Taking advantage of the opportunity when the baby in Qiao Huaping's arms was picked up by Zhu Xiangyi, Village Chief Lu wanted to quickly ask Qiao Huaping about the village, but because the impact of the baby on Village Chief Lu was really big, Village Chief Lu wanted to ask Qiao Huaping about the village.
For a long time, I didn’t even know where to start.
It was Qiao Huaping who took the initiative to speak to Village Chief Lu first: "...except for the baby who fell into the dry well, there is no one left alive in the village. The weather is hot and the corpses are highly decomposed. I am afraid of causing a plague. When I come back,
, the village and the corpses have been burned down with a fire."
Village Chief Lu nodded.
Indeed, this can be regarded as giving those villagers who died a final destination.
"...Was it killed by bandits?" Village Chief Lu paused, then lowered his voice and asked.
Qiao Huaping shook his head and said softly: "Looking at the traces, it should be a small group of defeated troops."
Village Chief Lu's heart sank and his face became a little ugly.
This is the result he least wants to see.
The atmosphere suddenly became tense.
Why did they drag their families and entire villages to flee the war to avoid the disaster?
One of the reasons is that they are afraid of encountering enemy soldiers who are defeated and fleeing from the battlefield!
This kind of enemy soldiers are roaming everywhere, killing villages and killing people to vent their anger. They are more unscrupulous than bandits!
"Don't worry too much." Qiao Huaping comforted, "I looked at the traces left behind and estimated that this group of defeated troops might be between thirteen and twenty people. There were not many people, so they only dared to attack
Running in the mountains... As long as we don't mess up our position, we can still deal with it. We have dealt with a village of hundreds of people, not to mention the rout of a dozen or so people."
Qiao Huaping spoke very lightly. Her attitude miraculously calmed the villagers' panic.
The villagers looked at each other, suddenly filled with pride.
Too!
There are only a dozen people on the other side, what do they have to be afraid of!
They wiped out an entire bandit den in one fell swoop!
Those defeated soldiers, don't even think about harming their families!
Village Chief Lu nodded secretly.
"Wow……"
An extremely weak baby cry attracted everyone's attention.
Zhu Xiangyi pinched the baby's feet and breathed a sigh of relief.
Qiao Huaping asked: "Doctor Zhu, how is this child doing?"
Zhu Xiangyi sighed excitedly: "This is a miracle. This little baby's physical functions are clearly on the verge of death, but the strange thing is that his pulse begins to contain a majestic vitality..."
Qiao Huaping knew what the majestic vitality in Zhu Xiangyi's words was.
When she lifted the little guy up from the well, she found that his life was hanging by a thread. She thought for a moment and fed him some water mixed with spiritual water.
Thinking about it, this majestic vitality that Zhu Xiangyi mentioned should be the effect of spiritual water.
However, this little baby took the spirit water for the first time, and no dirt was discharged from the surface of the body. Qiao Huaping guessed that it must be because the little guy was only a few months old, and there was not much dirt in the body for a long time.
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"Perhaps this little guy shouldn't die." Qiao Huaping said softly, "The dead leaves in the dry well served as his quilt, and the dew accumulated at night, providing him with moisture. Only then did this little guy survive.
I have endured until now... maybe this is my fate with him."
Zhu Xiangyi nodded involuntarily.
He handed the little guy with the swaddling clothes to Qiao Huaping: "The most urgent task now is to find some food for this little guy..."
Qiao Huaping understood. Just as he was about to say something, he saw a woman walking out of the crowd holding her several-month-old child, and said with a smile: "I'll feed it."
Qiao Huaping knew her. She was the daughter-in-law of Qingyun, a young man in the village.
When he first fled the famine, Qingyun even exchanged salted fish for his wife's food in order to make her food more comfortable.
"Your cub is less than five months old, is that enough?" Qiao Huaping asked.
Qingyun's wife smiled sheepishly: "It wasn't enough before, but now my family has hunted with you and got a lot of meat, and I have also enjoyed the blessing... Now, Madam Qiao, just don't worry, it's enough."
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With that said, she handed the baby in her arms to the villagers aside, took the initiative and enthusiasm to take the swaddled baby from Qiao Huaping's arms, skillfully held the baby to the side and carried someone to feed her.
Now that the matter was over, Village Chief Lu wiped the sweat from his forehead and asked Qiao Huaping: "What should we do next?"
Qiao Huaping said: "I took a look and found that the people in the village have been dead for about five or six days. Those broken soldiers may not have gone too far... From now on, whether we are exploring the road or keeping vigil, we will all be in teams of ten. Everyone, please be tired.
Remember, everything is for safety."
Village Chief Lu was convinced and nodded with conviction: "It makes sense, just do what Mrs. Qiao said."
Village Chief Lu was busy making specific command plans, and then the four children of the Mei family found an opening and surrounded them: "Mom!"
The children were so happy to see Qiao Huaping return safe and sound.
Mei Qingying gave the knitted garland to Qiao Huaping: "Mom, here it is!"
Qiao Huaping liked it so much that she put it on her head and asked Mei Qingying with a bright smile: "Does it look good?"
Mei Qingying was very happy and nodded vigorously.
However, Zhu Xiangyi couldn't help but look at Qiao Huaping, looking dazed for a moment.
The birthmark that originally occupied half of Qiao Huaping's face was now so faint that it was almost invisible.
Her smile was so beautiful that it was heart-warming.
It turns out that Mrs. Qiao’s appearance is also so outstanding?
Zhu Xiangyi realized what he was thinking, his heart skipped a beat, and he quickly calmed down his thoughts.
Not far away, Qiao Huadi stared at Zhu Xiangyi's side face with an ugly expression on her face.
Doctor Zhu, he paid too much attention to her third sister!
What's good about her third sister? She's arrogant and rude, like a scoundrel; she's also a ruthless white-eyed wolf, a scum that's not filial at all!
What should such a rotten person deserve to pay attention to?
Why should Dr. Zhu pay attention to such a rotten person?!
Qiao Huadi felt as if she had spilled a whole vat of old vinegar, and there was a sour smell everywhere.
However, no matter how much Qiao Huadi scolded Qiao Huaping in her heart, no one else paid her any attention.
Especially Qiao Huaping, who was whispering something to the four children of the Mei family without even looking at her.
Qiao Huadi's face turned from white to green. She gritted her teeth and stamped her feet. She couldn't stay here any longer and ran away.
Qingyun's wife quickly finished feeding the baby, brought the baby back, and gave it to Qiao Huaping.
"I've already burped him. He's asleep now, so let him fall asleep first." After explaining, Qingyun's wife praised her from the bottom of her heart, "This little baby is handsome, look at his features."
, I will definitely be an outstanding person when I grow up.”
She smiled and thanked Qingyun's wife: "Thank you even more for this."
Qingyun's wife waved her hand and said, "Ms. Qiao told me this and went away. I have enough milk. When the baby is hungry, just take me there."
Although Qingyun's wife is so generous, Qiao Huaping also knows that escaping from famine is very energy-consuming, just once or twice, and trouble others every time.
Qiao Huaping looked at the little guy sleeping soundly in his swaddling clothes and couldn't help but sigh.