Chapter 71

Hearing Xu Jiaojiao's words, Ah Yan burst out laughing.

"Dogs are so cute, you are not allowed to scold them," she said.

But looking at her delicate appearance, one can imagine the status of the two male guests in her eyes.

Although Ah Yan didn't know why Jiao Jiao wanted to be entangled with them after her rebirth, it was obvious that she was just taking advantage of them, not being sincere, which made Ah Yan feel relieved.

Just think of it as a cute game in the human world!

Ah Yan rested his chin on his hand as he looked at the two male guests. To be fair, if one only looked at these two tall figures, their graceful movements around the ice were truly the scenery on the ice rink.

Of course, you can't look too closely. If you look too closely, you will notice that their faces are gradually becoming stiff and red, which ruins the overall temperament.

Xu Jiaojiao looked up from time to time, as if she had no interest in watching the monkey show.

There was no emotion in her eyes.

"If I freeze it, my brain will be full of water and I won't be able to wake up clearly." Xu Jiaojiao said coldly.

The confrontation between the two male guests did not affect Xu Jiaojiao and A Yan's play at all. However, the team coordination between the two was obviously not as good as that of the genius dragon phoenix twins.

The addition of two double sleds left Zhu Jue alone, and soon they switched to single sleds and started playing the train chain game.

The five single-person ice sleds connected together immediately became the focus of attention on the ice rink. Others also took the initiative to bring their ice sleds to join in, and from time to time it formed a long dragon, swaying left and right. Everyone worked together and there was constant laughter.

At this moment, both Wen Yu and Ji Mingyan could only watch from the sidelines. The train queue was a bit long, and even if they joined at this moment, they could only be in the carriage at the end of the queue.

When Ayan and Zhu Jue were playing and laughing on the ice rink with Jiaojiao and her younger brothers and sisters, she didn't know that Gu Jiasui had already arrived in Ningcheng.

...

Ningcheng, Baicaotang Ancient Medical Clinic.

Xiao Qingnang took Gu Jiasui through the alley and entered their home in the real world.

He wore a woolen hat and a scarf, and a mask under the scarf. He looked as fully armed as artist Gu Jiasui.

Xiao Qingnang closed and bolted the courtyard gate and breathed a sigh of relief.

He held Gu Jiasui's bag in his hand and led her inside.

Gu Jiasui looked around the courtyard. It was an ancient courtyard with two courtyards. It looked like it had been renovated several times, with old parts being restored and renovations done in various places.

She walked through the heavy curtain that Xiao Qingnang had lifted, held it for him with her hand, and finally walked into the room.

The interior area is very large. It is a traditional room, but the glass has been replaced while retaining the ancient building foundation.

It was probably Xiao Qingnang's personal habit that the huge room was divided into two rooms, inner and outer, in addition to the washroom.

The living room was separated by a light blue curtain, while the study was outside. At a glance, Gu Jiasui saw a lot of ancient books and medical books. The antique shelf was filled with various items, and on the desk there was a well-kept green bamboo.

Her eyelashes trembled slightly, and she saw the "Jianing Hand Patches" on the bookshelf and the desk with great eyesight.

The heat in the room suddenly rose, and Gu Jiasui exhaled a puff of white air. She looked at Xiao Qingnang who was taking off his scarf and hat. His hair was a little messy because he took off his hat.

The man who was usually gentle and calm now had several frizzy hairs, and he had no idea it, which made Gu Jiasui couldn't help laughing out loud.

Xiao Qingnang was stunned when he heard her laughter. He quickly looked around the room. Knowing she would come, he cleaned the already clean room twice.

Because he didn't know what she was laughing at, Xiao Qingnang was confused for a moment when he looked at her.

The young man was not thin. He wore a dark grey sweater and black trousers. His hair was sticking up, making his handsome face look cute.

People with good looks can also look pleasing to the eye when they look confused.

"There's a big temperature difference between indoors and outdoors. Take off your coat later." He put Gu Jiasui's handbag on the table and hurriedly took the scarf she took off.

At this time, Gu Jiasui handed the selfie mode phone to him. Xiao Qingnang took the phone and laughed when he looked at himself in the front camera.

“My hair is not very obedient.”

"Meow~~~"

"Meow~~~"

As soon as she entered the room, Pengpeng started meowing. It was obvious that the kitten was not placed outside.

