Zongwu: The Days of Mixing in the Tongfu Inn

Chapter 8 Xiao Guo Pretending to Be Sick

After dinner last night, Tong Xiangyu went to the backyard to comfort Guo Furong. She didn't know what kind of chicken soup she poured into Guo Furong. Anyway, at the end, when everyone in the inn had finished their meals, Guo Furong appeared on the dining table. That's when she appeared. It was relatively late, and Guo Furong still didn't have a hot meal at the end.

Tong Xiangyu doesn't seem to care much about this, but is happy with her educational achievements, "Isn't this little Guo a living example?"

In this way, Guo Furong could only take Dazui's remaining two steamed buns and returned to the backyard.

Early next morning!

When everyone got up and was preparing to eat in the hotel lobby, they found that Xiao Guo hadn't woken up again.

After asking Xiao Bei, everyone got the news that Guo Furong was ill.

When everyone heard that Guo Furong was too sick to get out of bed, they all asked Bai Zhantang who had just visited Guo Furong's illness, and he said with a solemn expression:
"What's the specific situation? I don't know too well, after all, I'm not a professional doctor"

"But it looks serious. I keep coughing, and my complexion is pale with some signs of fever. I guess I caught a cold while washing clothes last night."

Upon hearing such a reply, Tong Xiangyu immediately ran to the backyard to visit Guo Furong, wanting to confirm the specific situation.

After a while, Tong Xiangyu returned to the lobby from the backyard, and told Lao Bai:
"Xiao Guo is seriously ill, hurry up and buy two catties of melon seeds."

"Eat two catties of melon seeds when you're sick, so you won't be afraid of getting angry," Bai Zhantang asked suspiciously.

"Don't talk about it, go quickly, people say that fighting poison with poison" Tong Xiangyu waved his hand and said.

Of course Zhang Chen knew that Guo Furong was pretending to be ill, but the subsequent development would be beyond Guo Furong's expectations, so Zhang Chen didn't remind Lao Bai and the shopkeeper that he planned to watch a good show.

"Brother Bai, hurry up! How can you ignore the shopkeeper's order?" Zhang Chen also chimed in after making up his mind to watch the play.

Bai Zhantang had no choice but to go to the street and buy two catties of melon seeds to send to Guo Furong. Zhang Chen grabbed a handful of melon seeds and distributed them to the people in the inn before they were delivered to Xiao Guo's room.

"Hey, Xiaochen, you are really a child, you can also steal things from patients," Tong Xiangyu cursed with a smile.

Everyone sat around the table holding Zhang Chen's melon seeds and kowtowed, boasting that the melon seeds tasted good.

"Hmm! These melon seeds taste good, they should have been fried just now."

Everyone gathered around the long table and kowtowed melon seeds. Zhang Chen suddenly said to Bai Zhantang:
"Brother Bai, you said that you have to eat melon seeds for a fever and a cold, or two catties? Isn't it a little suspicious?"

"Well, what you mean by that is..." Bai Zhantang fell into deep thought when he heard the words.

At this moment, Tong Xiangyu came to the lobby from the backyard and said:

"Go and have a look, Xiao Guo doesn't know why he suddenly coughed up blood."

Bai Zhantang and Zhang Chen looked at each other, and then quickly went to Xiao Guo's room in the backyard. Before entering the room, they heard Xiao Guo coughing violently.

After Zhang Chen reminded Bai Zhantang just now that Xiao Guo was pretending to be sick, the two looked at each other and Bai Zhantang said:

"Hey, this cough is so severe, maybe it's not tuberculosis, right? It's an infectious disease, shopkeeper, we have to be careful."

Zhang Chen also chimed in and said:

"Yes, shopkeeper, if the guests in the inn know that there is tuberculosis in our store, I'm afraid our store will not be able to open."

"Then what are you waiting for, I'm going to find the doctor right now, I can't just ignore it!" Dazui became anxious and ran out after hearing that.

Zhang Chen quickly stopped Dazui and said:
"Brother Big Mouth, don't worry, it's just a guess now, let Brother Bai go in and take a look, and then it's not too late!".

"Xiao Chen is right, let's think about it in the long term," Tong Xiangyu said.

Then he turned around and looked at Bai Zhantang, asking for help: "Zhantang, tell me what to do?".

Seeing Zhang Chen winking at him, Bai Zhantang immediately said with an upright face:

"If this disease is really tuberculosis, it must not be cured in our inn. If people know that our inn still needs to be opened?".

"In this way, let's send Xiao Guo to Shibalipu first, and find a doctor to have a look first. If he is cured, he will be cured. If he is not cured, he will be raised slowly in Shibalipu. This will not affect us. How do you feel about the business of the inn, the shopkeeper?"

