Nanny Gu is sick, and her condition is very serious.
After receiving the news, Qu Moying asked for leave from the lady and went out of the city early in the morning.
In the cold winter, it is even more desolate when you go out of the city. The manor where Qu Moying lives is not close to the city and is considered a remote place. It is the most remote place among the manors left by the Xiao Yue family.
Nanny Gu was lying in bed. She was old and not in good health. She would get sick from time to time. No one took it seriously this time, thinking it was just an old illness. The maid who served her did not take it seriously. Unexpectedly, she suddenly had a high fever and the doctor gave her heavy medicine before she woke up.
But the situation was still not good at the moment, so he went to report the matter to Qu Moying.
"Madame Gu!" As soon as she entered the room, Qu Moying rushed to the head of the bed. She grew up with Madame Gu. Although Madame Gu was not smart, she was very loyal to Qu Moying and protected her wholeheartedly as she grew up.
"Miss... this old servant... it's nothing serious." Upon hearing the voice, Nanny Gu opened her dim eyes, carefully identified it, and then said.
When she entered the room just now, Qu Moying had already carefully asked the serving maid and knew that Madam Gu was not in good condition at the moment. She couldn't help but frowned.
But he was afraid that Nanny Gu would find out, so he slowly relaxed his brows.
"Madam Gu, I've brought a doctor over here, please take another look." Qu Moying signaled to the doctor beside her. She was worried, so she brought another doctor over.
"Thank you, Miss... I'm... old... It really doesn't matter." Nanny Gu sighed, but still obediently stretched out her trembling hand.
Qu Moying helped the maid put her hand on the medical pillow.
After the doctor examined Madam Gu's pulse, he looked unhappy.
"Doctor... How am I?" Nanny Gu opened her eyes, looked at the doctor and asked with a smile.
"You're just old, and the weather is cold, so you've hurt your body. It's not easy to recover. You have to take good care of yourself," the doctor comforted her.
"Yuchun, take the doctor to get a prescription." Qu Moying said after a moment of silence.
Yuchun led the doctor downstairs.
“Miss… please sit down.” Nanny Gu panted and wanted to sit up, but she was exhausted and could only lie there powerlessly.
"Madam Gu, please don't move. Don't catch a cold again. Your body is just accidentally frozen. It's the easiest to get sick in the winter."
Qu Moying hurriedly reached out and pressed her down to prevent her from getting up.
"I have overstepped my bounds!" said Nanny Gu weakly. She really had no strength left. She had originally thought that she would have to get up and salute the young lady, but she had no strength to move no matter how hard she tried. She felt as if she was weakened.
"Madame Gu." Seeing her like this, Qu Moying's eyes turned red.
"Miss!" Nanny Gu was no longer obsessed with getting up. She reached out and pulled Qu Moying's hand. Her whole body was hot, and holding Qu Moying's hand felt like it was burning, which made people feel very uncomfortable. However, Qu Moying did not intend to let go. Instead, she gently pulled Nanny Gu's hand.
“Miss, do you still remember what happened when you were a child?” Sensing Qu Moying’s closeness, Nanny Gu laughed, “At that time, everyone thought you were going to die, but you survived. You also got smallpox once, and someone else gave it to you. That time, they also thought you were going to die. And then there was the incident of you falling into the river…”
As Nanny Gu spoke, she closed her eyes. She was too exhausted to continue after hearing so many words at once, so she stopped talking here.
Qu Moying couldn't remember anything about his childhood. He did have some impression of the smallpox incident, and his memory of falling into the river was also very vague. But it seemed that it might have been Yu's doing. Although Yu didn't often torment him at that time, he would always find some unexpected things to torment him.
At that time, Nanny Gu was particularly worried about herself, fearing that she would make the slightest mistake.
"Madame Gu, I remember everything." Qu Moying's eyes were slightly red, and she held Madame Gu's hand and responded in a low voice.
"At that time, the young lady actually had playmates... I was very happy, but... but a few days later, the young lady was infected with smallpox... I no longer dared to let the young lady play with them, because... they were all children... suffering from smallpox."
Nanny Gu closed her eyes weakly and said.
Qu Moying still had some memories of this incident, although not very clearly. After hearing what Nanny Gu said, he also remembered that he seemed to have contracted smallpox and was infected.
Playmates? Yes, there are two, a boy and a girl, both look a little older than me!
Anyway, Qu Moying looked very small at that time, and the two kids who looked older than her didn't seem much older. She really didn't have many playmates here, and she didn't talk to anyone, and she didn't even leave the yard.
At that time, it seemed like something happened, so she went out and met two children, and then she just watched them play quietly? Actually, that's not right, she was watching a girl play with another boy.
Later, the girl couldn't play anymore, so the three of them sat together and talked.
Later, she fell ill and contracted smallpox. After Madam Gu went out for a while, she came back very angry. She was so sick and confused at the time that she didn’t hear clearly what Madam Gu and the other maids said. She only seemed to hear that the two children over there had also been infected with smallpox...
