Gu Qinghua also realized that what he said was a slap in the face and he was too embarrassed to stay there any longer.

He snorted coldly and turned to walk out the door, leaving behind a cruel remark, "If I come to you again in the future, I'll be a dog."

Shen Ruyi watched the dog walk out without trying to stop it.

"What good will it do you if you make Qinghua angry? From now on, you will have to rely on the Gu family for the rest of your life." Shen Ci looked at Shen Ruyi with a complicated expression.

"Don't worry about my future, second brother. You should go see Shen Jiaojiao first. After all, you said that she was in excruciating pain." Shen Ruyi said in a cold tone.

Shen Ci had a complicated expression on his face. After a long while, he gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, then you should go to bed early."

Shen Ruyi watched him leave and said, "Second brother, don't forget to return the prescription you took from me. I need to take the prescription and go and apologize to the person."

Shen Ci had already arrived in the yard, but he didn't expect her to bring this up again. He turned around in anger.

Shen Ruyi seemed not to notice that he was already angry, and said seriously: "After all, after this confinement, I understand my father's good intentions. I will learn to be a good person in the future and don't want to be a petty thief anymore."

"Please help me, second brother."

After saying that, he bowed deeply.

Shen Ci turned his head and stared at her, clenching his fists in anger.

He didn't leave, so Shen Ruyi just hunched over and didn't get up.

"All the previous prescriptions have been handed over to the Imperial Medical Bureau. It's impossible to get them back." Shen Ci was so angry that he turned around and left.

"Then don't blame me for going to the Imperial Hospital to ask for it." Shen Ruyi stood up and called him loudly, "I think the Imperial Hospital is the royal hospital. The emperor's grace is great, and he shouldn't take things from the common people for no reason. Even if he wants it, the credit should be attributed to the owner of the prescription."

“You dare!”

Shen Ci's defense was completely broken. He turned his head and stared at her with trembling pupils.

Shen Ruyi did not dodge, staring at him straight, and said word by word: "One cannot use stolen things to flatter oneself. I will also listen to my father, correct my mistakes, return the things to others and apologize."

"Shouldn't Second Brother praise me?"

“…”

Shen Ci clenched his fists, feeling an indescribable shame rising in his heart.

Finally, he managed to utter, "Shen Ruyi, if I want you to speak up again, I will write the word Shen backwards!"

After saying this, he turned and walked out.

Then, he pretended to stomp on the ground and walked back, waiting for Shen Ruyi to catch up with him and apologize as usual, and coax him to change his mind.

Shen Ruyi walked forward, closed the door and locked it.

Shen Ci turned his head and looked at the closed door in shock.

She didn't chase him out?!

In the past, whenever he turned around and walked away, Shen Ruyi would chase him and keep pestering him until he said he was no longer angry, and then she would leave.

This time, not only did she close the door impatiently, she also locked it?

Shen Ci just felt that the anger exploded in his chest.

Shen Ruyi turned off the lights and went to bed.

This time, even the windows were dark.

"If I say she's not possessed by a ghost, do you believe it?"

Shen Ci was embarrassed and turned to look at Gu Qinghua with a dark face.

Gu Qinghua was also very angry, but he was worried about Shen Jiaojiao, so he said, "She is so confusing, but what should we do now? She can't come up with a prescription, and Jiaojiao is in so much pain, she must be treated."

You can't really steal it, right?

The two of them pondered for a while on the snow, and finally Shen Ci broke the bottom line and said, "Since we already have the address, why don't we go and give it a try?"

"OK!"

Gu Qinghua nodded, and the two of them discussed and went to West Lane on the outskirts of the city.

Shen Ruyi listened to the footsteps going away and laughed coldly.

She had seen the old beggar take action.

Under siege from more than a dozen masters, he defeated the enemy with one move, and the opponent didn't even know how he died.

Just the two of them?

Shen Ruyi turned over and fell asleep.

Gu Qinghua and Shen Ci acted stealthily, parked the carriage outside the alley, and then sneaked into the old beggar's yard in the dark.

After seeing that there was no light inside, the two men went straight into the house, talking in low voices.

"This is the only room that has heat. If there is a cure, it must be in this room."

"Brother Gu, you go in through the window, and I'll go in through the front door."

Shen Ci made all the arrangements and drew his sword.

