The Lucky Farmgirl
Chapter 671 - 660 - They’ve all left (Added for the birthday of the book friend "Tongbao of the Lang family")

Chapter 671: Chapter 660 - They’ve all left (Added for the birthday of the book friend "Tongbao of the Lang family")

Song Zheng pinned him down and frowned, "Haven’t you been punished enough? Because of your fighting, County Magistrate Tang has already come to our door twice."

Last time, Ji Hao fought Ying Wenhai at the Spring Breeze Pavilion; Pei Yun was also present. He and Ying Wenhai are cousins, and it was a clash between two groups of people. They almost wrecked the Spring Breeze Pavilion, which is why the yamen runners were provoked.

Song Zheng said, "You’d better behave. Be careful or your family might lock you up in the school again. Then what will you do? I certainly won’t help you smuggle things in from outside."

Ji Hao, indignant, said, "So I should just take the blame for nothing? It was clearly a setup against me."

Even Wei Ting wasn’t very convinced this time.

Song Zheng frowned, "Time is on our side. A gentleman can wait ten years to avenge. Why the rush?"

Ji Hao barely held himself back, his focus on his enemies leaving him no time to think about seeking out Manbao and the others.

But Manbao still didn’t have time to come to the school every day, possibly because the fluctuating hot and cold temperatures recently had led to a lot of people falling ill.

Doctor Ji started to let Manbao have her own table to see patients and prescribe medicine.

Once she began to attend to patients personally, she discovered many issues, so Manbao had been very busy lately, too busy to frequent the school.

On the rare occasion she did come by, Bai Shan was there, allowing her to avoid someone who had seemingly forgotten about her.

After August come a refreshing September, with less rain and mist, thus fewer people were falling ill.

Doctor Ji felt that Manbao had been too tired lately, so he decided to let her rest for a few days, "In a few days, it will be the Double Ninth Festival. Are you planning to participate in the tradition of ascending a height?"

"We will. Our teacher and the teachers from the Dazhi Academy have agreed to climb together, and we are to follow them."

Doctor Ji then smiled, "Climbing mountains can be very tiring, and you are disciples, so why not take a couple of days off? Rest up and build your strength for the climb."

Manbao naturally had no objections; she decided she would talk to her teacher that afternoon about sleeping in the next day.

Manbao slung her backpack on, waved goodbye to Doctor Ji, and just as she was about to leave, a fast horse neighed at the entrance, and someone stumbled in from outside. They barged into Manbao, sending her spinning, and made a beeline for Doctor Ji...

Manbao grasped the doorframe, rubbing her sore arm.

"Are you Doctor Ji?"

Doctor Ji only had time to nod and say, "I am..."

The person then grabbed him and hurried outside, crying out, "My young master fell from his horse and was gashed in the belly by a branch. He’s bleeding profusely. Please come and save him!"

"Wait, wait, I need to get my medicine box."

Doctor Ji’s medicine boy had already swiftly brought the medicine box out. Manbao only had time to see the stranger quickly help Doctor Ji onto the horse, snatch the medicine box, and run off.

The medicine boy chased after them for a couple of steps, but realizing he couldn’t keep up, he stamped his foot in frustration, "Who on earth does that person belong to? No matter how urgent, it shouldn’t be urgent at this very moment. At least tell me where to administer treatment!"

Manbao, massaging her arm, stepped forward and said, "Riding a fast horse like that, their haste suggests they might’ve come from Kangxue Street."

The medicine boy pondered for a moment, then laughed, clapping his hands, "I remember now; he said the accident was from falling off a horse. That must be in Qixia Mountain; past Kangxue Street, only Qixia Mountain is fit for horseback riding."

Manbao’s eyes widened slightly as she remembered Bai Shan mentioning yesterday that their teacher was taking them to Qixia Mountain today for a climb, an activity for their class before the holiday.

Manbao felt uneasy and immediately headed for the door, "I must go home now."

Without another word, she shouldered her backpack and hurried home at a jog.

Manbao ran back to the small courtyard, only then remembering that it wasn’t time for the school to let out, and Bai Shan couldn’t possibly be home yet.

