Under Yu Shu's initiative, Bi Qing agreed to let her help doctor Sun look after the shadow.
Chen. Doctor Sun was happy to have someone to order him around. After changing Jing Chen's dressing, he told Yu Shu a few things and then went back to his room to rest.
The river was damp and the heavy rain had just stopped. The cabin was still cool, but Jing Chen was sweating.
Yu Shu touched his forehead and felt that it was a bit hot. She fetched half a basin of water and wet a towel to wipe his body.
As the cool towel gently wiped his face, Jing Chen's eyebrows relaxed a bit. When Yu Shu saw this, she was stunned. She patted his shoulder and called out: "Jing Chen, Jing Chen?"
After calling him a few times, he didn't wake up. She knew that he was still unconscious. Yu Shu sighed. She just remembered that Jing Chen had offended Ketu Xing. She remembered Qing Zheng's warning and her eyes flashed. She stretched out her index finger to press on his bulging eyebrows and said in a low voice: "Even if you are an unlucky person who offended Ketu Xing, I can't just leave you alone. At most, I'll let others have less contact with you. If you want to be unlucky, then I'll be the only one who will be unlucky."
Yu Xiaoxiu was ordered by doctor Sun to go to the warehouse to get the herbs. When he came back, he saw Yu Shu wiping the sweat of the half-naked man. He quickly closed the door and ran forward to pull her: "You're a girl, what are you doing? Go, go, go back to your room, I'll do it."
Yu Shu's hand was pulled by him. When she turned around and saw him making a fuss, she secretly laughed. Not to mention that Jing Chen was still wearing long pants, even if he took off all of his clothes, she wouldn't be embarrassed. Not to mention, his upper body was wrapped like a dumpling. What could she look at? On the contrary, Yu Xiaoxiu was young and men and women were wary of each other, so she was very fussy.
"Xiaoxiu, don't you recognize who this is?" Yu Shu held Yu Xiaoxiu's hand and asked him to take a closer look at the person on the bed.
Yu Xiaoxiu stared at the person on the bed in confusion. He felt that this person was quite good-looking, so he asked suspiciously, "Have we seen him before?"
Yu Shu patted his head and said, "Idiot, isn't this Hero Jing Chen? Have you forgotten?"
"Hero Jing Chen?" Yu Xiaoxiu shouted in surprise, but Yu Shu quickly covered his mouth.
"Shh, keep your voice down. Do you want to attract people here?" Yu Shu said angrily, "We can't let people know that we know him, understand?" "Hmm, hmm?" Yu Xiaoxiu shook his head. His eyes were full of question marks. He didn't know why they couldn't let people know that they knew him. Hero Jing Chen was not a bad person, and he had saved them.
"Are you stupid?" Yu Shu said earnestly, "If they know that we know each other, they will definitely ask about his background. At that time, how will we answer? We are now the nephews of Seventh Uncle, and we can't tell them that Jing Chen saved us. We still have to lie. If Jing Chen wakes up and they ask, we will be exposed, and they will suspect us for no reason. You saw that Qiu Biao, how fierce he is. He might throw us and Jing Chen off the boat together, so you have to keep your mouth shut, understand?"
This was what Yu Shu used to scare Yu Xiaoxiu. The real reason was that she didn't know how Jing Chen got into this state. If she blindly revealed his identity, it would not be safe for Jing Chen, who was seriously injured.
Everything had to wait for him to wake up first and ask him clearly.
"Oh, oh." Yu Xiaoxiu nodded, indicating that he understood. Only then did Yu Shu let go of him and gave him a towel. "Okay, you come and wipe his sweat. I'm going to boil the medicine.
After a while, I will use Xiaoxiu's horoscope to calculate the eight characters of his birth. If something bad is going to happen, it will be easier to avoid it.
Jing Chen had a fever the whole day. Yu Shu and Yu Xiaoxiu worked together to force the medicine down his throat. His fever only subsided at night. During this period, Doctor Sun came to see him once. Seeing that Yu Shu had taken good care of him, he praised her a few words and left after checking Jing Chen's pulse.
The siblings had lunch in Jing Chen's room. Yu Shu and Yu Xiaoxiu discussed it for a while.
They were afraid that Qiu Biao would cause trouble again at night and harm Jing Chen. Originally, they wanted to stay and guard him, but they were afraid that it would arouse suspicion. So, they went to find Bi Qing and asked him to send someone to sleep in Jing Chen's room.
After listening to their proposal, Bi Qing's face showed a difficult expression. During the day, because Qiu Biao sent someone off the ship without permission, the two quarreled. The group of guards were very dissatisfied with him, so it was not good to arrange people from there. The handymen on the ship all took turns to be on night duty. They all had their own things to do, so they couldn't spare any extra people. It was even more impossible to ask other businessmen to move to the same room as Jing Chen, a victim of unknown origin.
Seeing Bi Qing's expression, Yu Shu immediately knew what was going on. She asked, "Uncle Bi, is it inconvenient?"
"It's like this." Just as Bi Qing was about to say that he would move to the same room as Jing Chen, Yu Shu said it first. "If it's inconvenient, why don't Xiaoxiu and I sleep in the same room with him tonight?" From the beginning, Yu Shu didn't intend to use other people's hands. She was worried about Jing Chen's fate. On the one hand, she was afraid that he would really harm others. On the other hand, she didn't trust others to take care of him.
"Us?" Bi Qing looked hesitant.
"Yes!" Yu Shu vowed, "Uncle Bi, don't worry. With the two of us watching, we absolutely won't let anything happen to him!"
