Chapter 122 The second ending continues to torture Gu Shi
Tao Jinrong was stunned for a moment and said:
"It's normal for him to not be able to eat so early in the morning. If he doesn't want to eat, then he doesn't have to. Why are you calling me?"
"Not only did he not eat, he didn't say a word either. He just lay there with his eyes wide open. I don't know who he was angry with."
Jinzhan sighed deeply and continued:
"In short, he's got us all pissed off. A bunch of us are getting anxious because of him. You should go check it out. I know you're annoyed too, but it's better for you to be annoyed alone than for all of us to be annoyed together. No one else can help except you."
"Forget it, forget it, stop nagging me. It's giving me a headache. I'll go take a look..."
Tao Jinrong frowned and dragged himself up from the bed.
As soon as she got up from the bed, Jinzhan put an exquisite coat on her and diligently helped her wash and dress.
As soon as she handed the rouge to Tao Jinrong, she pushed her hand away in disgust and said:
"Just wash up quickly, no need to put on makeup."
"Okay, whatever you want."
Tao Jinrong sighed. Even though she knew that Jinzhan was setting a trap for her, she had no choice but to go along with it. She felt like everyone's heads were tied to her belt, and she felt uncomfortable all over.
When she walked into Gu Shi's bedroom, it was so tidied that it didn't look like her home at all. There were incense burning and curtains hanging. It was completely different from the bare and simple appearance at the beginning. She really couldn't recognize it.
Gu Shi lay on the bed like a corpse, his face and lips as white as paper, his cheeks sunken, staring at the ceiling motionlessly.
A doctor brought in a bowl of porridge, but he didn't even look at it. He just stretched out his hand and spilled the porridge on the ground.
“…”
Seeing him like this, she felt angry. Tao Jinrong did not hide the disgust on his face.
"Gu Shi, if you want to die, go ahead, but please don't die here with me and cause me trouble. Could you please return to the capital and die there first?"
She picked the most worn-out bowl and filled it with half a bowl of porridge. She didn't have the patience to feed him spoonful by spoonful, so she just stuffed the bowl into his mouth and poured the porridge into it.
He seemed to think it was unseemly to spit out what he had eaten, so he forced himself to swallow all the porridge.
The porridge was really hot and it burned his throat. He covered his throat with a handkerchief and started coughing.
"Please get out of here with all these people. You're not welcome here. Besides, the conditions here are shabby, you're definitely not going to get used to it."
“…”
Gu Shi didn't say anything, just covered his mouth with a handkerchief and kept coughing.
Unable to bear it any longer, she grabbed his hair, forced him to look up, and said:
"Get out of here! Do you hear me?"
"don't want……"
His voice was unusually hoarse and weak. Tao Jinrong was momentarily distracted and had to let go of her hand. Even if she had a personal grudge, she had no interest in beating a dying patient.
"Come with me..."
He placed his hands on her back and leaned his head towards her.
This action shattered the last bit of compassion in Tao Jinrong's heart. She grabbed his neck and pressed him on the bed.
"Don't touch me!"
He lay on the bed without any resistance. She felt that even if she tried to strangle him to death right now, he would not move at all. At most, he would make one or two mournful sounds from his throat from time to time in an attempt to awaken her conscience.
I really don't know if he really doesn't have the strength to struggle, or if he simply doesn't want to resist.
No matter which one it was, it made her feel a little disgusted, so Tao Jinrong finally let go of her hand.
"I came to see you today, so don't make trouble for me. If you are told to take medicine, take it. If you are told to eat, eat. If you can move again, get out of here."
She walked out in disgust, closed the door, turned around and went to find Qingye.
"Qingye, the conditions here are poor and not particularly clean. I'm afraid living here won't be conducive to his recovery. You should quickly find a way to take him away. He's already burned out, so don't worry about whether he's willing or not."
Tao Jinrong felt that what he said was true. Gu Shi had indeed lost his self-esteem due to his weakness, and only had the most basic instincts left.
Even though he was so sick, he didn't care about being embarrassed or not. He just grabbed her and started talking nonsense. It was really a joke to watch.
"It's okay. I've already had people clean the entire house. His Majesty is weak now and can't move around freely. Let's wait until he gets better."
Tao Jinrong was a little annoyed and walked back angrily.
The two doctors stood at the door, feeling perplexed:
"No... I don't know what to call you... We have limited tonic herbs here, mostly rhubarb, ephedra, and other hardy herbs. We've bought all the tonics, but there aren't many. If Your Majesty knocks them over... I'm afraid there won't be much left for tonics."
Tao Jinrong was a little impatient:
"You're talking a lot, what exactly do you want to say?"
"Please make sure His Majesty drinks this bowl of medicine."