Gu Jiasui did not move rashly. She turned her beautiful eyes to look at Xiao Qingnang, who had already walked forward and pulled open the green curtain that separated the areas.

"Come in."

The cat Peng Peng’s nest is right next to the bed. The room is air-conditioned and there is an electric heater next to the bed facing the cat’s nest.

There is also an antique small cabinet next to it, on which are placed a hot water kettle, syringes, goat milk powder and canned cat food.

The closed room should have been a bit stuffy, but Gu Jiasui only smelled a faint and refreshing medicinal fragrance.

"Good boy, Peng Peng."

She took two of three steps and rushed to the cat's nest. The little cat Pengpeng was in good spirits.

Especially when seeing Gu Jiasui, the whole cat became excited, stretching its two paws forward and moving its legs hard.

Gu Jiasui stretched out her hand, then clenched it because her palms felt a little cold. Although cats have a different body temperature than humans, she didn't want the kitten to get cold.

The down jacket she was wearing still exuded the cold air from outside, so it was impossible for her to pick up the kitten.

At this moment, Gu Jiasui just stretched out his warm fingertips and touched Peng Peng's little cat head and pink paws.

"Peng Peng, do you miss me so much?"

"I missed you, too."

The hot hand warmer was now handed to her hands. Gu Jiasui watched him fetch a chair and put a cushion on it.

Her eyes moved slightly as she looked at the brand new hand warmer that had not yet been removed from the label but had already been fully charged. She said thank you and took it.

She put one hand in the hand warmer and used the other hand to play with Peng Peng with her fingertips.

Gu Jiasui waited until his left hand was warm before he switched hands and started petting the cat.

"Good boy, good boy, Peng Peng, why are you so good?"

"Whose baby is this?"

"It's my house."

She spoke softly, and when she saw Pengpeng about to lick her fingers with her tongue, she immediately stood up and looked at Xiao Qingnang.

"Wujiu, I want to wash my hands."

A bathroom had been separated from the renovated old room. Gu Jiasui took off his down jacket and washed his hands. After drying them, he put them in a hand warmer for a while and then went on to pet the cat.

Gu Jiasui rubbed Pengpeng's little face, touched her little head, and rubbed her paws and feet. He hadn't touched Pengpeng for a week and felt uncomfortable. Now he finally felt relieved. Although I receive photos and videos every day and watch videos when I have free time, seeing and seeing with my own eyes are two different things.

She watched the kitten's legs twitching vigorously and finally able to kick hard. She was immediately overjoyed and turned to look at Xiao Qingnang standing beside her.

"My left leg can move more now than before."

He nodded, a smile on his lips.

"Well, maybe it's because of the change in environment these days, the acupuncture effect has been better. Today, Pengpeng was emotionally excited, and the effect was more obvious."

At this moment, the two of them looked at Peng Peng wagging his tail, with the amplitude also increasing.

"Meow~" The little cat Pengpeng was enjoying Gu Jiasui's caress at this moment, and opened its half-closed eyes to look in the direction of Xiao Qingnang.

It meowed a few times, and it sounded very anxious.

The kitten Peng Peng was meowing, and the two people didn't understand why.

"Is my touch uncomfortable?" Gu Jiasui loosened his hand slightly, but Pengpeng screamed even louder.

Xiao Qingnang recorded these words of cat language on his mobile phone and sent it to the animal expert Ilude whom he met on the high-speed train.

Ilude replied very quickly, sending a voice message directly.

"Your child is crying. Mommy is finally here. She wants mommy and daddy to touch her together."

The voice of the broadcast was very loud, and every word fell into Gu Jiasui's ears without error.

She raised her eyebrows slightly and didn't say anything, but both of them were massaging the kitten Peng Peng.

Xiao Qingnang coughed lightly at this moment, and said dryly: "It was an animal expert I met in the pet carriage when I was taking the high-speed train home."

He felt a little guilty and admitted his mistake directly: "I didn't explain it at the time. It's my fault."

He lowered his head, secretly looked at her expression, then quickly lowered his head and concentrated on touching the cat's head.

"I know." Gu Jiasui said calmly.

"Ayan told me what happened that day."

In fact, on the day they returned to Ningcheng from Bincheng, Gu Jiasui and A Yan sent messages all the way because they were worried about Pengpeng. Even the whole process of him saving people was live-streamed in text.

When he became a hot topic later, she had anticipated it and promptly had someone suppress the topic to avoid further trouble.

