Chapter 67: Pitfall
Chapter 67: Pitfall
Was there something wrong with his body?
Gu Jiao carried Little Jing Kong back to the room for a check up, but found no major issues.
Having lived two lifetimes, Gu Jiao had seen people who fainted from seeing blood and acupuncture or injection needles, but this was her first time seeing people who fainted from contact with meat. It was indeed ‘living long enough would make one see everything!’
The rest of them were shocked as well, but hearing the little guy still snoring, they could tell that he was fine.
When Little Jing Kong woke up, there was no longer any meat on the table. He leaned over on the table and burst into a loud cry!
“My meat! My meat! My meat…”
Everyone: It’s not that we didn’t save meat for you on purpose, but that you can’t eat it at all.
Coaxing a child wasn’t really Gu Jiao’s strong point, thus the elderly woman went into battle in person. She had managed to sweet-talk even the most powerful man in the world, how could she fear such a little fart boy!
The elderly woman coaxed him for a little while before he stopped crying.
Little Jing Kong went out of the elderly woman’s room and came to Gu Jiao’s room. He sobbed and said to Gu Jiao, “Meat says it doesn’t want to be eaten by me.”
Gu Jiao was dumbfounded, “Ah… So it doesn’t want to be eaten by you…”
Little Jing Kong choked back his tears and said firmly, “Grandaunt said it’s because I’m still too young. Only when I grow up would it want to be eaten by me.”
Gu Jiao was seriously impressed by her Grandaunt for being able to come up with such an excuse. She was precisely the bluff queen! She must have fooled a lot of people like this in the past, right?
The elderly woman couldn’t remember her past clearly either. She just vaguely felt that she had fooled a lot of people before; people better than her and people not as good as her, all of them had been tricked by her.
After Xiao Liulang gave Little Jing Kong a bath, Little Jing Kong clad in his small bedclothes went back to Xiao Liulang’s room, er, no, to his own room!
Gu Jiao was also ready to rest after washing.
At this moment, Little Jing Kong came up to her with a small pillow in his arms.
“What’s the matter?” Gu Jiao looked at him and asked, “Do you feel unwell somewhere?”
Little Jing Kong opened his watery eyes wide and said, “My bed says it doesn’t want to be slept on by me today.”
Gu Jiao was stupefied. Why did that sound so familiar?
Seriously, that was simply an absurd excuse. You’re actually going to use that as a reference?
Gu Jiao reached out and carried him in her arms, “Your bed didn’t say that.”
Little Jing Kong: “It did.”
Gu Jiao: “It didn’t, it can’t talk.”
Little Jing Kong straightened his small body and said, “How did JiaoJiao know that it can’t talk? If my meat can speak, so can my bed!”
Gu jiao: “…” I actually can’t refute that.
Gu Jiao looked for the elderly woman with a serious face.
Whoever the root of this fallacy was whoever should fix it!
The elderly woman decisively bolted the door and lay down on the bed, covering her head with the quilt, “People’s asleep! Already asleep!”
Gu Jiao：“…”
Don’t you think it’s wrong for you to be this irresponsible? Don’t you even have an after-sale service after duping people? Bad review!
Gu Jiao wouldn’t be so unyielding against a small child, so she just brought Little Jing Kong back to her room ultimately.
Xiao Liulang didn’t say a word.
Little Jing Kong waved to Xiao Liulang with a triumphant expression, “I’ll let you sleep in the west room tonight! Don’t miss me too much!”
Gleeful Little Jing Kong hopped about on Gu Jiao’s bed with a pillow in his arms for a long time, and then fell asleep after tiring himself out.
But it would be naive for Little Jing Kong to think that he could sleep with Gu Jiao all night.
As soon as he fell asleep, Xiao Liulang came over on his crutch, and without saying anything, he carried Little Jing Kong back to the west room.
There was no best trick, only a better trick, and it was still your brother-in-law who had the better one!
Little Jing Kong woke up to find himself lying on the bed of the west room, and it wasn’t at all surprising that he was extremely sad!
He felt like he had slept in vain!!!
He certainly wouldn’t think that JiaoJiao didn’t want him. He could guess with his toes that a certain someone stole him back to this room!
No matter how sensible Little Jing Kong was, he was also unable to bear this. He looked up, kicked about his legs up to his neck, and bawled out, “Bad brother-in-law! Bad brother-in-law! He actually steals little children! He stole me in the middle of the night! He’s a child trafficker!”
The elderly woman was eating melon seeds in the main room. When she heard his wails, her hand shook, spilling the melon seeds she just grabbed!
Child trafficker? Was that how this word was used?
Xiao Liulang had already gone to the academy, and Gu Jiao went to collect mountain goods. Only Little Jing Kong and the elderly woman were left at home.
The elderly woman once again tried to coax him with a bluff, but this time Little Jing Kong wasn’t easy to fool.
“I want it to get dark! I want it to get dark!”
“It will get dark later in the evening…”
“No, no! I want it now! It must get dark now! Wah, wah, wah——”
Sensible children generally didn’t cry, and when they did, most people would get overwhelmed.
Little Jing Kong cried so loudly that all the villagers rushed over. Their questioning eyes seemed to be accusing the elderly woman of bullying the little monk at home.
The elderly woman felt a major headache!
The elderly woman, who refused to offer an after-sales service last night, finally shouldered the responsibility all by herself.
Gu Jiao was unaware of Little Jing Kong’s breakdown and outburst after waking up. She had no experience in raising children. In fact, she herself never received love from her parents since childhood, so she really had no knowledge in this aspect.
Normally, she should have heard Little Jing Kong’s loud cries if she was just picking mushrooms in the back mountain, but she happened to go a little farther today to dig up bamboo shoots on the other side of the mountain.
The day she adopted Little Jing Kong, she had discovered that there were bamboo shoots in the woods near the temple.
When she was selling mountain goods in the market, someone had once exchanged winter bamboo shoots for two handfuls of wood ears with her. She cooked chicken soup with winter bamboo shoots that day, and Xiao Liulang ate it all up.
There were no winter bamboo shoots at present, but spring bamboo shoots taste good too.
The path in the woods was difficult to traverse, so not many people came here to dig up bamboo shoots. Soon, Gu Jiao’s back basket was fully loaded.
Just as she was about to descend the mountain, she heard a sudden groan of pain from deep in the woods.
Gu Jiao’s first thought was which villager was injured. Without the slightest hesitation, she strode toward the depths of the woods.
When she arrived at the scene, she was surprised to find that a man had fallen into a pitfall two meters deep.
This pitfall was a bit familiar…
Er… It seemed like she dug it some time ago.
Since no prey had ever taken the bait, she had actually forgotten this pitfall herself.
She didn’t expect that after so long of not catching a prey, she would catch a living person instead!
What kind of living person would dare to stroll around this deep into the woods?
Gu Jiao stretched out her little head and looked into the deep pit.
Noticing that the light was suddenly blocked from above, the man immediately looked up.
As soon as their four eyes met, both of them were stunned.
“It’s you?”
“It’s you?”
They spoke at the same time!
Gu Jiao: isn’t this the stinky Marquis who allowed his guard to rampage in the street, knocking over her things, and almost failed to compensate her?
Marquis Gu: Isn’t this the stinky girl who had beaten up his guard, extorted money from him and smashed his head with the silver ingot?
Marquis Gu’s expression suddenly grew cold, and the joy that rose from the bottom of his heart for having someone to rescue him disappeared.
Gu Jiao: Hehehe.
Gu Jiao turned around and walked away!
She had no plan to save this man!