The coachman carefully drove the carriage back to the Gu family, not caring to be covered in sweat, and hurried to change the carriage.
But the place where the carriages were parked was unexpectedly empty today. He ran in a panic to find Master Gu, and when he was halfway there, he ran into Gu Yi.
Gu Yi saw his panicked appearance and raised his eyebrows, “What’s wrong?”
The coachman hurriedly stopped, “Young master, the carriage Miss is riding in is broken, I want to change it, but there is no carriage left, I will go and report to the master.”
Although the Gu family’s population was small, there were five or six carriages, both ordinary and magnificent, and they used at most one or two on a normal day, but today they were all used.
“There are no carriages, it’s useless even if you report to my father, lead me over there and see, what has the carriage broken down to?”
The coachman did not dare to disobey and led him over to see that the wheel of the carriage was cracked. Why don’t you fix it quickly?”
The coachman called for helpers, took off the cracked wheel, repaired it carefully, put it back on, and hurried to pick up Gu Hui.
He had not gone far when he saw Mo Ju walking with Gu Hui on her swaying feet. The two of them were in such a mess that not only were their clothes covered in dirt, but even their hair was hanging down in disarray.
The coachman hurriedly threw a few whips and drove the carriage in front of the two, “Miss.”
Gu Hui was so tired and thirsty that she couldn’t even speak, holding onto the carriage shi and gasping for breath, Mo Ju was even worse, sitting down on the ground.
The coachman brought a horse stool, and Mo Ju stood up, helped Gu Hui up, and climbed up after her.
When she returned home, it was already noon and Mrs. Gu was about to send someone to see why Gu Hui hadn’t come back yet, when she saw her in this state and entered the door, she almost jumped up in shock, “Hui’er, what’s wrong with you?”
Gu Hui waved her hand feebly, dragged her senseless legs to her, picked up the tea in front of her and drank it in one go, and then drank the one in front of Master Gu as well, feeling smoke still rising from her throat, she uttered in a dumb voice, “Water, water ……”
Mrs. Gu quickly ordered someone to bring warm water, Gu Hui drank several cups in a row before she felt better and sat down in her chair.
Mrs. Gu got up and came over, taking a handkerchief to wipe her beads of sweat, “Hui’er, what’s wrong with you?”
“The carriage broke down and I walked back.”
“Huh?”
“Blame it on these losers at home!”
Gu Hui was so angry that her voice got a little louder and she pulled her throat, which caused her to cough.
Gu Hui’s eyes turned red as she coughed, “The carriage broke down just after we left Song Village, the driver came back to change the carriage, but he didn’t go back until we were almost back, what is it if it’s not a waste?”
“Yes, yes, they are all trash, let your father teach them a good lesson later, you’d better stop talking, go back to the house and take a good rest.”
“Big sister, big sister ……”
Gu Yi shouted and ran in, “Little girl ……”
The words stopped when he saw Gu Hui’s wretched appearance, “My God, big sister, did you go racing with the little girl?”
Then got excited again and sat down next to Gu Hui, “Little girl might have run, last time I was in the county, I saw her running, I even wanted to accompany her, but unfortunately she disliked me ……”
Said this, a face of envy, “the little girl can race with you, must be very fond of you.”
Gu Hui, ……
To hell with her racing!
She just wants to strangle Song Wan Yue now, if it wasn’t for her, how could she have suffered this?
Instead, the corners of her mouth pulled out a smile, “Little brother thought wrong, I haven’t seen Miss Song.”
“Haven’t seen?”
Gu Yi was shocked and stood up in a tentative manner, turning in a circle in anxiety, “It’s over, it’s over, she won’t even see you, much less me, what can I do, what can I do?”
Gu Hui was dizzy from his spinning, but she was still patient, “Don’t worry, little brother, Miss Song has gone to the county town to set up a stall and will not be back until this afternoon.”
Gu Yi let out a long sigh of relief and sat back down beside her again, “Big sister, I was wrong to blame you this morning, it was my fault, will you go and look for the little girl again this afternoon?”
Gu Hui’s body hurt, how could she be willing to go again, but she couldn’t refuse, patting Gu Yi’s hand, “Even if you don’t say so, big sister is still going, don’t worry.”
“Thank you big sister, I knew big sister was the best for me.”
Gu Hui reluctantly smiled and called for the maid to a*sist her to go to the bath room first, and just after sitting in the bath tub, she fell asleep and was only woken up by the maid after washing.
She didn’t even eat, so she fell into bed and fell asleep. It felt like she had only slept for a short while when she heard Gu Yi shouting from outside, “Big sister, big sister.”
Gu Hui’s eyelids were so heavy that she couldn’t open them, so she pretended not to hear them and continued to sleep on her own.
Gu Yi pushed the door open and barged in, leaning close to her ear and shouting, “Big Sister!”
Gu Hui sat up in shock, her sleepiness gone and her ears buzzing.
“Big sister, it’s already half an afternoon, when are you going to look for the little girl.”
Gu Hui didn’t even think about it, she picked up a pillow and put it hard over his face, “Go to hell!”
There was silence in the room.
Mrs. Gu, who had one foot in the door, stared at the scene in disbelief, “Hui, Hui’er!”
Hearing her voice, Gu Hui gave a jolt and realised what she had done, and hurriedly threw away her pillow, “Mother, I, I, I ……”
“Big sister is joking with me.”
Gu Yi didn’t care and relieved her.
Gu Hui echoed in a panic, “Yes, yes, yes, little brother and I were joking around, why did Mother follow?”
Madam Gu was still looking at her, her face stony.
Gu Hui’s scalp tingled at the look, she hurriedly got off the bed, slipped on her shoes and came over to help her, “Mother first sit down with little brother first, I’ll clean up soon.”
Mrs Gu didn’t move, “Mother and Yi’er will go to the flower hall and wait for you.”
Gu Hui’s heart trembled, she let go of her hand and lowered her eyebrows, “Okay.”
Madam Gu waved towards Gu Yi, waited for him to come to her side, reached out her hand and grabbed his hand tightly, leading him to the flower hall.
The old man was drinking tea when he heard footsteps and raised his eyes to look over, seeing that Mrs. Gu did not look very well, he was about to ask a question when Mrs. Gu nodded slightly towards him, the old man swallowed his words back, Mrs. Gu went over and sat down, also picked up her tea and took a few sips.
Gu Hui soon came over and said a few words to them before hurrying out to the Song family.
Looking at her slightly faint-hearted back, Madam Gu stumped Gu Yi out and spoke in a heavy tone, “Master, I’m afraid what Yi’er said this morning was the truth, Hui’er did say something to Miss Song that she shouldn’t have said.”
“What happened?”
Madam Gu told them what had just happened.
Master Gu narrowed his eyes as he listened, “When she comes back, let’s ask her properly.”
Three more days on the shelves. (*^▽^*)
