The two sisters ran back to boil water. Cai Xiaolian stood in front of Gu Shouxin and glared at him: "You're so capable! You all returned with the main group, and you still went off alone? Are you trying to be a hero?"
"Yes, I was wrong." Gu Shouxin stretched out his hand. "Damn it, my leg was scratched by a big cat, I can't walk."
Cai Xiaolian stepped forward to help him up, frowning. "You still smell of alcohol? What, are you so confident in your abilities that you brought alcohol to celebrate by yourself?"
Gu Shouxin shook his head repeatedly: "No. It's all because of that kid Zhou Yuan. He had this plan. I didn't want to drink it, but he insisted on making me drink it."
"Didn't you and Niannian beat him up? You drank his wine? Don't you know that you're obligated to someone who pays your way?" Cai Xiaolian stopped in her tracks. They've already started drinking?
“I fought Lu Zheng, and I drank Zhou Yuan’s wine. We fought for almost an hour, and I was lying on the ground too weak to get up. We didn’t have any water either, so I just drank some wine to quench my thirst. Mother, don’t be angry. I won’t drink his wine anymore,” Gu Shouxin said in a good tone.
"Sigh!" Cai Xiaolian sighed as she helped Gu Shouxin up, saying as they walked, "I know we agreed that the beating was for Xinxin's past life, and that in this life we would try to make them just ordinary acquaintances. But her father, all his actions are making me very uneasy!"
“Xiaolian, actually, we don’t need to think so much. Let things develop naturally! Let’s raise Xinxin well, who can say what will happen in the future? You do your business, I’ll do my studies, let’s treat him like an ordinary person! If we keep worrying, as Xinxin gets smarter, she’ll find out something’s wrong. She treated him like one of the villagers, but once she finds out, she’ll start paying more attention, which will backfire,” Gu Shouxin said.
Having been in this world for nearly three months, the three of them had one bad habit: they were always wary of Lu Zheng.
They may have forgotten that this life will be significantly different from the one Gu Nian read in the book.
If they treat Lu Zheng as a special case, Gu Xin will eventually find out. If Gu Xin then investigates further, it will only benefit Lu Zheng.
It's better to be an ordinary person, an ordinary villager.
No one can stop the development of everything in the world.
The couple said this and then went home.
The two girls had already heated the water and carried it to the covered room behind the kitchen, which is where the family takes a bath. There was no heater around, so the room was very warm.
Gu Xin also secretly put a jade bead in the ointment and another one in the wooden bucket.
She didn't think at all about whether her family would worry if she recovered too quickly; she just wanted her father's injury to heal quickly.
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That evening, Grandma Xiao brought fifty taels of silver to Gu Shouxin, but Gu Shouxin only accepted twenty taels. He said that Zhou Yuan should take the tiger skin and have it made into something to keep warm for Grandpa Gu, since his family didn't need it yet.
Seeing his resolute attitude, Grandma Xiao did not refuse. She inquired about his injury and then left.
After Grandma Xiao left, Gu Shouxin quietly rolled up his sleeves. His arms were completely unharmed, and even his calves, where the most severe injuries had been inflicted and the flesh had been ripped out, had completely healed, leaving only scars.
He thought of the marks on his little girl's face from the tree branch scratches. Xin Xin's marks were still there, but his own had disappeared.
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