“Oh yeah! Mei mei, guess who I ran
into in town?” Gu Ming asked Gu Ye secretively when they were alone in the
house.
“Who? The brothers who gave us silver?”
They were the only two person they have ran into during their trip in town, was
that supposed to be difficult to guess?
Gu Ming was stunned and have a “my sister
was so smart!” look, “Oh my god! Mei mei, that was incredible! You
figured it out right away!”
“So, did they find their sister?” Asked
Gu Ye casually. Truth was, the town wasn’t all that big. Even if they were to
knock on every single door it would have only taken them a few days. If their
sister was really in town, they would have found her by now. If they still
haven’t found her, the news was probably grim.
Sure enough, she saw Gu Ming shook his head and said, “No. They said they had some leads, but they were dead ended. They are about to take off to look for her elsewhere! Both of them are such nice people. I tried to pay them back but they won’t accept it…. I hope they will find their sister soon!”
As it turned out, the brothers Chu Mubai
and Chu Mufeng were finally able to locate the female human trafficker and
asked her about Lan Xiang. It had already been some twenty odd years, they didn’t
expect the trafficker to actually remember Lan Xiang, but she did. That because
that was the only time in her entire career as a human trafficker, she was able
to sell a girl into the Jun’s of Yian, a wealthy family in the city. She
bragged about that incident for years to come.
That being said, she might remember the
incident, but she still couldn’t tell them where Lan Xiang was from. All she
remembered was an older couple of refugees form the South, their son and
daughter in law had died on the way and his way was severely ill. Back then,
when Lan Xiang’s name was still Erya (“second girl”), offered herself up to the
trafficker in exchange for 3 taels for her grandmother to see a doctor.
Unfortunately, the old lady didn’t make
it anyway. After that, Lan Xiang’s grandfather fell ill as well and left with
his wife. The trafficker helped her paid for funeral matters under Lan Xiang’s
crying and pleading.
The fat human trafficker only knew that
Lan Xiang and her family was from the South. Beyond that, she couldn’t provide
them with a more exact location, or whether she still has relatives back home.
The lead to finding their sister ended
again. The Chu’s brothers were disappointed. They asked around in a few
villages nearby but when they came up empty-handed, they had no choice but to
leave town and headed toward the more affected vassal states back in the days
in search of new leads.
When the two siblings were sighing for
the good brothers in their room, they suddenly heard a loud thud as thought
something heavy had fallen onto the ground. They both ran outside and saw their
grandfather fell on the ground in the courtyard and wasn’t able to get back up
after struggling for a few times. The two of the ran up to him immediately and
helped him up. Concerned, Gu Ming asked, “Grandpa, what happened? Did you hurt
yourself when you fall?”
“No, I am fine. Just my same old issue.
Every time the weather changes, it was so painful I could hardly put any weight
on it.” Gu Xiao’s left leg was injured on the battlefield. When he was excided
to the Northwestern district with the old general, he had sustained permanent
injuries due to the harsh condition. He was fine during regular days, but when
it come to rainy or snowy days, it would become swollen and painful.
Gu Ye and her brother together helped
their grandfather onto the stove in the main house. They have already lit the
fire in the stove during dusk. Gu Xiao put his leg up and the pain immediately
lessened from the heat. As Gu Ming ran over to add more wooden into the stove,
Gu Ye rolled up her grandfather’s pant legs and took a look. She noticed that
his knee was swollen and a little out of it’s original form. Luckily, it wasn’t
completely deformed yet.
She touched the bones around the joint
and felt that one of the bones wasn’t lined up correctly, most likely it wasn’t
stabilized properly after the injury. It wasn’t a big deal, nothing that a
small surgery couldn’t fix. But, right now, the most important part is to
relieve her grandfather’s arthritis symptoms and lesson his pain. As for the
surgery, she’d need to wait for the appropriate time.
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I really enjoy this story! Its different than other farming-transmigration kind. Love the sibling relationship between Gu Ming and Gu Ye and its so heartfelt and warm! Looking forward to the Chu family reuniting with their lost daughter! It seemed that Gu Ye has really good big brothers surround her! Hope they'll find her! Update soon!!
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