Time Travel: The Best Doctor in Ancient Times

Chapter 488: Chapter 346: Please Allow Me to Laugh Out Loud 3 Times

Gu Changsheng was truly puzzled, so her question came with no guilt at all!

She clearly remembered telling all the doctors in the residence who should be back attending to their duties to indeed go back and attend!

So, this matter surely had nothing to do with her!

Zhou Mu glanced at the little woman in his arms and leaned down to kiss her forehead, his face breaking into a grin as he began, ”It’s indeed within your residence! Among the garden trees in the front courtyard, under beds, inside wardrobes, and within the cracks of the medicine cabinets... quite a few people have been hidden away!”

Upon hearing this, Gu Changsheng immediately stared in disbelief, her eyes wide.

They... hadn’t left?

So many people were hidden on her turf, and she didn’t know about it! No one had reported it either!

What were those boys in the front courtyard even doing?

Playing blind and dumb?

Seeing her stunned look, Zhou Mu couldn’t help but laugh, his grace shining as splendidly as the remaining rays of the setting sun!

”My love, are you wondering why they would hide in the Gu Residence and not leave?” Zhou Mu tapped Gu Changsheng’s nose lightly, asking playfully.

Gu Changsheng hurriedly nodded like a pecking chicken upon hearing this.

Damn it, she had gotten distracted by a handsome man again!

Such a sin! This was indeed the distress of not having cleansed the senses!

She truly should seek out Little Monk Bu Jie to learn how to strike the wooden fish. Even if she couldn’t achieve enlightenment and meet Buddha, at the very least, she should not be so easily distracted at the sight of a handsome man!

This was just too damn embarrassing and disgraceful!

This was definitely a disease that needed to be cured!

As Gu Changsheng’s thoughts wandered wildly, Zhou Mu slightly curved the corners of his lips and spoke with a light tone, ”Today, not only my mansion, but the City Lord’s Mansion, managed by Du Chenzhi, sent out people looking for doctors too!”

”What?” Gu Changsheng immediately exclaimed in confusion, ”Oh my god, why has it come to involve the City Lord’s Mansion? Is Fat Du sick as well?”

But calling Du Chenzhi ’Fat Du’ now was a bit too much!

The man is not even slightly fat now; he’s truly a model of elegance and grand presence!

Young Master Du’s successful weight loss had her wanting to claim some credit, but she just blurted it out as she used to; old habits die hard!

Zhou Mu, hearing her words, chuckled and pinched her nose, ”You really don’t care about anything at all, do you?”

”Yhan Qinrui lives in the City Lord’s Mansion!”

Upon hearing this, Gu Changsheng suddenly felt a mess in Zhou Mu’s embrace!

Oh my god! She, Gu Changsheng, at least had a life-saving grace towards Fat Du, and he damned well harbored her enemy in return, like biting the hand that feeds!

”Another ungrateful wretch I’ve nurtured!” Gu Changsheng couldn’t help muttering angrily.

Zhou Mu, hearing this, his eyes narrowing slightly, shook his head indulgently.

”Ah! I wasn’t calling you an ungrateful wretch!” Gu Changsheng hastened to add, not knowing better.

Instead of keeping quiet, her addition simply emphasized her previous insinuation!

Zhou Mu’s expression immediately darkened a bit, and the arms around Gu Changsheng tightened!

Feeling the increased strength in Zhou Mu’s arms, Gu Changsheng was so annoyed she wished she could smack her head against his chest!

Damn it! It was all Zhou Zongbao’s fault!

If he hadn’t always been saying that an evildoer is an ungrateful wretch, she wouldn’t have remembered it wrong!

To remember was one thing, and usually, she would just chuckle when she heard it. But today she had carelessly spoken without thinking, this... oh dear!

”So... evildoer, what’s the relationship between Fat Du and Yhan Qinrui, and why would she move into the City Lord’s Mansion?” Gu Changsheng, keeping her head down and not daring to look at Zhou Mu’s face, hurriedly changed the subject.

Damn, she couldn’t afford to annoy Zhou Mu!

Especially since Zhou Mu had just made a sweet gesture to please her, and here she was making him angry, which seemed very inappropriate!

Seeing her timid and flustered demeanor, Zhou Mu sighed helplessly with a smile and relaxed his arms, allowing her to lean comfortably against him before speaking calmly, ”In the Imperial Court, among the officials, there are innumerable connections—by marriage, old classmates, from the same hometown...”

”So?” Gu Changsheng, puzzled, lifted her head.

Zhou Mu casually rested his chin on the top of her head and continued to explain indifferently, ”Thus, Yhan Qinrui is actually Du Chenzhi’s wife’s cousin!”

”I’ll be damned!” Gu Changsheng exclaimed immediately, startled, her eyes wide, ”Oh my god, how is that possible? Isn’t there an old saying, distance tests a horse’s strength, why are they so close though they’re only related by marriage?”

At this point, Gu Changsheng couldn’t wait for Zhou Mu to respond and shook her head, scoffing, ”Oh my god, I just knew it, the bureaucratic circle is just a huge dye vat of infinite darkness!”

The saying that officials protect one another really does have a kernel of truth!

People in ancient times really paid attention to matching social statuses! Children from official families definitely married into other official families! With this system passing down through generations, wasn’t everything just intricately interconnected?

They would naturally protect their own kind, so could you really expect every officer to uphold such high integrity that they’d risk extending help to outsiders?

