On her way back, Wang Yan could still hear the old man who delivered the vegetables cursing loudly.
"Which short-sighted bastard is this? He even stole a mat that he wove himself to cover his vegetables!"
Have you no shame? If you know what's good for you, give it back right now. It took me three days to weave that!
Wang Yan's face flushed from his scolding. She looked around to make sure no one was watching, then secretly threw a few copper coins at his feet before hurrying back to the inn.
After the old man finished cursing, he felt relieved and prepared to push the cart away. Actually, a straw mat wasn't worth much money, but he never expected that someone would steal even that!
As soon as he turned the cart around, he found three or four copper coins under his feet. Hey! His anger at losing the straw mat instantly turned into a smile.
Hey, what good luck! Look at him, he's honest and kind, even God is rewarding him.
Hahaha! The old man selling vegetables went from angry to happy, and cheerfully pushed his wheelbarrow away.
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Wang Yan went upstairs and told the woman about grabbing her trouser leg. Aunt Wang frowned; she didn't want to get involved.
One reason was that he didn't want to cause trouble, and the other was his experience working in the Marquis's mansion for many years.
In cases like this, the person who was beaten and bruised must have committed some serious offense and been kicked out of the Marquis's mansion.
It might involve the shady dealings of wealthy families.
"Okay! Sigh, where is it? Let's go take a look."
Once inside the alley, Aunt Wang lifted the straw mat to take a look and was surprised to find that the young woman looked quite young.
She sighed, "Go ask around this alley if anyone rents out a room?"
Wang Yan and Wang Ying hurriedly ran to ask on a street, and found that there were taxis, but they were all occupied.
However, an old lady pointed them in the right direction; that area also had rental properties year-round.
It's obvious that this alley is near the seventh-ranked restaurant in Lin'an City, so how could it possibly lack business?
Having no other option, Wang Yan had to search in remote areas. After running around several streets, she finally found an old woman's house to rent a room.
Wang Yan readily paid a month's rent at thirty coins a day. Then she and Wang Ying went back to find Granny Wang.
Aunt Wang had been squatting in the alley the whole time. Seeing the two of them return, she realized they had also rented a room.
"Don't rush to send it to this little girl. I'm afraid we'll get into some more trouble. You two go to the pharmacy and buy me a bottle of wound medicine."
As the gatekeeper, Granny Wang often helped people in the outer courtyard with their bumps and bruises.
Therefore, among the three, only Aunt Wang is the most experienced, and only she can take on the task.
Wang Ying and Wang Yan, those two good-for-nothings, were so frightened by the knife wound that they almost fainted, and Aunt Wang didn't dare let them come to help.
Wang Yan was meticulous. When she bought medicine, she and her sister also bought a wheelbarrow, piled it with all sorts of things, and pushed it here to block people's view.
Wang Ying took two water bags that Wang Yan had bought and went to the backyard of the inn to mix two bags of warm water, then asked Aunt Wang to wash the little girl.
As evening fell, the family of three did not rush back to the inn. They waited until it was dark before secretly pushing the little girl to their rented house.
The old lady who rented the house lived next door. The house she rented was a single room, specially partitioned off for visiting merchants.
So no one paid attention to the fact that they brought in an injured person; everything went smoothly.
But once the person was brought in, she couldn't just leave her there. Granny Wang was going to stay here today and keep an eye on this young lady.
"You keep saying you're taking your old mother out for a stroll and to enjoy life? And what happened? You've only caused trouble!"
Wang Yan didn't dare to provoke her now, so she shrugged and turned to go out to buy two servings of porridge and vegetables.
The family ate some cold steamed buns for lunch, but they wanted to have something hot to drink in the evening.
When I bought the wheelbarrow, I also bought many other things, such as a stove for brewing tea, a water bag, and charcoal.
There are also several huge straw mats. These straw mats are useless; we only bought them because they take up a lot of space and can block the view.
They lit charcoal in Granny Wang's room and borrowed a clay pot from next door to warm a pot of water.
I took the water bag to the food stall and filled it with water that I could drink right away. Otherwise, it would take a while to boil it.
There were only two water bags in total. After Aunt Wang finished drinking, she freed up one and asked Wang Yan to go to the neighbor's house to get a water bag full of boiling hot water.
Then she put it in the quilt as a hot water bottle. At this point, Aunt Wang also realized the advantage of staying in a high-class restaurant, where the quilts were made of cotton.
The quilts provided by the rental company were filled with willow catkins, so they weren't warm.
After everything was arranged, Aunt Wang waved her hand and sent the two away.
After Wang Yan and the others returned to the inn, she wanted to ask if they could take the blankets out and pay an extra deposit.
Yingjie stopped her, saying, "What if that person noticed something was wrong that day and followed the clues to our inn? Are you really sure he didn't follow us that day?"
These words startled Wang Yan, but she couldn't let Aunt Wang sit there all night.
Forget it, let's just buy a blanket! What can money compare to a person?
