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Chapter 649 - 651 Finally Leaving
Chapter 649: Chapter 651 Finally Leaving
Gong Ruini knew she was not in a good state, but how did she end up in bed, and why did her eyelids feel so uncomfortable?
More importantly, she felt her throat was dry, as though it were on fire.
What was going on? Gong Ruini truly didn’t understand the environment she found herself in.
"That, that..." That hoarse voice really scared Gong Ruini, clearly, she hadn’t caught a cold, so what was going on? She really couldn’t understand.
Gong Jiaxin was seriously working on some problems nearby, so engrossed that she didn’t immediately notice Gong Ruini’s movements.
When she finally heard Gong Ruini’s voice, she was startled too, knowing Gong Ruini wasn’t doing well, but not expecting it to be this bad.
"Ni Zi, I’ll get you some water."
Oh, finally some water to drink. Gong Ruini took the water Gong Jiaxin handed over and drank two large glasses before she felt alive again.
Although she felt revived, her stomach was still as hungry as ever. Didn’t she just eat? How could she be hungry again?
How come her appetite had grown so much? It truly scared Gong Ruini, she thought, no, no, she had to be careful, she couldn’t become a glutton.
Even though she was active now, she couldn’t form a habit of having such a large appetite either.
"I’ll go get some congee, you haven’t eaten for 20 hours. Grandpa Zhuge said you can’t eat meat, so you should start with vegetarian food." Gong Jiaxin explained why Gong Ruini could only have vegetarian food.
Even though Ni Zi didn’t eat much meat, she was someone who needed some. Not seeing meat all of a sudden might upset her.
What, she hadn’t eaten for twenty hours, how was that possible?
"How could I..." Finally, she understood why her stomach kept protesting, and why the protest was so loud. It turned out she hadn’t eaten for so long.
"Ah, my brother as well, didn’t he think to wake me up?" Regardless of the reason, even if she was sleeping, he should have woken her up. Didn’t he know being this hungry could harm her stomach?
"He did call you, but you didn’t wake up, and then Xuran said, said..." Gong Jiaxin was actually quite curious as to why Zhao Xuran treated Gong Ruini so well.
To know they weren’t biological siblings, and as an older brother, Zhao Xuran wasn’t even this good to his own younger brother Zhao Guangran, often digging pits for him. Yet he was so particularly kind to Gong Ruini.
Gong Jiaxin glanced at Gong Ruini and found the latter looking at her curiously, expectantly waiting for more, and immediately thought she was overthinking it.
Even though Zhao Xuran was a bit older, he was still just a child. How could anything like that happen, and Uncle Zhao and the second uncle’s family only had one girl, Gong Ruini, so it was normal for someone as thoughtful as Zhao Xuran to be kind to her.
Having convinced herself of the reason for Zhao Xuran’s kind attitude towards Gong Ruini, Gong Jiaxin spoke more naturally, "Brother Xuran said you cried in his arms yesterday."
"And you cried for a long time."
"Huh, I cried, and for a long time?" Gong Ruini really couldn’t remember what happened yesterday, she just knew she seemed to have let some feelings out.
Ah, how could she have ended up talking in Zhao Xuran’s arms, she didn’t even know how much she said yesterday, or if she said anything she shouldn’t. Oh dear, it was really worrying.
Gong Ruini regretted it. If she’d known it would be like this, no matter how tempted she was by Zhao Xuran’s attractive voice, she couldn’t have let herself be easily fooled.
Gong Ruini thought for a long time but couldn’t remember what she had said. So she turned her head to look at Gong Jiaxin, hoping the latter could reveal something.
"Actually, I don’t know either, I’d like to know what you said yesterday too." Gong Jiaxin also didn’t know why her cousin cried yesterday.
Gong Jiaxin really thought for a long time, hoping Gong Ruini would know how events unfolded when she woke up. She didn’t expect that even Gong Ruini couldn’t remember, it was really odd.
"Alright, I guess I felt really sad, because of what happened yesterday." Yesterday, Zhao Xuran had comforted her, presumably knowing about Zhuge Mingshan’s scolding incident the day before.
Sigh, they say men don’t gossip, but looking at Gong Jiaming, Gong Ruini felt he was really the wrong gender, very gossipy indeed, even after being told not to confront Zhuge Mingshan about it, he went and spread it around internally.
"Don’t be mad about it." Crying over yesterday’s events, Gong Jiaxin could understand, as she would have been upset too, seeing how unkind those words were.
Seeing Gong Jiaxin flustered and trying all sorts of ways to comfort her, Gong Ruini laughed in her heart. She could only inwardly apologize a bit, it wasn’t that she wanted to deliberately change the subject, she just really didn’t know how to continue.
Some mistakes needed only to be made once, and Gong Ruini didn’t want to make the same one twice.
"Why should I be mad, but looking at Grandpa Zhuge’s expression, it wasn’t good." Gong Jiaxin whispered, not knowing why he was angry, but thinking it wise to be a bit more cautious.
Zhuge Zhi being in a bad mood was normal, in Gong Ruini’s opinion, "Mm, let’s behave ourselves a bit, actually, Grandpa Zhuge’s matters are quite many."
Gong Ruini had heard Ge Yunkui mention once before, saying the matter brought up previously had begun being addressed, and it would be on the agenda within two years at most, which delighted Gong Ruini greatly.
It was only by having internal people value Chinese medicine so highly that they could prevent shameless neighbors next door from claiming this and that as theirs.
Even though they were shameless, they were doing better than those domestically in maintaining some traditional culture.
Ultimately, meals should be eaten bite by bite, and matters handled one by one, everything would eventually be resolved.
This explanation, Gong Jiaxin felt was tantamount to no explanation, but she didn’t think Gong Ruini was expecting anything from her, although she saw Zhuge Zhi every day, he was genuinely busy, to the extent Grandma Cai mentioned disallowing overtime.
Knowing whatever it was had nothing to do with them, Gong Jiaxin heaved a long sigh of relief, as if it were against them, even if harsh words weren’t spoken, she truly wouldn’t know what to do.
"I don’t know when dad’s matter will be resolved." If they didn’t go back soon, school would really be starting, she didn’t know how Gong Jiaming’s studies would go.
Gong Ruini wasn’t worried, even if she reported one month after the start of school, she was absolutely going to score well.
As for Gong Zhuang’s task, Gong Ruini sighed deeply, oh, Third Uncle’s issue was indeed no small matter, even Dad couldn’t resolve it after seeking help, she wondered if relying solely on Gong Zhuang himself would solve it?
Gong Jiaxin said the same, that the Second Uncle agreed to help, so the matter should be left to him, and if he couldn’t resolve it, she’d return with her brother.
Anyway, they would come to Beijing themselves next year, moreover, after taking a long-distance train once and having taken care of Gong Jiaming in the Northeast for so long, she’d definitely take good care of her brother.
As for this proposal by Gong Jiaxin, Gong Ruini remained sceptical, although seeing Gong Jiaming, this mischievous child, behaving more sensibly lately, what if he throws a tantrum on the train?
To this, Gong Jiaxin expressed assurance in handling the situation, in this way, Gong Ruini and the others had no option, although if she were asked to first stand up and bring all of this up, she wouldn’t do it.