Chapter 168.1
Gu Changqing reached the front of the door, glanced at the closed door and then at Gu Chenglin. He asked, "What"s the matter?"
Gu Chenglin replied, "Oh, I"m waiting for second brother so we can go together to Grandma’s place for dinner. Second brother is changing clothes."
Gu Changqing blandly said, "I"m going to the Ling residence tomorrow morning, both of you should also prepare to go."
"I understand." Gu Chenglin answered.
Gu Changqing looked at the closed door again and said, "Chengfeng, are you fine?"
Gu Chengfeng gritted his teeth and put on his clothes, responding, "I"m fine. Is eldest brother also going to Grandma’s place for dinner tonight?"
Gu Changqing replied, "I"m going to the military camp, and I won"t be back tonight."
"Then, are you coming back on New Year"s Eve?" Gu Chengfeng asked.
New Year"s Eve was the day after tomorrow.
Gu Changqing stilled and said, "I should be back."
Gu Chengfeng waited quietly in the room and made sure that Gu Changqing"s footsteps had gone far. Then he threw his b.l.o.o.d.y clothes into the charcoal pot and burned it!
Bishui Alley.
Gu Jiao also returned home.
Her body sustained a lot of bruises and wounds which couldn"t be hidden at all, so she had to tell what happened honestly.
"The music house collapsed and I was crushed under the rubble."
She didn"t say that she was already in the underground storeroom before the collapse since it was also possible to fall through the crack from above ground and be crushed underneath.
"JiaoJiao, why did you go to the music house?" Little Jing Kong asked with his eyes wide open, full of worry and sadness.
Gu Jiao patted his little bald head and said, "I was just looking around. It’s a pity that the candied haws I bought for you are gone."
Her back basket was crushed.
Little Jing Kong threw himself into Gu Jiao"s arms and said with grief, "I don"t want candied haws! All I want is JiaoJiao!"
Gu Jiao leaned against the head of the bed and looked at the frightened little guy in her arms. She inwardly asked, was this what it felt like to be needed?
"I"m fine." She looked into the worried eyes of everyone in the room and smiled. "It"s really nothing."
This injury was really nothing to her at all.
However, in the eyes of her family, she was so badly hurt that she couldn"t even get out of bed!
The elderly woman told Gu Jiao to stay in bed, and that she didn"t have to worry about the house ch.o.r.es at all.
The only problem was cooking——
The family sat in the main room, looking at one another.
Xiao Liulang cleared his throat and said, "I"ll cook."
The whole family: "Don’t!"
Shouldn’t you already know yourself how bad your cooking was!?
The elderly woman had led a pampered life, Gu Yan and Little Jing Kong couldn’t cook either; the only one left was Gu Xiaoshun, but his cooking was only a little better than Xiao Liulang"s.
At this moment, the elderly woman missed Xue Ningxiang very much.
Xiangxiang"s cooking was also delicious.
Little Jing Kong: +1.
Gu Xiaoshun: +1.
Gu Yan: +1.
Xiao Liulang：“…”
Finally, the elderly woman let out a sigh and went next door.
Old Chief was writing couplets in the room when the door was kicked open with a bang.
Old Chief instantly shook with fear all over, "I don"t have any more private money!"
The elderly woman put the kitchen knife on his desk, saying, "Cook."
Old Chief：“…”
A quarter of an hour later, Old Chief appeared in his neighbor’s kitchen with a dark expression.
To think a grand Chief of a country had actually been reduced to a cook by his old enemy!
Forget it, he also couldn’t bear to see his beloved disciple and little benefactor having no food to eat anyway.
He definitely wasn’t giving in to that demon empress!
But why was today"s food so green?
Garlic shoots, celery, cabbage, green bean sprouts...
While the Old Chief was chopping vegetables on the chopping board, he silently said in his heart: Your Majesty, fret not, this old official will never let your head wear green!
"Granduncle!" Little Jing Kong shouted in the yard.
Old Chief put down the kitchen knife and said, "Coming!"
The late emperor in his coffin: "…"
Old Chief made six dishes and one soup, which was a more luxurious culinary lineup than what Gu Jiao often cooked.
Little Jing Kong couldn’t eat meat. Old Chief separately cooked a ‘besiege Wei to rescue Zhao’(vegetarian meat wrapped tofu), ‘outwitting Chencang’ (sesame mung bean soup), ‘bag of tricks’ (fried tofu pouches) and a ‘tripart.i.te confrontation’(vegetable salad) for Little Jing Kong alone.
Little Jing Kong ate heartily.
Even the carrot he hated the most wasn’t left out!
What he ate wasn’t vegetables, but knowledge!
Only he had it!
Little Jing Kong swayed his head, extremely pleased with himself!
Old Chief didn’t just give these dishes good names, but also cooked them really deliciously.
The elderly woman mused, "En, I might have taken a fancy to your cooking at the beginning."
Old Chief panicked: No, nothing like that happened!
Old Chief also stewed some soup for Gu Jiao.
Xiao Liulang sent the soup and some food to Gu Jiao.
Gu Jiao sat at the head of the bed and looked at him with bright eyes.
Xiao Liulang was always fascinated by her unabashed gaze. He lowered his eyes, put the food on the table first, and then brought the small table which he used to do his homework on the bed.
He put the small table in front of her and set the chopsticks and bowl of soup on it.
She had a light diet because she needed to recover from her injuries.
Xiao Liulang looked at a table of colorless food, paused, and said, "If you really don"t like it, I"ll bring you some pickles."
Gu Jiao didn"t speak and simply stared her big pair of eyes at him.
"What"s the matter?" Xiao Liulang asked.
Gu Jiao said, "Were you not afraid?"
"Afraid of what?" Xiao Liulang didn"t understand her question.
Gu Jiao looked at him firmly and questioned, "Were you not afraid of being buried down and never getting out again?"
The situation back then was really dangerous.
Not because her side was in danger of being sacrificed to save others, but that it really could have collapsed at any moment.
Even so, he jumped down without hesitation.
He braved the danger and darkness and made his way all the way to her side.
Xiao Liulang didn"t think too much at that time.
After he had rescued her, he also didn"t think too much of it.
It was as though it was something he should have done; he didn"t think there was something special about it.
Being asked by her now, he was only left speechless.
Gu Jiao curved up the corner of her lips, saying, "You look really dashing when you jump down."
She had long thought that he was very good-looking; his face and his figure looked good everywhere.
But the moment he jumped down, he looked very valiant.
Her little husband had grown up.
Xiao Liulang’s ears turned slightly red from her compliment. He handed her the spoon and bowl of soup and said, "Eat it while it"s hot, or it"ll get cold later."
"En." Gu Jiao took the spoon and drank the soup in small sips.
Xiao Liulang suddenly recalled something and told Gu Jiao, "The scene was too chaotic; your back basket was crushed and some things have not been found."
Gu Jiao said without care, "It"s okay. We can buy candied haws again."
"I’m not talking about the candied haws, it"s..." Halfway through his speech, Xiao Liulang caught sight of the small medicine chest beside her. He furrowed his brows in disbelief.
Perhaps, he got it wrong.