Chapter 945 Shy Baby! (Bonus Chapter)
Half an hour later, Xiao Heng ended his conversation with Marquis Xuanping and the other two, and returned to the Princess's residence with Shangguan Qing.
Shangguan Qing yawned and waved to Xiao Heng: "I'm so sleepy, I'm going to sleep first, you should rest early too."
"I understand," Xiao Heng said to him.
Shangguan Qing swaggered away, carrying his new musket.
Xiao Heng looked at his gait, which was exactly the same as his own father's, and shook his head with amusement.
When they arrived at the room, they immediately saw the small medicine box on the table.
He smiled slightly, walked over, raised his long, jade-like hand, and gently patted it.
...
As dawn broke, Gu Jiao slowly woke up. She felt as if a gaze was watching her, a gaze she couldn't ignore.
When she opened her eyes, she saw Xiao Jingkong lying on the headboard.
Xiao Jingkong's eyes were full of focus, and it was unclear how long he had been guarding her there. The moment he realized she had woken up, his whole face came to life.
"Jiaojiao, you're awake?" he said crisply.
Gu Jiao smiled and asked, "Have you been here long?"
A wonderful day begins with admiring a handsome young man.
Although he's not a three-year-old little dumpling, he's still very cute and handsome at six.
Xiao Jingkong shook his head: "I just arrived."
"Ha, they've been here for half an hour already."
Someone stepped inside carrying a book, ruthlessly exposing the little guy's lie.
Xiao Jingkong turned around and glared at his bad brother-in-law, then corrected him, "Being with you, time drags on endlessly; being with Jiaojiao, time flies by!"
He rattled off two idioms in one breath, and they even rhymed! No wonder he's a prodigy from the Imperial College.
Gu Jiao got up to wash up, and Xiao Jingkong followed behind her like a little tail, occasionally glancing at her secretly, but without saying a word.
Gu Jiao put down the handkerchief in her hand and asked him, "What's wrong?"
Xiao Jingkong hesitated for a moment, but still decided to ask the truth: "Jiaojiao, are you pregnant?"
Gu Jiao glanced at Xiao Heng, who was tidying up his desk, and roughly understood where the news about Xiao Jingkong came from.
Pull on the kiss, show off the baby.
As expected of you.
Gu Jiao nodded and said, "Yes, I'm pregnant, with a baby as cute as Jingkong."
"Are you as cute as me?"
These words were so pleasing to the ear that Xiao Jingkong jumped for joy and even began to feel a little excited about the baby in Gu Jiao's belly.
But then, as if remembering something, he hesitated and muttered, "But, but, Jiaojiao is pregnant now, will she still like me? Am I still the most handsome little man in Jiaojiao's eyes?"
Gu Jiao smiled, pinched his little cheek, bent down to look him in the eye, and said with a smile, "Of course I will. I will always love you, and I will love you more every day than yesterday."
"Oh dear!" Little Jingkong was so shy, her cheeks flushed red. She turned around and covered her burning cheeks. "I'll go get breakfast for Jiaojiao first!"
After saying that, she ran out shyly!
They had already reached the hallway outside when they suddenly stopped. Standing outside the window, they puffed out their chests and boasted to Xiao Heng, who was tidying his desk by the window, "Jiaojiao likes me! I'm the most handsome! Humph!"
Having won a round, Xiao Jingkong walked away triumphantly!
Xiao Heng has a toothache.
...
While Xiao Jingkong went to get breakfast, Xiao Heng told Gu Jiao about what happened last night.
Gu Jiao wasn't too surprised by Li Jiangping's betrayal, but the reasons that aroused her suspicion were different from Xiao Heng's.
She recalled, “When they gave me the nail, it was wrapped in a clean handkerchief. I’ve seen too many wounded people like this at the border. Most people wouldn’t keep the nail; they’d rather throw it away immediately to prevent another person from getting hurt. Even if they did keep it, they would just leave it aside. Wrapping it in a handkerchief was as if they were afraid of damaging the bloodstains and rust on it.”
Xiao Heng looked at her with admiration: "Jiaojiao is so smart."
Gu Jiao nodded seriously: "Yes, I am very smart."
Xiao Heng smiled.
Thinking of something, Gu Jiao asked, "But how do you know it will come back on its own? I didn't know either."
"You don't know?" Xiao Heng was surprised; he had assumed she knew everything about his first-aid kit.
Gu Jiao shook her head.
Xiao Heng helped her recall: "Do you remember that time you were trapped in the collapsed wine cellar?"
Gu Jiao said, "Remember, you jump down and find me."
The boulder was pressing on her chest, making it hard to breathe; she thought she was going to die.
In the darkness, he grasped her hand.
Xiao Heng said, "Later, we were all rescued, but your medical kit fell into the rubble. The scene was too dangerous at the time, and there was no way to dig it out. But when I got back, I found it right next to you. At the time, I thought I was seeing things, until you told me later that it wasn't an ordinary medical kit, and then I was sure that I wasn't just imagining things."
Upon hearing this, Gu Jiao also remembered something.
That was during a polo match in the Yan Kingdom.
She remembered that she hadn't brought her first-aid kit, but there was one in the basket.
She assumed that Gu Xiaoshun and Gu Yan had put the small medicine box into her basket.
In addition, the small medicine box was not there when she first transmigrated here; it only appeared when she urgently needed it.
Gu Jiao looked at the small medicine box on the table with a hint of resentment: "If I had known it could be like this, I wouldn't have bothered carrying it around."
Moving things around is so tiring.
Gu Jiao pointed to the first-aid kit: "Can't you be a little more obvious? Sometimes when I don't bring you, if you show up a few more times, wouldn't I have noticed sooner? Are you doing this on purpose? Do you only feel happy when you're in my arms every day?"
A morning breeze blew by, and the small medicine box remained as quiet as a chicken.
...
Xiao Heng sorted out what happened last night, and there were three questions he had no clue about.
First, how did Jianlu know about the small medicine box?
Second, what does Jianlu need a small medicine box for?
Third, what is Li Jiangping's purpose in infiltrating the Dark Night Sect? If it is to deal with the Dark Night Sect, it doesn't make sense that he hasn't found a suitable opportunity to strike in twenty years.
Gu Jiao had no clue about the first two points, but she had her own opinion on the third point: "Jianlu had Li Jiangping infiltrate the Dark Night Gate for many years. Apart from his daily tipping off Jianlu, the only major thing he did was to come here and steal the small medicine box."
Xiao Heng's gaze sharpened: "You mean, his purpose in infiltrating the Dark Night Sect was for the small medicine box. But he was already on Dark Night Island twenty years ago, before Chang Jing was even born, and before you were born either. Could they be like the Imperial Advisor, able to foresee the future?"
Gu Jiao paused: "What if they think the first-aid kit is on Dark Night Island?"
"Hmm?" Xiao Heng was slightly taken aback.
Gu Jiao said, "The purple gromwell comes from the small medicine box, and the earliest purple gromwell was planted by the first island master of Dark Night Island. I now suspect that the small medicine box once appeared on Dark Night Island."
My little cuties, can we ask for some monthly votes?
(End of this chapter)
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