Chapter 19 Storytelling
Song Yuzhu patted Zhao Xiao's shoulder and said, "It's okay. I'll go over and take a look."
Zhao Xiao was worried about him being alone, so he followed him. When he arrived at other barracks, he saw seventy or eighty injured soldiers queuing up waiting for treatment. It would take until dawn to save them all, and the young doctor's body couldn't take it!
"Where are the other doctors?" Song Yuzhu also frowned, feeling as if he was being targeted. These soldiers were not seriously injured and did not need his treatment at all.
A wounded soldier said: "The other doctors are all resting..."
"You teach me, I'll do it!" Zhao Xiao rolled up his sleeves, letting Song Yuzhu watch while he bandaged the wounded. He was angry, and his attack was fierce and heavy, so that none of the wounded dared to let him treat them.
Zhao Xiao stood up and asked, "Are you sure no one needs our treatment?"
"No, no!" Everyone shook their heads like rattles.
He sneered, pulled Song Yuzhu and walked towards his barracks.
After returning to his barracks, a soldier brought water. Zhao Xiao took off his armor and squatted at the door to rinse the dried blood off his body. A bucket of water poured over him from head to toe, and he was soaked like a drowned dog.
He pounded the mud feebly. It was a terrible feeling to not be able to control his own fate. He wanted to climb higher and higher! At least he could choose his own life or death!
After taking a shower, they both lay on the bed in silence.
Song Yuzhu was still thinking about the box of antibiotics. The fact that this thing could appear on his body out of thin air was totally against quantum mechanics. But time travel itself was not normal. He couldn't figure it out no matter how hard he thought about it. He just let it go.
Antibiotics are a rare commodity. In this disaster-ridden battlefield, one bottle can save a person's life. He is not a bodhisattva who is willing to use it to save everyone. He only keeps it for himself. Well, the kid next to him can barely use a bottle.
Song Yuzhu turned to look at the person next to him. Seeing that he was in a low mood, he couldn't help but ask, "You must feel very uncomfortable after the battle, right?"
"Yeah." Zhao Xiao responded in a low voice. Although he had long been accustomed to the days of blood on the tip of the knife, it was still difficult for him to accept seeing so many of his comrades die on the battlefield.
"He asked me to tell my wife at home not to wait for him anymore and to find a good family to marry..."
Zhao Xiao said something without any context, and Song Yuzhu knew it must be the last words left by his comrade-in-arms.
"People will die in war, and you can't protect everyone."
Zhao Xiao put his arm over his eyes and said with a nasal voice, "I understand."
Song Yuzhu suddenly felt sorry for this kid. To put it bluntly, Zhao Xiao was just a boy who had just reached adulthood. When she was his age in her previous life, the hardest she could do was to work two jobs.
"Well, do you want to listen to a story? It will be better to distract yourself."
Zhao Xiao tilted his head and asked, "What story?"
"I'll tell you anything you want to hear."
Zhao Xiao bared his white teeth and said, "Then I want to hear the story of a beautiful woman, the kind with fair skin and big breasts!"
"I can't speak!"
"Forget it, seeing how old-fashioned you are, I don't think you can tell any interesting stories."
Song Yuzhu's face turned red. He had watched a few movies in his previous life, but it was too embarrassing to talk about it.
Zhao Xiao suddenly turned over and sat up and said, "How about I tell you a story?"
"What?"
"Do you want to hear about the young widow fighting three heroes at night, or about Sun Ersao playing with mandarin ducks in the water?"
Song Yuzhu knew that this kid was holding back his fart, so he covered his ears and said, "Don't look at anything indecent, don't listen to anything indecent!"
"I'm telling you this very well, are you sure you don't want to listen?"
"No, no, I'm going to sleep!"
"Hahahahaha!" Zhao Xiao laughed out loud at his teasing. "Okay, okay, I won't tease you anymore."
Song Yuzhu turned her head and looked at him: "You're not sad, are you?"
"Well, thank you." Zhao Xiao looked at him with sparkling eyes and thanked him sincerely. It was the first time in his life that he was comforted by someone, and he felt warm in his heart.
