Chapter 81 Puppy
Upon hearing these words, Du Ruohan realized that she was doomed.
He hated his own mouth; how could he have spoken the truth at such a crucial moment!
Sure enough, when Magistrate Luo arrived to mediate the fight, Du Ruohan had already been "served" by Zhuang Xianzhi with family discipline to the point that neither her parents nor her own parents recognized her.
Prefect Luo asked, somewhat embarrassed but still respectful, "Sir, should we investigate those two?"
Zhuang Xianzhi immediately denied it: "Does that kid ever tell the truth?"
Magistrate Luo's lips twitched: Young Master Du said the exam questions you set were bizarre, and that's absolutely true...
Gu Jiao was completely unaware of what had happened in Pingcheng; she was on her way to the hot spring resort.
This morning, the second boss came to her door in person and talked to her about the house call this month: "...Although I know we talked about receiving patients before, you know about Young Master Gu's situation. It is indeed not very convenient for him to go out."
The second boss was unaware that Gu Yan had recently visited her and that she had already given him a follow-up examination.
Gu Jiao paused for a moment, then said, "Okay."
"Huh?" The second boss was taken aback. So easy to talk to?
All that amazing trick I've been holding back all this time, was it all for nothing?
The weather was fine and sunny, and the carriage traveled quickly, arriving at the villa in less than an hour.
The people at the manor had changed their attitude towards them drastically. Although the guards still had serious faces, their behavior was very polite.
The maid who came to pick them up was the same one as last time, and her name was said to be Yu Ya'er.
Yu Ya'er led Gu Jiao, the second master, and the old doctor to a pavilion near the small garden: "Young Master is soaking in the hot spring. Please wait a moment while I go and inform him."
Yu Ya'er went to ask the young master for instructions and instructed a maid to go to the kitchen to fetch some snacks and tea to entertain Gu Jiao and the other two.
The second boss took a bite of the rose pastry and couldn't stop smiling.
"Is it really that delicious?" Gu Jiao asked.
The second landlord laughed and said, "The value of the Marquis's food lies not in its taste, but in the fact that it is hard to come by."
"Woo! Woo!"
While the group waited, they heard the cries of a small creature coming from the garden.
The old doctor asked, puzzled, "What was that sound?"
The second landlord listened intently, but couldn't quite make out what he was saying.
"I'll go take a look," Gu Jiao said.
Following the sound, she soon found the little creature trapped under the fence.
It was a newborn puppy that somehow got stuck in the fence. There was a circle of thorns at the bottom of the fence, and the more it struggled, the more the thorns pierced its flesh.
It was in so much pain, its eyes were brimming with tears. When it saw someone coming, whether out of fright or excitement, it stuck out its little tongue, but unexpectedly it licked a thorn, and it immediately started whimpering in pain.
"What a silly little dog." Gu Jiao squatted down and stroked its fluffy little head. "Don't move."
The puppy couldn't understand, but it kept moving, and it hurt so much.
To rescue it, we first need to move the fence and then pull the thorns out of the puppy one by one.
Gu Jiao chose the best spot and started pulling down the fence.
Just then, a maid wearing an apricot-colored vest walked over: "Who goes there? Stop right there!"
Gu Jiao did not stop.
Gu Jiao carried a small basket on her back, dressed like a country girl.
The maidservant felt the outfit looked somewhat familiar, but didn't pay it any mind. She strode over and grabbed Gu Jiao's small basket: "Didn't you hear me tell you to stop?"
Gu Jiao turned her head indifferently, her icy gaze like a knife, which frightened the maid so much that she trembled and let go of her hand.
Then, the maid recognized her: "It's you?"
Gu Jiao recognized her too; she was the servant who had searched through her purse at Huichuntang and falsely accused her of being a thief, Gu Jinyu's confidante, named Yu Ru.
"Why are you here?" Yu Ru frowned, remembering that she had just heard that the doctor from Huichuntang had come to give the young master a follow-up examination. Her face darkened. "You're just a junior apprentice doctor. You don't need to come along every time!"
Gu Jiao ignored her and started pulling down the fence.
Yu Ru scolded, "What are you doing? Those are all Miss's flowers! Can you afford to pay for them if you break them?"
"Ouch! Ouch!" the puppy cried out in pain.
Yu Ru glanced at it and sneered, "Just for a mongrel? Your dog? Like attracts like! Do you know how much a peony costs here? You'd sell you and your dog for that..."
Noisy.
Gu Jiao frowned in annoyance and yanked the fence up.
"You—" Yu Ru's expression changed and she lunged at her.
In fact, Gu Jiao avoided the peonies when she pulled up the fence, but Yu Ru leaped and landed on the fence, causing the end of the fence to sweep and break one of the peonies.
That was the most vibrant blooming one.
Yu Ru's face turned pale.
She abruptly took several steps back, keeping a safe distance from the scene, covering her mouth with one hand and pointing at Gu Jiao with the other: "You...you ruined Miss's flowers!"
"You broke it yourself! Don't blame others!"
It was Yu Ya'er's voice.
After reporting to Gu Yan, she returned. Gu Yan asked her to take the person to the hot spring, and coincidentally, she witnessed this scene.
"Shameless!" Yu Ya'er said.
Yu Ru was Gu Jinyu's personal maid, and few servants in the manor dared to speak to her like that.
Yu Ru's face darkened: "She broke it! She pulled the fence out! You don't believe me? Ask them! They all saw it!"
Several servants who had come to watch the commotion had appeared around them without them noticing.
Yu Ru asked them to be her witnesses.
Yu Ya'er put her hands on her hips and said, "Alright, tell me! Who broke it?"
Everyone lowered their heads.
Yu Ru's backer is Gu Jinyu, and it's obviously not worth offending her for the sake of a mere medicine boy.
It's not that Gu Yan isn't someone to be feared, but rather that Yu Ya'er's attitude wasn't at Gu Yan's behest at all! Who doesn't know that the young master despises these nobodies?
Yu Ru sneered: "See? She's the one who broke it!"
Gu Jiao, who was being pointed at by Yu Ru, ignored the noise around her. She removed the thorns from the puppy and wrapped it in a clean handkerchief.
The handkerchief was soon stained red with the blood on it.
"Ooh... ooh..." The little puppy's eyes welled up with tears from the pain.
The second master and the housekeeper arrived at the same time.
The old nanny still vividly remembered Gu Jiao climbing into bed and didn't have a good impression of her, especially when she saw the bloody puppy in Gu Jiao's hand, she became even more impatient: "Why don't you throw it out right now?"
These words were spoken to both Gu Jiao and the second master.
The second boss knew that Gu Jiao wouldn't throw it away.
The little girl responds better to gentle persuasion than harsh treatment. Can't you just talk to her nicely? Why do you have to yell at her? You're doomed.
"Give it to me, I'll put it on the carriage." The second landlord reached out to take the puppy.
Gu Jiao didn't give it to him.
Granny Fang said coldly, "I'll say it again, throw this little beast out! Otherwise, she'll get out too!"
"Who are you telling to get out?"
Accompanied by a nonchalant voice, Gu Yan's sedan chair was carried over by servants.
(End of this chapter)
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