Chapter 179: Cleaning the Wounds
"Jiang He, Jiang He?" Jiang He was distracted by Zhao Xiaoxue's voice. "Why did you come out? How is the child?"
"She wanted to put on her clothes by herself, so I left first." Zhao Xiaoxue covered her mouth after hearing Jiang He's words. "I just counted on her back and there were forty or fifty scars, and some places were burned..."
"Beast." Jiang He said through gritted teeth. "The child is so young, how could he have the heart to..."
"Hmm?" Zhao Xiaoxue suddenly reacted after hearing Jiang He's words. She looked at Jiang He and asked, "What do you mean? I don't understand. What's going on? Tell me!"
"Yeah." Jiang He nodded and told the story of how he and the village chief went to Liu Caoer's house, without any intention of exaggerating.
"Bang!" After hearing what Zhao Xiaoxue said, she slammed the coffee table hard. "You bastard, the child is so young, how could you have the heart to do that?"
Jiang He couldn't help but sigh when he saw her look. "I just heard from the village chief that this child's biological mother died of complications during childbirth when she was young, and her father later married another wife. How can a child live a good life when her mother dies and her father doesn't love her?"
Zhao Xiaoxue nodded in agreement, then frowned again, "I've heard people say that if there's a stepmother, there's a stepfather. It looks like that's the case with the child."
"Squeak." At this moment, the door behind them was pushed open. They looked up and a small figure wearing a small sailor shirt and shorts appeared at the door, with bare feet, just looking at them.
"Oh, why aren't you wearing shoes?" Zhao Xiaoxue hurried over and picked up the child. The little feet, which had been washed clean, were covered in mud again. However, the little feet were not as tender as those of a child. Two of the toes were red and purple, as if they had been hit by something.
Cao'er didn't dare to look into Zhao Xiaoxue's eyes. She lowered her head and whispered, "I don't have shoes. My mother said that she is going to have a younger brother, and I can't waste the family's money. All the money will be used to buy things for my brother." In fact, she had a pair of shoes before she passed away. They were made by her grandmother before she passed away. But since her grandmother passed away, no one has made them for her. Even in winter, she just wrapped her feet with straw.
"Beasts are worse than these things." Zhao Xiaoxue touched Cao'er's feet and found that the toes on his feet were a little deformed, and some places even had small cracks, and you could almost see the flesh and blood inside. She looked down at the little girl in her arms, who was clearly enduring the pain. "Teacher will apply some medicine on you and it won't hurt. Be good."
Cao'er nodded, and she didn't move. Jiang He grabbed her little feet and found that some black substances had entered the wounds. He opened the alcohol and iodine next to them, and then said in a very gentle tone, "Wait a minute, the teacher needs to clean your wounds first. It may hurt. If it hurts too much, remember to tell the teacher."
Cao Er nodded, "Yeah!"
"Okay, teacher is going to help you treat your wound." Jiang He said as he poured alcohol into a cotton ball and carefully disinfected Xiao Cao'er's wound.
"Hiss..." As soon as the cotton swab in Jiang He's hand touched the wound, Cao'er screamed in fear and kept twisting her little butt to avoid the cotton swab in Jiang He's hand. Although she seemed very brave just now, she was just a child after all.
"Wuwuwu...it hurts--!" Cao'er finally couldn't help crying out "It hurts--!"
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