growing up

Chapter 12 Medicine

Just like that, he was dragged out by Gu Yuan, until a gust of wind blew past, and Ling Chao regained his composure.

Just now I was really angry to the point of losing my mind.The wound on Gu Yuan's chest and the blood on his hands all hit his heart.He didn't know why he had such a big reaction when he saw Gu Yuan was injured, he only knew that he would not let the person who hurt Gu Yuan go.

Ling Chao turned his head and looked at Gu Yuan. This person still had a calm expression, as if all this had never happened just now, if it wasn't for the fact that his injuries were still there.

In fact, he looked a bit embarrassed, his forehead was covered with traces of mud mixed with sweat, his chin was broken, and it was a little red and swollen.There were two bloodstains on the arm supporting his wrist, but the wound was not big, and the bleeding did not stop. The one on his chest was sticking to the skin, so it was hard to tell how bad the injury was.But it must not be light when the blood stains a piece as big as the palm of your hand.

Gu Yuan carefully watched Ling Chao's expression, saw him looking at him, and took the two backpacks he was carrying.

"Just now, thank you for stopping me. Otherwise, I don't know what I would do to him." Ling Chao has never been so cruel to anyone.Although he felt that the red hair should also be injured to calm down the anger in his heart.But he knew that if that was the case, the consequences would be troublesome.

Gu Yuan could only protect himself since he was a child. No one has ever attacked him because of his injury like today.At that second, he was shocked, moved, and afraid.When she instinctively called Ling Chao to stop and hugged him instinctively, fear overcame everything.He didn't want to, and couldn't let Ling Chao do that, even if he wanted to punch Daban at that time.

"How is your injury?" Ling Chao didn't know what Gu Yuan was thinking, so he asked again.

"Oh, it's okay." Gu Yuan tugged at his collar and took a look in. Fortunately, the knuckles on the big board were relatively ordinary, without sharp blades, but he used all his strength to do so, and he had to react quickly He only backed away slightly, so as not to hurt his bones, but he was also smashed out a few blood holes.

Ling Chao glanced at his movements, but only saw a clearly shaped collarbone and a small piece of fair skin around it.Didn't see the condition of the wound, Ling Chao moved his eyes a little awkwardly, and coughed lightly: "Go to the hospital for treatment."

"No need, it's just a skin trauma. Buy some alcohol anti-inflammatory medicine to wipe it off, and then wrap it up and you'll be fine." Gu Yuan knew that the injury was not serious, so he didn't want to go to the hospital.

Ling Chao had seen his hand injury last time, it was all misplaced and he didn't see him hang a triangular bandage or something, and he went to participate in the calligraphy competition in the afternoon.He also understood that Gu Yuan should not be trying to be brave: "I have a medicine box at home, so go to my house."

After such a toss, it was already past five o'clock.Aunt Chen, the housekeeper, comes here every noon and afternoon to help with cleaning, laundry and cooking from today.Usually when the meal is done, they will go back.

Ling Chao didn't know what the school would be like at the beginning of school today, so he ate whatever he wanted at noon, and didn't let Aunt Chen come over to cook.You should be ready to cook and leave by now.

Gu Yuan originally wanted to buy some medicine and deal with it himself.But now, he was still a little worried about Ling Chao's mood.Although he no longer trembled, the anger in his eyes also subsided a lot.But the aura around him was still very low, which was much different from the usual smiling face when he saw him.

"Okay, just right, I want to borrow your bathroom to clean it up, and my sister will be worried if I wear it back like this." Gu Yuan said.

"Let's go." Ling Chao hung the two backpacks on his shoulders, and put his arms around Gu Yuan's shoulders.

They didn't turn back to the school street, Gu Yuan led him to walk a small path to the community behind the pedestrian street, and then turned to the forest road to go back.

Ling Chao opened the door to let Gu Yuan in, brought him his own slippers, and another pair that his mother wore two days ago, but they were too small, so Ling Chao walked in barefoot and put his backpack on the sofa.

Sure enough, the food was set on the dining table, and the dishes were buckled one by one.The room has been cleaned up, and the books that were still spread out on the tea table in the morning have also been put away.

"Let me find you a change of clothes." Looking at Gu Yuan's tracksuit with footprints and mud on it, Ling Chao frowned and walked to the bedroom.