Wow, that's expensive! The two quilts cost five taels of silver. And they're not filled with cotton, they're filled with kudzu cloth and willow catkins.
Because it was bought from a ready-made clothing shop, it was expensive. If I had made it myself, two taels of silver would have been enough.
I don't know, but if it's a cotton quilt, it's ten taels of silver.
Wang Yan wanted to buy a cotton quilt, but Yingjie stopped her.
"Mother is already feeling terrible because she helped us save people. If you keep throwing money away, she'll go crazy!"
Wang Yan felt a lump in her throat; that made sense! But seeing her own mother suffer wasn't the right thing to do.
So I bought a water bag, filled it with hot water, and added the two quilts—one as a bedding and one as a cover—along with a small charcoal stove. That should do the trick.
Seeing that the two women had come to deliver things again, Aunt Wang was extremely worried.
"It's so late, why are you still running around outside? Hurry up and go home. It's the end of the year, it's so chaotic outside!"
Still not entirely at ease, he glanced at the little girl on the bed, thinking he would leave her there for now and then take his two daughters to the inn himself before returning.
Wang Yan and her companion were afraid of upsetting her, so as soon as she whispered her reprimand, they quickly ran back. She couldn't stop them.
After a long day of work, the two of them hadn't had dinner yet, and they gave the two bowls of porridge they bought to Aunt Wang.
However, there were still leftovers in the room, so we went to the kitchen and ordered a stir-fried cabbage dish, a stir-fried river shrimp dish, a meat and vegetable soup dish, and two bowls of rice.
The two of them wolfed down the entire meal and then ordered two more meat pies, which shows just how hungry they must have been.
The innkeeper even specially gave each of them a cup of cardamom thirst-quenching water that the inn hadn't sold out yet.
They carried the water back to the house, gulped it down in a few mouthfuls, and then lay down on the bed and fell asleep immediately. They planned to get up early the next morning to visit Aunt Wang.
The next day, just as dawn was breaking, the two got up, washed up, and ran to the entrance of Fumin Lane, the place where they had rented the night before.
When they arrived at the house, they suddenly realized that Aunt Wang might still be asleep. The two exchanged a glance and decided to go buy some breakfast first.
There aren't many breakfast vendors in this alley, but there are many small vendors pushing carts to sell breakfast downstairs from where they stay.
The two ran back and bought two packs of bamboo shoot and pork steamed buns, took the bamboo cup from yesterday, cooked a serving of bamboo shoot and fern wontons to take away, and bought two cups of sweet bean porridge.
When they arrived at Fumin Lane, Aunt Wang had already woken up. After washing up, she planned to pour out the charcoal ash from yesterday's burning.
As soon as I opened the door, I saw Wang Yan and her companion coming from the alley entrance, carrying breakfast.
"Mom, you should eat something first. Whether you like wontons or porridge is fine with you."
Aunt Wang likes salty food. After eating a bowl of wontons, she took a bamboo shoot and pork steamed bun.
Wang Yan and her companion divided the sweet bean porridge into two portions, intending to feed one to the young lady in bed.
But she remained unconscious and wouldn't wake up, which greatly worried Aunt Wang.
But they didn't know who this young lady had offended. Just by looking at her clothes, they knew she came from a wealthy family.
If they rashly seek out a doctor at a clinic, and their enemies come after them, none of the three of them will be safe.
But the person remains unconscious and doesn't seem to be waking up; this isn't a solution.
Aunt Wang looked over there again, "Sigh, if she still doesn't wake up by noon (11 o'clock) today..."
"You two stay here and watch over her. I'll hire a carriage and go to the countryside to find a barefoot doctor."
Wang Ying and Wang Yan nodded and looked at her again. After finishing her meal, Aunt Wang lit the charcoal stove again, added water to the clay pot, and boiled some hot water.
After boiling the water, I gritted my teeth and changed the girl's dressing. The cut was quite deep.
I wonder if they were trying to rob me? It doesn't seem like it; it looks more like they were trying to chop me off the neck, but they missed.
To everyone's surprise, right after the dressing was changed, the little girl let out two weak whimpers, and after a short while, she weakly opened her eyes.
Aunt Wang was overjoyed, "Oh my, girl, you're finally awake!"
Then he turned to Wang Yan and said, "Quickly, put the porridge and the cup together in the hot water in the clay pot to warm it up, then bring it over and feed her some."
Upon hearing this, the girl closed her eyes to rest and recuperate. After a while, Wang Yan brought over the porridge and she forced herself to eat half of the bamboo tube.
Aunt Wang was waiting for her to tell her where she lived so she could send someone to pick her up.
As a result, after the girl finished eating the bean porridge, she closed her eyes and fell into a deep sleep again.
"Huh? What's going on?" Aunt Wang turned around in disbelief and asked the two of them. She then turned around and put the bamboo tube on the table. In the blink of an eye, she was asleep again.
There was nothing they could do but let her rest first, and ask for more details after she woke up.
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