Everyone expressed their approval of this plan, and decided to listen to Lao Bai as soon as the decision was made.

Everyone dispersed immediately to send Xiao Guo to Shibalipu, but Zhang Chen and Bai Zhantang did not move. Instead, they hid in the dark and observed Guo Furong's room. They only saw the image of a person lying on the window, eavesdropping.

After the two looked at each other and nodded in tacit understanding, Zhang Chen said loudly to Bai Zhantang from a distance:

"Brother Bai, do you really want to send Sister Guo to Shibalipu? I'm not familiar with that place, and I don't know if Sister Guo can adapt to it."

Bai Zhantang responded loudly and said:
"There's no way around it. Who told this to be tuberculosis! Infectious disease, who dares to stick to it?"

Hearing the conversation between the two, Guo Furong in the room panicked and started to run around the room, scratching her head and rubbing her hands, and suddenly she had an idea with a smile on her face and said, "Fight with me".

When everyone prepared their tools, opened the door and rushed into the room, they saw Guo Furong sitting cross-legged on the bed, meditating motionless, deaf to the sound of everyone rushing in.

Seeing this, Dazui stepped forward and gently touched Guo Furong, Guo Furong fell on the bed and shocked everyone, Dazui immediately tried Guo Furong's breath again, and said tremblingly:
"Why are you out of breath?".

Knowing that Guo Furong was pretending to be sick, Mo Xiaobei wanted to reach out to touch Guo Furong, but Tong Xiangyu stretched out his hand and said:

"Tuberculosis is contagious, be careful."

Mo Xiaobei said disdainfully upon hearing the words:
"Don't worry, sister-in-law, if you want to catch the infection, you can wait until now?"

Xiao Bei stretched out her hand and pinched Xiao Guo's body. Seeing that Guo Furong didn't respond, Xiao Bei couldn't help but increase her strength. Xiao Guo finally couldn't help laughing and sat up.

After the laughter stopped, Guo Furong looked at everyone in the room and said suspiciously:
"Why are you all here?"

Tong Xiangyu said with concern:

"We saw that you had a lot of coughing, so we came over to see how you feel now, and if it doesn't work, we'll go hire a doctor"

Upon hearing this, Guo Furong waved her hand to indicate that she didn't need it, and said boldly:
"Don't worry everyone, I have practiced a set of Jade Heart Sutra handed down by my mother, and my cough has been cured!".

"You still have this skill?" Bai Zhantang asked with disbelief.

"Why! Don't you forget who my parents are? Who doesn't have a family tradition of martial arts?"

When Guo Furong was proud, Zhang Chen suddenly asked:
"Then you were just pretending to be sick!"

"My girl is in good health, how could she be sick?" Guo Furong replied instinctively.

After finishing speaking, Guo Furong was stunned for a moment, and then panicked.

Seeing that Guo Furong leaked the truth, Zhang Chen approached her accomplice Mo Xiaobei and said, "Good boy, but you won't lie!".

After hearing the words, Xiao Bei had no choice but to explain everything. It turned out that Guo Furong pretended to be sick because she wanted to be lazy and didn't want to work.

After listening to Xiao Bei's explanation, everyone said angrily:
"What are you doing?"

"Pretend to be sick? If you want to take a break, just tell the shopkeeper that you can't? How can she not agree to you? You don't know that our shopkeeper has a knife mouth and a tofu heart after getting along these few days."

Hearing that everyone in the inn praised him so much, Tong Xiangyu turned his head embarrassedly and suddenly turned around and said triumphantly:
"I'm not as good as you say. Of course, if you really want to praise me, I won't stop you, just keep going."

Just when everyone wanted to continue to praise Tong Xiangyu, Bai Zhantang slapped his thigh and said:
"Oh, everyone got off topic, now we should discuss how to punish Guo Furong."

This is easy to handle Tong Xiangyu said the store rules in the inn, "According to Article 27 of the store rules, lying and deceiving people, causing major influencers, no matter what the motivation is..."

"Order again!" Guo Furong said in pain.

"Sunflower acupoints, this time it's Tanzhong, so you can experience the itching and numbness of your upper body without scratching!" Bai Zhantang pointed to Guo Furong after he finished speaking.

Immediately, everyone dispersed one after another to go about their work, leaving only Guo Furong moaning in pain.

"How dangerous is this game of making up a lie and making up a lie..." Seeing that she was locked and unable to move, Xiao Bei happily surrounded her and hummed a song.

"Ah...it's so itchy, someone scratch it for me, come help me, I'm wrong, I don't dare to pretend to be sick anymore, who can hear my heart..." Guo Furong wailed in her heart.

(End of this chapter)