Chapter 571: The Exiled Female Prisoner with Two Deadly Deaths (6)
The two brothers planned how to depose the crown prince and rehabilitate their family. Gong Liangsubai also gave some easily hidden food to Gong Liangxian and asked him to secretly give them to several family members tomorrow. Then they went back. After all, they had to travel tomorrow, so they couldn't say much. They had to get enough sleep to have the energy to travel.
The next day, Gong Liangxian secretly gave the food to several family members, but apart from telling Gong Liangqin that Gong Liangsu had caught up and was the manager of the caravan, he did not reveal Gong Liangsubai's identity to anyone else, including Lan Shichu, Gong Liangsubai's wife.
When Gong Liangqin learned that his youngest son had disguised himself and was following his team, he felt both worried and relieved. In the end, he only told his eldest son to be careful when he met him, and there was not much else he said.
Lan Shichu lost interest in the room after she found out that the person who sneaked into the men's dormitory last night was Gong Liang Sibai. When Wen quietly stuffed two glutinous rice cakes into her palm, she asked in a "surprised" voice, "Where did they come from?"
Mrs. Wen didn't know that the food was given to her husband by Gong Liangsu, so she just shook her head and said, "I don't know either. My husband gave it to me. He probably exchanged it with someone in the caravan."
"Do my parents have any?" Lan Shichu asked again. Although these glutinous rice balls were better than dry and moldy bread, they were not considered good things for Lan Shichu, who had no worries about food and drink with her companion space. So she wanted to give them back to her two elders.
However, Mrs. Wen misunderstood her meaning and thought that she was too filial, so she comforted her, "Don't worry, your parents have enough, so you two don't need it. You should eat by yourself. You are still pregnant, and you can't lack nutrition..."
Lan Shichu had no choice but to quietly throw the glutinous rice cake into his companion space and said, "I'll eat it when I'm hungry."
Mrs. Wen did not urge her anymore. After all, the glutinous rice balls would not go bad in a short time.
The team was still busy on the road, and by the time they arrived at the next accommodation point they were already tired and hungry.
Lan Shichu lay on the bed with her eyes closed pretending to be asleep. She didn't expect Gong Liang Subai to come to her, but he didn't wake her up. Instead, he stood aside, staring at Lan Shichu intently, and no one knew what he was thinking.
Could it be that he had a change of heart and felt that he was being a burden to himself? Lan Shichu guessed in his heart.
But if this guy wants to watch, he should watch quickly and leave quickly after watching. It is very hard for her to pretend to be asleep. After all, she has to keep her eyes from blinking and her breathing steady, Lan Shichu thought impatiently.
Gong Liangshubai looked at his sleeping wife with complicated eyes, hesitating whether to wake her up or not. However, he and his wife had only met a few times and had no feelings for each other. Even if he woke her up, there would be nothing to say. So he hesitated for a while and decided not to wake her up.
But after all, one night of marriage means a hundred nights of love. Gong Liang Sibai bent down and lifted one of Lan Shichu's feet, took off her socks, and wanted to see the injury on the sole of her foot.
When his hand touched her ankle, Lan Shichu almost kicked him reflexively, but at least she remembered that she was pretending to be asleep, and she managed to suppress her muscle reflex and keep her foot from being stiff. At the same time, Gong Liang discovered that she was awake.
Gong Liang Sibai's mind was all on Lan Shichu's scarred soles. These legs had obviously developed many blisters due to non-stop traveling for days. The blisters broke and grew again, and grew and broke again. There was never any time to rest. By the time the soles of his feet got used to such intensity of walking, the wounds caused by the blisters had scarred and turned into calluses. Only then did blisters stop forming, but the soles of his feet became ugly.
Although Gong Liang Sibai had no feelings for his wife Lan Shichu, he still had a sense of responsibility. He took out the medicine he brought and applied a thick layer on the soles of Lan Shichu's feet.
Lan Shichu rolled her eyes in her heart. She had already cured the soles of her feet. If she waited for his medicine, her feet might be ruined and there would be no way she would be left with only scars.
After applying medicine to Lan Shichu and putting socks on her, Gong Liang Sibai looked at her face.
He remembered that when he lifted the veil on their wedding night, Lan Shichu's skin was as white and delicate as if she were made of jade, and it was stunningly dazzling in the candlelight. But now, her face was sallow, and her neck and hands had become yellow, black and rough from being exposed to the sun for many days. It was no longer possible to tell that she was the daughter of a wealthy family...
If Lan Shichu knew what he was thinking, he would definitely roll his eyes: This skin color was created by her using various makeup liquids in order to avoid being out of line, so she doesn't need his sympathy, thank you!
Gong Liang Sibai stuffed a small purse containing several snacks into her belt, whispered "I'm sorry" to Lan Shichu, and then left.
After he left, Lan Shichu took out the small purse and found a few pieces of osmanthus cake in it, which was good enough to fill his stomach.
But Gong Liang Subai didn't know what he was thinking. Wasn't he afraid that she would be frightened when she woke up in the morning and found a small purse suddenly stuffed in her belt? How scary would it be to have something inexplicably appear on her clothes? Wasn't he afraid that she would be frightened out of her imagination?
Lan Shichu turned over, scolded Gong Liang Sibai for being unreliable, and continued to sleep.
In the blink of an eye, almost another month had passed. Everyone had become accustomed to this intensity of travel. Those who were too weak had died on the road, and those who were not dead gradually survived. Human potential is amazing. Even if no one can adapt to such hard days at the beginning, slowly, the bodies of those who survived will get used to it.
Gong Liangqin and Liu managed to survive because of Gong Liangsubai's secret help.
Lan Shichu's belly has been slowly swelling, and the five-month-old fetus has begun to move. Sometimes when Lan Shichu is walking and practicing, she will be interrupted by the active fetal movements in her belly, but she doesn't care. Normal fetal movements mean that the baby is also normal. But Wen is very worried about her, because pregnant women in the second trimester will have a big appetite and want to eat a lot, but now, they can't even eat enough, let alone eat well.
"Sibai, you knew that your sister-in-law is pregnant, right?" When Gong Liangxian saw Lan Shichu's bulging belly, he finally remembered that she was pregnant. She had been behaving like a normal person during this period, so Gong Liangxian sometimes even forgot that she was pregnant. He only remembered it now and reminded his brother.
"She's pregnant? I didn't know..." Gong Liangsubai was very shocked.
Gong Liangxian was extremely surprised: "You didn't know? How could you not know?"
But he changed his mind and felt that it was understandable that Gong Liangsubai didn't know. After all, he hadn't sent any letters to his family since he ran away from home. His family didn't know how to notify him if they wanted to. The deposed crown prince wouldn't pay attention to these internal affairs of his maternal family and naturally wouldn't tell him. So far, Gong Liangsubai only knew that Lan Shichu was still alive and didn't know that she was pregnant with his child.
Gong Liangxian wiped his face. From this point of view, his brother was obviously not a responsible and good husband.
(End of this chapter)
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