Chapter 149： take refuge

Xiao Zhenniang hastily straightened Chen Boyuan's bones, tied his legs with two wooden boards, and fed him a pill that Jiang Cheng brought.

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?

Li Langzhong’s eldest son is good at bone setting, but where can he find him?

Chief 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 sought medical treatment. He didn't realize that Ying Bao was just a little kid over four years old and how could he set bones?

Chun Niang then remembered 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 eldest brother are guarding the mules and horses down there."

Chun Niang was about to go down to look for her daughter, but Jiang Quan stopped her and said, "Third Aunt, the torch is almost finished. Don't wander around. Ying Bao will be here with my elder brother soon."

As expected, 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.

Yingbao went to take a look at Chen Boyuan at the request of Patriarch Chen as soon as she came up, 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.” Yingbao told the truth.

Clan Chief Chen felt sad.

Han Miaoniang cried louder as she stayed by her son's side.

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 the son?"

Han Miaoniang was so angry that she started to argue with Ms. Lin, "Your daughter is a disaster! If it weren't for her, why would my son break his leg?"

Chief Chen shouted: "Han! Stop making trouble!"

Everyone stepped forward to pull Han away and offered comfort.

But Han Miaoniang couldn't hear it, so she started crying 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.

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 four younger siblings 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 road 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.

Chunniang pulled her daughter beside her and stayed with everyone in the Jiang family.

Jiang Jie, Jiang Wu, and several other children were already fast asleep on their beddings, and even old man Jiang Liu couldn't help but fall asleep due to fatigue.

Chunniang 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 surroundings 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.

Consciousness sank into the cave, and he carefully checked 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 scattered a handful of green vegetables around the chicken coop, then ignored them and went to plant cantaloupes.

The seeds were dug out from the melon we 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 still yellow. It’s a pity that they can’t take them out to Aniang and the others to eat 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 entrance of the cave stood up excitedly, stepped on their feet and looked down the mountain road.

There were scattered torches coming towards this side of the mountain, but it was hard to tell whether they were the bandits or Jiang Sanlang and the others.

Clan Chief 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."

Everyone woke up as if from a dream, and hurriedly picked up their weapons and prepared for battle.

Torches appeared one after another in the forest, and it seemed like many people were running towards this direction.

Chief Chen looked solemn and ordered his clan members to guard the road.

“It’s me! I’m Jiangjiu!”

A man all wet appeared at the crossing.

By this time, the rain had stopped and the sky was starting to get bright, so you could barely see the face of the person coming.

Hearing the sound, Old Man Jiang ran over and said loudly: "This is my eldest nephew, let him come up quickly!"

The people 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?"

Jiangjiu wiped his face and said, "Dalang, Erlang and Sanlang are all behind and will be here soon."

Old man Jiang saw that his nephew was all wet, so he 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."

“How is your village now? Have the bandits retreated?” Old Man Jiang asked again.

Jiangjiu: “I have retreated for the time being, but I think they will come again.”

This time the bandits did not seek any favors 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 got there before them.

Old man Jiang was silent for a moment and asked, "Are Sanlang and the others not injured?"

“It’s a little flesh wound, it’s nothing serious.” Jiang Jiu took a sip of the water handed over by her aunt, and felt scared when she recalled what happened last night.

There were so many bandits, there were about 200 people. All the young men in the village were dispatched, plus dozens of people and more than 20 bows and arrows brought by Jiang Sanlang, to barely repel them.

If Sanlang and the others didn't warn them, they might be kicked off in their sleep.

As he was talking, many people came over, but they were stopped by those who guarded the road.

Jiang Jiu saw this and ran over quickly: "They are all from Jiangjia Village, let them come up quickly!"

As a result, 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 dozens of people from Chenjiacun, 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 forest 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.