Sorry, I am still number one in the world [Comprehensive]

Gong Jiu's fever lasted for three days.

During the period, at least half of the medicine boiled for him in the kitchen was in vain, and he spit it out after pouring it down. When it really took effect, he was almost burnt out.

Yan Liushuang didn't expect that the fever, which was nothing in her eyes, would become so serious in the end. She had no experience of getting sick, so she could only stay by Gong Jiu's side when he kept calling his mother and crying about his discomfort.

At the beginning, everyone in the City Lord's Mansion advised her that there was no need to worry so much, the best doctors in all of Nanhai were in Baiyun City, even if she didn't watch, Gong Jiu would be fine.But when they saw that Gong Jiu was holding her hand and refused to let go, they all fell silent.

……

"Miss Shuang's apprentice...it's quite miserable to hear that she's still calling her mother after being burned like that..."

"That's right, I heard from Master Feng that this young master Jiu seems to have been picked up by him when he ran away from home, it's really pitiful..."

"But Miss Shuang treated him really well."

"That's right, Miss Shuang raising an apprentice is almost like raising a son..."

……

The city lord's mansion is very familiar with her, and they don't shy away from talking about their master and apprentice, and even mention a few words in front of Ye Gucheng, and then praise Yan Liushuang for her good temper and gentleness.

Ye Gucheng: "..." I don't want to hear it.

He endured not going to see her for half a year, and finally the two of them spoke, and he also had the opportunity to pursue her in an upright manner. As a result, Gong Jiu fell ill and immediately snatched her attention away.

Seeing her staying beside Gong Jiu's bed, Ye Gucheng was not only depressed, but also did not express his depressed position at all.

After all, being jealous of a sick six-year-old is a little bit out of place.

So he could only urge the doctors in the city lord's mansion to find a way to quickly reduce Gong Jiu's fever.

The doctors were inexplicably shocked by his serious and solemn attitude, but they agreed in unison to reassure him.

In this way, it was not until the morning of the fifth day of the first lunar month that Gong Jiu's fever subsided completely.

He had a fever for three days on this trip. Although he was fed some porridge, he vomited a lot. Now that the fever subsided, his complexion was still terribly ugly.

But no matter what, other people in the City Lord's Mansion can breathe a sigh of relief, especially Yan Liushuang who has been with him almost all the time.

"Xiao Jiu, you really scared me a lot." Yan Liushuang said.

"Let... let Master worry." Gong Jiu lowered his eyes and spoke in a lower voice than when he was asleep, his tone was full of apology, and it sounded very pitiful.

"Okay, okay, I'm not blaming you." Afraid that he would think too much, she quickly explained, "As long as you're fine."

While their master and apprentice were talking, Yan Feng also brought the medicine that Gong Jiu wanted to drink today from the kitchen.

Seeing that Gong Jiu woke up, he was also very happy: "You are considered awake. If your fever doesn't subside, I will worry about whether your master will be able to hold on."

When Gong Jiu heard this, she became anxious: "What's the matter, Master?"

Yan Liushuang wanted to say it's okay, but before she could speak, Yan Feng robbed Bai: "In order to take care of you, she hasn't slept well these few days."

Gong Jiu immediately felt more guilty: "I...it's all my fault..."

The way he said this with a pale face was even more pitiful than before, which made Yanfeng feel a little distressed, and hurriedly comforted him: "Don't say that, you are just sick, and you didn't mean to Toss your master, it's fine now!"

Yan Feng felt that what he said was sincere, but Gong Jiu was still depressed after hearing this.

Gong Jiu thought to himself, in fact, he did it on purpose.

But his original intention was only to attract Yan Liushuang's attention, and he didn't mean to torment her to prevent her from resting. It's just that during the past few days of repeated fevers, for a long time, he was indeed groggy and groggy based on instinct.

"Okay, I'll thank God that you're okay." Yan Liushuang patted him on the head, "Don't think about anything else, just drink the last bowl of medicine first."

"Yeah." Although he didn't like the taste of the bowl of medicine, Gong Jiu nodded immediately and took the medicine.

Yan Liushuang knew that he was afraid of suffering, seeing that he was now struggling to drink the whole bowl of medicine, she wanted to find him a plate of candied fruit.

So let Yanfeng watch here, stand up and go out by himself.

Yan Feng asked her what's wrong, she said to go to the kitchen.

"Whatever you want, I'll just go." Yan Feng said.

"I'll go." She rubbed her shoulders.

"That's right, you've been sitting for too long." Yan Feng nodded.

Gong Jiu was still immersed in the bitter taste of the bowl of medicine, but when she heard their conversation, she hurriedly raised her head and asked, "What is Master doing in the kitchen?"

