Chapter 278 Idiot!
Third Uncle put down the incense in his hand and asked Gu Ping'an to help.
He patted his body with a handkerchief a few times, and seeing that his clothes were clean, he waved to Gu Tang: "I'll take you there. Let's go show our faces. No matter what, we are brothers over there, and it's only right that we show our faces and ask what's going on."
Gu Tang was extremely happy. He handed over the cane attentively and also took out a cloak for the old man to wear.
"It's cold outside. Wearing a cloak can keep you warm."
Not only the old man wore it, she also went back to the house and put on a lilac cloak with rabbit fur sewn inside to keep out the cold and block the wind.
There was sporadic snow falling outside, so the grandfather and grandson walked out of the yard one after the other without wearing hats.
Not long after walking westward, Gu Tang heard a crunching sound from his feet stepping on the snow behind him.
When I looked back, it was Doctor Gu from the clan.
"Master, please look back. Doctor Gu is behind us."
Gu Tang tugged at his third uncle's cloak, signaling the old man to look back.
Third Uncle stopped and looked behind him. Yes, it was Doctor Gu.
Doctor Gu also saw his third uncle and Gu Tang, and hurried forward to greet his third uncle.
"Uncle Jiu, I haven't seen you for a long time. You are still so strong and healthy."
My third uncle is the ninth among his peers in the clan, so those who are distantly related to him call him according to his ranking in the clan.
If you are a close relative, address him according to his ranking in the family.
Doctor Gu was five generations removed from his uncle's lineage, so when he spoke, he addressed his uncle according to his rank among his peers in the clan.
The Third Uncle nodded with a smile on his face and asked Gu Tang to call him: "According to seniority, you should call him cousin."
"Uncle!" Gu Tang smiled.
Doctor Gu nodded in agreement and smiled as he praised Gu Tang: "Tang girl has changed a lot now, she is even more outstanding! It seems that she has been having a good time these days."
"My grandfather loves me dearly and keeps me well fed and well-fed. This is different from before."
Gu Tang replied with a smile, but didn't say much else.
Third Uncle took over the conversation and asked, "It's so cold, and you're carrying a medicine box on your back. Are you going to see a doctor?"
"That's right, the end of the village..." Having said this, Doctor Gu suddenly paused and glanced at Gu Tang.
Gu Tang was completely unaware. She lowered her eyes and stared at the snow beneath her feet. Her small feet secretly stepped back and forth on the snow, compacting it all under her feet.
She did this just to kill time.
Seeing this, Doctor Gu felt relieved and continued, "Something happened at the Liansheng brothers' house at the end of the village. They say Sixth Uncle (Old Man Gu) is ill. Someone just came home and told me to go over and save him."
His second brother is sick?
Third Uncle was stunned. "I heard something happened over there, so I took Miss Tang to check it out. I didn't know my second brother was sick. Is it his old illness that's come back?"
"That's unclear." Doctor Gu said helplessly, "The person who reported the news came and left quickly. Before I could ask him in detail, he ran away in a hurry."
"In that case, let's go together."
"well!"
A group of two people suddenly became a group of three.
Doctor Gu and Third Uncle walked side by side, chatting from time to time. Gu Tang followed behind them.
After walking for a while, Gu Tang felt how tiring it was to walk in the knee-deep snow. His legs felt heavy as if they were tied with stones, and he had to use all his strength to lift his feet every time.
In order to see the fun of the old couple Feng, she gritted her teeth and endured it, and finally she managed to make it to the Gu family courtyard at the end of the village.
At this time, there were many people gathered in the Gu family courtyard.
Everyone was obviously shivering with cold, but no one left. They all crowded at the door of the main room, standing on tiptoe to look inside.
Seeing this scene, Gu Tang was delighted. It seemed that Mr. Gu was seriously ill, otherwise so many people would not have come to watch.
As we got closer to the main hall, we heard bursts of crying from inside the house!
Gu Tang recognized that it was Feng's crying.
"Doctor Gu is here!" Someone who was gathered at the door saw Doctor Gu and shouted towards the inside of the house.
"Come on, come on! Everyone, move to the sides and let me go in to save lives."
Doctor Gu shouted and squeezed in hard.
The people around also realized the seriousness of the situation and moved to the sides, leaving a gap in the middle for one person to walk through.
When he squeezed to the door, he saw the patriarch coming out to greet him.
"Hurry up and get in! We're waiting for you. You don't look good!"
After saying this, Patriarch Gu saw his third uncle and Gu Tang again. The corners of his mouth twitched twice, and he opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but didn't know what to say.
