Time Travel: The Best Doctor in Ancient Times

Chapter 1144: Chapter 813: When the Sky Falls, the Tall Ones Hold It Up!

Carefully wiping the bloodstains from Little Bun’s face and hands, he spoke gravely, ”Were you scared when you encountered the wolf pack?”

”Uncle Wood, I wasn’t scared when I met the wolf pack!” Little Bun lifted his small face and stretched out his little hand, allowing Zhou Mu to clean him, speaking seriously, ”Mommy said I am a little man, I must be strong, unafraid of powerful enemies, so I was not scared!”

”Yes! Yaoyao is a good child of your mom and mine!” Zhou Mu nodded, rubbing his little forehead, ”Then why did you cry when you saw your mom?”

Upon hearing this, Little Bun’s lips immediately drooped, his little nose twitching, his face filled with tears, and soon his large round eyes welled up with water vapor. After a while, he finally stuttered, ”Uncle Wood, those wolves were so powerful, we couldn’t beat them, so I summoned the Gu Babies to help, but many Gu Babies died, they were bitten to death by the wolves, losing so much blood, their bodies were torn!”

”Uncle Wood, it hurts here! It’s not the pain of a stab! It’s an internal pain! Uncle Wood, am I useless? Not brave at all? I caused the death of so many Gu Babies...”

As he spoke, teardrops as big as beans rolled down Little Bun’s face.

Zhou Mu paused in wiping his hands, then slowly squatted before Little Bun, helping him remove his little shoes, pulling off his little socks and pants, a low voice emerging, ”Is it because the Gu insects died that your heart hurts?”

”Well, mommy said that only through experiencing separation and death can one truly grow up, it’s the price of growing, but Uncle Wood, can’t I not grow up, stay like this forever? I don’t want to see the Gu Babies die... boo...” Little Bun hung his little head, twisting his tiny fingers, sobbing softly.

”What kind of person do you think Uncle Wood is?” Zhou Mu didn’t look up, asking while wiping Little Bun’s body.

”Boo... Uncle Wood is a great hero, going to battle to protect the country, fighting a thousand enemies alone...” Little Bun answered with admiration.

”Do you know when His Highness first went to the battlefield?”

With tears still on his face, Little Bun shook his head.

”The first time His Highness went to the battlefield, he was six, about the same age as you. The family teacher entrusted His Highness to the Grand General You Jinwu of Liaodong, leading him to the battlefield. That battle was full of dust and flying sand, horse neighs mixing with flowering blood, and young I watched many soldiers, protecting the novice His Highness on the battlefield at the behest of my teacher, fall one by one into the pool of blood...”

”Uncle Wood?” Little Bun looked up in disbelief, ”Isn’t Uncle Wood very amazing?”

”When His Highness was as young as you, he was also very weak.” Zhou Mu’s deep voice, as if with magical power to soothe the heart, softly came, ”Later, after leaving the battlefield safely, I cried a lot, embracing the family teacher’s robe, very saddened. Do you know how the teacher admonished me back then?”

”How?” Little Bun’s watery big eyes were round, looking at the man in front of him.

”Just as your mommy said, this is growing up! A man must stand upright and firm! Seeing life and death strengthens life’s path, experiencing bloodshed sharpens the resilience of the mind! Yaoyao, if you want to no longer see such separation and death, there is only one way, and that is to make yourself strong, strong enough to protect everyone around you, protect them from harm!” Saying this, Zhou Mu turned back, washed the brocade handkerchief in the basin, wringing it dry, ”Yaoyao, everyone’s growth comes with a price. Ordinary people, throughout their lives, may never encounter it like you did today, so, after growing up, they are either mediocre or lost among the crowd. But you are different, you are a good child of His Highness and your mommy, though not His Highness’s biological son, I treat you as my own, destined to be extraordinary. If you want to become a man as I am, you must forge yourself, bleed but not shed tears!”

”Uh-huh!” Hearing this, Little Bun quickly raised his chubby little hands, wiped his eyes fiercely, ”Bleed but not shed tears! I want to be a man as upright and unyielding as Uncle Wood!”

”No worries, today I allow you to cry, after all, when His Highness first encountered such a thing, he also cried a lot upon returning, holding the teacher’s robe!” Zhou Mu, having undressed Little Bun’s bloodstained little vest, unbuttoned his little shirt, calmly cleaned the bloodstains with a brocade handkerchief...

”Boo hoo... Uncle Wood, why are you like this? What you said makes me want to cry again! Boo hoo... Boo hoo...” Upon hearing this, Little Bun sobbed even harder, tears flowing like broken beads, continuously falling...

