Chapter 10: Meeting, dying with eyes closed
Su Ying was stunned, looking at the little guy's pitiful crying face, and she no longer felt happy about getting the big piece of meat.
"I'm not injured, my face is covered with the tiger's blood." Su Ying wiped her face and found that it was sticky. She couldn't stand it herself.
Xiao Jin frowned slightly and said, "Stay away from the child." His slightly cold tone carried obvious displeasure.
For the sake of the child, Su Ying didn't argue with him. She stuffed the meat into Jiang Yang's hand and turned around to find water to wash her face.
There was a stream not far from the flat slope where they settled. Su Ying squatted on the bank and washed her face. She reached out to touch her sticky hair and smelled the sweat on her body. She couldn't help but jumped into the stream and took a refreshing bath, washing her clothes at the same time.
After she got ashore, she went into the storage space and used the dryer to dry her body before returning to Pingpo.
By this time, it was already dawn. The prisoners in the team were all given a piece of meat and were eating it with their dry rations in big mouthfuls.
Since being exiled, they have never tasted meat again, and tiger meat is simply roasted, but to them now, it is the most delicious delicacy in the world.
"What are you doing? Don't steal my meat. That meat is mine, ah!"
A ragged, thin, disheveled woman fell at Su Ying's feet.
"You, you can't steal my meat..." Even after falling down, the woman still staggered to her feet and tried to take back the meat, but the other party had already run away.
Su Ying has never been a nosy person, but when she looked at the person on the ground, she always felt that he looked familiar.
She thought about it and reached out to pull the man up from the ground.
"Ah, don't touch me!" The woman reacted strongly and almost jumped up from the ground and pushed Su Ying away.
"Don't be afraid, I won't hurt you."
Hearing Su Ying's voice, the woman was stunned for a moment, turned back and looked straight at Su Ying, "Princess, Princess..."
Su Ying stared at her face. Because it was so dirty, it took her a while to recognize that the woman in front of her was her maid Bai Shuang.
"White frost?"
Bai Shuang saw Su Ying recognized her and smiled, "It's your servant, it's your servant."
In Su Ying's memory, Bai Shuang had been serving her since she was a child and was truly loyal to her. Later, after she married Xiao Jin, she followed her to the Prince Qi's Mansion and privately advised her to live a good life with Xiao Jin.
But her brain was not working well at that time, and she couldn't listen to anything others said. She was completely focused on Xiao Jue.
"Are you alone? Where is Mother Zhao?" Mother Zhao was her wet nurse, and she also went with her to the Prince of Qi's Palace.
Bai Shuang heard this, her eyes turned red and she choked up, "Mother Zhao, she, she's dying..."
Bai Shuang and Mother Zhao were the only two people in the Prime Minister's Mansion who were sincere to her. Hearing Bai Shuang say this, she felt a little blocked in her heart. This might be the only remaining emotion of the original owner's conscience.
"Where is the person? Take me to see him."
Bai Shuang nodded. Mother Zhao loved the princess the most. If she could see the princess before she died, she would be able to rest in peace.
Bai Shuang told me that she and Mother Zhao had been searching for Su Ying's whereabouts on the way to exile, but Mother Zhao fell ill not long after, and is now almost dying.
Mother Zhao was placed by Bai Shuang under a big tree. If you didn't look closely, you could hardly see the rise and fall of her chest. She looked like she was dead.
In Su Ying's memory, Mother Zhao has always been a very kind old woman, and her smile is very similar to Am's, but now she is so thin that only skin and bones are left.
"Mother Zhao, wake up. I found the princess. The princess is here to see you. Please wake up and take a look."
Mother Zhao seemed to have heard Bai Shuang's words. She opened her eyes and stared at Su Ying in a daze.
"Princess..."
Su Ying looked at Mother Zhao, who was barely breathing, and suddenly remembered Am, who had collapsed in her arms and was dying.
She subconsciously held Mother Zhao's hand and said, "Amu, don't be afraid. I will definitely cure you."
Mother Zhao looked at Su Ying and smiled with relief, but her eyelids gradually closed.
Su Ying's heart trembled. She had watched Am leave her once before her eyes, and she would never let this happen a second time!
Su Ying began to examine Mother Zhao. In the last days, medical studies had developed to the extreme, and even Chinese medicine had made great breakthroughs. She had received both Chinese and Western medicine since she was a child, and her proficiency in Chinese medicine was no less than that in Western medicine.
She took Mother Zhao's pulse and soon found something wrong with it.
"It's pneumonia." It had already reached a very serious level, but fortunately, Mother Zhao's heart was still beating, she was just in temporary shock.
After Su Ying confirmed the symptoms, she stood up and found a backrest to enter the space. When she came out, she had injections and potions in her hands.
"Bai Shuang, go get some water."
Bai Shuang got up and left without any suspicion.
Su Ying took advantage of this opportunity to inject the anti-inflammatory liquid into Mother Zhao, and then took out some medicine and nutrient solution and fed them to her.
In this cannibalistic exile group, the elderly, the weak, women and children were the first to fall. It was already very difficult for Mother Zhao and Bai Shuang to hold on until now.
When Bai Shuang brought the water back, Su Ying had already done everything.
She took the water and took a sip, then stood up and asked Bai Shuang to help Mother Zhao up and carry her on his back.
"Princess, please let me do it. Your body is so delicate..."
Su Ying directly carried the person on her back. "You don't look much heavier than Mother Zhao. I can carry you. Just come with me."
Bai Shuang stood there in a daze as he looked at Su Ying's light steps.
Just now, because she was too nervous, she did not notice the changes in Su Ying. Now, looking at her again, the princess is still the one she is so familiar with, but her words and actions are completely different. The princess in the past could not lift her shoulders or hands, let alone carry someone on her back effortlessly.
As expected, hardships make people grow. Bai Shuang attributed Su Ying's change to the hardships she suffered during exile, which gave Su Ying a good reason to explain her transformation.
When Xiao Jin saw Su Ying coming back with Bai Shuang on her back, she frowned slightly.
He knew these two people and they had always been loyal to Su Ying.
Su Ying put Mother Zhao on the ground, took out a piece of tiger meat from her body and handed it to Bai Shuang, "Eat it, so you can have the strength to continue on your journey."
Bai Shuang looked at the dried meat and didn't take it. "I'm not hungry, Princess, please keep it for yourself."
Su Ying pointed to the remaining tiger skeleton not far away and said, "Did you see the big tiger last night? I killed it. The bundle is full of its meat, enough for me to eat."
Bai Shuang was stunned when she heard this. She knew that a white tiger escaped last night, but because they were far away, they didn't know who killed the white tiger. She only heard from other prisoners that it was a female demon from hell...
She never thought that this female evil spirit would be Su Ying.
(End of this chapter)
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