The Prime Minister's Darling
Chapter 1259 - 1259 613 Outcomes (Two Updates)_3

Chapter 1259: 613 Outcomes (Two Updates)_3 Chapter 1259: 613 Outcomes (Two Updates)_3 “`

“There was no pain like grinding bones,” he said.

Gu Jiao replied, “Say that again after you’ve taken a few steps.”

Indeed, Huangfu Xian was smacked in the face by reality.

The pain was too much, every step felt as if he were walking on the edge of a knife, at least the bone-grinding had been done with anesthetic.

Gu Jiao figured that half of his pain was psychological, which was somewhat normal.

On the first day of official rehabilitation, which was focused on acclimation, Gu Jiao didn’t let him train for too long, not even half a “shi chen” before she had him sit back in the wheelchair.

By then, Huangfu Xian’s body didn’t have a single dry spot.

“Young Master, I’ve prepared the hot water,” Lianlian said with a smile as she came out of the house after they had finished practicing.

Huangfu Xian looked at Gu Jiao.

Gu Jiao said, “Go take a bath, don’t catch a cold.”

“Hmm,” Huangfu Xian nodded.

Gu Jiao turned to go back to her place, but Huangfu Xian suddenly called out to her, “Doctor Gu, thank you.”

Gu Jiao nodded her head.

Gu Jiao left the backyard of her uncle’s house and entered her own backyard to find her aunt sitting in the corridor.

Standing from her aunt’s point of view and looking towards the rehabilitation area, Gu Jiao immediately understood what her aunt had been watching just now.

“Not playing cards?” Gu Jiao asked with a curved lip.

“Hmph, I’m going now,” the Dowager Empress said with her chin up and walked out, “Liu Cuihua! We’re one short!”

The Dowager Empress was in good spirits today and had let her card-playing neighbors win, allowing them to lose less money.

Gu Jiao returned to her east room.

Xiaobao had not gone to his lessons today; he had gone to play with Princess Xinyang earlier and now ran in with a few small tufts on his head, calling out, “Jiaojiao, Jiaojiao!”

Gu Jiao looked back at him.

He presented his little head to Gu Jiao, “Jiaojiao, look!”

Gu Jiao tousled his small tufts, “Looks nice.”

In a few more months, he could have a small bun on his head.

Xiaobao was both happy and shy, “The princess did it for me!”

Gu Jiao praised, “She did it very well.”

Xiaobao said, “Jiaojiao.”

Gu Jiao replied, “Hmm?”

“That… that…” Xiaobao looked down and fiddled with his fingers, “Is there any more of that really tasty thing?”

He had given both bottles he found to Princess Xinyang and immediately regretted it, knowing he should have kept one for himself.

Gu Jiao organized the first aid kit, “What tasty thing?”

Xiaobao began to peek into the first aid kit, “Blue, sour and sweet.”

Gu Jiao understood, “Calcium supplement oral solution, huh? There’s none left.”

That had only appeared twice before disappearing completely.

Xiaobao was disappointed; looking at the first aid kit that really didn’t have the blue bottles, he asked puzzled, “Why were there only two this time? Weren’t there a lot before?”

Now it was Gu Jiao’s turn to be puzzled. The oral solution came in boxes, with ten bottles per box; where did he get the idea of just two bottles?

“It’s just… it’s just…” Xiaobao scratched at his tufts and finally told Gu Jiao about finding blue bottles under a bed.

Gu Jiao was absolutely certain that there had never been any calcium oral solution in her first aid kit during these days; if it wasn’t some blue fluid, the only possibility was “Fantasy No. 1”!

Gu Jiao asked Xiaobao which day he found it, and Xiaobao said it was the day they sent the baby away.

Gu Jiao paused, “Was it sent to Princess Xinyang, or sent back to his parents?”

Xiaobao replied, “To his parents, his parents came looking for their child!”

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That was the day when Elixir No. 1 made its appearance!

