"I'm injured, please bandage me up without alerting anyone else."
Bai Jiao frowned, slumped over the table, and spoke to Qi Nuan without looking up.
Qi Nuan looked around and then closed the door.
She looked at the arrow in his body, frowned, and lit the oil lamp.
Then she retrieved the medicine box. She wanted to ask him where he had been, but remembering that she couldn't speak, she kept her mouth shut.
She didn't speak, but glanced at Bai Jiao, then patted his shoulder, indicating that she was going to draw the arrow.
Bai Jiao glanced back at her, nodded, then gritted his teeth and gripped the corner of the table tightly.
Qi Nuan pulled hard, but the arrow on her back could not be pulled out.
Bai Jiao turned around and glanced at Qi Nuan sideways. "Were you doing this on purpose?" Qi Nuan smiled apologetically at him.
Then I patted his shoulder, told him to lie down properly, and pulled it out again myself.
Sweat beaded on his face, and the veins on his forehead were slightly bulging, indicating that he was in real pain.
It seems that everyone she meets is very good at enduring pain; Ayu and the others are like that, as are Ji Jin and Bai Jiao.
However, these thoughts only flashed through her mind.
She focused her attention on Bai Jiao's back and used all her strength to quickly pull the arrow out.
A stream of blood shot out with the arrow.
Qi Nuan quickly grabbed a cotton cloth from the side and wiped the bloodstains clean, then applied medicine and bandaged Bai Jiao to stop the bleeding.
Bai Jiao slumped on the bench, watching the girl in front of him tidy up on her own. The girl's movements were not exactly skilled, but they were definitely not unfamiliar.
He had witnessed the girl's behavior during the day, and she had gone through a lot because of it, but she was protected by someone.
Is it that guy named Ayu?
He thought of her letters, but she didn't know that they had long since turned to ashes.
Bai Jiao closed his eyes, paused for a moment, then took the thing out of his arms and placed it on the table.
Qi Nuan looked at it; it was a very exquisite little wooden box. What was this? She looked at Bai Jiao with a hint of doubt in her eyes.
Bai Jiao didn't look at her, but simply said, "This is a thank-you gift."
Then he left her room, saying as he was closing the door, "That's medicine for treating muteness."
Qi Nuan stared blankly at the box on the table; there were still bloodstains on the box.
She gently ran her hand over the bloodstains on the box, looking at the gold trim. This shouldn't be his.
After hesitating for a moment, she opened the box, inside which were a dozen or so pills of the same size.
She picked up a pill, crushed it with her fingers, and sniffed it lightly, carefully identifying the ingredients inside.
After a while, she finally put the wooden box away.
It's getting hotter and hotter, and it's already early June. Her letter has been out for several days, but she hasn't received a reply yet. Has she simply not received it, or has something happened?
"Boss, did you not sleep well last night?"
Looking at the listless Bai Jiao beside her, Xu Erniang spoke up sarcastically.
Bai Jiao looked up and glanced at her.
Looking at Qi Nuan tending to the seedlings in the yard, she said calmly, "Let her go change the dressing for someone."
"You were injured last night?"
Hearing the worry in Xu Erniang's tone, Bai Jiao wasn't surprised that she knew he had gone out last night. He shook his head slightly and said, "I was just too lazy to move. Isn't there a free helper here?"
As he spoke, he glanced at Qi Nuan.
Xu Erniang looked at him with some suspicion, hesitated for a moment, and then walked towards Qi Nuan: "Girl, please go and change their dressings."
Qi Nuan looked up at Bai Jiao lying to the side, nodded, and followed Xu Erniang.
"You've arrived?"
Looking at Qi Nuan, the boy's eyes lit up, and he asked with delight.
Qi Nuan nodded, took the medicine box, and took out the medicine.
Ji Jin removed the gauze bandage from his wound himself.
Qi Nuan was naturally pleased with his cooperation, but she discovered that he wasn't the first, but everyone else.
Everyone's eyes lit up when they saw her.
Although Ji Jin was seriously injured, he still dragged himself to follow behind her, and Qi Nuan would look back at him from time to time.
Finally, she couldn't hold back any longer and said, "Go back, you don't need to follow me."
"I'm fine, you don't need to worry about me."
Seeing his insistence, Qi Nuan stopped trying to persuade him.
"cough……"
Hearing Qi Nuan cough, Ji Jin said, "Go and rest, I'll take care of it."
Seeing the look in Qi Nuan's eyes, he said firmly, "I will."
Qi Nuan gave him her seat, saying, "You come here." Ji Jin nodded and took the medicine box.
When Ji Jin said he was coming, Xu Shiying's expression instantly turned sour as he was expecting Qi Nuan to change his bandages. He forced a smile and said, "Ji Jin, there's no need to trouble you. You're still injured. Go and rest. I can hold on a little longer."
"It's okay, no trouble at all. I'll take care of it for you, don't move."
The boy held his feet still and said seriously.
He was quite strong, and Xu Shiying grimaced in pain, but dared not move. He could only obediently sit down and let the boy change his dressing.
Looking at the boy's serious expression and the occasional groans he made while changing the dressing, Qi Nuan knew that he had probably never done these things before.
But she didn't move; she just sat aside and watched the boy's movements. It was clear that he was learning very seriously, and his movements became more and more skillful.
After changing the dressing, the man Xu Shiying praised the boy, saying, "Our Ji Jin is really amazing; I didn't feel any pain at all."
The boy only glanced up at him in response to his praise, without saying a word.
The boy changed the dressings for several people in succession.
In the end, the people who changed his dressings all looked at him with loving and heartfelt expressions, their eyes also carrying a hint of pride.
How to put it? These gazes were just like the way grandmothers looked at their eldest grandsons when she saw them in her past life.
Qi Nuan could sense that their attitude towards Ji Jin was very strange, and it seemed that she also discovered that most of the people in the mountain stronghold had the surname Xu, with Bai Jiao and the boy being the exceptions.
Seeing the cold sweat on the boy's forehead, Qi Nuan said, "Let me do it. You rest for a bit."
The boy nodded upon hearing this and stepped aside.
Xu Erniang stood behind them the whole time, not saying a word about their decision, but occasionally glancing at the two of them.
She couldn't quite understand why Ji Jin cared so much about this girl.
Not only does he usually follow people around, but now that he's injured himself, he doesn't know how to rest and is even worried that the girl will get tired, so he's started doing her work.
He doesn't treat others like that. He'll chat with them when he's happy, but won't say a word all day when he's unhappy.
As for seeing Xu Shiying, who was initially in pain from the boy's actions, and Ji Jin's technique when changing other people's dressings, she said that a little pain was nothing to worry about.
As long as people don't die, it's fine.
As long as Ji Jin is happy.
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