"No need, I'll just wear my school uniform." Gu Yuan found a set out of his bag, "How about washing it first?"

Hearing Gu Yuan's words, Ling Chao stood at the door of the bedroom and pointed in the direction of the large bathroom outside: "You use the one over there, I have another in my room." After thinking about it again: "Then I'll get you a towel , Underpants? There are new ones."

In fact, Gu Yuan was only going to wash it casually, mainly because he was really sweating just now, so it is not good to clean the wound directly.Listening to Ling Chao's thoughtful thoughts, he didn't know how to answer for a while.If it weren't for the old girl who was still in the city these two days, he wouldn't have come to Ling Chao's house to borrow the bathroom, and he always felt a little embarrassed.Although the two had fought with someone just now.

Ling Chao looked at Gu Yuan without saying a word, as if he had acquiesced.He went directly to the closet in the bedroom to get a new towel, and flipped through a new pair of underwear, took them out together and handed them to Gu Yuan.

Gu Yuan's ears were a little red, but he still reached out to take it, thanked him in a low voice, picked up his school uniform and walked to the bathroom.

When he got up, he almost bumped into the coffee table.

Only then did Ling Chao come to his senses, but without thinking too much, he also went to take a shower in the bathroom of the bedroom.

Gu Yuan took off his shirt and looked in the mirror. The blood had stopped, but the wound was not shallow.There is also a strong sense of pain during pulling.

When he was in elementary school, Gu Yuan used to fight a lot. Later, when he came to the city in junior high school, he also got into a lot of fights in the first year of junior high school.After fighting Daban a few times, Daban stopped bothering him.He has been studying in the old city for more than a year.If it hadn't been for the last time in 'Lai Lai' when he met Daban's subordinates stealing Ling Chao's wallet, maybe he wouldn't fight anymore now.

To him, this injury is really nothing. Gu Yuan has a very strong tolerance for pain.It was because of his temper that he would not give in after being injured that he bet with the big board, in exchange for more than a year of peace.

Gu Yuan wiped his face and neck clean with a towel, carefully wiped off the blood around the wound, and then directly rinsed the rest of the area with the shower head.

Ling Chao stood under the bath, with hot water pouring down from the top of his head. He closed his eyes and rushed for a while, only to feel that all the uncomfortable emotions finally dissipated.Now Gu Yuan is in the bathroom next door, no one can hurt him anymore.This feeling, to Ling Chao now, is actually somewhat indescribably reassuring.

Ling Chao stayed in the bathroom for a long time, and when he finished washing, he saw Gu Yuan sitting on the sofa.

"Borrow your medicine box." Gu Yuan looked up at Ling Chao when he heard footsteps.

Gu Yuan, who had just taken a shower, only brushed his hair twice casually, and there were faint drops of water on his bristly hair. He was wearing a light blue school uniform jacket, and he was not wearing anything underneath.

Gu Yuan was very thin, the moment he raised his head and sat upright, he could see his sunken belly and the faint ribs above it.Half of the clavicle under the slender neck was covered by the clothes, and only the two beautiful bone sockets in the middle were exposed.

Probably because he was afraid that the wound would touch his clothes, the school uniform on the left side was half draped over his shoulder.The wound was just below the collarbone, and the red and swollen skin was still turned out a little.

Ling Chao didn't dare to watch any more, coughed unnaturally, and took out the medicine box from the drawer under the TV cabinet.

"Don't you really need to go to the hospital? The injury doesn't look serious." Ling Chao sat down beside Gu Yuan, put the medicine box on the sofa between them and opened it.

"No need, this hurts me well." Gu Yuan found cotton wool from the medicine box, poured some alcohol on it to clean the wound first, and Ling Chao couldn't help hissing the moment the alcohol covered his skin, but Gu Yuan But he acted like nothing happened, as if it was Ling Chao who hurt him and not him.

Throw away the used cotton wool, apply some povidone iodine for disinfection, pour the hemostatic and anti-inflammatory powder on it, press the gauze on that place, stick it with medical tape, and it's done.

He did this whole process very smoothly, as if after thousands of rehearsals, Ling Chao didn't even say a word to help.

