I was sold when I opened my eyes! My sick and disabled husband comforts me every night after he wake

Hearing her voice, the bandits turned around at once. When they saw it was her, the one-eyed man seemed to recall what had just happened, and immediately tensed up, pleading in a low, humble voice.

"Grandma, why did you follow me all the way here? Are you some kind of persistent ghost?"

This seemingly weak statement left everyone present completely bewildered. They had just been trembling with fear at the sight of these men, and now that Doctor Lan had just returned, why was the fiercest person speaking the softest words?

Lan Zhi thought of how Xiangxiu had been wronged by them, and a surge of resentment welled up inside her. However, she didn't show it, and instead calmly said:

"This is my home..."

Her words left the bandits stunned.

What a small world for them!

"Brothers, let's go somewhere else."

The one-eyed man waved his arm, signaling the others to help him leave, but Lan Zhi coldly reminded him.

"If you don't get treatment for this, your head will probably be crooked for the rest of your life."

Another bandit whispered a reminder.

"Second brother, it's half an hour's drive to the nearest town, Binjiang. The road is bumpy, can you handle it?"

Thinking about it, the one-eyed man considered it for a moment, then looked at Lan Zhi with pleading eyes.

"Miss, we were wrong just now and offended you. Please save me. I'll give you as much silver as you want."

Lan Zhi nodded immediately, then glanced at Mao Mao, who was tied up tightly, squinted, and waved to the group.

"Come in with me, everyone!"

These words were exactly what the one-eyed man wanted to hear. He was somewhat timid if he had to follow Lan Zhi into the house alone, but with his brothers by his side, he wasn't so afraid.

After several bandits helped the one-eyed man into the house with Lan Zhi, Lan Zhi decisively closed the door. Then, a series of wails came from inside the house. The patients waiting in the courtyard heard them and broke out in a cold sweat for Lan Zhi.

Seeing that Mao Mao was struggling to break free, a bold man stepped forward to help him untie the ropes binding him, and then reminded him,

"Go to the village and call for help. Get a few strong young men. There are no way we can handle these people."

Mao Mao got a little anxious, and he rushed to knock on the door.

"Sister Lan, please open the door, Sister Lan..."

"Ouch! It hurts... Ouch, it hurts... Ah, help!"

The man's screams kept coming from inside the house, which terrified Mao Mao, who spun around in circles, crying and screaming.

"Sister Lan, please open the door!"

"Sister Lan..."

His cries made everyone present anxious, but thinking of the large knives in the hands of those bandits, no one dared to step forward.

"Squeak!"

The door opened at that moment, and Lan Zhi walked out, clapping her hands.

"Don't be afraid, Mao Mao, I'm fine."

Just as everyone was holding their breath for her, they saw that although the one-eyed man's head was no longer tilted, his face was as pale as paper.

The other bandits were also pale, their broadswords long gone. They helped each other out of the house.

"and many more……"

Lan Zhi shouted, and the bandits trembled.

Lan Zhi coldly reminded him,

“If you dare to do evil again, next time it will be your lives.”

Although the bandits' eyes were filled with hatred, and they were all gritting their teeth in hatred, none of them dared to say a word.

What they had just witnessed inside the house filled them with terror; they were terrified that if they said another word, they would lose their lives.

After watching the bandits leave, the patients who had been there earlier rushed forward to inquire.

"Dr. Lan, what's wrong with them? Why do they seem so afraid of you?"

Lan Zhi's lips curled into a sinister smile.

“I am a righteous person, and they are afraid of me because they have something to hide.”

At this point, she looked at Momo as if nothing had happened.

"You get everyone lined up first, I'm going to check on your brother Mo Ning, I'll be right back."

After saying that, she walked straight towards Mo Ning's room.

Although those bandits haven't been here long and have only recently established their stronghold, they must have harmed countless people before. After today, they'll probably never be able to bully women again.

She didn't tell everyone directly because she didn't want them to know what she had done, and she especially didn't want them to know that Xiangxiu had been hurt by them.

……

As soon as Xiangxiu entered the house, Wu Erniang came out to greet her and immediately began to scold her.

"Where have you been, child? Your mother has fainted from crying several times. Come inside and apologize to her."

Although Xiangxiu felt that her mother didn't really care about her, she still ran into the house worriedly when she heard that her mother had actually cried herself unconscious.

"mother……"

Hearing her voice, Xiangxiuniang sat up abruptly on the kang (a heated brick bed), then jumped off the floor, pointed at her, and angrily questioned her.

"You brat, where have you been? Are you playing hide-and-seek with your mother? You're trying to worry your mother to death!"

"Mom, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to."

As she said this, Xiangxiu thought of her own experience, and tears involuntarily streamed down her cheeks.

"Tell me, where did you go last night? Did you go out and fool around with some guy?"

"I do not have."

Xiangxiu shook her head painfully in denial.

"No? Then how did you come back looking like this? Liu Xiangxiu, you can be shameless, but you can't be shameless. I don't care who you're with, you have to give me back my money."

"Mother, is money all you care about?"

Xiangxiu suddenly burst into tears.

"I didn't come home all night, and you don't care whether I was in danger or what I went through. All you do is blame me. Do you see me as a daughter or a cash cow?"

"Snapped!"

Xiangxiuniang slapped her across the face and then angrily scolded:

"What? You didn't come back all night, and you've gotten grumpy? Which wild man gave you the courage? You shameless thing, tell me, did you go to see that guy surnamed Nie?"

It turned out that when Xiangxiu's mother was looking for her last night, she learned that Nie Yuan had not returned home either, and she connected the two of them.

Xiangxiu had long anticipated this outcome upon her return; she shouldn't have come back in the first place.

She looked at her mother and raised her voice to remind her.

"Don't wrong Nie Yuan. I got lost last night and spent the night in the woods. I only got back this morning."

She didn't want to tell her mother the lie Lan Zhi had just told Old Wu at the village entrance, because she was afraid her mother would cause trouble for Lan Zhi.

Xiangxiuniang glared at her defiantly.

“At a time like this, you’re still siding with that guy surnamed Nie? I’m going to find him right now and make his family come up with one hundred taels of silver, then you can marry into that family.”

"Mom, this has nothing to do with Nie Yuan, please stop pressuring me, okay?"

"I forced you?"

She suddenly turned her head and glared fiercely at Xiangxiu.

"I forced you? How did I force you? It's clearly you who forced me. Don't you know how much I've suffered all these years to raise you? I was hoping you could find a good family in the future so that your mother could have a few good days. But what did you do? You couldn't be with this one, you couldn't be with that one, and you had to go and fawn over that Nie Yuan. He wasn't even willing to pay a dowry, so why were you still trying to curry favor with him?"