LGHTNOVELBOOK 19: Trouble
After selling the roe deer, Gu Yu bought many snacks along the way.
Thinking of how the two youngsters at home had reacted to seeing meat, Gu Yu also bought five white flour meat buns to satisfy the siblings’ cravings.
The chicken Gu Mengyao stewed at noon was fragrant, partly because the three of them hadn’t tasted meat for a long time, but in reality, Gu Mengyao’s cooking skills weren’t particularly good.
However, for a thirteen-year-old girl who had lost both parents and had no ingredients to practice with, making edible food was already quite good.
One should be content…
After placing the aromatic food into his space, Gu Yu carried his basket and swayed toward the ox cart.
Having been out for over an hour, if he delayed any longer, there wouldn’t be any more carts back to the village.
Fortunately, the journey back didn’t involve any accidents. At most, the gazes of the fellow passengers on Gu Yu carried some indecipherable meaning, but once Gu Yu closed his eyes, others shifted their attention elsewhere.
After listening to gossip the entire way, when they arrived at the village entrance, Gu Yu applied the experience from his earlier trip. This time, he didn’t hurry to get off but slowly eased himself down from the cart.
Sure enough, this time he didn’t embarrass himself.
However, after riding the ox cart for the entire journey, Gu Yu’s body felt terrible, and he could only inch his way home step by step.
When he reached his doorstep, he immediately smelled a strong scent of blood, which made Gu Yu’s face darken. He quickened his pace and rushed into the yard.
“Gu Mengyao, are you all right!”
“Brother-in-law, Sister is fine. She caught a big one today!”
Fortunately, Gu Mengyao was unharmed. When Gu Yu rushed into the yard, he immediately saw a massive wild boar.
No matter how he looked at it, Gu Yu felt it was the same one he had encountered at noon.
Such a huge wild boar, caught by Gu Mengyao???
After learning that Gu Mengyao was safe, Gu Yu’s heart settled, and he couldn’t help but marvel. He walked to the dead wild boar’s body, his eyes practically glued to it.
Having just sold a roe deer, this plump and robust wild boar was worth even more!
After circling the wild boar several times, Gu Yu finally relieved the frustration of being chased by the wild boar at noon. When he entered the house, his sharp eyes noticed that Gu Mengyao’s arm was injured.
The young girl’s arm was already slender, and now it was wrapped in layers of white cotton cloth. The blood seeping through indicated that she had indeed been injured.
Her pale complexion was a sign of excessive blood loss.
Seeing this, Gu Yu’s eyebrows furrowed, and he walked to Gu Mengyao in a few steps.
Gu Yu looked at Gu Mengyao sitting on the bed without speaking. The quiet atmosphere made both siblings, Gu Mengyao and Gu Qingheng, feel apprehensive, wondering how this seemingly frail and thin young man suddenly had such presence.
Getting injured while hunting in the mountains happened often. Gu Mengyao had only injured her arm this time, which wasn’t really significant. Only a broken leg or loss of life would be considered serious.
But now, Gu Yu regretted deeply that Gu Mengyao had been injured.
Knowing that Gu Mengyao’s father had died from being bitten while hunting, how could he allow Gu Mengyao to risk herself in the mountains!
He could earn money himself; there was no longer any need for Gu Mengyao to risk her life in the mountains. This hunt would be the last one.
“Ah Yu, Brother Wu said the wild boar we caught can sell for five taels of silver. I’ll have Qingheng find him to sell it later. We won’t have to worry about winter.”
Perhaps sensing that Gu Yu was in a bad mood, Gu Mengyao cautiously spoke up, afraid of making him angrier.
Her moist eyes were full of eagerness to please, which made Gu Yu feel very uncomfortable.
Especially after Gu Mengyao said this, Gu Yu became even more angry.
A single roe deer had sold for nine taels of silver, yet such a large wild boar was supposedly worth only five taels. That Hunter Wu was truly calculating.
He thought he was the only clever one, treating everyone else like fools.
Of course, the Gu siblings were indeed naive… After all, they had already let Hunter Wu sell quite a few things for them before, and this time was no different.
However, Gu Yu absolutely refused to sell the prey that had nearly cost his wife her life at such a low price.