Chapter 82: First Place

Gu Jingyun curled up into a small ball. He sat in the corner next to the wall, with his arms hugging his legs, and his little face buried between his knees, only revealing a pair of eyes. His eyelids drooped, and looked listless.

There were only a few people moving around at the entrance of the academy, it was particularly desolate and quiet.

The little guy looked especially pitiful.

Su Wan quickly stepped forward, squatted in front of Gu Jingyun, and asked softly, “Jingyun, are you hungry? Shall I take you to eat something?”

Gu Jingyun grunted and turned his head to the side.

Su Wan held Gu Jingyun’s little head straight, his black and bright eyes were filled with half a pool of tears, and his little nose was also red. Su Wan was stunned.

Gu Jingyun broke free from Su Wan’s hand, raised his hand to wipe away the tears that were about to fall, and angrily ignored her.

“I’m late, Jingyun, I’m sorry, can you forgive me one more time?”

Su Wan couldn’t stand the little guy’s tears. Since she crossed over, she hadn’t seen him cry. Except for the beginning when he was sulking, he was always smiling afterwards.

When she sent him to the academy before, she promised to meet him at the door when he came out. Because of business matters, she was delayed and left him here alone.

“Don’t cry, I was wrong, Jingyun, you can punish me however you want.”

Gu Jingyun prided himself on being a little man, even if he bleeds, he doesn’t shed tears, and he looks down on people who love to cry.

Today, when he came out with joy, he didn’t see Su Wan, and all the other people were picked up by their families.

He was angry and wanted to leave, but he was afraid that Su Wan would not see him, so he was anxious to find someone everywhere.

He waited, waited for nearly half an hour.

With Su Wan’s soft words, Gu Jingyun suddenly felt particularly wronged in his heart. His eyes were not like his own, they didn’t listen to him at all, and the tears flowed even more fiercely.

“Jingyun, Yunyun, second brother?”

Su Wan had never taken care of children, and was a little at a loss. She took out a handkerchief to wipe his tears.

“You liar… sob sob…” As soon as Gu Jingyun opened his mouth, he couldn’t help crying out loud. He felt extremely embarrassed, his mouth was tightly pursed, and his flushed face was all buried in his legs.

Su Wan sat next to him, holding Gu Jingyun in her arms, and touched his head gently, “There were too many miscellaneous things today, so I didn’t pay attention to the time. How about we buy some candied haws and sugar figures later?”

“I’m not a child, I don’t want to eat candied haws and sugar figures!”

Gu Jingyun suddenly raised his head, his little face was streaked with tears, and his small eyelids were cried into single eyelids. He pouted and said in a muffled voice, “I don’t blame you.”

He understood that his sister-in-law was busy making money, but the entrance exam was a big deal. He wanted to see her first and share with her. He was very disappointed when he didn’t see her, and he was a bit stubborn.

“Our Jingyun is a little adult now.”

“Second Brother!” Gu Jingyun corrected.

Su Wan lowered her eyes.

The two stared at each other.

Su Wan sighed, “Second Brother, let’s go.”

Gu Jingyun wiped his face clean with his sleeve and walked beside Su Wan unhappily. Seeing the red candied haws not far away, the thin layer of sugar on the outside was shining in the sun, he secretly swallowed his saliva, pretending not to want to eat, and lowered his head listlessly.

Where didn’t Su Wan know the little guy’s thoughts? She was saving money for him!

She bought four strings of candied haws and stuffed them into Gu Jingyun’s hand, “You share it with your sister.”

Gu Jingyun was stunned, staring blankly at the candied haws in his hand. He looked up at Su Wan again, her face was filled with a gentle smile, his eyes started to get hot again, he tightly held the stick, and carefully licked the candied haws with his tongue.

The sweet taste flooded into his heart.

“Sister-in-law, you eat one, it’s so sweet!” Gu Jingyun handed out a string of candied haws, and said with a straight face, “I’ll just eat one string, eating too much sugar will cause cavities.”

Su Wan didn’t take it, but bent down and bit off the top candied haws, her eyebrows curved and said, “I’ll just taste one.”

Gu Jingyun pursed his small mouth and laughed.

The two walked back to the medical hall together.

