Help! I just woke up and was stabbed by a big kid

"Gu Xu, where did this thing come from? Explain."

Gu Yue's voice was low, just like a bully father.

The candlelight flickered, and Gu Yue had stitches on his forehead and blood clotted, which really looked scary.

Gu Xu stopped and his eyes suddenly became cold.

The scene in front of him overlapped with the shadow in the deepest part of his heart, and Gu Xu's back stiffened. Gu Yue's expression was a little blurry under the candlelight. Anyway, those wolf-like eyes swept over him and moved to the black drawer.

"Explain." Gu Yue repeated.

"...This is." Gu Xu felt his throat was dry, actually he was afraid.

Why would he feel afraid?

What would have been the result in the past? Gu Xu didn't need to close his eyes to see Gu Dashi holding a whip or a stick in his hand and showing off his power. He felt pain reflexively, and then went numb.

"These are the medicines and money I secretly saved up," said Gu Xu.

He took a step forward until he was level with the low table, then bent his knees and knelt down.

Gu Yue was startled.

Gu Xu lowered his head and untied his belt - it was a tattered piece of cloth tied to his outer coat. Then, without any big movements, he took off the baggy and patched coarse cloth, revealing his upper body with protruding ribs and covered with whip marks and bruises.

The boy's body was thin and dry, with only a little muscle left over from working on his arms.

"Punish me, I did something wrong."

Gu Xu even knelt down and took out the sheep-herding whip that Gu Dashi usually used to beat him from under the wooden bed. He held it in both hands and presented it to Gu Yue.

The boy lowered his head, his expression undetectable.

Gu Yue suddenly became speechless.

He couldn't say the lines he had rehearsed in his mind. No matter how he thought about it now, those words were not appropriate. He looked at the scars on Gu Xu's body and felt that any of the rehearsed words were like torture instruments waiting to be chosen in front of him, just to add more pain to this young man who was already covered in scars.

...What a not human being.

Gu Yue scolded Gu Dashi and also scolded himself.

His heart was in a knot, something called conscience was trampling on him and scolding him, Gu Yue was completely unable to make a sound.

There was deathly silence in the room.

Gu Xu lowered his head but raised his eyes slightly.

His heart has calmed down.

At the end of his sight, Gu Dashi's rough hands were curled up, rubbing the corners of his clothes nervously and anxiously. This showed that the owner of the hands was not as angry as he seemed. He was...

The drama has quietly changed direction.

Gu Yue was in a dilemma because of his conscience, but Gu Xu, even though he saw the embarrassment of the fake Gu Dashi, did not change his behavior at all. He still held the whip high, lowered his head, and made an extremely submissive and miserable gesture, as if he was really waiting for Gu Dashi to whip him.

Come on? You are such a fake with so many flaws, and you are going to continue with this heartless and heartless show of power?

It felt like a hundred years had passed. The longer he delayed, the more cold sweat Gu Yue broke out in, and the more he couldn't open his mouth.

What should he say? His head was completely rusted from the tension.

The candle suddenly crackled.

At this moment, Gu Yuefu suddenly came to his mind, as if his IQ had suddenly taken over. He bent down and almost snatched the sheep-herding whip from Gu Xu's hand and threw it hard into the corner.

"No, you did the right thing." Gu Yue's smile was a little stiff. He wanted to make an expression of faint appreciation, but his facial muscles seemed to be frozen. He could only hang one arm and use his left hand to hold Gu Xu and ask him to stand up from the ground.

After such a long silence, would Gu Xu have discovered any clues?

Gu Xu stood up cooperatively, with calmness in his eyes.

"Why?" he asked. He wanted to hear how Gu Dashi would justify himself and explain his accusatory look just now.

"…Because I always go out to gamble. If you don't save some money secretly, what will happen to the family?" Gu Yue gently patted his shoulder, which was very thin, and he could feel the bones with a squeeze, "Hurry up and put on your clothes, it's still cold at night."

Gu Xu lowered his head to pick up the patched clothes. Gu Yue felt guilty again as he looked at them and quickly added.

"You are thinking about our family..."

"But."

Gu Xu interrupted him. The boy wrapped himself in coarse cloth again, his eyelashes drooped, his expression was fragile, and his tone was tinged with a hint of grievance.

"Dad just now... looked like he was going to hit me."

Gu Yue's heart shuddered, and his mind started to work rapidly again. Got it!

"Haha, how could it be... Dad just thought you stole it from somewhere. Turns out you saved it!" Gu Yue said in a rough voice, his guilty conscience almost spilling out. "I was just afraid you'd go astray, haha."

Ahhh, this is so stupid! I don’t think Gu Xu would believe it! Gu Yue wailed in his heart.

He could imagine how Gu Xu would react to his poor performance. Would he look at him as if he were a fool?

However, it does not.

Gu Xu seemed to believe in his acting skills, and the resentment on his face was swept away. His expression was natural and relaxed, and his eyes were not eager when he looked at him, but he also returned to the peaceful look when they worked together today. In short... it was so natural that there was no flaw.

Gu Yue believed it immediately.

He secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Although he questioned his acting skills for a few seconds, he quickly found a perfect reason for Gu Xu's performance.

Gu Xu is a fictional character after all! It is normal that some of the settings have bugs.

Or maybe his time travel broke the balance of the plot. To put it more shamelessly... the male lead has given him a way out, so he should just leave as soon as possible!

Gu Yue felt more at ease, and his acting became more natural.

"You don't have to hide your money secretly anymore. It's normal for boys to have some private property." Gu Yue thought about it, and in order to prevent Gu Xu from misunderstanding that he was going to confiscate the private money, he explained: "You should keep your money yourself."

He did not touch the drawer, but took out the cloth bag that he had hidden in the mouse hole, and poured all the money out of it onto the bed. He also said, "I'm going to town tomorrow to buy you some clothes... and bring back some chickens and ducks, because the land we grow is not enough to eat."

Gu Yue lowered his head and counted the money.

Before he could separate the copper coins from the silver, a hand reached out.

Gu Xu took his money box and poured the change inside onto the pile of money.

"I saved them for my family. They need to be put together." Gu Xu lowered his eyes and spoke meekly.

Gu Yue was very touched. Gu Xu's behavior clearly showed that he had completely believed that he had turned over a new leaf! Otherwise, no one would give money to a gambler.

"It's okay, Xiao Xu...you should keep all the money. Let's count it now and see what we can buy tomorrow." Gu Yue said.

There wasn't much silver. Gu Dashi had two strings of money in his bag, which was two taels of silver. There were also six silver dimes, each weighing about one tael, which was eight taels. There were also some scattered copper coins.

What Gu Xu saved were small change of silver, of varying sizes, which, when put together, would weigh about four taels.

As expected of the male lead, he was able to save four taels of silver despite such a bad start.

In Northern Qin, one thousand wen is a string of money, which is also one liang. Most of the silver ingots issued by the court are ten liang each. In actual circulation, they will be divided into dime-sized silver coins with pliers. The shape cannot be guaranteed, but the size is usually the same. One dime is one liang.

As for purchasing power... it is about one thousand yuan in today's world, that is, one copper coin is worth one yuan. In an old rural village like Gujia Village, most of the necessities of life are self-sufficient, and less than one or two taels of silver are spent in a year.