Chapter 149 Refuge
Xiao Zhenniang curtly straightened Chen Boyuan's bones, tied his legs with two wooden boards, and fed him a pill that Jiang Cheng had brought over.
He said to the patriarch: "I'm not good at setting bones. You have to ask an osteopath to take a look at him as soon as possible."
Patriarch Chen was dumbfounded.
Where can I go to find an osteopath now?
Mr. Li's eldest son is good at bone-setting, but where can he find him?
Patriarch Chen turned his attention to Chun Niang: "Sanlang's wife, can your Yingbao know how to set bones?"
He was also in a hurry and went to the doctor. He didn't realize that Ying Bao was just a little baby over four years old, and how could he set bones?
Only then did Chun Niang remember that her little girl had been down the mountain with Jiang Cheng for a while, why hadn't she come up yet?
"Where is Bao'er?" Chun Niang hurriedly found Jiang Quan: "Why didn't Bao'er come up?"
Jiang Quan just carried a sack of rice into the cave and said, "She and her elder brother are guarding the mules and horses down there."
Chun Niang was about to go down to look for her daughter, but was stopped by Jiang Quan: "Third Aunt, the torch is almost finished. Don't wander around. Ying Bao will be here with big brother soon."
Sure enough, not long after, Jiang Cheng came up carrying two large iron pots, followed by Ying Bao, who was leading the deer, and Wen Fu, who was holding a sack.
As soon as Yingbao came up, she went to take a look at Chen Boyuan at the request of Patriarch Chen, but she didn't know how to set bones and didn't know what to do with such an injury.
"I learned my medical skills from my master. Currently I only know a little bit about internal medicine, but I am not good at anything else." Ying Bao told the truth.
Patriarch Chen was sad.
Han Miaoniang stayed beside her son and cried louder.
Suddenly she got up and rushed to Wen Tian to beat her, "It's all your fault! My son was kind enough to bring you up, but you pushed him! Bitch!"
Mrs. Lin asked her maid to protect Wen Tian tightly, and said to the angry Han Miaoniang: "My daughter has no intention, why are you angry? She is only an eight-year-old child, how can she push your son?"
Han Miaoniang was so angry that she stepped forward and started arguing with Mrs. Lin, "Your daughter is a disaster! If it weren't for her, why would my son break his leg?"
Patriarch Chen shouted: "Han! Stop making trouble!"
Everyone stepped forward to pull Han away and offered comfort.
But Han Miaoniang couldn't hear it. She cried and cried a lot, and was finally taken aside by her husband.
Wen Tian was so frightened that she shivered and huddled behind the maid, not daring to say a word.
Mrs. Lin felt sorry for her daughter, but she couldn't support her in this situation, and she felt displeased with these villagers.
What a bunch of uncivilized and uncivilized people!
She turned her attention to her fourth younger brother and sister, and saw that she, her daughter and her nanny had made a bed next to the Jiang family, and the three of them just huddled together in the bed and pretended to sleep.
snort! Sure enough, they all flew away when the disaster came, and they even ignored their niece and allowed others to bully her!
When she returned to Yuzhou, she told her husband about the matter, so that everyone in the family knew what kind of thing these four wives were marrying!
The torches on the mountain path were extinguished one after another, and there was only one torch left in the cave.
It happened that Jiang Cheng and Jiang Quan, with Wen Fu's help, had already carried everything down the mountain on their backs, including the bedding, iron pot and other items that Ying Bao had released.
Chun Niang pulled her daughter beside her and stayed with everyone in the Jiang family.
The children Jiang Jie, Jiang Wu, and others were already fast asleep in the bedding, and even the old man Jiang Liu couldn't help but fall asleep from exhaustion.
Chun Niang tossed and turned, unable to sleep, quietly waiting for news about her husband in the dark.
As the last torch in the cave was extinguished, the surrounding area gradually fell silent, except for the faint sound of Chen Boyuan's moans.
The pain of broken bones may last for a while, and there is nothing Yingbao can do about it.
His consciousness sank into the cave and he carefully examined the situation in the cave.
