Time Travel: The Best Doctor in Ancient Times

Chapter 518: Chapter 375: Pie in the Sky that Burps Tooth

Zhou Zongbao heard Gu Changsheng’s words and lowered his head in shame.

Why the Four Kingdoms’ Crown Princes were gathered in Liuzhou City was something Zhou Zongbao knew very well, but what could he do about it?

How could he explain to Gu Changsheng? Bluntly tell him that Zhou Mu, for the sake of the Great Zhou’s millennium-long foundation, chose the Mandated Noble Lady Huo Shuixian and gave up on her?

For the family and the kingdom, the Zhou Imperial Family had ruined her marriage prospects. For a woman, if there’s no family, how can there be talk of a kingdom?

”What’s with the hesitations? You’re just like Zhou Mu, that evildoer. Both your hesitating manners are exactly the same!” Gu Changsheng, seeing this, waved his hand impatiently and spoke, ”If you won’t say it, don’t bother—I can guess the gist of it myself!”

At this point, Gu Changsheng looked up at his family members and spoke with a serious tone, ”The Crown Princes of the Four Kingdoms are all gathered in Liuzhou, there must be something going on behind the scenes. Since it doesn’t concern us, we should just keep our distance! But even so, we must remain cautious and avoid any involvement with people from the other three kingdoms!”

Every matter that involved the Imperial Family portended nothing good!

With Zhou Mu covering Liuzhou City, all she needed to do was sleep soundly, letting that tall evildoer take the brunt!

Hearing this, everyone from the Gu Residence quickly nodded their heads.

”Alright! Everyone go back and rest. I have truly caused you all a lot of worry during my time asleep!” Gu Changsheng said, looking relieved, and raised his hand to press against the armrest next to the soft couch, planning to use it to stand up.

”Bang!”

Suddenly a noise sounded, and Gu Changsheng’s body lost balance and collapsed back onto the soft couch!

”Scare!”

”Haha!”

Laughter immediately erupted around him, particularly Borjigin Nian, who laughed the hardest, reveling in the misfortune.

Gu Changsheng climbed up from the soft couch, dirt and dust on his face, and upon seeing the broken armrest, his face immediately darkened.

”Damn! What a trap this is!”

What the hell! She hadn’t exerted much force! Clearly had not exerted much force! How did the armrest end up like the Jingling Glazed Vase, shattering upon contact!

This was totally unscientific!

This soft couch! It was very comfortable for her! But it must have cost quite a lot of silver!

Now look, just by her trying to use it as support, she had destroyed it! There’s no place to reason this out!

”Gu Changsheng, can you be even more stupid?” Borjigin Nian said, laughing hard and pointing at Gu Changsheng.

”Watch me!” Gu Changsheng, looking at her family trying to suppress their laughter, gritted her teeth and responded, ”Do you believe I can also ’support’ you like this?”

”Don’t!” Upon hearing this, Borjigin Nian immediately crossed her arms and stepped back, looking warily at Gu Changsheng, ”You don’t know your own strength, keep away from me! Let’s maintain a safe distance!”

Upon hearing this, Gu Changsheng pursed her lips and looked at her own hands, speechless.

Well, actually it wasn’t that things broke upon touching like the Jingling Glazed Vase; it was the damned weird force in her hands!

”What the hell is this about? Am I now some kind of dangerous person?” Gu Changsheng looked at Borjigin Nian, who had moved quite a distance away, and said with an embarrassed expression.

Did it really have to be like this? She truly hadn’t done it on purpose!

”Sixty years’ worth of Inner Strength, do you think it’s just for show?” Yue Xilou coldly huffed and spoke, her stunning face full of unwillingness, ”Before you learn to control your Inner Strength, you better not touch anything suddenly!”

After saying this, Yue Xilou immediately left, leaving behind Gu Changsheng and everyone else in the room exchanging looks.

Control Inner Strength? What the hell? How to control it?

Besides being more perceptive, she felt nothing at all—how was she supposed to control Inner Strength?

”Nian ah! You’ll help me, right?” Gu Changsheng clasped her hands together and looked at Borjigin Nian, her face full of pleading.

She didn’t want to be seen as a dangerous person! She didn’t want to be so careful that she was afraid to touch anything!

This... this was simply too painful!

The world of a martial arts master definitely wasn’t something a normal person like her could understand!

”Don’t look at me! I have practiced Inner Strength since my childhood, learning gradually and accumulating bit by bit; unlike you, who started midway and are akin to a monk full of scriptures. Even if I know how to hit the wooden fish and recite scriptures, I can’t teach you!” Upon seeing Gu Changsheng like this, Borjigin Nian immediately shook her head like a rattle drum.

This was one situation she genuinely couldn’t help with!

”Xiao Si Xi ah...” Gu Changsheng then turned and looked at Xiao Si Xi!

Si Xi was also a martial artist, and moreover, one that would not move west or north if Gu Changsheng said so!

However, to Gu Changsheng’s disappointment, upon receiving her plea for help, Si Xi immediately raised her hands, ”My lady, it’s not that Si Xi won’t help you, but Si Xi truly is powerless here! Si Xi and Princess Nian practice the same type of Inner Strength...”

Upon hearing this, Gu Changsheng saw a lot of her hope extinguished, but still she looked desperately towards a hidden spot.

There, Kun Nu and Ning Er were hiding!

Under Gu Changsheng’s blatant gaze, the two people behind the curtains finally couldn’t stand it and spoke up one after another.

