After Xiao Fubao's life was stolen, he became the favorite of everyone in the capital

Chapter 273 Calling Mother
Niu Niu 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 felt a chill in their hearts.

This is not normal.

The Gu family was not far from this house. With the time it took for Old Lady Gu to come and go, even if the whole family gathered together to chat and laugh, it would not take more than half an hour.

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

"Knock again!"

Gu Mingda and his wife also accompanied Niu Niu to knock on the door.

The neighbors were all startled by the noise.

"Who is it? Why are you coming here to cause trouble so late at 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 the door hasn't been opened for a long time, so I don't know what's going on inside."

Seeing that Gu Mingda was indeed anxious, the middle-aged man did not continue to embarrass him. He just 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 darkened.

Zhang Yunniang became even more anxious. A 12-year-old boy was drinking! Was he drunk in the house?

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

The middle-aged man had been watching the family of three from the side. 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 looked hesitant.

But Niu Niu was still knocking on the door hard, and her white and tender palms were turned 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 towards the inside.

Gu Mingda didn't know that Niu Niu could knock on the door, but he didn't expect that some noises would suddenly come from the quiet house.

After a while, the yard door was opened from the inside.

Xie Xingchuan managed to stand up straight, looking at Gu Mingda and Zhang Yuniang with confused eyes.

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

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

Gu Mingda caught him in a panic.

Niuniu wrinkled her nose and said, "Xie brother stinks."

Gu Mingda thought to himself, I reek of alcohol, how could I not stink?

If Xie Xingchuan hadn't been unconscious now, Gu Mingda would have wanted to beat this kid up severely. A twelve-year-old kid actually dared to imitate adults and drown his sorrows in alcohol!

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

"I'll go make him a bowl of sobering soup." Zhang Yuniang turned and went into the kitchen.

But she came out soon.

"There is no firewood." Zhang Yuniang spread her hands, looking helpless.

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

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

The middle-aged man next door was also kind-hearted. After hearing Gu Mingda's request, he took the money and urged his wife to cook soup. Soon, the bowl of hangover soup was delivered, along with a bundle of firewood. This was Xie Xingchuan's first time drinking, and his head was dizzy. In a trance, he seemed to see the dim lights and a familiar figure taking care of him carefully.

"mother……"

Xie Xingchuan suddenly shouted.

When Zhang Yunniang heard the voice, she was about to cry. She asked Gu Mingda to help the child up, and she held the sobering soup at the back.

Zhang Yunniang scooped up some sobering soup with a spoon and blew on it carefully to make sure it 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 opened his mouth with difficulty, took a sip of the sobering soup, and spat it out the next second.

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

Niu Niu stretched out her hand and pointed at the two empty wine jars in the corner.

Zhang Yuniang and Gu Mingda's eyebrows were immediately furrowed so tightly that they could pinch a fly to death.

"This kid is courting death! He drank so much on his first time!" Zhang Yuniang muttered softly.

When she saw the two empty wine jars, she became increasingly angry and asked Gu Mingda to hold the man again.

"He must drink this sobering 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 as if the spoon was forced into his mouth.

After taking a sip, Gu Mingda forced his neck to rise and made him swallow the sobering soup.

The drunk Xie Xingchuan felt as if he was being tortured. The gentle woman he had vaguely seen before turned into a demon, stuffing the medicine into his mouth.

The kind-hearted man at the side was turned into an official who was torturing him. He was forced to eat a hangover soup that was more bitter and unpalatable than coptis chinensis. It was so bitter that he could not help but recall the painful past of the first half of his life.

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

But from Xie Xingchuan's perspective, the originally cute and smart fairy children had all turned into troublesome little ghosts.

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

"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 got a high fever after being fed alcohol by adults and eventually became stupid."

Hearing this, Gu Mingda's reluctance in his heart instantly disappeared: "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 finished a whole bowl of the extremely unpalatable hangover soup, he felt as if his soul was floating in the sky. He thought dazedly: If this is the punishment for drinking, then he really doesn't want to drink again.

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

Gu Mingda carefully observed Xie Xingchuan's complexion in the light of the lamp and said, "Much better now. This hangover soup is effective."

Niuniu also nodded vigorously and said, "Dad and Mom have taken good care of Brother Xie. Should we stay here to take care of Brother Xie instead of going back tonight?"

After being reminded by her, Gu Mingda looked around and found that this place did not provide an environment for a family of three to rest.

"I'll take you back first, and I'll come back 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..."