She calmed herself for a moment, pushed open the door and entered, just as Zhou Silang and Zhou Lijun had returned from the countryside after buying seeds. Both of them had gotten quite tanned and were sitting by the table, eating noodles.

The cook, upon seeing Manbao, smiled and asked, "Miss Man, would you like a bowl of noodles?"

Manbao shook her head and asked Zhou Silang, "Silang, are you full yet?"

Zhou Silang glanced at the more than half a bowl of noodles in front of him and asked while eating, "What’s up?"

"Take me to Qixia Mountain, please. Shanbao is there, but it seems something has happened at Qixia Mountain."

Zhou Silang hurriedly stuffed a couple more bites of noodles into his mouth, stood up, and asked, "Should we go find Mr. Zhuang? Has something happened to him? Isn’t Daji with him?"

"I don’t know, but someone came to the pharmacy to find Doctor Ji, saying someone fell off their horse. I want to go and see."

Aunt Rong let out a worried "oh," saying, "The young master is quite naughty; I hope it’s not him."

She immediately went into the kitchen, packed a few pastries for Zhou Silang, and said, "Go quickly if you’re hungry on the way."

Zhou Silang took them, stuffed them into his chest, and had already pulled the horse out to harness the carriage, while Zhou Lijun hurriedly ate a few bites of noodles and followed, "Auntie, I’ll go with you to search."

Manbao sat in the carriage, her hands tightly gripping the back basket, and whispered, "Maybe I’m overthinking it, and he’s fine."

Zhou Silang cracked his whip in the air, urging the horse to speed up.

Arriving at the foot of Qixia Mountain, the three of them stood by the roadside, looking at each other, "Where here can someone ride a horse? Were they on the mountain?"

Zhou Silang looked around and said, "You two wait here, I’ll go and inquire."

Just as he was about to approach an elderly local person to ask, a horse rounded the corner ahead on the road, its rider speeding up and waving as they shouted, "Move aside, move aside..."

Zhou Silang quickly hopped back to avoid them, while Manbao lifted her head and saw, in an instant, the panicked pharmacy boy riding behind, and she couldn’t help but shout, "Xiao Yuan!"

The pharmacy boy turned his head, saw Manbao, and his eyes lit up, immediately shouting, "Over here, over here, don’t run, the little doctor described by Doctor Ji is right here..."

The horse that had already run a good distance ahead now turned back, the rider eyed Zhou Silang and the others, promptly pushed the pharmacy boy off, and reached out to grab Zhou Silang.

Zhou Silang hopped back, avoiding the grasp.

The disheveled pharmacy boy looked up and said, "Ouch, it’s not him, it’s her, Miss Man, Doctor Ji is calling for you to save lives. Young Master Ji’s bleeding won’t stop; it’s very dangerous, Doctor Ji requested you come and try acupuncture..."

Manbao then breathed a sigh of relief, "The injured person’s last name is Ji."

"Yes, yes, it’s the young master of the Ji Family. Miss Man, we should go quickly; time waits for no one."

The man on the horse also immediately dismounted and bowed to invite Manbao to save the life; although he was very skeptical, seeing the respect in the pharmacy boy’s face that didn’t seem feigned, and considering that Zhou Silang was with her, he dared not grab her to the horse as he did with the pharmacy boy.

Manbao then climbed onto the carriage, and meanwhile, she pulled the pharmacy boy up as well, "Let’s go."

Zhou Silang drove the carriage, while Manbao sneakily glanced at the person outside and softly asked the pharmacy boy, "Xiao Yuan, how did you get here so fast?"

"I had just arrived, only had time to glance at the patient before Doctor Ji sent me out to find someone." Xiao Yuan also peeked outside and whispered to Manbao, "Doctor Ji said, when you get there, just say you’ll try, don’t be too reassuring. Young Master Ji’s injuries are too serious, and we’ve arrived late. Now, all we can do is leave it to fate."

Manbao froze for a second, not expecting it to be so serious, and asked, "His name isn’t Ji Hao, is it?"

"Don’t know his name, it’s just the young master from the Ji Family. Even the imperial physician from the Prince of Yizhou’s mansion has come..."