Xiao Qingnang was slightly startled, and she continued, "Dad and Mom are just names used today. People today still recognize their parents on the Internet, not to mention the ancient tradition of godparents."

"But." She paused.

"It is an honor for you and me to be treated as the closest parent by a kitten."

This is Pengpeng's recognition of their efforts, nothing else.

Gu Jiasui simply lowered his eyes and changed the subject directly: "After returning home, did many people come to visit you?"

Although she suppressed the trending searches, she was still not very clear about the situation in Ningcheng.

Speaking of this, Xiao Qingnang's face showed some helplessness.

"Someone came looking for me, otherwise I wouldn't have taken you through the back door today."

"It's the coldest time of the year, but we just can't be cruel enough."

He lived in a small room in the backyard. The two-story courtyard, the front yard and the back house are now the ancient medical clinic of Xiao Qingnang's family.

Baicaotang Ancient Medical Clinic has consultation and pharmacy at the front door, and the area behind the second door is where the family lives.

Even though today's consultation time has already ended and all the appointments have been filled, there are always people outside who are unwilling to give up.

In the past week, Xiao Qingnang has not appeared in the front yard. I only heard from my uncle that many patients and veterinary patients came because of him. Some of them came in directly with their mobile phones, and some even asked to see the cats.

"People are afraid of being famous just like pigs are afraid of being fat. Now, I understand Chu Shen's feelings."

In this day and age, news spreads too quickly, and many people follow blindly without thinking, so it is too easy to destroy someone.

Whether it is traditional medicine or Western medicine, a small disturbance is enough to ruin a person's career.

Baicaotang Ancient Medical Clinic originally served local neighbors. It was not until a few years ago when Xiao Qingnang came to this world and gradually demonstrated his medical skills that it became well-known in the surrounding area, and more and more patients came to seek medical treatment.

Xiao Qingnang didn't know whether it was better now or in the past when doctors were slandered for no reason.

In this world, everyone is equal under the law, and I think no one will be forced into prison and harm their health.

However, the Internet can kill people in a moment, and the malicious intent of the ignorant crowd, which one is more serious?

Most people have good hearts, but if they don’t understand the underlying situation and do what they think are good things, then what they do may not be “good” things.

Gu Jiasui was wearing a pure white cashmere coat, and the air conditioning and heating in the room made her feel a little hot.

The kitten Peng Peng fell asleep under the comfort of the two people. The two people slowly raised their hands, looked at it quietly for a while, and then carefully backed out.

For fear of waking up the kitten, the two spoke quietly outside.

Seeing that she was so hot, Xiao Qingnang fanned herself with her hands and handed her the folding fan on the table.

Gu Jiasui took the folding fan and fanned it twice, then stared at the calligraphy and painting on it.

Looking at the signature on the fan, her eyelids jumped and she raised her eyes to meet his.

As their eyes met, they could hear each other's breathing.

"You will..." Xiao Qingnang spoke.

Gu Jiasui said softly, "I'm going to the Forbidden City tomorrow. It's a resource that Sister Lin Lu and A Yan introduced to me before."

"I had to go shoot the show 'National Treasure Years' before the museum closed on Monday."

"We will be recording on the official channel the day after tomorrow, and it will probably take a whole day."

Xiao Qingnang listened carefully, "The day after tomorrow happens to be Wednesday, so the clinic is closed to the public, which makes it convenient for you to come."

He paused, "Maybe Zhu Jue and A Yan will come over too."

Gu Jiasui nodded slightly, tapped the folding fan in his hand, and asked casually:

"Where did you buy this folding fan? Do you have more?"

Xiao Qingnang was silent for a moment, his eyelashes fluttering as if hesitating. After holding back for a long time, he finally asked the question in his mind.

"You noticed that, too?"

Gu Jiasui's ears suddenly perked up, "You?"

"It was given to me by Zhu Jue. It has the handwriting of an old friend of mine."

Xiao Qingnang just felt like he was the "self-destructing werewolf" in the game that Yuanye was talking about.

He didn't know what happened today, but there seemed to be an inexplicable force in his heart urging him to reveal his identity, which he had carefully concealed in the modern world, in front of her.

He is not her old friend.

But to Xiao Qingnang, she was an old friend.

Although, that happened many, many years ago, and she may have forgotten it long ago.

"Are you and General Ninghai old friends?"

At this moment, Gu Jiasui was really stunned.

