The Prime Minister’s Darling-Chapter 497 - 252 Palace Examination (two in one)_3
Chapter 497: 252 Palace Examination (two in one)_3
Chapter 497: 252 Palace Examination (two in one)_3
If this hand belonged to someone in a former life, it would likely belong to a surgeon or a pianist.
How did it get injured?
Gu Jiao felt a bit angry.
Usually at home, she would not allow him to do heavy work, for fear that he would hurt his hand.
“How did you get this injury?” She asked.
In fact, they seldom asked each other about such things. Gu Jiao didn’t ask him how he got injured when she treated his leg earlier. When Gu Jiao was knocked unconscious by a whip, he never asked who she had offended.
Although they had learned the truth somehow, it wasn’t from each other’s mouths.
“It was hit by a bookshelf,” Xiao Liulang said, “I didn’t pay much attention at the time.”
Looking at his swollen wrist, Gu Jiao furrowed her brows, “Be more careful next time.”
Xiao Liulang nodded: “Okay.”
The first day of treatment required cold compresses to prevent the spread of the bruise.
Gu Jiao took an ice pack from her first aid kit and applied it on his wrist. This ice pack didn’t require freezing, it just had to be crushed to turn into ice. The disadvantage was that it could not be used multiple times.
Xiao Liulang was used to her first aid kit carrying strange items from time to time, so he didn’t ask where the ice came from.
She held his wrist with one hand and pressed the ice pack to his wrist with the other, often changing the position, with an expression of seriousness and carefulness.
Xiao Liulang’s gaze was slightly moved, extending his hand and saying, “I can do it myself.”
Gu Jiao took away the ice pack to avoid his hand: “No, it’s very cold.”
Are your hands not cold then?
Xiao Liulang looked at her silently, his wrist feeling cold and painful, but his heart seemed to be oblivious. Opening his mouth, he suddenly asked, “Do you… treat other patients like this too?”
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“No,” Gu Jiao shook her head, carefully applying the ice pack to his hand, “I only treat you like this.”
Xiao Liulang’s heart suddenly throbbed, a strange and intense feeling rising up. Even though she didn’t specify what she did for him alone, it still made his heart race.
Perhaps the ice pack was too cold, her left hand had been frozen solid, so she switched to using her right hand to hold the ice pack and used her icy left hand to support his hand bone.
They switched several times like this. The swelling on Xiao Liulang’s wrist had significantly improved and was no longer painful, her hands were, however, almost numb from the cold.
She was tidying up her things, Xiao Liulang could feel her movements were sluggish.
She casually closed up her first aid kit, she didn’t care about it really, it was just a pair of frozen hands. She had even frozen her entire body stiff in her past life.
However, what she didn’t care about this time, someone else cared for her.
As she stood up to deal with the medical supplies, a slender and jade-like hand reached out and grabbed her icy-hand.
The hand was long and fair-skinned, exuding an irresistible force, tightly enveloping her hand.
The painful chill in her fingertips suddenly warmed up.
Gu Jiao stared at him blankly.
However, he did not look at Gu Jiao, but silently held her other hand in his palms as well.
…
In a blink of an eye, it was April 15th, and the preliminary round of the Palace Examination began.
Xiao Liulang left the house before dawn and arrived at the main gate of the imperial palace in a carriage driven by Liao Quan.
The main gate of the Imperial Palace had three doors, the middle one being the main door, which was magnificently large and stood at a height of twenty feet. On each side of the main gate, there were additional gates.
The left gate was mainly used by the royal family, while the right gate was used by the ministers.
Today’s students were to use the right gate.
Candidates had already begun to queue up outside the right gate, according to their examination number.
Xiao Liulang’s and Du Ruohan’s exam numbers were next to each other, Xiao Liulang was number seventy-five, Du Ruohan was seventy-six. Du Ruohan arrived earlier than Xiao Liulang, greeted Fen Lin and Lin Chengye, and then waited for Xiao Liulang.
“Why are you so late? I thought you were too scared to show up!” Du Ruohan, jealous that Xiao Liulang had overtaken his position in Fen Lin’s heart, always tried to provoke him when they met.
Xiao Liulang didn’t feel like arguing with him and quietly queued in front of him.
Du Ruohan sneered: “Hey, are you nervous? Fen Lin and Lin Chengye are dead nervous.”
Their examination numbers were relatively ahead, one was twenty-one and the other thirty-seven, they heard they were to enter before Xiao Liulang and Du Ruohan and were shaking.
Fortunately, most of the other candidates were also shaking, very few were calm.
One reason was that everyone was nervous about entering the palace for the first time, the other reason was today was extremely cold!
Even though it was already April, the weather should have been warm. However, it suddenly rained last night and the temperature dropped sharply. There was still a strong wind blowing around.
