Chapter 19: An Accident
After selling the roe deer, Gu Yu bought many snacks along the way.
Thinking of how the two younger ones at home would react to meat, Gu Yu then bought five steamed buns filled with white dough and meat, intending to sate the hunger of the siblings.
Gu Mengyao’s chicken stew at noon was very fragrant. It was also because the three of them hadn’t tasted meat for a long time, but in reality, Gu Mengyao’s cooking skills were not very good.
However, for a thirteen-year-old girl whose parents were deceased, and with no ingredients to practice with, it was good enough that the food was edible.
One should be content…
After putting the flavorful food into the space, Gu Yu shouldered his bamboo basket and ambled towards the ox cart.
He had been out for over an hour, and if he delayed any longer, there would be no more carts returning to the village.
Fortunately, the journey back was uneventful. At most, the people sharing the cart looked at Gu Yu with expressions that were hard to decipher, but once Gu Yu closed his eyes, their attention shifted elsewhere.
After listening to gossip for the entire journey, upon reaching the village entrance, Gu Yu, drawing on his earlier experience, did not rush to get off the cart this time. Instead, he slowly disembarked.
As expected, he didn’t make a fool of himself this time.
However, after riding the ox cart the whole way, Gu Yu was now extremely uncomfortable and could only shuffle home step by step.
When he arrived at the doorstep, the moment he got close, he smelled a strong scent of blood. This made Gu Yu’s expression darken, and he quickened his pace, rushing into the courtyard.
“Gu Mengyao, are you alright!”
“Brother-in-law, Eldest Sister is fine. She caught a big one today!”
Fortunately, Gu Mengyao was unharmed. As soon as Gu Yu rushed into the courtyard, he saw a huge wild boar.
No matter how he looked at it, Gu Yu felt it was the same one he encountered at noon.
Such a large wild boar, was it caught by Gu Mengyao???
After knowing Gu Mengyao was safe, Gu Yu, whose heart was finally at ease, couldn’t help but marvel. He then walked to the corpse of the dead wild boar, his eyes almost glued to it.
He had just sold a wild roe deer, and now this fat and strong wild boar was even more valuable!
After circling the wild boar a few times, Gu Yu finally let go of the anger he felt from being chased by the wild boar at noon. When he walked into the house, he keenly noticed that Gu Mengyao had an injured arm.
The girl’s arm was originally slender. It was wrapped in layers of white cotton cloth, and the blood seeping through indicated that she was indeed injured.
Her pale face showed signs of excessive blood loss.
Seeing this, Gu Yu’s eyebrows furrowed. He walked up to Gu Mengyao in a few steps.
Gu Yu looked at Gu Mengyao, who was sitting on the bed, without speaking. The quiet atmosphere made Gu Mengyao and the sibling Gu Qingheng feel a little uneasy, wondering how this seemingly thin and weak young boy, Gu Yu, suddenly had such a commanding presence.
When hunting in the mountains, injuries were common. Gu Mengyao’s injury was only to her arm, which wasn’t a big deal. Only a broken leg or a lost life would be considered the most serious situation.
But now, Gu Yu was full of regret because Gu Mengyao was injured.
Knowing that Gu Mengyao’s father was bitten to death while hunting, how could he still allow Gu Mengyao to risk going up the mountain!
He could make money himself, and Gu Mengyao no longer needed to risk her life on the mountain. This hunt was also the last one.
“Yu, Brother Wu said that this wild boar can be sold for five taels of silver. I’ll have Qingheng find him to sell it later, and we won’t have to worry about winter.”
Perhaps sensing Gu Yu’s unhappiness, Gu Mengyao spoke cautiously this time, afraid of angering him further.
Her watery eyes were full of appeasing gestures, which made Gu Yu feel very uncomfortable.
Especially when Gu Mengyao said this, Gu Yu became even more angry.
A roe deer sold for nine taels of silver, but such a large wild boar was only worth five taels. That hunter surnamed Wu was truly calculating.
It was as if he was the only smart one, and everyone else was a fool.
Of course, Gu Mengyao and her brother were indeed foolish… After all, they had let Hunter Wu sell many things for them before, and there was no shortage of this time.
However, Gu Yu would never allow the prey that his wife almost lost her life for to be sold at such a low price.
