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"Oh, by the way, make sure to settle the bill." Gu Jiao threw a paper into Gu Chengfeng"s arms.
Gu Chengfeng received it and had a look, "How come it"s 1,000 taels again! Didn"t you say that third brother"s medicine cost only ten taels?"
Gu Jiao raised an eyebrow, "It"s not his, it"s yours."
Gu Chengfeng"s eyes widened, "What do you mean mine?"
Gu Jiao spread both hands, saying, "I also gave you an injection ah!"
Gu Chengfeng flew into a rage, "And that cost 1,000 taels?! You clearly mounted a sneak attack on me, okay? Now you’re still trying to extort me?"
Gu Jiao smiled wickedly, and her eyes swept over Gu Chenglin"s body, "It’s all up to you if you don"t want to pay."
Gu Chengfeng：“…!!!”
……
Yao shi and Gu Changqing had both left the medical hall. Grannie Gui, who kept weeping dramatically, was driven away by Gu Chengfeng, leaving only a quiet servant boy.
At night, Gu Chengfeng and the servant boy looked after Gu Chenglin.
Gu Jiao went home with her back basket.
Xiao Liulang and others had returned home from the Imperial Academy and Qinghe Academy. The backyard was buzzing with noise and full of activities.
Gu Jiao had been up all night, and Xiao Liulang didn"t want to bother her with cooking upon coming back, so he offered to cook the dinner instead, which was unanimously opposed by the whole family.
To be poisoned by him once a day was enough, if they tasted another of his cooking, they really wouldn’t be able to see the sun tomorrow.
Fortunately, Old Chief was at home today. Carrying the kitchen knife, the elderly woman threatened people over.
Gu Jiao put her back basket in her east room first, and then went to the backyard.
“JiaoJiao, JiaoJiao!” Running over, Little Jing Kong raised his little head and looked at Gu Jiao adorably. "A day"s separation seems as long as three years. JiaoJiao, we haven"t seen each other for three years. I miss you so much!"
The corners of Gu Jiao’s mouth twitched. Where did this little guy learn to whisper sweet nothings?
"JiaoJiao, did you miss me?" Little Jing Kong continued to sell cuteness.
"Yes." Gu Jiao patted his little bald head.
Well, his hair had actually grown into little hair spikes again.
Little Jing Kong pulled Gu Jiao"s hand and said, "JiaoJiao, did you carry me to your room last night? You miss me that badly?"
Gu Jiao glanced at Xiao Liulang who was chopping wood in the yard, then nodded to Little Jing Kong and said, "Well, that’s right."
Little Jing Kong raised his chin proudly, "I knew it!" Thinking of something, he pulled Gu Jiao to a small basin, pointed to the small fishes in the basin and said, "JiaoJiao, look, my good friend gave these to me!"
"You still have a good friend?" Gu Jiao was quite surprised by this. Truthfully, Little Jing Kong wasn’t particularly a gregarious child. She really had never heard of him having friends.
"He’s from the next cla.s.s; he’s called Xu Zhouzhou! Zhou as in porridge!" Little Jing Kong introduced.
To think he actually made friends with someone from the next cla.s.s. This really made Gu Jiao dazed in surprise for a few seconds.
She and Xiao Liulang had always been worried that Little Jing Kong was too mature to play with his own peers, but at the same time, there was still a gap in thinking between him and the adults. In the long run, he would inevitably fall into a situation of isolation.
Little Jing Kong showed off his little fishes, "Aren’t they beautiful?"
In spite of her conscience, Gu Jiao replied, "...Beautiful, very beautiful. What kind of fish is it?"
She had never seen such an ugly fish before.
Little Jing Kong answered earnestly, "Little Xu said they’re piranhas."
Gu Jiao"s body shook.
What kind of children were these, they’re so ferocious?!
She thought he could become a normal kid now that there was a normal kid around him. Sure enough, she was naive——
Little Jing Kong"s aesthetic was different from that of normal people. His aesthetic was misled by his master, and then he misled all the other little monks in the temple.
