Chapter 901: Chapter 717: She Was a Victim of Domestic Violence
The Sovereign wants it! Wants it! Wants, it, indeed!
The Messenger Court Lady replied helplessly yet straightforwardly, with a tone of inevitability.
They were indeed the female officials of their Sovereign, of course, their duty was to serve their Sovereign. Wasn’t this obvious?
Mr. Ban Shan felt as if he had been struck by lightning as he realized the Messenger Court Lady’s report: capturing handsome men was because his foster daughter wanted them! Wanted, them, indeed!
Mr. Ban Shan’s body trembled slightly.
“Ah! Foster Father!”
Gu Changsheng exclaimed, and with a flash, lunged toward the slowly falling person.
If she had been a moment slower, her foster father would have embraced Mother Earth!
“Foster Father! Don’t scare me, what’s happening to you?” Gu Changsheng anxiously said while helping Mr. Ban Shan sit slowly on the ground.
“Someone! Someone! Call the Imperial Physician! The Imperial Physician!” The Messenger Court Lady could no longer kneel; she got up and ran outside.
Her loud voice immediately alerted many people.
“Call the Imperial Physician, call nonsense! I am a doctor.” Gu Changsheng finally recalled that she was also a doctor, and a good one at that. She immediately disregarded everything else, grabbed her foster father’s wrist, and carefully checked the pulse.
The pulse was strong, not like he was ill, just a bit fast.
Gu Changsheng certainly didn’t naively attribute her foster father’s accelerated heartbeat to excitement. In her opinion, her foster father was mostly frightened by the Messenger Court Lady’s words and fainted from shock.
This…
Could it be that her foster father’s thoughts were also impure for a moment?
How could he not understand his own daughter? His daughter was such a pure person; how could she possibly do impure things!
This was a heartbreaking realization!
“Let’s help Foster Father to the bed chamber to rest; his elderly mind is, um… overthinking.” Gu Changsheng assisted her foster father up from the ground, and with the help of the court ladies, moved toward her foster father’s bed chamber.
Her words were so tactful, but maintaining that elderly emotions may not necessarily be a bad thing, Gu Changsheng wasn’t in a hurry to explain.
Actually, this matter didn’t need much explanation, it was originally a good thing; obviously, her foster father was overthinking it.
Fainting was just fainting; with a good sleep, by the time he wakes up tomorrow, he’ll be as lively as a dragon, and surely he can swing a broom as energetically as ever!
Modern scientific research shows that so-called aging is not just physical cellular and organ aging, but also psychological aging. The stable mind of the elderly gradually becomes calm, and when their psychological endurance can face death directly, subconsciously, death is not far from them. So, maintaining passionate enthusiasm is so very important. As a foster daughter, she was making contributions to keep her foster father’s heart pounding with excitement, how filial she was!
Shaking hands, that’s the logic!
Mr. Ban Shan was truly faint from anger, because he felt that his daughter went too far and was undignified this time, and he could not bear it.
Gu Changsheng could have woken him up quickly, but chose to let him rest, and wait until tomorrow when he wakes up to explain.
Thus, when Zhou Mu and the others, including Borjigin Nian and Yue Xilou, arrived upon hearing the news, Gu Changsheng had already settled her foster father and lit a calming incense in his bed chamber.
“What’s wrong with the teacher? How did he faint suddenly?” Zhou Mu furrowed his brows slightly. He knew that his family member Changsheng respected Mr. Ban Shan, and he himself held considerable respect for Mr. Ban Shan as well.
Zhou Mu’s question was quite tactful, while Borjigin Nian asked more directly, “Gu Changsheng, wasn’t the teacher disciplining you for your mischief? Did you refuse to be taught and make the teacher faint from anger? How can there be a foster daughter like you in the world?”
Not mentioning this was fine, but bringing it up made Gu Changsheng angry; she immediately glared, “I don’t care whether there are foster daughters like me in the world, but I know that friends like you who let me down really need a beating. How dare you come to question me.”
Darn it! When they returned to the traveling palace, as soon as they reached the gate, they saw her foster father standing in the palace gate with a broom.
The evildoer made a direct move, glanced at the broom, turned on his heel, and walked straight to the tall gate next door to the traveling palace.
And Borjigin Nian and Yue Xilou were even more direct, pushing her toward the broom and then ran off!
Damn it! She was caught by her foster father on the spot, dragged from the front gate of the traveling palace to the rear hall, scolding her so much that her mind was filled with swirling symbols. The disgrace was small; after all, she didn’t have much authority in the eyes of her female officials and subordinates. But she was hit with several brooms! She was domestically abused, wasn’t she? She was, wasn’t she?
“…”
“…”
Borjigin Nian and Yue Xilou felt a bit embarrassed upon hearing Gu Changsheng’s words.
They were indeed quite unkind to have abandoned Gu Changsheng and run away, but wasn’t he her foster father, after all?
