Chapter 103: Take Root And Sprout
Knowing that Luo Wu’s life was safe without mishaps, she took out a clean handkerchief, dipped it in some spring water, gave his wound the simplest treatment, and re-bandaged it.
Only then did she rest assured and go to where Luo Shuangshuang was waiting.
“Ning Bao Gai, my older brother…”
“Xi You, Brother Luo is fine. I specially brought the Su Family’s ancestral medicinal water. Trust me.”
Luo Shuangshuang nodded desperately, weeping with joy and sobbing so much she couldn’t speak another word.
She had heard Fu Jiaming mention the Su Family’s ancestral secret medicine before, saying that he and Yan Bei had recovered so quickly thanks in no small part to this medicine—its ability to heal wounds was incredibly powerful!
With this secret medicine, parents and older brother would be fine, they definitely would be fine!
“Xi You, stop crying first. Let me check on Uncle Luo and the others.”
“Mm-hmm~”
She haphazardly wiped the tears from her face, forgetting that her hands were covered in blood, but clearly neither of them cared about that at the moment.
She quickly cleared a space for her. Luo Shuangshuang, with black-red traces all over her face, retreated to one side.
“Uncle Luo, Yan Xin?”
The two in a coma showed no signs of waking. She unscrewed the water bottle again and first fed some spring water to Luo Fosen, whose injuries were clearly more severe, then to Yan Xin.
“Xi You, there’s a clean towel in my bag. Take it out and tear it into strips.”
“Okay.”
Seeing her was like having a backbone, injected with powerful energy. Luo Shuangshuang was no longer at a loss as before; she immediately sprang into action at her instructions.
She found the towel in the large cloth bag behind her, then conveniently picked up a sharp glass piece and wrapped it tightly with a torn sack from the ground before cutting several slits at the sharp end against the towel’s edge.
“Rip—”
A good towel was smoothly torn into several strips. “Here, Ning Bao Gai.”
Taking one, Su Ning soaked the handkerchief in spring water and then cleaned the wounds for both of them. Only after cleaning did she simply bandage them up again.
“Xi You, watch Uncle Luo and the others and call me if anything happens. I’ll go check on the others first…”
“Okay.”
Nodding to her and just about to turn away, Su Ning inadvertently glimpsed the ink jade pendant hanging outside her clothes. Seeing the two deep cracks on it, she suddenly felt a chill and gripped her hand.
Following her gaze downward, Luo Shuangshuang then noticed that the jade surface had somehow cracked in two places.
It must have been from rolling and scraping on the ground when she was thrown off the vehicle.
Feeling somewhat annoyed yet heartbroken, Luo Shuangshuang held the jade token with one hand, her eyes full of apology. “Ning Bao Gai, I…”
“As long as you’re unharmed, that’s most important. A safety talisman that can truly protect you is the best.”
Squeezing her palm, Su Ning turned and began searching among the scattered bodies for any other survivors.
“Ning Bao Gai, the big aunt diagonally across from my older brother, and the little girl protected underneath the man by the window, are all still alive.”
“Got it.”
She quickly found the two people Luo Shuangshuang mentioned. The big aunt was still conscious. As she said herself, aside from the increasingly swollen lump on her head, her thigh was fractured and she couldn’t move, with no obvious bleeding wounds.
And that little girl protected by her father with his life was practically a miracle—aside from a few small cuts from shattered glass, she had no other injuries.
She had just been forcefully pinned down by her father, probably temporarily out of breath and fainted. Afterward, the space was too cramped, making breathing difficult.
Silently chanting to herself a few times, she mustered her courage and used a nearby steel bar to prop up the uncle’s body, creating a gap for the little girl to breathe smoothly.
“Save… save… me…”
Hearing the faint, almost inaudible cry for help, Su Ning paused her actions, focused her mind, and carefully pinpointed the direction.
Once confirmed, she scrambled quickly toward it on all fours. The scene before her made even the prepared Su Ning catch her breath, nearly crying out.
Three people stacked like an arhat, skewered by a long iron piece. The two on top had limbs twisted and deformed to varying degrees, long without signs of life.
Only the one at the bottom—the iron piece piercing through the three had luckily missed vital spots and been blocked several times by the two above; otherwise, he probably couldn’t have held on this long.
