Chapter 273: Calling for Mother

Niuniu knocked on the door for a long time.

There was no movement in the house.

Gu Mingda and Zhang Yunniang looked at each other, and both of them were shocked.

This was not normal.

The Gu family was not far from the house. It would take no more than half an hour for the old lady Gu to come and go, even if the family gathered together to chat and laugh.

The door was locked from the inside. It was so early now, and there was no reason for Xie Xingchuan to fall asleep so quickly.

"Knock again!"

Gu Mingda and his wife also knocked on the door with Niuniu.

The neighbors were all startled by the sound.

"Who is it? Why are you here to cause trouble in the middle of the night?" A middle-aged man in his thirties came out of the neighbor's house.

Gu Mingda apologized gently: "I'm sorry, I'm a junior living in there, but I didn't open the door for a long time, so I don't know what happened inside."

The middle-aged man saw that Gu Mingda was indeed anxious, so he didn't continue to embarrass him, and only said: "This kid went out in the evening and came back with two jars of wine in his hands. Is he drunk?"

Hearing this, Gu Mingda's face sank.

Zhang Yunniang was even more anxious. A 12-year-old boy actually drank! Will he get drunk in the house!

The couple turned around and continued to knock on the door.

The middle-aged man kept staring at the family of three. Seeing that there was no sound after knocking for a long time, he said: "How about kicking the door open? I can help."

Gu Mingda did not agree immediately, but hesitated.

But Niuniu was still knocking on the door, and her white and tender palms were all red.

"Brother Xie, why are you ignoring me? If you continue like this, Niu Niu will be unhappy! Open the door!" Niu Niu shouted in a mess.

Gu Mingda didn't know that Niu Niu could knock the door open, but he didn't expect that there would be some noises in the quiet house.

After a long time, the courtyard door was opened from the inside.

Xie Xingchuan barely supported himself and stood up, looking at Gu Mingda and Zhang Yunniang with confused eyes.

"You... why are you here..."

Xie Xingchuan only had time to say this sentence, and then his body tilted and fell to one side.

Gu Mingda caught him in a hurry.

Niu Niu wrinkled her nose: "Brother Xie stinks."

Gu Mingda thought to himself that he smelled of alcohol, how could he not smell?

If Xie Xingchuan hadn't fainted now, Gu Mingda would have wanted to beat this kid up. A twelve-year-old child dared to learn from adults to drink to relieve his sorrow!

Gu Mingda helped Xie Xingchuan into the house. Even though Old Lady Gu helped buy a lot of things today, the house was still empty.

"I'll make him a bowl of hangover soup." Zhang Yunniang turned and went into the kitchen.

But she came out soon.

"There's no firewood." Zhang Yunniang spread her hands, looking helpless.

Gu Mingda sighed and said, "Spend some money and ask the neighbors to help make a bowl."

Gu Mingda left the mother and daughter to help take care of Xie Xingchuan, and he went to find the neighbors next door with a lamp.

The middle-aged man next door was also kind-hearted. After hearing Gu Mingda's request, he took the silver and urged his wife to start the fire and cook soup. Soon, the bowl of hangover soup was delivered, and a bundle of firewood was also delivered.

This was the first time Xie Xingchuan drank alcohol, and his head was dizzy. In a trance, he seemed to see the dim lights and a familiar figure taking care of him carefully.

"Mom..."

Xie Xingchuan suddenly shouted.

Zhang Yunniang was about to cry when she heard this voice. She asked Gu Mingda to help the child up, and then she held the hangover soup.

Zhang Yunniang scooped the hangover soup with a spoon, blew it carefully, and made sure that the hangover soup was cool before feeding it to Xie Xingchuan.

"Come on, be good, drink some hangover soup."

Listening to the woman coaxing him softly, Xie Xingchuan reluctantly opened his mouth, took a sip of the hangover soup, and vomited it out the next second.

"How much did this child drink? Why did he vomit so much?" Zhang Yunniang couldn't help complaining.

Niuniu stretched out her hand and pointed to the two empty wine jars in the corner.

Zhang Yunniang and Gu Mingda's eyebrows were immediately wrinkled to the point that they could pinch a fly to death.

"This child, he is going to die! He drank so much for the first time!" Zhang Yunniang muttered softly.

When she saw the two empty wine jars, her anger rose, and then she asked Gu Mingda to hold the man again.

"He must drink this hangover soup." Zhang Yunniang said.

Her movements were gentle and delicate before, but this time, perhaps because she was angry, they were much rougher.

Xie Xingchuan felt that the spoon seemed to be forced into his mouth.

After taking a sip, Gu Mingda forced his neck to swallow the hangover soup.

The drunk Xie Xingchuan felt as if he was being tortured. The gentle woman he had seen in a trance before turned into a yaksha, holding the soup and forcibly stuffing it into his mouth.

The kind man beside him also turned into an official serving a severe punishment, forcing him to eat the hangover soup that was more bitter and unpalatable than Coptis chinensis, so bitter that he couldn't help but recall the painful past of the first half of his life.

"Brother Xie, you have to drink more hangover soup, so that you can sober up earlier." Niuniu said pitifully while holding Xie Xingchuan's hand.

But from Xie Xingchuan's perspective, he felt that the originally cute and smart fairy child had become a difficult little ghost.

Xie Xingchuan was forced to drink half a bowl of hangover soup, and his whole face wrinkled into a ball.

"Do you want to continue feeding him? He doesn't seem to be feeling well." Gu Mingda said hesitantly. Xie Xingchuan's expression was too ugly.

Zhang Yunniang glared at Xie Xingchuan and said, "Hey! How can he sober up if you don't feed him more? Have you forgotten that there was a child in our village who had a high fever after being fed alcohol by adults, and he became stupid."

Gu Mingda heard this and the reluctance in his heart disappeared immediately: "Drink, you must feed him to finish it!"

The couple worked together and poured the remaining half bowl of sobering soup into Xie Xingchuan's mouth.

After Xie Xingchuan drank a whole bowl of the extremely unpalatable sobering soup, he felt as if his soul was floating in the sky. He thought in a daze: If this is a punishment for drinking, then he really doesn't want to drink again.

"Do you think the child's complexion is much better?" Zhang Yunniang asked her husband.

Gu Mingda carefully looked at Xie Xingchuan's face by the light and said, "Much better, it shows that this hangover soup is effective."

Niuniu also nodded vigorously and said, "Dad and Mom took good care of Brother Xie. If we don't go back tonight, will we stay here to take care of Brother Xie?"

Gu Mingda was reminded by her and looked around. This place did not provide a rest environment for a family of three.

"I'll take you back first, and I'll come to accompany him later." Gu Mingda said softly.

Zhang Yunniang nodded and was about to leave with Niuniu.

But Xie Xingchuan, who was still sleeping soundly on the bed, suddenly shouted, "Mom..."