Wen Xi squatted down with tears in her eyes:
"Master, you are injured. I will carry you back to the barracks and find a female doctor."
Ye Erniang pushed Wen Xi away and said weakly:
"It's too late."
Wen Xi slapped his head:
"Yes, yes, it's too far to make it in time. How could I not have common sense? I should have stopped the bleeding and bandaged it first."
As he spoke, he untied his belt and walked around behind Ye Erniang. What caught his eye was the wetness of her entire back. Although there was firelight, it was still dark, so the color of the blood could not be seen clearly.
Wen Xi felt the soaked back, panicking. Without hesitation, she dug out the only bottle of gold medicine from the coffin and sprinkled it on the wound. But the blood seemed to be pouring out even more.
"It's okay, it's okay, Master, you will be okay."
As he said this, he wrapped it tightly with his belt.
As soon as I wrapped myself up, my belt got wet.
"No, no, I'll carry you back."
Wen Xi squatted down again.
Ye Erniang felt very happy watching her apprentice playing with her hair, as if she was back to the beautiful memories of her daughter when she was a child and loved to play with her own hair braiding.
"Don't be busy. It's too late. Master knows. Come here and let me lean on you for a while. I'm a little tired."
Wen Xi sat over, but shook her head frantically:
"Master, please don't leave me, okay? I don't have a mother anymore. If you leave me too, how am I going to live?"
Ye Erniang raised her hand to wipe Wen Xi's tears:
"I'm sorry, Xi'er, Master can't accompany you anymore. But you still have to promise me to live well and don't do stupid things. You still have people who need to be protected. Xi'er, you are still too kind. Since you have chosen this path, you must hate in your heart. Don't put down the knife you picked up. Master can't protect you in the future, you have to be good."
"Master, no, I don't want it. I just want your protection. Can you please not leave me?"
Ye Erniang did not answer. Instead, she took out a purse from her bosom and stuffed it into Wen Xi's hand, saying intermittently:
"At first, I only thought of you as a substitute. Later, I realized that you are completely different. ... You are just you, but I have completely regarded you as my own child. If my daughter were still alive, she would definitely... like you as a sister..."
Ye Erniang used up her last bit of strength and finally fell into Wen Xi's arms.
“Master…”
Wen Xi yelled and fainted.
Someone nearby heard the noise and ran over to see this scene. The person who came was Liu, the soldier who recruited them.
After looking for a long time, he finally recognized the person and quickly called the two soldiers who were cleaning up the battlefield over:
"If they are alive, bring them back; if they are dead... bury them with your brothers."
Wen Xi was awakened by a burst of sobbing. With difficulty, she turned her head towards the sound. She saw Fang Ya clutching her arm and crying. Gu Shengmo sat beside her, head bowed, lost in thought. And Gu Shengjian kept pacing back and forth.
"Where is this?"
Fang Ya finally woke up from her sadness and crawled forward in surprise:
"Sister Wenxi, are you awake? You're finally awake? Are you feeling unwell? You've lost a lot of blood."
The other two also looked over expectantly.
Gu Shengjian roared even more angrily:
"Why did you sneak off by yourself? We agreed to go together, but you didn't keep your word."
Gu Shengmo also looked at his elder sister seriously, as if he was accusing her of something.
Wen Xi didn't know how to respond. The pain in her heart seemed to suppress her ability to speak. She opened her mouth, but in the end, she just stared blankly at the tent ceiling.
At this time, a female doctor came in, followed by the soldier Liu.
Seeing Wen Xi, he walked over with a smile:
"Good fellow, you finally woke up. I heard you killed a lot of bandits that night? We also intercepted a lot of food! But, girl, why did you run off to the fire room instead of staying there?"
Wen Xi tilted her head and looked for a long time, as if she had finally recognized the person. She opened her mouth again with trembling hands:
"Where is my master?"
After he finished speaking, tears blurred his vision.
Soldier Liu was wondering what master he was talking about when he suddenly remembered the woman in her arms when he discovered this girl.
"Hey...don't be sad, we'll help you bury him. Since you've chosen this path, you should be mentally prepared."
Only then did Fang Ya and the others realize that the only adult among them, the safe haven, had collapsed.
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