"You..." Ling Chao looked at Gu Yuan and said, "Are you often injured? This operation is really clean and neat."

"Huh?" Gu Yuan put on the short sleeves of the school uniform and straightened the hem: "No, I just learned from the village doctor before. I often help bandage the injured villagers."

"Oh." Ling Chao relaxed and leaned back on the sofa. "Have you ever studied medicine? No, at such a young age, you can learn from being a chef to being a doctor. You are really amazing!"

Gu Yuan habitually took out the cigarette from his bag, was about to put it in his mouth, thought about it and then put it back.

"It's okay, you can smoke, I live alone in this house." Ling Chao said seeing his movements.

"Oh." Gu Yuan still lit a cigarette and handed it to Ling Chao, but Ling Chao shook his hand and didn't take it. "My younger sister has been in poor health since she was a child. When she was in the countryside, she had no money. Many times, doctors in the village helped her. At that time, I really wanted to study medicine. When I was young, the only doctors I could get in touch with were the doctors there. I often went to .”

Gu Yuan didn't speak loudly, he lowered his head and leaned forward, taking a puff of cigarette from time to time.

Ling Chao could only see the back of his head, Gu Yuan's hair was shaved a bit up, and his short-sleeved school uniform had no collar, revealing a clean and refreshing neck.The beautiful neck socket is fully exposed.

When Ling Chao's hand touched the back of Gu Yuan's neck, it was obvious that Gu Yuan's neck suddenly tensed up.Neither of them made a sound, and the air was a little awkward and inexplicably hot.

Ling Chao moved his hands up, touched his bristly hair, stood up and said with a smile: "The food should be cold, let me heat it up. Eat together?"

Gu Yuan took the last deep breath of his cigarette, put out the cigarette butt in the trash can, and stood up too: "I'll do it." He walked towards the dining table without looking at Ling Chao.

The school uniform of No. [-] Middle School is very ordinary, with light blue short sleeves, two white bars next to the trousers, and elastic cuffs underneath.Gu Yuan was not as tall as Ling Chao, but his legs were long and straight.Maybe too thin, wearing empty clothes, but unexpectedly good-looking.

Auntie Chen made two dishes and one soup, a plate of fried pork with fungus, a plate of stir-fried shredded potatoes, and a soup made with pork ribs and sauerkraut.Ling Chao was indifferent, probably because his father had told him that there was no pepper in the dish.

Gu Yuan moved quickly, and it was ready in no time. The rice is kept warm in the rice cooker, so it will still be hot after eating.Maybe it was the first time cooking for Ling Chao. Aunt Chen cooked quite a lot today, which should be enough for them to eat.

Ling Chao took two bowls of rice, Gu Yuan brought out the hot dishes, and the two sat at the table facing each other and began to eat in silence.

I didn't eat much outside at noon, and I wasn't hungry at the time. In the afternoon, I was working and fighting. Both of them are hungry now, and they didn't talk anymore.Ling Chao was a little embarrassed, Gu Yuan's temperament was such that he didn't talk much.

After eating, Gu Yuan even washed the dishes. Seeing that he was injured, Ling Chao refused to let him wash, but Gu Yuan insisted on blocking it.

The TV in the living room was on, but there was actually nothing to watch, the sound of water in the kitchen stopped, Gu Yuan came over and took out two paper towels to wipe his hands.

"That..." Gu Yuan opened his mouth.

"Ah?" Ling Chao looked up at him.

"Or I'll go back first. You should go to bed early." Gu Yuan threw the paper balls into the trash can.

"Um, good." Ling Chao replied.

Gu Yuan turned to the sofa, picked up his bag and walked towards the door. He stopped and turned around as soon as he reached the door: "Well, Brother Chao, no one will help you make breakfast, right?"

Ling Chao followed him and got up and walked behind him: "Huh? Yes, I can just buy whatever I want for breakfast. There are a lot of them downstairs and they will be sold early."

"Then I'll bring you breakfast tomorrow morning, don't buy it outside." Gu Yuan said with a smile, turned around, opened the door and went out without waiting for Ling Chao's answer.

Is this person going to return favors again?It's really his usual style!It's just that Ling Chao is not unhappy at the moment, but looks forward to tomorrow.