Chapter 380: Shelter

Gu Qianyue was working on Chinese herbs in the house. He heard the faint cry of a child outside the door. A flash of surprise flashed across his eyes. "Why is there a child crying?"

He put down the tools in his hands, stood up, and followed the sound to the door.

When he opened the door, a woman slowly fell towards him. He quickly reached out to support her and saw that the woman was holding a child in her arms.

"Comrade, comrade, wake up." Gu Qianyue reached out and patted Xu Xiaoqing gently, but she didn't respond.

His eyes fell on Xu Xiaoqing's pale face. Seeing her complexion, he knew that she was sick. He reached out and touched her forehead. Feeling the scalding temperature, Gu Qianyue frowned.

Turning his head to look at the child in Xu Xiaoqing's arms, he stretched out his hand to take the child from Xu Xiaoqing's arms first, but found that Xu Xiaoqing held the child tightly and refused to let go.

"Comrade, I'm not a bad person, I'm a doctor, you give the child to me first, I'll carry her into the house, and then help you." Gu Qianyue said softly to Xu Xiaoqing.

Xu Xiaoqing seemed to feel Gu Qianyue's kindness and gradually loosened her strength.

Gu Qianyue took the child, supported Xu Xiaoqing, and let her lean on the doorstep for a while.

After carrying the child into the house, Gu Qianyue came out again and helped Xu Xiaoqing into the house. When

Xu Xiaoqing woke up again, it was already the next morning.

She opened her eyes and found herself in a strange place. She was startled and sat up quickly. She looked around for her child. She breathed a sigh of relief when she saw her daughter lying beside her, sleeping soundly.

She lay back on the bed weakly.

"Where am I..." She looked around and carefully recalled what happened yesterday, but her mind was fuzzy. She only remembered that she was driven out by Wang Guohua's second sister-in-law. She had nowhere to go and could only walk aimlessly on the street with her daughter in her arms. Then it started to rain, and she didn't remember anything after that.

The door creaked open.

Xu Xiaoqing looked in the direction of the sound and saw a middle-aged man with an elegant appearance walking in with a bowl of medicine.

Gu Qianyue saw Xu Xiaoqing wake up, smiled slightly, and walked towards her, "I found you sitting in front of my door yesterday, so I helped you in. Do you feel better now?"

Xu Xiaoqing nodded, "Much better... Thank you..." She also remembered that she vaguely heard a voice in a coma yesterday. The voice was very gentle, which made her feel at ease.

Gu Qianyue smiled and shook his head, and put the medicine in his hand on the table beside him, "This medicine has just been boiled. Can you get up and drink it now?"

"Sure..." Xu Xiaoqing slowly propped up her body and sat up. After a night's rest, her body has recovered a lot. Although she is still a little weak, there is no problem sitting up.

Gu Qianyue handed the medicine to Xu Xiaoqing.

Xu Xiaoqing took the bowl and drank the whole bowl of medicine in one breath, "Thank you!"

She handed the bowl back to Gu Qianyue.

Gu Qianyue took the bowl, "Do you want me to contact your family for you?" She was still in confinement, and she brought her child out. She must have had a quarrel with her family.

"I... I don't have any family..." Xu Xiaoqing's face was full of bitterness. Not only did she have no family, she also had no home to return to.

"How can you have no family?" Gu Qianyue was a little unconvinced.

Xu Xiaoqing bit her lip and spoke slowly: "My husband and mother-in-law are both in jail, and their family drove me and my daughter out."

She hesitated for a moment, and looked at Gu Qianyue with gritted teeth, "Brother, can you take me in for a while? When I'm out of confinement, I can go to work. Then I will definitely pay you back all the money I spent these days." She really had no other choice, so she asked a stranger for help.

Of course, it was also because she could see that the other party was a good person.

Hearing Xu Xiaoqing's words, Gu Qianyue hesitated, "But it's not convenient for you, a woman, to live with me." He didn't care, but he was afraid of ruining the other party's reputation.

"Brother, please, I really have nowhere to go." Xu Xiaoqing looked at Gu Qianyue pleadingly. She knew that she was being shameless, but if she left here, she and her child would die.

Gu Qianyue hesitated for a moment, "Okay, then you can live here first." When Yaoyao came, he would ask her if she could find a place for them to live.

"Thank you, brother! Thank you, brother!" Xu Xiaoqing thanked Gu Qianyue gratefully.

Gu Qianyue waved his hand, "You can rest first."

On Sunday, after Ling Yao saw Ling Xuemei, she went to Gu Qianyue's place as it was still early.

She knocked on the door, and when Gu Qianyue opened the door, she handed the cakes she bought to Gu Qianyue, "Master! This is the sweet-scented osmanthus cake I bought for you at Daoxiang Village, please try it."

"Why are you spending money again? Master is not an outsider, don't bring food to Master every time you come." Gu Qianyue took the cakes with a smile, and walked into the house with Ling Yao.

"Master! Do you have someone else here?" Ling Yao heard the voice of a child in the room and asked Gu Qianyue in surprise.

Gu Qianyue nodded. "It was raining that day. I met a mother and daughter at the door. The child had just been born, and the mother was still in confinement and was sick. They had no home to return to, so I let them stay here first. Yaoyao, do you have an empty house? A small one that can accommodate people will do." It was really inconvenient for a grown man like him to live with a woman with a child.

"Not yet, I'll ask someone." Ling Yao did have a few courtyard houses, but those were three- and five-entry courtyard houses, and they were all being renovated. She planned to wait for those courtyard houses to appreciate in value and sell them when the time was right. In the future, the price of a courtyard house would be at least hundreds of millions.

Gu Qianyue nodded, "Have you finished reading the medical books I gave you last time?"

"I've almost finished."

"I have a few more here, you can take them back and read them later."

"Okay."

Ling Yao chatted with Gu Qianyue for a while and was about to leave when a familiar voice came from outside, "Brother Gu, it's time to eat."

Gu Qianyue frowned slightly and stood up, "You sit for a while, I'll go out and take a look." Xu Xiaoqing has been cooking these days. He has told her several times not to move and lie down to recuperate, but she just wouldn't listen and insisted on washing his clothes and cooking for him. He was really helpless.

Seeing Gu Qianyue coming out, Xu Xiaoqing smiled, "Brother Gu, does your apprentice want to eat here? I made an extra dish today." She didn't know how to repay Gu Qianyue for taking her in, so she could only help him do what she could.