He let Doctor Gu in first, and finally nodded helplessly to his uncle: "Come in, you two are brothers after all."
Third Uncle's heart sank. From what he heard, his second brother's illness was probably serious.
After letting Third Uncle and Gu Tang into the house, Clan Leader Gu once again blocked the door, not letting the people outside in, and began to chase them away with an impatient look on his face.
"What are you all doing gathered here? Aren't you afraid of the cold in the middle of winter? You'll be the ones to suffer if you catch a cold! Go back now! All of you! No one is allowed to stay here any longer!"
Everyone was reluctant to leave. They hadn't seen anyone yet and had been freezing outside for so long. At least they should be able to see someone.
Patriarch Gu remained unmoved. He scolded them harshly and drove everyone away before walking into the house trembling.
On the bed in the west room of the house, Old Man Gu was lying with a crooked mouth and squinting eyes. His symptoms were very similar to those of Mr. Feng, and he must have suffered a stroke.
Doctor Gu was taking the patient's pulse, his brows furrowed and his face serious.
My third uncle was very puzzled when he saw this scene.
He looked at Gu Liansheng, who was sitting there in a panic, and went up to him to ask what was going on.
"Your father was fine before, why did he suddenly become like this? What did you do last night?"
Gu Liansheng came back to his senses and dared not hide anything. He said, "Because I'm going to pay the betrothal gifts and get married today, the old man was very happy and asked me to drink a jar of wine together..."
"Nonsense!" Doctor Gu, who had just finished taking the patient's pulse, suddenly shouted.
He stood up and looked at Gu Liansheng with a look of disapproval: "I warned your father before that he has chest pain. Now the symptoms are only getting better, not cured!
From now on, you must abstain from excessive sadness or joy, and you must also abstain from alcohol! I have told you these taboos before. What’s wrong? Your father is too old to remember them, and you haven’t remembered them either?”
Gu Liansheng avoided his gaze and lowered his eyes to hide the guilt in his eyes.
Yes, Doctor Gu had reminded him of this before, but he never took it to heart.
He originally thought that the old man was aware of his own condition and would definitely remember these taboos, so he didn't care.
Yesterday, we just had some drinks, who would have thought it would turn out like this...
Seeing that Gu Liansheng remained silent, everyone guessed it.
Doctor Gu was extremely displeased with him at this moment, and suppressed his anger and asked, "When did your father become unwell?"
When did the discomfort occur?
Gu Liansheng recalled carefully: "...After getting drunk last night, the old man stayed in my room and slept in the same bed with me...In the middle of the night, he suddenly woke up and said he felt uncomfortable and wanted to go back to his own room..."
"And then?"
"Then? Then the old man went back to sleep in this room. Then someone knocked on the door and said it was time to propose marriage. I then got up and went to find my father, and then... then I saw this scene..."
Doctor Gu's face looked unhappy. "Last night, when your father said he couldn't sleep well, that was the initial symptom. If acupuncture had been used then, he should have been saved. But now... let's just leave it to fate!"
Doctor Gu sighed, picked up his medicine box, and said he was going back to prepare the medicine.
"First, make a bowl of medicine for your mother and feed it to your father. I'll go back and prepare the medicine. Come home and get it later."
After saying this, he turned around and left, not wanting to say anything more to Gu Liansheng.
Chief Gu and the elders of the clan stood up to see him off, and asked him what it meant to leave everything to fate.
Is it the same as Mrs. Feng, where she can only wait for death and endure the days with no possibility of recovery?
Third uncle followed, he also wanted to know the truth.
At this time, there were only four people left in the room: Mr. Gu lying unconscious on the bed, Gu Liansheng with a panicked look on his face, Gu Tang who was indifferent, and Yang who was sighing repeatedly.
It was estimated that Mr. Gu had urinated on the bed. There was a strong smell of urine in the room. Gu Tang frowned, lifted the curtain and walked out, wanting to get some fresh air outside.
Just as he was about to come out of the west room, Feng's loud voice was heard again from the east room.
"Son! My dear son! How is your father now? Tell me..."
Gu Tang wanted to pretend he didn't hear anything and leave, but unexpectedly the curtain behind him was lifted and Yang came out.
"Are you getting impatient?" Yang looked at the east room and wanted to go over to comfort Feng, but when she thought of the smell in Feng's room, she was still frightened and didn't dare to go over.
After thinking about it, he simply shouted into the room through the curtain at the east door: "Don't worry, Doctor Gu has come to see..."
