The Evil Mother-in-law: Torment Children, Work Hard, Be Rich!-Chapter 309: Taohua’s Old Acquaintance

The person was placed onto the carriage.

Chen Sufen lit the wind lamp.

Under the lamplight, seeing a head covered in blood and legs smeared with blood, Liu Yueer screamed on the spot.

"Quick, put away the small table and lay out the blanket." Tong Huaqiong was concerned that bloodstains would be difficult to clean off the carriage, making it hard to explain to the owner, Boss Qian.

Chen Sufen, suppressing her nausea at the smell of blood, swiftly tidied away the small table used for tea and snacks, while Liu Yueer shook out the blanket from the seat behind and spread it on the floor.

Qin Qingyou and the Lu Family’s driver carefully laid the injured young man onto the blanket.

"Sir, once we pass through the small forest ahead, we’ll reach the town. Should we leave him at the medical clinic?" Qin Qingyou asked.

Tong Huaqiong replied, "Not yet. I have some styptic powder here; let’s apply it first."

Since the boss had styptic powder, Qin Qingyou no longer insisted on taking the person to the clinic.

He had been terribly frightened just now, and the cold wind made him realize that sweat was sticking to his clothes.

"Qingyou, you were also scared just now. Let’s calm down before we move on." Tong Huaqiong noticed Qin Qingyou’s weakness from the scare and decided to let him rest a bit before driving the carriage.

Qin Qingyou nodded, sat on the carriage, and lit a pipe.

Tong Huaqiong closed the carriage door tightly, intending to tend to the young man’s wounds.

"Man Er, come with me to fetch the medicine."

Tong Huaqiong spoke as she led Man Er into the space.

Chen Sufen and Liu Yueer watched outside with nervous faces, worried that Tong Huaqiong and Man Er’s actions might be discovered by outsiders.

Soon, Tong Huaqiong and Man Er came out.

Under Tong Huaqiong’s instructions, Man Er took out alcohol, anti-inflammatory medicine, styptic ointment, gauze, tweezers, scissors, and other medicines and tools.

After coming out of the space, Tong Huaqiong immediately started bandaging the man’s wounds without delay.

She feared that if they waited too long, he would die, and none of them would be able to clear themselves.

Chen Sufen, for some reason, felt the urge to vomit when she smelled blood today, and Liu Yueer was too scared to approach, so Tong Huaqiong asked Gu Taohua to help.

Gu Taohua held the wind lamp close to the injured young man, and Tong Huaqiong carefully examined his wounds in the light.

There was a large gash on his forehead, looking like it was cut by a knife.

The good thing was the wound had scabbed over and wasn’t bleeding much.

After checking the forehead, she examined the legs and found two arrowheads on his calves.

Tong Huaqiong guessed correctly; the young man had been chased and attacked by enemies, both cut and shot with arrows.

She couldn’t figure out who he could be to provoke such vicious attacks.

This place wasn’t far from Yan Guan Town, and she wondered if this young man was a local from the town’s surroundings.

As she speculated about his identity, she noticed calluses on his hands, typical of laborers who worked long hours.

But what kind of farmer would wear expensive silk garments?

The outfit on this young man wouldn’t cost less than ten taels of silver.

What kind of family could afford such clothing?

Tong Huaqiong had a sudden thought, recalling that people who practiced martial arts and swordplay often had calloused hands. She guessed that this young man might be a martial artist.

No wonder he was targeted by enemies.

"Bring me a wet cloth," Tong Huaqiong said.

Chen Sufen turned her head, wetted a cloth, and handed it to Tong Huaqiong, who carefully wiped the blood from the young man’s face.

As the bloodstains were gradually cleaned away, a handsome face emerged.

He was at most sixteen or seventeen years old.

Even with a bowl-sized wound on his head, it didn’t affect his good looks.

He could team up with Jingzhe to make a striking entrance.

"Mom, I’ve seen him before," Gu Taohua exclaimed upon recognizing the injured face.

"You recognize him? Who is he?" Tong Huaqiong asked.

Gu Taohua said, "Mom, do you remember when Xu Zaohua and her nanny came to Taohua Dessert to cause trouble? He told them Xu Zaohua and the nanny stole his silver. I thought he was a conman hired by second brother and lost silver to him."

Thinking about the silver made Gu Taohua want to kick him a few times.

She kept it in mind that if she met him again, she wouldn’t let him off easily.

Now she had to let it go, fearing that one hit from her strong hands might send him straight to the Underworld.

"We’ll settle the silver issue when he wakes up; let’s save him first," Tong Huaqiong said.

After all, he indirectly helped resolve the crisis of Taohua Dessert being blackmailed by Xu Zaohua, didn’t he?

Tong Huaqiong carefully sterilized the young man’s forehead wound with alcohol, applied styptic powder and anti-inflammatory ointment, then bandaged it.

Fortunately, the wound was not deep, otherwise, it would have required stitches.

Tong Huaqiong didn’t know how to sew wounds.

After bandaging the head, Tong Huaqiong began treating his leg injuries.

"Mom, let me pull out the arrows."

Gu Taohua handed the wind lamp to her second sister-in-law, Liu Yueer, rolled up her sleeves, and after disinfecting her hands, deftly pulled out the two arrowheads.

The young man groaned twice, then went silent.

Tong Huaqiong suspected that her strong daughter was subtly avenging the silver lost before.

After extracting the arrows, Gu Taohua said, "Mom, you think the arrowheads are poisoned?"

Tong Huaqiong replied, "I’m not sure. But seeing that he’s not dead yet, it’s probably not poisoned."

Tong Huaqiong and Gu Taohua worked together to disinfect and stop the bleeding on his leg wounds, then bandaged him up.

"The wounds are treated; whether he recovers depends on fate." Tong Huaqiong said, exhausted and dripping with sweat.

Post-injury, the most challenging hurdle apart from stopping the bleeding is preventing the wounds from becoming infected.

In case of tetanus from the infection, Tong Huaqiong would be helpless.

Tong Huaqiong prayed that the young man wouldn’t develop a fever or let his wounds get infected. If he made it through the night without complications, his life could be saved.

"Qingyou, have you rested enough? We can continue now." Tong Huaqiong pulled aside the carriage curtains to speak to Qin Qingyou.

Qin Qingyou extinguished his pipe and cracked the whip.

The carriage resumed its journey with a clatter.

The carriage had barely gone ten meters when Man Er said, "I hear crying over there."

Man Er pulled aside the curtain, stuck her head out, and pointed to a nearby pine forest. She heard the crying coming from there.

Tong Huaqiong and the others, busy treating the injured young man earlier, hadn’t noticed any crying.

Once Man Er mentioned it, everyone stopped talking, and the surroundings fell silent.

Chen Sufen opened the carriage window, but outside, apart from the clear moonlight and fresh wind, there was no sound, let alone crying.

"Man Er, you must have misheard," Chen Sufen said, thinking the child mistook the wind in the pines for crying.

"I didn’t mishear. Yaozu, you heard it too, right?" Man Er asked Yaozu.

Yaozu shook his head and said, "I didn’t hear anything. It was you who claimed there was crying. Grandma, let’s go; I’m scared."

He spoke while sitting as far as possible from the injured young man.

Man Er earnestly told Tong Huaqiong, "Grandma, there really was crying over there; I heard it clearly just now."

Considering that Man Er, in her past life, was the mastermind behind bringing down Tong Dajiao’s entire family, and in this life the key to unlocking the treasure space, Tong Huaqiong always felt she had extraordinary talents.

She couldn’t ignore Man Er’s words.