The woman was badly injured, and the baby in her arms was barely breathing. If they delayed any longer, it could be dangerous.
Cheng Qingyan still had some ginseng slices in her space. She took one out and put it into the child's mouth: "This is a ginseng slice. If you don't want to leave your mother, then keep it in your mouth. My wife and I will take you and your mother to see a doctor."
The woman, her face streaked with tears, thanked him profusely, saying, "My benefactor, you should take Xue'er to see a doctor. I'll be fine. Besides, that person won't just let you take Xue'er away like that."
Ye Lingyu took the child from the woman's hands. The child was burning up and must have a fever. "Madam, you don't need to worry. We said we'd take you to see a doctor, and no one dared to stop us."
Wang Mazi was still rambling on when he saw Ye Lingyu pick up the child. He immediately shouted, "Sir, look! They're stealing the child right in front of you!"
Nie Yilin looked in the direction he was pointing, feeling annoyed, and saw that it was Ye Lingyu and Cheng Qingyan. He hurriedly led his people over.
Cheng Qingyan looked at Wang Mazi and said, "We didn't kick him hard enough. We should have made sure he couldn't make a sound."
If you can't speak, then you won't talk nonsense.
Ye Lingyu agreed: "Indeed, or perhaps we should kick him further away so he can't climb over."
"Yes, my wife is right. I'll know next time."
When the woman saw Nie Yilin leading soldiers over, she reached out and grabbed Ye Lingyu's skirt: "Benefactor, you go quickly, I'll hold them off."
She herself was already disabled; how could she possibly stop Nie Yilin and the others? Besides, they were already very close by.
"Honorable sir, are you and your wife shopping? Do you need our protection?" Nie Yilin and all the yamen runners in the county government recognized Cheng Qingyan and Ye Lingyu, after all, they had stayed in the county government for several days.
The Marquis of Ping Le and Prince Ning are both in Yuan Ning County, and they are living in the same mansion as the person in front of him. Nie Yilin dares not even imagine their identities.
Cheng Qingyan pointed at Wang Mazi: "Have someone take him to the county jail and tell Cai Wuping that this man abused his wife and children to death. Then, the woman on the ground needs medical treatment; have someone carry her and come with me."
"yes!"
Wang Mazi was taken away by two yamen runners, while the other yamen runners found a cart and pushed the woman behind Cheng Qingyan toward Puji Hall.
Yan Nanxing's pharmacy is nearby, and the child urgently needs treatment.
Ye Lingyu carried the child the whole way, not letting Cheng Qingyan handle it, since to outsiders, Cheng Qingyan was a man.
The child was about six or seven years old, very light to hold, his clothes heavily patched. He had hardly any flesh on him; his bones were so bony they were painful to the touch.
After handing the person over to Yan Nanxing, Cheng Qingyan and Ye Lingyu were only at ease after ensuring that the child and the woman were safe.
However, after treating the woman, Yan Nanxing said that her leg would likely have a long way to go before it fully recovered. The child, on the other hand, was well cared for and didn't suffer any lasting health problems; with proper rest and recuperation, he should recover.
I really didn't expect that all I wanted to do was spend some quality time with Ye Lingyu, but I ended up encountering some injustice.
In this era, women have absolutely no status.
Everyone probably felt that Wang Mazi was wrong, but there was no law to punish him, and there was even no evidence to prove that he broke his wife's leg. In this situation where there was no legal support and it was difficult to obtain evidence, the officials turned a blind eye to his actions.
A person is beaten every day. If one day she is not beaten, she or those around her will think she is lucky that day because she was not beaten.
Everyone was relieved that she had escaped a beating today, but no one remembered that she shouldn't have been beaten in the first place.
Women like her are not isolated cases.
To say that love ultimately depends on conscience is absurd; those who marry without ever having met are like people opening blind boxes.
Their marriage was a matter of luck.
It was too suffocating to watch, so Cheng Qingyan acted without hesitation. She might not be able to save everyone suffering, but she would save as many as she could when she encountered them.
After the woman woke up and found that her child was already receiving treatment, her emotions stabilized.
She lay in bed with her legs immobilized. This was the best Yan Nanxing could do to save her. As for how well she would recover, that depended on someone with better medical skills or fate.
When Cheng Qingyan and Ye Lingyu went to see her, the young apprentice was serving her medicine.
Upon seeing Cheng Qingyan and Ye Lingyu, she was very grateful and tried to get up, but Ye Lingyu pressed her down.
"You're still injured, so don't move around."
The woman's eyes were filled with tears: "Thank you both for saving my and Xue'er's lives."
"It was nothing, Madam, please don't worry about it. I still don't know how to address you, Madam."
The woman wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes: "Zhao Shiru Shuang greets your two benefactors."
Zhao Rushuang used her own surname, her maiden name, and did not use Wang Mazi's surname.
Ye Lingyu and Cheng Qingyan exchanged glances: "What is the relationship between Madam and the person who stole your things?"
Zhao Ru's eyes darted away, and after a moment of silence, she replied, "He is my husband..."
Cheng Qingyan asked her, puzzled, "He beat you up like this, why don't you divorce him?"
Zhao Rushuang hurriedly defended herself, saying, "It's not that I don't want to divorce him, it's that I brought it up once and he almost beat me to death. Later, after we had a child, I brought up divorce again, but the government wouldn't allow it, saying that he didn't beat me every day and I wasn't beaten to death, so they wouldn't allow a divorce."
In this era, after a divorce, the divorce agreement had to be taken to the local government office where the household registration was located and stamped by the government before it became effective. It wasn't that the divorce agreement could be written and signed by both parties and that was it.
A divorce decree without the official seal of the government is not considered a genuine divorce. This meant that neither spouse could freely decide their marital relationship; both parties and the government had to agree for a divorce to be valid.
Of course, if you have enough power or status, that's a different story.
The laws of this era are incomplete and unfair, making change extremely difficult.
Moreover, women who go out to work in public are often pointed at and gossiped about. Zhao Rushuang, with a child to support, faces even greater difficulties in surviving.
As they were talking, Zhao Rushuang's daughter, Xue'er, also woke up.
She lay in the bed next to Zhao Rushuang's, looking pale and thin, with hardly any flesh on her body. Apart from the places where she had bumped into things, she had no other injuries; Zhao Rushuang had taken good care of her.
She looked at Cheng Qingyan and Ye Lingyu with pleading eyes: "My lord, my lady, please save my mother. Xue'er doesn't want my mother to be beaten to death."
"Xue'er will grow up soon. When she grows up, she will definitely repay her husband and wife. Please, husband and wife, save my mother. I beg you."
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