The reason why Gu Jiasui recognized the calligraphy and painting on the fan was because she had seen her cousin the emperor being overjoyed when he received the news of the great victory in the East China Sea. He brought the letter from the army and the battle report written by the general himself directly to her princess's mansion so that she could share in the joy.

However, at that time, Gu Jiasui had been ill for a long time, but she had read the battle reports about General Dong Yuan in detail.

From that passionate battle report, we saw a great victory thousands of miles away from the capital.

Gu Jiasui now recalled that he did not seem to be mentioned in the memorial received that year.

However, there seems to have been a legend that General Ninghai, who gave up his civil career to pursue military service, was in critical condition several times despite his outstanding military achievements, thanks to the treatment provided by military doctors.

"Were you the military doctor in the Ninghai Army back then?"

At this moment, Gu Jiasui's hand holding the folding fan was trembling slightly, and he looked at the person in front of him in a daze.

As fate would have it, the princess searched the world for a miracle doctor, but she never expected that he was only a piece of battle report away from her.

He closed his eyes. Because of the battle in the East China Sea, two veterans were seriously injured. In addition to the Ninghai general who returned to the capital first, Xiao Qingnang and other deputy generals returned to the capital...

"I was late in returning to Beijing," he said rather harshly.

Gu Jiasui unconsciously opened the folding fan in his hand, then closed it, and opened it again, truly feeling the mockery of fate.

She put away the folding fan in her hand with a "snap", and the two looked at each other in silence.

"What's past is past," she whispered.

"Perhaps the current situation is God's way of letting us go through this life."

Gu Jiasui didn’t know what happened to him later, but both of them came to this world and perhaps had regrets.

She looked up into his eyes, her red lips moved slightly as she uttered three words.

“Look forward.”

The wheel of history rolls forward, and those of us born at this time should not dwell on the past.

The past is the past.

This is what she always told herself.

"So, Wujiu, let's talk about them."

Gu Jiasui laughed. Although he was prepared in his heart, he never expected that the two of them would suddenly reveal their cards under such inexplicable circumstances today.

The room was so quiet that I could hear the air conditioner and the soft snoring of my cat.

Gu Jiasui sat at the tea table. She slowly unfolded her fan, turned on her cell phone, and found a photo he had sent her before.

"You've had doubts, haven't you?" she asked, looking at him.

Xiao Qingnang nodded and said, "Zhu Jue gave each of us in the dormitory a fan, all made by General Dong."

"According to what Yuanzhi told me back then, apart from the battle reports submitted to the palace, there are no scrolls of calligraphy and paintings outside. The only thing is that I painted many fans with my benefactor when I was young."

Hearing this, Gu Jiasui's beautiful eyes flickered, and she whispered softly: "Benefactor?"

"I previously thought that these fans might have been passed down in their family for many years, or that they were collected from somewhere," Xiao Qingnang said.

"If Ah Yan and Zhu Jue, their former benefactors of Yuan Zhi, are not of the same age?"

Gu Jiasui handed the phone to him at this moment. Xiao Qingnang looked at the picture on it, but he was still a little confused.

"Isn't this what I sent you? What's the problem?"

"This dress is made by the craftsmanship of the Tailor Yunyi Shop in the capital, and is completely different from the ancient clothes that people wear today."

Xiao Qingnang knocked the covered bowl in his hand, and he carefully placed it on the table. He looked at the photo again, but still couldn't make any sense of it.

To him, if it was men's clothes, he might be able to see some difference, but it was impossible to tell the difference between women's clothes.

Gu Jiasui watched him try to observe but still couldn't find anything wrong.

She shook her head and sighed softly: "It's not difficult for you."

"But I have searched for this dress both on the Internet and in the real world, but I can't find it. These gold, jade and pearl ornaments were also the fashion of the time."

Hearing what Gu Jiasui said, Xiao Qingnang moved his fingers slightly, and they both frowned at the same time.

"So where did this photo come from?"

Gu Jiasui nodded, "This is the doubt in my heart."

She took a sip of the soup in the covered bowl. It was warm pear soup.

"If you say that they were from the same era as you and me, then maybe they had the same fate as us. But... Ah Yan seemed to have recognized me early on."

She told the story about the emperor's handscroll, and said that the "Jianing style" was formed in later generations.

"If Ah Yan is a person from the future, she found clues from the calligraphy and painting I gave her. But if she suspects that I am an ancient person because of this, that would be a bit absurd."