She said it as if she was thinking for Bi Qing's sake. She had a youthful look of loyalty.
Bi Qing didn't notice her careful thoughts. He smiled and said, "Alright, but the room downstairs is too small.
Zi, I'll find someone to send him to your room upstairs and add another bed. "
"Okay!" Yu Shu readily agreed. Yu Xiaoxiu wanted to say something, but she pinched his back and held it back.
After it was settled, Bi Qing asked someone to carry Jing Chen upstairs with the bed.
This movement alarmed Xia Mingming, who was next door. She ran to Yu Shu's room and saw Yu Shu instructing two boatmen to carefully put Jing Chen down on the bed. She knew that the bloody person who was rescued yesterday morning was going to sleep next door. She immediately made a fuss and asked someone to send Jing Chen down. Yu Shu didn't pester her. She went straight to the door and asked her to find Bi Qing.
She didn't know how Bi Qing sent Xia Mingming away. In short, she didn't come to make trouble again.
After dinner, Yu Shu could see that Yu Xiaoxiu was unhappy. She brewed the medicine and pulled him to the bedside to talk.
Yu Xiaoxiu still cared that Jing Chen was a man. He felt that it was inappropriate for a girl like Yu Shu to live in the same room with a man. Yu Shu deliberately used morality to educate him. Only then did Yu Xiaoxiu let go of his grudge and accepted the reality that before Jing Chen's injuries improved, they had to sleep in the same room.
Boiling medicine on the ship required a stove. The smell of charcoal smoke was very strong. Yu Shu placed the stove in the ventilated corridor. She opened the door halfway to let the light from inside the room shine out. She squatted at the door and used a fan to blow air. When Zhao Hui was sick, Doctor He taught her the trick of brewing medicine. Thus, she didn't get smoked. But squatting next to the stove in the summer was another kind of suffering.
She hung a wet towel around her neck. When it was warm, she would wipe her sweat. When her feet were numb, she would stand up and stomp. When her back was sore, she would hit it twice. Yu Xiaoxiu finished the math problems that Yu Shu gave him. He looked up and saw her like this. He hurriedly walked over: "I'll do it. You go in and sit for a while."
"It's almost done." Yu Shu waved her hand behind her. She lifted the lid with a cloth and poked it with her chopsticks. When she felt that it was almost done, she asked Yu Xiaoxiu to go in and get a bowl. She slowly poured the medicinal soup out of the small pot. She skimmed off the medicinal dregs and brought it in to feed Jing Chen.
It was quite difficult to feed medicine to an unconscious person. Fortunately, they had experience from taking care of Zhao Hui. The siblings helped Jing Chen up from the bed. One opened his mouth and the other filled the bowl. Not a single drop spilled out of the bowl.
Jing Chen was fished out of the river yesterday. His bloody clothes had been thrown somewhere. Bi Qing probably found his pants for him. There were no bloodstains. However, there was a sweet and fishy smell in his messy hair. Yu Shu used a wet towel to wipe his scalp clean. Only then did the smell of blood fade.
It was already midnight when they were done. Yu Xiaoxiu was yawning. Yu Shu urged him to go to bed. She took a pen and paper, sat at the table, lit the oil lamp, and calculated Yu Xiaoxiu's horoscope again.
The results made Yu Shu a little confused. According to Jing Chen and Qing Zheng, anyone who was related to Jing Chen would cause trouble. Now, on the whole boat, besides her, Yu Xiaoxiu had the most contact with Jing Chen. However, she used the law of the time of misfortune to calculate that nothing bad would happen to Yu Xiaoxiu in the next half a month.
The results of the six lines that she gave herself were all empty hexagrams.
Could it be that Jing Chen, who was in a coma, would not cause trouble for others? Or could it be that in these two months, he had found the person who destroyed his life?
Of course, Yu Shu hoped that it was the latter possibility. That way, she would be able to solve the problem once and for all. However, she always felt that things were not that simple. After thinking about it, she decided to find a way to ask Bi Qing and Doctor Sun about their horoscope tomorrow, so that they would not inadvertently cause trouble for them.
After clearing the table, Yu Shu got up and went to Jing Chen's bedside. She bent down and touched his forehead to confirm that there were no signs of fever. She looked down at his peaceful sleeping face for a while, then brushed away the stray hair on his forehead and said softly, "This time, let me protect you."
She put down the mosquito net, turned around, walked to the table, and extinguished the oil lamp. The cabin suddenly became dark. The moment the light went out, behind the mosquito net, a pair of lightly closed eyelids moved and quietly opened.
Yu Xiaoxiu was already asleep. He was originally sleeping outside, but he probably fell asleep when he was dreaming. Yu Shu was on the other side of the bed. She lay down on the side of the bed, pulled the thin quilt over her stomach, and closed her eyes. After a long day of tiredness, she soon fell asleep.
The wind on the river started to blow, and the cargo ship gently swayed. On the opposite bed, a figure slowly sat up. As he moved, there was a light sound of breathing. He opened the mosquito net, and his slender legs stepped on the ground barefooted under his white pants. He slowly stood up and walked step by step to the other side of the bed. He looked down at Yu Shu, who was sleeping on the bed. He stretched out his hand and gently brushed aside the hair on the side of her face, revealing a blurry and gentle face in the dark.
Yu Shu was sleeping soundly when she suddenly felt an itch on her face. She thought that a mosquito had sneakily attacked her, so she snorted and frowned. She scratched her face, but she didn't expect to touch a hand. She was startled and immediately woke up.
You've already exceeded your reading limit for today. If you want to read more, please log in.
Login
Select text and click 'Report' to let us know about any bad translation.
