Chan'er coughed twice, expelling the foreign object from her throat; the sight of it, along with flesh and blood, was extremely gruesome.
Wu Hua took out a handkerchief to wipe her mouth, and Wang Yue was shocked to see blood all over her mouth.
"What happened? Why did you suddenly vomit blood?"
Seeing the vomited-out ball of flesh, his outstretched fingers trembled even more.
"What...what is this?"
Wu Hua wiped the blood from Chan'er's mouth, fed her a few sips of stream water, and then answered Wang Yue's question.
"This is what's preventing Chan'er from speaking! Just spit it out now!"
It had hoped that Chan'er would drink some stream water every day and gradually recover.
But looking at the situation in the city, if it waited any longer, its kind would likely be condemned to slaughter.
Since Yue Niang isn't around, it's better to end it quickly than drag it out. Let's just get it over with once and for all.
Wang Yue looked at the ball of flesh with some fear, but he didn't mind. He used a handkerchief to clean the donkey cart.
After telling the two to sit properly, I continued towards the city gate.
Wu Hua continued to ask Chan'er the same question, and Chan'er obediently recounted what had happened that day.
"That day, my mother took me to buy fabric. While she was negotiating the price, I heard children making a fuss outside, so I went out to take a look and saw them throwing a little fox with wings into an abandoned, dry well..."
"A winged fox?"
Wu Hua already knew who it was, so she continued, "And then? Why did you touch it?"
"When I saw those people throwing stones at it, I grabbed a stick and hit them, scaring them all away. Then I found a long branch and rescued it. It rubbed against me and then left..."
She sounded somewhat disappointed.
"It seems it doesn't like me, which is why it ran away without looking back..."
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