Could she have accidentally dropped two bottles on the ground when she was putting it back?

Gu Jiao closed the first aid kit, “Where did you put the medicine?”

He definitely hadn’t drunk it, otherwise Little Jingkong wouldn’t be standing here perfectly fine.

Little Jingkong said, “The princess was so sad that day, I wanted to comfort her, so I gave it to her.”

Gu Jiao felt as if she had been shot through the heart!

Wait, Princess Xinyang must not have drunk it either, otherwise trouble would have already happened.

Little Jingkong slurped his saliva, “Jiaojiao, do you have any more? I really want to drink it.”

Gu Jiao rubbed his little head, “There’s none left, but if I have some in the future, I’ll save it for you.”

“Mm, okay!” Little Jingkong was an obedient child. If Gu Jiao said there was none for now, he could wait until there was more.

“By the way, where’s the princess?”

“She left.”

“Left…” Gu Jiao glanced at the increasingly indecent first aid kit on the table, suppressed the urge to flatten it with a punch, and said to Little Jingkong, “I’m going out for a bit, I’ll be back soon.”

Little Jingkong cutely responded, “Okay, Jiaojiao!”

Although several days had passed without incident, that kind of elixir was ultimately a ticking time bomb. Ignorance was one thing, but knowing about it and not retrieving it immediately?

Gu Jiao didn’t even take the carriage, she rode straight to Vermilion Bird Avenue.

Aunt Yujin was watering flowers in the front courtyard. Seeing Gu Jiao dismount at the entrance, her eyes lit up, “Jiaojiao is here?”

“Aunt Yujin.” Gu Jiao handed over the reins to a maid at the door and walked into the courtyard, “Is the princess here?”

“The princess went to the cloth shop.” Aunt Yujin was supposed to accompany her, but unfortunately, she fell when she entered the door, so Princess Xinyang instructed her to rest at home.

Gu Jiao asked, “Aunt Yujin, do you know if the princess brought back two bottles of blue medicine?”

Aunt Yujin looked at Gu Jiao strangely, “I do, what’s the matter?”

Gu Jiao paused, not mentioning it was an aphrodisiac, and simply said, “There’s something wrong with those elixirs, may I take them for now?”

“The princess gave me the elixirs…” Aunt Yujin said with a complex expression, “But I then gave them to Lord Hou.”

Gu Jiao’s mouth fell open, “Xuanping Lord?”

Aunt Yujin fretfully said, “Yes, the princess said that medicine was for treating leg cramps. I didn’t want to drink it and had been saving it. Just yesterday, when I heard Lord Hou complaining about leg pain in Bishui Alley, I took it to him today… Did I cause trouble?”

Gu Jiao collected herself, “It’s fine, it’s fine.”

It was definitely better for Xuanping Lord to have drunk it than the princess.

Even though the elixir’s effects were strong, Xuanping Lord’s willpower was also very strong.

Besides, he was in a full-body cast, so there was nothing he could do anyway.

—Surely, no one would lift him and take him to the brothel to find girls.

Gu Jiao gave an awkward smile, “I’ll go back and check now.”

Aunt Yujin was taken aback, “Ah, okay.”

There was urgency, Aunt Yujin didn’t have time to ask Gu Jiao what was actually wrong with the medicine.

Gu Jiao hurried back to Bishui Alley without stopping and immediately found Xuanping Lord sunbathing in the backyard.

Gu Jiao approached, out of breath, “Lord Hou, did you drink the medicine Yujin gave you?”

Xuanping Lord glanced at her and said, “I didn’t.”

Gu Jiao heaved a sigh of relief and stretched out her hand, “Then give it to me quick.”

Xuanping Lord replied indifferently, “It’s gone.”

Gu Jiao was slightly stunned, “What do you mean?”

Xuanping Lord’s eyes darted to the corridor, “Look, she drank it.”

Gu Jiao turned around and saw Princess Xinyang walking out of the house.