Zhu Chumo returned quickly, but he only came to take a look and left. He had no intention of treating Ye Ling'er's wounds. He was only responsible for detoxifying her and did not want to interfere with anything else.
"Should the Fourth Young Master Zhu go outside and invite a doctor to examine her?" the old woman tentatively inquired.
Zhu Chumo said, "No need. There's a perfectly good doctor right here. Why waste money hiring another one?" With that, he left.
Ye Ling'er's eyes dimmed. She had thought that Young Master Zhu would treat her injuries personally, but she didn't expect him to just throw her to this silly boy who had no medical skills.
Wu Fu diligently came over every day to change Ye Ling'er's dressings and treat her wounds, clearly using Ye Ling'er as a practice subject.
The wounds on his back and feet were easy to treat, but the wounds on his face were more troublesome. Wu Fu was trying his best to prepare medicine that could remove scars, but with his current abilities, he could only slightly fade them, and it was impossible to completely remove the scars.
Even ordinary doctors can't do this. Only highly skilled medical professionals like Zhu Chumo can develop a plaster that can completely eliminate scars and restore their original appearance.
The day Ye Ling'er's wounds began to scab over, Fu Ge and his friends moved into a new house. A plaque hung on the main gate of the house, with the words "Zhou Mansion" written on it.
The house was too big, and the brothers didn't like living separately in their own courtyards. So the five of them moved into one courtyard, and the other courtyards were locked up and left untouched for the time being. The courtyard they chose was the largest, with the most rooms. After deducting one room for each of the five people, there were still a few rooms left. One of the rooms with the best lighting was reserved for Xingxing.
“This house is too big. We definitely can’t manage it well on our own. Why don’t we buy a few servants to clean the yard and cook for us?” Zhou Dafu suggested.
They still had the thousand taels of silver notes they brought with them, and they had only spent fifty taels of the two hundred taels of silver. They thought that they would have to find two people to look after the house so that it wouldn't fall into disrepair too quickly, and they could stay there directly when they came to the capital.
“Okay, let’s go to the shop tomorrow,” Zhou Sanfu nodded.
That night, Xingxing followed Zhu Lin out of the palace. She had come specifically to see the new house and brought some things with her.
"The palace is poor too. It looks glamorous on the surface, but the concubines have to live frugally. During the most difficult times, the concubines even took the lead in donating their jewelry and silver to disaster relief. So I can't bring anything too valuable with me," Xingxing explained quietly.
"Sister, you're being too formal. We're family. This house was a gift from your father. We only moved in after it was repaired. What more do you want in return?" Zhou Erfu waved his hand, as if to say, "You don't consider us family."
"I was just saying it casually, but Second Brother actually took it seriously." Xingxing stuck out her tongue and made a face at him.
During the day, Zhu Qiuyu and his companions came to offer their congratulations. Brother Fu generously treated them to a meal at a restaurant. Zhu Qiuyu and his group didn't stand on ceremony and left after the meal, escorting them back to their residence without lingering inside.
“We still have to go to the Zhu residence for classes every day, and Fifth Brother has to heal Ye Ling’er’s injuries every day. That girl is really something else, so ruthless to herself. I wonder what kind of person she will become when she grows up.” Zhou Dafu shook his head, his scalp tingling at the thought of Ye Ling’er’s bloodied face.
Zhu Lin knew about it that day, but he didn't tell Xingxing for fear of scaring her, so Xingxing only found out now.
"Ah, how could she do that? She cut her own face and even scraped off the skin with the birthmark!" Xingxing stared wide-eyed in shock.
“She’s crazy. She’s so cunning at such a young age. This way, everyone will lower their guard against her, and then no one will notice when she does something bad.” Zhou Sanfu felt it was hard not to speculate about the other person’s thoughts with malice.
“I want to go see her,” Xingxing said.
"What's so interesting to see? It's hideous. She had stitches in her face, and now it's scabbed over. It looks like a centipede crawling on her face, it's terrifying. It's better not to go see it." Wu Fu described it with gestures, afraid that Xingxing would have nightmares if she saw it.
Zhou Dafu also advised her, "You have to go back to the palace later, how can you have time to see those irrelevant people? Let's not go."
"I'm not going back to the palace today. I told my father and mother when I left that I'm staying at the new house tonight, and they agreed," Xingxing said, sitting down at the table and resting her chin on her hands.
Upon hearing this, Fu Ge and his friends were overjoyed. Of course, they hoped that Xingxing could live in the same courtyard as them, and they immediately went to make up the bed.
"Brothers, no need to bother. Someone has prepared everything. There will be quite a few people accompanying you when you leave the palace." There are thirty guards, and two maids who are also very skilled guards, but in public they are Xingxing's personal maids, about seventeen or eighteen years old.
It turned out that the emperor wanted to send more people to accompany her, but Xingxing firmly refused. She left the palace quietly, so there was no need to make such a big fuss, especially since she had Zhu Lin with her.
Zhu Lin then spoke up, "I'll stay here tonight too."
"I know, I know, we guessed it even if you didn't say it," Zhou Erfu replied irritably.
Early one morning, the brothers got up very early to make breakfast. Erfu and Sifu went out to buy groceries, while Dafu, Sanfu, and Wufu were busy in the kitchen, cooking porridge and making pancakes.
Erfu and Sifu have big appetites and bought a lot of vegetables. They took a pork leg, two chickens, a duck, and some green vegetables.
Sanfu frowned as he looked at the large pig leg. "Why buy so much meat? We'll definitely be eating at the Zhu residence for lunch, and maybe even dinner there. Isn't it a waste to buy so much meat?"
“How could it be a waste? It’s snowing heavily. If we can’t finish it, we can freeze it. We won’t need to buy any more tomorrow. Otherwise, it’ll be too cold to go out to buy groceries every day,” Zhou Erfu retorted.
That's true, so Zhou Sanfu didn't say anything more.
After breakfast, the group headed to the Zhu residence. The Fu brothers originally planned to go to the child dealership to buy people and didn't intend to go to the Zhu residence, but Xingxing wanted to see Ye Ling'er, so they accompanied her.
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