Chapter 572 Lack of Romantic Understanding
Time flies, and before we know it, it's already the dead of winter.
Life may be ordinary, but it's not boring. There are often minor, harmless squabbles at home.
For example, Zhang, the eldest daughter-in-law, suddenly had a whim and found a husband for Gu Xuanyi, who had returned home after her divorce. She urged her daughter to go and meet him, and the mother and daughter ended up arguing. Gu Xuanyi then used her friend's twelve-year-old brother and ten-year-old cousin as shields, and invited them to go boating on the lake. She also brought Zhang along, saying that she wanted Zhang to help her choose the right one. In the end, she told Zhang that she preferred the ten-year-old one, which made Zhang question her life.
For example, Chen, the wife of the second son, felt that her eldest son was a waste because Gu Xiuhong was reluctant to marry and he refused to meet any good girls he had found. On a whim, she insisted on having another son with her husband. She made a ruckus every night. After a few days, Gu Jingsong, the second son who was nearly forty years old, could no longer keep up and, in a fit of anger, picked up a rattan cane and chased after his son to beat him.
For example, on the third branch of the family, Gu Jingxi and Meng Jinyao were having a falling out. It was because last night Gu Jingxi suddenly flaunted himself like a peacock, dressed in revealing clothes to seduce Meng Jinyao. He didn't succeed in seducing her, got scolded, and even fell ill from the cold.
Gu Jingxi's high fever hadn't subsided, but he was still quite lucid. He leaned against Meng Jinyao and whimpered, "Ayao, I feel unwell, please comfort me."
Meng Jinyao ignored him.
Gu Jingxi said again, "Ayao, I'm cold, hug me."
Looking at his face, flushed from the high fever, Meng Jinyao said coldly, "Weren't you very hot last night? Come on, let me help you take off your clothes, let's go for a walk outside." As she spoke, she reached out to undo his belt.
Gu Jingxi was taken aback. He grabbed her hand and looked at her pitifully, "Ayao, I'm sick, and you're still being mean to me. You're not like this with Wanwan. Do you not care about me anymore now that you have a son?"
"Of course I care, how could I not care?" Meng Jinyao withdrew her hand with a forced smile, pushed him away, and then picked up the medicine that was no longer hot. "Here, husband, drink your medicine, I'll feed you."
Gu Jingxi felt a chill run down his spine at her smile and sensed something was amiss. When the medicine was brought to his lips, he opened his mouth and took a sip, immediately frowning in pain. He instinctively moved back, refusing to let her feed him any more medicine.
bitter!
It was extremely bitter!
Seeing this, Meng Jinyao smiled even more and said gently, "My husband, listen to me. Bitter medicine is good for you. Once you're better, we'll go out and admire the plum blossoms."
Gu Jingxi looked resistant and hesitated, saying, "Ayao, did the doctor prescribe the wrong medicine? This medicine doesn't taste right. The medicine I used to drink when I had a high fever didn't taste like this."
"Really?" Meng Jinyao glanced at him, then explained, "I specifically asked the doctor to prescribe this medicine. It's definitely different from what you've been drinking before, but don't worry, I won't murder my husband. This medicine isn't poisonous, and you'll get better just the same after drinking it. The effects are the same."
Gu Jingxi pursed his lips in frustration. He understood that this was a bitter medicine that A Yao had specially asked the doctor to prescribe, so it was more bitter than ordinary medicine. It was so bitter that it made people frown and was almost impossible to swallow. After taking one sip, they didn't want to take a second sip.
He pleaded softly, "Ayao, I was wrong. Please ask the doctor to prescribe another dose of medicine."
Meng Jinyao suppressed her smile and asked indifferently, "I specifically asked the doctor to prescribe this medicine. If my husband doesn't drink it, are you going to waste all my hard work?"
Gu Jingxi: "...I was really wrong."
"Since you've made a mistake, then you'd better drink it obediently." Meng Jinyao said, and without allowing him to refuse, she fed him the medicine again.
Gu Jingxi had no choice but to obediently open his mouth and drink it. It was so bitter that his face almost scrunched up. But his little wife kept feeding him little by little, as if to let him savor the taste of the medicine. He wanted to take the bowl and drink it all in one gulp, but his little wife wouldn't allow it. She had to feed him. He could only endure this sweet torment with a bitter smile.
After finishing the bowl of medicine, Gu Jingxi felt like she was about to lose her sense of taste; her mouth was filled with nothing but bitterness, and she felt extremely uncomfortable.
Meng Jinyao put down the medicine bowl, then gently helped him lie down, covered him with a blanket, and coaxed him softly, "My dear husband, drink your medicine and get some sleep. I'll wake you up to drink it when it's ready tonight."
Gu Jingxi's face froze: "There's more tonight?"
Meng Jinyao nodded gently, her smile tender: "Yes, even if the fever goes down, you still need to take some medicine to consolidate the effect, in order to prevent the high fever from recurring. Okay, go to sleep, I will wake you up when it's time to take your medicine."
Gu Jingxi remained silent: "..."
Seeing his utterly dejected look, Meng Jinyao almost burst out laughing. She held back her laughter as she carried the tray containing the medicine bowl out of the outer room, and only then did she finally let out a laugh.
You think this can't handle you?
Who told this guy to neglect his health and do this in the dead of winter?
These days she wasn't very interested in marital relations, simply because she was cold. Little did she know that her husband was overthinking things, thinking that she was tired of him and had lost interest in him. In order to win her back, he wanted to create some novelty, so he dressed scantily, in very thin fabric that was barely concealing her figure, trying to seduce her.
She was wrapped in a thick quilt when she saw her husband so lightly dressed, and she was immediately startled. All desire vanished, replaced by worry that he might catch a cold. She scolded him harshly and then wrapped him in the quilt.
She still remembers her husband glaring at her with a mournful expression and saying, "Ah Yao, you really have no sense of romance."
Forget about being charming or not; all she knew was that doing that would make her catch a cold and get sick.
Sure enough, he developed a high fever in the middle of last night, and those who were supposed to attend the morning court session today couldn't get up. She only woke up at Chenshi (7-9 AM), and when she saw that he was still asleep, she realized that he was sick. She hurriedly asked someone to fetch a doctor and sent someone to ask for leave for him.
At this moment, Chunliu came in and reported, "Madam, the old lady has arrived."
Upon hearing this, Meng Jinyao quickly shoved the tray into her hands and hurried out to greet her. Seeing that her mother-in-law was already in the courtyard and walking towards her, she quickened her pace to meet her and said gently, "Mother, it's so cold outside, why did you come?"
Madam Gu replied, "I heard that Yaoling is ill, so I came to check on him. Is he alright?"
Meng Jinyao said, "Mother, don't worry, my husband is fine. He just had a high fever and took his medicine and went to sleep."
Madam Gu frowned: "Yao Ling is usually very healthy, why did she suddenly develop a high fever?"
Meng Jinyao was too embarrassed to say that her husband had displayed his peacock-like display of his feathers last night. She only said, "The weather is cold now, and it's easy to catch a cold. He caught a cold without being careful. It's my fault for not adding more clothes for him."
"How can you blame yourself?" Old Madam Gu shook her head. "He's so old, he knows how to take care of himself. It's just that he wasn't careful. Since he's asleep, let him sleep. Let's go see Wanwan. It's been several days since we last saw her, and we miss her terribly."
Meng Jinyao agreed and went to see Wanwan with her mother-in-law. Actually, she also wanted to take Wanwan to her mother-in-law's place so that her mother-in-law could see her, but the weather was too cold, and she was afraid that the child would catch a cold if she took her out, so she didn't dare to take her out.
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