Chapter 2: The Daughter of the County Princess
It took a long time for a woman to respond inside: "Who? "The voice was very small, as if he hadn't eaten enough.
Wu Jing said: "It's me." Wu Jing. ”
The door opened a crack, and a beautiful head poked out of it, and the thief looked out shyly before saying, "Aunt Wu, I'm sorry, the slave thought he was here to collect debts." His eyes fell on the cart, and when he saw An Yi's bloody head, he was stunned at first, and then a trace of schadenfreude and happiness flashed in his eyes, and he screamed exaggeratedly: "Isn't this our eldest girl?" What's the big deal she's got into again? ”
"Where's your housewife?" Wu Jing unhappily pushed the door that had been tightly pulled by the beauty, and frowned: "Let's go in and talk about it, she is in a hurry to take medicine!" ”
The beauty then gave way to the side, raised her voice and shouted: "Old lady, come quickly, the big girl is not good!" ”
The cry of a baby suddenly sounded in the main room, and an old woman's voice rang out angrily from inside: "Auspicious, you are dead, scaring my good grandson." The dead girl has been causing trouble for three days and two ends, how can she be bad? You can't die. Don't look for me if you have something, go to her mother-in-law, whoever gives birth will care. Then there was a series of soft coaxing baby voices: "Good grandson don't cry, good grandson don't cry." ”
It's really a male grandson who doesn't care about anything, the beauty Jili pursed her lips and raised her eyebrows, and shouted again gloatingly towards the east house: "Mrs., Mrs., the big girl is full of blood!" I'm afraid it won't work, you can come out and see! ”
Before the words fell, the curtain of the door of the east house had been lifted, and a pale, thin, sickly, and thirty-year-old woman was wearing an old jacket, her hands were on the door frame, and she looked at her sadly and worriedly, and her voice was shaking: "What's wrong with Yi'er?" Seeing An Yi's bloody head exposed, her legs suddenly became weak, and she staggered and pounced on her and cried, "What's wrong?" Before the man could get to the front of the cart, he couldn't get up in one breath and fell to the ground in embarrassment.
Geely didn't go up to Mrs. An, but just shouted, "Why did the big girl get her head broken and bleeding again?" Could it be that he is fighting with someone again? Tsk, I don't want to stay at home on such a snowy day......"
"She went to pick wild vegetables and met wild dogs." Wu Jing helped Mrs. An up and said, "She bleed too much, and she froze in the snow for a long time, and if she didn't carry her into the house for treatment, she was afraid that she would die." I've sent it back, what are you going to do with it? To save or not to save? ”
"Save! Save! Annoyed sent her to the Westhouse. Mrs. An relieved herself, grabbed Wu Jing's hand and begged bitterly: "Aunt Wu, please do well, and then save this child." "Wu Jing is a kind-hearted person, but she pities his family's hard life, not only does she not charge money for medical treatment, but even asks An Yi to help copy books to subsidize the family, she is now penniless, her mother-in-law doesn't care, her husband is not there, so she can only ask Wu Jing.
Before Wu Jing could answer, Geely reminded in a whisper: "Madam, there is no rice at home, and you still owe a lot of money to the butcher shop and grocery store, and you still owe Aunt Wu for the medical expenses spent by the young master, I'm afraid that I won't be able to make up the girl's medical expenses, what should I do?" ”
"You ......" Mrs. An was so angry that she wanted to reprimand this concubine who didn't know how to dismantle the stage, and remembered that the most important thing at the moment was her daughter's injury, so she swallowed this breath and grabbed Wu Jing and said: "Aunt Wu, don't worry, I can't reduce your medical expenses with nothing." I'll do needlework when I'm ready......"
Ji Li interrupted her and said: "Madam, Aunt Wu is a good person, let the girl copy books to earn money and take care of food, but she doesn't know what to do, and she wasted her aunt's kindness." Even if the aunt's consultation fee can not be counted, it always costs money to catch medicine, and it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, so she can no longer ask the slave to go to the pharmacy on credit with a cheeky face......"
If it weren't for this vicious and domineering concubine who instigated her mother-in-law and husband in the middle, causing the young and stubborn daughter to have conflicts with her grandmother and father and be beaten, the daughter would not have been angry and ran out to pick wild vegetables in such a snowy day. Mrs. An was eager to tear Geely to pieces, but because of the presence of outsiders, she had to open her eyes angrily and squeeze out two words from between her teeth: "Shut up!" ”
Wu Jing was too lazy to take care of the housework of the An family, so she only rolled An Yi into a tube with the quilt on her body, and ordered Jili to carry people into the West House together. Seeing that he was about to enter the house smoothly, Geely suddenly shouted: "Oops! Then as soon as the hand was released, An Yi fell to the ground with the quilt.
Wu Jing was caught off guard, she was taken to a stumbling side, and hurriedly reached out to fish, but only grabbed a quilt corner, and could only watch An Yi roll down and smash on the threshold, making a muffled sound of "bang", and the fall was really not light.
Seeing this, Mrs. An rushed up with Geely in distress, hugged An Yi into her arms with trembling hands and cried.
