Chapter 312 Can’t Die in the Yard
Gu Qing couldn't bear to hear these words, as they reminded her of the days in the dark kiln.
Her eyes were red, her face was swollen and glossy purple, and she stared at Qian: "You're talking nonsense! I've already told you, this disease was deliberately given to me by someone! I'm clean and innocent! I've never been with a man! You're deliberately throwing dirty water on me!"
Qian squinted at her and said, "Why should I throw dirty water on you when you are like this? If I ruin your reputation, what good will it be for me as your stepmother?"
Judging from your appearance, you should not be stupid. Think about it carefully. If your illness is spread out, will outsiders believe what you say?
Venereal disease affects both men and women, and is usually contracted through sexual intercourse. You say you contracted venereal disease by mistake by wearing someone else's clothes. Let me ask you, if you heard this, would you believe it?"
Don't believe it!
If she heard this outside, she would definitely not believe it.
Gu Qing panicked for a moment, but soon she calmed down and knelt on the ground to kowtow to her father, Gu Liansheng: "Dad! We can keep this a secret! I'll just stay at home and not go out to see anyone. No one will know I'm back! No one will know I have this disease!"
Before Gu Liansheng could react, Qian stood in front of him and said, "No! We can't keep you at home! Your disease is contagious!"
"I'll just stay indoors and not come out. I'll eat, drink, defecate, and urinate separately from you. As long as we don't come into contact, I won't infect you with this disease!"
Qian spat at her. "You're so imaginative! This house is so small. Once your body starts to fester, the stench will be smelled all over the yard! How can we hide it then?"
"Ulcerated?" Gu Qing looked up suddenly, the panic in his eyes almost overflowing.
She questioned Qian in a trembling voice: "What do you mean by that?! What do you mean by festering?!"
Qian paused, looking strange: "Why? No one told you what it would be like if you got this disease?
That's not right. If Madam Wei really wanted to harm you, she should have told you how serious syphilis is after she knew you were sick. How come you didn't know that?"
Knowing that Qian had become suspicious, Gu Qing didn't care about it at the moment and just focused on asking about what had just been said.
"Hurry up! What did you mean by that?! What does fester?! Tell me now!"
"It seems you really don't know." Qian rarely showed a trace of pity.
"This syphilis is incurable. Once you're infected, it won't take long for your body to rot away piece by piece. As it rots away, the stench will only get worse. In the end, your entire body will be rotten, and you'll die from the pain!"
These words were like a loud thunder, which shattered half of Gu Qing's soul and spirit, and his whole body was filled with despair.
Qian continued, "I just advised you to hang yourself, and it was for your own good. Once you contract this disease, you'll die! No one can save you! Rather than dying in agony, half-human and half-ghost, it's better to hang yourself now and at least leave a trace of a human being."
Gu Qing refused to accept her fate and kowtowed to her father Gu Liansheng again: "Dad! I don't believe her words. She must be afraid of spending money to treat my illness, so she made up this story to scare me so that I would be afraid and hang myself!
"Dad! Please save me! I know you have money, and my grandma and grandpa also have money! Please use the money to hire a doctor to treat my illness. I will work like a slave to repay you in the future!"
Qian was so angry that she almost laughed. It was a rare occasion for her to be soft-hearted, but she didn't expect to be regarded as a heartless person!
Good, good, good!
Does Gu Qing think that her father is a good person?
Qian sneered, walked aside, and asked Gu Liansheng behind her to stand out.
She wanted to see if she could persuade Gu Liansheng to soften his heart.
"Dad?" Gu Qing's eyes were filled with hope. "I am your daughter! You must save me! I beg you, Dad! You must save me!"
As he spoke, Gu Qing knelt on the ground and crawled towards Gu Liansheng.
Gu Liansheng's face changed drastically. He stepped back repeatedly and scolded Gu Qing, telling her not to come any closer.
"Stop it! You have all these diseases on your body, and you dare to come to me?! Are you deliberately trying to hurt me?"
Gu Liansheng's attitude made Gu Qing feel disappointed, and she smiled a smile that was uglier than crying.
"Dad, I just want to live. I beg you! Please lend a hand and save me! If you don't want to see me at home, I can move out. As long as you are willing to give me money so that I can buy medicine to treat my illness, that's all."
Money is Gu Liansheng's forbidden zone. Even his parents are not allowed to step in. How dare a girl like him covet the money in his hands?
