Chapter 87: 一根绳上的蚂蚱
[A grasshopper on a rope]
The door was open, and the cold wind that scurried in made Li Haitang wake up, and the top priority job was to treat Xiao Taohong’s wound.
Because of the previous shoulder injury, there is a good hemostatic medicine at home. She crudely peeled off Xiaotaohong’s shirt and almost sprayed a mouthful of old blood.
God is unfair, what did this guy eat to grow up, his skin is fairer than a woman’s, tender and smooth! Just below the ribs, a narrow wound that ruined the beauty, shocking to the eyes.
“Little Haitang, when I get better, I’ll let you do whatever you want.”
After a short period of dizziness, Little Peach Blossom opened his eyes, seeing that his upper body was not covered by a single piece of clothing, he playfully flirted, “You want to do it now, you’re not that beastly, are you?”
“Go, go, go, I’m Haitang, not Peach Blossom.”
Li Haitang was despised, she looked over the wound and felt that Little Peach Blossom was lucky to be alive right now.
The wound must stop bleeding and be medicated immediately, could not be delay more, moreover she had an idea.
“Xiao Haitang, don’t let me down.”
Little Peach Blossom spoke in a cloudy manner, but if you listened carefully, the words were mixed with gloom. He was now seriously injured, it didn’t mean he lost the ability to move, as long as he wanted to solve a person, a single finger could do it.
“You bumped into it yourself, I can’t run away anyway.”
Li Haitang shook her head, she had no choice, she might as well heal Little Red Peach’s injuries and make herself somewhat useful.
After all was said and done, it was all because she was unlucky and miserable!
Dequan class is so hot in the Capital, and like a money tree, behind this, there is no backer? There are backers, officials and even the royal family, since ancient times, the messy dirty things are still less?
Anyway, the more you know, the faster you die, Li Haitang can only play dumb.
“He Fang used your prescription, from originally coughing up blood night after night, to now sleeping peacefully, I am more curious about your identity.”
Little Red Peach curled up the corner of her mouth and continued, “So I investigated you, and this investigation really let me find out a lot of interesting things.”
Li Haitang was speechless, concentrating on sterilising Little Red Peach, not listening clearly to what he was saying at all.
This was the prudence of being a healer, everything was based on the premise of saving lives and helping the injured. Li Haitang seemed to have returned to the days of her previous life in the hospital, and Little Peach Red, in front of her, was no different, just an ordinary injured person.
Xiao Taohong waited for a long time and did not hear the latter, he lowered his head and saw Li Haitang concentrating on treating his wounds.
Every action, as if she had done it a thousand times, she was fully concentrated and turned a deaf ear to his words.
Xiao Tao Hong checked Li Haitang, in fact, no need to check, he also knows that Li Haitang’s mother Ruan, is the Ruan, daughter from a rich family who stirred up the capital in that year.
Ruan, a young miss who ran away from the marriage. The capital was in an uproar, Lord Ruan (Ruan’s father) was so angry that he was sick for a while, and declared to the public that his daughter had died of an acute illness.
Moreover, not only that, Li Haitang is not the daughter of Li Dahe, the village man, she could have had a perfect and flawless birth, golden, but unfortunately …
What would she be like if she were to learn that she was a golden lady? Would it be the same as those ladies in the capital?
Xiaotao Hong unconsciously drifted away in his thoughts, until the pain of the needle in his wound pulled him back to his thoughts.
“What are you doing?”
Once he looked down, Little Tao Hong realised that he was really feeling not bad, Li Haitang was sticking a needle into his wound.
“Stitching, you turn sideways, don’t block the light.”
Li Haitang couldn’t find a suitable needle and thread, so she used her own hair, first stitching the wound to stop the bleeding, otherwise if it flowed like this, the person would be finished.
Little Red Peach didn’t wrong her, even if he was a friend or a stranger, she didn’t want him to die.
“Sewing? You think it’s a woman embroidering?”
Little Peach Blossom does not know whether to laugh or cry, where did this all come from to study the crooked ways (dishonest practices)? But seeing that she was incredibly serious, he couldn’t even say anything to stop it.
“Shut up!”
The patient was too noisy, Li Haitang had no patience, she seemed to have forgotten one thing, modern sutures are performed with anaesthesia, and here there is no anaesthesia, Little Peach Red endured great pain.
Outside the door, there was a sound of slamming, late at night, it was extraordinarily ear-piercing, the dogs in the city were frightened, one barked a few times, and then, almost the whole city’s dogs chimed in.
“They came to the door.”
Little Red Peach leaned lazily against the wall and raised an eyebrow, looking in no hurry at all, “Have you thought of a solution yet?”
For some reason, he just wanted to tease her, “If I get caught, you know the consequences, we’re (the grasshoppers) on the same rope.”
“Told you, I’m Haitang (begonia), you might as well be the grasshopper yourself!”
Li Haitang unhurriedly collected the needles, then sprinkled some medicinal powder and incense powder in the room, the two mixed to cover the smell of blood.
She found a bath tub and mixed cold and hot water, with a handful of flower petals sprinkled on top, waiting for someone to come to the door.
“Haitang, someone outside is knocking on the door and wants to come in and search!”
Second Aunt Chen gasped as she ran, she had just fallen and was covered in dirt, she pushed the door in and was shocked, “The official said that there’s a jiāng yáng dà dào (bandit name) in the city!”
Good bastard, the officials plus soldiers outside the door are at least thousands of people, in the end, how vicious is the bandit to attract so many people to come? They must be evil and have countless lives in their hands.
My family’s man hurt his leg, there is no one in charge of the family. Second, Auntie Chen is afraid. In case the bandits run to their house to hide, then what to do? Their whole family is only women and children!
“Auntie Chen, that sea-robber / infamous bandits, seeing so many people coming to catch him, said he would have run away.”
Li Haitang comforted Chen Er Aunt, let her go to the front to watch a bit, in case someone searches, her family must cooperate, she is now worried about the food in the kitchen, and the wild boar meat left by the savage husband, don’t let it spoiled!
Behind the door, Xiao Taohong’s face twitched, is Xiao Haitang stupid? When the fire burns one’s eyebrows (idiom); fig. desperate situation, he still thinks about that food of hers, he really has a wonderful base root, however, he likes it!
“Then that’s good.”
Second Aunt Chen was amused by Li Haitang, her nervousness and fear lessened by a few points, she rubbed her aching legs and was busy walking back again.
“Aiyoo, I say Little Red Peach, jiāng yáng dà dào (a notorious bandit leader), that’s a good nickname, imposing!”
Li Haitang hugged her own arms and leaned against the doorway, believing that those officials were definitely going to enter the door, and when they came, it would be too late for her to prepare.
“You’re not afraid?”
Xiaotao Hong drank a cup of water and ate cakes to replenish her strength, “You know, this concerns your life and mine.”
“Does being afraid help?”
Fear couldn’t solve anything, what was supposed to happen, was about to happen. The group of men arriving at the door, searching door to door, couldn’t change that.
“And you’re still so relaxed?”
Little Red Peach found that being with her was so restful that she talked a little more. In fact, everyone who had seen his body was dead, except for her.
His appearance, at a very young age, showed the difference, and those wretched and lewd old men, with half of their bodies inside the ground, still coaxed him to take off his clothes.
Little Red Peach hated his looks more than anyone else, and if he could, he would have been an ugly man, rather than be thought of all day long. The world loves his face, a hundred years later, he would also be a handful of dried bones, who really cares about him as a person? He did not know, perhaps, really no one would.