NABC Chapter 349 Father Gu, good luck to you
Chapter 349 Father Gu, good luck to you
When Gu Juncheng returned, Zhiyuan had already been standing there for almost an hour.
Beside them, Sister Zhao was pacing anxiously in circles.
Seeing him come in, Sister Zhao looked at him as if she had seen a savior. "Commander Gu... about today's matter..."
Gu Juncheng nodded. In fact, he had already learned most of the details on the way back with the children.
"Dad Gu..." Zhiyuan also lowered his head and called him nervously.
Gu Juncheng sat down on the sofa and pointed to the area in front of him.
Zhiyuan understood, and walked up to his father, Gu, with his head hanging low.
"You've been standing here for an hour?" Gu Juncheng estimated.
"Um……"
"What did you come to realize from this reflection?"
Zhiyuan glanced up at his father, Gu Juncheng, and saw his serious, dark face.
Zhiyuan remained silent.
Gu Juncheng then said, "You deserve to be punished by your mother to stand until tomorrow morning."
Zhiyuan snorted.
"What? Still not convinced?" Gu Juncheng pointed at him. "What's wrong with a man admitting his mistake?"
Zhiyuan wasn't stupid. Upon hearing this, he suddenly felt, "Hmm, something seems to be going on..."
He suddenly looked up and stared at his father, Gu.
Their eyes met in unison.
"Dad Gu, you mean..." Zhiyuan lowered his voice, "to admit your mistake first?"
Gu Juncheng glanced behind him, coughed twice, and said, "I didn't say that! What's this about admitting your mistake first and then talking? Wrong is wrong, and right is right. If you're wrong, of course you should deeply understand your mistake before admitting it. If you can't figure it out, stand in the corner until you do!"
"No, Dad Gu, that's not what you meant at all!" Zhiyuan thought his Dad Gu was too fickle. Could it be that he had misunderstood?
Gu Juncheng's face hardened. "What do I mean? This is exactly what I mean! One must be honest and not try to be cunning!"
Zhiyuan was still confused when he noticed that even Sister Zhao was giving him a meaningful look. He suddenly snapped back to reality, turned around, and sure enough, it was his mother standing behind him!
"Mom...Mom..." he murmured.
Lin Qingping stopped looking at Zhiyuan and stared at Gu Juncheng. "Serves you right for letting me develop this relationship until dawn, doesn't it?"
Gu Juncheng: ...
"What's wrong with a real man admitting his mistake?"
Gu Juncheng: ...
Zhiyuan: ? ? ? It seems the firepower isn't on me anymore?
"No..." Gu Juncheng said, "I basically understand the situation. I don't think it's wrong for boys to have some backbone. They may have used the wrong methods, but their intentions are good. Comrade Lin Qingping, the key is to guide them, the key is to guide them!"
"No, you don't know." Lin Qingping looked at him coldly, and then looked down at Zhiyuan.
"Mom..." Zhiyuan called her softly.
Lin Qingping then said, "Don't worry, if you stand there until dawn, that person is definitely not you."
Zhiyuan's mind was quick at this moment, and his eyes lit up. "Is it my father, Gu?"
Gu Juncheng: ...
"You boy!"
Zhiyuan shrank back and hid behind Lin Qingping. He even stuck his head out from behind Lin Qingping and stuck his tongue out at his father, Gu Ba, with a look that said: Gu Ba, you'd better pray for yourself!
This earned him another stern look from Gu Juncheng.
"Do your homework first, then take a shower and go to bed. There are some things I'll talk to you about tomorrow," Lin Qingping said to Zhiyuan.
Zhiyuan's face immediately lit up with joy. "Okay! Mom, I'm going right now!"
Gu Juncheng watched Zhiyuan's leaping figure and pointed, "No... this... wasn't I taking the blame for him?"
"You're overthinking it. My relationship with you doesn't give me the right to talk about 'punishment'." Lin Qingping picked up her small bag from the coat rack by the door. "Come with me."
