The medical officer emerged from the village, took off his protective clothing, washed his hands a few more times with a special potion, walked towards Master Gu’s carriage and stood a step away in front of it, “Is it Master Gu?”
“I am.”
Master Gu scrambled out of the carriage.
The medical officer pulled out a note and put it on the ground, “This is what someone told me to give you.”
Master Gu took a big step over and the medical officer took a few more steps back and turned to leave.
Mo An saw it and took a big step over, “Father-in-law ……”
Master Gu clutched the note in his hand, his face a little heavy, “Yi’er said he just woke up after three days in a coma, Bao’er’s condition is somewhat better, he said for me and your mother-in-law not to worry, go home first.”
“Let me see.”
Mo An eagerly held out his hand, but Master Gu didn’t give it to him, “Go and tell Hui’er quickly.”
“Yue ……”
Master Gu gave a look over.
“Yes.”
Looking at Mo An’s back, Master Gu’s hand clutching the note tightened.
“Master.”
Master Gu withdrew his gaze, “Gu Zhong.”
A boy quickly stood up from by the fire and came over, “Master.”
Master Gu instructed a few words, Gu Zhong answered, turned and untied the reins and rode away.
Mo An lifted a slit in the carriage curtain to take it all in and lowered it in exasperation.
“Sangha.”
Gu Hui was uneasy.
“You go down and go over to keep them company.”
Gu Hui froze for a moment, reacted, got off the carriage, braced her shaky body and walked over to Master Gu’s carriage, “Father, Mother.”
Lady Gu lifted the curtain, her heart aching for her daughter in the end, “Come up here!”
Gu Hui let the maid help her up and spoke urgently, “I heard from the Sangha that little brother wrote a note out to father, saying that Bao’er was getting better.”
Knowing that Gu Yi was fine and that Bao’er was also getting better, Mrs. Gu was happy in her heart and her voice echoed with a smile, “Yes, your father even sent Gu Zhong to send a message to the family just now.”
“Can I see it?”
Master Gu pulled out the note from his sleeve band and gave it to her, Gu Hui read every word carefully and cried tears of joy, “Great, it’s great that they’re okay.”
Master Gu fondled the other note in the cuff, looking indifferently at the daughter he had raised for over ten years.
……
“See?”
Mo An asked eagerly as Gu Hui had just gotten into the carriage, Gu Hui nodded, “Yes, that’s indeed all that was written.”
Mo An felt something was wrong somewhere, if that was all that was written, what did Master Gu let Gu Zhong do.
“Gu Zhong is going to send a letter to his family, afraid that they will worry.”
Knowing what was on his mind, Gu Hui said.
“Your parents are there, who else is at home?”
Gu Hui froze.
……
“It’s been a few days, why hasn’t Yue’er come back yet?”
Song Lin poked around the courtyard, she left on the fifteenth day, it was nineteen today.
Song Si was packing his luggage, the academy opened tomorrow, he was leaving for the capital at the end of the month, so he would take advantage of these days to have a good discussion with the masters and the dean again.
“Eldest uncle don’t be in a hurry, Yi’er is feverish, even if it comes down, he has to rest for a few days before coming back.”
“I’m not sure what’s going on in my heart, I always feel that something is going to happen, no, I have to go to the Gu family and ask Daya where the Gu family’s eldest daughter has married, I have to go there.”
With that, he lifted his feet and walked to the stables, took out his horse and put on the carriage, and hurried to the courtyard where Song Wangyue lived.
“Daya!”
Daya’s heart thumped, when Master Gu left, he gave strict orders that no one in the family was to panic, let alone tell anyone about the young master’s smallpox, that night when Song Lin didn’t come to her, she was glad that she didn’t have to lie, but she didn’t expect that after only four days, Uncle Da would come again.
“Coming!”
“Daya, do you know when Yue’er will be back?”
Daya shook her head.
“Then you don’t know where the Gu family’s first lady has married? If Yue’er doesn’t come back, I’ll go and look for her.”
Da Ya’s heart was panicking, her face trying to remain calm, “I don’t know.”
“You go and ask for me.”
“Okay, wait a moment, eldest uncle.”
Daya left quickly while thinking quickly of countermeasures in her head, and only returned after a long while, “I have asked several people, but they don’t know, why don’t you go back first, I will ask around slowly, I will give you a message when I have found out.”
Song Lin was disappointed and turned his horse around to go home.
……
On the 25th day of the first month, the gates of the Mo family were opened and Master Mo himself came out and invited the medical officer in. A quarter of an hour later, the Mo family’s gate was opened again, and the caretaker joyfully came out with a broom, sweeping the front of the gate so cleanly that he hated to shine a human shadow.
The rest of the family heard the commotion and poked their heads out from the walls.
“The medical officer says that our young master and young master Gu are both fine.”
“Really?”
The watchman nodded fiercely, “The medical officer will be out soon, if you don’t believe me, ask him.”
The people came down from the wall and opened their own gates and ran out, just in time to see the medical officer coming out of Mo’s house, each one raising his voice and asking eagerly.
“It’s indeed all right, don’t worry everyone.”
A cheer went up and the crowd ran around, knocking on doors from house to house, “Come on out, it’s all right, it’s all right!”
The cheer in the village reached outside, and Master Gu and Madam Gu got down from the carriage and looked nervously inside.
“It’s all right? It’s all right isn’t it?”
Gu Hui’s stumbled over, she had lost weight and her cheeks were sunken in, her clothes were so wide on her body that a gust of wind could have blown her into the sky.
The medical officer came out carrying the medicine chest and made a gesture towards the magistrates guarding the entrance to the village, who untied the ropes holding them back, and Gu Hui stumbled towards the house, “Bao’er, my Bao’er!”
Mo An also ran in quickly.
Master Gu and Madam Gu followed close behind.
Gu Yi was standing at the door with Bao’er in her arms, her face covered with a paddle. Gu Hui stumbled and pounced over, hugging Bao’er in her arms, her hand touching his head, “Bao’er, mother’s Bao’er!”
Mo An wrapped their mother and father in her arms and wept with joy.
The people around them looked moved.
“Yi’er!”
“Father, Mother!”
“I’m glad you’re okay, I’m glad you’re okay.”
“My in-laws, my in-laws.”
Master Mo and Madam Mo had apologetic faces, “I’m sorry.”
“What are the words of the in-laws, no one would want such a thing to happen, fortunately the children are lucky and survived safely.”
“Yes, yes, yes, the in-laws have suffered along with them outside these few days, please take a seat in the house.”
“No, after so many days away from home, it’s time for us to go back.”
As for the aunt, don’t blame me for being biased, let him stay in the house to recuperate, I will send someone to send some good tonic products later.”
Gu Hui’s body stiffened and the hand holding Bao’er tightened.