Chapter 295: Chapter 295 Dependent (Seeking Monthly Tickets)
Su Jin sat down to check the boy’s pulse.
The boy had serious external injuries and some internal injuries, so Su Jin needed to write him a prescription.
"Do you have paper and a pen?" Su Jin asked the little girl.
"Yes."
She ran to the drawer, moved the clothes aside, and took out a pen and paper.
Su Jin wrote a prescription and said, "Don’t worry, he’ll be fine after taking a few doses of this medicine."
The little girl held the prescription and cried, "But I don’t have money to buy medicine."
Xingxing took out ten taels of silver from her pocket and gave it to her.
The boy coughed.
Su Jin turned to look at him, seeing his haggard appearance, she wasn’t very reassured about just leaving him like this.
"The people who beat you have come more than once, they might come again," Su Jin said.
"Why don’t you move to a different place?" she suggested.
The boy coughed uncontrollably.
He shook his head stubbornly.
The little girl knew what he wanted to say, so she said, "We can’t leave, we’re waiting here for our brother to come back. If we leave, he won’t be able to find us."
"Then where is your big brother?" Su Jin asked.
The little girl shook her head, "I don’t know."
Xingxing said, "But if you don’t leave, you might be beaten to death."
"You don’t even know who is beating you, otherwise my young master and I could seek revenge for you," Xingxing sighed.
"By the way, why are those people hitting your second brother?" Xingxing asked curiously.
The little girl sat close to her second brother and said, "Second brother, does our family really have connections with the Flying Tiger Army?"
Flying Tiger Army?
Su Jin sharply caught these words.
Xingxing’s eyes lit up, "Do you have connections with the Flying Tiger Army of Marquis Dongxiang’s Mansion?"
The boy’s expression changed and he said, "Bah!"
"Who on earth has connections with those bandits?!" The boy was furious.
Xingxing’s face fell a little.
She was almost about to lose her temper, but Su Jin shook her head at her.
The boy angrily said, "A bunch of bandits dare call themselves the Flying Tiger Army?!"
Su Jin laughed, "It seems those people were inquiring about the Flying Tiger Army from fifteen years ago."
The boy nodded, coughed a few times, and said, "My father was one of the members of the Flying Tiger Army formed by the Heir of Duke Chong back then."
"A few days ago, those people first came to ask if we had picked up any silver over the years, or if anyone had sent us any compassion silver," the boy said.
"Then, after a couple of days, they came again to ask if someone from our family had been taken away or taken somewhere."
"Today, I didn’t feel like paying attention to them, so they started hitting people."
Xingxing was a bit confused, "The entire Flying Tiger Army was wiped out fifteen years ago, how do you still have a younger sister?"
The boy glanced at the little girl and said, "This is my cousin. My second uncle joined the army and is now at the border, serving under Duke Zhen. Our grandfather passed away a few months ago, and our aunt died long ago. Now, there’s only the two of us siblings relying on each other at home."
Su Jin looked at the boy and asked, "You don’t know where your big brother is either?"
The boy shook his head.
He had a violent coughing fit.
Su Jin instructed Xingxing, "Quick, go get the medicine."
Xingxing took the prescription and left.
The little girl brought a bowl to pour Su Jin some tea.
Su Jin opened the pastries on the table and said, "Eat."
The boy lay on the bed, unable to eat anything.
The little girl ate sweetly.
Su Jin looked at the bare room and sighed inwardly.
Their father died on the battlefield, and the second uncle was still at the border, risking his life for the court, yet the siblings were not protected by the court and were bullied by others.
But how could someone be inquiring about the Flying Tiger Army from back then when it had been completely annihilated?
Treating the Flying Tiger Army’s orphan in this way, they must certainly be enemies.
Xingxing came back with the medicine, lit the stove, boiled the medicine, and then brought it for the boy to drink.
Su Jin instructed, "If they come again, you should run away, if you can’t, ask them who they are, and then go to Duke Zhen’s Mansion to find the Eldest Young Master."
The boy was slightly taken aback.
Su Jin left them ten taels of silver and then left.
After leaving the alley, she hadn’t even walked half a round before running into Princess Shouning again.
"This outfit looks nice," Su Jin commented.
Princess Shouning tilted her neck, leaving Su Jin with the back of her head, and walked away.
Su Jin, "...."
Su Jin shrugged lightly and began to stroll around.
Princess Shouning took a few steps, then looked back.
Seeing Su Jin looking at a kite, a cold gleam flashed in her eyes.
She signaled for the palace maid to lean closer and whispered a few words.
"Go do it quickly!" Princess Shouning ordered.
"Princess, isn’t this a bit too much?" the palace maid said timidly.
There were rumors in the palace that anyone who provoked the Eldest Young Madam of Duke Zhen’s Mansion would end up embarrassing themselves.
The princess had confronted her several times, and each time ended up being unlucky herself, making her a bit afraid.
If she couldn’t outsmart the Eldest Young Madam of Duke Zhen’s Mansion in the palace, what more outside of it?
"Why don’t we just go back to the palace?" the maid suggested.
"You go back if you want!" Princess Shouning snapped.
"If you mess this up, you’ll get a beating when we return!"
The palace maid was terrified.
The palace maid turned around and went to those local thugs over there, said a few words to them, and handed over ten taels of silver ingot.
The group of thugs spat out the grass they were chewing on and laughed, "Don’t worry about us handling the matter."
"Who do you want us to catch?" the thug asked.
"Follow me," the palace maid said.
The palace maid led them forward, pointing out Su Jin and Xingxing from a distance.
The thugs grinned lewdly.
Su Jin and Xingxing were unaware that they had been targeted, strolling forward all the way.
This was a bustling street, not a good place to make a move, so they quietly tailed them.
Su Jin felt several gazes circling around her, making her uncomfortable.
But each time she turned around, she found nothing amiss.
Not far away, on White Jade Bridge.
A finely dressed girl gazed into the distance, accompanied by a maid, chatting and laughing together.
A man with a carrying pole walked up.
As the pole he carried swung, it accidentally hit the girl, causing her to lean forward and fall into the river.
The maid cried out in panic for help.
Soon a crowd of onlookers gathered by the bridge.
Xingxing, who loved excitement, pushed through the crowd and saw a girl flailing in the water.
"Miss, someone fell into the water," Xingxing shouted.
"Quick, save her," Su Jin said.
Xingxing jumped into the water and swam towards the girl.
By the time Xingxing reached the girl, she was no longer calling out.
Xingxing struggled to bring the girl to the riverbank, and Su Jin helped pull her up.
The little maid shook her mistress, "Miss, miss, wake up, don’t scare your maid!"
"Doctor!"
"Quickly, call a doctor!" the maid cried.
Su Jin was speechless.
She thought she could enjoy a day out in men’s clothes, but after rescuing one person, here came another.
She couldn’t just stand by and watch someone die.
Su Jin squatted down to save the girl.
First checking the pulse, then looking at the eyes.
Then she pressed on the girl’s chest.
Pressed once.
Pressed again.
The maid was stunned.
He, he, he...
He actually pressed on her mistress’s chest?!
The maid had not yet responded, and Su Jin was already reaching to touch the girl’s face, giving her artificial respiration.
The crowd of onlookers was stunned.