"Recently, more and more people in the village have caught a cold."

In the infirmary, after Chen Qing handed over the medicine for the relevant illness to the villagers who came to see the doctor, he finally ended the consultation with all the patients, he leaned back in his chair a little tiredly, took off the glasses on the bridge of his nose with one hand, and closed his eyes a little uncomfortably.

This is already this week, because of the cold to the infirmary more than 20 households, the recent encounter with the village of the continuous storm, obviously in the hot day of July, but the temperature plummeted, close to the temperature of winter, the huge temperature difference made many villagers working in the fields accidentally infected with the virus, suffering from a cold.

"Dr. Chan! Help! ”

Before Chen Qing could rest for a while, Qiao Lingxiang's exclamation came from outside the house, Chen Qing immediately sat up, put on his glasses again, and looked out the window, Qiao Lingxiang hurriedly ran towards the medical room with Tang Ling in his arms. Chen Qing hurriedly straightened the chair in front of him, and asked Qiao Lingxiang suspiciously: "Lingxiang?" How did you get over today? ”

"Doctor Chen, are there any medicinal wines or plasters? Let's take a look at Lingling! Qiao Lingxiang helped Tang Ling sit on the chair, and she pleaded.

"Tang Ling? What's wrong with her? ”

Chen Qing turned his head, only then did he notice that Tang Ling in Qiao Lingxiang's arms was not like the smart appearance he had seen before, the whole person was haggard, her cheeks that were originally a little fleshy were now sunken in, her little face was pale, and the heavy blue and black were imprinted under her two eyes, and her eyes were a little blank, as if she had been greatly tortured, so that her body and soul were all out of their original vitality.

"What's going on?" Chen Qing realized that something was wrong with Tang Ling's current state, and he frowned and looked at Qiao Lingxiang beside him with a distressed face.

Qiao Lingxiang pursed her lips, slowly stretched out her hand, carefully untied the opening of Tang Ling's long sleeves, and folded the clothes, revealing Tang Ling's two miserable hands. Countless scarlet marks were engraved on Tang Ling's hands, and the flesh had been scratched in many places because of the strength, and after the blood was dried up, a hideous scar was left, uglyly wrapped around Tang Ling's arm, and there were still some fresh wounds, and there were still some bloodshots.

Chen Qing was shocked to see these wounds on Tang Ling's arm, he carefully raised one of Tang Ling's arms, and examined it carefully, just looking at the wound was enough to know how ruthless the owner of the wound was, so that he would be so vicious to a child. Chen Qing looked at Tang Ling, who was leaning in Qiao Lingxiang's arms, her eyes were not focused, and asked softly: "Tang Ling, who caused these wounds?" ”

Tang Ling, whose consciousness has been in a state of chaos, heard Chen Qing shouting her name, she turned her head a little mechanically, and turned her gaze towards Chen Qing, but she couldn't see his face clearly, and there was always a hazy veil in front of her, like the picture in the lens of a camera that couldn't focus all the time.

Tang Ling hadn't been able to get a good night's sleep for a whole week. Since that time when she found out that Chen Rende would stand in the courtyard at night to spy on her house, Tang Ling was so afraid that she no longer dared to fall asleep at night, and she also tried to wait behind the gap in the curtain the next day, sure enough, Chen Rende's figure appeared in the courtyard of Tang Ling's house regularly at night, after their family all slept on the upper bunks, and every time he stood in a different position, Tang Ling would always lock him through the gap in the curtains.

Tang Ling didn't dare to sleep at night anymore, she was afraid that the figure downstairs would open her eyes again after she fell asleep once, so she stood straight in front of her bed, looking at her with a smile. Tang Ling only dared to wait until the dawn, when the big rooster in the house crowed, and when Chen Rende left at that time, Tang Ling dared to fall on the bed to rest. But it won't let her sleep in peace, because Zhao Fang will enter her bedroom with a bamboo whip at nine o'clock, and wave the whip mercilessly to wake her up, even if she has opened her eyes, Zhao Fang will wait until she has vented her pleasure before stopping the beating. Then he returned to his usual kind appearance, and gently urged her to come down and eat quickly.

But where can Tang Ling, who is already physically and mentally exhausted, still eat? In those days, in order to protect her body, her two hands had been attacked with bamboo whips and bloody, and she didn't even have the ability to pick up chopsticks. Tang Ling couldn't go downstairs to eat, because her whole body hurt, and Zhao Fang and Tang Jianguo didn't care if she would go downstairs to eat.

Tang Ling just lay on the bed for several days, and was only recently able to go downstairs, barely eat some food, and then after eating, endure the severe pain and go upstairs to lie back on the bed, and after sleeping for a long time, she will be beaten again by Zhao Fang, who came back from playing mahjong.

If Qiao Lingxiang hadn't found out that Tang Ling hadn't come to her for a long time and realized that something was wrong, it was estimated that Tang Ling would have been tortured like this for a long time.