Gu Qinghua also took out his weapon and used the tip of the knife to pry the door open.

"It's done!"

The two looked at each other and rushed into the house.

The room was pitch black. Before Gu Qinghua could figure out where the prescription was placed, he was suddenly grabbed by the collar and slapped in the face.

Then, he was thrown out of the yard.

"Brother Qinghua——"

Shen Ci only saw two shadows, heard a crackling sound, and then saw a figure flying out.

Before he could react, he was picked up and slapped on the face dozens of times. Only then did he realize that Gu Qinghua was spanked by the owner of the house.

“You—Ah!”

Without asking a single question, the man flew out.

When he landed on the ground, he was so dizzy that his bones were almost broken.

If there wasn't a chicken coop underneath to support them, both of them would probably have been injured.

"You are so young and you have learned to be a thief! If it weren't for the fact that one of you is the son of the Prime Minister and the other is the son of the Minister of Rites, I would beat you so hard that your own mother wouldn't recognize you!"

There was a sneer in the yard, which not only scolded him, but also scolded their fathers.

"roll!"

A loud shout, mixed with powerful internal energy, came out through the door.

Shen Ci and Gu Qinghua reacted and were so scared that they ran away, crawling away.

It was not until he got on the carriage that Gu Qinghua said with a look of fear: "Aren't all the people living here beggars? How can their martial arts be so strong?"

Shen Ci's face was burning and covered with chicken shit. He said in a stinky voice, "Not only is his martial arts very strong, but he was able to recognize us in the dark. This person is not ordinary. We can't come here again!"

"What about Jiaojiao?" Gu Qinghua's face was swollen like a pig's head, but he was still thinking about Shen Jiaojiao.

Shen Ci frowned and gritted his teeth, "I can only go find Ruyi."

"She has no martial arts skills. Her mediocre skills can't even beat a dog. But she got so many prescriptions, which proves that the old beggar likes her and is willing to give them to her!"

“…”

Gu Qinghua felt uncomfortable hearing this.

I thought to myself, how could she have deserved this!

…

The room became warm with the charcoal fire.

Shen Ruyi had a rare good sleep.

Early the next morning.

The maid Cuiyu came in and stammered to test her, "Miss, last night, the Second Young Master and Young Master Gu were injured. Did you hear about it?"

This was something Shen Ruyi had expected a long time ago.

But Shen Ruyi had not had the chance to settle accounts with her for the perjury a few days ago.

Seeing her come in, he turned around and said, "I haven't heard of it, but I did hear that you testified to Shen Jiaojiao that I pushed her off the rockery?"

Cuiyu's eyes flashed and she was about to find an excuse.

Shen Ruyi changed the subject and said, "Today, you are asking on behalf of Shen Jiaojiao, right? Tell her, I know."

"Miss, you——" Cui Yu was stunned.

The last time she testified for Shen Jiaojiao and said that Shen Ruyi pushed Shen Jiaojiao off the rockery, Shen Ruyi fought desperately to refute it and refused to admit it.

But I didn't expect that this time...

"Isn't this the result Shen Jiaojiao wants to hear?" Shen Ruyi sneered, "Go back and tell her that you can stay with her and don't have to come back."

Cuiyu's face turned pale.

Shen Jiaojiao asked her to testify, and she agreed to Shen Jiaojiao because she felt that Shen Jiaojiao was favored by everyone in the Prime Minister's Mansion, so it would not be wrong for her to please Shen Jiaojiao.

But this is another matter than Shen Jiaojiao taking her in.

If Shen Jiaojiao kept her, wouldn't it be tantamount to admitting that she had betrayed Shen Ruyi a long time ago?

Besides, Shen Jiaojiao was surrounded by maids and servants arranged by the prime minister himself, who were there to help her learn the etiquette of a lady from a noble family. The place was already full and there was no room for her.

Cui Yu came back to her senses and knelt down hurriedly: "Miss, you can't chase me away!"

"I am a maid in the Prime Minister's Mansion. I don't belong to you alone. You can't make the decision."

"If you drive this servant away, the Prime Minister will think that you are petty and that's why you drove this servant out of the mansion for testifying for the Second Young Lady!"

"That would be bad for you."

Although she was kneeling, Cuiyu still spoke clearly and even powerfully.