Chapter 3: The swallow returns to the nest. She will repay the kindness and revenge as well.
With Aqiao's suggestion, Jiang Tong actually dug a hole in the floor with his bare hands.
——That was obviously an exit secretly left in advance, leading directly to the canal below. Most of these gangsters would always leave a way out for themselves.
Seeing the fire growing bigger, Jiang Tong didn't dare to delay any longer. She dragged A Qiao and jumped into the cave.
And just a few breaths after the two of them submerged in the water, the entire attic collapsed.
When Jiang Tong was a child, he was a restless person. He often climbed trees to catch birds and went to rivers to catch fish. He was also a good swimmer.
She turned Aqiao over to face up, supported Aqiao's chin with one hand, and swam with the other hand.
There was such chaos on the shore that no one noticed two people drifting rapidly downstream.
When they were washed out of the city by the current, Jiang Tong finally gathered up some strength and climbed ashore with Aqiao on a gentle slope.
Once she reached the shore, she completely relaxed, squinting her eyes and just gasping for breath.
I don’t know how long it took, but Su Guanqing’s anxious shouts came from afar.
"戈戈! 戈戈!..."
The sound came from far away and soon moved towards Jiang Tong's direction.
Jiang Tong raised her eyelids, but she really didn't have the strength to speak.
Soon, Feng Fuliu's voice came over: "There you are! Why are you lying there motionless? Could you be dead?... Hey! Hey! Guan Qing, calm down!"
After hearing this, Jiang Tong finally struggled to get up from the ground and looked at the bank.
The road along the shore was complicated, with clumps of weeds, some taller than a person, and jagged, sharp rocks. The dirt road and the riverbed were several feet apart in height.
Su Guanqing couldn't see, so he had to use his hands and feet to climb down the dirt road and rush towards Jiang Tong.
When Jiang Tong got up, he saw Su Guanqing stepping into the wet mud on the shore, pulling himself out with difficulty, rushing towards him, and then falling into another quagmire.
Jiang Tong was stunned for a moment. In her impression, Su Guanqing had always been a gentleman, well-behaved and measured in his actions. She had never seen him act so recklessly.
"Guanqing, don't worry, I'm fine." Jiang Tong quickly got up and rushed over to catch Su Guanqing. "How did you find me?"
Su Guanqing was held back by Jiang Tong. He wanted to explore, but he didn't dare to reach out. His eyes were already red. "Fu Liu said the attic fell into the canal, so I thought of looking for it downstream. Tongtong, are you okay?"
"I'm fine, but that person can't walk, and I can't carry him..."
Feng Fuliu flicked her sleeves and said, "We've already rescued him, why bother with him? Let him rest and walk on his own!"
Jiang Tong was still pulling Su Guanqing's sleeve: "I heard there are wolves in the suburbs. If we wait until dark, I'm afraid this person will not survive."
"No problem, I'll carry him." Su Guanqing felt the weight on his sleeves and shook his sleeves. "Show me the way. Where is that person?"
Feng Fuliu rolled his eyes and said nothing.
Over there, Jiang Tong was already pulling Su Guanqing towards A Qiao.
Together, the two of them helped Aqiao onto Su Guanqing's back.
I don’t know if it was because the medicine had taken effect, but Aqiao had already passed out.
Su Guanqing carried the person on his back, Jiang Tong held his bamboo stick in one hand and pulled his arm with the other, and the three of them walked towards the Jiang family covered in mud.
Feng Fuliu followed behind with an unhappy look on his face.
After entering the city and passing by a pharmacy, Jiang Tong asked a doctor to go home with him.
When they got home, the person who opened the door was a woman who was less than 40 years old. She had a face very similar to Jiang Tong's. However, unlike Jiang Tong, who always had a stubborn look between his eyebrows, the woman's facial features were softer and gentler.
It was Jiang Tong's mother, Zhong Wanci.
She was originally guarding the main room. When she heard the noise outside, she opened the door and saw several foreign men standing at the door. She was immediately startled.
Jiang Tong hurriedly went up to hold his mother, briefly explained the situation, and asked his mother to take the doctor to see her father first, while he took Su Guanqing to arrange for A Qiao.
The Jiang residence is no longer the large house covering an area of 100 acres with buildings and courtyards where Jiang Tong grew up.
That house was gambled away by Jiang Li at the end of last year, and now this small courtyard is only the size of a few rooms -
One main house was for her parents to live in, and she and Jiang Ming each had one of the two side rooms. There were only a study and a kitchen left, and there were no other rooms.
Jiang Tong asked Su Guanqing to put A Qiao in his room, and then went into his parents' bedroom.
Feng Fuliu was waiting in the yard. Seeing Su Guanqing approaching, he asked, "Who is that person?"
Su Guanqing shook his head.
"You don't know him?" Feng Fuliu was a little surprised. "You don't even know who he is, and you dare to save him? Aren't you afraid of getting into trouble?"
Su Guanqing said gently, "Saving a life is better than building a seven-story pagoda. Why bother about who he is?"
"Don't give me that. I don't know you. If Miss Jiang asked you to pick the moon for her, you would go! Maybe..." Feng Fuliu's eyes rolled around, "That person is an old acquaintance of Miss Jiang."
Su Guanqing said sternly, "Don't talk nonsense. Miss Jiang is just kind-hearted and can't bear to see someone die without helping."
"Humph, do you think I'm as stupid as you? I'm just doing a good deed, but you can carry someone home? And even give them your bed to sleep in?"