Yan Liushuang smiled: "Seeing that you are suffering like this, let's go find you candy."

She hadn't had a good rest for a few days, and her face was actually a bit haggard at the moment, but when she bent her eyes and smiled like this, people could immediately ignore the haggardness.Gong Jiu sat on the bed and stared at her blankly, feeling that the bitter taste spreading from her mouth was not so unbearable anymore.

"Thank you Master." He whispered.

Yan Liushuang waved his hand at him, then opened the door with big strides and went out.

Before, when she was stretching her body to take care of Gong Jiu, she didn't feel it, but now she relaxes, the feeling of fatigue instantly swept over her whole body.

When she was heading towards the kitchen, she had raised her hand and knocked on her shoulder and neck at least seven or eight times.

Seeing her, the steward in the kitchen thought that Gong Jiu had vomited the medicine again, so he hurriedly ordered the girl who decocted the medicine: "Quickly, go and fill another bowl."

"Oh no!" Yan Liushuang said, "Xiao Jiu is already awake, I'll get him some candied fruit, the medicine is too bitter."

"Oh, are you awake? Just wake up, just wake up!" The steward was very excited, "The candied fruit is over there, Miss Shuang, wait a minute, I'll get it."

After Yan Liushuang took the candied fruit, she tasted one and left the kitchen feeling that it was sweet enough.

She didn't expect to run into Ye Gucheng on the way back. The opponent should have just finished practicing swordsmanship, with a thin layer of sweat on his forehead, shining in the morning sun, causing her to subconsciously blink when she looked up. blinked.

"Ah Cheng." She took the initiative to say hello.

"Your apprentice has a fever?" Ye Gucheng asked.

"Yes." She pursed her lips and replied in a relaxed tone, "I'm awake too."

Ye Gucheng hummed when he heard the words, and then took a step forward to hold her wrist: "Then you have no reason not to rest."

She was startled by him, but she didn't hide, she just said, "Let me send the candied fruit to him first."

He glanced down at the candied fruit in her hand, and said, "It's the same for others to give it to you."

After finishing speaking, he turned around and told a cleaning maid not far away who kept looking in this direction: "You send this."

The maid immediately trotted over and responded, "Yes, the city lord."

Yan Liushuang didn't push back and forth with him on such a trivial matter, and handed the candied fruit to the maid very obediently. After watching her walk away, she raised her eyes to look at Ye Gucheng again, and said, "You can relax now." open me?"

But he didn't intend to let go, instead he tightened his hands, and after sweeping across her face with some cool eyes, he suddenly changed his tone: "How long have you not slept?"

In the past three days, Ye Gucheng also went to Gong Jiu's room to see him a few times, and every time he went there, he would persuade her to go to rest first, because there are so many doctors around.

Yan Liushuang always said it was fine, and said that she actually had a rest, so he didn't have to worry.

But now it seems that it is probably just dealing with him.

Thinking of this, Ye Gucheng couldn't help but get angry.

In order to prevent her from doing something that would make him even more angry, after asking that question, he hugged her directly without waiting for her answer.

Yan Liushuang was taken aback by him: "What are you doing?!"

He held her leg and said in a cold voice, "I'll take you to sleep."

She didn't actually struggle, it's just that she had lived for so long, and she had never been hugged like this, or carried on her shoulders, and she felt awkward for a while.

"I'm sure I'll sleep." She said, "You put me down first."

Ye Gucheng didn't believe this sentence anymore, he didn't even send her back to the courtyard where she lived since she was a child, he hesitated for a while and went directly to the main courtyard.

Being hugged by him like this, Yan Liushuang didn't pay attention at first, until she heard the exclamation of the maids serving in the main courtyard, she realized something was wrong: "Wait!"

Ye Gucheng ignored her, carried her all the way into the house, and put her on the bed before saying: "Just sleep here."

Yan Liushuang: "..."

Seeing her stunned, he explained again in a deep voice: "I have no other intention."

Yan Liushuang didn't think much about it at first, but when he said that, she suddenly remembered her previous charming dream.But she knew what Ye Gucheng meant by bringing her here, so she just bit her lower lip and said, "Well, I know."

"Sleep if you know." He lifted the quilt for her as he said.

Yan Liushuang wanted to laugh at this posture of not letting go of sleeping without seeing her with his own eyes.

In fact, she did laugh, and then said softly, "You have to ask me to take off my clothes."

Ye Gucheng: "..."

Then he turned around in a bit of embarrassment, acting like a gentleman, but his ears turned red unconsciously.