“Alright, let’s first talk about the situation with the teacher; we’re still worried.” Zhou Mu stepped forward, raising his hand to pull the feisty little woman into his embrace, stopping her from hopping around.
“Humph, you’re not a good guy either.” Gu Changsheng rolled her eyes at him with annoyance; this guy was the first to turn and run away, she remembered clearly.
“Ahem! I think if the teacher sees me, he would definitely be furious, and his anger might be harmful to his health.” That broom was originally meant to prevent him and Changsheng from meeting before the wedding!
“Hmph hmph…” Gu Changsheng snorted, looking a bit embarrassed as she spoke, “He’s already hurt; my foster father passed out from anger…”
What a plain truth…
As soon as she finished speaking, accusatory glances were immediately cast toward Gu Changsheng.
“It must be because you didn’t listen attentively to his teachings, and you weren’t respectful enough!” Borjigin Nian accused without hesitation.
Yue Xilou nodded in agreement; he thought so too.
“Unjust! I never talked back or retaliated; how much more obedient could I be!” Gu Changsheng directly cried out her grievance. Heaven could witness, she only symbolically dodged a little when the broom came down, wasn’t it just to let her foster father feel a bit of accomplishment?
“…”
Everyone didn’t quite agree with her cries of grievance, but neither did they pursue the matter.
“The teacher really is okay?” Zhou Mu was still not entirely at ease.
“I am a doctor.” Gu Changsheng’s reply was simple and straightforward. Pinching people to wake them up? It would be better to let her foster father have a good sleep, rather than always worrying about her grand wedding, causing him to go white-haired in vain, although, she truly didn’t know where her foster father’s worries came from.
“Just fainted from anger, it wouldn’t…” Zhou Mu, in fact, was a very meticulous person, especially after witnessing his own woman’s carefree nature, he felt it was very necessary to ask an extra question.
“I am a doctor.” Gu Changsheng rolled her eyes at him dramatically.
Did she seem like someone so out of touch? Wasn’t she very responsible towards her foster father?
Even though her foster father abused her, did she not treat him like first love?
“…” Zhou Mu had nothing more to say.
“Evildoer, my foster father abuses me!” Zhou Mu had nothing to say, but Gu Changsheng did. After living through two lifetimes, she finally experienced domestic abuse again. In her previous life, her old man would jump angrily and chase her all around the big courtyard to beat her, and sometimes even fire a gun in anger, causing chaos among the courtyard’s guards.
The feeling of being abused is truly soul-dissolving, really soul-dissolving!
“…” Zhou Mu was stunned for a moment, lightly coughed, and patted her shoulder in consolation, “It’s alright, I climbed over the wall this morning and also got hit by a broom. Are you hurt anywhere?”
Even if the teacher was so angry that he wielded a broom at him, he didn’t have the strength to knock him out; who knew if his own woman got hurt?
“No, just a bit hungry from being abused…” Gu Changsheng covered her stomach and spoke with a pitiful expression.
Borjigin Nian’s mouth twitched; this girl had been eating non-stop all day while shopping, hasn’t she?
Yue Xilou’s eye also twitched; he had never seen a woman who could eat so much and indulge so greedily!
“Really not hurt? What do you want to eat? I’ll have someone prepare it.” Zhou Mu asked as he checked her body up and down.
“Pork, mutton, beef, chicken, wow, evildoer, let’s have hotpot!” At the mention of food, Gu Changsheng’s eyes instantly sparkled, and she dragged her evildoer to walk outside, excitedly speaking as she went, “Let’s go eat hotpot in the back garden, take out today’s shopping trophies and have a look, eating and playing…”
Mr. Ban Shan had fainted from anger and was sleeping soundly; under the lead of someone indifferent, a lively group headed towards the vast back garden of the traveling palace.
Among the hidden pavilions and strange flowers, the elegant back garden was suddenly filled with an absurdly loud and discordant voice.
“Evildoer, it’s slicing meat! Slicing meat! Not chopping it! Chopping it! You’re not cut out to be a chef! Move aside, look at me… look at my Xiao Leizi’s knife skills!”
“Little meat bun, I told you to boil water, not to boil yourself, are you trying to plate yourself as Red Child?”
“Damn it! A princess is still a princess, no matter how bizarre, you can’t change your nature of stretching out your hand for clothes and opening your mouth for food, utterly useless!”
“Flower Peacock, don’t mix vegetables and meat on one plate, it’s not sanitary…”
“…”
The back garden was bustling, with smoke curling and the scent of meat, though it didn’t match the elegant garden scenery, the female officials attending the traveling palace felt, having such a sovereign was quite good, at the very least, approachable enough to foster a sense of closeness within respect.
The dusky evening spread a soft glow, lighting the various places, the back garden of the traveling palace was lively, and outside it was lively too.
It must be said, Hongyan Jiaojiao was a person of action, very dependable in her work.
Therefore, in just half a day, after tormenting the strong men in the evening streets, Hongyan Jiaojiao once again led the crowd to wreak havoc thoroughly on the official mansions of civil and military officials…