Meng Zhuqing withdrew his gaze from his own hand and looked at the person in black on the ground with complexity. His face turned slightly red as he answered, "That is not a young master, but a young lady."
And just now, he had touched this young lady’s...
An Jing immediately understood; it turned out this person was a woman disguised as a man.
Driven by curiosity, he walked over and upon seeing the stunning beauty of the person on the ground, he couldn’t help but praise, "Such beauty! On par with your brother. If your brother saw her, his heart would definitely be much more at ease."
Because he was even more beautiful than a woman, Meng Lanqing always harbored a grudge about this and especially loathed his own exceedingly beautiful face.
Meng Zhuqing remained silent, once again casting a complex gaze at the person on the ground.
Seeing that Meng Zhuqing was just staring and not lifting the person into the carriage, An Jing urged, "Hurry up and carry her onto the carriage. Looking at her condition, if she isn’t treated soon, she’s probably going to die."
Only then did Meng Zhuqing pick up the person again, but this time he was not as reckless as before, carefully avoiding touching certain places he should not, as he carried her onto the carriage.
In fact, he didn’t want to carry her, but what could he do when both An Jing and Xiao Changyi were his masters? He was a slave; he couldn’t possibly expect his masters to do the carrying.
Inside the carriage, which was fairly spacious, the four children saw Meng Zhuqing bring in a person covered in bloodstains and were so frightened they all started crying.
Upon hearing the cries of the four children, An Jing quickly got on the carriage to soothe them. After comforting them, the little ones stopped crying, but they still dared not look at the bloodstained person, instead burrowing into An Jing’s embrace.
An Jing could only wrap her arms around the four little ones, allowing them all to hide in her embrace.
"We won’t go into town today; let’s head home. Meng Zhuqing, go to the county and fetch Gong Juechen. His medical skills are excellent; he might be able to cure this young lady," An Jing said, enveloping the four children, while speaking to Meng Zhuqing.
"Yes," Meng Zhuqing immediately rode the black horse to the county to find Gong Juechen.
Gong Juechen originally lived in TipLiu Town, but Gong Juese had followed Meng Lanqing to live in the county at the rice shop, and so Gong Juechen had also gone to the county but didn’t stay at An’s Rice Shop and instead had his own house there.
Only when Meng Zhuqing rode off did An Jing say to Xiao Changyi, "Husband, let’s go home; we can take the children to the county another day."
Then, driven by Xiao Changyi, the carriage turned around and headed home.
Neither Xiao Changyi nor An Jing had planned to let this stranger stay in their home; there were several rooms next to their house, originally occupied by Meng Zhuqing and the others, which were now perfectly suitable for this woman.
As soon as the carriage arrived, Xiao Changyi stopped it in front of the doors to those rooms next to their house.
Once off the carriage, An Jing, along with Xiao Changyi, started to lift the four children down from it.
Afterward, An Jing asked Xiao Changyi to move the woman into the house. Any room would do, as no one was currently living in any of those rooms.
However, Xiao Changyi refused to carry her, his reasoning quite sufficient: "Apart from you, I will not carry any other woman."
An Jing’s face was instantly sweetened by the comment, but she was also a bit dumbfounded. Yet, she didn’t ask Xiao Changyi again and decided to carry the woman herself.
"Then I’ll carry her," An Jing said as if prepared to lift the woman. She was quite strong, and the woman seemed slender and probably wasn’t heavy.
But Xiao Changyi held her back: "Wait for Meng Zhuqing to return; have Meng Zhuqing carry her."