The doctor handed the bowl of medicine to her with both hands, and she simply took it generously.
"It's not that difficult. Just press the back of your head, pry open your mouth, and drink it directly."
After hearing this, the two doctors were shocked. They stared at each other, stammered, and couldn't say a word.
Tao Jinrong smiled complacently and walked inside with the medicine.
"Gu Shi, do you want to drink the medicine yourself, or should I pour it down your throat?"
Gu Shi thought of the boiling hot porridge he had just drunk. It tasted very unpleasant and a layer of cold sweat broke out on his forehead in an instant.
He said in a hoarse voice:
“I’ll drink it myself.”
After taking the bowl and hesitating for a few times, Gu Shi didn't drink it.
"Come on, drink it, why don't you drink it?"
"I... am afraid of suffering..."
Tao Jinrong laughed heartily without mercy:
"Hahahahahaha… I'm dying of laughter. A grown man like you're still afraid of hardship… Isn't that shameful? In that case, let me drink it."
"Don't... Lingchuan..."
Before he could make any decent resistance, Tao Jinrong snatched the medicine bowl, pried open his teeth, and poured the black and hot medicine directly into his throat.
“It’s… so painful…”
This time, Gu Shi drank all the medicine without choking, but the bitter taste lingering on the tip of his tongue was really uncomfortable.
"Just bear with it."
Tao Jinrong suddenly saw a thin light flash across the tip of his tongue.
"Gu Shi, what's in your mouth?"
She pressed on him and tried to pry his teeth open. He just let her do it and opened his mouth, revealing a silver tongue stud.
She fiddled with it twice with her fingernails and asked:
"What's this?"
A stinging pain came from the tip of his tongue, and tears welled up in Gu Shi's dry eyes.
"Tongue stud."
"Oh...it seems like the entire tongue was pierced. This must be very painful."
"Yeah, it hurts."
She looked at him with disgust and said:
"You're such a freak."
Gu Shi smiled weakly, took her hand and kissed it gently.
But she pulled her hand back suddenly as if she had touched something dirty.
"You should take your people and leave quickly. The conditions here are poor, and there is a lack of medical care and medicine. I'm afraid it will not be conducive to your recovery."
"You come with me."
"I don't want to."
"Where is Qin Sizhao?"
"A friend of his told him there was a rare medicinal herb in a distant place. He was very interested and set off with his friend."
"Tsk... We didn't even know if he was dead or alive during this whole journey, so why were you guarding him? He doesn't care about you anyway and ran away on his own, so why can't you just come with me?"
Hearing this news, Gu Shi couldn't suppress the smile on his face, but he could also taste a hint of weirdness in his happiness.
How could Qin Sizhao run so far for a herb and leave her alone at home?
But if that were true, that would be great. He didn't want the news to be false.
"I just don't want to go with you. It doesn't matter whether he's there or not. I'll leave you with or without him."
Gu Shi covered his chest and coughed violently a few times. Her words were really heartbreaking.
"Lingchuan...I...I know I've let you down. I won't do that again. Can't you forgive me?"
He raised his head and shuddered at the coldness in her smile.
"Even if I don't hate you, I won't like you. We are strangers with no relationship at all."
"Tao Jinrong, do you really want me to die?"
A tear flowed from the corner of his eye.
"I'm telling you, there's no way we could be strangers with no connection to each other. There's no way."
She turned her face away and snorted coldly:
"It's up to you, you can think so, but the fact doesn't change. We are strangers."
"No, if you don't come with me, I will die here with you! I'm serious!"
He held her thin, slender hand tightly with both of his.
"Didn't you just finish the audition? Even if you wanted to die, I'm afraid your three palaces and six courtyards wouldn't agree. I think you got sick because your three legs were so busy that they drained your kidneys."
"You're talking nonsense! You're wrongly accusing me! Cough cough... cough..."
Hearing Gu Shi coughing violently, the doctor hurried in to massage his acupoints.
"This... young lady... His Majesty's current physical condition cannot withstand such drastic emotional fluctuations. Please do not stimulate him."
Tao Jinrong rolled his eyes and snorted.
"Useless things..."
Gu Shi turned her back and huddled in the quilt, sobbing softly. She lifted the quilt and said:
"You're a grown man, crying like this in front of others, aren't you ashamed?"
The doctor urgently dissuaded her:
"My lady, His Majesty's health is the most important thing right now. Let's talk about it later... Just think of it as a gesture of kindness, to comfort him."
Tao Jinrong was so confused that he turned around and left.
"Don't go... Lingchuan... don't go..."
"Didn't you say that if I stayed here and stimulated you, it would be detrimental to your recovery?"
"No...no...please...stay here with me."
Tao Jinrong rolled his eyes. What was the difference between him and a dog?
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