Chapter 9: Night Meeting
This night, Xie Mulin slept very deeply.
By the time she came to her senses, it was pitch black outside, apparently night.
There is a narrow window on the north wall of the room, and the dim moonlight shines through the window paper, barely bringing a little bit of illumination to the room. Although it failed to illuminate the area where Xie Mulin was, he didn't lose sight of his fingers.
She felt as if she was feeling a little more energetic, and reached out and touched her forehead, as if the fever had subsided. It's just that my throat is very dry, my stomach growls with hunger, and I have a little headache. And she seems to be a little sticky on her body, probably sweating.
It's not easy for her to sweat without drinking water for so long.
She touched her stomach and looked around. Even though it was pitch black, she could guess that there must have been no one to take care of her, and no one thought that she needed food and water as a sick person.
These people from the Xie family are too much! No matter what kind of grievances and entanglements there are between the two people, in the past ten years, both sides have maintained a superficial peace, why are they suddenly torn their faces now?
Xie Yingzhen is a twelve-year-old child, her parents and brothers are not around, and the trusted Yahuan is not there, those brothers and sisters born from the same father as her, have they all forgotten that she is still sick? Do you think that she is a patient who has no medicine to eat, and sooner or later she will not be saved, so she doesn't have to eat and drink?! If she hadn't come through, I'm afraid that even if Xie Yingzhen didn't die of illness, she would have been starved to death of thirst!
Xie Mulin gritted his teeth, feeling that the Cao family was not kind, and the Xie family was also choked! She really has to grow a few more eyes in the future, she can't be as naΓ―ve as Xie Yingzhen!
Since outsiders are unreliable, Xie Mulin can only find a way to save himself.
She looked up at the cabinet and remembered that Aunt Da Jin had said that all the food and things that could be used for heating were taken away by the people in the big house, and Xie Yingrong and Aunt Da Jin, as well as Mother Qian and Gui Zhen, had come to search the house one after another, and she couldn't expect to find the food they had missed, so she had to hit her mind on her portable study.
The old house has been vacant for a long time, except for a cousin who lived for a while when he was studying in the school of architecture a few years ago, and it has never been popular again, and even the water and electricity have been cut off, so it is naturally impossible to provide any drinking water.
However, Xie Mulin entered the door with luggage, and there was a half-thermos cup of tea in his carry-on bag. Tea is used to deliver medicine, which is not conducive to the effect of medicine, but if you don't take it with medicine, it is still no problem to add some water to the body.
Xie Mulin glanced at the direction of the door, and felt that no one should come in for the time being, so he quickly closed his eyes and entered the study space.
She quickly found the thermos cup, and the small half cup of tea in it was stronger than before, and it also cooled down. She didn't care so much, so she went through her bag again and was pleasantly surprised to find two small packets of chocolate.
Out of the space, she immediately sat up from the bamboo couch, took a sip of cold tea, and ate two pieces of chocolate.
The chocolate she carries with her just in case, because the taste is too sweet and a little melted and distorted, as long as she is not hungry and unbearable, she will not consider eating it. Nowadays in China, as long as it is not in some remote area, are you afraid that you will not find a place to eat? She never imagined that she would one day use these two pieces of chocolate as life-saving food.
She fell into the water before the start of the Xie family banquet, and after that, she didn't eat anything except ginger soup, and she hadn't eaten for more than twenty-four hours, and she was really hungry at this time. Two pieces of chocolate can only be said to be better than nothing. After eating, she felt even hungrier and so uncomfortable that she died.
Thinking about it, she still has an unopened packet of fruit cereal in her suitcase, right? Originally, I was going to make breakfast, but I had no choice but to eat it. Strong tea soaked in cereal, it must be unpalatable. Until he was in a desperate situation, Xie Mulin didn't want to try.
However, after taking the medicine and replenishing water and calories, she feels much better, although there is still obvious fatigue on her body, but her limbs are no longer sore, and her whole body is weak, and she can still carry it for the time being.
Her condition has improved significantly. Modern Western medicine is still effective when used on the ancient little girl Xie Yingzhen.
Xie Mulin put the chocolate bag and thermos cup back in the study space, careful not to leave any traces, and wiped the sweat off his body with a paper towel. She can't change her clothes now, but fortunately, she doesn't sweat much after taking the medicine, and her underwear is not soaked.
She lay back on the bamboo couch and carefully rolled herself up again with the quilt. Although she was still a little tired, she had slept for so long, and she was not sleepy now, so she closed her eyes and thought about the current situation.
The indifferent attitude of everyone in the big room towards Xie Yingzhen, the daughter of the second room, made her angry and surprised.
In Xie Yingzhen's memory, the Cao family is a serious and dignified lady, very polite and polite, although she is not close to the Wen family mother and son, but she also maintains a superficial harmony, even if people don't put the second room in their eyes, she will not put this fact in front of Xie Pu and outsiders. Like after falling into the water yesterday, Mother Qian's obvious failure to take Xie Yingzhen's life into account is unusual. She is Cao's confidant, and doing things so ugly in front of outsiders is completely inconsistent with Cao's style.
And now, Xie Pu has an accident and the Xie family has been copied, and the Cao family is even more fearless.
Aunt Dajin also firmly believes that the Cao family will not watch Xie Pu have an accident. But why does Xie Mulin think that this matter is a little unreliable?
There is also the mysterious letter that Xie Yingrong stole from the study, the eagerness of Cao's henchmen to track down the whereabouts of the letter, and Xie Yingrong's inadvertent revelation that according to her memories of being reborn, they can leave safely, and even quietly take away some property......
If Xie Pu was really fine, he would not have been raided, so why did they need to steal their own belongings?
Xie Mulin felt a faint uneasiness in his heart. She suspects there is some untold conspiracy involved.
The door opened softly, and a gust of wind blew in. Xie Mulin shivered, and hurriedly rolled up the quilt and put it to sleep, but also took advantage of the darkness in the room, quietly opened a little slit in his eyes, and observed the movement outside through Duobaoge.
Mother Qian walked in with a candlestick, let the people behind her in, and closed the door again: "Madam, I will guard the door for you, you just go to the window to talk." This house was built with hands and feet when the walls were built, and the sound from the outside could not be heard. On the side of the officers and soldiers, General Fang has already taken care of it. β
The other person was Cao's family, after coming in, he looked around, and then turned his head to look at the cabinet, Xie Mulin immediately closed his eyes.
Mother Qian touched the cabinet room silently, looked at Xie Mulin by candlelight, and retreated: "Don't worry, Mrs., the second girl is seriously ill and in a coma, and I don't know if I can wake up in the future." She won't know anything. β
Cao then walked to the window, opened the bolt, and pushed the window halfway open.
A tall figure immediately flashed out of the wall and pushed the window open completely. He stood across from Cao, and the moonlight shone down above his head, reflecting his face.
It was a man in the prime of his thirties and forties, with a handsome appearance and a mustache. Xie Mulin secretly opened his eyes and looked at him, making sure that Xie Yingzhen had never seen him.
Cao Shi gasped, and his voice immediately softened: "Brother Wenshan." β
The man reached out and clasped her hands tightly, revealing a gentle smile: "Shuqing! He seemed to be a little excited, and across the windowsill, he took Cao's hands and lowered his head to kiss them.
Xie Mulin's eyes suddenly widened in the darkness.