Chapter 24 Kidnapping
Yu Chi untied Jiang Xinian's ropes, and looked at her bloodstained hands, feeling a little unsure of where to start. Jiang Xinian glanced at the marks on her wrists, not caring much.
She could no longer feel the pain.
Yu Chi sighed, and his knuckles gently landed on Jiang Xinian's wrists, and Jiang Xinian didn't even frown.
Her pulse made Yu Chi frown, and soon he let go of her hand and took out the ointment he had applied to Gu Jue before.
While applying the ointment to Jiang Xinian's wounds, he spoke.
"Miss Jiang, your child..."
"Can it be aborted?"
Yu Chi was interrupted by Jiang Xinian before he finished speaking.
Hearing her words, Yu Chi's eyes fell on Jiang Xinian's face. She had no expression, as if she was talking about something very ordinary.
It was as calm as asking what to eat in the evening.
"Your child could not be saved in the first place. Even if you saved it, it would be a dead fetus when it was born. But you, your reaction now is too calm. Your body..."
"I don't care anymore..."
As she spoke, she pulled up her sleeves and rolled them up to her shoulders. There was no good flesh on her arm, and it was covered with bruises and various scars.
Yu Chi frowned when he saw it.
"I have too many wounds on my body. It would be more comfortable to die, but I am unwilling to do so. They are not dead, so how can I die first?"
Her originally indifferent and numb expression finally changed a little. Under such circumstances, she showed a faint smile, pulled the wound on her lip, and the wound split open and oozed blood.
"Of course I have to escape, and then take people to clean up this place. I want to watch them go to hell one by one, and die a miserable death. I want to watch them want to live but cannot, and want to die but cannot. Otherwise, I will not rest in peace."
Yu Chi said nothing. He did not think there was anything wrong with Jiang Xinian's idea.
He is a doctor, not a saint who saves the world.
Don't encourage others to be good without experiencing their suffering.
He only wiped the wound on Jiang Xinian's wrist caused by the hemp rope, and then put the ointment next to her hand.
"It's almost there, that day is coming soon."
Jiang Xinian was distracted by the small jar of ointment. The smell of the ointment that Yu Chi applied to him was somewhat familiar, which brought back her memories.
She had smelled this smell before, in Shangjing. Now when she thought about it, she always felt that a long time had passed, and even her memory was a little fuzzy, but it was only more than a year.
It was a very small thing, and she was about to forget it.
But when she smelled the faint fragrance of the ointment, the memory gradually became clear in her mind.
It was just a sunny afternoon, when she was playing with her close friends, she accidentally scratched her hand with a tree branch, leaving a small cut.
At that time, the ointment that her best friend applied to her had this smell. She cried out in pain at that time, but her best friend said she was coquettish, and her hands moved more gently.
At that time, what did she call this ointment?
"Snow Jade Cream..."
Yu Chi said "hmm", indicating that it was indeed Snow Jade Cream.
"Apply the ointment well and eat well. You can only escape after you are well. This child will stay in your belly for a few more days..."
...
Jiang Xinian didn't expect that she would suffer such bad consequences just by showing kindness.
Jiang Si was pushed by her to buy peach blossom cakes. She stood there obediently, waiting for Jiang Si to come back.
But the first to come was not Jiang Si, but a beggar mother and son. The mother held the small child in her arms and stretched out her hand to her tremblingly.
The maidservant was standing in front of Jiang Xinian, and Jiang Xinian asked her to take some small change to the beggar mother.
But the mother did not leave after taking the small change. Instead, she raised her head, revealing a pair of sad eyes under her messy hair.
She asked Jiang Xinian.
"Kind lady, do you feel anything?"
Jiang Xinian did not understand what she said.
"What?"
Someone covered her mouth and nose with a handkerchief, and she did not even have time to react, because her attention was focused on the beggar mother in front of her.
That sentence without a beginning or an end.
Before she lost consciousness, she heard the maidservant call her a lady, and then she knew nothing.
When she woke up again, she was sent to a remote and messy little house. She was tied to the edge of a wooden bed, and there were several other women like her on the bed.
Three people stood with their backs to them in front of the bed. In front of the three people was a group of rough men, most of whom were between 30 and 50 years old.
