The girls were cheered up upon hearing this and all responded.
Although they were all wearing cloaks and hoods to keep out the snow, the wind and snow were too strong. Everyone's face, body, and hands were covered with some snowflakes, and their bangs were messed up by the wind, making them look a little disheveled.
Everyone immediately changed their route and took a road on the left, leaving clear hoof prints on the soft snow.
Suddenly, Gu Yanfei, who was leading the way, stopped his horse without warning, looked at the weeds on the side of the road, and raised his hand to make a "stop" gesture.
Then, Wei Jiaoniang, Lu Qin and others also reined in their horses and stopped.
A few feet ahead, on the side of the road, there was a rusty figure lying there, looking slightly bloated, covered with a layer of snow, and motionless.
"There's a guy there!"
Lu Qin was the first to point in that direction and shout.
The girls were in an uproar and quickly rode their horses forward to surround the man on the ground.
The accompanying maids dismounted to check. Two of them worked together to turn the person lying on the ground over, and gently brushed the snow off her face, body and head.
She was an old woman in her fifties, wearing a rust-colored cotton jacket with dark patterns. Her pale face was slightly blue from the cold, full of wrinkles, and her eyes were tightly closed.
There was a glaring pool of blood among the gray hair.
"It's an old lady." A maid reported in doubt, her face pale, one of her hands stained with the old woman's blood, "She fainted, and there is a wound on her head."
Gu Yanfeifei got off the horse and carefully checked the wound on the old woman's head. She could feel the unique sticky feeling of blood. The back of the old woman's head was slightly swollen, and there was a wound the size of a baby's fist, and blood was oozing out.
The other girls were talking at once: "Why is this old lady lying here alone? Did she meet robbers on the road?"
"Definitely not. Look at the silver hairpin on her head. If it was a robber, he would have robbed her of everything."
"That's true."
“…”
The few of them were talking animatedly, while Wei Jiaoniang and Lu Qin looked at each other quietly, both with thoughtful expressions in their eyes.
The old woman's clothes were neither new nor old, clean and without patches. She did not look like a poor person, but she was definitely not from a wealthy family.
Looking at her again, she had a silver hairpin in her hair, a silver ring on her finger, and a clean and tidy handkerchief showing from one of her sleeves. She didn't behave like an old lady from a small family, but more like a servant from a large family.
The two exchanged glances. Lu Qin moved closer, glanced at the old woman's wound, and said, "It's quite serious..."
This is clearly a threat to her life! It's cold now and it's snowing. If they leave it alone, it's conceivable that if the old woman lies here for a night, she will definitely die.
"Let's take her to the farm first." Gu Yanfei stood up and wiped the blood off his hands with a handkerchief.
"Then let her ride with me." Wei Jiaoniang couldn't wait to recommend herself, patting her chest confidently and said, "I'm a good rider, so it's no problem to bring one more person."
Receiving Wei Jiaoniang's gaze, Gu Yanfei smiled and ordered Juanbi to carry the person onto the horse.
Juanbi was always efficient in his work. He easily carried the old woman from the ground to Wei Jiaoniang's horse.
Everyone quickly got back on their horses and continued on their journey in the cold wind and heavy snow.
They hurried along the way and finally arrived at their destination before it got completely dark.
"That's it!"
Gu Yanfei pointed at Zhuangzi in the distance, his little face hidden in the hood full of nostalgia.
In her previous life, she had been to this village located on the outskirts of Beijing.
She had originally thought that after the family split up, she could bring her eldest brother to live here, so she came here in person to make some arrangements.
At that time, her eldest brother had difficulty walking due to a leg injury, so she removed all the thresholds in the farmhouse and added ramps in places where there were stone steps to facilitate wheelchair access.
She set up study rooms and workshops for her eldest brother and herself. Her eldest brother was very skillful and could even make a wheelchair.
She also had hot spring water brought in to create a hot spring pool. She also dug a pond beside the fields behind the farm, planning to plant lotus so that people could enjoy the lotus, eat lotus seeds, and dig lotus roots.
This village is very large and open, with fields, rivers and mountains, enough to be self-sufficient.
Two hundred years later, when she was in this familiar yet unfamiliar environment, memories came flooding back.
She planned well, but...
Things don't always go as planned.
The girls reined in their horses in front of the farmhouse; the horses neighed and breathed out white air.
Juanbi was the first to dismount and knock on the door.
When the manager of the manor heard that the visitor was his own daughter, he was overjoyed. He quickly brought people to greet her and opened the manor gate wide.
This area is remote and usually there are hardly any visitors. But today so many distinguished guests came at once that the whole village was shaken.
Gu Yanfei ordered the manager of the manor to send people to various prefectures in the capital to inform the news, so as to avoid worrying the families of Wei Jiaoniang and others.
Then she had the old woman moved to the east wing.
