Xiaoman looked at the woman kneeling on the ground. The woman was holding a child in her arms. The child's leg was broken. "You want me to take you and your son to the hospital?"
"Um. Comrade, I beg you, please help me. My son's leg will be useless if it's not set quickly."
Those watching the commotion, fearing Xiaoman wouldn't understand, told her: "The woman kneeling on the ground is a member of the 'Five Black Categories' (a group of people considered undesirable for their status as 'black elements'). Also, even if Xiaoman helps her take the child to the hospital, she has no money."
The woman kowtowed to Xiaoman again: "Comrade, please, help us."
Xiaoman looked into the woman's arms.
The child's forehead was covered in sweat: "Mother, stop talking. We're considered 'black five categories.' Mother, let's go home."
"No. If Mother goes back, your life will be over. Comrade, please, please see us off. If it weren't so far from the hospital, I would have gone by myself. Comrade, please, please help us."
The little boy wiped the sweat from his forehead: "Mom, we don't have any money. They won't treat us even if we go."
"Oh, Your Majesty shouldn't have taken you away in the first place. If I hadn't taken you, you wouldn't be suffering with me. Oh..."
The little boy wiped away his mother's tears: "You didn't want to take me with you, but they forced you to. Mom, let's go back. They won't help us."
"No, I won't go back." The woman wiped her face. "Comrade, please. My son is only seven years old."
Xiaoman squatted down and looked at the woman, saying, "Let me see."
"Look?" The woman didn't understand. "Look at what?"
"Your son.net"
"Look at my son?"
Xiaoman placed her hand on the little boy's leg.
The woman paused for a moment: "You can set bones?"
"Hmm." Most martial artists can set bones. Besides, she was a military general in her previous life.
Xiaoman touched the little boy's leg. After touching it, Xiaoman looked at the woman and said, "If you trust me, I'll pick you up. If you don't trust me, I'll take you to the hospital."
Before the woman could speak, a man approached. The man was clearly not a good person: "What do you want? They're from the 'Five Black Categories'."
Upon seeing the man, the woman's face turned pale. The little boy glared at the man hatefully. If it weren't for him, his leg wouldn't have been broken.
Xiaoman smiled and said, "Weren't they here for rehabilitation? How can they be rehabilitated if their legs are broken? What? You don't want them to be rehabilitated anymore?"
The man choked.
Xiaoman smiled and said, "I help them so that they can work hard and reform themselves."
The woman quickly replied, "Yes, my son's leg is crippled, so he can't work anymore."
Xiaoman glanced at the woman: "Do you want me to pick you up or take you to the hospital?"
She wanted to go to the hospital, but she had no money.
While she was still hesitating, her son had already made up his mind: "Mom, I want this auntie to pick me up."
Xiaoman raised an eyebrow: "Aren't you afraid I'll cripple you?"
"My mother has no money."
Xiaoman glanced at the woman.
The woman knew that even if she went to the hospital, they might not be able to get treatment, especially since they didn't have any money. "Then I'll have to trouble you."
Xiaoman smiled and said, "No trouble at all. Naonao, give him a candy."
"Okay." Nao Nao took a piece of candy out of her pocket: "Here you go."
The little boy swallowed hard. He hadn't had candy in a long time. But, "Thank you, you can have it. I'm not afraid of pain."
"I have more. Here you go." Nao Nao stuffed the candy into the little boy's hand.
The little boy clutched the candy tightly in his hand: "Thank you."
"You're welcome."
Xiaoman looked at the little boy and said, "Eat after you finish."
"good."
Xiaoman told the woman to put the child in the car: "Go find some planks. If you don't have planks, tree branches will do."
"good."
A while later, the woman returned with several planks of wood. Although Xiaoman said tree branches would also work, she already felt bad enough about not having money to take her son to the hospital. So, she kowtowed to the woman several more times.
After the woman brought the wooden board, Xiaoman trimmed it with a knife. After finishing, Xiaoman patted the little boy's leg a few times. Then she pinched it. After pinching, Xiaoman used the wooden board to tie the little boy's leg together: "Okay, you can eat candy now."
Everyone was stunned.
"Okay." The little boy unwrapped the candy and put it in his mouth: "It's so sweet."
Xiaoman smiled and said, "Don't go to the fields for two months."
"good."
The woman looked at her son and then at Xiaoman: "Comrade Tong, so it's connected already?"
"Um."
The man who had stopped Xiaoman earlier didn't believe her: "Who are you kidding? How can setting bones not hurt?"
Xiaoman ignored him.
Old Shang beckoned to him: "Young man, come here, I have a few words to say to you."
The man glared at Old Shang: "Who are you? You think I'll just go over there because you tell me to?"
Old Shang looked at him and said, "You'll regret it if you don't come."
"Pah! I think you're all a bunch of liars."
The little boy shouted, "Auntie isn't lying! My leg doesn't hurt anymore!"
The woman immediately asked, "Son, is your leg really not in pain anymore?"
"Um."
The woman immediately knelt down before Xiaoman: "Comrade, thank you. Thank you, comrade, I'll kowtow to you."
Xiaoman helped the woman up from the ground: "Where do you live? Your son's leg can't move right now. I'll take you home."
"Thank you for your help."
"No trouble at all. Let's go."
"good."
People dispersed after watching the woman lead Xiaoman and the others away. The man who had walked a short distance back came back. He thought that since Xiaoman's bone-setting skills were so good, the old man with her must be quite skilled as well: "Old man, what were you trying to say to me just now?"
Old Shang stopped when he saw him catching up: "Come closer."
The man leaned closer, still somewhat skeptical. Old Shang whispered a few words, and the man's expression immediately changed: "How did you know?"
Old Shang then said a few more words. The man's legs went weak: "Uncle, uncle, you must save me, uncle, uncle."
Old Shang said a few more words.
The man looked at the little boy in the car and said, "I understand. Uncle, I will never bully them again."
Old Shang nodded in satisfaction: "You're just benefiting from that child's situation. If I didn't want that child to suffer, I wouldn't care about you."
"I know. I know. Uncle, let me help you."
"No need. You should take good care of the child. Otherwise..."
The man wiped the sweat from his brow: "Okay, Uncle, I'll head over now."
"Hmm." After catching up with Xiaoman and the others, the man said to the little boy, "Uncle shouldn't have scared you. If Uncle hadn't scared you, you wouldn't have fallen from the tree."
Then, the man looked at the little boy's mother and said, "Sister, you have to go to work and don't have time to take care of the child, so I'll have my mother take care of him."
The woman quickly said no.
The man said "use" twice in a row, then ran off, saying as he ran, "I'm going to get my mother right now."
The woman was a little confused: "What's wrong with him? He's not only apologizing, but he's also asking me to take care of my son?"
The little boy looked at the old man and asked, "Grandpa, what did you say to him just now?"
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