“Your young lady is alright, Madam Su…” Xuan Yuanzhan glanced at the room: “She is being treated.”
Jinzhu instantly understood, her eyes reddening as she said, "The First Madam suffered such a serious injury because of me."
Xuan Yuanzhan and Su Yun'an both frowned.
Before they could ask, Jinzhu explained, "When we jumped off the cliff, I was carrying the First Madam on my back. But when we were almost at the bottom, the First Madam suddenly flipped over and landed on top of me. When we fell into the ravine, the First Madam took most of the force for me, which is why I was able to survive!"
At that time, the First Madam couldn't move a single finger, but in the end, she was able to flip over to her front. How much strength must she have used!
Moreover, she knew perfectly well that she was just a servant girl, and more importantly, she was already severely injured herself, yet she still chose to risk her life for this servant girl!
Jin Zhu's words brought tears to Su Yun'an's eyes.
Xuanyuan Zhan also sighed, "You don't need to blame yourself. Since your mother was willing to save you, you must have done something that made her willing to risk her life to save you. You can be said to have redeemed each other."
Jinzhu knelt at the door of the bamboo house, silently weeping as she waited for news from inside.
Several more hours passed, and the surgery finally ended in the middle of the night.
The master and apprentice worked together seamlessly, one stitching up the wound while the other packed things up.
After everything was done, Su Xuening looked at Pei Luo and said, "Master, please go and rest first. I want to stay and help my mother clean her other wounds and change her clothes."
My mother's body is covered with whip marks, far more than just the spinal injuries. Some of the wounds are so bad they've become ulcerated, and if they're not treated soon, they'll likely leave scars.
Pei Luo nodded, packed her things, and went out first.
Outside, Su Yun'an saw Pei Luo come out and quickly went to greet him: "Master, how is my mother?"
Pei Luo knew he was worried and reassured him, "The surgery was quite successful, but how well your mother recovers depends on her own efforts. However, for the time being, her life is not in danger."
Su Yun'an breathed a sigh of relief and was eager to go inside, but Pei Luo pressed her head down: "Don't go in yet. Your sister is changing your mother's clothes. Wait until your sister comes out before you go in to see her."
Upon hearing this, Su Yun'an nodded obediently and stopped rushing into the house.
Pei Luo glanced at Jin Zhu kneeling on the ground again: "What's wrong with this girl?"
"Greetings, Master." Jinzhu knelt on the ground, her eyes brimming with tears, and kowtowed to Pei Luo: "Thank you, Master, for saving the First Madam."
It's good that the First Madam is alright. If the First Madam had died saving her, she would never have peace of mind for the rest of her life.
Xuan Yuanzhan introduced Pei Luo, saying, "She is Ning'er's maid. She fell off a cliff with her mother."
Pei Luo understood instantly. He walked to the stone table, put down the medicine box, and beckoned to Jin Zhu, saying, "Girl, come here, let me take your pulse."
Su Yun'an also looked at Jinzhu and said, "Aren't you in pain? Go over and let your master take a look. My master is a miracle doctor."
Jinzhu finally got up, but after kneeling for several hours, her legs were already numb. She almost couldn't stand up when she stood up, but luckily Su Yun'an helped her up.
"Thank you, young master."
Jinzhu looked at Su Yun'an with gratitude, deeply moved.
The master of the eldest branch of the Su family is really different from the master of the second branch.
The masters of the second branch of the Su family are all selfish and self-serving. Whenever something happens, they will only push them out to take the fall. Bai Qin and Yin Yu are the best examples.
How could anyone be like the master of the eldest branch, who would help his servants avoid disaster when something happened, let alone something that could cost them their lives?
Therefore, if she had to risk her life, she would choose to do so for the eldest branch of the Su family, rather than for those beasts in the second branch!
Jinzhu staggered to the stone table and sat down at Pei Luo's gesture.
Pei Luo took Jin Zhu's pulse and then examined her spine and bones: "You don't have any injuries, just some water retention inside you. You must have just drowned, but the girl has already revived you, so there's nothing serious."
Xuanyuan Zhan explained, "There was a stream below the cliff. When the person was pulled up, she was already dead. Ning'er knelt on the ground and held her up for the time it takes to burn half an incense stick, and then she gave her a boost of energy, which is how she was saved."
Upon hearing this, Jinzhu's eyes reddened again, deeply moved.
So that's how much effort the young lady went through to save her! She never gave up on her!
Pei Luo nodded in satisfaction: "Girl, you've grasped the essence."
He then looked at Jinzhu and said, "The pain you feel isn't serious. It's just muscle soreness from falling from such a height. It will gradually get better in a few days. You're lucky, girl. You didn't get hurt after falling from such a height."
The one inside is seriously injured.
Jinzhu lowered her eyes in shame: "Before I fell off the cliff, the First Madam switched places with me and took a lot of the impact for me, which is why I was not injured."
"So that's how it is." Pei Luo finally understood why one of them was unharmed while the other was so badly injured after falling off the cliff.
That person is kind-hearted; he got himself into such a state to save a servant girl. With such integrity, it's no wonder he was able to raise such good children as Ning'er and Yun'an.
"Is the First Madam really out of danger?" Jinzhu asked worriedly.
"Don't worry, she'll be fine with me here."
Pei Luo's words were not only directed at Jin Zhu, but also at Su Yun'an.
After hearing Pei Luo's words, the group felt somewhat relieved.
Jinzhu knew that Su Xuening was changing Mu Junyu's clothes inside, so she fetched a basin of hot water and carried it into the room.
"Miss."
Seeing Jinzhu enter the room, Su Xuening asked with concern, "You're awake. How are you feeling? Is anything bothering you?"
Su Xuening's concern made Jinzhu's eyes suddenly redden: "Master just checked me, and I have no injuries."
As she spoke, Jinzhu knelt down before Su Xuening again: "This servant's life was saved by Miss and Madam. This servant kowtows to Miss and Madam."
"Get up quickly. Without you, my mother wouldn't have been rescued so quickly." Su Xuening helped Jinzhu up.
If Jinzhu hadn't intervened, the rescue would never have gone so smoothly.
Although her mother was seriously injured this time, at least she has returned to her and Yun'an's side, and the surgery was successful. Her mother is no longer in danger of death.
Jinzhu looked at the still unconscious Mu Junyu with shame: "Su Renyi must have given the First Madam some kind of muscle-relaxing powder. The First Madam can't move. At that time, I knocked Su Renyi unconscious and carried the First Madam away. In the end, I was so panicked that I was forced to the edge of a cliff. Su Renyi wanted me to put the First Madam down. I asked the First Madam if she wanted to jump off the cliff with me or leave her behind. In the end, the First Madam chose to jump off the cliff with me."
She acted impulsively. If she had known that the young lady was nearby, she should have stalled for time. Perhaps the madam wouldn't have been so badly injured, and both she and the madam could have been saved.
Su Xuening was stunned, feeling both heartache and sadness.
The mother preferred to jump off a cliff rather than be imprisoned by Su Huiyan and Su Renyi again, which shows how much suffering she endured during this time!
She will never let those two beasts, Su Renyi and Su Huiyan, get away with it!!!
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