The pond is not big, but it has lotus flowers planted in it and koi fish raised in it. The bottom of the pond is full of silt, and if you walk a little, the koi fish will move and make the water turbid.

Gu Zhaoming kept groping under the scorching sun, while his two younger brothers knew something was wrong and ran to find his mother.

When his mother learned that the special medicine had fallen into the pond and could not be found, she immediately sent his grandfather to the hospital.

Gu Zhaoming hurriedly found the medicine and rushed back to feed it to his grandfather, but he only learned from the servant that his mother had taken his grandfather to the hospital.

He thought his grandfather would be fine if his mother took him to the hospital, but he still went to the hospital to see his grandfather with medicine. Unexpectedly, when he arrived at the hospital, his grandfather had already passed away.

Later, what awaited him was an angry slap from his father and condemning looks from the family elders.

When the second and third brothers told their mother about the fight over the special medicine, in order to shirk responsibility, they naturally did not tell the truth, but instead put the blame of losing the special medicine on Gu Zhaoming.

Although the mother favored her two younger brothers, she also understood her two sons and probably guessed that the responsibility lay with the two younger brothers, so she rushed to send grandfather to the hospital.

Unexpectedly, his grandfather died on the road. His mother was also panicked.

So she complained to his father first, saying that as the eldest brother, he did not know how to give way to his younger brothers and had to compete with his two younger brothers, which caused the medicine to fall into the pond.

He said that after he found the medicine, he procrastinated and failed to deliver it in time, which delayed his grandfather.

On the contrary, her two younger brothers were sensible. After they knew that the medicine had been lost, they came to her and helped her take their grandfather to the hospital.

It’s a pity that my grandfather couldn’t hold on.

His closest grandfather passed away, and his mother and two younger brothers were also slandering him. Gu Zhaoming was devastated and angry.

He was so angry that he beat his two younger brothers in front of everyone, and then explained the truth to his father and the elders, but he was considered to be quibbling and shirking responsibility.

Later, after a meeting of the family elders, it was determined that Gu Zhaoming had delayed the treatment of the old patriarch, so he was sentenced to forty-nine lashes according to the family law.

This method avoids vital points and is not fatal, but it can still leave a person with skin torn and blood all over.

Gu Zhaoming's position as the heir of the family was not deprived because of this. After all, he was trained by the old patriarch himself, so he was certainly not comparable to those two incompetent brothers who were left alone.

Gu Zhaoming dragged his wounds to question his mother, asking her why she didn't believe him and why she helped her two brothers to perjure themselves. He thought that the wounds would make her feel distressed and guilty, but unexpectedly, she still didn't think she had done anything wrong.

She said she knew what he said was true and she believed him.

However, if the matter were to be made public, his two younger brothers would definitely be beaten half to death by family rules and would also be expelled from the family.

They would not have been able to inherit much, nor did they have his abilities. If they were beaten and expelled from the family, how would they survive?

But Gu Zhaoming was different. He was the third-generation heir trained by the old patriarch. At most he would be punished by the family rules, but he would not be expelled from the family, and he suffered almost no losses.

Of course, his mother still had some selfish motives. After all, it was she who decided to send the old master Gu to the hospital, and missed the special medicine that Gu Zhaoming found, which delayed the old master's treatment. She was afraid that she would also have to bear the responsibility.

In a nutshell, sacrifice Gu Zhaoming for the happiness of their whole family.

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Good night~ (End of this chapter)