Time Travel: The Best Doctor in Ancient Times-Chapter 1463 - 1108: Open the Door, Release the Little Bun!
But this is the granddaughter that carries all of Old Madam Zuoqiu’s longing for her beloved son!
How could Old Madam Zuoqiu give up?
Helpless, Old Madam Zuoqiu decided to swallow her pride and sought help from the Medicine King Valley!
The world didn’t know the whereabouts of the Medicine King Valley, but how could Old Madam Zuoqiu, who had fairly decent private relations with them, not know?
Old Madam Zuoqiu went straight to the doors of Medicine King Valley, requesting the elderly Medical Immortal of that era for help to save her granddaughter, but by that time, the elder Medical Immortal had already decided to live in seclusion and was unwilling to get involved.
Faced with a dilemma, the elder Medical Immortal brought out his disciple, who he had trained for over a decade. To send Old Madam Zuoqiu away, Wu Xi was sent off just like that!
This act brought about problems, as Old Madam Zuoqiu’s granddaughter had a congenital disease since birth, one that even magical hands could hardly heal. At that time, the young Medicine Immortal Old Man was at a loss and could only stay at the Zuoqiu Family, researching medical skills while seeking ways to completely cure Old Madam Zuoqiu’s granddaughter.
One was a frail and sickly girl, and the other a youth skilled in medicine. How could nothing happen between them with such interactions?
Moreover, to this girl, the Medicine Immortal Old Man was like a lifeline?
So, it was only natural for the two to develop feelings for each other!
However, when the two made their feelings public and sought the approval of Old Madam Zuoqiu, she resolutely opposed it. The Medicine Immortal Old Man stayed in the Zuoqiu Family for a full five years!
Five years! Old Madam Zuoqiu’s granddaughter’s health remained as frail as ever, with no improvement seen, which made Old Madam Zuoqiu, worried sick about her granddaughter, begin to doubt the medical skills of the Medicine Immortal Old Man, believing that the elder Medical Immortal had merely pushed his disciple forward to placate her, thus watching her granddaughter slip away before her eyes!
However, what Old Madam Zuoqiu didn’t know at the time was that this congenital disease, brought from the womb, could only be managed to the extent of stabilizing the condition by the elder Medical Immortal, allowing her granddaughter to live a year longer. After all, though there are tales of Divine Doctors, there is also the saying that fate is determined by the heavens and not by man, isn’t there? Some illnesses, even for a Divine Doctor, might not have a cure to reverse them...
Thus, firmly believing she was being deceived by the Medicine King Valley, Old Madam Zuoqiu persisted more than ever and staunchly refused to let her beloved granddaughter marry the Medicine Immortal Old Man!
Then, those two young souls, with feelings blossoming in their youth, eloped right under Old Madam Zuoqiu’s nose!
Old Madam Zuoqiu firmly believed that her obedient and sensible granddaughter would never do something as disgraceful as eloping with someone. Therefore, believing that Wu Xi had abducted her granddaughter, she took her family along and hurried to the Medicine King Valley to confront the Medicine Immortal Old Man, but unfortunately, they were too late, and the Medicine Immortal Old Man, along with her granddaughter, had not returned...
Failing to find her beloved granddaughter in the Medicine King Valley, Old Madam Zuoqiu searched for twenty years!
Twenty years later, the Medicine Immortal Old Man returned, but he returned alone, holding a memorial tablet in his arms...
Upon hearing this, Old Madam Zuoqiu broke down into tears, convinced that the Medicine Immortal Old Man had stolen her granddaughter, taken her on a life of wandering, resulting in her tragic death away from home, depriving her of a final farewell to her granddaughter!
This grudge formed from then on!
Since then, every time Old Madam Zuoqiu saw the Medicine Immortal Old Man, she would fly into a rage, beating him until even his own parents wouldn’t recognize him. Despite this, the Medicine Immortal Old Man, knowing he was at fault, never retaliated, remaining adamant in not allowing the Zuoqiu Family to retrieve his wife’s memorial tablet!
Thus, to this day, the memorial tablet of Old Madam Zuoqiu’s granddaughter remains in the ancestral shrine of the Medicine King Valley, with no descendants to offer incense, except for the Medicine Immortal Old Man himself!
Old Madam Zuoqiu has been furious about this for over a hundred years, but daughters in the family are different from sons; women cannot enter the ancestral shrine! Even if she could retrieve her granddaughter’s memorial tablet, it couldn’t be properly enshrined in the Zuoqiu Family’s ancestral hall. However, leaving it in the Medicine King Valley with no incense offerings, how could a loving grandmother like Old Madam Zuoqiu endure this? How could this resentment not deepen over time?
Upon understanding the whole story, Gu Changsheng was completely shocked!
Oh my god!
This love and hate, love and hate, turns out to be hatred caused by love!
No wonder!
No wonder Zhuge Manman said what he did yesterday, no wonder Old Madam Zuoqiu’s attitude is so complex, no wonder she gets angry whenever Dugu Jieao mentions her granddaughter, no wonder she says the Medicine Immortal Old Man is habitually stealing people...
