Li Cuihua remained motionless, and the villagers behind her held their breath.
After a while, just as the man was about to bend down to inspect, Li Cuihua moved slightly.
She opened her eyes, with stars still swirling in her head.
Without clearly seeing who was in front of her, she began to cry out, “Food… give me something to eat…”
“I’m so hungry… I’m about to die… give me food quickly…”
The man backed away in disgust, mainly because her face was covered in a cluster of red rashes, which looked terrifying at first glance.
Some people took a deep breath and stepped back.
Li Cuihua continued to cry out. The man walked to the corner, picked up a bucket of water, and poured it over her head.
“Will you wake up now? If you don’t, I’ll just throw you into the river.”
Suddenly drenched by a bucket of water, even one emitting a foul smell, Li Cuihua regained consciousness.
Now, her reaction became even more intense as she started attacking the man.
“Why are you locking me? On what grounds? If you don’t release me, I’ll make you regret it!”
As soon as these harsh words were uttered, villagers immediately went forward and restrained her, forcing her to lie face down on the ground.
She crawled on the ground, only able to whimper.
At that moment, Li Cuihua’s mother woke up beside her and quickly rushed over to intervene.
“Let her go, you bunch of brutes…”
But as soon as she got up, someone immediately blocked her. Li Cuihua was taken away while her mother was locked inside.
Li Cuihua actually felt a tightness in her chest and had difficulty breathing. She didn’t know why her head felt so heavy.
The man asked a few questions. At first, Li Cuihua could still speak normally. However, she gradually became motionless while lying on the ground, one of her hand clutching her chest in discomfort.
“What’s wrong with her?”
“I don’t know…”
“Could it be a plague? She has so many bumps on her body, and they say the plague is contagious…”
“Ah!”
Upon hearing this, many people immediately backed away, afraid of being infected.
“Then what should we do?”
“If I had known, I should have handed her over yesterday…”
The man glared fiercely at the person who spoke last, scaring the person to the point of trembling.
This group of villagers were the type who easily panicked when something went wrong, and the man didn’t expect anything from them.
“Put her inside first, find some medicine to give her, and wait until she regains consciousness before questioning her.”
The remaining people quickly resolved the situation. When they left, they still felt lingering fear, becoming suspicious at the slightest appearance of a red rash on their bodies.
Inside the house, Fu Yuling had been there for several hours. She looked at the neatly prepared powder packets.
They had slightly different colors, but none of them had any scent.
Fu Yuling nodded in satisfaction. Not bad.
She glanced outside and realized that she had finished these things in less time than expected.
When she opened the door, she paused for a moment, and then her heart softened completely.
Outside, He Wen, He Xuan, and He An sat in a row, looking at her intently.
She didn’t know how long they had been waiting for her here, and they had been staring at this spot until she came out.
But there wasn’t a single moment that had touched her emotions so deeply.
“Have you finished eating?”
“We’re done.”
The three children spoke in unison.
He Xuan ran over first, holding her hand and leading her outside.
“Eat.”
He An followed obediently behind her, and He Wen occasionally glanced in her direction.
When Fu Yuling arrived in the kitchen, He Wen silently brought the food to her.
This meal was the fastest one Fu Yuling had ever eaten, not because it tasted bad, but because she felt sticky and uncomfortable on her body.
Although the children were very well-behaved, Fu Yuling thought of another matter.
This matter took her only a few seconds to decide.
