Shen Ruolan gasped!
Want a child's hand!
This is too cruel!
She clenched her fists, quickly glanced at four or five big men, and calculated the odds of winning with her hands, but finally found out sadly that she might have no chance of winning at all!
Although her body has recovered now, she is only a fourteen-year-old girl with limited physical strength. Even if she has the kung fu to deal with these four or five middle-aged men, she can handle two or three at most. One, the extra two are enough to kill her.
She is a rational person, she will not do unsure things, even if she feels sorry for the child, she will not rush forward desperately.
Since you can't beat it, you have to find another way.
"Brother, do you think this is okay? If you let this child go, I will give you ten taels of silver." Shen Ruolan took out her purse from her bosom, and took out an ingot weighing twelve taels of silver.
Although these few people are well dressed, they are not very rich, and they don't even have a servant to serve them. The ten taels of silver is not a small amount, and it should be able to impress them.
really
Seeing the silver in Shen Ruolan's hands, the men's eyes lit up immediately, and the hostility on their faces was wiped away, and the bearded man even grinned: "Forget it, for the sake of the silver, Let us brothers spare this little thief!"
After speaking, he stepped forward, snatched the money from Shen Ruolan's hand, and greeted the others: "Haha, I got a bet out of thin air, let's go and drink flower wine—"
The others also followed the whiskers away with a smile on their faces.
As soon as the person left, Shen Ruolan hurried forward to check on the child, but saw that the boy was curled up motionless with blood on his face, and had passed out.
Seeing him like this, Shen Ruolan felt pain in her heart, and she wanted to hold him in her arms and cry for a while. She stroked his head lovingly, stood up again, and asked the passers-by on the road for help: "Everyone , who knows where there is a better medical clinic nearby, please someone can help me send this child to the medical clinic."
An old man in his fifties came over and said, "Girl, this street is not far to the south, and it is the best Bao'antang Medical Center in Qingzhou. How about I help you send this child there."
"Thank you, sir, you are such a good person!" When Shen Ruolan saw that someone was willing to help her, she hurriedly thanked her, almost tearing up with gratitude.
The uncle stepped forward, picked up the boy, and said with a smile: "Aren't you kind-hearted? You are willing to give up ten taels of silver for the little beggar. If you don't call me, the little beggar will probably want it today." Disabled, the kindness of the girl will be rewarded."
Shen Ruolan didn't expect any good rewards, she just followed her heart to do things. At that time, she had only one thought in her heart - to save this child, she must save it, not to mention giving out ten taels of silver, but a hundred taels of silver She wants to save one thousand taels!
The uncle helped Shen Ruolan send the boy to Baoantang Medical Center.
At that time, the medical clinic will be closed, Shen Ruolan hurriedly stopped the doctor who was going home from get off work, and asked him to show the child.
For the cost of the consultation, the doctor carefully examined the child and confirmed that the child was only injured on the skin. Although it looked serious, it actually did not hurt the internal organs and bones, and it was not serious.
Shen Ruolan couldn't believe it: "Since no internal organs were injured, why are you still awake?"
The doctor said: "Nine times out of ten, I was hungry. In addition to being beaten, I fainted from hunger and fright!"
Hearing this, Shen Ruolan felt distressed again. The child was so hungry and beaten so badly. If his parents knew about it, how distressed he would be!
She arranged for the child to stay in the hospital, and gave a clerk some money to go out and buy some steamed buns and rice porridge for the child.
The child has been hungry for so long, so he needs to eat some light food first, and it is just right to eat steamed buns and rice porridge.
After the buddy left, Shen Ruolan fetched a basin of water to help wash the blood on the boy's face. The boy's face was very small, so he washed it off in a few strokes, and a bruised little face appeared in front of her.
Thin, yellowish, already swollen and out of shape, his closed eyes are blue and purple, I don't know whether he was punched or kicked by those beasts, his face is also swollen like a steamed stuffed bun Yes, the lip is broken, and the nose is still bleeding...
This miserable scene made Shen Ruolan's heart stabbed like a knife!
It hurts, it hurts!
It hurts so much that she can't wait to go back and beat those bastards. Even if they can't beat them, she still wants to go back and fight. They all shoot into hedgehogs, no, shoot into eunuchs...
Before she knew it, Shen Ruolan's eye circles were red, she sniffed, took out the ointment prescribed by the doctor, and carefully rubbed it on for him...
When she wiped her hands, she found that the child's hands were seriously injured. It may have been kicked by the beasts while holding his head. Several large pieces of skin were lost from his dry little hands, revealing the flesh and tendons inside. Already, it looks stunning!
Shen Ruolan's heart was stabbed fiercely again, and tears fell down. For some reason, she just felt sorry for the child, so much that she wished she could hold him and cry bitterly.
She raised her sleeve and wiped her eyes, then gently applied medicine and bandaged his little hands.
"Sister... is that you?"
The voice of Qiruoyousong came intermittently, as if it came from another time and space.
Shen Ruolan raised her eyes, and saw that the boy had already woken up, with his swollen eyes slightly open, staring at her intently.
