idle mistress

Chapter 161 Natural and Man-made Disasters
She covered her left face with one hand, and climbed into the carriage with red eyes.

Shen Qing stared at her face and asked, "How did you get hurt? Let me see."

Lu Huijuan was so angry that she couldn't help but replied viciously: "What are you looking at? What's so interesting about it?"

When Mu Xiu outside heard this, his stomach-filled face immediately sank.

Lu Huijuan quickly realized that she had said something wrong, and hurriedly apologized to Shen Qing: "I'm sorry, Shen Qing, my face hurts too much."

What she didn't know was that if she was three seconds late in apologizing, Mu Xiu would immediately drive her out of the carriage.

He kept this woman to serve Shen Qing, to be her companion, so he couldn't allow her to speak ill of Shen Qing.

The carriage continued to move forward, and Lu Huijuan felt a burning pain on the left side of her cheek. She didn't want Shen Qing to see her face, so she kept covering her cheek with her hands.

After covering this way for a while, her hands were tired, so she lay down beside her, with her left face still facing outward.

Shen Qing saw her acting mischievously all the time, and couldn't help laughing inwardly, what kind of trauma did she never see?She knew what it was like to be scratched by a branch.

Thinking of this, her face froze.

Why do I feel like I have seen all kinds of trauma?She couldn't find the answer, but she did know that all kinds of soft tissue contusions, including knife wounds and even burns, had clear images in her mind.

Have you ever hurt someone?

For this reason, Shen Qing had extreme doubts about herself, she didn't know what kind of person she was?

Or, his name is not Shen Qing at all?

As the carriage was walking, there was a noise outside, and then the speed of the carriage slowed down.

The two women opened the curtain and saw a large number of refugees rushing forward.

Some of them are not bad, leading horses, pulling mules, and carrying household belongings, while others are yellow and emaciated and dressed in rags.

Mu Xiu thought that this group of people encountered natural disasters such as drought and waterlogging, so he didn't pay much attention to it. Seeing that the road was occupied by refugees, he had to get down and lead the horse to continue walking.

When the refugees along the road saw the group of them walking in the opposite direction, they all turned to look at them curiously.

In order to survive, they left their hometowns and fled here not far away, but they did not expect that there were people going against them.

The carriage and the flow of people went head-to-head. There were too many refugees and the road was narrow. The carriage stopped in the middle of the road for a while, unable to move forward.

"Where did this group of people come from?" Seeing this, Lu Huijuan complained in her heart.

Shen Qing looked at the group of refugees with a worried look on his face, maybe something happened in front of him.

She was about to ask Mu Xiu to find someone to inquire about, when she heard a sudden burst of crying from the front.

"Come on, come on, come on, save my child..."

"Who will save my child, son, what's the matter with you, son, don't scare mother... Is there a doctor? Is there a doctor here...?"

I saw a woman running to the middle of the road with a baby less than one year old in her arms, begging for help from passers-by in a panic.

Shen Qing turned to look at Mu Xiu, he was the doctor, but he was unmoved as if he hadn't heard it, and in a hurry, she called out to the woman: "Mother, come here, there is a doctor here."

While speaking, she poked her head out and gave Mu Xiu a hard push on the back.

The woman was overjoyed when she heard the words, and hurried over with the child in her arms.

Shen Qing looked at the child in her arms, and saw that the child's face was flushed, and his lips and nail beds were purple. She immediately reacted and said, "Brother, the child must be eating and swallowing, hurry up..."

At this time, another middle-aged man ran over from behind. Judging by the nervous expression on his face, he should be the child's father.

Hearing this, Mu Xiu looked back at her, and immediately took the child from the woman's hand.

Lu Huijuan saw that he turned the child face down, supported the child's head with one hand, kept the head low and feet high, and then patted the child's shoulder blades continuously with his palm.

Once,... four, five...

Suddenly, a foreign object was sprayed out of the child's mouth, and the baby cried "wow".

Seeing this, everyone's hearts hanging in the air were relieved at once.

The boy's mother held the child in her arms and thanked Shuu Oki repeatedly.

The father of the child at the side hesitated for a moment, took out a handful of copper plates from his jacket, handed them to Mu Xiu and said, "Strong man, there is no way to repay your life-saving grace. This is the only money they have left. If there is not much, I hope the benefactor will not pay you back." dislike."

The copper plate was passed to Mu Xiu, who confiscated it.

The child's father looked at the two women in the carriage, and then handed the copper plate to Shen Qing.

These ten or so copper coins may not be much, but they are the only personal wealth of the fugitives. Shen Qing immediately said that it is not necessary to do so much.

So he reached out and took a penny from it.

Seeing this, Lu Huijuan's face darkened on the spot.

Husband and wife hugged the child and thanked Fang Qian and left. After walking two steps, the middle-aged man turned around and chased after him, asking:
"Where is the strong man going?"

"Let's go south..."

When the man heard this, he shook his head and waved his hands: "I can't go, I can't go... It's not peaceful in the future, there is a war, and the army is forced to be recruited. Anyone over the age of 12, who has hands and feet and is a leader, is dragged into the army. There is no return, there is no return..."

After hearing this, Mu Xiu stopped in his tracks.

He is just passing by, he is not afraid of natural disasters, but this man-made disaster...

Turning her head to look at Shen Qing, she immediately decided to go back the same way and go to Tong County...
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Three months later...

Lu Huijuan was drying clothes in the yard.

This house is rented. It has a green hall and a tiled house, with a main room and a small courtyard. In their hometown, only landlords can live in such a good house.

I have a small family in Tong County.

She has seen Mu Xiu see a doctor, take his pulse, write a prescription, and if it doesn't work, a few more needles, and the money will be in hand.

She never thought that it would be so easy to make money by herself. Her parents worked so hard in the fields early and late that they couldn't earn a few copper coins throughout the year.

Therefore, she became more determined to live with this man.

She knew that with this man's ability, as long as she stopped wandering around and was willing to settle down in one place, her life might be prosperous.

It's just that these are all hot on my own head, and that man doesn't care about him at all.

Thinking of this, Lu Huijuan stretched out her hand and touched her left cheek. Although the wound on her face was healed and the pain was gone, it left a not-so-shallow scar.

She doesn't look bad, but having this scar is a flaw, which makes her unable to hold her head up in front of men...

The real appearance of the woman in the room flashed in my mind, thinking that there was such a person between me and Mu Xiu once in a while, let alone worrying in my heart.

(End of this chapter)