Chapter 40
“Your surname is Jing? What is your father’s name? And your mother’s? What other family members do you have?” The old man asked agitatedly.
Jing Yunzhao became even more curious.
“I am sorry but I am an orphan. I was the only one in the family,” said Jing Yunzhao.
Ye Qin had passed away and she had separated from the Qiao Family. It was not wrong to call herself an orphan when she did not know about her real parents and their whereabouts, or whether they were even alive.
“So you are local? Do you know a woman with the surname ‘Xu’? She is in her forties,” the old man asked, frowning as he pulled Jing Yunzhao back into the yard.
Jing Yunzhao’s mind had gone completely blank. She nodded and then shook her head, looking terrified.
The old man continued to stare at Jing Yunzhao’s face, seeming more disappointed the longer he studied it.
“Not exactly like her if I look closely. Too young, eyebrow peaks too sharp, eyes too sharp as well, aura too strong….” The old man muttered strangely, starting to wobble as if he was going to fall. The man quickly went to the old man and held his arm..
“My surname is ‘Xu’, please don’t mind my rudeness,” the old man said, waving his hand.
“No problem,” said Jing Yunzhao, unable to help but blame the strange old man.
The old man looked extremely exhausted as he walked back to the house.
“Are there any more herbs that you want to sell?” The old man turned to ask Jing Yunzhao as he walked back.
Jing Yunzhao nodded. She had plenty more herbs to sell.
“Then come again this time tomorrow,” the old man said and entered the house without looking at her again.
Jing Yunzhao was now thoroughly confused and started to understand why the man from the pharmacy had called this old man weird. He definitely was – probably the weirdest person in the whole of Huaning County.
But he was just an old man after all. Since she knew basic martial arts, Jing Yunzhao was not worried about him hurting her.
Su Chu was worried sick by the time Jing Yunzhao got back to the apartment. On the sofa was a fair boy who looked clean and rather handsome – this must be Gan Jinchen.
“You are too daring, Yunzhao! Why would you go out at this time? Aren’t you afraid of bumping into bad guys?” Su Chu asked worriedly, sighing in relief when she saw Jing Yunzhao.
“I am sorry for keeping you up, I had some errands to run,” said Jing Yunzhao apologetically. She was so used to being neglected in her previous life, and she would definitely have told Su Chu beforehand had she known that she was going to wait for her.
Gan Jinchen glanced at Jing Yunzhao briefly and went back to his room without a word, but Jing Yunzhao caught his contemptuous and doubtful expression.
After all, his grandfather had taken her in as his god-granddaughter; it was normal for him as his real grandson to feel uncomfortable, especially when she had a bad reputation in school.
“Don’t mind him, he has always been weird,” said Su Chu brightly, sticking her tongue out at Gan Jinchen’s receding figure.
Remembering what the old man told her, Jing Yunzhao explained the situation to Su Chu so that she wouldn’t get worried the next day. Considering the strange incident at the traditional Chinese medicine maniac’s house, she omitted some details from her story.
“By the way, Chu Chu, is the test you were talking about yesterday the test Grandpa will be giving us?” Jing Yunzhao remembered suddenly and asked.
Su Chu huffed bitterly and scoffed, “Yes, Grandpa set a goal for Jinchen and I since we were young to become medical practitioners, be it Chinese or western. That is why we have to sit for this test monthly, and the questions are always unreasonably hard! But how do you know about the test? Is Grandpa also making you…”
Su Chu was stunned at the conclusion she had just come to.