There are a lot of things piled up in a mess in the cave, which also takes up part of the vegetable field. A cage of chickens is quite content, stretching its neck out of the cage and pecking at the wheat piled outside.
Yingbao sprinkled a handful of green vegetables around the chicken coop, then ignored them and went to plant cantaloupes.
The seeds are the ones dug out from the melon that I ate yesterday. Yingbao picked some plump ones and planted them in the black soil.
As for those courgettes, many of them have grown, and some are even yellow. It’s a pity that they can’t take them out to Aniang and the others now.
After making the rounds, Yingbao exited the cave and closed his eyes to sleep.
I don't know how long it took, but suddenly I heard a commotion at the entrance of the cave.
Someone whispered: "They are back!"
The villagers guarding the cave entrance stood up excitedly, stepped on their feet and looked down the mountain road.
There were scattered torches coming towards this side of the mountain, and it was hard to tell whether they were the bandits or Jiang Sanlang and the others.
Patriarch Chen also woke up and quickly ordered everyone to prepare to meet the enemy.
"No matter who comes, you can't be careless." Patriarch Chen shouted: "Hurry up and pick up the bow and arrow, if the bandit shoots directly."
Only then did everyone wake up as if from a dream, and hurriedly picked up their weapons and prepared for the attack.
There are torches appearing one after another in the forest, and it seems that many people are running towards this direction.
Patriarch Chen looked solemn and ordered his clan members to guard the crossing.
"It's me! I'm Jiangjiu!"
A wet man appeared at the crossing.
By this time, the rain had stopped and the sky was starting to get bright, so I could barely see the face of the person coming.
When Old Man Jiang heard the sound, he ran over and said loudly: "This is my eldest nephew, let him come up!"
Everyone took back their bamboo poles, bows and arrows and let people into the cave.
"Dalang, how is the village?" Old Man Jiang asked repeatedly: "Have you seen Sanlang and the others?"
Jiang Jiu wiped his face: "Dalang, Erlang and Sanlang are all behind and will be there soon."
Seeing that his nephew was all wet, Old Man Jiang took out a set of old clothes from the package and gave them to him to change into.
Jiang Jiu took off his wet clothes and put on his uncle's clothes, and continued: "A lot of bandits came last night. Fortunately, Sanlang reminded us in time and put our village on guard. Otherwise, I don't know what would have happened."
"So how is your village now? Have the bandits retreated?" Old Man Jiang asked again.
Jiang Jiu: "I have withdrawn for now, but I think they will come again."
This time the bandits failed to please them and suffered many casualties. They would definitely come for revenge, so the villagers decided to find a place to take shelter first.
Everyone in Jiangjia Village knew that there was a tiger's mouth here, and the terrain was dangerous and suitable for temporary refuge, so everyone rushed here with their families.
Jiang Jiu had quick legs and feet and arrived before them.
Old Man Jiang was silent for a moment and asked, "Are Sanlang and the others not injured?"
"It's a bit of a flesh wound, it's nothing serious." Jiang Jiu took a sip of the water handed over by his aunt, and was scared when he recalled what happened last night.
There were so many bandits, there were about 200 of them. All the young men in the village were dispatched, plus dozens of people and twenty-some bows and arrows brought by Jiang Sanlang, to barely repel them.
If Saburo and the others didn't warn them, they might be kicked off in their sleep.
While he was talking, many people had already come over, but they were stopped by those who kept the road.
Jiang Jiu saw this and ran over quickly: "They are all from Jiangjia Village, let them come up quickly!"
So dozens of people entered the cave one after another, and there were still many people gathering at the foot of the mountain.
Some people were leading cattle and sheep, some were driving fat pigs, and some were holding chickens and geese.
It is estimated that everyone in Jiangjia Village came, except for a few young adults.
With the addition of dozens of people from Chenjia Village, the cave was quickly filled to the brim.
However, the buffaloes and donkeys could not come up, and the fat pigs refused to enter the plank road. The people of Jiangjia Village drove these animals into the woods and waited for the banditry to end before searching for them.
Even so, many goats, chickens and geese entered the cave. For a while, feces and urine flowed across the cave, and the cave was filled with a stinky smell.