"The road was too chaotic. We were unlucky and ran into those villains who wanted to snatch children to eat. Shunping and I risked our lives to protect the Third Miss. We were in a panic and didn't know where we were going. In the end, we somehow escaped to Nanyang Prefecture. Shunping was already wounded by a knife and couldn't get treatment. He had to lead us on our escape. He held on all the way until we arrived here. Once we were safe, he couldn't hold on any longer and collapsed."
Zhao Guizhi broke down in tears as she spoke. If she hadn't run into her sister and brother-in-law, Chen Shunping would have really died here. If he had died, she and the Third Miss probably wouldn't have survived either.
“It’s alright now, we’re safe. We’ve finally made it through. Come home with me tomorrow, and we’ll live a good life from now on.” Zhao Guihua cried along with her. She had also escaped the disaster and knew the dangers and hardships involved. It was truly remarkable that she had survived.
After the two sisters finished speaking, they prepared to leave. Miss Chen sat quietly to the side the whole time, being excessively obedient. When no one was talking to her, she just sat there blankly. When someone spoke to her, she would look up at them and grin.
Although the little girl was too thin due to long-term lack of food, she had a good foundation, fair skin, and delicate features, but her eyes looked a bit dull.
"I'll take her to see a doctor later; she should be able to be cured," Zhao Guihua said with pity.
Zhao Guizhi didn't say anything, but silently held Miss Chen in her arms. At this moment, Xingxing and her brothers came to knock on the door and asked if they were ready.
"Come in, let's have something to eat." They only booked two rooms, one for the women and one for the men. Zhao Guihua and Zhao Guizhi could squeeze in with their two children, but Zhou Laoda and his five sons would have to sleep on the floor, leaving the bed for Chen Shunping, the patient.
"Xingxing guessed right, it really is a little sister." Xingxing looked at Miss Chen with bright eyes. Before, Miss Chen was dirty and her clothes were tattered, so it was impossible to tell whether she was a boy or a girl.
The quintuplets insisted that she was a boy, but Xingxing hoped she was a girl so that she would have a younger sister and wouldn't be the youngest in the family. So she argued loudly with her brothers, saying that her aunt's child was a sister.
The children didn't know the little girl's true identity. They only thought she was Zhao Guizhi and Chen Shunping's child. In fact, Zhao Guizhi and Chen Shunping hadn't officially gotten married yet, so where did the child come from?
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