It's always good to be careful." Gu Jiao said and went up to Yao shi. She said after checking, "It's eczema. It's alright. Just apply so dicine on it."
Yao shi looked at Grannie Fang, saying, "I told you I was fine, see? You’re just making a fuss."
Grannie Fang heaved a sigh of relief and said, "Once bitten, twice shy. Is it not because this servant is afraid of sothing bad happening to Mada again?"
Concubine Ling had been restless since she was seized of power. She frequently visited the courtyards of Gu Chengfeng and Gu Chenglin, making her presence felt as well establishing a fond impression in front of the two brothers, so that the two brothers wanted to drive Yao shi out of the estate these days.
Instead of taking action herself, Concubine Ling planned to borrow soone else’s knife to deal with her.
Grannie Fang had been keeping an eye on Concubine Ling, but she feared it was simply impossible to guard against her every action.
Gu Jiao took a box of eczema cream from the dicine chest and gave it to Yao shi, "If you have any problems in the future, please tell in ti."
Caution was the parent of safety.
She didn’t mind making more trips.
Grannie Fang sent Gu Jiao into the carriage.
Gu Jiao returned to Bishui Alley.
The elderly woman asked, "Is your mother okay?"
Gu Jiao answered, "She's fine."
Yao shi was really fine, but what Gu Jiao didn't expect was that sothing would happen to her younger brothers.
The first one who showed symptoms was Little Jing Kong.
Little Jing Kong didn't have a good appetite at dinner. Gu Jiao touched his forehead. He didn't have a fever and she just told him to go to bed early.
People slept until midnight when Little Jing Kong suddenly woke Xiao Liulang up.
Xiao Liulang looked at him curiously and asked, "What's the matter?"
He sat on the bed and said with a serious face, "I'm so itchy."
Xiao Liulang lit an oil lamp, lifted his clothes and took a look at his body. He found several transparent blisters on his arms and stomach.
Xiao Liulang tucked him in and called Gu Jiao over.
After checking, Gu Jiao made a diagnosis on the spot, "Chickenpox."
Xiao Liulang frowned, "You an… pox disease?"
Gu Jiao nodded, "Well, you can also say that."
Little Jing Kong was in very good health. He had never been sick since he went down the mountain. Who knew the mont he did, it was chickenpox.
Although chickenpox wasn’t as terrible as smallpox, it wasn’t so easy to cure.
"Chickenpox is contagious. Did you ever have it as a child?" Gu Jiao asked Xiao Liulang.
"I did." Xiao Liulang responded.
He also got this pox disease when he was about the sa age as Little Jing Kong.
"What about you?" Xiao Liulang looked at Gu Jiao.
"I think I’ve had it too." Gu Jiao searched her mind for the mory of the original owner. She got chickenpox before the death of Gu Sanlang and his wife. Because she was well taken care of, she ultimately recovered.
"Xiaoshun doesn't seem to have had it." She added.
Chickenpox was an infectious disease, so it was best not to touch Little Jing Kong if they hadn't had chickenpox yet.
"What about Grandaunt? Did she have it too?" Gu Jiao asked Xiao Liulang.
This question was a little interesting.
The elderly woman was just a leper who they had conveniently rescued. She had amnesia and couldn’t rember the past. How could Xiao Liulang know if she had ever had chickenpox?
Unless, of course, she had already decided in her mind that Xiao Liulang had known the elderly woman for a long ti.
Xiao Liulang didn't ask if she knew anything, and didn't deliberately change the subject either. He only said calmly, "I don't know."
He really didn’t know.
Gu Jiao pondered for a mont and thought it was normal. For example, she didn't know what diseases Old Mister Gu had before.
She said, "Well, just to be on the safe side, let Grandaunt be careful."
Later, the chickenpox also rushed to Little Jing Kong’s face like a torrent, and the next morning, Gu Xiaoshun and Gu Yan were also infected.
[T/N: This is tomorrow's update, I posted it in advance since I have plans tomorrow and might not be able to update.]
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