Lu Qin and other girls were invited by the people in the manor to sit in the hall, and the maids who accompanied them also helped to boil water and serve.
Only Wei Jiaoniang followed Gu Yanfei to the inner room of the east wing, and the unconscious old woman was moved to a couch by several maids.
There were no other injuries on the old woman's body, only the back of her head was hit by a hard object, causing a fatal wound.
At this moment, the wound on the scalp has stopped bleeding and even shows a little sign of healing.
"Not bad." Gu Yanfei curled the corners of his lips and looked at Wei Jiaoniang.
Wei Jiaoniang raised her chin proudly and winked at Gu Yanfei.
After Gu Yanfei taught her the talisman for curing diseases, Wei Jiaoniang had long wanted to find an opportunity to try it out, but she couldn't hurt herself before healing herself... That would be too stupid.
Just now, when she was taking the old woman on the road, she had been drawing talismans to ward off illness, over and over again.
Even if it only succeeds once out of ten times, the effect is still quite good and the bleeding has stopped.
Gu Yanfei smiled at her, and the two exchanged a tacit little secret.
She is so awesome! Wei Jiaoniang was so happy that her tail was about to stand up.
As long as the bleeding stops, the wound won't be a big problem. Gu Yanfei ordered, "Juanbi, go get someone to get some cold boiled water to clean the wound, and get some clean white cloth."
Juanbi went there, and soon she came with a pretty daughter-in-law in her thirties. One of them was holding coarse cloth and scissors, and the other was holding a basin of water.
The daughter-in-law walked closer to the bed with a basin of water. When she saw the person on the bed, she was suddenly stunned and blurted out, "It's Aunt Pang!"
"Do you recognize her?" Gu Yanfei raised his eyebrows slightly.
"I recognize her." The daughter-in-law put the basin on the bedside table, her eyes kept drifting to Madam Pang. After a while, she came back to her senses and nodded, "Miss, Madam Pang was the late Madam's wet nurse."
This farm was Xie's dowry, and the people inside were all Xie's companions. Naturally, they all knew Xie's wet nurse.
The daughter-in-law hesitated for a moment, then continued, "Madame Pang made a mistake a few years ago and was kicked out of the mansion. It was said that...she treated the third young lady badly."
Thinking of Gu Yunmeng's identity, her expression became a little embarrassed.
"..." Gu Yanfei blinked and was stunned for a moment.
Mother’s wet nurse?
Now that she said that, she had a vague impression.
In her previous life, probably around the Spring Festival, a person claiming to be her mother’s wet nurse came to the Marquis’s residence to pay her respects. However, by the time she realized what was going on, it was already too late; the person had already been sent away.
By the way, the servants at that time called her Aunt Pang.
But later on, she never heard from Madam Pang again.
Counting the days, it seems that in the previous life, Madam Pang came to the Marquis' Mansion just these few days.
Gu Yanfei's dark eyes were so deep that one could not see the bottom of the picture. He stared at the unconscious Madam Pang. He felt complicated in his heart. He could not tell whether he felt disappointed or sighed.
After sitting quietly for two breaths, she asked her daughter-in-law to cook some ginger soup for Lu Qin and the others.
The daughter-in-law responded repeatedly, bowed somewhat awkwardly, and then hurried away.
Juanbi followed Gu Yanfei's instructions and used cold boiled water to clean the area around Aunt Pang's wound, applied some medicine on it, and finally bandaged it with white cloth.
"Juanbi, find someone to take good care of her first. She..." Gu Yanfei glanced at Hulou, "She will probably wake up at 15:00."
After saying this, she affectionately took Wei Jiaoniang's arm and went to the hall in the front yard.
At this time, Gu Yanfei's mood had returned to normal, with a smile on his face, as if nothing had happened.
There was heavy snow falling outside, and all I could see was white. The snow was getting thicker and thicker.
Lu Qin and other girls had already drunk the ginger soup, and they looked relaxed and happy, talking and laughing.
With a place to shelter from the wind and snow, they all felt at ease, drinking tea and eating snacks. The worst case scenario was that they would just spend a night in this farm.
Seeing Gu Yanfei and Wei Jiaoniang coming hand in hand, the girls put down their cups and asked a few questions with concern:
"How is the old lady's injury?"
"Have you called a doctor?"
Wei Jiaoniang tugged at Gu Yanfei's sleeve and answered evasively, "She's fine now. This time, saving a life is better than building a seven-story pagoda."
The next sentence changed the subject: "I'm hungry, what's good to eat?"
The girls were relieved to hear that the injured were fine. Lu Qin was the first to say, "This plum cake is good, soft and delicious!"
“And these pine nuts are very sweet too.”
“…”
The girls were chatting and laughing, and the hall was so lively that even the howling snow and wind outside were suppressed.
The snow finally showed signs of abating.
Carriages from various mansions arrived at the manor one after another, but no one came to Dingyuan Marquis's mansion.
(End of this chapter)
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