GSPW Chapter 6

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Chapter 6

Gu Jiao bent over, picked up the crutches on the ground with her left hand, walked to Xiao Liulang and handed it to him.

Xiao Liulang slowly took the crutches and stood up and then he went to carry the bucket that fell on the ground.

“You go.” Gu Jiao said to Gu Xiaoshun.

“Oh.” Gu Xiaoshun walked over, and Xiao Liulang took a step before lifting the bucket.

“Go fetch water.” Gu Jiao instructed while lloking at Gu Xiaoshun.

“Go fetch water!” Gu Xiaoshun said to one of his lackies.

That lacky’s mouth twitched as he grabbed the bucket to fetch water.

Xiao Liulang walked back blankly without saying a word during the whole process.

After he walked away, Gu Xiaoshun said again: “Sister, what’s the matter? You don’t hate him anymore? And sister, how did you become so strong? What kind of trick was that just now? Try it again! I want to see if I can dodge it this time!”

Gu Jiao threw him a sharp glance.

Seeing that, Gu Xiaoshun shut up.

“Boss! I brought the water!” The lackey walked over with a bucket full of water.

“Do you ant me to carry it from here…cough.” Under Gu Jiao’s oppressive eyes, Gu Xiaoshun took the bucket, “Okay, give it to me, you all go away!”

“Boss, we will wait in the neighbouring village, remember there’s a fight…”

“What do you mean by fight! Get lost! Get lost of me!”

The lackeys dispersed.

Gu Xiaoshun smiled and looked at Gu Jiao: “Sister, don’t be angry. Since you don’t hate brother-in-law, I won’t bully him anymore.”

“Do you often bully him?” Gu Jiao asked.

Gu Xiaoshun scratched his head: “Well…not often. Just three or four times a month, four or five times? Five, six, seven or eight times?”

As he talked, Gu Xiaoshun’s voice became quieter and quitter towards the end. He had a bad memory and didn’t know how many times he had bullied Xiao Liulang.

“Go back.” Gu Jiao said.

“Ok” Gu Xiaoshun smiled, and followed Gu Jiao with the bucket.

Suddenly, he paused, and his eyes fell on Gu Jiao’s stiff right arm: “Sister, did your hand hurt?”

“It’s okay,” Gu Jiao said.

“What do you mean by ‘It’s okay’ ?! You are bleeding!” Gu Xiaoshun lowered the bucket and grabbed Gu Jiao by her arm and rolled her sleeves up to see a blood-red right wrist, “You didn’t hit me with a stick?”

“Hey, it’s okay.” Gu Jiao withdrew her hand.

“And what’s wrong with your head?”

“Knocked while falling into the water.” The wound was well hidden behind her hair. Why was this kid’s eyes so poisonous?

Gu Xiaoshun said again, “You fell into the water? When did it happen?”

Gu Jiao left without looking back.

“Hey! Sister! Sister! Wait for me!”

When Gu Xiaoshun followed Gu Jiao back home, he suddenly found a young scholarstanding at the door of the house. The other party was wearing a long robe. He seemed gentle and elegant, but also seemed a little arrogant.

“Who are you? What are you doing at my sister’s house?” Gu Xiaoshun asked as he crossed his arms.

The other party didn’t even look at Gu Xiaoshun, but gave Gu Jiao a cold look: “You made people bully Brother Xiao again, didn’t you? You wicked woman!”

“You dare to scold my sister?” Gu Xiaoshun put down the bucket and whipped up his fists and shouted at the man.

Just because he’s only thirteen, one couldn’t underestimate him. He is really capable of fighting, otherwise he wouldn’t be the No. 1 Bully in the surrounding villages.

A weak scholar could not be his opponent at all.

“Xiaoshun.” Gu Jiao stopped him.

At almost the same moment, Xiao Liulang also changed his clothes and came out of the house.

“My classmate.” Xiao Liulang introduced the scholar to Gu Jiao and her brother.

The classmate hummed disdainfully. He walked over to support Xiao Liulang, and took over the heavy luggage in his hand and said, “Let’s go!”

Seeing that Xiao Liulang had a big luggage, Gu Xiaoshun was stunned: “Where are you going?”

