Rebirth: The Courtyard Bride Is Cool and Radiant novel Chapter 285

Chapter 285: Chapter 285 Unusual Movements, Alertness

She waited until nightfall, but Guo Shuiyu still hadn’t shown up.

After checking on the few patients in the infirmary ward, Yunyi took a lunch box from her space and reentered Guo Anyi’s ward.

Her plan had been for him to stay here until his aunt came to fetch him, but Guo Shuiyu had vanished without a trace.

Approaching the bedside, she sensed the boy was awake. "There’s a saying: ’Man is iron, food is steel.’ You fell into the water, so you must eat. If your body’s resistance is low and you develop a fever in the middle of the night, that will be even more troublesome."

Considering the boy’s pride, she added, "Think of this meal as a loan from me. You can repay me when you have the chance. Whether you eat it or not is up to you."

With that said, she placed the meal on the bedside table and turned to leave the ward.

Guo Anyi watched Yunyi’s retreating figure. After a long moment, he made up his mind. Yes, what good is pride? I have to stay alive first. He resolved to remember the kindness of the doctor—the same one who had treated him when he was first brought in injured.

He struggled to open the lunch box. Inside, he found cabbage stewed with tofu and two coarse-grain flatbreads. His eyes reddened.

Ever since he was sent to his aunt’s, he had only been well-fed for the first few months. As time went on, his portion of food dwindled.

Every time his aunt protested, her sister-in-law would raise such a ruckus that the entire household was thrown into chaos. Helpless, his aunt could only save her own food for him.

Once, when his aunt was working in the fields, she fainted. The Zhang Family became a laughingstock because of it, and the Zhang family’s grandmother never treated him kindly.

From then on, he refused the food his aunt saved for him. He didn’t want his aunt to leave him one day too, like the others.

Flipping through the medical records on the table, her thoughts drifted to the smoked bacon and cured meats she had prepared and stored in her space. I’ll send them off on my day off, the day after tomorrow, she decided. That’ll take a weight off my mind.

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