"The slave really didn't mean it. I really got up early and didn't eat breakfast, I was hungry all the time and had no strength, and I tripped up this damn threshold. Geely covered her face and cried, stealing the reactions of An Yi's mother and daughter, Wu Jing and others from between her fingers. But I saw An Yi, who had been unconscious, opened her eyes, looked around weakly, looked at Mrs. An blankly, and then turned her eyes to stare at herself fixedly, her eyes were dark and faint, and she was very mad.
Geely was flustered by her, and said with a smile: "Big girl, are you awake?" Come, slave help you to bed and rest. After that, he stepped forward to help An Yi, and pinched An Yi's arm by covering it with his sleeve. She only thought that An Yi would scream and scold like in the past, and then make a big fight with herself recklessly, but An Yi just frowned slightly, looked at her coldly without saying a word, and didn't blink her eyes. With a dead look and indescribable indifference in his eyes, Geely couldn't help but shiver and let go of his hand.
An Yi retracted her gaze, smiled weakly and gratefully at Wu Jing on the side, grabbed Jili's hand tightly, and motioned for her to help herself up. An Yi's hand was cold, and it hurt to grab Jili's arm, Geely didn't dare to mess around anymore, and worked together with Mrs. An to help An Yi to the kang near the window.
The kang has not been burned, it is cold, and the bedding and other things are even more old, but fortunately they are clean. An Yi smiled wryly, and said angrily: "Thirsty." ”
Mrs. An was busy finding a teapot with a broken handle on the old table on the side, poured half a cup of cold white water, and wanted to hand it over but couldn't bear it, so she turned her eyes to look at Geely, and before she could speak, Geely spread her hands: "There is no firewood, everything costs money." ”
It's better than sewage and eating snow, An Yi opened her mouth and signaled to drink this.
Mrs. Ann had to come forward and feed her cold water, crying as she fed.
Wu Jing frowned when she looked at it from the side, this An Yi is the eldest daughter and only daughter of the An family, she was injured like this, but she didn't even have a sip of hot water, and Mrs. An was too soft and kind, and she couldn't even protect her daughter. This mother and daughter, one is too cowardly, the other is impulsive and irritable, and if this continues, even if she is willing to provide convenience for them, it will not help.
Suddenly, An Yi finished drinking the water, and looked at Mrs. An with a frown and pleading: "It hurts." Although she didn't know the situation, by instinct, she knew who in this room was really good to her, and her injuries couldn't be delayed, and she might have to go to see Lord Yama again.
Mrs. An wiped away her tears, stood up and bowed to Wu Jingshen, and pleaded, "Aunt Wu, please save my child." ”
Sending the Buddha to the west, I can't watch this girl delay. Wu Jing sighed, frowned, took out the money bag from her sleeve, and instructed Chen Zhishan, who had been hanging outside, to buy firewood and inform An Xiancheng, and then grab the medicine to boil the medicine soup for An Yi to clean the wound.
Chen Zhishan kept waiting outside, and did not accept Wu Jing's money, but said: "I have money." ”
His family is a well-known family in Changli County, very rich, he is the only son in the family, and he is not short of money. Wu Jing also followed his path and advised: "Go and come back quickly." ”
"Whoa!" Chen Zhishan glanced at Mrs. An sympathetically before leaving, and then glared at Ji Ji indignantly.
People saved their daughters, and they had to pay for medical treatment and firewood, and they really lost their faces when they lived to this point. Mrs. An's face was so hot that she longed for a crack in the ground to drill down, but when she saw An Yi who was dying, her face became thicker again, and she raised her eyes to look at Wu Jing and said softly: "Thank you, Aunt Wu, don't worry, I will try to repay your money in a few days." After a pause, she said, "Yi'er, it's not that she doesn't want to copy the book for you, but for another reason." When she gets better, I'll let her go ahead and copy the books for you. ”
"Let's talk about it." Wu Jing put her hand on An Yi's veins and motioned for Mrs. An to sit down first: "You haven't been confined yet, you shouldn't worry too much, otherwise you will fall ill in the future." ”
Mrs. An put away her tears and sat silently looking at An Yi's face in a daze.
An Yi half-closed her eyes, not letting go of any words around her, and figured out that she was the daughter of a county prince, and her family was very poor. He fell into a deep sleep because of his injuries. When she woke up again, it was already dark, the room was quiet, there was no one, and the bean-sized light could only illuminate her kang. Before I could see my surroundings clearly, I heard a sharp shouting and scolding sound from outside the window.
I heard an old woman say angrily: "Go! Go! Go! The old man in the dignified county can't support the old lady's wife and children, and it is already very embarrassing to ask the old lady to buy a concubine for you to raise a son, why are you embarrassed to ask the old lady for money to repay your debts! The old lady knew that you were an official and still like this, and an old bone had to follow you from the capital to this poor, broken, cold and remote small place. ”
A man said in a low voice: "Mother, didn't my son just receive Yulu for you a few days ago?" Isn't there still some left? How about you always give your son the money for Aunt Wu's medicine first? Can't people save our big girl's life, and still owe people money and don't pay it back. ”
The old woman said angrily, "Get out! It's long gone, ask again to watch out for my crutches! ”
I don't know what the man whispered again, there was a chaotic sound, the dull sound of a heavy object hitting the body broke through the air, Mrs. An was whispering persuasion, Jili was screaming, and the baby's cry was added, and the old woman's sharp scolding was mixed together.