The Resplendent Farming Apothecary

i mei?” Gu Ming ran up to them.
When he saw the money in Mrs.
Gu’s hand, his eyes turned red.
“Where did you see her? Give me the money! I will go get her back!”

“Go away!” Gu Qiao took a step up and grabbed Gu Ming’s shoulder as he was reaching out for the money.
Gu Ming fell onto the ground with a shove from his father.

“Dad! I don’t understand you.
Sure, mei mei is a girl, but she was your flesh and blood after all.
It is the Gu’s blood in her veins.
Dad, what is your heart made out of? How could you sell your own daughter?” Gu Ming looked at his father through his teary eyes as if he was looking at a stranger.

Gu Qiao’s mouth moved, it looked like he was just about to blurt out something.
But he was also worried about consequences that they could not handled if he had said what he wanted to say.
He changed his mind and kept his mouth shut.
With stiffness, he said, “Your sister will have a much better life if she was picked by a wealthy family.
It’d be much better than being at our place and not having enough food to eat or clothes to keep warm!”

“Dad, what have you promised mom back then? You promised her that you’d never sold us into servitude! It has only been a few years since mom was gone.
Have you forgotten it all already? How will you be able to face her a hundred years from now?” Gu Ming struggled to get back up onto his feet.
He looked straight at Gu Qiao and denounced him over and over again.

Gu Qiao smacked him on his cheek and shouted, “Don’t you dare mention your mother in front of me! If it wasn’t for her, I’d still be second shopkeeper in Yan.
You think I’d be stuck in that remote village in the mountains and dare not to leave? She should be the one who’d be ashamed to face me!”

Gu Ming wiped away his tears and looked at him with disappointment.
He stumbled backward slowly and said, “Dad, you have changed.
You have changed so much that I don’t even know you anymore! You don’t think of her as your daughter, but I think of her as my sister! I am going to go look for her!” Gu Ming ran off after he finished saying that.