Contentment with modest wealth

Chapter 112 Getting cut is easier than being a beast of burden

"It's that little girl from before!"

He Qu, a burly and imposing man, exclaimed, his voice trembling, "It's her!"

Shen Qingzhou couldn't help but straighten her back.

"Hurry! Go and meet her!"

Lu Jia tensed up. How could she not recognize Yin Liu? Was she the skinny little girl who had been chased and beaten earlier, looking like a bean sprout?

She didn't know why the girl ran up there.
But she couldn't let the life she saved with money die right under her nose again!

Without saying a word, He Qu pulled out a face mask to cover his face and rushed over there!

Below, there were so many dark shadows that it was impossible to tell who was who!

But the swords, guns, and other weapons have already been activated.

"Don't panic, everything will be alright."

Shen Qingzhou looked at Lu Jia, whose hands were clenched tightly, and couldn't help but comfort her.

He brought twelve guards with him this time, including He Qu, all of whom were top-notch fighters. He Qu had previously had many concerns about retrieving the item. First, he was worried that if he was injured by a hidden weapon and fell into the enemy's hands, his identity would be exposed. Second, having too many people going up would also attract many troubles.

Now that we're just saving lives, all those concerns are gone.

Lu Jia grabbed his arm: "Then let's go to the shore and wait for them to come back. We'll move immediately!"

Shen Qingzhou nodded, letting her grab him, and then walked back up the embankment along the way they had come.

The carriage remained in the same spot. Changfu was clever; he mingled with a group of merchants who were out for leisure, sitting and chatting with the drivers. It was impossible to tell that he was waiting for someone.

After Lu Jia and Shen Qingzhou appeared, he immediately returned to his car and drove up to them.

After the two got into the car, they immediately drove towards the less bustling end of the pier.

Just as they came to a stop, He Qu's whistle rang out again, and then he came running out of the night carrying a man on his back.

"Girl, the person has been brought back!"

He first put the person down, and then put down the pile of documents he was carrying under his arm.

Lu Jia quickly raised the lamp and moved closer. She saw the little girl lying flat on the car floor, panting heavily. Her face had almost lost all color. She had already injured her arm, and now there were even more bloodstains.

The most shocking thing, of course, is the two arrows in his shoulder.

Lu Jia instructed Changfu, "Quickly, find a local clinic!"

"We can't go!" Shen Qingzhou said. "They'll definitely be searching everywhere. Going to the clinic is just waiting for them to come and arrest us!"

At this point, he pulled out a medicine bottle and handed it over: "Pull the arrow out of his head, sprinkle this medicine on it, bandage it if you can, otherwise leave it open. We need to get out of the city immediately!"

Lu Jia looked at the medicine in her hand and was about to ask him how to get out of the city since the city gates were already closed.

Without a word, he sat in the front of the car and stopped what he was doing. He quickly followed his instructions, pulling out the two arrows from Yin Liu's body, and then swiftly applied the medicine to the gushing wound.

"Sister, I'm fine. I'm worthless, I won't die."

The moment the powder fell, Yin Liu trembled all over. Even so, while panting heavily, he stared steadily at Lu Jia and spoke. Seeing that she was still relatively clear-headed, Lu Jia figured she could hold on for a while, so she laboriously moved her to sit down on the couch, then looked at her and sighed, "Why are you so reckless? What are you going to do with these things?"

"I got it for my sister."

"Give it to me?" Lu Jia pointed at himself. "When did I ever ask you to get it? That's a mechanism set up by the imperial court; people could die from it, do you know that?"

"It's alright." Yin Liu smiled weakly. "My sister saved me earlier, so it's only right that I help her."

Lu Jia: ...

What an incredibly silly girl.

She just grabbed a handful of food on a whim! Is it worth risking her life for her?
After staring at her for a while, Lu Jia said, "So, you know what we're going to do?"

“I know,” Yinliu nodded. “I was following you guys. When that guard boarded the ship, I secretly followed him up too. He stared at the pile of papers on the table for a long time; I guessed he was going to get them for my sister.”

"But that mechanism was really powerful. He left, and I wasn't willing to give up. So I went there."

Lu Jia simply didn't know what to say about her.

She thought she wasn't very bright. But then someone even less bright than her showed up!
She stared at her speechlessly, then said, "Do you really have to rush to do things for me right now?"

Yinliu nodded, her smile fading. "That guard said earlier that it would depend on fate before I could repay my sister's kindness."

"I think I may not have the chance to meet you again in the future, so if I don't repay you today, when will I?"
“My mother said that if you owe someone a favor, you must repay it, or you’ll have to be a cow or a horse in your next life to pay it back. I think being a cow or a horse is much harder than being stabbed a few times, so I’d rather be stabbed.”

Lu Jia was speechless again...

Has she never heard the saying, "Where there's life, there's hope"?
She took a deep breath, glared at the girl who didn't know how to cherish her, and said, "You actually have this skill? Why did you run away when those servants were chasing you?"

"They drugged me, intending to catch me when I was completely numb. When I came to my senses, I gritted my teeth, grabbed my knife, and charged out. But at that point, I was too weak to fight off so many of them."

"what about now?"

"It's almost healed." Yin Liu looked down at the wound, then smiled. "That young master's medicine was very effective; the bleeding has almost stopped. I have experience; as long as the bleeding stops, I won't die."

"You have experience?! You've encountered this many times?"

Yin Liu nodded. "My father used to run a martial arts school, but there was a famine in our hometown, so the school had to close down, and both my parents died one after the other. I also came out with the other people who were fleeing the famine."

Lu Jia swallowed.

During that brief pause, the carriage also stopped. Then, Shen Qingzhou passed something to the soldiers guarding the city, and the city gate immediately opened, allowing them to leave the city smoothly.

Lu Jia remained silent.

Looking back at Yinliu, I saw that she had already half-closed her eyes. Knowing that she was exhausted, I took a pillow and stuffed it behind her back.

Fearing something might happen if she fell asleep, he continued talking.

"It's not easy for someone so young to have such good martial arts skills." Lu Jia picked up her palm to examine it. "Do you have anywhere else to go?"

Yinliu shook her head: "I'm not young anymore, I'm fourteen. I've been wandering around with the opera troupe for three or four years now."

Upon hearing this, and looking at her slender figure, Lu Jia couldn't bear to ask any more questions.