"mother--"
A miserable howl suddenly came from the west room, interrupting Yang's words and scaring her.
Gu Tang was also startled. He looked back and saw Gu Liansheng coming out from the west room with a pale face.
Gu Tang raised his eyebrows. Could it be that this idiot wanted to tell Feng the truth?
That’s right, that’s what Gu Liansheng meant!
He ran to the door of the east room, but instead of opening the curtain to go in, he stood outside the curtain and cried towards the room.
"Mom! My dad is just like you now! His mouth is crooked, his eyes are squinting, and he's unconscious! Doctor Gu said that he's just like you, resigned to his fate and waiting to die..."
Gu Tang was amazed!
Talent!
What a talent!
No wonder the Gu family has trained him for decades but he still hasn't become a talent. It would be strange if he could become a talent!
Yang's face was extremely dark. She pointed at Gu Lianshan and angrily cursed him in a low voice: "Idiot! You are an educated person! But you can't even speak!"
After being scolded, Gu Liansheng felt both aggrieved and annoyed!
The stubborn temper in him came out, and you weren't letting him speak, right?
He insisted on saying it!
"Mom! What will happen to my son in the future? Dad is paralyzed in bed just like you. Who will take care of him in the future?"
Hearing this, Gu Tang rolled his eyes at him.
Who will take care of him?
You're almost 40, your daughters and sons are already married, how dare you say such things?!
"Mother? Mother! Say something!"
Gu Liansheng was angry and anxious as he hadn't received any reply from Feng. He wanted to go in and take a look, but he was disgusted by the smell in the house.
He cast his gaze on Yang beside him. Well... this was the clan leader's wife, not someone he could order around.
She caught a glimpse of Gu Tang near the main hall door, her eyes lit up instantly, and she shouted at Gu Tang in a domineering manner: "Fourth girl! Go to the east room to see your grandma! You are such an unfilial girl. Your grandma has been ill for so long, and you have been pretending to be blind and refusing to come and serve her!"
Gu Tang: ...I'm giving you face, right?
"My mistress has a son, a daughter, and grandchildren. It's not like she's completely extinct. It's not my place to serve her, emotionally or logically! When you finally die, I'll definitely come and serve you!"
"Who are you cursing, you little bitch!" Gu Liansheng was furious, his face ashen.
Gu Tang sneered: "I will curse whoever is a jerk!"
"You!" Gu Liansheng subconsciously raised his fist and wanted to beat Gu Tang, but was stopped by Yang.
"Tang girl is right. We are now two different families. Your mother has children and grandchildren. Even if she needs to be served, it is you as her son who should serve her. It has nothing to do with them!"
Facing Yang, Gu Liansheng didn't dare to be too arrogant. He wanted to defend himself, but saw Yang lift the curtain at the door of the east room and push him in when he was off guard.
Yang spat on the ground, "Bah! Your mother spent money to support your studies, and you've been studying for twenty or thirty years! Now that she's sick, you actually despise her! I think all the books you read have gone to waste!"
You don't have to take the imperial examination next year! Even if you become an official, you will still be a rotten piece of shit! If you let someone like you pass, you will be a disaster for the people!
The curse was so harsh that Gu Liansheng was so angry that stars appeared in his eyes.
The lingering smell of feces and urine kept drilling into his nostrils. He retched repeatedly and almost fainted.
I held on to the table for a long time before I could see clearly.
He pinched his nose and walked towards the bed.
There was no window in the room and the light was dim. It was not until he reached the bed that he discovered that his mother had fainted.
"Mother? Mother!"
Gu Liansheng was really panicked this time. He shouted several times, but Feng didn't respond at all.
He staggered out, shouting as he ran: "My mother has fainted! Where's the doctor? Don't let him go! Call him back quickly..."
When Yang outside heard this, she was shocked for a moment and then went to look for Clan Leader Gu.
Gu Liansheng's loud voice was also heard by the people in the corridor outside. After Yang came out to explain everything, Doctor Gu, who had not yet returned, hurried to the east room.
Gu Liansheng just came out of the east room in a panic. Seeing Doctor Gu coming, he hurriedly pointed to the east room and asked him to go and take the old lady's pulse.
Doctor Gu was caught off guard and went straight into the east room, and then... he was quickly driven out by the stench of feces and urine.
"Why does this room smell like feces and urine? Has your mother always lived in a room like this?"
Doctor Gu was dumbfounded, then pointed at Gu Liansheng and cursed, "You're a scholar! How can you treat your seriously ill mother like this? You're unworthy of being a son!"
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