"Okay, come in quickly, I know you, you should be looking for me."
When Xue Hongbing heard this, he looked a little surprised, then he breathed a sigh of relief and walked inside swayingly.
Lian Xiaomin quickly held his arm and let him come in.
He leaned out of the courtyard gate and observed with his mental power. There was no one there. The patrollers had probably gone home for dinner.
After locking the gate, he helped him walk into the west room.
I was afraid that he would be covered in injuries and have mud marks all over his body after walking in the snow, which would scare the two little kids.
While asking: "Did anyone see you just now?"
Xue Hongbing shook his head: "No, I didn't dare to ask anyone, I just blindly went to the foot of the mountain to find the last one."
When I entered the west room, I found it was cold because there was no heating on the kang.
Let him sit on the kang and lean against the wall to rest, while Lian Xiaomin hurried to light the kang stove in the west room.
After adding firewood, he went to the east room first and served two bowls of rice porridge, letting Xiaofu and Xiaoya sit there and eat with spoons.
"You two have a good time here. A friend of mine wants to talk to me. I'll go to that room and take a look. If you need anything, just call me."
The two little kids nodded and started eating.
Lian Xiaomin returned to the west room, where the kang quickly heated up and the room became warm.
Xue Hongbing had already heard the conversations in that room, and his expression at this moment seemed a little surprised that there was only one girl in this family with two little kids.
"Well, they didn't mention that Master Lian was a girl. Shen Yuanchao just said that he had learned martial arts from the master for a year. Now he is so skilled that he can beat ten people at once and beat Huang Biao with a fist... It's a bit presumptuous for me to come here and seek refuge like this."
"Hey, don't talk about this, it's nothing. You helped my two apprentices and Li Chuang. Did you get retaliated by Huang Laosi? How bad are your injuries? Let me take a look at them first."
Lian Xiaomin noticed that there was a big cut on his calf, and there was blood on it.
On the arm, one of the sleeves of the cotton jacket is unraveling and is about to fall off, and it looks like there is some damage too.
Xue Hongbing nodded: "That's right, the old man came back to the village last night and attacked me first."
"…His second son Huang Tian, took some people to secretly capture me and took me to the granary. They falsely accused me of stealing a bag of rice from the team. They beat me severely and tied me up in the team headquarters."
"... I passed out at first, and when I woke up in the middle of the night, I vaguely heard them say that they were going to stage a play the next day to let me escape, and then the militia would catch up with me and take the opportunity to shoot me to death."
"…If I didn't run away now, I would be dead the next day! Later, I took advantage of them sleeping soundly at four or five in the morning, used a sickle on the ground in the corner, quietly cut the rope, and ran out through the back window."
Lian Xiaomin was amazed when she heard this. Xinfeng Village was dozens of miles away, so far away.
Xue Hongbing had to run all the way here, even walking on the snow. He must have suffered a lot.
She used a pair of scissors to cut off the trouser legs. The clothes were too shabby and could not be worn anymore. She should change into something else later.
It felt like my calf was hit with something sharp. How cruel.
Disinfect with iodine, apply medicine and bandage.
The dirty cotton jacket was taken off, leaving only a short-sleeved vest.
Looking at the other arm, fortunately there was no fracture.
But it was all bruised and there were a few bloody cuts, so I disinfected it and applied medicine, then bandaged it.
"Are you still injured?"
Xue Hongbing shook his head: "No, it's just a bit painful from the kicking and beating, but there's no cut, it's nothing serious."
"…Since they were planning to have me run away the next day and shoot me to death while chasing me, they had to let me run so that I didn't have any broken bones or anything like that."
Lian Xiaomin nodded: "Okay, here is a bottle of blood-activating and blood-stasis-removing medicinal oil, you can apply some on your body later, I won't show it to you."
Finally, I applied some simple medicine on his face to relieve the pain and reduce swelling.
Lian Xiaomin put away the small medicine bag and put it aside. She went to the kang cabinet and took out a cotton jacket and trousers similar to those of Lin Youshu under the cover of the bed.
He also picked up a gray plaid cotton shirt and a black open sweater.
"Change your clothes. They are too dirty. They are covered in blood. The sleeves are about to fall off, and the trouser legs are cut off. These clothes were originally bought for my uncle. They are new."
My uncle was pulled out to be used as a tool again.
Put the new cotton-padded jacket and trousers on the kang first and wear them when you go out. In the room with kang in Northeast China, it is just right to put on a sweater first.
Xue Hongbing hugged the sweater and shirt in his arms and thanked him repeatedly.
"Master Lian, thank you very much. I have money and I will give it to you. Fortunately, I sewed it into my clothes and carried it with me, so they didn't search it and took it away."
He picked up the pair of scissors that Lian Xiaomin had just used, cut the dirty cotton jacket on the ground twice, and took out a small roll of money, which was six Great Unity banknotes.
He handed them all to Lian Xiaomin.
"Ah, it won't take that much. Why don't you give me thirty? Come on, I'll go get a basin of water. Just wash yourself, change your clothes, apply some medicine... and I'll get you something to eat."
Need I say more? It's definitely because he hasn't eaten or drunk anything for a day.
I walked all day with this injury, but I can still hold on.
Lian Xiaomin filled a wooden basin with warm water, brought it in, and closed the door to the west room.
He turned around and went to his brother and sister-in-law first. Seeing that they had almost finished their porridge, he wiped their mouths.
"After you finish eating, go play on the kang."
She also quickly drank a bowl of porridge. After about fifteen minutes, she cleared the bowls and took them to the stove.
The water in the big pot on the stove was boiling, and two thermos bottles were filled.
After thinking about it, he took out five large steamed buns made by himself, which were made of corn flour and white flour, and put them in a small aluminum basin.
There is still half a pot of porridge left in the small aluminum pot, and a small plate of pickles, that will be enough.
He coughed, pushed the door open, and put the food on the kang table for him.
"Eat. You must be hungry. After you finish eating, tell me the details of Xinfeng Village."
Xue Hongbing simply tidied himself up, changed into a clean shirt and black sweater, and now he looked a bit like a child.
When I saw so many big steamed buns, a sweet aroma of corn filled my nose, and there was also porridge made of rice. My nose felt sore and I almost cried.
Then he grinned again and laughed bitterly: "Now when I see rice, I hate the Huang family. They really deserve to be called 'Huang Shiren'. They even framed me for stealing rice from the production team. What a brainstorm!"
I watched him wolf down the food, treating the rice porridge as a class enemy and drinking it all right out of the small aluminum pot.
This steamed bread is specially made with white flour and sugar. It is very delicious and he made five of them.
Even the small dish of pickles was cleared out.
Lian Xiaomin was so amazed at what she saw. That should be... enough, right?
I silently went to get two pounds of egg cakes to fill in the gap if it was not enough.
Xue Hongbing swallowed the last bite of the steamed bread, and his mouth and tongue felt sweet.
He gave a thumbs up and said, "Master Lian, your steamed bread is so delicious. I haven't eaten anything sweet since I came to Northeast China. I made them all... I'm sorry to embarrass you!"
"...Don't let me eat this egg cake. I'm really full. Save it for the child."
Lian Xiaomin waved her hand: "Hey, just eat it if I give it to you. Leave it here and eat it when you're hungry at night."
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