Time Travel: The Best Doctor in Ancient Times

Chapter 25: Chapter 15 Scampering Away

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“Little Brat, I’m in a good mood today, so I’m not going to bother with someone like you. On any other day, if you dared to point a gun at my head, I’d have grabbed your head and used it as a soccer ball,” Hu Buer huffed disdainfully. He extended his five-finger claw, which was poised to strike, in a rather frightening display.

The young General Song still wanted to lose his temper, but he was quickly seized by a nervous old soldier at his side.

“Remember, the Court has its rules, and the Itinerant World has its own ways. They are unrelated, and peace prevails. Wind Cloud Inn doesn’t harbor the fugitive the Court is looking for. Feel free to leave; we won’t see you out!”

Gu Changsheng watched with great interest as Shopkeeper Hu, with an overbearing presence, held off an entire army, and the soldiers just walked away dejectedly. Although General Song left looking unconvinced, it seemed to make little difference.

“I apologize for alarming the guest. The situation has been handled; you are welcome to return to your rest,” said Shopkeeper Hu, smiling as he turned his head to see Gu Changsheng and came over to greet him.

I wish you hadn’t handled it so well! Gu Changsheng was inwardly bleeding out, wearing a smile more terrifying than tears, “Shopkeeper Hu, do you always oppose the Court like this?”

“Not at all, our inn always deals only with matters of the Itinerant World. How could we possibly have trouble with the Court? We’ve always lived in harmony,” Shopkeeper Hu replied, sounding genuine.

Gu Changsheng was speechless—your actions just now hardly seemed harmonious—”What if I were the fugitive the Court is searching for?”

“Well, the conditions you offered are quite fair. The People of the Itinerant World only consider whether the reward is worth the risk, regardless of the person’s status or identity,” Shopkeeper Hu explained matter-of-factly. A life, after all, in the Itinerant World where life and death hang by a thread amid the swinging of swords, that promise, if well used, could bring in more than a little advantage.

What a talent! If this were modern times, he would definitely be an expert negotiator, focusing on the blurry and calculating the benefits. It was obvious he could achieve the greatest benefit with the least sacrifice.

Gu Changsheng sighed with a pained expression and turned to walk towards his quarters.

Shopkeeper Hu scratched his head, puzzled. The lady appears displeased even after the trouble has been dealt with. Why is that?

Clearly, Gu Changsheng’s troubles weren’t what Shopkeeper Hu thought they were. Right now, she was pacing circles around the room where the trouble—the very much alive Commandery Prince—was staying. What to do now?

She hesitated outside the room, while inside, Zhou Mu, lying on the bed, grew increasingly stern. What was this unpredictable woman up to now?

“Come in!”

Hearing the icy voice from inside, Gu Changsheng paused midstep. Alright then, a dead pig isn’t afraid of boiling water, to be butchered whether it sticks out its head or not; might as well just go in and get it clear.

Zhou Mu lay propped up on the bed, frowning unconsciously at the person who heroically rushed in. He couldn’t understand this woman, who was traveling with a maid and a child late at night, didn’t know to stay out of trouble, and had a strange and deadly way of killing that made him feel as if she was a soldier under his command, or even more. Her decisiveness and unabashed arrogance!

What does a beautiful person look like with knitted brows? Gu Changsheng had never seen it before, but now, she had. She looked up and inwardly sighed, “Evildoer!”—forgetting all her former boldness.

The atmosphere in the room was exceptionally bizarre.

Although she was quite sure this evildoer was Prince Mu, Gu Changsheng still asked with hope in her voice, “Your name is Zhou Mu, Prince Mu?”

Please say it’s not true, so I can finally relax.

Obviously, Zhou Mu wasn’t cooperative; he raised his eyebrows as if it were to be expected.

Did she really not know that in the Zhou Dynasty, there was only one Zhou Mu? No wonder she acted with such impunity; it made him feel as if he were in a foreign land.

Gu Changsheng felt like dying. Alright, his bearing, his looks, all perfectly fitting an Imperial Kin.

“So, let’s put it this way—I saved you, treated your wounds, applied medicine to you…” Gu Changsheng listed off, counting on her fingers, trying to prove that she was a good person.@@novelbin@@

“You also molested me, teased me, wanted to sell me!” Zhou Mu interrupted with a cool face, his voice betraying no emotion.

“Ahem, ahem…” Gu Changsheng coughed awkwardly, feeling a bit embarrassed having to state it so bluntly, as if caught in the act—”Listen, this has been all a misunderstanding! You can totally disregard it, totally disregard…”

The weird atmosphere hung heavy. Gu Changsheng scratched her head, couldn’t he just make it quick?

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