The Challenge of a Farmhouse Son-in-Law
Chapter 395 - 405 Yue Rujing Got Hit

Chapter 395: Chapter 405 Yue Rujing Got Hit

Gu Youyou chuckled and said, "This medical clinic has just opened not long ago, so I can’t leave yet, but I will definitely go to Beijing. Please trouble Butler Qiu to convey to my uncle and maternal grandmother to set their minds at ease."

"Ah! Of course, of course."

As he spoke, Butler Qiu took out a silver note and said, "The Master and the Old Madam asked me to give this to Miss Youyou. They said you’ve opened a medical clinic in Lingnan City and will need to spend silver everywhere."

Gu Youyou accepted it and saw that it was actually five thousand taels.

The uncle and maternal grandmother whom she had never met face to face were so generous.

Hmm, rich folks should act just like this.

She remembered hearing from grandfather that the Lin Family had once sent someone to take her to Beijing to seek treatment from the Imperial Physician, but she suffered a relapse just after leaving the Gu Family estate before even reaching the town.

Gu Youyou smiled bitterly; that relapse had come too conveniently, probably also related to the mole in the Gu Family... Gu Laosan.

Butler Qiu waited to return to Beijing with his task completed. After staying in Lingnan for two days, he left.

On the third day, the day when the seven-day New Year holiday ended and the clinic opened for the new year, with the morning dew still heavy, the first patient of the New Year arrived.

"Yue Rujing?"

Gu Youyou was surprised at the sight of Yue Rujing, with his bruised nose and swollen face, hobbling with a cane into her medical clinic, a pitiful sight.

Gu Youyou couldn’t help laughing, "Young Master, do you have some hidden illness that needs treatment?"

Yue Rujing glared at her, irritably retorting, "Hidden illness? With my condition so obvious, does it look like a hidden illness?"

Banxia was startled by the man’s altered appearance and was quite frightened by that address, ’Princely Heir.’

Good heavens, was this the ’startlingly beautiful’ Young Master so renowned in Lingnan City? But who in Lingnan would dare to beat up the Princely Heir like this?

Gu Youyou, ever so clever, quickly surmised what had happened.

Ah, the trouble three days ago hadn’t gone to waste. If it had been her, she wouldn’t have dared to thrash Yue Rujing like that.

Looking at his injuries, they were all superficial. What’s superficial? It’s the face—to think that someone had struck Yue Rujing in the face for her, how utterly satisfying.

However, although she understood what happened, Gu Youyou still feigned great surprise on the surface.

"My my, who would dare to beat you like this, and so ruthlessly at that, I heard that Cuihua from the west side of the city has pined for you for a long time. Could it be that the goddess had feelings and the prince had intentions, and you ran off with her, only to be caught and sacked by her husband?"

What an imagination, what a framing.

Yue Rujing’s mouth twitched, both in pain and in irritation.

Such a venomous tongue—how he wanted to hit her.

But he didn’t dare.

Because a few days ago, he annoyed Gu Youyou and ended up being beaten by his senior brother.

But that wasn’t his fault, good gracious. With her senior brother being so good to her and her being even more capable than he had imagined, any man would worry. What if his senior brother couldn’t resist her and took her for himself?

So, he coaxed a few younger sisters to set up Gu Youyou with a scheme, using Maidenhair Spike to test her.

After the results came out, he could relax.

Little did he expect that the very next day, his senior brother would beat him up to this extent. In such a condition, he dared not go home, and he had been staying at Ji Dongcheng’s house for the past three days.

Healers often find it difficult to treat themselves. The injuries he could manage had already been taken care of, and he was much better than the first two days.

Considering the stellar reputation he held at home, he couldn’t bring himself to seek another doctor to look at him, as it would be too humiliating.

With no other choice, he endured for three days, waiting for Gu Youyou’s clinic to reopen and came to her.

Before he left, he thought about covering his face with a broad hat or a veil, but then he considered his tall figure. In case someone recognized him, and moreover, if he also wore a broad hat—it would clearly be a case of ’thirty taels of silver not here.’

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