83 Masterful Treatment
Su Ying couldn’t bear the sound of the two little ones crying. She hurriedly picked them up to placate them. “What happened? What did you do wrong? Tell Mother.”
The older toddler Ji stared at Su Ying and said, “The little chick that Mother brought back escaped just now. Ling and I forgot what Mother told us and we ran out to chase it. We even met an old woman.”
Su Ying’s eyebrows twitched violently when she heard that, but she didn’t want to scare the child so she suppressed the fear in her heart and said, “Oh? Old woman? What kind of old woman?”
Ji tilted his head and thought for a while before replying, “The corner of the eye… There’s a big mole near the eye, and there is long hair growing from the mole.”
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“What did she say to you?”
“Mother, that old granny said that she has candy and little birds in her house. She asked if we wanted them.” The younger toddler Ling said angrily as she hugged Su Ying.
“Mm-hmm. We don’t want it. If we want it, Mother will give it to us.”
Su Ying was very relieved that her children still remembered her words. “That’s right. I can get you whatever you want. Don’t ever run outside again, okay? Where did that old woman come from?”
The older toddler Ji pointed to the other side of the open space and said, “She said that she lives there.”
Su Ying slowly looked at the house on the other side of the open space. It was a house with green fired bricks and roof tiles. Although the outer walls looked a little old, anyone who could live in a house with green fired bricks and roof tiles in this area was surely no ordinary person. After all, Mei Niang’s wooden building was not far from them.
If Mei Niang didn’t even touch her, how could she be a normal person?
When she thought of this, Su Ying felt that they had to hurry up and build up their security measures.
“Alright. There’s still some osmanthus candy in the bag next to Father. You guys can take it and eat it.”
Little children tended to be forgetful. They were still frightened just now, but when they heard from Su Ying there was candy, they ran off happily to get the candy.
Su Ying examined the open space they were occupying. It seemed like she needed more timber to surround the entire front yard. Otherwise, she would feel that it was dangerous even if her children ran around just nearby.
After watching helplessly at the children who ran away, the old woman’s murky eyes revealed a trace of disappointment. She could only turn around and return to her home.
She pushed open the door of the courtyard and walked in. She saw Wang Furong looking at her in fear.
She laughed, making the wrinkles on her face deepen. “Are you hungry, my child? I’ll go make something for you to eat.”
Wang Furong heard her but was so scared that she didn’t dare to move.
The old woman did not pay any more attention to her and went straight to the kitchen in the backyard.
In one of the side rooms in the courtyard, Madam Zhou’s face was ashen white as she looked at Madam Sun sitting on the bed.
Madam Sun’s face was grayish, and her wide-open eyes were unfocused. She was just staring straight ahead.
Wang Lang was holding the bowl of medicine in his hand and feeding it to Madam Sun. Madam Sun’s mouth opened and closed as she drank it.
As she watched this, Madam Zhou’s body trembled unwittingly.
When Madam Sun arrived that night, she was already clearly not breathing, but when Madam Zhou woke up in the morning, Madam Sun was sitting there. She didn’t respond when Madam Zhou called out to her, and her eyes didn’t move. She only opened and closed her mouth when she was fed medicine.
However, Wang Lang did not seem to notice anything strange as he fed mouthful after mouthful of medicine to Madam Sun.
“Zhou Niang, Mother dirtied her clothes when she took the medicine. Later, you help Mother take it off and wash it.”
After Wang Lang fed Madam Sun the medicine, he gave Madam Zhou these instructions and turned to leave the room.
However, Madam Zhou didn’t dare to be alone with Madam Sun. “No, I don’t want to, Husband. I… I will go out with you. I will ask… ask Furong to help Mother change. After changing, I will take it out to wash.”
Wang Lang glared at her with displeasure, but since they were in someone else’s house, he couldn’t throw a temper.
Madam Zhou followed Wang Lang out of the room in fear. Suddenly, she exclaimed, “Argh!”
A figure that suddenly appeared in the courtyard froze. That person glared with annoyance in Madam Zhou’s direction.
“What are you screaming for? Isn’t my puppet nice?” That man was holding a puppet that was half the height of a person, and his eyes were questioning her with displeasure. It was as if he would get angry if Madam Zhou said that his puppet was not nice.
Madam Zhou hurriedly covered her mouth and shook her head.
That person then left with the puppet in satisfaction.
Madam Zhou was really scared. She now hated Madam Sun bitterly for falling out with Su Ying. Otherwise, they wouldn’t be getting frightened so badly here.
“Husband, that mother and son duo look so scary. Let’s leave this place as soon as possible.”
However, Wang Lang said with a frown, “She said that Mother only needs to take a month’s worth of medicine to recover. It’s not too late for us to leave after Mother has recovered.”
Then, without waiting for Madam Zhou to say anymore, he took the bowl and left straight away.
Madam Zhou trembled as she stood in the same spot. She turned around and saw Wang Furong, who also had an uneasy look in her eyes. Both mother and daughter saw terror in each other’s eyes…
Su Ying was a woman of action. She wanted to build a fence for the courtyard. The next day, she went up the mountain and hauled back a pile of timber. After splitting the trunks into two, she cut them into planks before driving them into the ground and fencing up the surrounding area around the house. This way, no one could spy on the situation in the house compound.
The land area Su Ying used to build her house was very wide and spacious. In order to prevent people from climbing over the fence, she set the wolves to guard the compound at various locations.
After these chores were done, Su Ying was ready to perform surgery on Xiao Jin.
Tian Mu had made a big bed for them in the past two days, and Su Ying had covered it with a blanket so that Xiao Jin and the two children didn’t have to sleep on the floor.
Su Ying came to the bed and pulled up Xiao Jin’s pant legs to check on his two legs.
On their exile journey, she had given Xiao Jin some muscle regeneration medicine. The rotten flesh she had cut off before had almost all grown back. However, because the flesh was new, the skin color didn’t match his original skin color.
Xiao Jin’s leg tendons had been cut off by someone. As the wounds hadn’t been treated in time, they became inflamed and ulcerated. Now, many of the places where the tendons were connected had grown crooked. If Su Ying wanted his legs to recover completely, she could only separate the newly grown tendons and re-stitch them properly again.
“Ji, take Ling outside to play first. Mother has to treat Father’s leg today, so don’t come and bother us, okay?”
The two little fellows nodded obediently. “We’ll be good and wait outside.”
When Chu Yun, Jiang Yang, and the others knew that Su Ying was going to give medical treatment to Xiao Jin’s leg, they all waited anxiously outside the door.
“All of you, listen up. Before I come out, no one is allowed to come in. Do you understand?”
“Don’t worry, Mistress. We won’t let anyone bother you.”
Su Ying nodded and locked the door and windows from the inside. She then returned to bed.
“Don’t be nervous. Just close your eyes and take a nap.”
Xiao Jin glanced at Su Ying and slowly closed his eyes. He only felt a slight pricking pain in his hand before he fell asleep.
After Su Ying was sure that he had lost consciousness, she brought him into the operating room inside the interspatial store.
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