Gu Jiao thanked the old Mr. Meng and sat up in the carriage.
Wang Ma sustained some injuries while dragging King Hei Feng earlier, so Gu Jiao didn’t make it pull the carriage and used the horses from the National Master Hall instead.
Wang Ma happily pranced ahead.
When the two carriages arrived at their temporary residence, the mansion, the sky had already darkened.
Mrs. Nan was wondering why Gu Jiao and old Mr. Meng had been away for so long when she heard the sound of hooves outside.
She hurriedly put down the half-picked mung bean sprouts she was holding and got up to open the door for Gu Jiao.
What she saw was King Hei Feng being carried down on a stretcher by several disciples from the National Master Hall.
She was taken aback and murmured, "Are we having horse meat tonight?"
King Hei Feng: "..."
Gu Jiao: "..."
The disciples from the National Master Hall left after carrying King Hei Feng into the front courtyard.
"It’s a horse found in the woods, Little Shiyi discovered it." Gu Jiao recounted the whole experience of rescuing King Hei Feng from the swamp to Mrs. Nan.
Old Mr. Meng had already heard the story once at the entrance of the National Master Hall and hadn’t caught on at the time, but listening to it again, he suddenly realized something was amiss.
Where in the inner city of Shengdu could there be such a large forest?
Could it be that the child had gone to the royal hunting grounds!
This might be a horse of the royal household—
Forget it, since the people from the National Master Hall brought the horse back, let the National Master Hall take responsibility if the sky falls.
Crown Prince Han turned the inner city upside down looking for it, yet who would have known that his King Hei Feng had already been ferried out of the city in a spacious carriage with a great canopy?
With a new horse arriving at home, Gu Yan and Gu Xiaoshun both came to see what the commotion was about.
Gu Jiao stopped her two younger brothers, "First, it needs to be washed, its body is covered in poisonous swamp."
Gu Xiaoshun went to fetch water, while Gu Jiao, Mrs. Nan, and Master Lu busied themselves for half an hour before they could finally clean the swamp off its body.
Only then did Gu Jiao realize that besides the large wound on its abdomen, there were many small injuries elsewhere on its body.
Gu Yan brought over the first aid kit, "Here."
Gu Jiao took the first aid kit, placed it on a stool, picked up the disinfectant along with tweezers and cotton swabs, and squatted down to carefully clean all the wounds on the horse’s body.
"With such severe poisoning, it will need to take medicine later. If it can’t swallow, we’ll have to administer an IV."
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