When the Wu and Guo found Wu Meirong, they encountered an unexpected scene. Madam Wu passed out in the street. Wu Meirong still held her dead sister's body and wept.
Guo Yingyu said, "Meirong, she is gone. Let us take her body home."
Wu Meirong hugged Guo Yingyu, "I should be the dead one. She pushed me away." She sobbed in her fiance's arms. "I should be the dead one. I should be the dead one. Why did she push me away?"
Master Guo, "Master Wu, the Guo family will hold the funeral. She will be buried in our family cemetery. When she is still alive, we have regarded her as ours daughter-in-law. The wife of ours son."
Master Wu, "Master Guo, she has not go through the wedding ceremony."
Master Guo, "For me, she has."
Guo Yingyu picked up Wu Xiangmei's body and placed it on the carriage. The servant pulled the horse rope. The horse began to walk away dragging the carriage with Wu Xiangmei's dead body back to the Guo resident. The Wu and the rest of the Guo family members followed closely behind.
Inside theirs booked room, Zhao Renshu put Ping'an on the bed. He sat next to her, "Wu Xiangmei is dead."
Ping'an asked, "How?"
Zhao Renshu replied, "Xianmu aimed at Wu Meirong, but Wu Xiangmei used her body to blocked Xianmu's weapon." He began to take off Ping'an clothes. "Where was you during the fight?"
When Ping'an pulled her arm out of her sleeve, she groaned in pain, "I was chasing after two bats that captured Lifeng."
Zhao Renshu, "That's how you tear open the wound again?"
Ping'an, "I guess so."
The door opened, and Guo Baiyu walked in with a basin and a clean towel. Guo Baiyu put the basin on the table, then went back and closed the door behind him.
Zhao Renshu, "What did the two of you do?"
Ping'an grunted, "We fell crashing into a house."
Zhao Renshu worried, "What?"
Guo Baiyu, "Renshu, take off her robe."
Zhao Renshu quickly took off the rest of her robe. Ping'an's bruises froze him. He still fell guilty because if he did not trust Hu Qingge during that time and Ping'an have not been injured, this won't happen.
Ping'an, "What's the matter?"
Zhao Renshu said softly in surprise, "When you fell, were you at the bottom?"
Ping'an nodded, "Lifeng, has been very delicate since childhood. Besides, I am much stronger than her physically."
Guo Baiyu took the water basin and sat beside Ping'an on the left. He checked her wound. Two stitches were ripped off. Then, when he looked at her back. He was also frozen. Her entire back was severely injured.
Guo Baiyu, "I will not re-stitches, because your wound is almost healed. Your upper back is bruised and it's going to hurt for the next few days." He applied medicine to her wound and rubbed some medicine ointment on her back. Then, he bandaged her wound again. "You should rest. Renshu, you go boil some pain medicine. One for Ping'an and one for childe Fang."
Ping'an almost jumped out of bed, but was stopped by Zhao Renshu, "Childe Fang is hurt. What about Dachin?"
Zhao Renshu, "He was not injured."
Ping'an turned to Guo Baiyu, "Thanks."
Guo Baiyu kissed her lips tenderly, "You rest. I am going to look at childe Fang's wound."
Zhao Renshu, "I'm going to boil the medicine." He kissed her on her cheek. "Don't go anywhere without letting us know."
Ping'an, "With this condition, I don't think I can go anywhere." She tried her best to gives her lovers a smile with showing as little pain as possible.
Guo Baiyu stood at Fang Yaoting's bedroom door and he knocked.
Fang Yaoting, "Come in."
Guo Baiyu opened the door and walked in. He put the medicine box on the table. Fang Yaoting walked to the table and sat in the chair.
Guo Baiyu, "Take that arm out. I'll look at it."
Guo Baiyu cleaned the wound, applied medicine, and then he wrapped Fang Yaoting's arm.
Guo Baiyu asked, "What is bothering you?"
Fang Yaoting, "Can I ask you something personal?"
Guo Baiyu, "Ask."
Fang Yaoting, "When Ping'an rejected you and walked away with Renshu, did you feel angry and sad?"
Guo Baiyu, "I think my world has collapsed. What happened between you and Dachin?"
Fang Yaoting, "Nothing." He frowned. "He might not feel the same way I do."
Zhao Renshu walked in and put a bowl of medicine on the table.
Guo Baiyu, "Drinking it will help relieve your pain. Please make sure the wound is clean and dry."
The two men walked out of the room and they closed the door.
Fang Yaoting lay on the bed and muttered to himself, "Lee Dachin, you bastard. Protected you and I am injured, you don't even show up to check on me. I will make sure that you get the same amount of pain as I did."
That evening at dinner, the friends sat around a large table prepared by the innkeeper. The waiter placed all sort of different kind of dishes on the table. Fang Yaoting looked unhappy because Lee Dachin was not there. Everyone was eating, Fang Yaoting only picked up chopsticks and played with the rice.
Guo Longtong, "Childe Lim, how is the street?"
Lim Peizhi, "All the bodies have been cleaned up. The people are helping to wash the blood."
Huang Hongse, "I need to make a suggestion."
Guo Longtong, "What?"
Huang Hongse, "Because we are all friends here. We should simply call each other by our names."
Ping'an, "I agree."
Zhao Renshu, "If my wife agree, then I agree." He looked at Guo Baiyu.
Guo Baiyu nodded.
Lim Peizhi, "A toast to us."
Everyone raised their cup and drank.
Guo Longtong, "It's a pity that Dachin is not here. I can say on his behalf that he agrees."
Huang Hongse, "Where is he anyway?"
Guo Longtong, "He went home to check on his uncle and his uncle family. I'm not sure why he has not come back yet."
Ping'an, "I have given him painkillers. He should be fine."
Huang Hongse, "Where is his house?"
Guo Longtong, "I'm sorry. I promise Dachin, I will not tell anyone where he lives."
Fang Yaoting smashed his chopsticks on the table, "I'm full." He went up the stairs frantically.
Guo Longtong, "What happened to him?"
Guo Baiyu, "Let's eat. He can figure out how to solve his own problems."