Back to the 1980s: Transmigrated as the Bigshot's Pampered Wife-Chapter 75: The Emergence of the Divine Doctoress
Gu Jiaojiao had only been thinking about her trip to Africa at the time, so she’d stocked up entirely on food, cooking essentials like oil and salt, tea, cigarettes, and alcohol.
Luckily, she had also packed some bedding, thinking she would give it away as gifts. As for fancy clothes, sunglasses, and the like, she hadn’t brought any of it, because she didn’t need them.
She had a habit of collecting sunglasses, buying any pair she liked on sight. In fact, there were over a dozen brand-new pairs still in their packaging in her car. ’I’ll give a pair to Gao Xiangming later,’ she thought.
"Thank you, Boss!" Gao Xiangming was already walking on air just thinking about the sunglasses Gu Jiaojiao was going to give him.
The black market in the county town offered a much wider variety of goods than the one in Qing City. All sorts of medicinal herbs were available, both dried and fresh.
Gu Jiaojiao bought them all. After all, Gao Xiangming’s boys were there to voluntarily carry everything to her car.
She spotted someone selling river snails. There was a whole wooden bucket of them, still in their shells, and they looked like they had just been caught.
Next to it was a small basket of dried snail meat. Gu Jiaojiao grabbed a handful and sniffed it. It hadn’t gone bad, so she bought the entire lot.
Seeing how generously she bought from him, the man threw in the wooden bucket for free, since he could easily make another one himself.
Two of the boys struggled to carry the bucket of snails to the car, along with sorghum rice cakes, sweet potato vermicelli...
Gu Jiaojiao’s trunk was quite large, but it couldn’t keep up with her shopping spree. "Boss, there’s no more room in the car."
"Hee hee, that was so much fun! I’ll have to come back during my summer break." Gu Jiaojiao had bought a huge pile of things and had only spent a little over a hundred yuan.
The medicinal herbs were what cost the most. She also bought a few live chickens, now that she knew she could keep living things in her space.
So, she also bought twenty chicks and twenty ducklings, though she didn’t see any goslings for sale.
Completely satisfied, Gu Jiaojiao left. She fished a pair of sunglasses out of the pocket on the back of the car seat and gave them to Gao Xiangming.
It was already past five in the afternoon. Gu Jiaojiao started the car again and set off for Qing City.
"Jiaojiao, did you have fun today?" Su Shuochi asked tenderly.
"I had a great time. What about you?"
"I’m happy, but also a little sad. You left me all alone in the car..." He didn’t want to be away from her for a single moment.
He was no longer the man he used to be, for whom a lover was merely icing on the cake. Back then, he could have lived on his own just fine.
"Well, that’s because you’re too conspicuous! We’re supposed to be doing business on the down-low, you know~"
After saying this, Gu Jiaojiao leaned over and kissed him on the cheek. "MWAH."
"Jiaojiao~ Be careful driving, be careful~"
She giggled.
"Jiaojiao~ Do you think Dad and the others will stop at a restaurant to eat around now?"
"At that driver’s speed, they won’t get home until eleven at night. They won’t go to a restaurant. At most, they’ll pull over to eat some steamed buns."
"Then let’s put our things into your space and catch up to them. You can drive, so Dad and Uncle Geng don’t have to stay up so late."
"So you trust my driving now? I may have gotten my license at eighteen, but I’ve been driving for ten years."
"Jiaojiao~ You lived to be twenty-eight in your past life?" ’Did you get married? Have children?’
Su Shuochi didn’t dare ask the rest of his questions. That was Jiaojiao’s past life; he had no right to interfere.
"Yep. That makes me three years older than you! Will you mind?" Gu Jiaojiao asked casually.
After all, in this life, her body was only eighteen, making her seven years younger than Su Shuochi.
"How could I? Even if you had lived to be eighty in your past life, I wouldn’t mind. Because you are my wife *now*."
"Haha~ If that were the case, even if you didn’t mind, I’d mind! Haha...
