A sharp, intense pain shot through my knee!
Xie Muqing had to bite down on the blanket in her mouth to keep from crying out in pain.
But the pain, which was no less than torture, was something he could not ignore!
He felt as if he had returned to the day he was taken to the Censorate.
That was the darkest day of his life!
On that very day, a heavy military baton slammed down on his knee!
From that moment on, he became a cripple who could never stand up again...
Even if he tried to endure it, a cry of pain still escaped from his throat.
Lin Yan noticed Xie Muqing's trembling body and felt a pang of pity.
But in order to help him recover better, she could only force herself to pretend she didn't see it.
She focused all her attention on using her palms to unblock the meridians in his calves.
After his calves gradually relaxed, she suddenly straightened his legs!
While he remained stiff, she took out a splint she had made earlier and placed it on his legs.
After the splint hardened, Lin Yan took out the bandages she bought from the pharmacy and wrapped them tightly around the splint, one loop after another.
After the bone setting was successfully completed, she realized that Xie Muqing's clothes were already soaked with cold sweat, which clung to his body.
In her past life, she had treated many patients with fractures, including cases like this one where the fracture was broken again and then reattached.
But no one else has been able to remain silent throughout the entire bone-setting process like him.
He was only eighteen years old.
Lin Yan couldn't help but feel a little admiration for him.
"Alright, see? I wasn't lying to you. I really do know medicine. During this time, you absolutely must not get your knee wet. I'll come and change the splint for you every month. After three months, your leg will be fully healed. I'll give the detoxifying herbs to your mother later. Drinking them for half a month will eliminate the toxins from her body."
After the blanket was removed from his mouth, the restraints on his body were also removed.
Although her knees were still throbbing, Xie Muqing was incredibly excited at that moment.
He's not stupid.
Once his leg was straightened, he knew that the girl in front of him was a skilled doctor!
She's definitely not stupid.
This was completely different from what he had heard.
His heart, which had been dormant for many days, was awakened once again, filling him with hope for the future.
At least in this moment, he was genuinely grateful...
"Thanks……"
"How about you repay me with your body? I'll dig up medicinal herbs and sell them to support you, how about that?"
Xie Muqing was once again infuriated by Lin Yan's shamelessness!
He was so angry that he was breathing rapidly, feeling both ashamed and furious.
"You! Now that you're cured of your madness, you should know that marriage is a major life event, how can you just casually talk about it?"
Lin Yan sighed helplessly.
Despite being only eighteen years old, Xie Muqing was as boring as an old scholar who insisted on following the rules.
She couldn't take a joke, and impatiently covered her ears.
"Alright, alright, I understand, little teacher. Since that's the case, consider it my apology for that night. Let's call it even, okay? You should live well. You need to know that you're not alone now. You have nearly twenty family members behind you. Haven't you thought about what would happen to them if you died?"
Meeting Xie Muqing's puzzled yet innocent gaze, Lin Yan sighed softly.
She was still young and had always been protected by the Marquis's mansion.
Naturally, they had no idea how treacherous the human world could be.
Thinking about the final fate of the Xie family women in the book, she couldn't help but sigh.
Her gaze slowly drifted towards the door, and she spoke softly:
"You need to understand that your sisters-in-law, nieces, and other relatives are all quite beautiful, especially in a place like the Northwest, where they are particularly eye-catching. Now that you are the head of the family, no matter what, with you, the former playboy, still alive, they can't guarantee that you don't have any remaining power, so naturally they won't dare to be too presumptuous. But if you die, those people will be unscrupulous, and they will be like fish on a chopping board, at their mercy. I think I've made myself clear enough for you to understand."
Xie Muqing wasn't stupid; he naturally understood Lin Yan's implied meaning.
In an instant, all the color drained from his face.
His already pale face turned even whiter, like a sheet of white paper!
He felt utterly ashamed at the thought of the terrible things that had almost happened to them because of his selfishness and cowardice.
Cold beads of sweat trickled down his face.
His lips trembled and he stammered, barely able to utter a complete sentence.
"Thank you!"
"Yes, remember to change your clothes. It's early autumn now and the weather is cool. Don't catch a cold."
After putting the basket back on her back, Lin Yan opened the door to the main room.
Unsurprisingly, a group of Xie family members stood outside the door, all looking at her with tears in their eyes.
She wasn't used to such emotional scenes.
He could only awkwardly touch his nose and hand over the several packets of medicine he had prepared to Madam Xie.
"Madam, here are the antidote herbs, a half-month's supply. Starting tomorrow, boil one packet every morning. I will come back to check on you again in seven days."
"Thank you, young lady. Without you, I can't imagine whether my family could have survived..."
“This isn’t a solution for you. Although the village head has allocated land to you, most of it is wasteland and difficult to cultivate. With so many mouths to feed, you’ll starve to death on just a few acres of land. Do you have any marketable skills? Although you’ve been exiled here, as long as you don’t leave Baisu City, you can still move freely within the town.”
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Relying solely on her for rescue would not only be too difficult, but would also foster bad habits of laziness and aversion to work.
In the book, the Xie family, like the people of Xiaolin Village, are all cannon fodder.
The author did not spend much time describing them in the book.
So she couldn't understand how they had gotten involved with men from the city, rather than men from their own village.
Driven by curiosity, she asked a question in the comments section.
The author replied that it was because the villagers were afraid.
She thought it was ridiculous at the time.
Even though the women of the Xie family were previously noble families of marquises.
But after being exiled, their status was even lower than that of ordinary people, so how could the villagers not dare to do so?
After all, the pen is in the author's hand.
The author can kill off cannon fodder characters without any logic; as long as the ending is death, that's enough.
Now that she has transmigrated, she must rewrite the brainless ending written by that brainless author!
She was determined to change her fate of being cannon fodder.
Does this mean that, apart from the protagonist, even cannon fodder and extras aren't human?
Must cannon fodder be sacrificed for the sake of the protagonist's love?
On what grounds?
Even cannon fodder have emotions and desires.
Even cannon fodder have family and loved ones, and their ordinary love stories can be just as heartwarming and touching.
The cannon fodder are neither part of the protagonist's love game nor a diversion in their love story.
Even cannon fodder can be the protagonist of their own world!
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