Leng Chuanjin could sense Xia Sanghuan's uneasiness and fear. Unconsciously, he tightened his arms around her.
While gently stroking the back of her head, he whispered words of comfort.
"It's okay."
"Don't be afraid."
His hands were warm and strong, giving her a sense of security.
The girl pouted, and finally couldn't hold back her tears.
She cried softly. Even though she was terrified, she still tried to put on a brave face.
A pang of pain shot through the man's heart.
After calming her down, they slowly separated.
He held her shoulders and found that the bandage he had just wrapped up not long ago was already soaked in blood.
His mind went blank for a moment.
"Why is this happening?"
He reached out his hand, wanting to touch the wound.
But he was afraid that it would bleed even more.
His hand hung in the air, not knowing what to do next.
"Do you have any medicine to stop the bleeding?"
After a brief moment of panic, he regained his composure and squatted down to rummage through the first-aid kit the girl carried with her.
"Yes."
Xia Sanghuan finally came to her senses. She got out of bed and put on her shoes to avoid getting her feet cut by the glass shards on the floor.
She squatted down beside the man and deftly rummaged through the bottles and jars.
She took out a small bottle of medicine. Just as she was about to untie the bandage herself, Leng Chuanjin had already started.
He first unscrewed the cap of the medicine bottle and placed it on the table for later use.
Then he carefully unwound the bandage from the girl's arm, revealing the long, thin wound inside.
The wound wasn't big, but the blood kept flowing out.
It wasn't gushing out, but oozing out bit by bit.
But this made it even more eerie.
He carried her to the bed, took out a new bandage, and poured the powder of the hemostatic medicine out of the bottle.
When he applied the powder to the wound, the girl gasped.
"Does it hurt?"
He applied the medicine more gently, afraid of hurting her accidentally.
"It's okay."
She lifted her arm slightly to make it easier for him to bandage her.
"I just don't think this medicine will work."
"...... What do you mean?"
The man's hand paused.
"Ordinary hemostatic medicine won't work on this poison."
The girl said casually, but her face had already started to turn pale.
Without hesitation, he picked her up and held her in his arms.
The girl let out a surprised cry and instinctively wrapped her arms around his neck.
"Where are you going? To find the village doctor."
He grabbed the coat on the wall and draped it over the girl.
"Finding the village doctor won't help either."
"He doesn't have the antidote."
Xia Sanghuan shivered because of the cold air outside the door.
"Then I'll take you to find the antidote."
The man's eyes and voice were firm.
The girl looked at his face and was stunned for a moment.
"But we need to go up the mountain."
She pursed her lips and said.
"It doesn't matter."
"As long as I can save you, it doesn't matter how."
He carried her and turned to walk up the mountain.
"Do you know what the antidote is?"
Halfway up, he suddenly asked.
"Yeah."
"I can probably guess."
The girl had planned to talk about it when it was dawn, but she couldn't resist him, so she had to show him the way.
The mountain path was rough and uneven. It was already difficult for a single person to walk, let alone the man carrying her.
But Leng Chuanjin held her steadily in his arms. Even when his knee scraped against the ground, he only grunted.
Maybe God thought they had been through too much recently. Just as the man reached the middle of the mountain, the girl found several antidotes by the moonlight.
He put her down and let her lean against a tree.
The girl watched his back as he went to pick the herbs. Taking advantage of this moment, she felt her own pulse.
At first, her wound had been numb. Based on the analysis of her pulse, she was basically sure what kind of medicine had been applied to the knife.
It was nothing more than a medicine that made people bleed continuously. It was a pity that there was no novelty. She had seen this kind of medicine when she was a child.
Leng Chuanjin quickly picked the herbs. He didn't dare to delay for a moment and quickly crushed them.
He applied the herbs to the girl's wound and asked while applying.
"Does it hurt?"
"No."
After he finished applying, he asked anxiously, "Does it hurt?"
"No."
Then he carried her on his back and walked down the mountain.
"Does it hurt?"
"No."
The man looked back and looked at her worriedly.
The girl looked at his furrowed brows and couldn't help but laugh.
"What are you laughing at?"
Seeing her crescent-like eyes, Leng Chuanjin, who had been nervous, slowly relaxed.
She could still laugh, so it seemed that there was no problem.
"I'm laughing at you for being too nervous."
Actually, she didn't take this incident seriously at all. The most urgent thing was to interrogate Xia Anying.
But without saying a word, her second brother had carried her out, leaving her no time to react.
She lay on his broad back and couldn't help but say.
"It's so nice."
"What?"
"I said, it's so nice to be your sister."
She buried her head on his shoulder and whispered in his ear.
After she said that, both of them fell into a moment of silence.
"Second brother."
"Hmm?"
"Actually, it was Xia Anying who drugged you, right?"
The man paused for a moment and then nodded.
"Yeah."
The girl let out a soft laugh.
"I knew it."
"She's so stupid. Her thoughts are written all over her face. It's easy to see through her."
Her voice began to tremble.
"Such a stupid person."
"Why does she always want to hurt me?"
"Aren't we sisters who have lived together for more than a decade?"
The man felt a coolness on his shoulder.
She was crying again.
She had cried twice tonight.
Once out of fear, and once out of sadness.
He always thought that she didn't care about this elder sister anymore.
But some things couldn't be judged by appearances after all.
Even though Xia Anying targeted her everywhere and even wanted to take her place, she still thought.
They were sisters.
At first, Xia Sanghuan gave Leng Chuanjin the impression that she was a girl with not very rich emotions.
Especially after witnessing the quarrel between her and Xia Anying, he was even more convinced that she didn't care about this elder sister at all.
But there was one thing he couldn't understand. She was already the young mistress of the Fu family, and her father loved her so much.
She only needed to say a word, and she could throw Xia Anying back to Qingshanpo and then give her a little living allowance every month.
Did she really only take care of this elder sister for the sake of the agreement with Xia Laosi?
It probably wasn't that simple.
The more he got along with her, the more he felt that she was actually just an ordinary little girl.
She would cry when she was sad and laugh when she was happy.
It was just that her growing environment had made her hide herself prematurely.
In order not to get hurt, she had built a hard shell for herself.
The man was silent, not knowing how to answer her.