Yingbao dragged Jiang Wu to the shore, while Jiang Wu still held Xubao's collar tightly in his hand.
Just like that, Yingbao finally dragged them to the shore, and several people on the shore worked together to pull the three of them up.
Chunniang rushed over after hearing the news, hugged Yingbao, opened the collar of her cotton coat and put her daughter in it to warm her, and with the help of others, quickly stripped off her son's wet cotton coat.
Chunniang held the two children tightly in her arms and ran home quickly.
Erni also picked up Xubao and followed closely behind Aunt San.
While crying, Chen Zhao picked up Yingbao and her brother's cotton coats and trousers and put them in the backpack, then followed Erni to Yingbao's home.
Chunniang placed her daughter and son on the kang, covered them tightly with a quilt, and hurriedly stuffed a lot of hay balls into the kang hole and set them on fire.
Then go to the kitchen to boil water and make ginger tea for the children.
Yingbao curled up in the quilt for a while before she warmed up.
He touched Jiang Wu next to him, stuffed a piece of Wudingzhi into his mouth, and asked in a low voice: "How did you and Xubao fall into the water?"
Jiang Wu's teeth were still chattering, and after a long while he said, "It was his stepmother who kicked him down..."
"Kick him off? Why?"
"I don't know. I was practicing running when I saw Xu Bao following me. When he passed the pond, his stepmother kicked him into the water."
Yingbao: "Who else saw this?"
"Granny Wang and an aunt also saw it. They just happened to come over." Jiang Wu said: "Then Xu Bao's stepmother ran away."
Yingbao's face darkened.
I didn't expect Chu Man to be so vicious. Kicking a two-year-old child into the water in such cold weather, is that something a human being would do
Although Yingbao doesn't like Xubao very much, he is still just a little kid who doesn't know anything.
Without Han's pampering in this life, Xu Bao's personality is relatively normal. Like other children in the village, he is not very annoying.
Jiang Wu gradually recovered and quietly asked his sister: "Will Xu Bao die?"
Yingbao: "No, he's just cold. He'll be fine after he warms up." Fortunately, both children were wearing thick cotton clothes and only floated on the water for a while. If they sank and drank a belly full of water, even a great immortal could not have saved them.
At this time, Xu Bao was also stripped of his clothes and stuffed naked into the quilt on the kang.
His eyes were closed and his face was pale, obviously he was severely frozen.
Chen Zhao cried and hiccuped, rubbing Xu Bao's little face and hands over and over again: "Brother! Brother! Wake up."
After a while, Chen Fengshi, her eldest granddaughter Chen Wan, and her husband Chen Laoshuan also came running over. Seeing her grandson in such a state, Chen Fengshi rushed over, hugged Xu Bao and started crying.
"My precious child, it's all because of that damned vicious woman! How dare she harm you! I will avenge you when I get back."
Chen Laoshuan frowned, "That's enough! She didn't mean it. Why are you howling so loudly? Go find Wu Si and take a look."
Wu Si was the barefoot doctor in the village and the husband of the midwife Aunt Wu Si, who had some knowledge of medicine.
Only then did Chen Feng let go of Xu Bao and quickly asked her eldest granddaughter to look for Wu Si.
It turned out that after Chu Man kicked Xu Bao, she ran home in a panic and hid in the house, not daring to show her head.
Just as Chen Feng was about to ask her where she had thrown the rice basket, a villager came running to tell her that Xubao had been kicked into the water by his stepmother, but luckily was rescued by Jiang's children and was now being kept in Jiang's bed.
Chen Feng was furious at that moment and ran into Chu Man's room, pulling her hair and slapping her.
Chu Man cried and said that it was not intentional, Xu Bao fell into the water accidentally.
Chen Fengshi refused to believe it, and she beat and kicked Chu Man, cursing, "Normally you pinched and pinched him, and I thought you were just disciplining the child, but today you dared to kill him, you vicious woman! If anything happens to Xu Bao, I will never forgive you!"
