Hospital 444
Chapter 156 - 5 The Younger Brother

Chapter 156: Chapter 5 The Younger Brother

Gu Yanan was about to take out her vanity mirror when she suddenly felt a pair of hands embrace her body and then push her down onto the bed.

"Zhengxian? You’re awake?"

It was then Gu Yanan realized that Wei Zhengxian had been feigning sleep all along.

"I woke up ten minutes ago."

In the early morning, for a man, it is the time when his Yang energy is most vigorous. With a beauty in his arms, if not for the concern about the injuries Gu Yanan still had, he truly wanted to consummate their love on the spot.

"Zheng, Zheng, Zhengxian, what are you doing?" Gu Yanan was no fool, how could she not know what he intended to do? Asking like this was merely out of shyness.

Wei Zhengxian immediately let out a chuckle and said, "The car was destroyed, we lost so many things, it wasn’t easy to get here, and now we finally can be alone together, you tell me... what do I want to do?"

For Gu Yanan, giving herself to Wei Zhengxian was something she was more than willing to do. However, because of a woman’s reserve, how could she say it out loud, especially since it would be her first time.

"I, I have no idea what naughty thing you want to do!"

At this moment, Gu Yanan’s heart was racing, and she had completely forgotten about looking in the mirror.

Wei Zhengxian lifted his hand and gently tapped Gu Yanan’s nose, saying, "Eh? How do you know that I was planning to do something naughty?"

Then, his hand began to slowly move downwards.

Gu Yanan intended to maintain her modesty a bit longer, after all, her mother had repeatedly warned her that a girl who gives herself too easily to a man may be taken for granted.

"You, you, you... Zhengxian, you’re too wicked!"

But just at that moment...

"Gurgle, gurgle, gurgle..."

Her stomach made an untimely noise.

This was truly quite embarrassing.

Wei Zhengxian couldn’t help but laugh awkwardly. They hadn’t eaten dinner the evening before because they had already had plenty during the day, and by the time they arrived at the bed and breakfast they were too exhausted to eat and simply went to sleep. But now that they had woken up, their stomachs naturally began to protest.

"Let’s go have breakfast first."

"Mm... mm..."

At this time, Gu Yanan’s face was blushing with embarrassment, and she didn’t even dare to look at Wei Zhengxian’s face.

Just as they were preparing to freshen up, Wei Zhengxian suddenly remembered something and said, "Speaking of which, we shouldn’t look in the mirror within the first hour, right?"

"How are we supposed to wash our faces and comb our hair without a mirror?" Gu Yanan touched her grumbling stomach, "I can’t wait for a whole hour! Zhengxian, aren’t you being too serious?"

Wei Zhengxian thought for a moment and said, "If it were before, indeed there would be no need to take it so seriously, but this village is really quite strange. How about... we just do as they say."

"Do you really need to be that serious?" Gu Yanan couldn’t help but laugh. "What strange rural custom are you so set on abiding by?"

"Your village has its fair share of customs as well, right? When in Rome, do as the Romans do."

This casual remark from Wei Zhengxian triggered a flood of memories in Gu Yanan.

Gu Yanan remembered clearly that Wei Zhengxian’s mother was always cool towards her. Even though Gu Yanan had come from the countryside and worked hard to get into university, she still wasn’t quite good enough in her eyes.

"You listen to me, if you get married, you must live in the county town. I don’t care what rules your village has, the wedding must be held in the county as well. After the wedding, including your parents, no one can live in your new house. I know your village has the custom of expensive bride prices, but we’re not planning to follow suit. We can provide the money, but if you ask for too much, I absolutely won’t accept this marriage! Your family might be willing to ’sell’ your daughter, but our family isn’t about to ’buy’!"

"Auntie, what you’re saying..."

"You find that unpleasant to hear? You think I don’t know that you’re only clinging to Zhengxian because he’s handsome and well-off. I don’t have anything good to say about you."

"No, that’s not it..."

"Hmph, if Zhengxian weren’t good-looking or a public servant, would you still be interested in him?"

Gu Yanan looked at Wei Zhengxian as he was getting dressed.

