Chapter 75: Is this something a merchant's daughter could do?

The webmaster no longer had his usual domineering attitude. He was at the mercy of others and had no time to care about anything else. He kept begging for mercy.

But Ruan Mian thought of the whip that hit Mei Xi. If she didn't hit back, how could she be worthy of Mei Xi who was so devoted to her?

So he whipped him without hesitation, one whip after another, until his skin was torn and flesh was exposed.

The webmaster was sweating all over from the pain. He went from begging for mercy to being angry to cursing, and finally he was back to licking that face and crying and begging.

But Ruan Mian turned a deaf ear to him. Seeing that he had little strength left, he threw away the whip and looked at the people huddled in the corner.

Ruan Mian turned and walked to the empty house next door, took out some dry food and money from the space, and handed them all to them.

"You guys go, it's not advisable to stay here for long, leave as soon as possible."

The group of civilians didn't expect that the woman was here to save them. After a slight pause, they quickly knelt down to her in gratitude.

"Miss, thank you so much for saving my life!! Miss..."

Before they could finish speaking, Ruan Mian had already turned around and left the stable.

Those refugees finally had a way out. They were originally the lower-class working people of Runing. They were captured here for no reason and forced to do hard labor. They had no way to appeal and were beaten for a long time in vain.

Now that they could vent their anger, they picked up stones, mud, broken tables, and even some horse manure from outside and threw them at the stationmaster!

Unable to vent their anger yet, they want to vent all the anger they feel for the innocent beatings they suffered during this period.

So in the small stable, only the stationmaster howled in pain, but these sounds had long been drowned out by the chaos outside the post station...

On the other side, Qi Nanfeng was trapped in the house and felt dizzy. The fire outside was raging everywhere and heat waves were rolling in. He looked at the beams and tiles outside the house falling one after another and became more and more panicked.

The whole family was so scared that they screamed, but for some reason their heads felt dizzy and they had no strength at all.

Qi Nanfeng went to open the window, but found that the doors and windows were sealed from the outside.

At that moment he was extremely shocked, and later realized that those people would not even let him go, and wanted him and Ruan Mian to die together without a burial place!

Qi Nanfeng knew about their plan to silence him today, but since he was the princess's man, those people would never hurt him.

But I didn’t expect... they were so ruthless!

He kicked the door desperately in panic, and Liu dragged her heavy body to grab his arm.

"Nanfeng, Nanfeng, what's going on? Quickly take me away from here! I don't want to die!"

Qi Nanfeng held on to that strength and saw a beam in front of him being burned and falling. He was so scared that he jumped back immediately. The wooden door was actually burned through.

There was still a flame burning nearby, and one of the women was hit by the beam and screamed, "Help! Young Master, help!"

But Qi Nanfeng didn't even bother to look at them, not even caring about his own mother, and rushed out of the house towards the flames! !

"Nanfeng!"

Liu was shocked and her heart sank to the bottom.

Other difficulties along the way did not kill her, but her two children made her experience the ups and downs of life, feeling both desperate and heartbroken.

She was unwilling to die here, so she followed Qi Nanfeng's example and rushed out of the sea of ​​fire regardless of everything.

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Outside the post station, servants and soldiers were all working to put out the fire, and the convicts who had escaped from inside were also being dragged along to put out the fire.

Ruan Mian first settled his family down, and only after seeing that no one was injured did he go to check the situation.

Qi Nanfeng and his mother also ran out, but unfortunately Liu's face was burned black, her hair was messy and loose, a lot of her hair was burned, and even her eyebrows were gone.

They were in as much of a mess as they could be, not to mention Qi Nanfeng, who didn't even have a single good piece of clothing, looking like a beggar.

Ruan Mian was about to step forward when he suddenly saw Minister Dong in the dark.

She hurried over to Minister Dong and asked in a low voice.

"Minister Dong, is everything settled inside?"

Minister Dong looked at her twice more, and at this moment, a familiar voice came from behind them.

"Master! The master was attacked and injured. Please go and take a look at him quickly."

Upon hearing this, Minister Dong's face suddenly changed, and Ruan Mian also looked over and found that the man looked very familiar.

Looking closely, isn't this the young man he rescued in the Colosseum?

But there was no time to ask in detail. She looked at Minister Dong and said, "Take me to see Master Xie. I can treat him."

Minister Dong didn't even think twice and decided to lead Ruan Mian away into the dark.

Everyone at the post station was putting out the fire, and with his elder brother and the others taking care of them, Ruan Mian was not worried.

On the contrary, how come Lord Xie was ambushed?

She quickly walked back to her family, gave Cuizhu and her elder brother a brief explanation, then picked up a bag and put it on her back.

She followed Minister Dong to a dilapidated house with hollow eaves.

The door creaked open, and a figure was seen lying on the ground, motionless.

Minister Dong and the young man turned pale, and they immediately ran over and shouted, "Sir!"

Ruan Mian took out a lighter and lit it.

When the room was illuminated, they discovered that Xie Huaian had fallen in a pool of blood.

He had been stabbed on the back and even tying it tightly with a cloth strip couldn't stop the bleeding.

Seeing this, Ruan Mian hurriedly asked Minister Dong and the other two to go outside to boil some hot water and then get a clean handkerchief or towel.

While no one was around, she took advantage of the situation, put on the jade bracelet, entered the space to get some painkillers, and also exchanged them for some antibiotics and saline solution.

However, there are no modern suture needles and thread here. Fortunately, there were some wound medicines in the Xuanjia Army’s warehouse when they were emptied last time, including needles and mulberry bark thread for suturing wounds from this dynasty.

She carefully lifted Xie Huaian up, helped him take off his shirt, and used the bottle of saline solution to clean his wound.

The pain sobered him up a little, and his slightly haggard face only raised his eyebrows slightly.

Seeing that he was able to endure it, Ruan Mian couldn't help but remind him: "If you can't bear the pain when you sew it up later, you can scream at any time. There is no need to force it."

She spread out the cowhide, washed her hands, took out the needle and thread, and sterilized them by heating them over the flame. Then she came behind him and sewed up the wound bit by bit in the dim light.

Xie Huaian said nothing, but cold sweat had already seeped out of his shoulders and back.

Ruan Mian sped up, and after finishing, she actually saw a smile on the corner of his lips.

She was slightly stunned: "Your Excellency has a really good attitude."

Xie Huaian looked over with clear eyes, staring at her closely, as if he wanted to see through her.

As the candlelight flickered, he asked her in a hoarse voice, "Madam Ruan...who is she?"

Hearing this, Ruan Mian answered while bandaging him.

"My daughter is Ruan Mian, the daughter of Ruan, a merchant family in Beijing. My brother is Ruan Qingsong, an editor at the Imperial Academy."

This was the first sentence she said when she came to find me.

It is still the same sentence today.

Xie Huaian looked away and spoke to himself.

"You asked the Minister to deliver a message to me, and then had someone give me the intelligence department of Dong Jun's men. Later, you even sent your guards to deliver the list of corrupt officials and the account books on your behalf. Do you think a merchant's daughter would do this?"