The moment the bearded man made a move, Su Yanke was already prepared. She was about to kick him unconscious to prevent any more trouble, but Uncle Ji's intervention made her retract her eager foot.
Su Yanke turned back to glance at Uncle Ji. Uncle Ji nodded at her, and she responded with a gesture. Then she gave Xiaobao a meaningful look. Xiaobao slightly curled the corner of his mouth and gave her an OK sign. Only then did Su Yanke leave with peace of mind.
Just like that, Su Yanke missed the violent look in Xiaobao's eyes the moment he turned his head. Since the moment Su Yanke touched Chen Yongshun, Xiaobao's eyes had been fixed on the spot where they made contact.
But Xiaobao was afraid that Su Yanke would think he was overly jealous and thus drift away from him. So he could only carefully hide his little thoughts. When he saw Chen Yongshun being picked up by Su Yanke, Xiaobao was almost driven crazy with jealousy. His eyes were about to turn red with anger. Coincidentally, there was an ill - fated person who came to be his punching bag, so Xiaobao naturally took the opportunity to vent his anger!
Chen Yongshun never expected that Su Yanke would pick him up in full view of everyone. Since Su Yanke got close to him, his body had been stiff. At first, it was because of the cold, but now it was due to Su Yanke's proximity and embrace.
There was another reason. He wasn't sure if it was because he was overly sensitive to the outside world. Since Su Yanke came to his side, he always felt a chilling gaze lingering around him. But when he tried to find it, he couldn't discover anything.
This gaze only lasted for a short time. It disappeared when he was taken away from the government office by Su Yanke. Chen Yongshun almost thought it was an illusion, but the bone - deep chill clearly told him that it wasn't.
Su Yanke walked very fast. The village here was quite remote. Only a few nearby villages made up a small county. The emperor had assigned a government office to each small county for easy management. Su Yanke didn't know why such an arrangement had been made. She had been very puzzled before and asked Uncle Ji and the others, but Uncle Ji didn't know either. He only knew that this arrangement had been in place for more than a decade.
The moment Su Yanke picked up Chen Yongshun, she felt the coldness on the child's body. In order not to delay the treatment, she directly took Chen Yongshun to Doctor Liu's house.
"Doctor Liu! Doctor Liu?"
One could hear the voice before seeing the person.
"Miss Su, why are you here again? Oh, who is this?"
Doctor Liu seemed a bit helpless about Su Yanke's arrival, but out of his doctor's conscience, he put down what he was doing as soon as he heard her call and opened the door to greet her.
As soon as he opened the door, he saw Su Yanke in a hurry. The wind had messed up her hair, giving her a kind of disheveled beauty.
Doctor Liu's breathing involuntarily slowed down for a moment. He bit the back of his molar to suppress this strange reaction. Then he noticed that there seemed to be someone in Su Yanke's arms, and this person looked familiar!
Yongshun?
Doctor Liu was no stranger to Chen Yongshun. Before he came to this village, he had known this child. At that time, he had just left the imperial medical service in the capital and was traveling and practicing medicine in a small town when he was found by Chen Yonggui to check on Chen Yongshun's leg.
The reason why he had such a deep impression was mainly that the child's leg was really strange. His pulse was completely normal, and even the veins in his legs were in a normal state, but he didn't even have the most basic knee - jerk reflex!
This was the second strange thing he had encountered besides Su Yanke.
Seeing the door open, Su Yanke walked in and laid Chen Yongshun on the sickbed.
"Doctor Liu, I'm sorry to trouble you!"
"Aren't you also capable?" Doctor Liu glanced at Su Yanke sourly.
"I'm not as professional as you, Doctor Liu."
Actually, Su Yanke had secretly checked before. There was nothing serious. He was just frozen and had a few hidden injuries on his body. There was no life - threatening danger. But Su Yanke couldn't just use her spiritual power to cure him all at once. If he got better all of a sudden, others would surely regard her as a monster and arrest her!
Moreover, she had no idea what kind of era this was. To prevent unexpected situations, she should save her spiritual power. For such minor injuries that could be cured by taking medicine, there was no need to make a fuss, just like treating a minor cold without using injections or medical instruments.
Doctor Liu's treatment was very fast. Su Yanke just watched from the side. Doctor Liu's movements were smooth. He felt the pulse, checked the injuries, grabbed the medicine, and boiled the medicine in one go.
During this period, Chen Yongshun remained silent and didn't even move. Su Yanke also observed and found that Chen Yongshun was a bit like those with autism she had seen before.
He didn't talk, immersed himself in his own world, and didn't interact with the outside world.
"Chen Yongshun? Chen Yongshun?" Su Yanke tried to talk to him.
Chen Yongshun's eyes would move slightly when Su Yanke called his name. Seeing this reaction, Su Yanke breathed a little easier. It was good that he had a reaction. She was afraid that he wouldn't respond at all. That would really be a headache.