She certainly wasn’t marrying him just because of his background as a public servant.

But if he hadn’t had that face, would she have been attracted to him? Sometimes when she pondered over this question, she actually found herself a bit uncertain. There was no other reason; Wei Zhengxian’s face was simply too perfect, a trait he inherited perfectly from his father, making it hard to separate this aspect from the reasons she chose him.

Speaking of which... Gu Yanan recalled having seen a photo of Wei Zhengxian’s brother, Wei Zhengkang. This brother, whose whereabouts are still unknown, was also handsome enough to be a model or an actor straight away, and both siblings were undoubtedly incredibly attractive men.

It was clear that Zhengxian was very close to his brother, and every time he spoke of him, he would become deeply sentimental, often choking up mid-conversation. But as the years passed, there had been no news of his brother. In the end, he could only comfort himself with the thought that no news was good news, hoping that his brother might still be alive, somewhere in the world.

After a brief wash and getting dressed, the two left the guesthouse cabin.

They had arrived in such a hurry the day before; they didn’t even know where to find breakfast.

...

"Did you both have a good rest last night?"

Upon seeing the landlady again, Gu Yanan asked curiously, "Landlady, what’s the significance of... I mean, the person who showed us to our room last night made a point of telling us not to look in the mirror when we got up this morning."

"Within one hour."

Hearing this, the landlady suddenly realized something and looked carefully at Gu Yanan, asking, "Did you... did you look in the mirror?"

"No... I didn’t."

Gu Yanan thought to herself: I almost did.

The landlady, however, did not seem to fully believe her and inspected Gu Yanan carefully before saying, "As I mentioned yesterday, it’s a very important custom in our village. Visitors must adhere to it."

Then..." Gu Yanan’s curiosity was piqued: "Is there a reason behind this custom?"

The landlady clenched her hands and said, "Since you’ve asked to this extent, let me tell you, this special custom exists because the people of our village all venerate the Black Blood Ancestral Goddess."

"Ancestral... Goddess?"

"Yes. The Black Blood Ancestral Goddess is the guardian deity of our village."

Religious doctrine?

Wei Zhengxian showed a hint of wariness and said, "What is this? A local deity?"

"Specifically, it’s difficult to explain to you."

Suddenly, Gu Yanan thought of something.

"Does every household raising sheep have something to do with this Black Blood Ancestral Goddess?"

"That’s one way to put it. If you’re interested, I can explain about the Black Blood Ancestral Goddess to you."

"No need. Where can we have breakfast?"

"Well, if you go down that way and turn left, you’ll find our dining hall."

"All right."

After Wei Zhengxian and Gu Yanan arrived at the dining hall, they noticed that although it was spacious, there weren’t many people there.

The menu in the dining hall was all homemade dishes, Wei Zhengxian glanced over it and called the waiter.

"Waiter, we’d like to order these dishes."

"They’ll be served shortly."

Soon enough, the food was brought to their table.

"This feels weird." Gu Yanan was feeling increasingly uneasy, "Every household raising sheep, foreigners not allowed to look in mirrors, what kind of strange customs are these?"

"I thought it was just rural superstition, but it seems to be more than that." Wei Zhengxian, being a civil servant, had seen plenty, "Let’s leave this village today."

"Yeah, I was thinking the same."

After finishing their meal and settling the bill, they went to check out of the room.

What came next was to decide where to head after leaving this place.

We need to find a spot with mobile internet access.

"Landlady, do you have a map of the nearby area?"

Wei Zhengxian had lost all faith in the map on his phone’s navigation app.

"Are you planning to leave just like that?" the landlady asked.

"Yes." Wei Zhengxian nodded: "We were only staying here for the night yesterday, and now we need to go find our fellow hikers."

"I see... Ah, Yuan?"

Wei Zhengxian turned his head without thinking.

A young and handsome man approached and said, "Landlady, you’ll come to the sacrifice we’re holding for my brother’s birthday, won’t you? Also, I want Master Du to do the slaughtering. We trust his skills the most."

Wei Zhengxian looked at the young man, his mind going blank as if struck by lightning.

"Zheng... Zheng... Zhengkang???"