Fortunately, the girl fainted while standing up, and with Luo Yang's help, Xiao Yunying carried her to the house next door.
He helped her to the bedside, quickly made up the bedding, and touched the girl's clothes, which were already soaked and almost frozen. He then went back to his room to get clean undergarments and cotton clothes.
"Go and make brown sugar ginger tea with Luo Chen. I'll change her clothes."
After sending the boys away, Xiao Yunying changed the unconscious girl into clean undergarments, helped her sit up by the bed, dried her hair, helped her lie down, and covered her with a quilt.
Luo Xin stood by the bed and peered out, saying, "Mother, this older sister has so many injuries."
Xiao Yunying touched the girl's forehead and confirmed that she did have a fever.
"How did this girl end up at my house?"
When Xiao Yunying saw the whip marks all over the other woman's body, she took a closer look at her face and recognized her as the girl she had rescued from the bandit's den.
"Xin'er, you go back to your room and sleep first. Mother will stay here and take care of this older sister."
Luo Xin shook her head: "Xin'er isn't sleepy. I'll help Mother take care of my sister."
"Honey, go back to sleep. This girl has a high fever, and Mom has to stay with her to see when it breaks down. Otherwise, if the fever doesn't go down, it will damage her brain."
Luo Xin bit her lip and hesitated, "But I want to stay with my mother."
"You don't need to stay with your mother. You're still growing, and you won't grow tall if you don't sleep well."
Xiao Yunying glanced at the pitch-black night outside: "If you're scared, you can spend the night with your third brother, and sleep with your mother tomorrow, okay?"
"Alright, Mother, if you're tired, you can call Xin'er, and Xin'er will come to help."
"Okay, Mother understands."
Xiao Yunying led Luo Xin to Luo Li and then poured herself a pot of hot water.
Hot water had been boiling on the stove for a long time, and brown sugar ginger tea was soon served.
After telling the children to go back to sleep, Xiao Yunying took out some fever reducers and anti-inflammatory drugs from the pharmacy.
The people here had never taken pills before. Fearing that the girl might not be able to swallow them and they would get stuck in her throat, she crushed the pills into powder, dissolved them in a little warm water, and fed them to the girl.
It must have been a bit bitter, because the girl who drank it kept frowning even in her drowsy state.
"Drink it, you'll get better if you drink this."
Xiao Yunying wasn't sure if the other person could hear her, so she coaxed her like a child.
After feeding the girl the medicine, Xiao Yunying also gave her some brown sugar ginger tea. She then removed her inner garment and applied ointment to her whip wounds.
Although they were both women, this was the first time Xiao Yunying had touched a stranger's body, and she felt inexplicably shy.
They covered the girl's private parts, quickly applied medicine, put her in her undergarments, and covered her with a quilt.
I took a novel from the supermarket, lit two extra candles, and leaned against the bed to read the novel to pass the time.
After staying up until midnight, Xiao Yunying felt that the girl's forehead temperature had cooled down, and then she went back to her room to rest.
The next morning, Xiao Yunying got out of bed with a yawn and the first thing she did was to check on the girl's condition.
I touched her forehead and felt that her temperature wasn't too hot before I went to cook.
After sending the children to school, he came back and ground up some anti-inflammatory medicine, intending to give the girl the medicine again.
As they were feeding the medicine, the girl coughed and then opened her eyes shakily.
Xiao Yunying put down the bowl: "You're awake."
The girl recognized the person in front of her and softly called out, "My benefactor."
Realizing she was lying down, she blushed and burrowed her head under the covers.
Xiao Yunying pulled her blanket down a little: "What are you shy about? There are no outsiders here, just you and me."
Not wanting to be ignored, Luo Xin, who was playing with building blocks at the table, immediately said, "Me too."
Xiao Yunying replied dismissively to the little girl, "Yes, yes, and you too."
The girl peeked out, grabbed the blanket to cover herself completely from the neck down, and said blushingly, "My clothes..."
Xiao Yunying replied, "I changed your clothes, and I also applied medicine to your injuries. Did you come here to stay with relatives? How did you end up fainting at my doorstep?"
Upon hearing the first sentence, the girl still looked shy, but after hearing the second sentence, her face instantly turned pale.
"I...I came here specifically to find you, my benefactor..."
The voice grew softer and softer until Xiao Yunying listened carefully and could hear it clearly.
"Is there something you need from me?"
Could it be that her family saw the injuries on her body, thought she had been assaulted, and came to her to testify?
The girl bit her lip, got up from the bed, and knelt on the ground with her head down before Xiao Yunying could react.
"What are you doing? Let's talk this out. Get up."
Xiao Yunying tried to help her up, but the girl remained kneeling with her head down, crying out, "Please, benefactor, take me in."
Xiao Yunying tried to help him up but couldn't. She asked, "Didn't you find your way home? Or do you not have enough money? I can lend you some."
The girl replied, "My home is in a village near the west gate of the city, not far away."
Xiao Yunying didn't understand: "Since your home is so close, why don't you go home?"
Then, as if realizing something, he carefully chose his words and said, "Could it be that your injuries have caused your family to misunderstand?"
In this world, people believe that a woman's chastity is more important than her life. If her family also thinks so, then she has no way to survive.
The girl shook her head and said sadly, "My benefactor doesn't know, but I wasn't kidnapped. My family sold me to that bandit's den."
I didn't know at first. I thought it was just bad luck that I was kidnapped by bandits in an empty alley while I was selling vegetables.
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