Bai Ruchuan saw his sister trembling all over, sitting beside their father who was lying in a pool of blood. He reacted immediately.
"Ah... I'm going to kill you..." The small figure, whether from fear or anger, couldn't help but tremble. He picked up the wooden stick that Bai Dahe had thrown down and ran over.
"Little Chuan..." Bai Xue yelled, her voice slightly trembling, unable to stop the frenzied Bai Ruchuan.
"Two people, hurry and carry Daliang into the house. I'll go borrow a cart from the captain's house to quickly take him to the hospital in town!" An Quan, who usually got along well with Bai Daliang and was Grandma Zhao's only son, ran over and shouted to the crowd gathered around.
"Uncle Quanzi..." At this time, Bai Xue had already forced herself to calm down.
"Don't be afraid, child, Uncle is here! Quickly, get someone to carry your dad inside and wait. I'll go borrow the ox cart from the team! I'll be right back!" Quanzi said quickly and ran out.
Hearing the commotion, Wang Cuihua couldn't stay any longer, and staggered outside. She initially obeyed Bai Daliang's words not to come out regardless of how much noise there was.
But hearing about going to the hospital and carrying him in, she couldn't stay at home. Coming out, she saw her husband lying in a pool of blood.
"Daliang..." She ran over frantically, watching Bai Daliang bleeding non-stop but dared not touch him, crying out in heart-wrenching sobs.
At this time, if you fell ill, it was difficult to recover due to the living conditions not allowing it.
"Cuihua! Hurry up and step aside, let's carry Daliang back into the house to wait! Quanzi is going to borrow a cart!" The neighbors who hadn't left yet came forward to help.
At this moment, a man in his thirties who looked very much like Bai Daliang rushed out from the crowd. Bai Xue searched her memory and recognized him as the second uncle of the original owner, Bai Dajiang, also driven out by Grandma Bai to live independently.
"Come, someone help me carry my big brother into the house!" Bai Dajiang, running and sweating profusely despite the cold weather, had only one reason—his family, when asking for land from the captain, was assigned to the west end of the village, further away from here. He had just returned from cutting firewood on the mountain when he heard someone say something happened here and rushed back.
Wang Cuihua, who was already weak after childbirth, couldn't hold on any longer and fainted.
The people gathered there quickly moved forward, helping Bai Xue to carry Bai Daliang and Wang Cuihua into the house and placed them on the kang.
Bai Daliang was injured at the back of his head, so they had to let him lie face down, and they found a piece of clothes covered with patches, tore off a piece to bandage the wound.
Bai Xue knew this was unhygienic and not good for the wound, but the bleeding wouldn't stop, and the family had no new cloth or anything disinfectant, so they had no choice.
The two children were also crying loudly on the side, held by Bai Ruyun and Bai Ruxia. The children, having not had mother's milk, were hungry and couldn't sleep well, and the sugar water didn't fill them up.
Everything was in chaos now.
And looking at Bai Rushan and his brother, they had given Bai Dahe quite a beating. They knew they shouldn't hit the head, so Bai Ruchuan used the stick to hit several times, all on Bai Dahe's thighs, while Bai Rushan, who ran over afterward, started punching and kicking.
Grandma Bai was already scared silly, sitting on the ground, with a puddle underneath her.
In the end, it was Bai Dahe's wife, Li Guihua, who came out to stop the two brothers, struggling to pull Bai Dahe up.
Useless piece of work, only knowing how to run like a rat, beaten by two kids until he barely had any teeth left.
"Mom, Mom, let's go quickly while no one is paying attention!" Li Guihua was calculating and had a fiery temper. Seeing the situation was not good, she hurried to support her man and then went to push the stunned Grandma Bai sitting on the ground.
"Is he... not dead?" Grandma Bai only came back to her senses now and asked blankly.
"Mom, whether he's dead or not! We should leave first, otherwise, if big brother really dies, Dahe would become a murderer!" Li Guihua said anxiously while supporting Bai Dahe.
This time, Bai Dahe had already put all his weight on his wife. The tall man of over one meter seventy pressed down so much that the one-meter-fifty Li Guihua was almost unable to hold him.
She was already weak from not having enough to eat all year round, and now supporting Bai Dahe, her vision was going dark.
"Alright, alright, let's go!" Grandma Bai, upon hearing that her precious son would become a murderer, quickly became alert and climbed up, regardless of her floral padded pants being frozen with urine, scrambled to help support Bai Dahe as they walked out, not caring about Bai Dahe's limp, his life was important.
In the house, the neighbors who helped carry the people in had all left, leaving Bai Dajiang and the Bai Xue siblings.
Because the room was too small and there were two newborn babies, it was really inconvenient.
"Xiao Xue, is there any money at home? Taking your dad to the hospital will definitely cost a lot!" Bai Dajiang looked worriedly at the family, at the two crying babies, and asked Bai Xue, who was busy making sugar water for them.
Bai Xue couldn't be bothered with Bai Daliang and Wang Cuihua. She could only feed the two children sugar water first. She had the two sisters each hold one child and had the two brothers fetch firewood to heat the water.
"Second Uncle, my dad said he seemed to have two yuan. Can two yuan cure him?" Bai Xue asked while busy feeding the two children with sugar water, looking at Bai Dajiang.
She had only heard that money from this era was very valuable, but she didn't know exactly. She didn't know if two yuan was considered much money in this era.
Although she had received the original owner's memories, the original owner had grown to fifteen without ever going to town. There was no information to search in the memories, so she could only ask Bai Dajiang.
Besides, she only heard Bai Daliang mention he had a little over two yuan that he wanted to use to buy food in town, but she didn't know where the money was placed.
"Ah... two yuan is not enough! Without at least ten yuan, how can you go to the health center? Your dad's wound, although it doesn't seem very deep, he hasn't woken up yet! Second Uncle will try to think of a way! You stay home and watch your siblings!" Bai Dajiang said, covering Bai Daliang with a quilt and walking out.
Bai Daliang was placed lying on the kang, his head turned slightly to breathe, showing no signs of waking up yet.
Bai Xue didn't stop him. In her memory, this second uncle was a simple and honest person, only accepting fate and working. No matter how much Grandma Bai made a scene, he didn't make a sound. The second aunt was also weak-minded, always bullied by Grandma Bai, and the three kids at home went hungry. She only knew how to cry and never argued back.
"Xiao Yun, Xiao Xia, feed the siblings sugar water, big sister is going out to have a look!"
Bai Xue handed the sugar water to her two sisters for them to feed the babies, glanced at her parents lying on the kang, shook her head, and went out. She needed to make arrangements at home, otherwise, if she took Bai Daliang to the town's health center, she wouldn't even know if she could come back today, lest the two babies starve to death.
Others who transmigrate and reincarnate end up as princesses or commandery princesses, at worst the legitimate daughter of the Prime Minister's Mansion, thoroughly pampered. But look at herself, entering a time of scarce resources and hunger would be fine, but being thrust into such a mess right upon arrival without even having the time to digest and adapt forces her to accept reality.
"Xiao Shan, Little Chuan, go get more firewood, big sister needs to cook some rice paste for the babies to drink!" Seeing the two brothers busy with the fire, Bai Xue could only decide to cook some rice porridge to make the rice paste thicker for the children.
Milk was something she couldn't easily bring out now.
"Alright, big sister, we'll go right away!" The two children, after realizing their mistake, didn't dare lift their heads. As soon as Bai Xue spoke, they ran out.
But in their hearts, both thought, if it happened again, they'd beat Bai Dahe again, beat him hard, without holding back.