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Chapter 3 : Medicine Box
The box wasn’t big, it looked very worn out as if it had been dropped many times. The paint had already worn out and looked as if it had been taken out of a garbage dump.
However, just this small broken box made Gu Jiao feel the familiarity in her heart.
Gu Jiao opened the box in a daze, but when she saw the medicine inside, her brain buzzed immediately.
Wasn’t this her medicine chest?!
How could it be here?
“This isn’t a dream, is it?”
Gu Jiao pinched herself and it hurt!
This was not a dream! The box was real, and all the medicinal materials in it were also genuine!
Gu Jiao remembered that the small medicine box was beside her when her plane crashed. Could it be because of this box that she came here too?
It’s just… how did her box become so tattered? Where was its bright golden colour?
In the past, when the small medicine box was still golden, Gu Jiao thought that it was ugly. Now that it has become tattered, Gu Jiao thinks it was even uglier.
However, unable to resist the intimacy that surged from the bottom of her heart, Gu Jiao couldn’t help holding the box tightly in her arms: “Sister doesn’t think you are ugly anymore. Sister will treat you well in the future!”
Gu Jiao broke out a small smile and wiped the box. Fortunately, it was only broken on the outside, and the contents inside were not damaged.
Gu Jiao took a few pieces of gauze and a bottle of iodine from the small medicine box, sterilized the wound, and picked an antibacterial ointment to apply to herself. After taking two anti-inflammatory drugs, she thought she had to bandage the wound but later found out that it was unnecessary.
After dealing with the injury, Gu Jiao was a little hungry. She put the medicine box in the cabinet and planned to go to the kitchen to find something to eat. But before that, she needed to change into clean and dry clothes.
Gu Jiao hesitated, walked through the hall, and knocked on Xiao Liulang’s door.
“What’s the matter?”
Xiao Liulang’s cold voice came from the room.
Gu Jiao said, “I want to borrow your clothes. The outer robes in my cabinet have not been washed. I can’t change into those clothes.”
Xiao Liulang did not respond for a long time, just when Gu Jiao thought he would not lend her clothes, the door opened, and Xiao Liulang handed a dry gown to her.
The material of the gown was not good, and the colour was a bit old, but it was very clean.
If it was in her previous life, Gu Jiao would never wear the clothes of a man, but who made her situation to be like this? If she didn’t wear this, she would have to wear the moldy ones in the cabinet?
After changing clothes, Gu Jiao washed the dirty clothes and then went to the kitchen.
The kitchen was quite clean. Xiao Liulang should have cleaned it up.
The rice jar was empty, but just as Xiao Liulang said, there was half a jar of cornmeal. Not only that, but Gu Jiao also found two eggs and a handful of chives in the cupboard.
Gu Jiao took out the egg, baked two cornmeal omelettes, sprinkled with chopped green onion, and left a little batter, let her cook a small pot of corn gnocchi soup.
Gu Jiao brought the prepared food to the hall.
Xiao Liulang’s door was closed.
In her memory, the two always ate their own food. Xiao Liulang would leave a bowl in the pot for the original owner when he cooked, but the original owner would always go to the Gu family to eat most of the time.
Gu Jiao paused, but still knocked on Xiao Liulang’s door.
“What’s the matter?”
Xiao Liulang’s cold voice came from the room.
Gu Jiao said, “I made dinner, do you want to eat it together?”
Gu Jiao rarely cooks, even if she does, she won’t prepare his share. Therefore, he planned to wait for Gu Jiao to finish her meal before making his own meal. But now…
Xiao Liulang looked at the closed door suspiciously.
“If you don’t eat, I’ll eat first.” Gu Jiao wanted to wait for him to come, but she was so hungry that she felt she’d faint in the next second if she didn’t eat.
She must replenish her strength as soon as possible.
As soon as Gu Jiao sat down before she could take up her chopsticks, the door creaked open.
Xiao Liulang walked out.
Xiao Liulang was not there to eat.
However, when his eyes fell on Gu Jiao inadvertently, he suddenly stopped.
When he gave Gu Jiao his long gown, it was something he could no longer wear, as it was very short for him. But it was still too big for Gu Jiao, and her thin body looked empty in the gown and looked a little awkward.
Mostly for the convenience of her work, she rolled up her hair and sleeves, revealing a white and slender neck, and her wrists were very thin.
Without her previous arrogance, she just sat there quietly, eating the contents of the bowl seriously.
It was not like her anymore.
Xiao Liulang’s eyes paused slightly, but in the end, he moved away indifferently.
At this moment, Gu Jiao spotted him and said to him, “Come on, sit down and eat.”
There was another pair of dishes opposite Gu Jiao. He could see that she didn’t casually call him to eat without making his share. She really made something for Xiao Liulang.
However, Xiao Liulang did not move.
Gu Jiao understood what he was worried about. The original owner had a bad relationship with him. Suddenly cooking him food was suspicious, but Gu Jiao couldn’t explain that she was no longer the same person.
After thinking about it, Gu Jiao said, “There is not much firewood at home. If you don’t eat it now, and the food will go waste and the firewood also be wasted.” She didn’t know if this sentence convinced Xiao Liulang, but Xiao Liulang finally sat down opposite her.
When the original owner first met Xiao Liulang, she was surprised by his appearance, otherwise, she would not pick him up. In the eyes of outsiders, the original owner’s dislike of Xiao Liulang was due to his leg problems, but in Gu Jiao’s opinion, it was not.
The original owner was stupid, but Gu Jiao was not stupid. There were some things that the original owner couldn’t fully understand, but Gu Jiao understood everything after flipping through the memory.
Xiao Liulang deliberately angered the original owner.
He didn’t want to share a house with the original owner, and he did not want the original owner to be close to him.
In fact, she also had the same intention.
Gu Jiao was full quickly, took her bowl and chopsticks to the stove, and carried a basket out.
Xiao Liulang didn’t ask her what she was going to do, and she didn’t say, it had always been the case between them.
Gu Jiao walked to the door and suddenly turned around and said: “I didn’t lie to you just now. The firewood is really almost burned out. While it is not dark, I will go to Hou Mountain to chop some firewood. It may rain in a while. If I don’t come back, you Remember to collect the clothes.”
Xiao Liulang gave her a deep look.
In the past, Gu Jiao would neither notice that the sky has changed nor she would explain where she was going.
After Gu Jiao went out, there was only Xiao Liulang left in the house and the table of food for him.
Their family was poor, Xiao Liulang will never hope to have trouble with food.
He frowned, picked up his chopsticks, and clamped on the piece of scallion egg pancake.
Xiao Rong 
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