As they entered the courtyard, they unexpectedly heard a "wah" sound, and Aunt Qian, holding a middle-aged man’s hand, burst into tears.
What was going on?
The Gu family was momentarily confused.
The man’s eyes were also red-rimmed. Ignoring the current taboos, he and Aunt Qian embraced and wept.
"What happened, Aunt Qian?" Gu Qingcheng asked.
"Miss, this is my husband, Huang Changsheng. I thought my whole family had frozen to death, but he was taken to another clinic in the city and was also saved. He thought I was dead too," Aunt Qian said intermittently through her tears.
The Gu family, surprised, also said, "Congratulations on your reunion after surviving the disaster."
Aunt Qian and her husband cried and laughed at the same time, with tears in their laughter and laughter in their tears.
The Gu family understood their sorrow and pain, so after learning the truth, they stood quietly aside, letting Aunt Qian and her husband vent their emotions.
"Husband, please offer the Gu divine doctor's family a cup of tea. It's thanks to them that I'm still alive," Aunt Qian said, wiping away her tears, and briefly recounted her experience.
Unexpectedly, upon hearing this, Huang Changsheng wiped away his tears and quickly bowed deeply to Gu Zhaobei. He said, "So it's the Gu divine doctor's family. My life was also saved by the Gu divine doctor. Although you didn't come to the clinic in the south of the city, we all recovered after drinking the spiritual medicine you gave us. Now, all of us common people saved by the Gu divine doctor are grateful and have set up a memorial tablet for you, the Gu divine doctor, in our homes!"
Gu Qingcheng knew immediately that it must be the miraculous effect of the Da Li Wan. Her father later discovered that Da Li Wan was effective for frostbite, so he ground it into powder, mixed it with medicine, and distributed it to various clinics. It seemed that Da Li Wan had saved many people, which was excellent!
Gu Qingcheng felt incredibly pleased.
At this moment, the system suddenly awarded Gu Qingcheng 10,000 pleasure points, sourced from: The Joy of Saving Lives!
A reward of 10,000 pleasure points? Gu Qingcheng didn't expect the system to be so generous! The system had always been stingy, with 10, 50, or 100 pleasure points being considered a lot. Tens of thousands of pleasure points were rewards given only when she performed acts of immense merit. Clearly, this time the system highly approved of her using Da Li Wan to save the common people. Gu Qingcheng was secretly delighted.
Huang Changsheng also led Gu Zhaobei to the main hall of the residence, where ancestral tablets were usually placed. A memorial tablet inscribed with "Gu Divine Doctor" was prominently displayed, making Gu Zhaobei extremely embarrassed. He thought that if this continued for another hundred or eighty years, he might be deified as a medicine immortal.
Huang Changsheng invited the Gu family to sit in the main hall. There was no tea, so he brought out several bowls of warm water.
At this time, everyone learned that only the couple had survived in the Huang family. Their son and daughter had died in the extreme cold. Speaking of this, Huang Changsheng and Aunt Qian wept. The Gu family comforted them for quite some time.
Gu Qingcheng looked around and saw that Aunt Qian's family was not in good circumstances. They only had two side rooms and a semi-open-air kitchen. With Aunt Qian's current situation, since her family was alive, she probably couldn't go up the mountain to take care of Xue Sheng anymore.
As Gu Qingcheng was contemplating, Aunt Qian proactively said, "Since my husband is fine, I will still go up the mountain today to take care of Xue Sheng. He is so young and cannot be without me." Hearing Aunt Qian say this, it could be felt that Aunt Qian had already come to regard Xue Sheng as her own child.
"Wife, there's something I need to tell you." Unexpectedly, Huang Changsheng interjected. Looking at his expression, it was clear that the matter was serious.
"What is it?" Aunt Qian also felt a sense of foreboding.
"Before, I thought no one in our family was left except me, and it was so cold here. There was no point in living here, so I signed a contract with a merchant caravan heading south as a laborer, sold the house cheaply, and will leave with them in three days. I heard that the south is better than here, the temperature is higher, and there are vast tracts of land to be reclaimed in the south, so many people are going south. The south will surely become lively in the future. Since you are alive, why don't you come to the south with me!"
Aunt Qian was stunned. She hadn't expected to have to make such a significant decision so soon after reuniting with her husband. It wasn't that she was reluctant to leave the comfortable life on Cliff Mountain. Her husband was alive, and she was willing to endure any hardship with him, but she couldn't bear to leave Xue Sheng. During the days she had been caring for Xue Sheng, she had come to regard him as her own child and felt she could never leave him. The thought of leaving Xue Sheng was like losing her son again.
"I, I can't bear to leave Xue Sheng," Aunt Qian, not being skilled with eloquent words, could only murmur.
"Who is Xue Sheng?" Huang Changsheng asked, confused.
Gu Zhaobei explained Xue Sheng's situation. Huang Changsheng also found it difficult upon hearing this. Suddenly, he optimistically said, "How about we take Xue Sheng with us to the south?"
Huh? This? The Gu family was in a dilemma.
"Divine Doctor Gu, Madam, Miss, Xue Sheng is very attached to me, and I can't leave him either. Please let Xue Sheng come with me, and I promise to treat him well." Aunt Qian, having lost her own children, would be happy to adopt Xue Sheng, so she also pleaded earnestly.
Gu Qingcheng knew that Aunt Qian would not be separated from her husband; she would definitely go south. Moreover, she agreed with Huang Changsheng's plan to head south now, as the place he mentioned, according to Gu Qingcheng's map check, had a high enough elevation to avoid flooding. After much discussion, the Gu family made a difficult decision: to let Aunt Qian take Xue Sheng to the south.
However, with Aunt Qian leaving Cliff Mountain, Gu Qingcheng had another concern: whether Aunt Qian would leak their secrets. As Gu Qingcheng hesitated, the system suddenly spoke, "Host, if you are afraid of secrets being leaked, you can have her drink the Silencing Water."
"Silencing Water? What is that?" Gu Qingcheng asked.
"After drinking the Silencing Water, she will not be able to speak of matters related to your family, ensuring that your secrets are not leaked." Human hearts are unpredictable. If Aunt Qian had stayed with their family, there would be no need to worry about secrets being leaked. But now that she was leaving, if she unintentionally told Huang Changsheng about her experiences at their home, and Huang Changsheng then leaked it to others, it would bring endless trouble to their family. Their family possessed too many things and resources that were out of sync with the current era. If this were to spread, they would surely become targets of plunder by powerful factions. Since there was Silencing Water, Gu Qingcheng was no longer worried.
Gu Zhaobei and Hu Lanfang, after careful consideration, also felt that it was a relatively sound approach for Aunt Qian to take Xue Sheng. If Aunt Qian left, it would be difficult to find another wet nurse as good to him as Aunt Qian. Moreover, their current nomadic lifestyle was not suitable for raising an infant. After a discussion, Gu Zhaobei said to Huang Changsheng and Aunt Qian, "Our family has discussed it. Since Aunt Qian cannot bear to part with Xue Sheng, we will let you adopt him. However, you must promise to treat him well."