Chapter 119: Chapter 65: Draw Blood, Wipe Neck_2
“Kicking someone in the back of the knee, and you expect them not to fall flat on their face? That’d be strange indeed!”
Little Meat Bun has become quite the expert at searching bodies after continuous practice, and before long, he was proudly holding a purse, “Mom, she has silver.”
“That’s my capable boy,” Gu Changsheng said as she took the purse, peered inside, and chuckled, “Oh my, there’s quite a bit here, ten silvers for the consultation fee, the rest we’ll consider as payment for the medicine.”
“Xiao Cui, fetch the Panax Pseudoginseng Hemostatic Powder and the Jade Beauty Muscle Cream from my medicine room and apply it to her wounds.”
Xiao Cui quickly went to get the medicine. Given the woman’s unfriendliness towards Lady Changsheng just now, Xiao Cui’s bandaging technique was anything but pretty.
Gu Changsheng looked at Mu Wanxuan, whose neck was wrapped like a mummy, and shuddered in horror!
Once everything was sorted out, Gu Changsheng then got up to remove the few silver needles that were stuck in her body.
Free from the bindings, Mu Wanxuan gave the woman before her a puzzled look. Gu Changsheng returned it with a contemptuous squint, “What’s the matter? Want to have a go at me again? Waving a broadsword before Guan Yu, you think this is a circus act? The Jade Beauty Muscle Cream is my own product, I guarantee you it won’t leave a single scar.”
Gu Changsheng stroked her chin, circled around her, and said, “However, for the next half month, you’ll probably need a scarf. In this sweltering heat, if you go out with a scarf, people might let their imaginations run wild, tsk tsk…”
Mu Wanxuan raised her hand to touch the bandage around her neck, “Why didn’t you kill me?”
The moment Gu Changsheng made her move, Mu Wanxuan thought to draw her sword in defense, but before she could react, everything was already settled.
The wound on her neck was just a superficial cut, but it was deeply intimidating.
She was considered skilled among the Commandery Prince’s Hidden Guards. This woman’s moves were fast. Brutal. Accurate. How could a common medicinal woman have such agility?
“Kill you? You had hostility towards me, but no intent to kill. Why would I want to kill you?” Gu Changsheng glanced at her and added, “To completely defeat someone, you don’t necessarily have to kill them. Just shatter the belief they are most proud of.”
“Do you still dream of taking my life one day?”
Mu Wanxuan looked down and remained silent.
“Alright then, actually I’m just showing off. It’s cooler that way, isn’t it? Tsk tsk…” Gu Changsheng shrugged her shoulders, feigning indifference.
“Mom, I’m so hungry. It’s time for dinner. Can we stop playing now, please?” Little Meat Bun touched his shrinking belly and spoke with a pitiful voice.
“Oh dear, I totally forgot about that. Xiao Leizi, go and cook!” Gu Changsheng slapped her forehead and ordered Dong Lei.
“Speaking of food, there’s another matter. When you go back, ask Yuan Bao what’s going on with the doubling of the grain price in Liuzhou in three days. I’m struggling to make ends meet here!”
Mu Wanxuan snapped out of her daze, “You shouldn’t be short of grain money.”
It was said that she had extorted quite a lot of silver from the Commandery Prince.
Gu Changsheng scanned her chest dismissively and said, “They say ‘big chest, no brains’, but do you also go out without your brain just because you’re flat-chested?”
“You!” Mu Wanxuan’s face flushed with anger at her words.
“People say ‘food is the most important’, and with Zhou Mu gone, Yuan Bao has been busy building houses for me, and might have missed this detail.”
“When grain prices rise, it’s either due to natural disasters, human calamities, or frequent wars, or someone hoarding grain maliciously. When supply can’t meet demand, the price of grain naturally goes up.” Gu Changsheng dropped this line, grabbed a plate of melon seeds, and holding her son, walked towards the house, “Let Yuan Bao look into it. It’s just Zhou Mu’s rival trying to destabilize his rear. Such a damn shady move, I couldn’t even buy any white rice today, damn it!”
Mu Wanxuan stood still for a moment, thinking. Actually, the last sentence was the key, wasn’t it?
The rest was just Gu Changsheng’s excuse for her own nobility!
Gu Changsheng turned his head and caught the disdainful look in her eyes, scoffed, “Go back to wherever you came from and don’t ever appear within my sight again, else I really might slice your neck, old lady!”
Mu Wanxuan also snorted, as she did not believe that Gu Changsheng would really dare to kill her!
She dares not this time! Even less dare she the next!
Gu Changsheng touched his chin as he watched her figure scale the wall and leave, then slowly shook his head, “Son, fear not the god-like opponents but the pig-like teammates, this saying also makes sense when reversed!”
“Why?” Little Meat Bun asked, puzzled.
“Your mother showed her mercy and she still hasn’t learned her lesson, if she’s not a pig then what is she?”
“Mother, why did you show mercy?”
“Well… she is, after all, raised by an evildoer, and if she were to just kick the bucket at my hands, it would be a bit awkward. Plus, your mother is a doctor, not a butcher!”
“Oh…” Little Meat Bun nodded, looking enlightened.
“Son, let’s pray together that this pig manages to pass on the message.”
“Because if the message doesn’t get through, we won’t have any white rice to cook tomorrow, we all won’t have white rice to cook, and if so many of us don’t have rice to cook, she is likely to suffer extremely…”
“Mother, why don’t you make things clear to them?” Little Meat Bun accused, dissatisfied.
“Ay, my son, I have made it as clear as can be, it’s her own lack of reflection that’s to blame, I absolutely refuse to take the fall for this!”
“Father King, a message from Liuzhou.” A splendidly dressed young man presented an envelope with both hands.
The seated figure accepted the envelope and unfolded it, his eyebrows gradually knitting together after a moment, “To issue the first king’s decree over a woman…”
“Kun’er, do you still remember what Zhou Mu used to look like?”
“Before?” Zhou Kun looked puzzled as he turned towards his father king, “Do you mean before the Eastern Palace fire?”
“From what I remember, he was quite handsome before the fire.”
“Indeed, quite handsome, much resembling the late Imperial Noble Consort Duan Xian, hence deeply favored by Imperial Father…”
“But, after the Eastern Palace fire, his looks were destroyed and he had no choice but to wear a mask to cover his disfigured face, right? Does Father King imply… we should get rid of Changsheng’s mother?”
“No, we have clashed with him multiple times and never came out on top, precisely because he had no weaknesses. Now, he has presented himself with a vulnerability, we not only should not get rid of that woman but must ensure she is kept well and alive…”
“Zhou Mu, that boy’s trick of deceiving the heavens, has really deceived us for so many years. It’s fortunate that Father King is wise, seeing right through him at a glance.” Zhou Kun’s face was full of obsequious flattery.
“Li Mufeng’s divorced woman, Zhou Mu’s new love interest, quite interesting…”