It's really hard to just farm peacefully.

Chapter 378

The vibrations overhead and the tremors below the tunnel did not interfere with each other.

Suddenly, a loud bang rang out, and the dust kicked up caused Nanny Yuan to finally let out a clear sneeze.

Jiang Yan immediately stopped sniffing. She wasn't hallucinating; the voice coming clearly from directly above and to her side was—"Huh, is someone hiding here?"

The soil above was dug away in just a few breaths. Jiang Yan's eyes were tightly closed because she couldn't bear the strong light from the outside world, but the iron hoe in her hand subconsciously dug towards the light.

Then came a thud. Chunying cursed instinctively as half of her body was hit squarely by the wooden basin. She didn't know where the little boy in her arms had been hit, but he was now crying loudly.

Jiang Yan was on edge, and she and Granny Hong, who was leaning against her, quickly swung their weapons, trying to swing them out of the safe range of the hoe handle's radius.

Why isn't anyone attacking?

Jiang Yan was puzzled, and at the same time, she quickly but slowly opened her eyes. The person standing diagonally above her with his arms crossed looked somewhat familiar...

Grandma Hong's shovel stopped abruptly, then was hooked away by Jiang Yan's still-swung hoe, followed by a scream of "Ah—", and shouts of "Protect the girl!"

"How long are you going to keep waving? My dear grandson's voice is about to go hoarse from yelling."

Jiang Yan, who recognized the voices of both Fu Nulang and Fu Jian, couldn't help but slightly curl her lips. She had something to say, but she didn't know whether she should say it or not.

A moment later, the four people who climbed into one of the carriages to warm themselves, mainly Chunying and Jiangyan, secretly observed the movements outside through a corner of the curtain that had been lifted.

The attack on Zhuangzi was nearing its end, and every now and then familiar servants could be seen carrying corpses of unknown friend or foe, piling them up outside the gate.

"Watch out!" Jiang Yan gasped in alarm. The man who had just been shoved into the pile of corpses suddenly grabbed a dagger and stabbed it into someone's back.

The wet nurse curiously peeked out, then immediately hid back and gagged.

Jiang Yan muttered with lingering fear, "Didn't anyone remind them? They should at least have confiscated the sharp weapons..."

People really can't stand being nagged. She had barely finished speaking when she heard Nineteen's voice.

“Master, I heard that Chunying and Jiang Yan are resting here. I’ll ask them to come and bandage the wounded.”

……

Returning to the cold wind, Jiang Yan felt a slight stinging sensation in her nose.

She asked for a brand new piece of linen and quickly cut it into many small pieces and wide strips. Some of it was thrown into an earthenware pot placed above the fire next to it to boil and sterilize, while the rest was given to Chunying to use for applying pressure or binding the limbs of patients with severe bleeding.

Bucket after bucket of clean water was filled to rinse the wound, and piece after piece of linen was used to dry.

Only after all the trauma patients she could treat were cleared out did Jiang Yan slump onto a stool, feeling utterly exhausted, both mentally and physically.

"You wasted some time fiddling with those fabrics; several of them ran off to other teams to get bandaged up," Tian Jiu said casually as he passed Jiang Yan, very busy. "Manager Fu just promised to reward you for your contributions."

Oh, she probably slipped away some of the reward money. Jiang Yan understood what Tian Jiu meant, but the person had already left, and she didn't have the energy to chase after her to explain.

The number of trauma patients assigned to her was not large, and they wouldn't die from blood loss while waiting for those few minutes. Disinfecting the fabric to reduce the risk of bacterial infection was quite worthwhile.

Yes, that's exactly what she was thinking.

However, Jiang Yan changed her posture, adding that they had saved the young master of the Fu family, the "good grandson" mentioned by the Fu master, plus Madam Song who hadn't arrived yet...

Just how much of a reward can one get?