Chapter 568: The Exiled Female Prisoner with Two Deadly Deaths (3)
Also exiled were some of the deposed prince's subordinate families, so there were quite a lot of people along the way, and there was no need to worry too much about safety as they walked together.
Lan Shichu walked silently with her head down while dissipating the internal energy in her body. Although her current body was thin, her aptitude for martial arts was surprisingly good. She easily straightened out her meridians, and the faint internal energy flowed through the newly opened meridians, constantly relieving her body's fatigue, so she could walk more easily than others.
Just when she was practicing with great concentration, there was a sudden thud and something fell to the ground.
"Mom!" Gong Liangxian saw his mother fainted on the ground and rushed over to check on her. "Mom, how are you? Wake up..."
When Lan Shichu looked up, he saw Gong Liangxian shaking Liu's body with a worried look on his face and calling her constantly. His wife Wen also came over and pinched her mother-in-law's philtrum with red eyes, trying to wake her up.
Duke Cheng'en, no, he was not Duke Cheng'en now, but Gong Liangqin, who was humbly begging the officers escorting them to find a doctor to treat his wife.
"Are you sick? This is a remote place, where can we find a doctor?! Don't you realize who you are? You are exiled prisoners now! Prisoners also want to see a doctor? Dream on! Go away! Don't even think about being lazy!" The officer looked ferocious and pushed Gong Liangqin, who staggered and almost fell.
"Sir, please be kind. My old wife has really fainted and can't leave! Please, send someone to check on her..." Gong Liangqin almost choked with sobs as he begged the officer.
But the officer was hard-hearted and swung the whip in his hand to hit Gong Liangqin. Gong Liangqin shrank back but did not retreat and continued to beg for mercy with the officer.
Upon seeing this, Lan Shichu quickly pulled Gong Liangqin aside, avoiding the officer's whip, and apologized to the officer, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry! Don't be angry, we'll leave now."
"Lan! What do you want to do? Your mother-in-law is still unconscious, you can't..." Gong Liangqin said angrily.
"Dad, it's useless. They won't care about us." Lan Shichu said, pretending to reach into his sleeve and took out a Chinese medicine pill for dizziness from the companion space. He said to Gong Liangqin, "I have some pills hidden secretly. I usually use them for self-defense and health. I just don't know if they are effective for Mom's illness."
When Gong Liangqin saw it, he said with a sad face: "There is no way to test it now. As long as it is not poison, let her eat it and give it a try."
At this time, the team was still on the march. Gong Liangxian was afraid that the officers would think that Liu was dead and abandoned her on the road, so he had to ask his wife to help carry Liu on his back. He carried the person on his back and continued on his way. However, he was just a weak scholar, and it was very difficult for him to walk with a person on his back. Wen had to help from the side and let the eldest son pull the younger daughter and walk slowly.
Gong Liangqin had already taken the medicine from Lan Shichu's hand, and rushed to his son's side impatiently and fed the medicine to his unconscious wife.
"Dad, what did you feed Mom?" Gong Liangxian asked in a low voice.
"The medicine given by the Lan family. There is no way to find a doctor now, so let's try whatever medicine it is." Gong Liangqin said helplessly and sadly.
Wen's eyes were red, and she thanked him, "Fortunately, my sister-in-law was smart and hid the medicine."
Lan Shichu also walked over to them at this time. After hearing what Wen said, he said, "The pills I took in a panic on the day I was arrested were probably for nourishing the body. Even if mother is not conscious, she will not be poisoned after taking them."
"Thanks to you." Wen shook Lan Shichu's hand and said.
Lan Shichu shook her head. She knew that if she didn't save Liu, she would die tomorrow, one day later than the original owner. Liu's death would also be a great blow to Gong Liangqin, causing him to quickly become depressed and die a few days later.
Although Lan Shichu did not like Gong Liangqin and his wife, who forced Gong Liangsubai to marry the original owner and indirectly caused the original owner's life tragedy, after the original owner got married, the couple probably felt guilty about her and treated her better. So Lan Shichu planned to save their lives for this reason, but it was just to save their lives, she would not care about anything else.
Perhaps the pills Lan Shichu gave her took effect. Liu woke up after two quarters of an hour. She opened her eyes and found herself being carried by her son. She immediately became anxious: "Xian'er, put me down quickly. Your body can't take it..."
"Mom, are you awake?" Gong Liangxian asked happily, but he did not put her down as he was told. "You just woke up, so you definitely can't walk yet. Let me continue to carry you for a while."
Liu tried to persuade him for a long time but to no avail, so she had to let Gong Liangxian carry him for a while. After a quarter of an hour, Liu heard her son's heavy breathing and said that he was about to get out of bed. Gong Liangxian had no choice but to put her down and let Wen help her walk.
Lan Shichu took a few glances at Liu's face and saw that her face was no longer as gloomy and dead as before, and her complexion had recovered a little. He knew that her life was not in any danger for the time being, so he continued to walk aside and exercise the internal strength in his meridians.
"The pills my sister-in-law gave me seem to be really effective." Wen said in a low voice.
"The Lan family still has pills? Why did this child give me the pills? She's pregnant, she should save them for herself." When Liu heard her eldest daughter-in-law's words, she became anxious and looked at Lan Shichu. She saw that she lowered her head as if her whole body was immersed in walking. Her steps were steady and orderly, not messy. Knowing that there was nothing wrong with her body, she breathed a sigh of relief, but still scolded her lightly, "This child, you don't know the priorities. Your medicine is so precious, how can you give it to an old woman like me? It's a waste!"
Wen didn't know how to answer this question, but she thought in her heart that Lan Shichu, her sister-in-law, was hiding something very well. Even she didn't know until today that she had hidden the medicine.
The exile was so difficult, because of hunger and excessive fatigue, illness and fever were inevitable, and sometimes a pill was equal to a life, so Wen admired Lan Shichu for being willing to give medicine to save her mother-in-law. If it were her, she might not have taken out the medicine, because people are selfish. She has a husband and two sons. Compared with her mother-in-law, these three are naturally more important to her.
Lan Shichu had no idea that his sister-in-law had thought so much. She had plenty of ordinary pills in her companion space. If she only had this one life-saving pill, she would definitely not take it out. After all, she loved herself the most.
Although the journey was very difficult, they finally reached the afternoon. In order to avoid traveling at night, the officers decided to stop at a shabby post station passing by, spend the night and set off again the next day.
The post station was managed by an old officer with a lame leg. When he saw the large group of prisoners being escorted, he was troubled: "Our post station is very small, with only four rooms. There are so many of you, there is not enough room."
(End of this chapter)
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