Doctor Liu was boiling the medicine and motioned for Su Yanke to come over and talk. As soon as Su Yanke moved to his side, Doctor Liu took a small step back. Su Yanke looked at Doctor Liu in confusion, not knowing why he did this.
Doctor Liu awkwardly touched his nose and said, "I'm not used to being too close to others. Don't think too much about it!"
Su Yanke nodded. Some people had some quirks, and she understood.
She didn't notice that Doctor Liu's ears were strangely red.
"His current condition is not too bad. He is not completely isolated from the outside world." Su Yanke said calmly as she looked at Chen Yongshun in the distance.
"Do you have a solution? I've used all kinds of medical treatments before, but none of them had any effect!" Doctor Liu's tone was very low.
Hearing this, Su Yanke gave Doctor Liu a strange look. Doctor Liu was a bit confused by this look. Why did he see a kind of caring look in Su Yanke's eyes, although he didn't know what it was for? He just felt inexplicably uncomfortable.
"A heart illness needs a heart medicine to cure." Su Yanke casually dropped this sentence, then scooped up the boiled medicine and walked over to Chen Yongshun. She picked up the spoon in the bowl and was about to feed it to Chen Yongshun.
"Hey! Slow down!!" Doctor Liu's shrill cry came.
The medicine in Su Yanke's hand was taken away by Doctor Liu. Su Yanke blinked her big confused eyes and looked at him. Doctor Liu's expression was hard to describe.
"Have you never taken care of anyone before?" Although Doctor Liu's words were in the form of a question, his tone was very firm.
Su Yanke nodded obediently. "Yes. What's the problem?"
"The problem is huge! If you feed him like this, he'll have to take a lot more medicine! Go and rest for a while. I'll take over from now on."
Doctor Liu disdainfully shooed Su Yanke to the side. As if trying to regain his lost face, he deliberately slowed down the process of feeding the medicine, wanting to show Su Yanke how wrong she had been.
But before Doctor Liu could feed the first mouthful of medicine, several noisy voices came from outside. Su Yanke's attention was completely attracted.
"Sister! We're back. Is Brother Yongshun okay?"
Although Xiaobao asked this question, his eyes were almost all on Su Yanke and didn't even glance at Chen Yongshun.
Uncle Ji also walked in behind Xiaobao. He greeted Su Yanke who was standing beside him, then looked at Doctor Liu and said, "Ayan, Doctor Liu, how is Ashun?" Uncle Ji seemed very concerned. Seeing Chen Yongshun on the bed, he quickly rushed over to check.
"It's okay. He'll be fine after taking three doses of medicine and resting for a few days!" Doctor Liu's attitude towards Uncle Ji was very gentle. He was nothing like the childish person in front of Su Yanke. He spoke in a slow and steady manner.
"Xiaobao, did you see Uncle Chen?" Su Yanke quietly asked Xiaobao.
"No." Xiaobao shook his head. "But I heard from other uncles that he seems to be under trial?" There was full of doubt in Xiaobao's tone.
Su Yanke was also full of confusion. Looking at Uncle Ji who was feeding Chen Yongshun medicine, she could only wait a while before asking.
There was a little bit of sleeping ingredient in the medicine Doctor Liu boiled for Chen Yongshun. After Chen Yongshun fell asleep, Su Yanke quietly asked Uncle Ji about the specific situation.
Uncle Ji looked at the dark blue circles under Chen Yongshun's eyes. He knew that the child had suffered a lot in the prison. He lovingly stroked Chen Yongshun's forehead, combing the messy hair to the side and revealing his dirty but delicate little face.
Because Chen Yongshun had been out of the sun for a long time, his skin was an unhealthy white, which was a bit similar to the cold - white skin of Su Yanke and Xiaobao.
As for why Xiaobao also had cold - white skin?
Su Yanke was also very confused. Xiaobao often ran outside, but he just couldn't get tanned!
Su Yanke remembered the few kids who bullied Xiaobao last time. They were all very dark, and only a few girls were a bit lighter, not a dull yellow but a light brown - yellow.
In this way, Xiaobao stood out in the crowd, looking like a crane standing among chickens.
Uncle Ji sighed before he started to speak. "Alas, Chen Yonggui is completely innocent. His clan has some connections with the capital. Someone in the capital got into trouble, and the whole clan was implicated. Chen Yonggui was thrown into prison without even knowing what was going on. Yongshun here was redeemed by Yonggui with all his savings!"
"Can one be redeemed with money?" Su Yanke's eyes lit up when she heard this.
But Uncle Ji shook his head and said, "It's not that simple. This time it was just good luck. One of the jailers had an urgent matter at home and needed money badly. He saw that this child, Yongshun, was young and... and disabled, with no threat. So he let him go as a thief - beggar. But Chen Yonggui can't be let off like this."
After Uncle Ji finished speaking, he took a breath and said, "However..."