Not long after Su Ruojin returned to Ren'ai Hall from the county government, she received a message from the Dark Alliance that the carriage suspected of kidnapping the old lady was heading towards the capital.
Su Ruojin was far from at ease, so she handed over the clinic to Zhihua to manage and rode off to the capital with Fengying and Yanluo.
She had no desire to set foot in the capital; under the emperor's nose, there was much trouble.
However, if anyone in the capital dares to touch someone she cares about, she wouldn't mind clashing with them.
She initially established the Heavenly Medicine Pavilion for medical research and to benefit the people, while the Dark Alliance was for her to have the ability to protect herself.
Su Ruojin knew very well how difficult it was for ordinary people, especially women, to live in a dynasty like the Great Chu Kingdom. A single word from the powerful could decide a person's life or death.
"Life is as worthless as grass" was not an adjective used in this dynasty.
She doesn't want to be at the mercy of others if she ever encounters such a situation.
Even if she is a rabbit in the eyes of the powerful and wealthy, she must be a rabbit with fangs, armor, that can bite people and even kill them!
Su Ruojin rode non-stop, and when her horse got tired, she switched to another one to continue running.
Although she suspected that the other party wouldn't do anything to Old Madam Lin, Su Ruojin didn't dare to gamble because her grandmother was old.
Her grandmother was the first person to treat her well after she woke up in this world, and she couldn't bear to see her grandmother suffer any harm.
As dawn approached and they neared the capital, Su Ruojin suddenly reined in her horse as they passed through a grove of trees. With a neigh, the horse came to an abrupt stop.
Yanluo and Fengying also reined in their horses. Yanluo hurriedly asked, "Miss, what's wrong?"
Su Ruojin gestured with her chin toward the bushes by the roadside: "There's someone there, looks like they're injured."
Yanluo and Fengying followed Su Ruojin's gaze and saw a person lying in the grass, slowly crawling towards the roadside.
A faint smell of blood could be detected in the air.
"Miss, this..." Yanluo looked somewhat troubled.
The young lady often told them that doctors cannot stand by and watch someone die, but now they were in a hurry to go to the capital to find Old Madam Lin, and saving someone would inevitably waste time.
The key issue is that we don't even know this person's background. What if we save a bad guy?
"Miss, why don't we just leave it at that?" Yanluo said through gritted teeth.
Given the choice between a stranger and Old Madam Lin, Yanluo naturally chose Old Madam Lin.
"Help...help..." The person seemed to sense someone and weakly uttered a sound.
"Fengying, go take a look," Su Ruojin said.
"Yes, Miss." Fengying dismounted and walked towards the person.
“Miss, it’s an old man, and it looks like he’s not going to make it.” Feng Ying squatted down next to the man and observed him for a while.
Su Ruojin dismounted and walked towards the man.
The man was about fifty years old, with gray hair, and his clothes were torn and tattered, stained with blood so much that their original color was almost unrecognizable.
His face and hands were covered in scratches, stained with dirt and blood.
The old man's eyes were covered in bruises. He struggled to open them, raised his head to look in Su Ruojin's direction, and whispered, "Help...help..." After saying that, the old man lowered his head and lay motionless on the ground, completely unconscious.
When Su Ruojin saw the old man's face, a look of surprise flashed across her face.
"Feng Ying, take him with you, let's go!" Su Ruojin stood up and gave the order.
Since the young lady had spoken, Fengying wouldn't say anything. Yanluo came over to help the old man onto the horse, and then Fengying tore off a piece of her robe and tied the old man to her back. The three of them continued on their way.
Once inside the city, they randomly found an inn, where Su Ruojin first took the old man's pulse.
With severe sword wounds and the shock of being trapped in the woods, he was barely clinging to life. It's unknown how long he crawled through the woods, but he was hanging on by a thread.
Su Ruojin first fed the old man a pill, administered acupuncture, applied wound medicine, and then wrote out a prescription for Yan Luo to get the medicine.
After she finished doing all this, Fengying couldn't help but ask, "Miss, why did you save him?"
Fengying shared the same thought as Yanluo: rescuing people of unknown origin during this special period could potentially cause trouble and delay the search for the old lady.
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