They held small pieces of silver and copper wrapped in cloth in their hands, and their shouts became louder and louder. Strong men surrounded them and stopped them.
They were selling women.
Abducted women.
Jiang Xinian had never seen these before, and she had never even heard of them.
She was sold for only ten taels
of silver. Ten taels of silver was more than the pocket money she had in a month.
The man who bought her was called Wang Er, and he had only a widowed mother at home.
When she came to the village, her hands and feet were not untied, and her mouth was sealed with a cloth strip, tied behind her head.
There was a lot of noise outside. They killed a pig and wanted to hold a simple wedding for her and Wang Er.
That night, when Wang Er came in, Jiang Xinian shrank back.
She was pretty and had fair skin. Wang Er felt that he had made a fortune by buying such a beautiful wife.
He saw that Jiang Xinian was delicate and thought she should be a weak woman, so he untied Jiang Xinian's rope.
The first thing Jiang Xinian did after she was free was to kick Wang Er in the crotch. Wang Er rolled on the ground in pain.
Jiang Xinian stepped hard on Wang Er's leg, breaking it, and Wang Er's screams came out of the house.
Some of them broke into the house, and Jiang Xinian saw a bundle of sticks in the house, so he took one.
She pointed at the door with great momentum.
"I am the daughter of a great general, let's see who dares to take a step forward!"
Her eyes were cold and firm, but she also revealed a trace of fear in her heart. She was uncertain, but she couldn't show her cowardice.
The villagers looked at each other, all at a loss.
Wang Er's mother saw Wang Er rolling on the ground, and she was so distressed that she yelled at her, saying that she was insane.
"If you are the daughter of a great general, then I am the empress dowager, a money-losing commodity that has been plagued by plague, but you are the daughter-in-law that my son bought with ten taels of silver!"
The final result can be imagined. She couldn't escape from the joint efforts of the villagers. She was tied with ropes, tied under the beams, and trapped on the broken wooden bed.
The eldest daughter of a wealthy family fell into the dust and was trampled into the mud.
She had escaped many times, but could not. She
was caught every time.
The price of being caught was more painful each time, and now she no longer knew what pain was.
She wanted to die, but death was too easy and too cowardly.
She had to live even if she had to bite her teeth and swallow blood. She was not the one who should die. Until
the last time she escaped, she met Ah Si, and that was the closest she had ever been to escaping.
She knew that she was not far from sending these people to hell.
...
In the afternoon, Gu Jue came to see Jiang Xinian, and under the watchful eyes of the old woman, he gave Jiang Xinian a small porcelain bottle.
"Miss Jiang, this is the medicine Yu Chi asked me to bring you. Are you feeling okay now?"
Jiang Xinian looked at Gu Jue's handsome face and nodded. With the old woman around, she didn't want to talk.
Gu Jue put the small porcelain bottle in Jiang Xinian's hand.
"He also told you to eat well and take care of your body. This medicine is for evening, so you should keep it well. And the ointment he gave you should be applied again at 11:00 p.m."
"He and I are temporarily staying in the small house at the far end of the north. If you have any stomach discomfort, Miss Jiang, remember to ask someone to come find us."
He turned to the old woman again.
"Mother-in-law, you should also pay attention to Miss Jiang's body. This fetus is unstable. If something happens again, it will be lost."
As it was related to her grandson, the old woman did not dare to be careless. She agreed repeatedly and finally sent Gu Jue away in a good tone.
When he reached the door, Gu Jue suddenly asked the old woman.
"Grandma, did your dog bark at night?"
The old woman paused, not understanding why Gu Jue asked this question. They were very wary of outsiders, so she didn't say anything.
Gu Jue shook his head embarrassedly.
"Doctor Yu Chi is very spoiled. He can't sleep listening to the barking of dogs, so I asked you."
The old woman said, "Not many people in the village keep dogs, and they basically don't bark at night."
"That's good, that's good."
He walked behind the old woman, and the hand under his cloak took advantage of the old woman's inattention and quickly stuffed something into the pile of hay at the door.
Jiang Xinian's eyes followed Gu Jue's back and slowly became deep.