She squatted down and asked him where he was from. She wanted to wait for Chen Qingxuan to come back and have him send the man home, but the man just kept crying heartbreakingly and didn't say anything, as if he was a little confused after being beaten by the beggar. Gu Qingtong squatted there for a while, watching the sky getting dark. Finally, she dragged the man back to Fengyu Courtyard through the back door, but when she dragged him into the room, Gu Qingtong saw the mess of scars on his body. She thought to herself that it was not good, and she was afraid that she had dragged back a prisoner who had escaped from prison. But she really couldn't bear to drag him out again. Gu Qingtong hid him in the backyard, thinking that she would secretly heal the man's injuries and then let him go quietly.
"Aren't you afraid of being implicated by me?" The man opened his pair of dark eyes and looked at Gu Qingtong without blinking. His eyes, which had always been calm, were now frighteningly bright.
"I'm afraid, so you have to be quiet and be quiet in the future. Just stay in the pharmacy and don't go out easily, or you won't be recognized," Gu Qingtong said. Somehow, she didn't dare to look at this man in the eye. She turned her head away and continued to bandage him. "In fact, you sneaked out in the past two days. Don't think I don't know. Can you... go to the bathroom at home in the future? I'm not afraid of others seeing you, but I'm worried that your wound hasn't healed yet, and you're always going in and out. I'm afraid your wound will never heal."
The man looked at Gu Qingtong's drooping eyebrows and flushed cheeks, and his lips moved, but he finally swallowed back the words that were on the tip of his tongue, "I don't want to use the toilet at home, so as not to trouble you." He really didn't want to cause trouble for Gu Qingtong, and he was really embarrassed to let a girl carry the toilet for him, so he refused to let Gu Qingtong lock the door from the outside when she went out, so that she could go out more conveniently. But when he thought about the trouble he might bring to Gu Qingtong, he knew that he could no longer be willful. After a pause, he said "hmm" in an inaudible manner.
Hearing this, Gu Qingtong's heart finally settled down. She secretly glanced at him and knew that he was also very uncomfortable. She changed the subject and said, "When you first came to work in the medicine shop, you definitely couldn't recognize the herbs, but it doesn't matter. You can learn in the medicine shop and you will know them all after a month or so. Even someone like me who has no basic knowledge at all is not bad after these few months. Look, I bandaged you well, didn't I? You can't tell that I'm just an apprentice, right?"
"Not bad, very good." The man looked at Gu Qingtong who tied a knot neatly and couldn't help curling his lips. He looked at Gu Qingtong again and said, "Then you, the senior apprentice, can teach me, the junior apprentice."
"What do you mean by big apprentice or small apprentice? You have to call me senior sister from now on!" Gu Qingtong said to the man seriously, but looking at the man's sparkling eyes that seemed to be about to smile, she felt embarrassed. She blushed and asked awkwardly, "By the way, I never asked you, how old are you this year?"
"I'm twenty-seven years old," the man said.
"Twenty-seven? I can't tell," Gu Qingtong whispered. This man looked like a young man, but he was unexpectedly eight years older than her. She would be embarrassed to make fun of him again. After a pause, Gu Qingtong looked at the man again and asked in a low voice, "What's your name?"
The man moved his lips but no sound came out, as if he was unwilling to answer.
"If it's inconvenient to talk, then don't force it," Gu Qingtong waved his hands and said, "I'm sorry, we've only known each other for a few days and I'm already asking for your name. Besides, you have a rough life experience, so it's even more inconvenient to ask..."
"Qin Chong," the man suddenly interrupted Gu Qingtong and looked straight at him with his bright eyes, "My name is Qin Chong."
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