Chapter 174
"Your senior sister is as cunning as a monkey—she doesn't need a kid like you worrying about her. And your senior brother-in-law, he's even more impressive, seen everything there is to see. Just sleep properly, or you won't grow tall. When you're older, you can help out."
Doctor Li stopped Xiao Dong's words without giving him any room to argue.
Xiao Dong closed his eyes.
Outside, birds kept chirping. Next door, Doctor Liu's window was opened and closed again and again—it was easy to hear.
Gu Jinghui couldn't fall asleep either; messages kept coming from the guards, making it impossible for him to rest.
Qin Yuan was awake, too.
These days, because the mansion was offering incense to the Smallpox Goddess, husband and wife had to sleep separately.
Gu Jinghui stayed in the outer courtyard's study, while Hong Ye and Cui Ming simply accompanied Qin Yuan in the main bedroom, sitting together at the desk to do the accounts each night.