Gu Juncheng didn't know where she was taking him, but he had to follow her no matter what. He asked her, "Have you found Xiaomai?"
This was the only valuable information Gu Juncheng managed to get from the children: the wheat was missing.
Lin Qingping replied without turning her head, "Where do you think I'm taking you?"
Is that to go find Xiaomai? Or has Xiaomai been located, and we're taking him to see him?
As a result, Lin Qingping took him to the hospital.
We went to the doctor's office first.
Only the on-duty doctor was there at night. The on-duty doctor not only told Gu Juncheng about Xiaomai's condition, but also showed him the admission record.
"Head injury from a sharp object", "Large amount of dust at the injury site", "Infection", "Fever", "Multiple bruises and old wounds on the body"...
The words "etc." shocked and angered Gu Juncheng.
He asked Lin Qingping, "Do you know how you got hurt?"
Lin Qingping noticed that the siblings were indeed siblings; their first question to her was always about what had happened.
She shook her head inwardly, "Gu Juncheng, the absurdity of your family's affairs can't be explained in a few words. You're right about one thing: Zhiyuan and the others' methods were wrong, but their intentions were good. The mess your family is in, and your attitude, is worse than that of Zhiyuan and his kids!"
Gu Juncheng remained silent, mainly because he couldn't figure out the meaning behind Lin Qingping's words. Was she implying something about him?
"Du Gen's mistress is pregnant." Lin Qingping dropped a bombshell and headed to the ward.
This bombshell stunned Gu Juncheng so much that he was speechless for a long time. By the time he came to his senses, Lin Qingping had already arrived at the ward door.
He quickly chased after him.
In the ward, Du Gen and Gu Youlian were keeping watch.
Xiaomai lay in the hospital bed, her head wrapped in gauze, her little face flushed red from the fever.
When Gu Youlian saw her younger brother, all the grievances she had held in for so many days welled up in her heart, and her eyes immediately reddened. When Du Gen saw Gu Juncheng, his eyes darted around, and he looked flustered.
Gu Juncheng didn't have time to deal with Du Gen right now, nor could he talk about Du Gen's shameful deeds. He simply squeezed his sister's hand and asked, "How is Xiaomai?"
Mentioning Xiaomai, Gu Youlian's eyes welled up with tears, overwhelmed with guilt. "It's all my fault, I'm so sorry to Xiaomai... I didn't take good care of her..."
Lin Qingping then took a cotton swab, moistened it with water, and gently applied it to Xiaomai's dry lips.
The wheat actually moved when it was touched.
"Xiaomai!" Gu Youlian discovered it, rushed to Xiaomai's side, and called out to her with tears in her eyes.
Wheat didn't wake up; she just moved her mouth and uttered some indistinct murmurs in her sleep.
"Xiaomai, what do you want to say? Tell your mother?" Gu Youlian moved closer to her daughter.
But then Xiaomai frowned, and in a hoarse voice, she cried out, "Help—Auntie, save me—Auntie, Auntie, I need Auntie, Auntie, save me—"
Gu Youlian burst into tears instantly. Her own daughter, in such fear, even in her dreams, kept calling out "Auntie." How much of a failure she was as a mother!
Lin Qingping felt extremely sad. She never expected that Xiaomai would cry out for her aunt to save her even in her sleep. It was clear that at some point when Xiaomai was desperate, she must have cried out like this: "Auntie, save me! Auntie, save me..."
“Xiaomai, your aunt is here, your aunt has come to save you, don’t be afraid, your aunt is here…” Lin Qingping choked up as she spoke.
Xiaomai always called her aunt, but in her eyes, she was definitely not as close as Zhiyuan, who was Gu Youlian's daughter, an exceptionally lovable girl. If it weren't for this big incident, Xiaomai might have remained just a girl she knew well, but not that close. She stood up for Xiaomai and scolded Du Gen and his wife because she was a woman, and she had walked an incredibly difficult path for women in her past life. Therefore, she had a natural sympathy for Xiaomai, who was also a woman. At this moment, the cry of "Aunt, save me!" completely shattered her heart.