Yan Liushuang had never seen him like this before, and she was stunned for a while, but couldn't restrain herself any longer, and burst out laughing directly.

To be honest, it wasn't until then that she finally had a sense that he was just a 16-year-old boy.

A 16-year-old boy who seems to be domineering but gentle at the beginning of love.

Kind of cute, she thought.

After taking off her coat and getting under the quilt, she said to him, "Then I'm going to sleep."

He hummed, but still didn't look back.

She was really terribly tired, and fell asleep soon after she got on the bed and closed her eyes.

Ye Gucheng stood on the spot and listened for a while, noticing that her breathing had gradually stabilized, and then walked out of the room.

A lot of people gathered in the yard outside the door, seeing him come out, they all opened their eyes wide, as if they couldn't believe he came out so soon.

He knew what they had misunderstood, but he didn't bother to explain, so he just told the servants: "A Shuang is asleep, don't let anyone disturb her, if her apprentice has anything to do, just call me."

Although the people below were curious, seeing his serious expression, they hurriedly bowed their heads in response: "Yes, the city lord."

……

Ye Gucheng was not wrong.

Gong Jiucai, who couldn't wait for the master to go back, couldn't hold it back for a long time, but just after his fever subsided, neither the doctor nor Yanfeng allowed him to leave the room to go out to have a wind.

He couldn't help asking Yan Feng: "Where did Master go?"

Yan Feng had just learned about Yan Liushuang being carried back to his yard by Ye Gucheng from the discussions among the servants in the City Lord's Mansion, when he heard his question, he immediately patted his forehead and said, "She went to rest."

This answer made Gong Jiu unable to say anything, after all, Yan Liushuang really needed to rest.

However, when he survived the afternoon and evening and failed to see Yan Liushuang coming over again, he became anxious again.

When eating dinner, he seemed to have no intention of saying to Yan Feng: "Master, won't you come and eat with us? I want to eat with her."

Yan Feng: "She may not be awake yet."

Gong Jiu thought for a while, and said: "I have to eat, or we should wake up the master and eat something first?" After saying that, she would jump off the stool and go outside.

Seeing this, Yan Feng hurriedly grabbed him: "Hey, what are you doing?"

He looked over innocently: "I'll go next door and ask Master to have dinner."

"She's not next door." Yan Feng pushed him back on the stool, "Don't worry, she won't be hungry, you can eat your food well, and just stop getting sick."

"Not next door?" Gong Jiu opened his eyes wide, "Where did Master go?"

"It's in Ye Gucheng." Yan Feng said.

Gong Jiu was so angry that she couldn't show it in front of Yan Feng.

After eating the meal quietly, he still insisted on seeing Yan Liushuang.

Yan Feng was so entangled by him that he had no choice but to take him to the main courtyard of the city lord's mansion. Before going, he wrapped him in several thick clothes. On the way, he said helplessly, "I've never seen you so stalking."

Gong Jiu pretended to be pathetic and showed his pity: "Master coaxes me so that I can fall asleep."

Yan Feng: "...you really think of her as your mother."

Gong Jiu didn't respond to this sentence.

When the two walked over, it was already completely dark.

When the attendants outside the courtyard saw them, they greeted them very respectfully, and then took them directly outside Ye Gucheng's study, saying that the city lord was inside.

Gong Jiu frowned: "Then what about my master?"

The attendant didn't answer this question, and retreated after pushing the study door open for them.

Ye Gucheng was not surprised to see Gong Jiu at all, and he didn't go around with him, and said to him directly: "Your master has taken care of you for three days, now it's time to rest, what's the matter, wait until she has enough rest."

Gong Jiu didn't expect to be blocked as soon as he came up, and he was very wronged: "Can't I see Master?"

Ye Gucheng raised his eyebrows: "Do you have a reason why you must see her?"

Hearing this conversation, even Yan Feng, who was as slow as Yan, sensed the discord between the two of them, so he hurriedly explained for Gong Jiu who was tugging at his sleeve: "Ah Shuang has been coaxing him to sleep for the past few days. He can't sleep now."

"Can't sleep?" Ye Gucheng didn't believe it.

"When a child is sick, it is inevitable that they will rely more on those close to them." Yan Feng felt that Gong Jiu's thoughts were not difficult to understand.

But Ye Gucheng didn't think so.

He felt that Gong Jiu was close to Yan Liushuang, or that he was too possessive.

No matter what the reason was, this was not a good thing for Yan Liushuang.

So after a moment of silence, he stood up directly and walked in front of Gong Jiu, and touched Gong Jiu's sleeping point before Yan Feng could react.

Ye Gucheng: "Send him back to sleep."