After Gu Jingyun finished a string of candied haws, he grabbed Su Wan’s sleeve, he frowned and said, “Aren’t you going to ask me how well I did on the exam?”

“Your brother said you are very knowledgeable and you will definitely be able to get into Xihe Academy.” Su Wan was afraid that Gu Jingyun didn’t perform well and hurt his heart, so she waited for him to say it himself.

“But I said I want to be the first.” Gu Jingyun sighed with an old-fashioned look, “I seem to have messed up the exam, all the brothers inside are older than me. I didn’t do well on the essay, it’s not as good as before, I definitely can’t be the first.”

The previous standard?

What was the previous standard?

Su Wan didn’t dare to ask.

She comforted him, “It’s okay, they are much older than you and have to study for a few more years. It’s understandable if you can’t surpass them.”

Gu Jingyun sighed again, “If I can’t get into the top twenty, it would be too embarrassing.”

Su Wan: “……”

Big brother, at your age, if you can get into the top fifty, you can be called a little prodigy!

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Su Mixue has already left.

Su Wan let Gu Jingyun go to the backyard to play.

It seems that he really didn’t do well in the exam, the little guy has been sulking.

“Young lady Su, that person is the princess. She knelt down and begged you, you didn’t agree, will there really be no problem?”

Doctor Zhou was very worried. Such a character appeared in the medical hall, he was simply flattered.

But the next thing scared him so much that he didn’t dare to show his face in the pharmacy, and went out to see patients with his medicine box.

He asked again, “Is she really your sister?”

If so, is the patient Su Wan’s biological father?

Doctor Zhou remembered when he revealed the imperial list, Su Wan’s obvious cold aura all over her body, he actually didn’t notice anything wrong.

“Sort of.” Su Wan didn’t want to mention the people from the Marquis of Dingyuan Mansion, it was too disappointing. She instructed Doctor Zhou, “If Su Mixue comes again, don’t bother with her, just let her find me.”

“Okay.” Doctor Zhou wanted to say something but stopped, he didn’t go to uncover Su Wan’s wound after all.

Su Wan brought up the main topic, “General Zhao has placed an order for ten thousand bottles of wound medicine. I can’t handle it alone. You hire a few people who understand medical principles. I plan to go find a house to set up a workshop in the afternoon.”

“I hired two medicine boys, both understand medical principles, they will come tomorrow, can you see them then? If you think it’s feasible, can you arrange for them to go to the workshop?”

“No problem.”

After the manpower issue was resolved, Su Wan took Gu Jingyun to find a house.

After running around for most of the day, she didn’t see anything she liked.

Su Wan was tired enough to choke, and she took Gu Jingyun back to Xinghua Village.

The smoke from the Gu family’s kitchen was curling up, and the aroma of food was wafting out. Only then did Su Wan realize that she was hungry.

Gu Huaizhi placed the dishes on the table and looked at the two tired people, “Wash your hands, let’s eat.”

Su Wan was sweaty, “I’ll take a bath first.”

Gu Huaizhi watched her take her clothes to the bathhouse, his gaze lightly fell on Gu Jingyun, “What delayed you from coming home so late?”

Gu Jingyun put the candied haws in the bowl, while washing his hands, he said, “Sister-in-law wants to find a house to set up a workshop, she didn’t find one she liked, she might have to go again tomorrow.”

Gu Huaizhi slightly furrowed his brows, thoughtfully staring in the direction of the bathhouse.

—

Su Mixue had been kneeling for two quarters of an hour, her knees were all red and swollen.

Qing Huan knelt on the ground to apply medicine to Su Mixue, while telling Su Mixue about Su Wan’s movements, “Today, the young lady was looking for a house, wanting to rent and set up a workshop. Her brother-in-law is taking the entrance exam at the academy today, and I spent a little effort to inquire, they said he ranked first.”

“First place?” Su Mixue thought carefully, Gu Jingyun is only eight years old? She sneered, “You go and make some arrangements, get his ranking down.”

“Yes.” After Qing Huan applied the medicine, she immediately rushed to do this.

Su Mixue stared at her white and smooth knees. The piece of purple-red bruise on top was shocking.

Her face twisted for a moment, and she would let Su Wan know the consequences of offending her.

This is just the beginning.