Chapter 107 Each family cuts firewood and burns it in their own room!
After all this trouble, Mr. Gu is lucky to be alive!
But fortunately, I managed to finish most of the medicine, so it wasn't in vain.
Gu Tang was amazed and felt unsatisfied.
Putting down the empty bowl, Gu Lianshan took the wooden board and tried to pry open Feng's mouth again. He also took the time to instruct Gu Tang: "Wait for Dad to insert the wooden board into your nipple, and then you can pour the medicine in!"
"Okay!" Gu Tang cleared his throat, eager to try.
"Pour!"
Following her father's order, Gu Tang poured the medicine into Feng's mouth.
Soon, Feng also choked.
Afterwards, he started to cough like Old Man Gu, with deafening coughing. At the end of his coughing, he was short of breath and exhausted, with his face flushed, as if he was going to die in the next moment.
The father and daughter hid aside and watched, waiting for the person to finish coughing, and then went forward to continue pouring.
After the medicine was finished, Gu Tang silently calculated that Feng had not even eaten half a bowl of medicine.
But her father didn't say anything, only said: "Your eldest brother said earlier that Doctor Gu also told us to wait until midnight before feeding him another bowl."
Okay, then let’s wait until midnight to feed him.
Gu Tang put down the empty bowl, a hint of regret flashed across her eyes, she hadn't finished drinking enough.
"Go out and play. This room smells like medicine. Your grandparents are sick, and you're not feeling well either. Don't let the sickness get to you."
Gu Lianshan waved at Gu Tang and told her to go out quickly.
There was more than just the smell of medicine in the room. There was also a constant lingering smell of urine in the small room.
Gu Tang looked behind the door and saw a urine bucket there!
It is understandable to put a urine bucket in the room at night because you are afraid of the cold and don’t want to go to the toilet. But why is there a urine bucket in the room in broad daylight?
It was Feng who scolded Gu Laian, saying that the room was as dirty as a pigsty. Today, I saw that her own room was in the same condition.
Gu Tang covered his nose and quickly left the house.
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By evening, the two elders of the Gu family were still asleep, and their complexions did not look any better. After dinner, Gu Lianshan planned to sleep on the floor in Feng's room tonight. No matter what, he would at least take care of them for a night.
In such weather, sleeping on the floor was extremely cold, so Gu Tang simply moved the two stoves used for boiling medicine at home to Feng's house.
It was also because of these two stoves that Gu Tang caught Gu Qing and scolded him again.
When it was dark, Gu Liansheng in the east wing woke up and said that he was hungry. As soon as he woke up, he wanted to eat and drink.
Half of the Gu family's food supply was in Feng's room, and the other half was in the east wing. Both places were locked with big locks, and Feng held all the keys.
Every day when the family cooked, they would first go to Feng to ask for food rations and cook as much as she gave them.
Now that Feng is ill, the key falls into Gu Tang's hands.
Gu Tang did not bargain with the eldest family over food rations. There was no meat, but they were still able to fill themselves up with porridge.
But after dinner, Gu Liansheng started to act like a troublemaker, saying that it was all Gu Tang's fault that the two elders of the Gu family were so seriously ill.
Gu Tang didn't tolerate it either. She called her father to go to the east wing together, and insisted on pulling Gu Liansheng up and asking him to go to the main room to keep watch!
As the eldest son in the family, you have spent a lot of money to support your studies for decades. Now your parents are seriously ill. Unless you have passed away, you have to keep watch even if you are unconscious!
These words frightened Gu Liansheng so much that his face turned pale immediately.
He was a man who valued his life very much, and he knew his own body very well. If he really had to stay up all night, he would probably not be able to make it until midnight.
While the two sides were arguing, Gu Liansheng started crying again, saying that he was dizzy and had a headache, and asked Gu Qing to boil some medicine, saying that he had to take the medicine, and if he didn't take the medicine, he might not be able to make it.
After Gu Laian's previous provocation, Gu Qing saw some things clearly. Now her mother Wei's whereabouts are unknown, and the only father Gu Liansheng is left in the house.
Although her father is useless and can't do anything, as long as her father gets better, their eldest wife will still be the head of the family.
Those bastards from the second house wouldn't openly bully her!
Perhaps he had thought this through clearly, for when he heard Gu Liansheng yelling for medicine, Gu Qing gritted his teeth, took out his own private money, and went to Doctor Gu's house to get back a dozen packets of medicine.
As soon as she got the medicine back, she hurriedly cleaned the medicine jar and prepared to make medicine for her father.
However, all the stoves used for boiling medicine at home were moved into the main room by Gu Tang. There was still one stove left in the kitchen, but it was in tatters and not very easy to use.
Gu Qing had no choice but to bite the bullet and go to the main room to move out a stove.
Gu Lianshan didn't say anything. As for Gu Tang, she wanted to come back, but was stopped by her father, who said that the stove had to be moved back. If anything went wrong in the first house, Gu Tang would definitely be framed.
After hearing this, Gu Tang endured it, thinking that she would move the stove back after Gu Qing finished boiling the medicine.
Unexpectedly, after Gu Qing finished boiling the medicine, he actually moved the stove directly into the east wing, and also carried a lot of firewood from the backyard into the house.
The firewood she was carrying was all chopped by Gu Ping'an and was left for Gu Tang to use to burn the stove at night.
Although they brought back some charcoal this time, charcoal was not cheap, so they still had to use the firewood first.
Gu Qing moved the stove into the east wing silently, which made Gu Tang frown. If Gu Lianshan hadn't been persuading him, he would have gone over and scolded him.
When he saw Gu Qing go to the backyard again to carry the firewood chopped by Gu Ping'an into the east wing, Gu Lianshan could no longer persuade her.
Shaking off her father's hand, Gu Tang rushed into the east wing angrily, pointed at Gu Qing's nose and started scolding her, making her cry.
After cursing, Gu Tang threw all the firewood that Gu Qing brought in into the yard, and carried the stove back to the main room.
Not long after, she came out of the main hall again, stood in the east wing corridor, and continued to yell at the eldest family: "A house full of lazy people! I told you a few days ago that the firewood in the backyard was chopped by my father and brother, and you are not allowed to use it anymore!
These days, I have been busy and have not bothered with you, but you have become even more arrogant and shameless! Today I will say it again! From tomorrow on! Each family will chop their own firewood! If you don't chop? Then you will be cold and hungry!
If anyone dares to use a piece of firewood from our second room again, I will take advantage of your sleep and carry all the firewood from the backyard to your east room in the middle of the night, and burn you all to ashes in one fire!"
The east wing suddenly became quiet, and Gu Qing was so scared that she didn't dare to cry anymore.
Gu Tang spat on the ground, went back to the house angrily, got a lock, and went to the backyard to lock the door of the woodshed.
After this commotion, the firewood thrown out by Gu Tang was lying in the yard, and no one from the east wing dared to come out to pick it up.
Even Gu Mei and Gu Laian were frightened. Tonight, neither of them dared to go to the backyard to get firewood.
It’s not a problem for Gu Laian. Gu Ping’an will sleep in the same room with him tonight. The firewood was brought in early, enough to burn for the whole night.
Gu Mei was more miserable. She slept alone, wrapped in bedding and clothes, and waited all night long. She almost froze to death!
The next day, Gu Tang got up early and the first thing he did was to go to the backyard.
There will be another chapter later
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