”My lord, the practice I follow also focuses on accumulating little by little!” Ning Er’s voice.

”My practice is in external martial arts!” Kun Nu’s voice.

Upon hearing this, Gu Changsheng’s head drooped down, her spirit completely deflated!

Damn, are these all the martial artists in her residence? What sort of rhythm is this?

Is this deliberately forcing her to be a duck shoved onto a perch, to make her learn everything on her own?

”Such a rip-off! It’s really too much of a rip-off!” Gu Changsheng huffed as she stood up from the bed and was about to stomp her foot...

”My lady! Please no!” Si Xi immediately cried out in alarm, throwing himself to embrace her legs, stutteringly pleading, ”My lady, the paving stones in this dining tower were expensively purchased from Liangzhou, if you were to smash them with one stomp, it would take ages to repair!”

Hearing this, Gu Changsheng’s face instantly turned as black as ink!

Damn it! She couldn’t even stomp her foot now! Wasn’t this too exaggerated and unfair?

”My lady, gently now! Yes, put it down gently!” Si Xi cautiously held his lady’s foot and placed it back on the ground, finally letting out a long sigh of relief.

Seeing this, the corner of Gu Changsheng’s mouth twitched fiercely! She almost doubled over from her own frustration!

”This life, it’s really unbearable!” Gu Changsheng looked up to the sky with a long sigh, her face filled with depression!

Damn it, what she thought was a pie falling from the sky turned out to be shackles binding her!

”Mother! The paving stones inside the house are very expensive, you should walk slowly and lightly, and you can’t walk in anger!” The little meatbun, who had been snacking on the side, interjected with good intentions.

Gu Changsheng turned around, waiting for her son with a huff, ”Little kid should eat his meals properly instead of snacking all day! Put down the snacks, and go back to your Bright Moon Tower to sleep!”

Hearing this, the little meatbun immediately wilted, reluctantly putting down the snacks and walking out with a sheepish face, ”Venting anger! Mother is clearly venting anger! This is too bullying...”

”You!” Gu Changsheng, upon hearing that, was about to chase after him immediately.

This little meatbun really needed a spanking every three days or he’d climb right onto the roof, becoming more unruly by the day!

”My lady! Handle gently, don’t get angry!” Si Xi, reacting instantly, once again stopped his lady’s foot.

Si Xi was already sweating bullets; if his lady were to stomp down, the paving stone would certainly become another pit!

Good heavens! What is there to do now!

”Hehe...” The little meatbun, seeing this, turned back to grin at his mother, then turned his head and ran off!

He was about to make a swift retreat after stirring trouble; such a good baby indeed!

Seeing this, Gu Changsheng blew her top!

Upon seeing Gu Changsheng’s expression, Borjigin Nian couldn’t help but laugh with pleasure in misfortune.

Gu Changsheng immediately shot a cold glare in response.

The next moment, Borjigin Nian also took off running!

She really didn’t want to stay with Gu Changsheng, whose inner strength was completely uncontrollable—that was far too dangerous!

After a while, nearly everyone had left the room, leaving only Gu Changsheng there sighing deeply!

”Good heavens! Why is life so hard? The pie that fell from the sky, it really isn’t that delicious!” Gu Changsheng muttered gloomily to herself, tiptoeing her way out.

Damn it, with the pie falling her way turning tricky!

If she could self-learn and control this inner strength, it would be fine. Otherwise, who knows how much more would be destroyed by her hands and feet!

Having immense inner strength, but unable to use it! Isn’t it pointless? Imperfect, isn’t it?

This free lunch is indeed rotten!

”Xiao Si Xi, are the paving stones in this garden valuable?” Gu Changsheng asked with an embarrassed face as she walked down the garden path.

”Valuable!” Si Xi decisively nodded in response.

Gu Changsheng’s face darkened, and she continued walking, ”What about the pebbles beside the lake? They can’t be valuable, right?”

”Valuable, my lady! These were transported from the South Sea Border, polished countless times by manpower to achieve such splendor!” Si Xi shook his head in response.

Alright then! Gu Changsheng resigned herself, heartaching for the silver, and continued walking forward!

”Is this place also valuable?” Gu Changsheng asked.

Si Xi nodded!

”And this place?” Gu Changsheng, not giving up, asked again.

”Valuable! When the residence was built, every grass, every brick, was meticulously selected, everything of the highest quality!” Si Xi answered very firmly!

Lord Yuan Bao, acting as the contractor when the Gu Residence was built, had been assisting right behind; no one understood better than he the luxury of the construction of Gu Residence!

”Damn it! Even stomping a foot has nowhere to be done! Is living this life even possible anymore!” Gu Changsheng was truly grinding her teeth in anger now!

Bringing misfortune upon oneself! She, damn it, with money to burn had to build such a lavish residence, why?!

Isn’t this courting death?!

Wiping this and wiping that! Tired of this, not loving it!

With her mood exceptionally unpleasant, Gu Changsheng tiptoed her way back to her own Cool Breeze Tower without incurring any expenses. After washing up, Gu Changsheng couldn’t help but let out a long sigh to clear the stagnation in her chest and instructed Si Xi who was beside her, ”Xiao Si Xi, have Ning Er set up a crossbow machine at Longevity Medical Building!”

Upon hearing this, Si Xi, who was tidying his clothes, paused, his face inexplicably asking, ”My lady, what do you need a crossbow machine for?”