Chapter 279: Sick? No, it's bad luck!

Gu Liansheng's face flushed red, feeling wronged. "Girls avoid their fathers when they grow up, and sons avoid their mothers when they grow up. I'm a son, not a daughter. How can you expect me to serve you so closely?"

"Who asked you to serve closely? Your mother can walk and move with a cane, it's not like she can't go to the toilet by herself!

As a son, you help empty the urine bucket, change the bedding, and open the windows for ventilation every day. How can you not do these things?"

"I'm a scholar! You actually ask me to empty the urine bucket and change the bedding?!" Gu Liansheng looked annoyed.

"This is a woman's job, how can I do it?!"

These words made Doctor Gu lose the desire to argue with him.

People like Gu Liansheng are selfish. As long as he doesn't want to, it will be useless no matter how much you talk to him.

"I won't say anything else. No one can enter that room. Either get the old lady out, or find someone else to help!"

This was a naked threat, and Doctor Gu did not hide it at all.

Didn’t you say you can’t do these jobs?

Right now, on one side is your mother's life, and on the other side is what you call "woman's work". He wants to see what choice you will make.

Surprisingly, Gu Liansheng did not choose either of these two options. He chose to shift the problem to others.

He looked at his uncle and said, "Tell Si Ya to go back and call the second son. Mom and Dad at home don't belong to me alone. Let him come home and serve... Ouch!!!"

Before he could finish his words, Gu Liansheng was suddenly hit on the back with a stick, and he screamed in pain with his teeth grimacing.

"Who hit me..." He turned around with a fierce look on his face, only to see Patriarch Gu raising his crutch and hitting him again!

Gu Liansheng was furious and anxious, and dodged to the side in panic: "Uncle! What are you doing?!"

"What?" Clan leader Gu glared at him coldly, "In the past hundred years, the Gu family has only produced two inhuman beings: Dad, and you!

Your father won't live long now, so I won't argue with him anymore, but you, this unkind and unfilial person, don't even think about running away! Today, in front of everyone, I will exercise my power as the patriarch and give you a beating first!"

As he spoke, he continued to hit Gu Liansheng with the crutch in his hand.

Gu Liansheng's face turned pale. He dodged and begged for mercy: "Uncle! I was wrong! I was wrong! Please don't hit me. I'll go empty the urine bucket..."

"Let's empty the urine bucket later. First, carry your mother out and put her on the couch in the west room." Doctor Gu suddenly interrupted, wanting to save Feng first.

Patriarch Gu listened to Doctor Gu, put away his crutches temporarily, and told Gu Liansheng in a stern tone to go and hold Feng.

"Go! Hurry and get your mother out!"

Gu Liansheng felt so aggrieved, but he dared not disobey. His back was still burning with pain, and he reminded himself all the time that he could not lose his temper at this moment and had to endure it first!

He suppressed his nausea and entered the east room. He used all his strength to stagger and carry the person out, then sent him to the west room.

Old Master Gu hadn't woken up yet, and Mrs. Feng was also unconscious. The old couple couldn't sleep together right now, so Doctor Gu pointed at the bamboo couch and asked Gu Liansheng to put the person on it.

There was nothing on the bamboo couch except a cold mat. Feng was wearing a thin inner garment and lying on the mat. She soon began to shiver from the cold.

Doctor Gu glared at Gu Liansheng: "What are you still doing standing there? Bring the bedding from your mother's room and spread it on the couch!"

Gu Liansheng had a gloomy face and went to the east room again.

Clan leader Gu said behind him, "Don't move the bedding on your mother's bed. It's probably too dirty to look at. Open the cabinet in the room and bring over a new bedding."

Gu Liansheng paused, feeling extremely reluctant, but still not daring to resist, so he could only obediently go to the east room to open the cabinet.

However, opening the cabinet was not going smoothly.

Ever since she fell ill, Feng has kept her belongings extremely closely guarded.

All the cabinets in her room, no matter how big or small, were locked!

Gu Liansheng was stupid. He didn't think of searching Feng's house for the key. Instead, he found an axe and directly chopped off the lock on the cabinet.

This process took quite a while.

By the time he carried the clean bedding to the west room, Feng had already woken up from the cold.

When Feng woke up, her mouth and eyes were crooked, even worse than before. Her hands and feet were stiff and she couldn't move. She didn't know if it was because of the cold or if she was completely paralyzed this time.

Realizing that something was wrong with her body, Feng became panicked and anxious, her face turned pale. Seeing Doctor Gu beside her, she quickly asked him to treat her.

But when she opened her mouth, Feng was horrified to find that her tongue was stiff and all she could say was: "Wuwuwu..."