Yan Feng: "???" Is there such an operation? !

"A Shuang needs to rest." Ye Gucheng said again.

"I can't help it, why don't I ignore him when he begs me?" Yan Feng said.

Ye Gucheng thought to himself that the boy is determined to eat and you can't stand his pleading, but he didn't say it, he just said: "Then you want to delay Ah Shuang's rest because of him?"

Yan Feng touched his nose: "Actually..."

Ye Gucheng: "Actually?"

He coughed and said, "Actually, I'm not too sure that Ah Shuang is sleeping here."

Ye Gucheng whose character was questioned: "..."

The two were relatively silent for a while, and finally Yan Feng spoke first.

Yan Feng said that I will send Xiao Jiu back first.

Ye Gucheng hummed, and sent him all the way to the gate of the courtyard. After watching him take away Gong Jiu, the troublesome man, he turned and went back to the main courtyard.

Counting the time, Yan Liushuang had already slept for almost five hours.

Ye Gucheng was afraid that she would be hungry when she woke up at night, so he personally brought food in.

When he entered, she was still sleeping soundly, her breathing was steady and shallow, her head was tilted into the bed, revealing a section of her white and slender neck.

That look made him breathless, but he calmed down after a while.

"A Shuang." He leaned over and called her.

"Hmm..." She was very sleepy, although she heard this sound, she didn't want to open her eyes at all, "What are you doing..."

"Eat something before going to sleep." He lightly shook her shoulder.

Yan Liushuang could recognize his voice, and she was indeed a little hungry. He tried to open his eyes after hearing this, but the light in the room made him close them again as soon as he opened them.

"Candle, the candle is blown..." She hugged the quilt and moaned, "My eyes hurt."

Ye Gucheng couldn't laugh or cry when he heard the words: "How do you eat after blowing out the candles?"

She frowned: "...then don't eat." After speaking, she turned over and continued to sleep.

Ye Gucheng thought for a while, then stretched out his hand to cover her eyes: "Blink a little longer first."

His body was always cooler than the average person's, especially his hands, so Yan Liushuang flinched the moment he stuck it on.

But she did feel a lot better when she opened her eyes after being covered by him, and she became more awake following the blinking movements.

Ye Gucheng could feel her eyelashes scratching his palms and knuckles, a little itchy.At the same time, her warm breath also hit his hand, making his arm stiff for a moment, not daring to move at all.

After a while, he heard himself ask her in a low voice, "Is it better?"

She nodded: "Okay."

At this moment, she could already smell the aroma of the food on the table, and the previously inconspicuous hunger finally completely overwhelmed the sleepiness, making her unable to lie down any longer.

But when she wanted to turn over and get out of bed, he held her shoulder again.

"...I'll go out first." He said, "You get dressed."

"..." Yan Liushuang, who had dreamed some kind of dream that could not be understood by outsiders, was a little ashamed of this polite attitude to the end. She lowered her eyes, "No, I just took off a coat."

That being said, it was a bit strange to come out of the bed in front of him.

So Ye Gucheng finally turned around.

There was soothing incense burning in the room, and the smell was neither light nor heavy, but Ye Gucheng couldn't feel at ease when he heard the sound of cloth rubbing behind him.

Both of them seemed to have noticed something, so that the meal was very silent.

After eating, she said she wanted to see how Gong Jiu was doing, Ye Gucheng immediately said: "He has been here, but now he has gone back to sleep."

Yan Liushuang was surprised: "He has been here?"

He didn't hide it from her, and briefly told what happened before dinner, and finally said in a deep voice: "He can't always be so clingy to you."

Yan Liushuang stared at him for a while, then suddenly laughed: "I said, Ah Cheng, do you even want Xiao Jiu's jealousy?"

Ye Gucheng met her eyes confidently: "Can't you?"

Yan Liushuang was surprised when he admitted it so frankly, and then laughed again, "But Xiao Jiu is just my apprentice."

"I do soften up very easily with him," she said. "Do you know why?"

"why?"

"Because every time he mentions his mother's expression, it reminds me of you." She finally figured out the answer to that question, "Then my heart softened immediately."

"..."

"But he's better than you, at least he'll tell me he's sad."

"..."

"You always carry it alone, and no one talks about it."

When she said this, she sighed, as if accepting her fate, she pulled the corners of her lips after sighing, and said: "From then on, I can't see you sad, because once you are sad, I will also completely I can’t be happy, I didn’t understand why before, but now that I think about it, maybe this is what I like.”

Ye Gucheng was almost speechless, he heard his heart beating faster and faster, and heard her asking him: "I have allowed you to continue liking me, so will you allow me to like you?"