Who lives to be eighty without getting married? And if I’d had a boyfriend before, I probably wouldn’t be able to be so open in our relationship."
"Jiao... Jiaojiao... You didn’t even have a boyfriend in your past life?" Su Shuochi’s heart gave a violent shudder.
His eyes shone as brightly as twinkling stars in the night sky, and he couldn’t help but say, "Wifey, I want to kiss you."
Completely breaking the mood, Gu Jiaojiao asked, "Su Shuochi, you didn’t actually think I was married with children in my past life, did you?"
"In our time, girls usually get married around twenty, so I just thought..."
"I can’t blame you for thinking that. Even in later generations, some people get married at twenty, but most don’t start going on blind dates until they’re twenty-seven or twenty-eight.
I was too busy with my career to have time. Besides, my dad and stepmom had their own children to raise, so they didn’t have time to pressure me into marriage."
Gu Jiaojiao didn’t mention that her grandfather had been nagging her for a year, during which she’d gone on a dozen or so blind dates. ’My grandpa practically wanted to drag me to the altar,’ she thought.
"Then I suppose I should thank my past-life father-in-law and stepmother-in-law. Wifey, did your stepmom mistreat you?"
"No, I never lived with them. I lived in a dorm at school, then in company housing after I started working. On holidays, I stayed with my grandpa."
The two of them chatted the whole way, catching up to Song Zijie’s car an hour later.
Seeing her chance, Gu Jiaojiao stored the car in her space, then pushed Su Shuochi in his wheelchair to the side of the road to wait.
"Jiaojiao! It’s Jiaojiao and the others up ahead!" Mr. Gu shouted excitedly from the passenger seat.
"Brother Su, Sister-in-law, how did you get ahead of us?"
"You’re not familiar with the roads around here. We took a different one, so we ended up ahead."
"Dad, have you all eaten yet?" Gu Jiaojiao had chosen to wait here specifically because she’d spotted a restaurant not far ahead.
"We’re not hungry, Jiaojiao. You have class tomorrow, so maybe we should just get back on the road."
"Dad, Uncle Geng, you should get out and eat. Jiaojiao is a very fast driver. We should be home a little after nine."
Su Shuochi couldn’t bear the thought of his wifey driving on an empty stomach. They had been busy all afternoon with no time to eat.
He had eaten plenty of snacks in the passenger seat, and had of course fed some to Gu Jiaojiao, but without a proper meal, something just felt off.
So, the group went into the restaurant and ordered a few dishes. After spending so many hours in the car, everyone needed to rest for a bit anyway.
During the meal, Mr. Gu said, "Shuo Ci, Jiaojiao, I’ve discussed it with Zijie. When the time comes, can we just say that Ruixian was the Divine Doctor we hired?"
"That might not be a good idea," Su Shuochi said with concern. "If Divine Doctor Jiang visits his eldest son’s home, our cover will be blown."
"What’s wrong with it? By the time Divine Doctor Jiang gets back, Song Zijie will already be cured. Who’s going to care about the details?"
Gu Jiaojiao said confidently.
The words were spoken casually, but they struck a deep chord in the listener. Song Zijie was so moved he was on the verge of tears.
’I will be cured.’ What beautiful words those were!
"Brother Su is right. Divine Doctor Jiang would put Uncle Geng in a difficult position. One lie just requires countless more to cover it up."
"How about this, Song Zijie? Just say that a female Divine Doctor is living in your courtyard and refuses to see strangers."
Su Shuochi’s mind worked fast. ’No one is going to take the credit that belongs to my wifey,’ he thought. ’We’ll need her reputation later to get her into Imperial Capital Medical University.’
"A female Divine Doctor?" Song Zijie asked, confused.
"Is my wifey not a woman? What’s wrong with calling her a female Divine Doctor?"
"Right, right, absolutely right. I’ll say exactly what Brother Su said when I get home." Song Zijie was instantly cowed.
As if he would dare offend the female Divine Doctor. He immediately started laying on the praise. "Brother Su, I agree. ’Female Divine Doctor’ sounds much more convincing."
