Abandoned Woman Busy Farming

Chapter 1164: Chapter 1166: The Shrill Cry_1

Bai Ruozhu continued to treat Guoguo’s injury inside the room. She told Jianqi to guard the door and not allow anyone to disturb her before she could carry Guoguo into the inner room. She carefully took Guoguo into the Space and immersed the child into the Hot Spring.

After soaking for two minutes, Guoguo’s breathing became much smoother. Due to the urgency of the situation, Bai Ruozhu didn’t dare to stay in the Space for too long and brought Guoguo back out.

In the Yard, it was unclear how Lu managed to speak to the village head, but the village head actually sent people to stop all the villagers who had come to spectate, stating that they would wait for the county magistrate’s arrival. Over at Lu’s side, someone had already been sent to find the county magistrate and had even used some authority to press him, demanding that he downplay the incident and keep it quiet, or there would be no benefit for the county magistrate.

On Bai Ruozhu’s end, there was no rush to step out of the Room. Instead, she decided to take good care of treating Guoguo. Guoguo’s condition required Formulas to make medicine, but there was no time to wait. Bai Ruozhu simply snuck into the Space again and took the medicinal materials stored there to brew the medicine within the Space.

Thus, by the time the county magistrate arrived with the government soldiers, Bai Ruozhu had already given Guoguo the medicine soup to drink.

Lu came to the outside of the Room and said in a deep voice, ”Young Master, you cannot stay here any longer, let Jianqi use his light-footed skills to take you away quickly.”

”No, if I go, this child will have no chance of being saved. I will not argue with you all about other things, but I must save this life,” Bai Ruozhu said with a firm tone.

Lu felt a headache coming on, and as it was not good to start a confrontation with Bai Ruozhu, he could only say, ”Then you must not come out. We’ll wait for things to calm down and the villagers to disperse before discussing further.”

”Alright,” Bai Ruozhu agreed.

At that moment, a shrill cry of a woman wailing erupted from outside the Yard, ”My man, how could you die so tragically!”

With that cry, it became apparent that it must be Guoguo’s mother. After all, someone had initially seen Guoguo’s father’s dead body, and the news had spread. Upon hearing the news, Guoguo’s mother had run over like a madwoman.

”Where is my Guoguo? He’s the only child I have; he can’t be in trouble!” Guoguo’s mother cried out as she wept, her wails truly heart-wrenching.

Tears once again blurred her vision. Bai Ruozhu sniffled, allowing tears to slide down her cheeks when suddenly the eyelashes of Guoguo, who had been lying on the bed, quivered and the child awoke.

Bai Ruozhu hurriedly raised her hand to wipe away her tears. It was one thing for her to cry; she did not want the child to see her like that.

”Young Master, no, Madam, don’t cry. I’m not in much trouble,” Guoguo, a clever child, otherwise wouldn’t have noticed Dr. Zhou saving someone and remembered the incident, even using it as a condition to ask Bai Ruozhu for directions in exchange for an extra piece of Dimsum.

”I’m not crying; I’m just a bit tired. You will get better; I won’t let anything happen to you,” Bai Ruozhu said. ”However, you need to close your eyes and rest a bit more now.”

But Guoguo was not in a hurry to sleep; he turned his head towards the window. ”Is that my mother’s voice? It sounds like my mother is crying. No, I need to tell her I’m okay, so she doesn’t worry unnecessarily.”

Seeing Guoguo wanting to get up, Bai Ruozhu hurriedly pressed him down, saying, ”You have sustained internal injuries and must not move around, or your condition will worsen. Would that not make your mother worry more?”

Clearly, Guoguo was still unaware that his father was dead; he had passed out first, and his father had fought with the masked man, which resulted in being beheaded.

Ancient people cared greatly about the integrity of their body after death, adhering to the belief that one must die with an intact corpse. Therefore, the manner in which Guoguo’s father had died was considered extremely gruesome, and Bai Ruozhu dared not let Guoguo know of it now.