At this point, Feng almost understood.

She stared at Doctor Gu with red eyes, her eyes full of pleading for help.

Doctor Gu had noticed that something was wrong with Feng a long time ago, but he didn't dare say it out loud. While helping Gu Liansheng spread the bedding on the bamboo couch, he kept observing Feng's reaction.

The more I watch, the colder I feel.

He spread out the bedding, wrapped Feng in the quilt, and moved a stove in front of the bamboo couch to let the warmth linger around. Then Doctor Gu began to take Feng's pulse.

His fingers felt the beating of the pulse, and soon Doctor Gu's face darkened.

This pulse is very bad!

Everyone saw Feng's reaction just now and understood it to some extent. Except for Gu Liansheng who looked worried, no one else cared much about it.

There was no other reason. Feng was too unkind and didn't interact much with her clansmen. No one cared whether she was good or bad.

Especially Gu Tang, she originally wanted to find an opportunity to "add some ingredients" to Feng so that she could send Feng to meet the ancestors of the Gu family as soon as possible.

At the moment, it seems that she doesn't need to take any action.

"How is it?" Gu Liansheng became more and more anxious as he waited, and couldn't help but ask.

Doctor Gu put Feng's arm back into the quilt, and facing the hopeful gazes of the mother and son, he shook his head and said, "Send her to Bei'an City and see if we can afford to hire a good doctor."

Feng's eyes were blank, and then she started to cry.

"What do you mean by that?!" Gu Liansheng's hands began to tremble. He found it hard to accept Doctor Gu's words.

"I am powerless to treat your mother's illness. Take her to Bei'an City. Don't be reluctant to spend money. Hire a good doctor and see if she can still be saved.

And your father, let's take him to Bei'an City, and find a good doctor to treat him..."

Gu Liansheng's head was buzzing.

Send him to Bei'an City, and spend money to hire a doctor. Just these two items together will cost more than ten taels of silver, and it will not be done!

If you count all the small amounts of silver he has, it would only be three taels at most!

What good can three taels of silver do?

Not to mention anything else, the cost of the medicine alone is more than three taels of silver!

"I'll go home first and get some medicine to help ease your parents' illness. As for whether you go to Bei'an City or not, that's up to you."

After saying this, Doctor Gu put the medicine box on his back and left the Gu family.

After the people left, Patriarch Gu and others also left, obviously not wanting to get involved in this matter.

The third uncle was the last one to fall behind, but he finally softened his heart and told Gu Liansheng the truth.

"Your mother and your father both have silver. Now that your mother can't speak, wait for your father to wake up, just ask him for the silver. Now it's a matter of life and death, I believe your father will not be stingy."

Compared to the cold treatment of others, his third uncle, who was able to say these words to him, still had some feelings for him.

Gu Liansheng pushed the issue further, "Third Uncle! If I take my parents to Bei'an City later, please let the second son go with me!"

Third Uncle couldn't agree to this without permission. He said, "You have to go to Lianshan and talk to him about this in person. I can't be his boss.

When your father wakes up, ask him if he's willing to let Lianshan go with you. If he is, then go talk to Lianshan about it."

Gu Liansheng was extremely dissatisfied with this answer. Even Feng, who was unable to move or speak, became agitated: "Woo! Woo woo woo..."

A series of whimpering sounds, coupled with Feng's eyes full of resentment, anyone who was not blind could see that she had no gratitude at all.

Gu Tang deliberately took two steps closer so that Feng could see her, and then persuaded her third uncle to go back.

"This is someone else's family affair, we can't say much. Grandpa, let's go back. We've been away for so long, my father must be worried sick."

"Okay, let's go back." Feng's reaction made Third Uncle feel that he was meddling in other people's business.

No matter how she glared at him, Third Uncle ignored her and walked out with his crutches.

Gu Tang fell behind last, and while Third Uncle wasn't paying attention, he silently said to Feng: You deserve it!

The word "should" was extremely destructive and successfully angered Feng to the point of seeing stars.

When she came to her senses, she found that Gu Tang had left.

This makes me even more angry!

…

The grandparents were lucky. When they came, there were only a few snowflakes floating in the sky. The same was true when they left. The snowflakes were not big.

When I returned to the yard, the sparse snow quickly became heavier, and soon, it was falling from the sky in dense masses.

In the main room, Gu Lianshan stopped making incense and asked his son to do the job while he helped out.

Seeing the grandfather and grandson come back, Gu Lianshan casually asked how things were, but unexpectedly he learned that Grandpa Gu had also suffered a stroke!