”Cry, after today, my Yaoyao will be a man who stands tall, men shed tears only when they don’t easily fall!” Looking at the child sobbing while obediently sticking out his little chest, letting himself wipe him, Zhou Mu’s deep eyes flashed with a touch of tenderness, his movements growing ever so gentle, fearing to hurt his newly scabbed wound...

”Boo hoo... Uncle Wood, I want to be strong! I want to protect the people around me, protect mommy and all of you, I don’t want to see Gu Babies die for me anymore... boo hoo...”

”Boo hoo... so sad... boo hoo...”

Zhou Mu let the little naked child sit on the chair crying a mess, brought the basin closer, picked up the brocade handkerchief, applied soap, and tenderly wiped away the bloodstains on his body with indescribable gentleness.

The boy standing at the door dumbly watched the man exuding prestigious elegance in every move, deftly doing what should have been a servant’s job, his movements natural and fluid, as if innate!

Godfather!

He never knew, bathing someone could also be done so pleasing to the eye!

It was really so beautiful! Like a painting, suitable for either rest or action, his mannerisms smooth and unforced!

How did the neighboring girl come up with asking for his help? He felt that even he couldn’t do as carefully as this man, couldn’t do better than him!

He truly is a good man!

Gently guiding, warmly teaching a child like a kind young father...

Next door, while washing off bloodstains and paying attention to the happenings in Zhou Mu’s room, Gu Changsheng listened to every piece of the large and small dialogue, his phoenix eyes slightly wet, to say wasn’t touched would be a lie!

That man!

That man like a Divine Residence!

He has always been a man of few words!

Even as we traveled northwards, he spoke more and more naturally with the common people, but that was only to conceal his identity!

He was once His Highness, Prince Mu of Great Zhou, and now the Crown Prince. He is cold and proud, iron-blooded and merciless, the steadfast warrior on the battlefield, yet a tender lover in front of her. But Gu Changsheng never imagined he would be like a regular father, gently guiding people with warm words, which is so incongruent with his identity and temperament!

As he said, the little bao wasn’t his biological son!

Gu Changsheng, lying in the bathtub, lifted her head, dispelling the moisture in her eyes. She originally thought that after killing Li Mufeng and casting the entire Li Mansion from heaven into hell, her son was fated never to have a typical, harmonious family. This imperfection seemed destined to be irreparable!

But Zhou Mu, that cold man, made it happen!

He was willing to lower his noble stature and treat the little bao as if he were his own, tirelessly and patiently guiding him...

That’s right!

He is such a man!

One who never says what he doesn’t mean. The words he speaks are his true thoughts; he even disdains to speak superficial words. When he said he’d love the little bao as if he were his own, he meant he’d treat him as such!

Some people are accustomed to speaking sweet words frequently, while others say them only once and then put them into action!

”Uncle Wood, why is your little bird bigger than mine?”

”When you grow up, your little bird will also grow up.”

”Really? When I was little, my mom said the same thing! But it hasn’t grown up now! I thought my mom was lying to me...”

”Haha... when you were little? You’re still little now, so don’t reminisce about the past like that!”

”Huh? Fine! Uncle Wood, when will I grow up? What if I grow up but my little bird doesn’t?”

”In your mom’s words, that’s just cool salad! But, I think you still have some time to grow up. Worrying about such things is completely unnecessary!”

”Unnecessary? Uncle Wood, so tell me, will the sky really fall?”

”I’m taller than you!”

”So what?”

”So if the sky falls, there will be tall people holding it up. I will hold up the sky for you and your mom!”

”Under that supported sky, can we add a little sister? Uncle Wood, I really want a sister. In my former home, I hid many hairpins, all traded with the little girl next door using treats, for my future sister to wear. I want to dress her up beautifully...”

”Alright! When you have a sister in the future, let Yaoyao dress her up beautifully!”

”I also want a little brother to teach him writing, reading, martial arts, and how to make a swing...”

”You! You’re too greedy! Having you and a daughter is enough, a full and happy life!”

”Uncle Wood, your life lacks aspiration! My mom says people should never be content; perhaps they can even swallow an elephant!”

”Your mom she...”

”...”

”...”

Hearing the conversation coming from the next room, Gu Changsheng smiled silently as she finished dressing, her long hair still damp.

It’s so nice like this!

As long as her family is safe and sound, even if the sky falls, she won’t be afraid, and she will feel happiness!

Thinking of this, Gu Changsheng picked up the brocade handkerchief to dry her long hair, then opened the door and walked out...