Chapter 174 News about the Wet Nurse
"Come in."
Xiao Wu pushed the door open and saw Jiang Hongyu changing his dressing. He quickly stepped forward to lend a hand and asked, "Why don't you see Uncle Yan?"
Jiang Hongyu dodged his hand and wrapped the gauze on his arm by himself. He tied a knot with his teeth and accidentally touched the wound, making a slight "hissing" sound.
Xiaowu stood by until he finished wrapping his arm with gauze, picked up the clothes next to him and put them on him, and still waited for his answer.
"Uncle Yan has sharp eyes and will definitely notice my injury. If he tells others about it when he gets home, I don't want to make my family worry."
"Since you know I have sharp eyes, do you think you can hide it from me?" Uncle Yan's voice came from outside the door, and then the door opened, and it was Uncle Yan.
Xiao Wu was surprised: "Yan, Uncle Yan, when did you come back?"
"I just remembered something, so I came back to find you. You went straight to this room and I lagged behind by two steps." Uncle Yan said this without feeling guilty at all.
Jiang Hongyu stood up with a wry smile on his face: "Uncle Yan, this time I am not good enough in my studies and I dare not go back to see you."
Uncle Yan stepped forward and pinched Jiang Hongyu's arm, and only let go after seeing the other's face distorted.
"The arm is fine, it's just a superficial injury, it will be fine after some rest."
Jiang Hongyu breathed a sigh of relief and said slowly: "It's just some superficial injuries, ah..."
It turned out that Uncle Yan patted him on the back and he couldn't help but dodge.
"Let me see your back." Uncle Yan's expression was too serious. Jiang Hongyu didn't dare to refuse and could only take off his outer robe for Uncle Yan to check.
Uncle Yan smelled the medicine on him and frowned: "Who gave you this medicine? This medicine doesn't smell as good as the medicine your mother usually uses."
Jiang Hongyu looked away, not daring to look at him. "It was the medicine prescribed by the county doctor. My mother prepared it for me. I dropped it during the fight."
If he hadn't picked up the medicine bottle, his back wouldn't have been hit.
Uncle Yan was speechless. "What did I teach you back then? How could something fall out of your body during a fight? Even if it falls out, that's fine. What's more important, life or possessions?"
Jiang Hongyu lowered his head and said nothing.
Xiao Wu then interrupted, "Uncle Yan, this is my fault. I was injured at the time, and Brother Jiang picked up the medicine bottle to treat my wounds."
Uncle Yan didn't really blame Jiang Hongyu in the first place, so with the step given by Xiaowu, he just walked down.
"Be more careful next time."
Jiang Hongyu knew he had passed the test and felt much more relaxed.
"Your injury will probably take quite some time to heal. If you have nothing else to do, come back with me. Your mother will prescribe new medicine for you. You'll recover faster than here."
Uncle Yan spoke very directly. The injury Jiang Hongyu suffered this time was the most serious one he had suffered in the past few years.
Jiang Hongyu was a little hesitant as he still had some finishing work to do. He had originally planned to sneak out to do it in the next two days.
"Is there anything you haven't finished? Just tell me and I'll get to it."
Uncle Yan had spent a long time with Jiang Hongyu, and he understood what Jiang Hongyu meant almost instantly.
"I want to know where my nanny was buried, but that man just won't tell me. I want to ask him. I haven't visited my nanny's grave for so many years. I wonder if she blames me." Jiang Hongyu's voice was choked with sobs.
Uncle Yan knew Jiang Hongyu's heart knot, and he also knew that the wet nurse doted on him like her own son.
But fate is cruel, the wet nurse did not survive.
"Where is that person? I'll go get some information for you." Uncle Yan immediately took on the task. "I'll take care of it. You have a good rest and come back with me later."
Jiang Hongyu lowered his head and wiped his tears with his sleeve. He looked up when he heard the words: "The man is in the county jail."
Uncle Yan looked at Xiao Wu, and Xiao Wu immediately stood up: "I'll take Uncle Yan with me, but I'm afraid Uncle Yan won't be able to come back today."
"It's okay. I'll go ask first. If I can't get any results in half an hour, I'll ask someone to send a letter to Mingzhu and the others."
Uncle Yan is very confident.
Jiang Hongyu muttered in the background, "Minister Yan of the Dali Temple has no news he can't get."
Xiao Wu didn't hear Jiang Hongyu's words clearly, so he turned around and asked, "Brother Jiang, what did you say?"
Uncle Yan turned around, a warning in his eyes. Jiang Hongyu knew that Uncle Yan didn't want to talk about the past, so he could only shake his head: "It's nothing, just be careful."
Xiao Wu was eager to try: "I've seen everything. There's nothing to be afraid of."
Jiang Hongyu shook his head, watched the two leave, and lay back on the bed with peace of mind.
Since the man was caught, he has been tortured a lot in prison, but he just won't tell anyone the key information.
The more anxious Jiang Hongyu was to know the news about the wet nurse, the more he refused to tell her. Jiang Hongyu was so angry that he wanted to kill him, but he couldn't really do that because he hadn't received the key information yet.
He thought about asking Uncle Yan to come, but asking Uncle Yan would alarm his family, and he didn't want to make his family worry. He didn't expect that Uncle Yan would actually come to the county.
So, what was Uncle Yan doing in the county? Did something happen at home?
Jiang Hongyu's mind was full of questions.
Fortunately, Uncle Yan came back not too late. After a little over an hour and a quarter, Uncle Yan and Xiao Wu walked into his room one after another.
Uncle Yan was fine, his face was as serious as ever, but Xiao Wu's steps were unsteady and he sat on the chair in a trance.
"Yan, Uncle Yan, what did you do before?"
Uncle Yan didn't answer his question. He looked at Jiang Hongyu first and said, "That person just had your wet nurse carried to the nearby woods and dumped her there. Now that so many years have passed, I'm afraid there's no trace of her."
Tears welled up in Jiang Hongyu's eyes uncontrollably. "How could he do this to the nanny? Blame me, it's all my fault. I knew they weren't good people, but I still believed they would bury the nanny."
Xiaowu swallowed the question that was about to come out of his mouth.
Uncle Yan patted Jiang Hongyu's shoulder gently and said, "Brother Yu, you are not to blame for what happened back then. You were only a few years old. It was all those people's fault. I have already found out where they dumped the wet nurse. It's near the county town. In a few days, when you are better, I will go with you to find out more. Although it takes a while, if someone passed by and saw her at that time, maybe they can get some information about the wet nurse."
Jiang Hongyu's eyes lit up: "Yes, I will go and ask around. If I can get any news about the wet nurse, I will definitely build a good grave for her."
For so many years, he has been wanting to find out about the wet nurse. Now that he finally knows, he is even more sad.
Xiao Wu's face flushed red from holding back his anger. "Yan, Uncle Yan, are you interested in working as a clerk in the county government? You just need to help us get some information when we need it."
They were really shocked by the way Uncle Yan asked for the information just now. It only took a short time and without bloodshed, but they got the news.
"No," Jiang Hongyu refused for him before Uncle Yan could say anything. How could the dignified Minister Yan be a minor official in the prison?
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