“Miss, those two children… their families are not well… their own children’s smallpox hasn’t fully recovered yet… and they came out to play with other children… Miss was infected, and she is weak. That time… I thought you couldn’t hold on.” Tears fell from Nanny Gu’s closed eyes.
The Qu family didn't take this child seriously, but Nanny Gu wanted to protect this child wholeheartedly. She was so thin and so small, far from being comparable to her peers. When she raised her eyes to look at people, she was very well-behaved and calm. Although she had an eye disease and couldn't see clearly, she said nothing, which made people feel distressed. Nanny Gu really didn't understand why the master of the mansion would abandon such a lovely fourth young lady in such a remote place and ignore her.
This child is so pitiful and well-behaved. He almost never makes a fuss and doesn’t have the energy to cry.
"Madame Gu is gone. I'm fine now. Madame Gu will get better too. I will take good care of you in your old age!" Qu Moying suppressed the throbbing in his heart, wiped the corners of Madame Gu's eyes with a handkerchief, and whispered.
I felt sad, and seeing the doctor's expression just now, I knew that something was not going well.
After comforting Nanny Gu a few more words, Nanny Gu fell asleep weakly. Qu Moying then got up and walked out the door and went to the side room.
In the side room, the doctor had already prescribed the medicine, and the little maid in the corridor was decocting it. On the way here, she also brought some medicinal herbs, basically all of which could be used for treating colds.
"Doctor, how is Nanny Gu?" Qu Moying asked.
"It's not very good... Let's see if she can make it. It's not a serious illness, but she is old and has a weak immune system. She also had some old illnesses when she was young. She must have been sick and hasn't had a good rest, so she's busy again." said the doctor.
"In this situation, the possibility of not being able to survive is still very high."
"Not much... Are you sure?" Qu Moying asked in a trembling voice.
"I'm not sure. It depends on whether her fever can go away completely." The doctor nodded. The fever had gone away after taking the medicine, but Qu Moying could sense it just now. She rushed up again and held Nanny Gu's hand. She could feel the dryness in her palm, which showed that the fever was not mild.
"Let's try the medicine for a few days. If it doesn't work, we can change the medicine. But Madam Gu is old after all. If she keeps doing this... I'm afraid it won't be good."
The doctor still gave Qu Moying a subtle reminder.
These words made Qu Moying's heart skip a beat. She bit her lip and suppressed the sadness in her heart.
Nanny Gu was the one who had accompanied her all the way up. She was the person who had been with her the longest. Nanny Gu had been protecting her since she was a child who knew nothing.
Before returning to the Qu Mansion, it was Nanny Gu who took care of everything around her.
Now that Nanny Gu was dying, how could she not be sad? She ordered the doctor to stay here and she walked out with Yudong, feeling depressed.
It was winter and there were not many people on the road. After walking a few steps casually, Qu Moying did not plan to go to the front of the village. He turned around and walked out from the back.
Her courtyard was in a remote part of the village, and the normal way was to go out from the front and then go straight to the gate of the village.
But when she was little, she liked to take a detour when she went out and go out through a small path at the back. The place where this path led to was actually not their farm, but another place. She vaguely remembered that there was a river there and there seemed to be a small bridge.
As for the rest, she really couldn't remember.
But Qu Moying didn't know when she had been to that place again. Of course, she rarely set foot out of the yard later. The place where she went out was that small yard. That small sky was like a closed space, blocking all her childhood memories.
I was a little confused and just wanted to be quiet. I hadn't been there for many years, so it should be very quiet, right? At least it was much quieter than the main road in front of Zhuangzi.
There are very few roads, and you can see that almost no one walks on them. They are all deserted.
Fortunately, it was winter, otherwise the road would be covered with grass and it would be very inconvenient to walk.
The road was winding and actually quite long. Qu Moying walked along in silence. The wind was very strong and she felt a little cold even though she was wearing a cloak.
Yudong actually wanted to go forward and ask her to go back, but seeing the slightly red eyes of his master, he knew that she was sad, so he did not stop her and followed her step by step.
It was a small river, not very big, and a small bridge, also very small. The water in winter was very shallow, just like a thin layer below. The river banks looked quite high. At this time, even without the small bridge, you could actually cross it directly. Climbing down the shore, the stones in the river were all exposed, and they were not far away.
Qu Moying stood by the river, staring at the bottom of the river in silence. She didn't speak for a long time, just like when she saw this place when she was a child. She sat there quietly, not even knowing what she was thinking. It seemed that she was just in a daze for the sake of being in a daze. She looked like her soul was wandering in the sky, immersed in her own world.
"Miss!" Yudong suddenly called out in a low voice.
Awakened from silence, Qu Moying raised his head and met a pair of eyes that were calm but could not hide their excitement. This feeling was very incompatible with the owner of these eyes...