Jiang Bai crouched down to dodge the tall man's attack, and then struck the man's leg hard.
The tall man crouched down in pain, gripping the knife tightly in his hand. With a determined bite, he stabbed out.
Jiang Bai hadn't anticipated his movements and was too slow to dodge, resulting in a long gash on his leg.
She immediately turned pale with pain and fell heavily to the ground. The last thing she saw was a masked man jumping out.
Zhao Yi hadn't expected Jiang Bai to get injured in such a short time. Regardless of whether he had exposed any problems, he casually covered his face and jumped out.
The two robbers watched him warily.
Zhao Yi's breathing became increasingly heavy, his anger rising to the top of his head, and he looked at the tall man as if he were looking at a dead man.
He said sternly, "You all deserve to die if you dare to hurt her."
...
After everything was settled, Zhao Yi wiped the blood off his hands with a handkerchief. Two bodyguards were kneeling in front of him.
The guard in the shadows secretly groaned. He had noticed the robbers following him, but he didn't expect them to act so quickly, and Jiang Bai was even injured as a result.
“Master, we saw the proprietress throw the silver next to the big tree. We knew she had noticed someone following her and was afraid of losing her money, so we helped her pick up the silver…” When Jiang Bai turned around, he was already injured.
The second guard also cursed his bad luck in his heart. The two of them were only responsible for tracking the movements. Tan Ji had repeatedly hinted that they should not expose themselves. With Zhao Yi not around, he hesitated and ended up like this.
My life is over!
Zhao Yi didn't want to hear these excuses and said indifferently, "Go and accept your punishment."
The two guards placed Jiang Bai's silver pouch on the ground, acknowledged their orders, and left.
Zhao Yi picked up Jiang Bai and held him tightly in his arms. His first impression was that Jiang Bai was very thin, light and frail.
The original owner of the body before transmigrating was also very thin, but it was thin due to malnutrition. Zhao Yi recalled that he had only glanced at her briefly at that time and felt that his bride was timid and submissive, with a sullen and petty aura emanating from her.
Jiang Bai's thinness was healthy thinness. According to later data, she was about 165 cm tall and weighed less than 90 kg. A thin layer of muscle adhered to her bones, which gave her powerful explosive force.
Zhao Yi may never understand why the same person could change so much. When he gets old, he can only explain that he was seeing things when he first met Jiang Bai.
Tanji, with his keen sense of observation, picked up the bag from the ground and then went to find a carriage.
Zhao Yi bandaged Jiang Bai's wound in the car; it was quite large and bleeding profusely.
Tan Ji drove the carriage outside, not daring to speak. Having spent a long time by Zhao Yi's side, he knew that Zhao Yi was very angry.
The two stopped at the village entrance. Zhao Yi, avoiding the villagers, took Jiang Bai home.
When Jiang Bai woke up again, she found herself lying in her bed at home, with the bedding neatly made and her legs properly bandaged. Two children, one on each side, were watching her with anxious expressions.
Jiang Bai spoke, his voice hoarse, "How did I get here?"
Zhao Ping'an quickly said, "A kind-hearted swordsman brought you back."
Zhao Xile pouted: That person is clearly Dad, why didn't you tell Mom?
Zhao Ping'an glanced at her and warned: "Dad said you can't tell anyone, especially Mom."
Zhao Xile pouted, feeling wronged, and lowered her eyes, remaining silent.
Jiang Bai's mind was still foggy, and she didn't notice the exchange of glances between the two children. She pressed her temples and asked, "Where is that chivalrous man now?"
"He left after bringing you back." Zhao Ping'an saw that Jiang Bai was upset and reached out to touch her forehead.
The child couldn't feel anything wrong, only that it was slightly hot to the touch, so he got down and poured Jiang Bai a bowl of cool boiled water to drink.
After drinking a bowl of water, Jiang Bai perked up a bit. Looking around, he saw the silver pouch he had thrown away next to the big tree was now on the bed, and he immediately had a better idea of what to do.
She was still in pain, her lips were white from the pain, and she couldn't concentrate for a long time. After thinking for a while, her thoughts were a complete mess.
She decided to stop thinking about it and said to Zhao Ping'an, "I'm going to sleep a little longer. If you're hungry, go eat at Grandma Wang's house next door, okay?"
Zhao Ping'an nodded.
Jiang Bai was unaware that by evening, her wound had become infected, she began to have a persistent fever, and she fell into a coma.
After coaxing Zhao Xile to sleep, Zhao Ping'an went crying to find Zhao Yi at the nearby house he had rented. He had only learned the address today.
Zhao Yi rushed over, and chaos ensued.
Jiang Bai didn't wake up until the evening of the next day. She didn't wake up naturally; she was awakened by Wang Xiufen's crying.
Wang Xiufen burst in, collapsed under the bed, her body so weak she could barely stand.
She was truly heartbroken; her face was covered in snot and tears, and she could barely open her eyes. When she saw Jiang Bai groan a few times, she immediately started shouting at the top of her lungs again.
"Jiang Bai, please save your mother."
The story begins yesterday.
Jiang Cheng had only managed to scrape together five taels of silver for the betrothal gift of fifty taels. He didn't dare ask his brothers-in-law if they could reduce the amount by a zero, for fear of losing an arm in the process.
They couldn't raise the money, and the bride's family wouldn't let her go. Seeing that Rou Rou's belly was getting bigger every day, her family came up with a new idea: if they didn't have a bride price, then Jiang Cheng could marry into the family.
How could Wang Xiufen agree to Jiang Cheng marrying into her family? She was counting on her son to support her in her old age.
Therefore, she nagged and complained every day, cursing heaven and earth, cursing Jiang Cheng for finding her an unreliable daughter-in-law, and cursing her daughter-in-law's family for demanding exorbitant prices because she was pregnant.
Jiang Cheng was so annoyed by her that he took the money and went out to have fun.
He went alone without anyone else, and after wandering around outside for two days, he was spotted.
What did those people take him to do? — Gambling.
Jiang Cheng had gambled a few times before, but they were just small-scale games among the young people in the village. The wins and losses were not significant; it was just for fun.
This time it's different.
Jiang Cheng's five taels of silver doubled in a single day.
He felt a warm glow in his heart and couldn't help but calculate: if it doubles every day, it will be twenty taels in two days, forty taels in three days, and eighty taels in four days.
It's enough to pay the bride price, with thirty taels left over, which Rou Rou and her husband can spend together in their new home.
He'd play for four days, and once he'd made enough money, he'd stop.
Little did he know that this was just like the pig-slaughtering scam of later generations. In the early stages, if you want to fatten up the pig, you have to feed it some fine bran. While the pig is eating heartily, people are eyeing its meat with covetous eyes.
Jiang Cheng started losing on the second day, losing more than half of his ten taels of silver. On the third day, he not only lost everything but also owed the gambling house ten taels of silver.
At this point, he became blinded by greed.
Yesterday was the fourth day. He gambled all day and lost a full 100 taels of silver. At this point, the people at the gambling den revealed their true colors and threatened Jiang Cheng that if he didn't pay, they would cut off his hand, and if his hand was cut off, they would cut off his foot.
In the dead of night, Jiang Cheng returned home and stammered out the story. Wang Xiufen immediately fainted.
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