Greed, never satisfied?
Haoming blinked gently, looked at his little wife, and thought to himself, was it really that he was too greedy?
But when it came to her, on matters concerning his wife, how could he not be greedy?
"Wife, come, wash your face. The hot water is ready, and after that, you can take a bath and change into clean clothes, then get a good night’s sleep."
Yixuan, carrying a basin of water, entered from outside. As soon as he stepped through the door, he saw the fourth brother sitting together with his wife.
"No rush, I’m not tired yet!" Dong Huiying got up and came towards Yixuan, "How come I didn’t see Shujun and Yue Ning? And my parents... When we passed by Balibao, we found that only the shop assistants were still there."
Yixuan said, "Third Brother had to take a business trip on short notice, and Fifth Brother suddenly wanted to go out for a walk, so he went along for the company. As for your parents... ever since the businesses got on track, your mother has been enchanted by the mountain and water scenery and has taken your father on a long journey. As for Xin Yuan and Xiao Nian, a few months ago Divine Doctor Yun came back and took them away."
Yixuan seemed to be giving a thorough explanation, but in fact, he was hiding a lot of important information. Mainly... he saw the dark circles under his wife’s eyes, she was clearly exhausted after coming back from the long trip. Yixuan believed that Third Brother could handle the matters at Taihang Town’s He Mansion, so it was better to keep it from her, to save his worry-prone wife from more concern.
Dong Huiying didn’t think much of it, at that moment Hong Xiangjun entered with a large bundle, "Here, your lifeblood!"
Yixuan was taken aback, "What is this?"
Dong Huiying was embarrassed, "Medicinal herbs!"
The metaphor, the description was just too much.
"I’m not tired, I won’t sleep. Let’s postpone the bath as well." After washing her face, she grabbed the large bundle, claiming she suddenly remembered a formula and decided to go prepare medicine.
Yixuan wanted to stop her, but his wife was too insistent.
Until the end, she locked herself in the pharmacy, opened the bundle, and found it full of various medicinal herbs she had collected along the way.
She took out some of the herbs, cleaned them, and in the pharmacy, there were many shelves; one row was filled with bottles and jars, housing Gu. Even after she left home, someone would regularly come to feed the Gu.
She picked up a small jar, about to open it, when suddenly—"Shu Yu?"
There was a person hiding behind the shelf.
It wasn’t really hiding, it was just a particularly concealed spot.
The man had a calm expression, holding a handful of dried, crushed mulberry leaves, feeding a chubby Class A Gu.
After being discovered by his wife, the man curled his lip, as if disgusted, "Now that you’re back, you might as well take over feeding the Gu again. It spares me the trouble."
While saying this, he caught one of his wife’s hands, stuffed the crushed mulberry leaves into the girl’s palm. But at that moment, he suddenly heard the girl grunt in pain. She seemed to be in unbearable pain, her body shivering violently, her complexion turning deathly pale in an instant.
"You...?" Shu Yu’s eyes sharpened, clenching the girl’s wrist, but saw the girl shaking even worse.
She took a deep breath and then strained to squeeze out two words, "Let go!"
Instinctively, Shu Yu loosened his grip, and she quickly withdrew her wrist, then bent over holding her wrist, her face breaking out in cold sweats from the pain.