"He's fine, why did the old man over there have a stroke?"

"From what Doctor Gu said, it seems like he drank too much and woke up like this."

Gu Lianshan: ...for drinking?

"You're already buried up to your neck in the dirt, how can you still be so clueless?"

"She said she was happy because her son was getting married again, so she ate more. Oh, and the old lady over there is getting worse. She can't even speak now."

Gu Lianshan: ...

The third uncle told him the reasons why Feng fainted one after another, and also mentioned Doctor Gu's intention to send her to Bei'an City.

"Doctor Gu meant that he couldn't cure the patient and asked them to send him to Bei'an City. Gu Liansheng asked you to go with him, but I didn't dare agree to this and asked him to come and ask you.

Think about this carefully. Gu Liansheng will definitely come to talk to you about it later. If you want to go, then go with me. If you don't want to go, then don't go. Everything at home is up to you."

Gu Lianshan fell silent, put down the basket in his hand, and did not speak for a long time.

Third Uncle didn't force him. He stepped forward, picked up the basket, and called out to Gu Ping'an, who had stopped, to continue.

Gu Tang came up to her father and said, "What's wrong with you? Are you undecided? If you don't want to go but can't let him go, we can give him some money."

"Give him silver? Then he will embezzle all the silver!" Gu Lianshan knew very well what kind of person Gu Liansheng was.

Besides...

"Dad, let me make a bet with you. Your uncle won't send anyone to Bei'an City. He will just continue to play dumb."

“That’s not necessarily true. The clan leader and the elders were all present and heard Doctor Gu say he wanted to send it to Bei’an City.

After the New Year, my uncle will take the imperial examination, and the clan will have to intervene. If he dares not save his parents now, he won't be able to expect the clan to help him next year!"

"Then let's have a bet, father and daughter?"

Gu Tang was in the mood: "Okay! Let's make a bet. But first, what's the bet?"

"I'm betting on the green wine in your hand. If Dad wins, you lose a jar of green wine to Dad."

"What if you lose?"

"I lost? If I lost, I'll lose the money for a jar of wine!"

"make a deal!"

Uncle San glanced over here and shook his head helplessly. The father and daughter were both rogues, actually making a bet on such a thing.

Both father and daughter are very confident in each other and think they can win.

From noon till afternoon, Gu Liansheng still didn't come home.

Now, Gu Tang was no longer calm. No, could it be that her father was right?

During dinner, Gu Lianshan asked Gu Tang to fulfill his bet.

Gu Tang took advantage of the situation and said that it was impossible to get to Bei'an City so quickly in the heavy snow. He would have to borrow an ox cart and find a few more people to help him carry the people.

Gu Lianshan asked her how long she wanted to wait, she couldn't wait forever, if she did that, it would be cheating.

"Three days!" Gu Tang held up three fingers. "After three days, if no one shows up, I'll give you a jar of green wine."

"Okay! Then Dad will wait for three days."

…

It was said to be three days, but in fact, Gu Tang lost on the second day.

Early in the morning, Li Shunzi, who had been driven away before, came again. This time he did not come alone, but with a car full of four middle-aged men.

Gu Lianshan didn't understand what was going on: "You all got up so early, aren't you afraid of the cold?"

"It's cold! How can it not be cold? But there's nothing we can do about it!"

Li Shunzi spoke first and once again begged Gu Lianshan to go with them to pick up his new bride.

"What new wife?" Gu Lianshan looked confused.

"You! I was about to tell you the other day that your brother was going to remarry, and we didn't have enough people in this heavy snow, so I asked you to drive the ox cart with us to deliver the betrothal gifts, and bring the new bride back to marry your brother."

Gu Lianshan's face turned cold. "My old man and old lady are dying. Doctor Gu asked him to send them to Bei'an City to get a doctor. Unexpectedly, he was reluctant to send them away and instead focused on continuing with the wedding!"

Li Shunzi had also heard about this and asked about it when he came, but Gu Liansheng had his own twisted reasoning.

"Your eldest brother said that things have been going badly at home lately, and he's afraid that some bad luck has come into the family. He wants to hold a wedding for my uncle and aunt to bring good luck and get rid of the bad luck. Maybe my illness will be cured..."

Gu Lianshan: ...Talent! He really is a talent!

Gu Tang, who came out of the west wing, heard this and was filled with admiration. She said, "The old man and the old lady's illness is bad luck entering the family, but what about my cousin who fails the imperial examination every year? Is that also bad luck?

If that's the case, it's really strange. Why is this bad luck haunting my cousin's family? There's no family in the whole village that's haunted by this bad luck, but only my cousin's family! This is really rare! "