”How are my father and Dr. Zhou doing? And those bad people? Did you drive off the bad guys?” Guoguo asked again.

Bai Ruozhu didn’t know how to answer about his father and Dr. Zhou’s situation and could only say, ”My subordinates defeated them, and they have, in a manner of speaking, avenged you...”

Guoguo, weak in body but heartened by the news, nodded off happily and then drifted back into a drowsy sleep.

Bai Ruozhu breathed a deep sigh of relief, she didn’t know how to deceive such a child, she already felt terribly sorry for Guoguo’s family.

She also didn’t know how Ji Yiqiong had managed to deal with the county magistrate, but shortly after, an officer representing county magistrate Ji Yiqiong spoke up.

”Fellow villagers, I am Li Liu, an officer from the county, and I’m also from the neighboring village. Many of us here recognize me. Our magistrate Ji has sent me to explain things to everyone so that the matters concerning our villagers can be clearly communicated,” Li Liu said loudly.

”Doctor Zhou was murdered by a nefarious faction from River Jiang. There was someone who didn’t die completely, and upon our magistrate’s interrogation, he revealed that Doctor Zhou’s family possessed a hereditary Medical Classic that was very precious. These people pressured Doctor Zhou to hand it over, but Doctor Zhou didn’t even know of the existence of the Medical Classic, and unable to produce it, he angered these ruthless murderers.”

”It was Guoguo’s father and son who sensed something was amiss and went to check, only to be silenced by them,” Li Liu said with such passion that it made the listening villagers sweat with anxiety.

But some were skeptical and asked loudly, ”How come all those bad guys are dead?”

”It was a reclusive expert who passed by and witnessed the scene. Unfortunately, he was too late to save Doctor Zhou and his family, but he did notify our magistrate, effectively avenging Doctor Zhou and his family,” Li Liu explained.

”What if those people are relentless and send someone to our village to kill again?” asked a woman.

This time, Ji Yiqiong himself spoke, ”This officer will arrange for the officers to guard the village, and I believe those nefarious factions from River Jiang wouldn’t dare to cause trouble here again.”

Upon hearing this, the villagers all sighed in relief, and they began to think about how to assist with the aftermath for Doctor Zhou and Guoguo’s family.

Bai Ruozhu listened from inside the room and realized that Ji Yiqiong’s intention was to keep the villagers unaware of Guoguo still being alive, probably because Guoguo had seen her.

However, this was for the best; she owed it to that child to properly treat his injuries and take him along when she left.

It was just heartbreaking for Guoguo’s mother to have lost both her husband and son.

As the sun set and the villagers finally dispersed, Ji Yiqiong anxiously said outside the room, ”Young master, it’s time for us to set off, otherwise, how can we explain to the Emperor?”

Bai Ruozhu didn’t leave the room and answered indifferently, ”Didn’t you send word to the Emperor that I had been kidnapped?”

”I sent the message immediately,” Ji Yiqiong replied.

”That’s good, rescuing me will take time, we’ll set off tomorrow morning,” Bai Ruozhu said decisively.

Ji Yiqiong opened his mouth to speak, but remembering Bai Ruozhu’s grief-stricken face when he had seen her earlier, he swallowed his words back down.

”Alright, tomorrow morning is the latest we can delay.”

That night, Guoguo woke up once more, and Bai Ruozhu, calling Jianqi, quietly took Guoguo to see his mother.

”Madam, why do we have to sneak around like this?” Guoguo asked Bai Ruozhu curiously, after being instructed by her to keep quiet later on.

Bai Ruozhu didn’t know how to lie, but Jianqi beside her said, ”You have been targeted by bad people. If they knew you’re still alive, they might come looking for your home again. What would happen to your mother then?”

Upon hearing this, Guoguo quickly nodded, ”I understand, I won’t make a peep.”