NOVPUB24: Chapter 24 Going Out by Myself
24 -24 Going Out by Myself
Hmm?
Gu Youyou felt that Jin Zijin’s body was very hot, unusually hot!
With her years of medical experience, Gu Youyou could guess his temperature quite accurately without a thermometer, estimating it to be between 37.5 and 38 degrees Celsius, a low-grade fever?
“You…
you’re sick?
So hot!”
“Shh, don’t move, I’m fine, go to sleep!”
Gu Youyou: “…”
She knew that a person’s body temperature could rise slightly when aroused, but not to such an extreme, right?
And besides…
could he really be aroused by someone like her?
She didn’t believe it at all.
That night, Jin Zijin didn’t do anything; he just held her and slept.
Gu Youyou felt cold, and if the person next to her wasn’t a man but a big heater, she would be quite happy.
Well, let’s just pretend he’s a big heater, she thought.
She no longer had to worry about freezing to death this winter.
…
Jin Zijin was very busy.
In the morning, he stayed with her to sunbathe, fed her breakfast, and then took up his tools and left.
Jin Zijin was already struggling to make ends meet on his own, now adding her to his burdens, he would surely be busier.
Lying on the bed and looking at the translucent paper lantern, Gu Youyou felt infinitely desolate.
She had been in this world for half a year now.
Upon her arrival, she felt that her body in this ancient time, lacking medical care, was beyond hope.
Yet, to her surprise, she had stubbornly survived.
Even eating and drinking just water every day hadn’t starved her to death.
Later, when she stopped taking medicine, her body began to recover slowly.
Since she wasn’t going to die, she figured out all sorts of ways to survive.
She had intended to dig a hole behind the bed and escape once she was a bit healthier, but unexpectedly, before she could take any actual steps, she found a way out of this haunted house.
You could say Jin Zijin was not too bad.
For a sickly person, meeting such a husband when deathly ill was surely a blessing from her ancestors or a reward for good deeds in a past life.
But still…
Gu Youyou sighed.
How could there be such a good person in the world?
How could Jin Zijin be a good husband!
After much thought, the conclusion Gu Youyou reached was that unless there was something wrong with his brain, why else would he bring someone like her home?
Alright, time will reveal true character, let’s see what he’s really up to!
If he could serve her so wholeheartedly for a year and a half, then it wouldn’t matter if she gave him her dowry, right?
After resting for a while, it was noon.
Gu Youyou’s stomach started growling from hunger, but she knew that no matter how hungry she was, there would be no lunch.
She was somewhat hungry, but that was far better than being in the Gu haunted house; at least she had a full breakfast, right?
She propped herself up and got out of bed, planning to move around the room.
Getting down from the bed and walking along the bedside was something she could do more than a month ago, but she had to hold on to the edge of the bed and couldn’t walk for too long.
These past two days, she felt a bit stronger; even coming out of the blankets, her hands and feet didn’t seem as cold as before.
She wrapped herself up warmly, put on her hood to avoid catching a cold.
First, she walked a few steps along the bedside, then she tried to use the wall to help her walk outside.
There was a sturdy-looking stick for stoking the fire on the stove, just a bit short, but no matter, it was better than nothing.
Gu Youyou picked it up and used it as a cane, slowly shuffling to the door.
The midday sun was strong, especially warm on people’s skin in these early days of October.
Ordinary people working in the fields might find it a bit hot, but for someone like Gu Youyou, it was very comfortable.
Having lain in bed for more than an hour, it was time for her to go out and walk, to bask in the sun!