Upon understanding this, Gu Changsheng’s face immediately turned sour!

So boring! This is ridiculously boring!

As expected, all crows under the sky are black! You can’t expect a good bamboo shoot to grow from within the dark dye pot of officialdom!

Seeing her looking as if she was nursing a deep grudge and cynical about the world, Zhou Mu couldn’t help but smile and said, ”The doctors in your house must have heard that Yhan Qinrui, dragging her disabled troops, had entered the City Lord’s Mansion and knew that Du Chenzhi had sent for doctors, yet they were adamant about not going out!”

”Changsheng, my love! Your influence is truly exceptional, managing to keep the city’s doctors within your doors despite the risk of incurring my anger, refusing to treat Yhan Qinrui! I’m impressed!”

Before Zhou Mu could continue flattering him, Gu Changsheng raised his hand to cut him off, speaking very seriously, ”So, the fact that Huo Shuixian couldn’t get a doctor, was actually because she was dragged down by Yhan Qinrui, right?”

Oh my god! Huo Shuixian was also beaten by her! Just that the timing was not right—it was when everyone else was asleep in the dead of night!

But Yhan Qinrui and her group were different! They were beaten in full daylight, and many bystanders were watching at that time!

Now, because the doctors in the house were hiding due to their discord with Yhan Qinrui, they accidentally implicated the previously unknown Mandated Noble Lady Huo Shuixian too!

What do you call this? This is planting willows unheedingly to create shade!

Unluckily, two women who were at odds with her, Gu Changsheng, ended up being denied medical treatment, right?

How enlightening!

”What else did you think?” Zhou Mu watched every move of the little lady in his arms greedily, unwilling to miss even a single expression of hers, then he casually remarked.

”Hold on a moment!” Gu Changsheng, upon hearing this, struggled to move a step away from Zhou Mu’s embrace and earnestly said, ”Allow me to laugh out loud first!”

”Hahaha...”

Damn! Gu Changsheng has never been a highly ethical person!

All that talk of repaying grievance with virtue and a doctor’s benevolent heart—those lofty qualities have nothing to do with her!

She is one to quibble over every trifle, mean-spirited, and vindictive, always eager to kick someone when they’re down and delight in others’ misfortune!

”Hahaha...” Gu Changsheng laughed uproariously, doubling over, ”So satisfying! Truly too satisfying! You guys are truly something! Finally, you’ve vented this pent-up frustration for me for these past days!”

Due to the evildoer’s plan, she had been restrained and dared not assertively act against Huo Shuixian until last night, finally getting to beat them surreptitiously and feeling slightly relieved!

Now, look! The evildoer has caused even the Imperial Physician in the Prince Mu’s Mansion to fall ill, and the doctors in Liuzhou City, well, they simply hid in her residence and refused to go out for consultations!

Thus, even the sword injuries of Yhan Qinrui are left untreated!

This is incredibly satisfying! So damn gratifying!

Gu Changsheng, quite unscrupulously, chuckled, ”Haha... that... that evildoer, it seems you’ll have to settle for less and find some barefoot doctors or wandering quacks from the streets to treat your Shuixianer little sister in your mansion! Haha... ”

Letting the doctors in her house go out to treat Huo Shuixian and Yhan Qinrui was absolutely out of the question!

Damn, how difficult it is to reject such earnestness! She certainly couldn’t disappoint the doctors’ intentions, could she?

They love hiding, so let them hide!

Zhou Mu looked at the woman laughing wantonly before him, shaking his head in resignation with a wry smile.

As long as she’s happy, that’s enough!

After a while, Gu Changsheng managed to stop laughing, leaning on the railing while patting her heaving chest, and eyeing the handsome man before her.

The setting sun’s afterglow shone on him, making him appear dazzling, more and more like an exiled immortal, captivating her!

At this moment, their mood was splendid!

”Evildoer, I’ve rejected Yhan Qinrui’s proposal to return to the capital with her. My son even took action causing them all to be badly injured, and there’s no turning back with Li Mansion now. Don’t you feel a bit gleeful?” Gu Changsheng squinted one eye mischievously as she approached Zhou Mu, playfully prodding with her little finger.

Hearing this, Zhou Mu glanced at her and slowly curved his lips, ”Why would I need to feel gleeful secretly? I’m openly joyful, and who could say anything to me?”

Gu Changsheng, hearing this, instantly retreated with a twitch of her lips.

Well, shamelessness is indeed invincible, and it seems the evildoer is not far from it now!

Totally unable to play happily anymore!

”Alright, alright! Go ahead and be openly joyful! Me, I’m going to have Xiao Leizi add more dishes and celebrate grandly!” Gu Changsheng said while happily counting on her fingers, ”I’ve roughly calculated it, aside from the faraway Emperor Tiangao, the two women who were at odds with me have now both been taken down by me! At least I can have a peaceful time for a while! Could there be anything more joyful than this?”

Huo Shuixian was somewhat better, having exchanged a few moves back and forth with her! Yhan Qinrui, on the other hand, was rather tragic; she directly messed with Gu Changsheng’s Achilles’ heel, so she was severely slapped down the first time she tried something!

Regarding this, Gu Changsheng had only two words for both of them: Served right!

”Evildoer, oh! Romantic affairs are troublesome, you better mind your own business! Buddha bless, I hope these barefoot doctors and wandering quacks can be reliable and don’t botch up your Shuixianer little sister’s treatment! Ami Tofu!”