It couldn’t be that he was planning to leave since he was beaten up, right?

The classmate didn’t want to talk to Gu Xiaoshun.

Gu Jiao didn’t ask much, just walked into the room silently.

When she passed by Xiao Liulang, he glanced at her slightly stiff right hand.

Gu Jiao wrapped her hands in her sleeves, so he could not see the blood from her wrists.

But when she went, she suddenly heard Xiao Liulang’s somewhat cold voice behind her: “I’m going to town.”

“To heal your legs?” Gu Jiao asked subconsciously.

Somehow, Gu Jiao thought of that dream. She didn’t really believe it, but…

“Are you going to take an exam in three days?” Gu Jiao looked at him.

Xiao Liulang was astonished, but he nodded: “…yeah.”

The classmate said in an angry manner: “Why are you telling her about it? What if she stops you from going? Did you forget that you missed the exam last time because of her?! And your legs… if she didn’t keep you home and didn’t let you leave,you wouldn’t have missed Dr. Zhang’s treament !”

Gu Jiao turned to look at Gu Xiaoshun.

She didn’t remember these things.

Gu Xiaoshun scratched his nose and said, “Why are you shouting? Why do you think my sister stopped him? My sister was sick at that time. He’s her husband… Should he just leave my sister like that?”

At the mention of this, Gu Jiao remembered that the original owner did indeed get sick soon after they got married. But she was not really sick, but pretending to be sick. Because someone told her that Xiao Liulang would not come back when he left, and she would become a little widow just like Xue Ningxiang.

She didn’t want to be a little widow, so she locked up Xiao Liulang.

She didn’t know that Xiao Liulang missed the exam six months ago and the only chance to treat his legs because of this.

Gu Jiao looked at Xiao Liulang’s legs: “Well, actually…”

“Brother Xiao, let’s go! The carriage is still waiting at the entrance of the village!” The classmate interrupted Gu Jiao and pulled Xiao Liulang and walked towards the entrance of the village.

“I want to eat sweet-scented osmanthus cake!” Gu Jiao suddenly said looking at Xiao Liulang, “Li Ji’s sweet-scented osmanthus cake! I will eat it only if you personally buy it for me! If you don’t, I won’t let you in! I’ll also take all your books and burn them!”

“Evil woman!” The classmate gritted his teeth and helped Xiao Liulang to sit on an old carriage at the entrance of the village, “Brother Xiao, don’t listen to her! Li Ji is a famous shop. How hard to buy sweet-scented osmanthus cakes! When you finish buying, Dr. Zhang would be gone! He is a doctor from the capital, he is better than the doctor in town, only he can heal your legs, you must not be dragged down by that wicked woman! “

“Eler sister, you are so domineering! I’m so proud of you!” Gu Xiaoshun gave Gu Jiao a thumbs up.

Gu Jiao facepalmed, “Do you know where the market is?”

Gu Xiaoshun nodded: “Yes, sister, what are you asking for? Are you going to the market? What are you going to do?”

“Sell chicken.”

“Chicken? Sister, you are going to sell chicken? Where did the chicken come from?”

“Wild chicken” She didn’t say that it was the medical fee that she forcefully took.

Gu Xiaoshun took it for granted that his sister had caught the chiken heself and said, “Sister,  you have changed and become better than before!”

He didn’t say that she was stupid before.Just that she was better than before. In Gu Xiaoshun’s heart, he never regarded the original owner as a fool.

Gu Xiaoshun told her the diections to the market. Both the market and the hospital are in the town, but one is in the west and the other is in the east.

Gu Xiaoshun insisted on going with her, but Gu Jiao refused.

The Gu family didn’t like that Gu Xiaoshun and Gu Jiao were too close, saying that Gu Jiao was stupid and would make him stupid too.

Gu Jiao went back to the house and opened the small medicine box, cleaned up the wound with iodine, and applied some antibacterial ointment.

Just at that time, her stomach rumbled. She was very hungry.

Gu Jiao went to the kitchen.

T/N: I don’t know why the author ended the chapter here… And checkout another novel that I’m translating: Reborn in 90’s: The Salted-Fish Heroine Quit Her Job

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