From Hoarding to Time-Travel: My Supplies Saved Him-Chapter 42 - 43: Teased Again

Coming from the information age, Ancient Wen Heng wasn’t as ignorant or easily fooled as the people of this era. Besides, just look at his brothers—their eyes were perfectly clear.

However, Ancient Wen Heng never would have guessed it wasn’t that his brothers were being rational. Rather, the pair before them had simply gone too far recently. Beyond the ill feelings they inspired, he truly couldn’t find a single redeeming quality in them.

"I have my rules for seeing patients. Three bowls of water, not a drop less." Doctor Liu’s hands didn’t pause for a second as he quickly treated Gu Dashishi’s wound. With so many others waiting for him to save them, he had to give it his all for that water. 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎

"But our family has no water left. Can we owe you for now?" Lan Ying asked, wringing a handkerchief in her hands.

Doctor Liu didn’t even glance at her, speaking directly to the Gu Family Brothers who had been waiting nearby. "The wound is fine for now, and the bleeding has stopped. However, you’ll have to keep an eye on him tonight. If he develops a fever, it’ll be up to fate."

"Doctor," Gu Yuanlei said, "shouldn’t you prescribe a couple packets of medicine?"

Doctor Liu spread his hands. "I only have some styptic powder left. For someone in his condition, all you can do is help him recuperate slowly later on. If he makes it through tonight, just make sure he eats more."

Nutrients? People were lucky just to be alive right now. Nutrients? What a ridiculous thought.

Wang Caiyue looked at the thin layer of medicinal powder on the wound and couldn’t help muttering under her breath, "If I’d known, I would’ve just had Seventh stitch him up. We gave away all that water for nothing, and we still have to leave it to fate."

Standing beside her, Gu Lehuan tugged on the corner of her sleeve. "Mother, don’t say that."

Wang Caiyue knew her words were deeply unfilial, and it wasn’t right to say more in front of her child, so she just awkwardly turned her head away.

"Brother Yuan Lei," Lan Ying pleaded when she saw no one was paying her any mind, forcing her to turn to Gu Yuanlei for help.

Jin Qianqian rubbed the goosebumps on her arm. "It’s giving me the creeps. How many hoops does her voice have to jump through?"

Ancient Wen Heng felt his own scalp tingle. He quickly turned to Jin Qianqian. "Quick, call me ’Husband’ a few times. I need to cleanse my ears."

Jin Qianqian scoffed. "I think the grime on your face is too thick. I’d need to take a knife to it to scrape it clean. Do you still require my services?"

Ancient Wen Heng grinned and nodded. "It seems this style suits me better after all. Just listen to that. Even her threats are so pleasant to hear."

’...’ ’Suddenly, I have a real urge to grab a knife. What do I do?’

"Mother, can’t we just save him first?" As expected, Gu Yuanlei did not let the Gu Family down, once again helping Lan Ying try to take advantage of his own family.

Li Cuicui threw the just-emptied bamboo canteen on the ground in front of him. "This was all pooled together by your brothers. When are you going to pay back your share?"

"No, wait. Your father and I haven’t formally separated our household from yours yet. And your father was injured because of you. So on top of what you already owed, you can just add to the tab."

After speaking, she looked Gu Yuanlei up and down. "But it’s clear you can’t pay us back. So, as your mother, I’ve made a decision. Your previous water debt is wiped clean. We’ll just consider it the cost of your father and me getting you a wife. From now on, we’ll split the household and go our separate ways."

Gu Yuanlei’s face stiffened. "Mother, how can you blame me for Father’s injury? Besides, things aren’t so bad that we need to split the household. Why bring that up now?"

Seeing them get sidetracked, Lan Ying dropped her pretense of modesty and grabbed Gu Yuanlei’s sleeve. "Brother Yuan Lei, my father can’t wait that long."

Gu Yuanlei said, "We can talk about these things later. The priority is to save him. He’s practically a relative of our family, after all. We can’t just watch him die and do nothing."

"What kind of relative is he?" Li Cuicui had already cast her youngest son out in her heart the moment he chose an outsider over his own family.

"It’s a human life, after all! How can you be like this?" Lan Ying dabbed the corner of her eye with her handkerchief. "Even if you really don’t like me, my father is innocent."

"Innocent?" Gu Mingchun and his brothers helped Gu Datian over to see Doctor Liu. "I can’t speak for everyone, but we certainly haven’t forgotten your father chasing after us earlier today."

"I refuse to believe your family didn’t know he was with those bandits, swinging his blade at us. What is this? When force didn’t work, you decided to try the soft approach? Do you really think the Gu Family is that easy to bully?"

Gu Mingchun’s words were like water splashing into a pot of hot oil. Everyone was stunned. "Is that true? That’s just too much."

Along the journey, everyone had seen that their family was close with Gu Yuanlei, so no one minded them following from a distance.

Moreover, many people had seen Gu Yuan Yu take her own family’s water to give to them.

This was a classic case of repaying kindness with cruelty. How could people like that still have the gall to come asking for help?

Thinking about their own family members who had been hurt because of these people, those who previously felt sorry for Lan Ying now glared at her. Even Gu Yuanlei, standing beside her, was dragged into it, earning several nasty glares.

"That’s not what happened at all! My father was just passing by! Don’t you dare make false accusations!"

Gu Mingchun pointed to a pile of captured bandits, bound and tossed together not far away. "See them? That one over there is supposedly their leader. I’m sure he won’t hide the truth about who was good and who was bad."

Lan Ying’s face went deathly pale, and she began to wail, "You’re lying! My father would never do something like that! You’re framing an innocent man..."

Gu Yuanlei looked at her, his heart aching. "I believe you, and I believe your father wouldn’t do something like this."

Then he turned and glared fiercely at the others. "Don’t make accusations without proof!"

"Yuan Lei, I’m your fourth uncle. Do you think I would lie?" Gu Datian said coldly. "It was that man with the surname Lan who tried to snatch our water canteen and grain sack. When I fought him for it, he slashed my leg with a knife. Plenty of people saw it."

"This... how could this be?" Gu Yuanlei’s eyes widened. ’This shouldn’t be happening.’

Seeing the suspicion in Gu Yuanlei’s eyes, Lan Ying nervously lowered her head, unable to meet his gaze.

"That’s enough. Take this woman and get out. Right now, I don’t want to see you, either," Li Cuicui said. She felt utterly humiliated. To think this disaster was connected to her own family, and that they had the audacity to come asking for help after all that.

Jin Qianqian felt her worldview being shattered yet again. ’These people aren’t thinking about filling their stomachs or finding water... what in the world do they think about all day long?’

In the end, Gu Yuanlei couldn’t withstand everyone’s stares. Disregarding the impropriety of contact between unmarried men and women, he grabbed Lan Ying and quickly departed.

After everyone’s wounds had been treated, the group faced another difficult problem.

Despite the heavy casualties, the people who had gone to the city gate for help earlier had been met with silence. No one had come out to serve justice.

But the bodies lying all over the ground couldn’t just be left there. The group from Bainiao had lost dozens of people, all from families with few adult men and weak defenses.

With everyone’s help, they found a random spot by the mountainside and buried the dead.