CHAPTER 51: CHAPTER 51: ERHU’S INJURY

Erhu just realized something was wrong with his body, twisted his shoulder, and a wave of pain hit him, making him grimace.

But the feeling was obviously not as severe as yesterday.

"It hurts, but it’s much better than yesterday, it doesn’t feel like life is worse than death anymore." This was also why Erhu spoke very little yesterday, as the physical pain had left him exhausted, with no desire to speak.

Lin Sanshui thought he was saying that on purpose to avoid worrying people, gave him an annoyed look, and said, "If it hurts, why don’t you hurry back and lie down? You haven’t changed today’s medicine yet, right? Let your mother help you change it in a while."

The doctor said that changing the medicine once a day is enough, changing it too often would also affect the healing of the wound.

Today, when he left, he told Mrs. Jiang to change Erhu’s medicine in the afternoon, so it probably hadn’t been changed yet.

As expected, just as he finished speaking, Mrs. Jiang came out of the room, "Didn’t you say to wait until the afternoon to change the medicine? So I didn’t change it for him."

Lin Sanshui said, "It’s about time, change it for him and let him lie in the room properly, knowing he’s injured but still can’t help bouncing around everywhere, I think he’s afraid his injuries are too light!"

Erhu felt particularly wronged, "You can’t blame me for that, everyone’s outside talking and laughing, eating honey and chatting, leaving me alone in the room to lie miserably, without even someone to talk to."

"Turns out this brat was just greedy?" Mrs. Jiang said with slight annoyance, "If you’re greedy, why didn’t you say something, isn’t it just wanting to eat honey, would we not let you have it? There’s no need for you to come out looking so aggrieved!"

"I wasn’t trying to eat honey." Erhu said with his head down and, feeling rather low, went back to lie on the bed again.

Mrs. Jiang came with the medicine, helped him take off his clothes, and was momentarily stunned when she saw the wound.

"Mom, is it terrible?" Erhu knew what he looked like after being beaten. The weather was already hot, and he hadn’t seen a doctor for two days after being beaten, so the rotten flesh on his back probably started to smell.

Yesterday, it was Dad who applied the medicine for him, although Dad seemed calm from start to finish, yet from his trembling movements, Erhu could perceive that the wound on his back must be horrific.

Unexpectedly, Mrs. Jiang didn’t react much, "It’s nothing, it’s about to heal. Your back might itch a bit these days, but don’t scratch it, okay? If you scratch it and make it bleed, you’ll have to heal it again."

Erhu was puzzled.

His mother saw the wound on his back but wasn’t frightened.

Is Mom just very brave? Or does his wound only feel severe but isn’t actually severe?

After applying the medicine for him, Mrs. Jiang brought over some honey, "Hurry up and eat, you don’t have to save it this time, there’s plenty at home, just ask Mom if you want more."

"Mm-mm!" Erhu nodded quickly.

Mrs. Jiang walked out, and Lin Sanshui asked her, "How’s Erhu’s injury, is it any better?"

When he applied medicine for the child yesterday, he almost wanted to go back and give Master Li a good beating himself.

Although his children aren’t overly delicate, each one is the apple of his eye, but Erhu was beaten, and the wound on his back was even festering, and yet no one took him to see a doctor or informed the family.

Lin Sanshui even wondered if he had been a few days late in picking up the child, would Erhu have potentially lost his life from this.

Just now in the house, she’d managed to stay calm, but when her husband asked her like this, Mrs. Jiang couldn’t control her tears anymore, "Much better, how could they be so ruthless! Even if our child did something wrong and affected the shop, at most we could compensate with silver, how could they beat him like this! Is there any justice!"