“Besides this, are there any other injuries? Where does it hurt?”
“Arm… arm… can’t breathe…”
“Got it. Your arm hurts and you feel like you can’t breathe, right?”
The man wasn’t old, at most in his early twenties. Suddenly experiencing such terror, barely surviving yet unable to move an inch, the slowly approaching threat of death filled him with despair.
Just as he was about to sink into darkness, he knew he’d never forget that voice—the one that gave him new life.
“I’m going to try pulling out the iron piece on your shoulder and then drag it out from under the seat. It’ll hurt a lot, so brace yourself mentally.”
Enduring her fear, she laboriously pulled out and pushed aside the two on top. Su Ning’s eyes were bloodshot, her hands trembling, yet she struggled to stay calm as she spoke to the one at the bottom.
Not sure if he understood, his pupils were already starting to dilate.
She took out the water bottle and forced several gulps into him, then took a deep breath. While he was dazed and his pain response slowed, she quickly yanked out the deadly iron piece and doused it with spring water the instant blood spurted out.
Only after the blood stopped flowing smoothly did she stop to heal the wound. She took out another towel strip to bandage him, then bent down and laboriously dragged him out bit by bit.
A sound different from the rain hitting the vehicle body came from outside. Su Ning steadied her mind, knowing Yan Bei and Fu Jiaming had also begun their actions.
She turned to search for any other survivors.
The horrific scene inside the vehicle left her heart unable to calm for a long time. Her hand unconsciously clenched tight, nails digging deep into flesh without her realizing.
At this moment, a small seedling sprouted in her heart, ready to take root and sprout rapidly in the wind.
She too had faced a life-and-death crisis. Fortunately, not only had she survived the near-death state, but she had also received heaven’s gift.
Could the special ability gained from this new life be merely to see through Xu Zixin’s true face and avoid her own calamity?
At most, to help her closest family and friends avoid disaster? To save those she thought should be saved?
No… she should be able to do more, do better.
The new country had just been founded; whether national strength, production, agriculture, technology, or medicine, all were far behind.
Perhaps with Peach Blossom Spring planting and spring water healing, what could she contribute to the country and the people?
For example, learn traditional Chinese medicine, learn drug manufacturing… make pills from the best traditional Chinese medicine as the base and spring water as the medicinal ingredient…
“Phew~”
These were still just vague thoughts. Su Ning shook her head and temporarily pushed them aside.
But she knew that at this moment, she had finally found her lifelong pursuit.
“Whimper…”
Another survivor!
She immediately cast aside the jumbled thoughts in her mind and carefully stepped over the broken bodies toward the source of the sound.
“Old man? Old man, wake up, hang in there!”
Another person took their last breath right before her eyes. Spring water could only stop bleeding and heal wounds, not bring the dead back to life. She futilely stopped the action of pouring water.
“Girl… girl… comrade…”
“Hm?”
“This… this, inside…”
Wiping her eyes, Su Ning tightened the cap of the water bottle hanging around her neck for convenience, climbed onto the adjacent seat back, poked her head out, and looked toward the driver’s cab at the front.
An elder sister around thirty-something, wearing a floral shirt, had most of her body wedged between the driver’s back and the driver’s seat.
The driver had one hand on the steering wheel, the other gripping the backrest tightly from behind. His entire body was crushed out of shape, yet he had successfully protected the ticket seller who had flipped over on her side.
“Elder Sister, do you know where you’re injured? Can your body move at all?”
“Head… waist… can’t… move”
Waist? Probably injured the spine. As for the head…
Su Ning awkwardly maneuvered around the driver’s arm, leaning in to check closely, and saw a small hole smashed into the side of her head by who-knows-what.
“Elder Sister, this is my family’s medicine for treating external injuries. Open your mouth and drink some first. My friends are outside; we’ll get you out soon. You must hang in there!”
“Thank… thanks…”
“Su Ning!”
“I’m here!”
Using tools from inside the vehicle to calculate the weakest and fastest spot to break open, Yan Bei and Fu Jiaming successively poked their heads in through the small door-sized opening they had successfully made and asked, “How’s the situation?”
“We can start getting people out!”