For example, the red birthmark on Gu Jiao’s face, which was a flaw in appearance to most people, happened to be aesthetically beautiful in the eyes of Little Jing Kong and several little monks.
The same was true of these fishes.
Not only did they look scream-worthy, their eyes also looked very scary. But there were golden fish scales on the top of their heads, which sparkled in the sun, making Little Jing Kong very fascinated.
It was for these beautiful little fishes that Little Jing Kong took the initiative to talk to another kid at the Imperial Academy for the first time.
Of course, they really were not piranhas. That was just children"s exaggerated talk. They were an ordinary freshwater fish, but not a species that could be found in the State of Zhao. They had been transported from the distant State of Liang, so they were also quite precious.
That kid Xu Zhouzhou naturally didn’t mention these because he didn’t understand either.
"JiaoJiao, can I keep them?" Little Jing Kong asked Gu Jiao.
He was a sensible and polite child. He always asked JiaoJiao"s permission before keeping a pet.
Gu Jiao nodded her head, "Sure, but you have to feed and change the water yourself. Also, none of us has any experience in raising fish, so we can"t help you in this respect."
"En!" Little Jing Kong nodded obediently, "JiaoJiao, rest a.s.sured, I will ask Little Xu for more advice! I must make them all fat! So when I grow up, I can eat them! "
Gu Jiao: So you’re raising these fishes to eat them in the end?
All of a sudden, not a single sound could be heard from the chickens and dog jumping in the backyard.
At night, Gu Yan, who had been working for Little Jing Kong, went to the chicken coop to feed seven chickens, only to find that they collectively went on a hunger strike!
Gu Yan: "Yi?"
The dinner was six dishes and a soup. Several boys in the family were in the age of physical growth, so Old Chief made an ample meal for them, and as before, Little Jing Kong meals were made specially for him.
He ate like a horse but never grew.
This also made people worry.
Old Chief"s cooking successfully erased the trauma brought by Xiao Liulang"s breakfast, and the whole family ate till their stomachs were full.
After dinner, the elderly woman routinely asked several people about their day. Gu Jiao and Xiao Liulang didn"t say anything about Gu Chenglin"s matter. Neither of them felt that a Gu Chenglin was worth taking up their family discussion time at the dinner table.
Nothing new happened to anyone except Little Jing Kong who made a new friend in the Imperial Academy.
However, Xiao Liulang, who had always been silent during every family discussion, spoke for the first time, "There is a carpenter master near the Imperial Academy who wants to take apprentices. Tomorrow is the every-tenth-day break of the Imperial Academy and Qinghe Academy. I will take Xiaoshun there."
Gu Xiaoshun was obsessed with wood carving; if they could find a reliable master for him to deepen his craftsmanship, that would really be good.
"Then I don’t have to study anymore?" Gu Xiaoshun asked excitedly.
Gu Jiao and Xiao Liulang said in unison, "Don"t even think about it!"
Gu Xiaoshun：“…”
It was true that children from common families didn’t have to go to school after they had acquired skills in certain fields, but both Xiao Liulang and Gu Jiao attached great importance to education. Children in their family could take other lessons after cla.s.ses in the academy were done. They absolutely were not allowed to drop out of school to learn craftsmanship.
"Gu Yan will also go." Xiao Liulang said.
"Why do I have to go too?" Gu Yan looked confused.
Xiao Liulang: "You’re free."
Gu Yan：“…”
From tomorrow on, Gu Yan and Gu Xiaoshun would begin an arduous life of taking cla.s.ses during the day and learning craftsmanship at night.
Little Jing Kong shook his head proudly, "I don"t have to learn any arts, so I can play after cla.s.s, bleh!"
Xiao Liulang gave him an unfeeling look, "Starting tomorrow, I’ll add one more language in your foreign language course."
Little Jing Kong went black in an instant.Raz P."s Thoughts
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