Su Guanqing was stunned for a moment: "Is that Miss Jiang's room?"
"Unless her brother also needs rouge and powder, then it's possible that it's his room," Feng Fuliu glanced at Su Guanqing, "You should be more careful. She treats the man she picked up better than you. I don't know what you're trying to do, and you foolishly helped him carry him here."
"What did I want?" Su Guanqing forced a smile and asked hesitantly, "What does that person look like?"
"What does he look like?" Feng Fuliu folded her arms. "He's a bit dark, after all, he works at the docks, but he's quite handsome. Judging from his figure, I think he's a martial artist."
The smile on Su Guanqing's face completely froze.
...Martial artist, what Tongtong despised most about herself was that she had never practiced martial arts. Did she really bring that man home because she liked him?
Su Guanqing clenched the bamboo stick in his hand, his fingertips dug into his palm, but he was completely unaware and just pursed his lips tightly.
Inside the room, the doctor was still seeing patients, and the mother and daughter didn't dare to disturb him.
Jiang Tong had not seen her parents for seventy years, so she was very excited when she first entered the family. However, she relied on her decades of experience and sophistication to hold on and not show any signs of it.
While the doctor was seeing the patient, she cast her gaze towards Zhong Wanci unscrupulously.
Zhong Wanci was staring at the doctor nervously, her delicate eyes were a little red and swollen, and it seemed that she had just cried in the house again.
Compared to Jiang Tong, who has been willful and rebellious since childhood, Zhong Wanci has always been law-abiding. She was an obedient daughter before she got married and a docile wife after she got married.
She had never seen the outside world, and her backbone all her life had been on others. But now, her backbone had collapsed, and she didn't know how panicked she was during this period.
Jiang Tong couldn't help but reach out and gently held his mother's hand, then gave a reassuring smile to his mother who looked back at him blankly.
At this time, the doctor has finished the examination and is ready to write a prescription.
Jiang Tong hurried over to help grind the ink. After the doctor finished writing the prescription, he asked, "Doctor Wang, is my father's condition serious?"
Jiang Tong's heart was in her throat. She remembered that her father had become ill because of Jiang Tong's anger before he moved in. It had been dragging on for so long, and she didn't know if it was too late to treat him.
The old doctor spoke calmly, "Young lady, there's no need to worry. Your father is suffering from chest congestion and can't recover for a while. Take the medicine I prescribed to drain the congestion out of his body and he'll be fine. But don't take the previous prescription again."
"The previous recipe?"
"From my observation of his pulse, I found that there are still some medicines such as aconite and asarum in your father's body. These medicines are not suitable for your condition and are poisonous. They can cause coma at the very least and death at the worst. Fortunately, your father did not take too much, so there are not many left in his body. After drinking my medicine, he will wake up in a few days." The old doctor's indifferent expression revealed a hint of anger, and he seemed to be cursing in his heart which quack doctor was misleading people.
This medicine sounded strange, and Jiang Tong was suspicious. However, it had been seventy years since the incident, and she really couldn't remember what her father's medicine was. It was not convenient for her to delve into it. She just took the prescription and asked the doctor to feel Aqiao's pulse before sending the doctor out.
After that, she was going to get some medicine, and Su Guanqing, covered in mud, was going to follow Feng Fuliu back to the compound.
Su Guanqing still remembered that Jiang Tong came to him to borrow money today. Before they parted, he stuffed all the money he had on him into Jiang Tong.
Feng Fuliu looked disconsolate and turned his head away.
"You gave it all to me, won't you keep some for yourself?" Jiang Tong asked.
Su Guanqing just smiled gently: "There is food and shelter in the class, so it's useless for me to save money."
People say that Jiang Taidou, who works in the restoration business, has always had steady hands and an even steadier heart. Decades of experience have already made her have a heart that can remain calm even when faced with a mountain collapse. Nothing can stir up the slightest ripple in her heart.
But at this moment, as she held the pile of scattered copper coins, her heart couldn't help but ache, and something in her eyes seemed to be about to burst out.
"Wait for me, I will try to take you home." After Jiang Tong said this, she turned around and left, so she did not see Su Guanqing's eyes lighting up because of her words. Just as she remembered, like the moon reflected in glass, full of starlight.
Of course, I didn’t see Feng Fuliu rolling his eyes to the sky.
As she walked along the road, Jiang Tong's emotions began to surge again. She had already saved Ah Qiao and her father, so she was sure she could save Guan Qing as well.
This time, she will not let the tragedy happen again. While there is still time, she will repay the kindness and revenge.
Whether they are relatives, benefactors, or friends, she will protect them well.
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Jiang Tong accompanied her mother and struggled to give her unconscious father some medicine, and then asked in detail about his previous medication history.
The situation was similar to her memory. Ever since the move, she had repeatedly asked her stepbrother to call a doctor and buy medicine, but he always refused. It turned out that her father had been without medicine for a long time. Even her mother didn't know what medicine her father had taken before he fell unconscious, so the prescription and the medicine residue were naturally nowhere to be found.
Jiang Tong couldn't get any information out of the question, so he just gave up.
When she returned to her bedroom, night had already fallen and she was completely exhausted.
However, as soon as she stepped into the bedroom, she was stunned. The bed was empty and Aqiao, who was originally lying on the bed, had disappeared.
Her mind buzzed, and her first reaction was that Aqiao's enemies had followed and kidnapped him.
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