The Prime Minister's Darling novel Chapter 25

Chapter 25: Expert

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

At this moment, Gu Jiao walked over from the backyard with a small basket on her back.

“It took so long for you to go to the latrine?” Feng Lin muttered softly.

Xiao Liulang’s gaze landed on Gu Jiao. When she approached, he asked her, “Are you feeling unwell? Let the doctor have a look at you.”

“I’m fine, let’s go,” Gu Jiao said.

She did not look like she was sick. Xiao Liulang went to get the herbs. When he paid the bill, he realized that the medicine for half a month cost less than one tael of silver. “Did you make a mistake?”

“No, that’s the price,” the clerk said.

“I told you long ago, their business is not good, so they lowered the price,” Feng Lin whispered into his ear.

But isn’t this too… ridiculous?

However, other than this, Xiao Liulang could not think of any other reason. It could not be that some noble was secretly helping him.

The group left the Spring Rejuvenation Hall.

The branch manager personally sent them to the door. When he brushed past Gu Jiao, the second boss grinned and extended five fingers to Gu Jiao.

The medicine’s five taels of silver. Its on your tab.

Gu Jiao gave him a domineering look. Deduct it… from the consultation fee!

Speaking of which, the branch manager had not asked her to treat anyone else yet, so she did not know what kind of business he would give her.

“Brother Xiao, I’ll send you back.” Feng Lin said.

Xiao Liulang said firmly, “There’s no need, Second Uncle Luo’s ox cart is just over there. Go back to the academy and study, you’re having your exam next year.”

At the mention of this, Feng Lin had a migraine. He was actually not very knowledgeable, and his teacher always remarked that his essays were too rigid and not creative enough. It was fine if he encountered a conservative examiner, but if the examiner followed the newer schools of thought he would definitely fail.

Feng Lin sighed. “Alright, I’ll go to the academy first. Be careful on the way back.”

With that, he glared at Gu Jiao again, as if worried that Gu Jiao would cause trouble for Xiao Liulang. However, ever since Xiao Liulang said that she had a name, he had never called her a little evil woman again.

After Feng Lin left, Gu Jiao and Xiao Liulang did not return to the village immediately. Instead, they went to the stores to buy something.

Gu Jiao bought some candied fruits, peanuts, and melon seeds. She realized that the old lady was easy to coax; as long as she was given something to eat, she could stay in the house for an entire day.

Xiao Liulang, on the other hand, bought some brown sugar. Last time, he had borrowed brown sugar from Auntie Zhang’s family, but he had yet to return it to her.

When the two of them carried the items onto the ox cart, Second Uncle Luo smiled. “Are you buying New Year’s goods? It’s about time, it’s almost the end of the year.”

The two of them were stunned.

They suddenly realized that New Year’s was coming.

The two of them were not actually muddle-headed, it was just that they did not have the habit of planning for New Year’s. The lights of myriad households and the family reunions on New Year’s Eve were always the loneliest days for them.

In her previous life, Gu Jiao left home at the age of eight and moved into the organization’s research institute. Whenever New Year’s Eve rolled around, the organization would collectively take a break, and she would be the only one left in the empty institute.

Gu Jiao did not know much about Xiao Liulang’s situation. Perhaps he had lively New Year’s Eves before, but now it was all gone.

She was a lonely soul in a different world, and he was a loner in a foreign land.

Second Uncle Luo’s words left the two of them momentarily at a loss.

However, the two of them did not say anything. They only took the things in their hands and silently boarded the ox cart.

The ox cart traveled slowly. When they arrived at the village, the sky was already dark.

Second Uncle Luo drove the ox cart back to his house. Gu Jiao threw everything into her small basket, and walked towards her house with Xiao Liulang.

Halfway through, she saw from afar that something seemed to have happened at the entrance of her house. A throng of people surrounded it, and the crowd was impenetrable; there were faint curses coming from within the crowd.