The disinfectant was refilled in another container. After disinfecting him, Li Ruo began suturing. Because she often gets injured in the tissue and needs a few stitches, it wasn't too difficult.
"You can sew like that?" Little Li exclaimed in surprise.
Li Ruo asked, "Does it hurt this time?"
Xie Xiao: ...! ! You think I'd believe you when you said you'd mend my clothes?
"Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!"
Now, the entire cabin was filled with Xie the Boss's cries of "Ouch, ouch, ouch!" and "Gently, gently!"
The group of friends, fearing they might overhear something they shouldn't and be silenced by their boss, quickly left.
Xie Xiao was also quite puzzled, "How do you know how to treat injuries like this?"
"I know a lot more, you just don't know it."
Xie Xiao scrutinized her intently, his gaze deepening. "You seem like a completely different person?"
But it seems like nothing has changed.
Li Ruoxiao: "You know me very well from the past?"
"Pshaw, who knows you?"
"That means, don't jump to conclusions about someone."
Li Ruo ignored him and focused on sewing, and her speed increased so much that even though Xie Da Biao had many questions, he could only grit his teeth and continue.
Sun Ergou and Xiao Lizi, who were peeping from outside the door, both hissed.
Finally finished sewing, Xie Xiao loosened his teeth, glanced at the door, and said with a half-smile, "How come I didn't know you and my brother were this close? So close that you'd risk your life for him, just in case—"
“I saved your brothers, shouldn’t you be grateful to me?” Li Ru interrupted him, then wrapped the bandage around his arm after retracting the thread. “Raise your hand.”
The gauze was wrapped around his ribs and then around his back. The two were very close. Xie Xiao suppressed the itch that came from the inside out and his Adam's apple bobbed. "I thought you were brave, but I didn't expect you to be even braver than the sky."
"Do you know what it means to find endless joy in fighting against fate?" Li Ruoyi's hot breath hit his back, and she felt Xie Xiao's muscles visibly tense. "Does this hurt too?"
Xie Xiao straightened his expression, his voice becoming somewhat deep: "On the battlefield, accidents happen all the time. You can die in the blink of an eye. As General Li's daughter, you should know this better than anyone else."
Li Ruo walked around to the front and tied a large, perfectly symmetrical bow in the center of his chest. "I've calculated all the angles, and besides, I have soft armor."
She can be a bit crazy when she gets going, and she'll go to great lengths to achieve her goals. People in the organization have even given her the nickname "Desperate Madwoman San." This time, for reasons she can't quite explain, she's made changing Sun Ergou's fate her goal, almost like... going against something. But she won't do it if she's not sure she can succeed.
Xie Xiao glanced at the bow tie that took up half of his chest and frowned sharply. "How am I supposed to face anyone like this?"
"It's quite unique."
Xie Xiao glared at her, "Anyway, don't do anything so dangerous again! I will—"
Suddenly, a cheer erupted outside.
"Good heavens! A whole boatload of arrows! Who gave us this?!"
"Song Zhijing."
"That idiot..."
"No, it's Miss Li who's amazing. I can't believe she came up with such a method."
At this moment, everyone was cleaning up the battlefield and preparing to set sail back, their eyes practically popping out of their sockets with excitement.
The third leader strode in and knelt down before Li Ruo with a thud. "Please accept my bow to thank you for saving my life, young lady."
Li Ruo: I was startled. "I did that to save Sun Ergou."
Third Leader: "Er Gou did this to save me, so saving him is saving me."
Li Ruo: You like it, right?
Sun Ergou wiped away his tears and knelt down as well. "Sister, why are you so good to me? No one has ever been so good to me before, sob sob." He couldn't take it anymore.
The crying could be heard for a mile or so.
They probably thought their leader was dead.
Seeing that the Third Master and Er Gou had both knelt down, Xiao Li also knelt down to join in, saying, "I also want to thank Sister Ruo for saving them."
The other brothers, unaware of what was happening, also knelt down, including Lao Wang and Xiao Yu.
The sight of this scene made Li Ruo's scalp tingle, and at the same time, a very strange feeling rose in her heart.
So, did she still enter their world from being an outsider?
"Alright, get up, all of you."
Xie Xiao sat up, smiled and said, "I won't thank you for your great kindness. If you have any good food in the future, remember to save some for Miss Li."
Sun Ergou: "Even if my sister cuts my kidneys and stir-fries them, I, Ergou, won't utter a sound."
The third leader clasped his hands in a fist salute, saying, "There have been many misunderstandings between us brothers in the past, please don't take it to heart, young lady."
"What misunderstanding?" Li Ruo asked.
The third leader looked at his brothers and said, "In the past, the brothers thought that the young lady was the wife of the prefect, a spy sent by the Song family, and that the young lady... was not worthy of being a member of the general's family."
The brothers looked at each other, and some lowered their heads.
Sun Ergou said angrily, "Now you can see clearly, like father, like daughter. My sister is a true general's daughter."
"Besides, she's no longer the prefect's wife," Little Li said. "That day, she publicly gave Song Zhijing a letter of divorce, severing all ties with him. Today, she brought her brothers to rob grain, which proves everything."
One brother said, "On the boat, I saw her being restrained by a man surnamed Song. The girl almost killed him, but Song was lucky and escaped."
Li Ruo: Uh... I don't need to say anything about that.
Xie Xiao's eyes narrowed. "He arrested you?" He then glared at the brother. "Then why didn't you go help her?"
The brother shuddered. "I was just about to go, but the boat was hit violently and I lost my balance. That's when Song Zhi escaped."
Xie Xiao: ...Is that what happened?
So, if I hadn't gone to all this trouble, she really would have killed Song Zhijing?
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