Gu Zeyin had no more intention of distributing porridge. She hastily distributed the last bit of porridge, ordered people to dismantle the porridge shed, and prepared to go back.
As she left, she noticed a bowl of porridge on the table that had long since gone cold. This porridge was specially served to Su Qingcai, but although Su Qingcai accepted it, he didn't touch it at all.
The full bowl of porridge seemed to mock Gu Zeyin's unrequited love. Gu Zeyin turned pale, let out a sob, and ran home.
Upon returning to the Gu residence, Gu Zeyin went to her father and threw herself into his arms, weeping bitterly:
"Father, I've never liked anyone this much before. I don't care about saving face anymore, I just want to be with him! I thought maybe I could move him, but now I realize I was so wrong! Father, he cares so much about Su Xiaoning, I suspect they're not even siblings..."
Su Qingcai's gaze towards Su Xiaoning was so tender; though he remained composed, the occasional hints of concern he showed were impossible to conceal. Gu Zeyin had deliberately ignored these expressions before, but today, when Su Qingcai disregarded her feelings and went to see Su Xiaoning, she finally broke down.
Gu Zeyin cried so hard that it broke her father's heart.
Father Gu patted Gu Zeyin's back gently, comforting her, "My dear daughter, you're so outstanding, how could any man not like you? Don't worry, maybe he's just playing hard to get. As for him and his 'sister'... you don't need to worry about whether they're siblings or not, Dad has a way to keep him here."
"Is what Father said true?" Gu Zeyin raised her head and looked at her father pitifully with her swollen eyes from crying.
"Of course, when has your father ever lied to you?" Gu's father assured Gu Zeyin with certainty, his plan becoming increasingly mature.
...
On the other side, Su Xiaoning unexpectedly encountered Su Qingcai on her way back.
She was just about to greet Su Qingcai when she saw him suddenly rush over and pull her into his arms, his anxious voice echoing in her ears.
"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry... I won't be so foolish as to test you again..."
Su Xiaoning was stunned. She didn't know what was wrong with Su Qingcai, and for a moment she didn't dare to push him away.
Su Qingcai was lost in her own thoughts, still rambling on and on.
"This morning I really didn't want to talk to Gu Zeyin. I was afraid you would be angry, but who knew she didn't care at all. She even said she wanted to go with her to distribute porridge. You made things difficult for me, so I got angry and didn't refuse the bowl of porridge that Gu Zeyin offered me..."
"Don't worry, this will never happen again. It's all my fault for testing you. We trust each other, so there's no need for testing. Please don't run around like that anymore, and don't make me worry, okay?"
...
Su Qingcai, unlike his usual self, became quite talkative. He directly confessed his feelings to Su Xiaoning, making her blush and feel her heart pounding in her chest as if it were about to explode.
Knowing that Su Qingcai had misunderstood, Su Xiaoning suddenly didn't want to explain. She hugged Su Qingcai back and whispered, "Okay, I understand."
The two embraced tightly, just like any ordinary couple in the world.
After hugging for an unknown amount of time, Su Xiaoning felt unbearably hot and had no choice but to push Su Qingcai away, whispering, "Let's go back to the Gu residence first. I have some questions that I need to ask Bai Hua to confirm."
The strange smell on the food was so bizarre that she had to ask Baihua for help.
Although Su Qingcai didn't know what Su Xiaoning wanted to verify, he trusted her completely, so he didn't say much and returned to the Gu residence with Su Xiaoning.
Upon returning to the Gu residence, Su Xiaoning immediately went to find Bai Hua. When she opened the room where the men were staying, she was shocked.
Bai Hua lay unconscious on the ground, with Ding Yi, Bing Er, and the others also collapsing beside him. Their eyes were tightly closed, their faces deathly pale, and they could not be roused no matter how hard they tried.
Su Xiaoning was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan. She had no medical skills and didn't know what was wrong with these people. She could only rummage through her belongings, trying to find Bai Hua's medical knowledge so that she could treat them.
Good luck really makes a difference; Su Xiaoning actually found the medical book that Bai Hua had hidden at the bottom of the box.
Su Xiaoning opened the medical book, only to find the text as if it were written in a foreign language, leaving her with only a vague understanding. "This... although I can barely figure out what to do, I don't understand acupoints, and I might not know how to use the right amount of force..."
Seeing her troubled expression, Su Qingcai quickly said, "I know the basic acupoints. Just tell me the method, and I will do as you say."
With no other options at the moment, Su Xiaoning decided to take a desperate gamble and agreed to Su Qingcai's suggestion.
The two carried Bai Hua and the others from the ground to the bed. Su Xiaoning then explained the method, while Su Qingcai stimulated the acupoints. Although the awakening process was extremely dangerous, Su Xiaoning was lucky and diligent enough to explain the correct method, and Bai Hua's expression gradually calmed down.
With a few gasps, Bai Hua finally slowly opened her eyes.
His face was filled with the relief of surviving a disaster. He was panting heavily when he inadvertently saw the medical book in Su Xiaoning's hand and immediately understood how he had been saved.
"It seems I wasn't wrong about you after all. Besides cooking, you're also a medical prodigy. You should have come to me to learn medicine when I came to the Cao Gang to find you last time. If it weren't for that bastard Su Qingcai causing trouble..."
"What did you say?"
Su Qingcai glared at Bai Hua, his gaze so terrifying that Bai Hua was forced to shut up.
Su Xiaoning chuckled twice, avoiding the question about studying medicine, and asked with a frown, "What exactly happened to you all? You shouldn't have been affected by this."
“I’ve been thinking about this too.” Bai Hua stroked his chin, quickly going through everything he had done in the past two days, when suddenly a thought flashed through his mind and he realized what it meant.
“I know! Didn’t you tell us not to eat the food because it smelled strange? I ate it then because the test showed it was non-toxic. Now all of us who ate the food have gotten sick, except for the two of you! That’s really strange. The test showed it was non-toxic, so how could this happen…”
Upon hearing Bai Hua's words, Su Xiaoning also remembered why she had come to find him in the first place.
Remembering the bowl of porridge that smelled strange, she frowned and asked, "When you came to the Gu residence, did you notice anything amiss?"
"Something's not right? Let me think... Do you remember those flowers planted at the Gu residence? I felt something was off when I first saw them, but I couldn't just pick them in front of them..."
"You mean this?"
As Su Xiaoning spoke, she took out a few dried flowers from her bosom.
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