Qiao Lingxiang has always known that Zhao Fang and Tang Jianguo are not good people, and treating Tang Ling can be said to be educated in the way of giving a sweet date after slapping, Tang Ling has not gone to school for a long time, since Tang Ling's parents left Yushen Village, Zhao Fang and Tang Jianguo and his wife will not let Tang Ling go to school anymore, they feel that it is useless for the girl to read so many books, and domesticate her inferior nature, and then become an obedient and obedient puppet, and when she is older, she will find a family that can be seen and marry. It can be said that since Tang Ling's parents left, Tang Ling's last protective cover has also disappeared.

These villagers in Yushen Village are all with corrupt and ignorant thoughts, whether it is Tang Ling or Qiao Lingxiang, they are just worthless victims under feudal thinking, and there are many people like them, but the people here feel that they should be indifferent and impermanent.

Qiao Lingxiang looked at the weak Tang Ling in her arms, she lowered her head and kissed Tang Ling's head gently, feeling resentful of the unfair treatment of these people, but she was powerless to resist, so she could only draw some warmth from each other and report to the group to keep warm.

Chen Qing dipped a cotton swab in the medicinal wine, wiped the wounds on Tang Ling's hands and feet, during this period, Tang Ling didn't even have a big struggle and shouting, she was like an empty shell without a soul, these wounds that hurt so much in the eyes of adults that Tang Ling didn't react at all, Chen Qing sighed, handed the medicinal wine in his hand to Qiao Lingxiang, and instructed: "For the rest of the place, you take Tang Ling to the lounge over there to wipe it." ”

Qiao Lingxiang thanked her after taking it, and was about to help Tang Ling to walk to the lounge.

"Dr. Chen."

Before he got up, a low and familiar male voice came from outside the house, Chen Qing and Qiao Lingxiang looked up, but Tang Ling in Qiao Lingxiang's arms shook violently after hearing this voice, and Qiao Lingxiang, who was hugging her, thought that Tang Ling had finally reacted.

"Brother Chen, why are you here?" Chen Qing glanced at Qiao Lingxiang and Tang Ling, smiled at Chen Rende next to him, and asked.

Chen Rende, who was dressed in a neat and tidy casual suit, raised his feet and entered the infirmary, and happily replied to Chen Qing: "Didn't you ask me to get the medicine today?" That's why I'm here, I'm sorry, I was supposed to come earlier, but I was too busy. ”

"It's okay, you sit down first, I'll help you get the medicine." Chen Qing waved his hand to show that he didn't care, and after stretching out a hand for Chen Rende to sit on the chair, he got up and went to get the medicine.

"Yo? Isn't this Tang Ling's little girl? Ouch, what's going on with this injury? Chen Rende was not in a hurry to sit down, his eyes glanced at Tang Ling who was supported by Qiao Lingxiang on the side, exclaimed, walked closer to Tang Ling, looked at the injuries on her body that were exposed, and frowned with some distress.

"Ah, I accidentally got this one." Qiao Lingxiang watched this familiar uncle get closer to the two of them for a few minutes, and felt a little inexplicable rejection of the care emanating from him, Qiao Lingxiang was reluctant to say more, she just wanted to pull Tang Ling to go to the lounge quickly.

"With such white and tender skin like this, who is so mad?"

Chen Rende didn't notice the perfunctory words in Qiao Lingxiang's words at all, his eyes were firmly fixed on the wound on Tang Ling's arm, and the arm that had rubbed the medicinal wine was dyed with a layer of brown, exuding a pungent smell, only some of the fair skin was mixed with these messy colors, like an artistic painting, Chen Rende looked a little fascinated.

But he didn't dare to be too presumptuous, after all, Tang Ling in Qiao Lingxiang's arms had already begun to shake unconsciously because of his too straightforward look, Chen Rende chuckled in his heart, withdrew his gaze, nodded towards Qiao Lingxiang, who was a little strange, and instructed with concern: "Quickly rub some medicine and wine for her, how ugly these scars are, the little girl doesn't like them very much." ”

Qiao Lingxiang felt that Chen Rende's words were a little awkward, but she didn't study them in detail, only nodded, and helped Tang Ling slowly walk into the lounge.

Chen Rende stared at the two of them stupidly, until the white door completely cut off their figures, Chen Rende retracted his gaze unsatisfactorily, sat on the chair leisurely, crossed Erlang's legs, shook one foot, Chen Qing was still dispensing medicine, Chen Rende slowly felt a trace of boredom and emptiness, he had to look around idly in the infirmary.

"Okay, it's all good medicine."

In the lounge, Qiao Lingxiang exhaled while rubbing medicine on Tang Ling's wounds in other parts, she kept squatting on the side of the bed, raised her head to look at Tang Ling who was sitting motionless on the edge of the bed, Qiao Lingxiang felt endless sourness in her chest. Qiao Lingxiang slowly stood up, sat down beside Tang Ling, pulled her thin body into her arms, and felt the weight as light as a feather in her arms, Qiao Lingxiang was even more sad.

"Lingling, we'll get out of here sooner or later."

Qiao Lingxiang leaned her face on Tang Ling's head, looking at the hazy countryside and fields outside the white gauze curtains, the overlapping mountains in the distance were like a huge cage, Qiao Lingxiang whispered softly in Tang Ling's ear, and her heart to leave became more determined.