Chapter 552: Zhao Xi Arrives
Chapter 552: Zhao Xi Arrives
Shu Yu smiled and said, "We want to go to the town and see a doctor again. Although my husband helped me with the dislocation, he's not skilled in this area, so I feel more at ease getting checked in town."
The village head and his family thought about it and didn't stop them. After giving them directions, they saw them off from the village.
Meng Yunzheng carried Shu Yu on the horse, and they slowly made their way to the town.
After about half an hour, Meng Yunzheng rented two rooms in the largest inn in town and helped Shu Yu settle in.
Although there was a doctor in town, Meng Yunzheng planned to wait until Zhao Xi arrived before having him examine her.
Shu Yu sat on the bed and asked, "When will Doctor Zhao arrive?"
"At the latest, in the afternoon." Meng Yunzheng had left markers along the way, so Zhao Xi would easily find them.
Shu Yu felt relieved.
However, Zhao Xi arrived earlier than their planned time. Before noon, he had already appeared at the inn.
Finding the markers left by Meng Yunzheng, he knocked on the door of their room with a loud bang, sounding quite resentful.
Sure enough, as soon as Meng Yunzheng opened the door, Zhao Xi stormed in, exclaiming angrily, "You have no humanity at all! I won't even mention that you took my horse, but at least return it to me after you're done with it. I..."
His rant abruptly stopped when he saw Shu Yu's suspended right hand. Immediately, he took a few steps forward, frowned, and said, "Your hand is injured?"
Then he sat on the edge of the bed and asked her to show him her left hand so he could check her pulse.
Meng Yunzheng stood aside and explained yesterday's situation to him, "She rolled down the hillside, dislocated her arm, and got scratched by branches and rocks. I applied ointment to her. Can you check if those branches and grass had any toxic properties?"
That was his main concern.
Zhao Xi glanced at him, glared, and continued to examine her pulse.
After a while, he withdrew his hand and stood up to examine her arm before saying, "It's nothing serious. The most severe issue is this hand, but it was treated in a timely manner, so it will heal with some time."
Meng Yunzheng visibly relaxed, and Zhao Xi coldly snorted, "If it weren't for Miss Lu's actual injury, I wouldn't have let you off so easily. Do you know that yesterday I almost had to pull the cart myself?"
"Oh." Meng Yunzheng didn't seem to believe him. "What happened afterward?"
"I got lucky and ran into a caravan. I asked them to let me tie the cart to the back of their vehicle, and that's how I made it to the post station."
Meng Yunzheng nodded. Considering Zhao Xi's temper, without a horse to pull the cart, he probably would have ended up camping in the wild. In any case, there was food, drink, and supplies in the cart, so he, a grown man, wouldn't be afraid of spending a night outside.
But when he mentioned the post station, Shu Yu immediately asked, "How is the exile group doing? Are they staying at the same post station as you?"
Zhao Xi nodded. "Yes, the Hou mother and daughter fell off the cart and got injured. It's not a big problem, but the main issue is that the leading official fell off the galloping mule cart and got more seriously injured.
Originally, according to their pace, they were supposed to reach the next post station for rest, but since the leading official is unconscious, the others had to find the nearest post station and rest there. They managed to find a doctor too."
In such small towns, the doctors' skills were not very good, but luckily, the leading official didn't sustain a critical injury.
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