"You're welcome. I'll still have to rely on Captain Zhao to take care of me in the future."
Zhao Xiao couldn't help but smile and said, "You don't seem to be that old-fashioned~"
Song Yuzhu changed to a comfortable position and lay down, saying, "As a doctor, I am young to begin with. If I have a volatile personality, how can patients trust me?"
"So you're just pretending to be mature?"
"It's not really pretending, I just let myself go a little more in front of people I know."
Zhao Xiao was a little happy to hear that he was considered an acquaintance. "How about I call you Yuzhu from now on?"
"Why are you calling me like that all of a sudden?"
"Calling you Young Master Song seems strange."
Song Yuzhu looked at the tent, her heart beating faster: "Whatever you want."
"Yuzhu, aren't your elders worried about you coming out like this? I didn't see your father in the clinic that day, so why are there only three half-grown children like you left there?"
When talking about this matter, Song Yuzhu had a lot to say: "It's a long story. My family received news of a war outside the city a long time ago, so we arranged a carriage in advance and sent everyone back to the old house in the countryside for refuge."
Zhao Xiao asked in confusion: "Why didn't you leave?"
"It was my good brother. He had a brain shock and jumped off the carriage midway. I was afraid that he would be in danger if he stayed in the city alone, so I chased him. Unexpectedly, I missed the family carriage." Song Yuzhu said a lot of things. After a while, she heard a light snoring next to her. Zhao Xiao had fallen asleep.
He sighed and closed his eyes. He didn't know what the situation was like at home. He wondered if his parents would be worried and sad when they knew he had left with Da Jun.
*
In the front hall of the Song family, Song Bai was looking out anxiously. He had been running around these days, trying to find a way to get his son back from the military camp. In just a few days, he looked seven or eight years older, and his cheeks were so thin that they were sunken.
After a while, Song Qiao rushed in from the backyard: "Is Yutang not back yet?"
"No, he said he would be back around 3 p.m., so I've been waiting here."
"Go in and wait, it's still early."
The two brothers entered the hall, and a servant brought them tea and cakes.
"I know you love your son very much, but you also have to take care of your body. Look how thin you have become these days."
Song Bai lowered his head and said nothing.
Song Qiao knocked on the table and said, "Don't let the child be found before you fall down first!"
Song Bai smiled bitterly: "Second brother, if Yutang and Yufeng were captured and taken to the military camp, you would probably end up like me." No one can empathize with them unless it happens to them.
"Ah..." Song Qiao sighed. If only his elder brother was still alive, he would know many people in the court and might be able to help. At present, the two brothers have searched all their friends, but none of them can talk to the people around the Eighth Prince. Now they have money in their hands but don't know where to give it. There is really no one to send it to.
"Thump, thump, thump!" There was a sudden sound of footsteps outside the door, and the two of them stood up at the same time to greet them.
Song Yutang said with joy: "I heard about Yuzhu! He has already arrived in Xuzhou with the army!"
"Really? That's great!" Song Bai's eyes brightened up as he cleared the gloom of the past few days. "How is he now? Is he injured? Is he sick?"
Song Yutang took a breath and said, "I haven't asked for the specifics yet. The man I'm looking for is the younger brother of the Right General of the Eighth Prince. His surname is Yang and his name is Gu. He opened several restaurants in Xizhou Prefecture before, and came to Jiangcheng County to do business some time ago."
Song Qiao quickly asked his son: "Does he have a way to get Yuzhu out?"
Song Yutang hesitated and said, "There is a way, but it will cost a lot of money."
Song Bai: "Even if I lose everything I own, I will redeem Yuzhu!"
Yang Gu asked for 100,000 taels of silver to get the man out. As the amount was too high, Song Yutang did not dare to accept it, so he had to come back to discuss it with his father and third uncle.
"One hundred thousand taels..." Song Bai was also stunned when he heard this number. All the silver in his hands added up to less than ten thousand taels. The business of the clinic was not as good as that of the pharmacy, and the management over the years was also average, so he did not save much.
