Chapter 884 No Money to Pay the Medical Fee
"You're back? Are you tired?"
Ah He also held his wife's hand. Their hands were both frostbitten, and they both felt a little itchy and painful holding each other, but this did not make them separate their hands.
The child fell asleep and slept soundly.
Although it was just a room with a bed for the elderly and children to sleep on and a mat for the couple to spread on the floor, it was already great.
They had suffered a lot while fleeing the disaster. They were on the verge of life and death several times. Their hearts were always tense and they could not relax for a moment. They were cold and hungry along the way and had not really slept in the house for a long time. They felt deeply that the warm house and warm mat at this moment were very precious.
Ah He lay down, his whole body in a state of extreme relaxation.
He has to protect his parents, wife and children on the road. As the head of the family, he must not show any weakness.
They also encountered gangsters who took advantage of natural disasters to do bad things along the way. Some of them covered their wives' mouths and dragged them away in the middle of the night. If he hadn't been determined to move a stone to smash the brains of one of them and scare the rest away, they would now be separated from their wives and children.
After that incident, he couldn't even sleep properly at night.
But I should be able to sleep now.
"Tired." Ah He came back to his senses and finally whispered to his wife. He had never dared to say he was tired before.
He has to hold on.
The wife leaned over and spoke softly, "Lord An and the princess seem to be good people. Tonight we each got two steamed buns, made of white flour, and a bowl of vegetable porridge. I was very full. I couldn't finish it, so I left half a steamed bun for you."
"You don't have to save any for me next time," Ah He closed his eyes, his throat a little choked, "Because we have to help with the work, the princess gave us three each, and some vegetable porridge, and I was very full too."
Even before the disaster, their family did not have such a good life and they would not dare to eat like this.
"real?"
"Yes, everyone cried while eating." Ah He said. He remembered that when they were eating, the ten of them squatted together, all of them were crying while happily biting their steamed buns.
“Do you think other people can eat so well?” the wife couldn’t help asking.
Ah He knew that she was asking about the other victims besides the ten people who came to help.
He said calmly, "How is that possible? There are so many disaster victims. It's good enough if everyone can get a bite to eat and no one starves to death."
"That's true. Her father, I can really sleep peacefully tonight. Before, I was thinking that even if I arrived in Zhecheng and hugged other people, I would not dare to sleep, for fear that someone would touch me if I fell asleep, or that our girl would be secretly taken away."
It also happened on the road. Once, the disaster victims they met along the way gathered together at night to make a fire and sleep. Some people's children were taken away, and some women were touched for half the night, and their clothes were opened.
Ah He patted her.
The couple fell asleep as they were talking.
The next day, when Fu Zhaoning got up, it was bright outside. It was a sunny day.
"Miss, did you sleep well last night?" Xiaoyue brought hot water for her to wash.
"fine."
"Lord An and Magistrate You are waiting in the front hall."
Fu Zhaoning was stunned for a moment, then quickly packed up and went to the front hall.
An Nian and Prefect You, who were sitting and drinking hot porridge, looked at her at the same time. Fu Zhaoning saw two pairs of panda eyes with red bloodshot.
"Did the two adults not sleep all night?" Fu Zhaoning was surprised.
An Nian smiled bitterly.
"There are over 10,000 disaster victims. My senior brother said that things have started to get chaotic these past few days. There are too many people and it's hard to manage. We have to think of a solution."
So they have no time to sleep at all.
"Princess, the situation of the brother and sister was found out early this morning." Prefect You put down his bowl and explained the situation to her.
"The boy's name is Du Xiaofeng, and his sister is Du Xiaoya. They live in the alley you saw yesterday. No one knows what happened to the Du family, but it was tragic. Old man Du fell to his death while helping someone dig a well a few years ago. Old lady Du caught a cold the night she was keeping vigil for him, and she has been ill ever since. She died within half a year."
"Du Xiaofeng's parents met with an accident when they went to the mountains to cut firewood, leaving only this pair of siblings in the family, and no relatives. Du Xiaofeng used to run errands everywhere, such as delivering letters for others, running from one end of the city to the other, carrying things, and fetching water for others. Sometimes he would go to the farm outside the city to help people pick fruits for two days, and exchange them for three or five coins, which was barely enough to support himself and his sister."
Prefect You sighed.
"Du Xiaofeng picked up a dog from somewhere and has raised it for three or four years. When he goes out for a run, the dog accompanies Du Xiaoya. Yesterday, someone saw the dog and wanted to steal it."
Fu Zhaoning understood.
"Robbing a dog, beating a person?"
You Zhifu was helpless. "Those people are also disaster victims. Food is really too tight recently. So the porridge we give out every day is so clear that you can see the bottom. They are all hungry. Many people have been hungry for a long time before coming to Zhecheng. When they see a dog, they just want meat."
Their eyes turned green with hunger. For some people who are bad by nature, the evil thoughts in their hearts will be infinitely magnified at such times, and they will do bad things.
If Du Xiaofeng and his sister had not been seen by Fu Zhaoning yesterday, they might not have survived.
After hearing what his men said, Prefect You expressed his feelings to An Nian, saying that Princess Jun had saved two lives as soon as she entered the city.
Fu Zhaoning looked at An Nian.
An Nian immediately said, "I discussed this matter with my senior brother last night. We are going to borrow the guards from the palace. We need to use severe punishments to deal with the chaos. Those people must be severely punished so that they can serve as a warning to other victims."
"So those guys were caught yesterday?"
"yes."
Sure enough, the dark circles under the eyes of An Nian and Prefect You were worth it.
Fu Zhaoning said this, which caused the two adults to smile bitterly. Anyway, you can imagine how tired they will be next.
But there is no way around it.
"I'm going to go check on the brother and sister. You two adults should get some sleep. Don't stay up until you collapse and waste my medicine."
puff.
Prefect You looked at her back as she walked towards the medical clinic in the side hall, his tone somewhat surprised.
"Is Princess Jun of this character?"
She would even joke with them, but she was different from other women who followed the rules.
An Nian laughed, "Brother, you have never seen her confront the emperor so hard that his face turns red."
Anyway, he found it quite interesting.
Du Xiaofeng woke up and turned around to see his sister sleeping on the small bed next to him.
He thought about what happened yesterday and lay there without moving for a long time, but his hands kept rubbing the new clothes on his body involuntarily, fearing that it was an illusion.
Fu Zhaoning came in, and he immediately wanted to get up when he heard the sound.
"Don't move, you are seriously injured." Fu Zhaoning stopped him.
Du Xiaofeng looked at her, very nervous.
"I, I don't have the money to pay for the consultation—"
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