A previous offense!
This is a blatant previous offense!
Gu Changsheng shook her head, wondering what to say.
According to seniority, she is a disciple of the Medicine Immortal Old Man, and the memorial tablet enshrined in the Medicine King Valley’s shrine is rightfully her master’s wife, whom she should honor with incense. Old Madam Zuoqiu, in terms of seniority, is justifiably her Ancestral Granny!
But, the mistake was made when the Medicine Immortal Old Man eloped with someone else’s granddaughter without the family’s consent!
And, my god, he took her away and never brought her back!
Isn’t this an unsolvable situation?
Shaking her head, Gu Changsheng had to admit that everyone has moments of youthful recklessness, including the Medicine Immortal Old Man. My god, eloping with someone’s granddaughter was really not a wise move, rather inconsiderate and foolish. Since he was already in the Zuoqiu family, why elope at all? If Old Madam Zuoqiu disagreed, couldn’t he have played the long game?
With a secret child, wouldn’t everything have fallen into place naturally? Uh! No, considering the half-alive state of her own master’s wife, from a doctor’s perspective, Gu Changsheng immediately dismissed this strategy. Obviously, for a frail woman with a congenital illness, pregnancy would be fatal, a choice the Medicine Immortal Old Man was surely unwilling to make!
Yet if this strategy wouldn’t work, there are still other options, right? For instance, a clandestine romance would have been better than elopement, wouldn’t it? Why resort to eloping? Even if you eloped, couldn’t you have come back? To elope and never return, isn’t that hard to justify?
Alas!
Truly, the past is like smoke, and everything is hard to change. Even if Zhuge Qian were to look back now, he could only sigh with emotion!
And as Gu Changsheng snapped back to reality from Zhuge Qian’s sighs, she glanced upwards...
This glance was not trivial, and Gu Changsheng was immediately startled wide-eyed!
Oh my god!
What’s going on?
What’s happening here?
Just a moment ago, Old Madam Zuoqiu was so furious she seemed ready to explode at any moment, and now, how come she’s hugging her cane and silently sobbing?
This sudden change of scene caught Gu Changsheng off guard. What to do?
What should she do about it?
Looking at Old Madam Zuoqiu’s head full of gray hair and her sorrowful appearance with tears streaming down her old face, Gu Changsheng suddenly felt her heart ache. This old lady who lost her son early and then her granddaughter, how could she be comforted?
Gu Changsheng, damn it, has never done anything as meticulous as comforting someone before!
With her temperament, in front of the genuinely grieving Old Madam Zuoqiu, it’s already good enough if she doesn’t make things worse!
However, she can’t just let Old Madam Zuoqiu continue sobbing silently, right? Watching her like that makes her heart ache!
But what to do?
What on earth should she do?
Gu Changsheng was almost about to cry from anxiety!
Damn it, what possessed her to participate in the preliminary rounds of that Nirvana Martial Contest? Now look, she didn’t even get to bully anyone, and she’s the one getting bullied and having her heart broken! What a mess!
Just as Gu Changsheng was at a loss about what to do, she lowered her head, and her eyes suddenly lit up!
Oh my god, how could she forget about her little bun here?
At a time like this, decisively, she should open the door and release the little bun!
Send that little troublemaker up there, no mistake!
Her own little bun, when not being mischievous, is someone everyone loves, flowers bloom at the sight, and cars puncture their tires. Especially when dealing with old folks, he’s got the best tricks!
Her foster father, her old dad, weren’t they all turned into exemplary doting grandpas by him?
That’s right!
Go for it!
So, in the next instant, Gu Changsheng pushed her son forward!
Still immersed in the sad story told by Zhuge Qian, the chubby little bun with sympathetic little tear drops on his cheeks, was pushed by his mother. Instantly aware, he turned his head back in a daze, looking puzzled at his mom, "Mom..."
Why is she pushing him?
Can’t she see he’s already upset?
Looking at her son like this, Gu Changsheng felt a headache coming on and quickly gave him a look!
Son!
What time is it now, how can you be more emotional than your mom?
Go cheer her up quickly!
If you don’t, this enormous flood is about to engulf the Dragon King Temple!
The little bun saw his mom’s eyes almost twitching and finally, under her several attempts of signaling, looked ahead. Then, he saw the uncontrollably grieving Old Madam Zuoqiu...
Turning back, he saw his mom gesturing with her mouth, and the little bun suddenly had a flash of insight!
Then, the little bun let out a "Wah!", and cried!
The cry was so loud that it gave Gu Changsheng a start!
Godfather, what on earth is going on?
She was sure she asked her son to cheer up Old Madam Zuoqiu, right? How come her son is crying even more courageously than Old Madam Zuoqiu?
Is this just adding to the chaos?
Gu Changsheng’s hand immediately reached out...
Wondering if it was too late to pull back her little troublemaking son now?
Really, if you don’t bring trouble upon yourself, you won’t die. She shouldn’t have too high expectations for her trouble-creating son who’s better at messing things up. Most of the time, if her son doesn’t add to the trouble, she should be grateful enough to lick the Buddha Lord’s feet...