"Besides, if she is really a person from this world, how do you explain the clothes and accessories she wore back then?"

Gu Jiasui felt that the question of the identities of the young couple A Yan and Zhu Jue had fallen into a vicious circle. The two answers conflicted with each other, making people confused.

"Now that you mention it, there is one more thing." Xiao Qingnang looked at her and reminisced.

"When you discovered Pengpeng, you and I were not familiar with each other." He said softly.

Gu Jiasui nodded and looked into his eyes, and they both thought of the same thing at the same time.

"But Yan came directly to you."

"But Yan sent me a message directly."

Gu Jiasui rubbed her temples at this moment and recalled carefully.

"I was very worried about Peng Peng at the time, but Ah Yan kept comforting me, saying that you come from a family of ancient doctors and will definitely be able to cure it."

I didn't think there was anything unusual when I was anxious at first, but now the two of them looked at me with confusion in their eyes.

Xiao Qingnang opened his mouth and said, "Although I have publicly stated in the dormitory that my family is a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner, I have never mentioned veterinary medicine."

Xiao Qingnang can be sure of this.

So, how did he know that Ah Yan suddenly approached him?

After all, at that time, the four of them had not yet gathered together, and Xiao Qingnang had not yet seen the condition of the kitten Peng Peng, but Ah Yan had already confidently made a promise to Gu Jiasui.

"I don't remember ever seeing them in my past memory," said Gu Jiasui.

"Or maybe I just don't remember."

Xiao Qingnang held his forehead with one hand, his brows slightly tensed, his eyes swept across her beautiful face, "I don't remember ever treating them or seeing them, I don't even have a sense of déjà vu."

He had an excellent memory. He memorized all the herbal medicine and pulse case records by heart, and could remember the names of the patients he had seen just by taking their pulses and looking at their faces.

Just like the person in front of me, even the stunning glimpse in my youth, the noble face in the heavy silk skirt, and the few words we talked on the long street are all engraved firmly in my heart.

But regarding Ayan and Zhu Jue, I really didn't have any relevant memories before.

Where did they learn about their own medical skills? From the folks?

But now what is left behind hundreds of years later is nothing more than "anecdotes" recorded in unofficial history by later generations.

"In that case, they must have known our identities for a long time." Xiao Qingnang looked strange.

But even though they knew, both Ayan and Zhu Jue treated them no differently than their other roommates.

"Compared to them, you and I are far less secular now," said Gu Jiasui.

If the two of them had not revealed their guesses about each other here today, and if Ah Yan and Zhu Jue had not inadvertently revealed a small flaw that they had caught, even if they had been with them normally, they would not have been able to detect any traces of the past era.

Xiao Qingnang is an "old cadre" in terms of work and rest, and Gu Jiasui also has some old habits that are hard to change, but A Yan and Zhu Jue, this young couple, are truly modern college students who can play and endure.

The two of them each looked through the couple's circle of friends, comparing them one by one to try to find some clues.

As he was flipping through the books, Gu Jiasui suddenly found the records of the young couple's summer trip to Chang'an City and Yanyang City.

The First Emperor sought immortality.

Her fingers paused slightly and she spoke softly, "Wujiu, since there are people like you and me who have been reincarnated for a hundred years in this world."

"Then are there people who can reincarnate with their memories, or people who can live forever?"

Xiao Qingnang was stunned when he heard this. He said slowly, "The world is so big that there are all kinds of strange things."

"Even if it comes to modern people, they know a lot more things." Gu Jiasui counted on his fingers at this moment.

Calligraphy and painting, musical instruments, treasure appraisal, medical skills, marksmanship...you won’t know how many there are until you count them. Once you do, you’ll be shocked.

"These two people seem to know a little bit about everything," said Xiao Qingnang.

The two looked at each other, and everything was said without words.

If it weren't for the long cycle of time, how could one have learned and honed so many talents?

"To put it in detail, it seems that he doesn't stand out in any aspect, but he is proficient in everything and hides his cleverness in simplicity." Gu Jiasui said softly.

"The great hermit hides himself in the city, keeping a low profile and keeping a low profile." He also whispered.

Two people who could recognize themselves from more than two hundred years ago and knew their achievements in the future had spanned at least two eras and were living in the present world.

Apart from being immortals, what other possible identities could Ayan and Zhujue have?