What a pipe dream!
"You just heard your mother say that your illness is incurable, so why waste money? Besides, if you go to get medicine, won't it reveal that you have a heart disease?
This disease will cause panic. People who know about this will definitely ask whose daughter you are. In the end, I'm afraid our entire family will be dragged down by you.
When that happens, where will you let Dad put his face? Dad is a scholar, and he cares most about his reputation and face. If he loses his reputation and face, Dad is afraid that he will never be able to take the imperial examination again.
"Think about your brother, and then think about your... grandma. They are all counting on Dad to pass the imperial examination! If you cut off Dad's path to the imperial examination, you will be the sinner of our family!"
Gu Qing didn't listen to a word Gu Liansheng said. She just kept kowtowing, hoping to make Gu Liansheng soften his heart.
Unfortunately, she didn't know that her father Gu Liansheng was as hard as iron, and he only felt hatred and annoyance when facing her kneeling begging.
"Go ahead! If you die in our yard, I'll buy you a coffin and bury you. I won't let your body lie exposed in the wilderness."
These words filled Gu Qing with hatred, and also forced her to face one thing: her father would not save her.
He stood up by holding onto the wall, fighting back the dizziness, and threatened fiercely: "I came back in the snow and wind, and I never planned to leave again! If you pay me money to buy medicine to treat my illness, I will stay at home and not see anyone. If you don't care about me, then I will just go all out and cry in the village so that our whole family can show off!"
"Rebellious girl!" Gu Liansheng was angry and panicked, his eyes became colder, and he wished he could kill her right now!
Qian scoffed coldly, "Don't you feel bad now? She's just a wolf cub. She's dead now, and she can go to hell with you without a care in the world. What about you? You're a scholar with a family and a career, how dare you confront her head-on like this?"
Gu Liansheng really didn't dare. He couldn't help but feel a little regretful. When Qian started beating someone just now, he didn't dare to stop her. He should have instigated her and encouraged Qian to take action, preferably to beat the person to death.
After calming down, Gu Lianshan asked for the last time, "Originally, because you are my daughter, I thought that if you hang yourself obediently, your father will buy you a coffin and bury you.
Now it seems that Dad thought too highly of you. Your mother was right, you are a wolf cub, you only think about yourself and never think about others..."
"She is not my mother!" Gu Qing roared in a hoarse voice, staring at Qian with malicious eyes.
Then she looked at Gu Liansheng again and told him with a ferocious expression: "I won't hang myself! I want to live, and I want to live longer than any of you!"
After hearing this, Gu Liansheng cut off the last bit of softness in his heart and made a decision in his heart.
Ignoring Gu Qing's shouting, he turned around and discussed with Qian: "This girl has gone crazy."
Qian understood what he meant and nodded: "If you get this kind of disease, you will definitely go crazy."
"I still have two packets of the tranquilizing soup I prepared for the old lady. Go and boil it, and then find a way to feed it to the person."
Qian's eyebrows jumped: "She is your daughter. I can help you watch her and prevent her from running out and shouting. I will not interfere in other matters!"
"You!" Gu Liansheng's face darkened. "I can't do this alone..."
"That's your own business, it has nothing to do with me!"
"...In that case, I'll just leave her alone and let her go and cause trouble in the village!"
"Okay, I don't care. At worst, I'll just walk away and find another husband! After all, she's not my daughter, nor am I raising her. If outsiders knew about this, they'd only pity me for being unlucky enough to run into your family!"
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Gu Liansheng was so angry that his whole body was shaking!
How dare this whore talk about finding another partner right in front of me?!
Sure enough, his previous decision was right. After he passed the imperial examination, he could not keep this prostitute!
Gu Qing was not that stupid. Listening to the couple talking, she realized that they were planning to kill her, and she began to panic.
Looking at the open gate, he raised his foot and wanted to run over there.
Gu Liansheng was startled for a moment and subconsciously reached out to stop the man.
Gu Qing felt weak all over. It seemed that Qian's previous slaps had hurt her brain. She felt dizzy and her legs were weak.
When Gu Liansheng stretched out his hand to stop her, she didn't even have the strength to dodge. She tried to move sideways to avoid Gu Liansheng's hand, but her legs went soft and she fell directly to the ground, hitting her forehead against the wall.
