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"How could this be?" Jiang Wan said to herself.

"It's fine." Xiao Rui gritted his teeth and pretended to be relaxed.

"How can I not be bothered!" Jiang Wan stared at him angrily, "Your wound is just right on your chest. If you don't treat it properly, a casual movement will tear it apart again."

After saying that, she quickly ran to the outer room and found Lilac's sewing basket. She picked out a thread pierced embroidery needle and bent it in the middle. Then, she handed a cloth bundle to Xiao Rui and said, "Bite this, it might hurt a little."

"No need." Xiao Rui rejected him without a second thought.

Jiang Wan took off the lampshade of the Octagonal Brocade Palace, exposing the pea-sized flame inside. Then she used strong alcohol to wash her hands, used scissors to hold the needle and roast it over the flame, and soaked the thread on the needle in strong alcohol.

"Fine, don't cry out in pain later on." Jiang Wan's beautiful eyes turned, causing Xiao Rui's heart to soften, how could she still remember any pain.

Jiang Wan held the heated embroidery needle and pierced it into Xiao Rui Xuan's body. Although Xiao Rui was in pain, he didn't make a sound.

Jiang Wan frowned, concentrating on stitching Xiao Rui's wounds. Before, when she was still in university, she had studied first aid, but she didn't expect that the first actual operation would be in the Great Liang Dynasty.

Jiang Wan probably sealed three or four needles before gathering the flesh on both sides of the blade. It was just that she was a bit nervous when she attacked just now, and the light wasn't too good either, so the entire blade was crooked from her actions. It was like a caterpillar lying on Xiao Rui Xuan's white chest.

With a slight blush on her face, she stood up and opened her luggage. She took out a white cotton dress that she had washed a few days ago and used her teeth to tear a hole in the skirt. With a casual tug, she pulled out a long piece of cloth and carefully tied it around Xiao Rui's chest.

"Is there a doctor at home?" As Jiang Wan played with it, she greeted Xiao Rui.

"What is it? You want to chase me away? " Xiao Rui endured the pain and smiled at Jiang Wan.

"If I don't chase you away, would I still be keeping you here to celebrate New Year?" Although she really wanted to keep him here, as a little girl who hadn't yet left the pavilion, she still had to keep her tail between her legs. How could she dare to do something so audacious?

At this moment, a drum sounded outside the window.

Xiao Rui looked at Jiang Wan with a sly expression, as if she was pleased that her evil scheme had succeeded: "Looks like … "It's really the new year …"

However, Jiang Wan couldn't be bothered with him.

She picked up the torn white cotton dress and wiped the blood off the ground. She had to clean up this place before dawn. Although she was confident that the people in her room wouldn't say anything, she couldn't resist the reaction of the people downstairs.

I also have to find a way to quickly disperse the smell of alcohol in this room.

Xiao Rui smiled as she sat there, looking at Jiang Wan who was busy walking back and forth. She thought to herself that she actually had such an energetic moment. In her previous life, she looked almost as lifeless as that imperial palace.

Thinking of this, Xiao Rui's expression darkened: in this life, he definitely wouldn't allow that kind of thing to happen again.

He held onto the bed and stood up, then he took out a twenty taels ingot and gave it to Jiang Wan.

Jiang Wan looked at the blood-stained Big Yuan Treasure and did not accept it. Instead, she straightened her back and raised an eyebrow at Xiao Rui, "What do you mean? Is it to thank me for saving my life? "

"It's New Year's money!" Xiao Rui took Jiang Wan's hand and placed the ingot in it, "May you live a peaceful life."

With that, he lightly embraced Jiang Wan, and then jumped out of the window.

"Your injuries …" Jiang Wan was so anxious that she ran after him, but outside the window, other than the swirling snow, there was no other shadow.

"This guy really runs fast!" The moment she prepared to close the window, she felt as if she stepped on something.

She lowered her head to look and saw that it was actually the oilskin package that she had taken out from Xiao Rui Xuan's bosom.

Filled with curiosity, Jiang Wan opened the oilskin package, only to discover that inside the package was actually a semi-new and not old "Classic of Virtue".

Borrowing the dim yellow light from the octagonal palace lamp, Jiang Wan casually flipped through the "Classic of Virtue", and discovered that it didn't seem to be much different from the "Classic of Virtue" she had seen before.

Then why did Xiao Rui carry the book with him?

Feeling a bit confused, Jiang Wan also casually pressed the book under the pillow, found a copper basin, threw the blood-stained cotton skirt into it, poured some lamp oil, burnt it clean with a fire, and then poured all the ashes into the toilet.

She sniffed the air that still smelled of alcohol and glanced at the jar of liquor still lying on the floor. She decided to leave the window open and added some spices to the incense burner that was still burning.

It was unknown how much time had passed before Jiang Wan felt as if she had just fallen asleep. She heard some movement outside, like cloves talking to her mother, "Eh? "Why is Fourth Miss's room so cold?"

"I forgot to close the window." Mama Han smiled lightly as she closed the open window, then she walked to the bedside of Jiang Wan and softly said, "Fourth Miss, it's time to wake up."

Jiang Wan slightly opened her eyes, feeling dizzy. She looked out the window at the sky that hadn't lit up yet, flipped over and laid on the bed as she mumbled, "Isn't the sky still bright? Why are you up so early? "

"Fourth Miss, today is the first day of the first month. You have to congratulate the Old Master and his wife!" Mama Han lifted the drapes onto the brass hook, then pulled Jiang Wan up as if she were coaxing a child, "It's not good to be late!"

But Jiang Wan felt that her eyelids were like lead, she couldn't open them no matter how hard she opened them.

In the past, on the first day of the new year before dawn, she'd get up and dress up according to the orders of the imperial concubine before sitting with Esteemed Empress Dowager in her court uniform, accepting the worship of an inner and outer wife.

He had never thought that after his rebirth, he would still not be able to sleep peacefully.

Jiang Wan lowered her head and sat there like a marionette, allowing Little Cai and Mama Han to take care of her. As drowsiness struck her wave after wave, she seemed to be on the verge of collapse.

"Fourth Miss!" Mama Han cried out in alarm and supported Jiang Wan. She noticed the wine jar that Jiang Wan had left open last night from the corner of her eye, so she said to Clove, "Go and take a look at that wine jar."

Lilac picked up the wine jar and saw that it was already half empty.

"Mama Han, is Fourth Miss drunk?!" Clove said hurriedly.

"Drunk?" Mama Han looked in disbelief at the person in her embrace, only to see Jiang Wan's face blushing red, actually looking even better than rouge.

She was the one who grew up with Fourth Miss and usually did not touch a drop of alcohol. Although she had smelled the alcohol on the way in, she did not smell the alcohol on Fourth Miss at all.