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Lady Chen, being elderly, struggled with the mountain path and soon became breathless. Xiao Ruo, worried that she would tire herself out, followed the villager from Peak Village down the mountain.
Once they were down, Xiao Ruo asked Chow Yun to give the villager a string of copper coins as compensation.
They were just about to get on the carriage when a woman from the village ran towards them, crying out as she ran, "Honored ones, please stop, honored ones, please stop..."
"It's the village chief's wife," the villager from Lifeng Village said to Xiao Ruo and the others before running towards her, "Elder sister, what's wrong?"
"Ah Guang, your uncle is on the verge..." The village chief's wife wiped her tears, "I want to ask this revered person to help me take your uncle to the county town to find a doctor."
The village chief's wife looked towards Xiao Ruo and Lady Chen as she spoke.
