Wang Xiaoxiao was crying so hard that she was completely limp. When I touched her forehead, it was burning hot, and my heart tightened even more.
"What exactly happened to you all? Why are you all sick? How is Xu Wei? What's going on?"
Liu Jiaojiao wiped her eyes, her face was deathly pale. Chen Jian had already moved closer to Liu Jiaojiao, and the two hugged each other tightly.
Liu Jiaojiao sighed, "Yesterday it suddenly started raining heavily, but all our rice seedlings were drying on the mountaintop. Sister Xu Wei said that if these seedlings were soaked by such heavy rain for a day, they would be useless. So she went to call Bai Wei, wanting him and his group to move all the seedlings to the warehouse where we used to store firewood. But who knew that Bai Wei and his group..."
As Liu Jiaojiao spoke, her eyes reddened even more. She gritted her teeth and continued.
"Bai Wei and the others didn't care about our lives at all. They said that even if the seedlings were gone, they could find more, but if people died, it was all over. So no one cared about us. Sister Xu Wei and Sister Xiao Xiao were very anxious. The two of them quickly ran to the top of the mountain and started to move the rice seedlings. But after all, they were women and didn't have that much strength. They were soaked in the rain for most of the day and finally moved all the rice seedlings into the warehouse. But then Sister Xu Wei fainted."
Chen Jian gritted his teeth in anger after hearing Liu Jiaojiao's words.
"That beast Bai Wei, how could he be so heartless? Besides, although we took two male colleagues with us, weren't there other people here? Where's Wang Ping? Why didn't he come out?"
Wang Xiaoxiao wiped away her tears, seemingly calming down a bit. After listening to Chen Jian's words, she sneered.
"Even if Wang Ping wanted to help us, what could he do? With you gone, Bai Wei was all alone. I don't know why Wang Ping didn't come out. Anyway, we moved everything ourselves, which is fine. But at night, Bai Wei even brought people to our house to steal our food. They took all the shellfish and dried sea cucumbers left... Bai Wei said that these things were for saving lives, and it would be a pity if they were ruined by the rain. We couldn't stop them at all. Besides, Xu Wei had already fainted, so we didn't have the mind to stop them. So, Sihai, if you don't come back, we're afraid we won't be able to survive."
After listening to what Wang Xiaoxiao and Liu Jiaojiao said, I felt a surge of resentment.
At first, when we went to help those foreigners, we just hoped to bring back more supplies.
Originally, I was planning to share some of these supplies with Bai Wei and the others after we got them back. After all, we are now mutually supportive, and as long as we can maintain a superficially peaceful relationship, we can live peacefully in the future.
Once we find a boat nearby, we'll be saved. We can just get through this ordeal. But I never expected that Bai Wei and his gang would take advantage of our misfortune and even bully me.
I simply cannot bear to see Wang Xiaoxiao and the others suffer so much while I was away.
At this moment, Xu Wei was lying on the wooden bed trembling, and Xiao Qiang's face was also very pale.
After all, she had traveled a long way with us and returned in the pouring rain. The most important thing now was to light a campfire and keep warm. I immediately told Chen Jian to chop all the wood stored in our cabin into small strips with a kitchen knife, then pile them together and light a campfire in the cabin.
After the windows were opened, there wasn't a strong smell of smoke in the room. The campfire was lit quickly, and the room gradually became warm. Liu Jiaojiao's complexion improved a lot. She wiped away her tears and looked at Chen Jian.
"You stay here with Brother Sihai for now. I'll go out and collect some rainwater. Let's make some soup to drink first. I see that Sister Xiao Qiang's complexion is also very bad. We must not get sick again."
Xiao Qiang wiped the water off her body and nodded: "I'll go change into some clean clothes first. You prepare the soup first, and I'll add some herbs so we can sweat it out."
I touched Xu Wei's hair and found that it was burning hot. Wang Xiaoxiao wiped away her tears and started crying again. She said that she had given Xu Wei medicine, but after taking the medicine, Xu Wei not only did not get better, but seemed to be even worse.
She and Liu Jiaojiao discussed it and guessed that the medicine was ineffective because it had expired.
If we don't come back this time, she's planning to go back to the foreigners' camp to find us.
Xiao Qiang changed his shirt and came out, but his shoes were still wet. He had no choice but to walk barefoot on the wooden board, look at Xu Wei, then pry open Xu Wei's eyes, and sighed softly.
"She's probably suffering from a sudden onset of fever, plus the cold entering her body. Luckily, we should still have all the herbs we found earlier. Go and find these herbs; there might be some that can reduce fever."
After listening to Xiao Qiang for a while, Wang Xiaoxiao immediately nodded excitedly and got up to rummage through the supplies covered with wolf skins.
But to my surprise, as soon as she stood up, her body went limp. Luckily, I was quick-witted and close to her, so I immediately rushed forward and pulled Wang Xiaoxiao into my arms. Only then did I realize that Wang Xiaoxiao's forehead was also very hot.
"Alright, let her rest first. I can see they've suffered so much these past two days, they must be feeling really bad. You should comfort her. I'll go find something for her. Liu Jiaojiao and I will make something to eat so we can have something to fill our stomachs."
I helped Wang Xiaoxiao sit on the wooden bed. Wang Xiaoxiao sighed, "I'm so useless. Otherwise, things wouldn't be so miserable. I never knew how hard our lives were without you. Please don't leave again, just stay with us, okay?"
This is the first time I've seen Wang Xiaoxiao show such a vulnerable side in front of me since I've known her for so long.
I looked at Wang Xiaoxiao and gently patted her back: "Don't worry, I will definitely get justice for you. But the most important thing right now is to take some medicine."
Meanwhile, Xiao Qiang and Liu Jiaojiao had already set up the pot, and soon the house was filled with a delicious aroma.
Xiao Qiang busied herself putting the dried and powdered herbs into the pot.
I sighed. It seems I had thought too highly of Bai Wei and his group before.
This time, I must let Bai Wei know that we are not so easy to bully. If we let them establish this foundation, what kind of life will Wang Xiaoxiao and the others lead when I am not around?
So I have to get justice for Wang Xiaoxiao and the others in a little while.
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