Shen Ruolan was overjoyed: "Great, you woke up, is there any other discomfort? Does your stomach hurt? Does your headache hurt..."
"Are you... my sister?" The boy stubbornly asked again as if he hadn't heard her question.
Shen Ruolan froze for a moment: "Oh, you can call me sister."
"So, you are really my sister!"
The boy laughed happily. As soon as he grinned, the wound was torn. The pain made him unable to continue laughing halfway through the smile. "Hiss—" He gasped, with a painful expression on his face.
Shen Ruolan hurriedly said: "You are hurt, don't talk or laugh, it will be bad if you touch the wound."
The boy shook his head lightly, "Zhu'er doesn't hurt, it doesn't hurt when I see my sister Zhu'er, don't worry, sister."
Shen Ruolan smiled softly, and said angrily, "Silly boy, you've been beaten like this, it doesn't hurt, it hurts so stupid!"
"Zhu'er is not stupid, Zhu'er still knows my sister... Sister, Zhu'er has been looking for you so hard..." The boy suddenly cried, and big drops of tears rolled out of his eyes, crying extremely wronged.
"Don't cry, don't cry, the medicine is spent crying..."
Shen Ruolan was afraid that the tears would soak the wound, so she hurriedly pulled out the veil, wiped his eyes carefully, seeing his wronged look, she felt sore in her heart, and wanted to cry with him.
"Sister, mother and Ju'er are still in the chicken feather shop. Mother is sick, we have no money to see a doctor, and we have no money to eat..." The boy was still crying, crying more and more fiercely, as if to make this paragraph The grievances and pain accumulated over time seemed to be crying out.
Although Shen Ruolan didn't understand his inexplicable words, but seeing him crying so fiercely, she coaxed without thinking: "It's okay, I have a sister, and my sister will help your mother treat her illness. Don't be afraid, my sister has money."
"Well, Zhu'er won't be afraid if she finds her sister..."
Zhu'er gradually stopped crying, took Shen Ruolan's hand and pressed it against his little face, lovingly: "Sister, I finally found you, Zhu'er is no longer afraid of you, by the way, go quickly and get your mother Ju'er also pick it up, my mother is very sick and can't stand up, Ju'er is also sick, they haven't eaten for several days... "
He couldn't go on, choked up and cried again.
Shen Ruolan hugged him distressedly, and patted his back lightly, "Don't be afraid, which chicken feather shop are they in, my sister will help you pick them up."
"The one in the alley at the corner of Jinyu Street in the south of the city..."
"Okay, okay, you wait, sister will help you pick them up, don't be afraid..."
Shen Ruolan comforted him, entrusted him to another clerk in the clinic, and went out to pick up Zhu'er's mother and sister.
After going out, it was already dark, and a gust of cold wind blew in, Shen Ruolan's mind was cleared up a lot.
She suddenly discovered that she had become so nosy and sentimental without knowing it!
A little boy who had never met before could so easily touch her heart and affect her emotions, making her agree to his request without thinking. Even if the request was unreasonable, she readily accepted it. Accepted without hesitation!
This—probably the so-called fate.
Although she didn't like how easily she was influenced, she still went to the south of the city. She didn't want Zhu'er to be disappointed, and also wanted to help them for no reason...
Jinyu Street in the south of Qingzhou City is a narrow and dilapidated street. The shops on both sides of the street are all low-end shops, such as those who play cotton, repair pots and pans, sell second-hand goods, and do pedicures...
The whole street is filled with a dilapidated smell.
Shen Ruolan asked the driver to park the car at the corner of the street. Taking advantage of the dim light from the lanterns hanging outside the shop, she walked into the alley at the corner of the street. After walking not far, she saw a feather shop with a feather duster.
The so-called chicken feather shop is a kind of cheap inn opened for the poor. The accommodation only costs one or two pennies. There are no beds, no kang, no bedding in the inn, let alone tea and charcoal basins. There is only a room full of chicken feathers. After the guests moved in, they got into the pile of chicken feathers to sleep. The smelly chicken feathers were used as both a quilt and a mattress. Although they would not freeze to death, the smelly chicken feathers on the hard ground are definitely a must for the residents. A kind of torture.
When Shen Ruolan saw that Xiao Zhu'er lived in such a place, she twitched in distress, stepped forward and knocked on the door "dang dang dang".
"Who is it!" The door opened, and a woman in her forties came out with a disheveled head, held a lantern and looked at Shen Ruolan, and asked hesitantly, "Stay in a hotel?"
Shen Ruolan was well dressed, she didn't look like someone who lived in this kind of place, so the woman kept blocking the door and didn't welcome her in directly.
Shen Ruolan shook her head: "I don't live in the shop, I'm looking for someone."
"Who are you looking for?"
As soon as she couldn't listen to the store, the woman's tone changed, and she seemed a little impatient.
Shen Ruolan thought about it for a while, and said, "Ju'er, Zhu'er's younger sister, and their mother."
"No, no, go, go!"
The woman was probably afraid that Shen Ruolan would take away the customers in her shop and she would have no money to make, so she yelled loudly and turned around to close the door.