Gu Qing became desperate. She knew that if she relied on herself alone, she would not be able to escape.
Looking at his biological father who was approaching with a stick, Gu Qing burst into tears again and shouted at the top of his voice.
"Help! Help! My father wants to kill me..."
The shout scared Gu Liansheng, and he immediately turned his head to look outside the yard, fearing that the shout would attract someone.
"Look at how little you can do!" Qian rolled her eyes at him unhappily. "Didn't you hear that your daughter's voice is obviously drugged. She's lucky to be able to speak at all. She still wants to yell at people like before? Don't even think about it!"
Qian was telling the truth. Although Gu Qing was shouting for help, her voice was hoarse and low, and she couldn't produce any high notes at all. Her voice sounded even lower than Qian's.
With such a noise, she could shout in the yard for a whole day without disturbing the neighbors.
Gu Liansheng breathed a sigh of relief, dropped the stick, went into the house to find a hemp rope, and wanted to tie up Gu Qing's hands and feet.
But when he was about to do it, he became afraid again, "If I touch her with my hands, will I get this disease?"
"I don't know about that. Anyway, I won't touch her!" Qian said with an evasive look on her face.
Her attitude made Gu Liansheng feel even more uncertain. After hesitating for a while, he decided not to tie her up.
"I'm going to make some medicine, you stay here and watch over her."
Qian nodded, leaned against the door frame, and looked at Gu Qing lying on the ground in a cricket pupa with an expressionless face.
After hitting the wall, Gu Qing was completely unable to stand up. He lay on the ground dizzy with his eyes out of focus.
He was still shouting for help, his limp limbs trembling as he continued to crawl forward.
Unfortunately, she climbed in the wrong direction. The gate of the yard was on the south side, but she turned around and climbed to the west, and half of her body had already crawled into the snow in the yard.
The thick snow obscured Gu Qing's figure. Even if someone passed by the gate of Gu's courtyard, they would not be able to find a person lying in the snow.
Qian leaned against the door frame without moving, allowing Gu Qing to pupate in the snow nest.
Not long after, Gu Qing stopped moving, but his hoarse and unpleasant voice was still shouting for help.
Qian started to move, walked slowly to Gu Qing's side, squatted down and sighed.
"You should know your father's character. You came back sick, and you should have expected this fate. I don't understand, if you are afraid of death, why did you come back?"
Gu Qing's mind was still somewhat clear, and she heard Qian's words clearly.
Yes, she knew her father's character better than anyone else. Even her mother was abandoned, so what was she to herself?
So, why come back?
"Don't blame your father. Your illness is too scary. If you don't die, your whole family will never have peace."
Qian's words were like the scythe of the god of death. Gu Qing seemed to sense that his life was slipping away.
She closed her mouth, stopped shouting for help, and began to accept her fate.
Seeing that the person had fallen silent, Qian stood up and left, returning to the corridor to continue guarding her.
After a while, Gu Liansheng came over with a bowl of steaming medicine.
"Where are the people?"
Qian pointed to the yard and said, "He's lying in the snow."
Gu Liansheng took a look and immediately complained, "I asked you to watch her, so why did you let her crawl into the snow? How am I supposed to feed her the medicine like this?"
"There's no need to force her to take medicine." Qian glanced at the sky. "The snow is getting heavier. Judging from the weather, it's likely to snow heavily. If you're cruel, just let her lie down in the snow. She'll die soon."
"How is that possible?!" Gu Liansheng immediately shouted.
Qian's expression changed slightly, thinking that Gu Liansheng had changed his mind.
Unexpectedly, Gu Lianshan's next words made her feel cold all over.
"If someone gets this filthy disease and dies in the yard, wouldn't that be disgusting?"
Qian paused and said, "Then where do you think she died?"
"I originally thought of giving her a bowl of soothing soup to let her sleep peacefully, then tying her up. At night, I'd take her to the mountains and throw her there, letting the wild animals tear her apart and eat her. I'd make sure no one would find her."
Qian shuddered. "Didn't you just say you were going to buy her a coffin and bury her properly? Why are you thinking of dragging her off to the mountains now?"
"What nonsense are you talking about?" Gu Lianshan glared at her. "If I buy a coffin, it will definitely arouse suspicion."
"So what if I doubt it? The person is already dead and sealed in the coffin. Who can open the coffin and perform an autopsy?"
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