"I...I'll go back and discuss it with Rong'er. If it doesn't work out, I'll sell the shop and make some extra money."
Song Qiao said, "Don't worry, I'll see if I can transfer a few tens of thousands of taels of silver from the account for you."
"Hey...hey." Song Bai hurried back to the backyard.
Song Qiao also took Song Yutang back to his courtyard. The silver issue still needed to be discussed with Qin, after all, the Qin family also had a stake in the pharmacy business.
"How much silver do you want?!" Qin's eyes widened when she heard this.
"One hundred thousand taels."
"Let the third brother and his wife have another child."
Song Qiao said angrily: "Are you talking nonsense?"
Qin sneered, "Don't mention that Song Yuzhu is not my biological son. Even if Feng'er or Tang'er were captured in the military camp, I would not use 100,000 taels to redeem them. Do you really think your son is made of gold?"
"Mom, please stop talking." Song Yutang advised. "Uncle San has been worried these days. He finally has hope. We have to help him."
Qin tapped his forehead with her finger and said, "Fool, do you think you can get the money back after giving it to someone? I'm afraid that even if you take the silver, the person won't get it back, and you'll end up with nothing."
Song Qiao was silent. Everyone understood this truth, except Song Bai and his wife, who were confused by it.
"I have promised the third brother that I would give him the silver. No matter what, the man must be saved."
Qin was immediately anxious when she heard this: "Song Lao Er! I'm telling you, don't even think about taking a penny from home today! Over the years, you have been privately subsidizing the clinic's business, and I turned a blind eye to it. Now you want to take the money I saved for my sons. No way!"
"Qin Fenglian!"
"What? You still want to divorce me?! Let the third brother's family save their son! Just use whatever you can do. Why do you need our money?"
Song Qiao was so angry that he pointed at her with his fingers trembling for a long time and couldn't speak: "Hurry up and take out the key."
“No!”
Song Qiaoqi tried to grab it, and Qin saw that she couldn't stop him, so she simply grabbed his hair and scratched it hard twice, then sat on the ground and burst into tears.
"There's no work to do! You Song family always bully honest people~~"
Song Yutang quickly helped her up: "Mother, why are you doing this?"
*
When Song Bai returned to the backyard, he did not tell Jiang Rong about using the silver to redeem the person. He only told her that he had heard news about his son.
Jiang Rong perked up when she heard this: "Is Zhu'er okay there?"
"Well, he has excellent medical skills and is highly valued by Prince Qing. I'm afraid he won't be able to come back for a while..." Song Bai made up a lie.
Jiang Rong comforted him, "There's nothing we can do about it. As long as your life is safe, I'll be relieved."
Song Bai held his wife's hand and nodded: "That's right, as long as he is okay, we will be relieved."
On the way back, he thought a lot. If the second wife could take the 100,000 taels of silver, she should be able to take it, but why should she take it herself? Even if the second brother agreed, the second sister-in-law and two nephews might not agree. Rather than ruin the relationship between brothers, it is better not to take it.
The old lady did have some money, but that was my eldest brother's life-saving money, and I couldn't ask for it, so I just let it go...
Unexpectedly, after dinner, Song Qiao came over with some silver bills.
Song Bai felt helpless when he looked at the scratches on his face.
"Second brother...this silver..."
Song Qiao patted him on the shoulder and said, "Take it. The child is more important than anything else!"
Song Bai shook his head and returned the silver.
Song Qiao was a little confused: "What's wrong? Didn't we just agree to use the silver to rescue people?"
Song Bai smiled bitterly and said, "Don't you know what kind of person the King of Qing is? He has robbed the entire Jiangcheng County clean. How could such a greedy person let people go if he saw silver?"
Maybe he will use this as a threat to demand two hundred thousand or three hundred thousand taels. If I can't give the money by then, it will hurt the relationship between the brothers and harm my son. It will be a loss, so I can't take the money.
Song Qiao sighed and said, "It would be good if you can figure it out."
(End of this chapter)
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