"Wait a moment!"
Shen Ruolan stretched out her foot and blocked the door. She took a handful of copper coins, weighed them in her hands, and said with a smile, "What about this time?"
When the woman saw a large handful of copper coins, her cold face was filled with a smile, as if she had changed her face: "Yes, yes, girl, wait, I will go and call you."
He spoke, but his feet didn't move, his eyes stared straight at the copper coin in Shen Ruolan's hand, with a salivating smile on his face.
Shen Ruolan understood what she meant, and casually gave her the money, saying, "Lead me the way, I want to find them myself."
The woman took the money with a smile all over her face, and took Shen Ruolan to the backyard briskly.
"Here, it's in the west wing!"
The woman pointed to the dark west wing with her chin, and went back to the house with a lantern to count the money.
When Shen Ruolan walked to the door of the west wing, her heart beat wildly for no reason, as if she was very nervous, and she didn't know why.
She raised her hand and was about to knock on the door when suddenly there was a low sobbing sound, which was subdued and suppressed, and it made people feel distressed!
Fearing that something might happen, Shen Ruolan hurriedly knocked on the door, and said softly, "Is Ju'er at home?"
As soon as the words fell, the crying inside stopped abruptly. After a while, the door creaked open, and a girl about the size of Zhu'er poked her head out from inside, and asked timidly, "Who are you looking for?"
Shen Ruolan looked at this thin daughter, her heart softened, and she said: "You are Ju'er, I am your brother's friend, I will pick you up to find your brother."
Ju'er looked at the big sister in front of her. It was too dark, she couldn't see what the big sister looked like, but the voice of the big sister was very gentle, which made people feel at ease inexplicably.
"Big sister, where is my brother? Why didn't he come back? Why did you ask you to pick us up? Where are you going to pick us up?"
Ju'er asked in a loud voice, quite vigilant.
Shen Ruolan said softly: "Your brother is injured a little bit, but don't be afraid, he is not seriously injured, and I have already arranged for him to stay in the hospital. Now I will take you to find him."
When Ju'er heard that her brother was injured, she immediately became anxious, "Sister, tell me the truth, is my brother seriously injured? If he is not seriously injured, he will definitely come back to look for us, sister, tell me quickly , what happened to my brother?"
Shen Ruolan touched her little disheveled head, and said: "It's really not heavy, but I'm so hungry that I can't walk anymore. The doctor told me to take a good rest, so I left him and came to pick you up in person."
"Are you hungry? Brother, he said yesterday that he ate something? How could he be too hungry to walk?" Ju'er murmured, and suddenly realized: "It must be that he didn't eat and lied to us..."
Shen Ruolan said softly: "Did I lie to you? After a while you pass by and ask him if he is okay. The carriage is still waiting. Where is your mother? Let's help her to the carriage and let the doctor in the hospital Give it a good look, okay?"
Ju'er sniffled: "Okay, then thank you sister."
Shen Ruolan entered the room, the room was cold, and there was no light, only a stinky smell of chicken feathers.
With Ju'er's help, Shen Ruolan helped a scrawny woman up from a pile of chicken feathers, and carried her on her back.
The woman was very thin, as thin as a handful of bones, even Shen Ruolan's physique could easily carry her on her back.
"Ju'er, take your things and let's go."
Ju'er said softly: "We have nothing left, we sold everything we could sell, and we used the rest to pay the hostess of the inn for the accommodation fee."
Shen Ruolan sighed, "Then let's go!"
The two walked out quietly. Outside, the hired carriage was still waiting there. Shen Ruolan carefully got into the carriage with Ju Erniang on her back.
When they got to the car, they put Ju Erniang down. There was a dim oil lamp in the car. Shen Ruolan looked at the unconscious Ju Erniang: emaciated and haggard, she looked as if the lamp had run out of oil.
Also, there was a somewhat familiar feeling on that haggard face, as if she had seen her somewhere.
"Sister, can you really ask a doctor for my mother?" Ju'er, who came up afterward, asked softly.
Shen Ruolan turned her face away, and was about to answer, but was stunned when she saw her face clearly.
If this comatose woman is familiar to her, then this chrysanthemum is extremely familiar to her—this little girl actually has a face that is highly similar to her own, so similar that even she herself is not familiar with it. Shocked.
At this moment, Ju'er also saw her face, and was also stunned, "Sister, you look just like my mother!"
Shen Ruolan twitched the corners of her mouth, "But I think I'm more like you." The two of them are about the same age, and they look more similar than that woman.
Ju'er is not very familiar with her own appearance. Her family is poor and has no money to buy a mirror. Sometimes she will take a picture of herself in the washbasin or the stream, but she can't see clearly. She just knows that she is tall. It's not ugly, that's all.
Now, this elder sister actually said that she looks like her, and this elder sister is so beautiful and gentle, which made her forget her sadness for a moment, and laughed happily.
Shen Ruolan looked at this familiar little face, and thought of the names of Zhu'er and Ju'er, and suddenly had a crazy idea. She swallowed, and said, "Ju'er, what...is your last name?"