Chapter 95.1
The servant girl and the wet nurse collected the burnt pieces of paper and put it in a handkerchief before bringing it back to Gu Jinyu.
A little writing could be seen in the burnt pieces of paper, but it was just a tiny part, just enough for Gu Jinyu to recognize that it was indeed the paper that contained the question, but it was impossible to spell out the complete solution written on it.
Of course, Gu Jinyu wouldn"t have guessed that it was Little Jing Kong who burned it with a fire. She merely thought that she accidentally left it amongst the paper money, which caused it to be burned together with the paper money.
At the thought of it, her heart ached and she felt like coughing up blood. In the end, she fainted on the spot!
……
After having lunch, Gu Jiao took advantage of the afternoon to go to the mountain she bought.
Recently, when she had nothing to do, she would go around that mountain. Besides picking herbs and mushrooms, she would also record the topography of the whole mountain. Now, there was only one last area left, and then she could complete the topographic map of the whole mountain.
Hearing that she was going up the mountain, Little Jing Kong tilted his head and asked, "Can I go with JiaoJiao?"
Gu Jiao thought for a moment before saying, "Do you want to go back and see your master and fellow disciples?"
I mainly wanted to be with you, but okay.
Little Jing Kong jumped down from the stool and said to Gu Jiao, "Alright then, I"ll go and see them."
The place she was about to go this time was quite close to the temple. Actually,
It was on the way.
Seeing Gu Jiao carrying a basket on her back, Little Jing Kong looked envious. Thus Gu Jiao got him a small basket too.
The little basket contained his gifts to his friends in the temple.
There were vegetarian meatb.a.l.l.s, cooked by Gu Jiao.
Osmanthus cakes, bought by Gu Jiao.
And wild fruits, collected by Gu Jiao.
Little Jing Kong, carrying the same back basket as Gu Jiao, went to the elderly woman"s room to show off, with a very proud expression on his face. After that, he also went next door to show off in front of Xue Ningxiang and Gouwa.
Then the pair of brother and sister set off to climb the mountain.
Although Little Jing Kong was young and small, he could bear hardships more than most ordinary children. He insisted on walking all the way to the other side of the mountain, which was quite far.
Stomping, he continued to walk up the mountain, and Gu Jiao slowly followed him. Almost halfway up the mountain, he finally ran out of energy and collapsed on the steps, resembling a small salted fish.
Gu Jiao carried the little salted fish Jing Kong up to the temple.
At the gate of the temple, Little Jing Kong, who had recovered his strength, waved to Gu Jiao and said, "JiaoJiao, go ahead and do your business, I"ll go find Jing Fan, Jing Xin and Jing Shan by myself!"
"Alright." Gu Jiao watched Little Jing Kong enter the temple, greeted a monk eagerly, and called out to his Senior Brother Jing Chen, only then did she feel at ease to continue going up the mountain.
It cost a lot of money to buy this mountain, but the more she walked around it, the more she thought it was worth it. She didn’t know how many wild medicinal herbs and wild animals all over this mountain belonged to her now.
Perhaps, her luck today was really good. On the way, she dug up two ginseng, neither of which was big, but enough to make a chicken soup.
Somehow, Gu Jiao suddenly remembered the trap she had set in the woods, thinking that this time, no person should be so unlucky.
As soon as this thought flashed in her head, there was movement in the woods, as if something really fell down.
Over there was exactly the trap she had set before.
"There’s no such coincidence, right..."
Gu Jiao raised an eyebrow.
Maybe it was just a giant bug or something?
A wolf would also do.
Gu Jiao looked forward to harvesting her prey and went there to have a look.
Er..... Of course, it was a person again this time.
Gu Jiao was a bit perplexed.
The trap she made was for catching wild animals. Why did it always catch people instead?
But this time it seemed that the other party wasn’t an ordinary person, but a monk.
He had a tall stature and was wearing an ash-gray monk robe. He was holding something in his arms which she couldn’t make out what it was, but the wrist exposed outside his cuff was as white as jade.
Perhaps he heard the movement from above ground, he looked up, so that a secular face broke into Gu Jiao"s line of sight.
The monk had a pair of long and narrow peach blossom eyes, and there was a tear mole under his right eye. Gu Jiao couldn’t tell how old he was, but he looked young.
Gu Jiao secretly lamented that in this world... even monks turned out to be so beautiful!? He wasn’t a forest spirit that came out specially to charm innocent women, right?
Gu Jiao watched him warily.
He hooked up the corners of his thin lips into a slight smile, saying, "Little benefactor, can you pull this poor monk up?"
He also had a very beautiful voice!
That sort of ethereal and spirit-like, unconventionally graceful.
Gu Jiao thought for a moment before taking out the rope in her back basket and pulled him up.
Later, Gu Jiao discovered a white rabbit in his arms, and when she looked in the trap he had just been in, she saw the body of a poisonous snake.
Gu Jiao looked at the snake, then at the rabbit in his arms, and asked, "Did you go down the pit to save the rabbit?"
"En." He nodded with a smile.
He smiled very tenderly, but it wasn’t the maternal tenderness of Yao shi"s smile, but rather a tenderness that would make people dazzled and blush.
Unfortunately, Gu Jiao was not a shy person by nature.
Gu Jiao might have looked at him more than once due to his good-looking appearance, but her heart was actually very calm.
When Gu Jiao heard his answer, she mumbled, "You’re a kind..."
Before she could finish her words, however, she saw the other party pull out a dagger and kill the rabbit with one slash.
Gu Jiao：“……”
After killing the rabbit, the monk asked Gu Jiao for some water, washed the rabbit, made a bonfire and began to barbecue the rabbit meat.
Gu Jiao was dumbfounded.
Killing animals and eating their meat... She suspected this one was a fake monk, was he not?
“Do you want some?" The monk cut off the fattest piece of rabbit meat and handed it to Gu Jiao with a dagger. "Those who did a part have a share."
Gu Jiao: Is this expressing your thanks to me after I saved you just now?
Gu Jiao didn"t eat much during lunch, and now she was actually a little hungry. She took the rabbit meat and took a bite.
It wasn’t unpalatable but it wasn’t delicious either. It lacked ingredients.
"Ah, I forgot to put salt in it." The monk scratched his head, took out a small bamboo tube from his wide sleeve, pulled out the lid and sprinkled salt on the rabbit meat.
"This should be much better." He cut another piece and handed it to Gu Jiao.
Gu Jiao took the rabbit meat, and sure enough, it tasted delicious after adding salt. She asked curiously, "Did you save it just to eat it?"