Gu Yuheng smiled bitterly, looking at his daughter full of heartache in her eyes. Despite her young age, she seed to understand many things. It seed that during the ti he was away, she had gone through too much.
After saying so much, Yun Jiao felt so of the heaviness in her heart dissipate. After a mont of silence, she finally spoke of how Gu i died shielding her from the knife.
Gu Yuheng could hardly believe it, looking at Yun Jiao, he said, "She was only in her teens, just gone like that? Gone?"
Yun Jiao turned her head to wipe the tears from the corner of her eyes, "Gone."
She suddenly turned to look at Gu Yuheng, "So, Father, for what reason did you abandon your wife and children?"
"Why?!"
Gu Yuheng suddenly covered his face and began to sob, "It’s all my fault, it’s all my fault. It led to the ruin of our family, waah, waah..."
Yun Jiao picked up her tea cup expressionlessly, listening unmoved to her father’s sobbing.
After crying for quite a while, Gu Yuheng took out a handkerchief from his sleeve to wipe away his tears.
No matter how shaless Gu i was, she was still his eldest daughter; sending off a young person as an old one, how could he endure it?
Gu Yuheng suddenly seed to have aged significantly, speaking slowly: "Father did not abandon you all; father dreams of going back but cannot find a way to return!"
Reporter Gu Yuheng slowly started speaking about his experiences over the past two years.
It turns out, that ti Gu Yuheng was invited by so people from the neighboring county to see a patient, but as he was about to arrive, the carriage overturned from the mountain path.
The driver was quick-witted and jumped out himself, while Gu Yuheng, unaware of anything, tumbled down the mountain with the carriage.
The driver waited until soone passed by to plead for help saving Gu Yuheng.
After being rescued, Gu Yuheng remained unconscious, and because they were not far from ho, the driver took him to the hoowner.
Just as they reached ho, the patient Gu Yuheng was supposed to see passed away.
Gu Yuheng was left unattended in the guest courtyard.
He got up dazedly, feeling a blank in his mind, walked out and t a young girl, asking her, "Who am I? Where is this place?"
Then, holding his head, he continued, "No, why can’t I rember my own na?"
This young girl was the personal maid of the mistress, Mrs. Liu.
Mrs. Liu had just lost her husband and was in no mood to care about other things, but heard her maid say: "The maid was startled by that Doctor Gu, his stature is similar to our master, even his features have two or three similarities. The outside is dark, and the maid suddenly thought the master had co back to life and almost got scared to death."
Mrs. Liu’s heart was moved upon hearing this.
She was worried; having lost her husband, she now had to take her young son back to the countryside.
Her relationship with her mother-in-law was poor, it was imaginable that the days ahead would be tough.
The mother-in-law was stingy, and if she went back to the countryside, she certainly wouldn’t be able to afford servants and would have to manage the household herself.
She was originally a rchant’s daughter, and when she married her husband, Chen Song, he was just a scholar, the family terribly poor. Only after Chen Song beca a Jinshi and beca a County Magistrate did she beco a governnt wife, fulfilling her dream.
Her family had plenty of silver; she used it to pave the way for her husband with his superiors, so as County Magistrate for several years, his performance was top-notch. Nobody knew what stroke of luck he encountered, but suddenly orders ca from the Capital City, transferring Chen Song to be the Ministry of Industry’s Tuntian Chief.
This was not only a promotion by one rank but also a transfer to the Capital City; it could be said to be a major celebration.
The new County Magistrate arrived quickly; after the handover was completed, their family was planning to move to the capital, but unexpectedly, her husband fell ill and couldn’t travel for the ti being.
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