Chu Man knew that she had done something wrong and dared not talk back, let alone fight back. She just covered her head with the quilt, but in her heart she hated the old woman of the Chen family and Chen Changping's children.
Especially that Chen Zhao. After causing her to have a miscarriage, the old woman just said a few words to her indifferently and didn't even slap her in the face. This made Chu Man very angry.
For this reason, Chu Man ran back to her parents' home to complain to her parents. However, when her parents came to seek an explanation, Chen Laoshuan's family turned around and accused her of not being pregnant at all, but just having her period.
Chu Man was furious, but she couldn't prove that she had ever been pregnant.
Out of respect for Chen Changping, a scholar, her parents did not pursue the matter too much and just said a few words before going home.
Chu Man was almost angry to death and had quarrels with her husband several times, but her husband did not speak up for her and told her to stop making trouble.
Later, her husband went to the county town to study, and Chu Man wanted to go with him, but she was unable to do so.
Today, the old woman asked her to wash rice again. The water was so cold that her hands were numb.
The old woman was deliberately torturing her. The more Chu Man thought about it, the angrier she became. Suddenly, she saw that brat Chen Changping also came to the pond, probably wanting to play with the Jiang family's children.
New and old grudges surged into Chu Man's mind, and in a fit of rage, she kicked him into the pond.
After kicking it, he saw someone else nearby and was immediately terrified. He dropped the rice basket and ran back home...
That's roughly what happened.
Chen Laoshuan was afraid that his wife would beat him too hard and that the in-laws would become his enemies, so he quickly pulled his wife away.
Chen Feng was so angry that she scratched the old man's face.
Her grandson almost died, but the old man acted as if nothing had happened and even helped the evildoers.
In the end, it was Chen Wan who pulled her grandparents aside, and the three of them rushed to the Jiang family.
At this moment, Yingbao was also lying naked in the warm bed. Seeing a room full of people crowded together and making a lot of noise, she couldn't help but feel upset.
He covered his head with the quilt, quietly took out a set of clothes from the cave and put them on, only then did he feel relieved.
She is seven years old and cannot be seen naked in public.
Jiang Wu had fully recovered, but he had already fallen asleep in the warm bed.
Yingbao got up, pretended to take out a small porcelain bottle from the box, pinched Xubao's mouth open and poured the wine into it.
Afterwards, in full view of everyone, he got off the kang and lay down in his room.
She slept until the evening, and Chunniang came to call her daughter to get up and eat, and Yingbao crawled out of the quilt.
"Mom, how is my brother?" she asked.
Chunniang picked up a new cotton coat and put it on her daughter: "Your brother is fine. Xubao is awake too. The Chen family took him back home. His family also sent a basket of eggs to thank you for saving his life."
Yingbao stretched out her arms to ask her mother to help her put on her clothes, and asked, "Where is our Xiaohei?"
Xiao Hei also jumped into the water when she did, but he wasn't as fast as her.
Later she was pulled up and her whole body was numb from the cold, so she didn't pay any attention to it.
"Xiaohei is fine. He went out for a walk with Dahuang." Chunniang buttoned her daughter's collar, asked her to sit on the edge of the kang, and went to get shoes for her daughter.
Yingbao was shaking her feet, thinking about something.
The notebook in her head seemed to reappear, constantly showing her new content.
I just slept and spent most of my time dreaming. In the dream, the heroine returned to Qinchuan County and entered the county medical department and became a medical student there.
Not only that, Yingbao will also be recruited into the county medical department to study medicine with the heroine.
This is strange. The Imperial Medical Office in the capital also recruits medical students. Why would the heroine come to Qinchuan County instead of going there
Moreover, she didn't want to go to the county medical office at all, and she didn't want to be classmates with the heroine.
I have money, a house, and a carriage. Isn't it good to be free? Why should I be subject to such constraints