When Jiang Muxia walked out of the lobby, Jiang Yuzhou and Li Jiyi, who were waiting eagerly, came up to her and put a thicker cloak on her.

Tang Zhongbai strode over and whispered to her, "Go home and have a good rest. Don't go anywhere. Lin Xiao's death was strange. I have to find out the cause of his death. I'll go to the restaurant later."

Seeing that her face was pale from the cold, he wanted to help her put on her hood, but raised his hand and then put it down again.

There were too many people watching them, and he was afraid people would gossip about her.

Jiang Muxia's eyes turned, she understood, and pulled up her hat to wrap herself tightly.

Guan Tiexin took Zhang Chuncao and his wife to his home.

They walked out of the government office and saw a group of children, big and small, running towards her with smiles on their faces, chattering with concern: "Sister Jiang, we knew you would be fine."

Jiang Muxia squatted down, took Xiaoyao and Xiaonan's cold little hands, and put them in his cloak to warm them.

"Why are you here? It's too cold, go home quickly!" She looked up and looked around, and saw Hu Zi standing under the eaves of a shop in the distance.

Da Qi, who was standing behind the children, greeted her with a smile and advised the children, "Your sister Jiang is safe and sound, we can rest assured. How about we go home?"

Da Qi looked up and smiled at Jiang Muxia, "Hu Zi urged us to come here early in the morning, but he was embarrassed to come."

Jiang Muxia nodded and smiled without saying anything.

"Oh, right." Da Qi remembered that he hadn't told her the most important thing yet, and hurriedly said, "Thank you for inviting Brother Zhou over. He is very capable and helped us cut down a lot of bamboo. Now they are all drying in the house. We will start working when the bamboo is dry."

He looked at the children lovingly and said with a smile, "They don't know the cold. They pick up firewood everywhere and make the house warm. They are just looking forward to the bamboo drying up quickly so that they can work and earn money, right, Xiaonan?"

The children responded in unison: "Yes, we will make money and repay our sister."

Jiang Muxia felt as sweet as drinking honey. She touched his little head and said with a smile, "You take good care of yourself. That's the best way to repay your sister."

As soon as she finished speaking, Hu Zi, who was far away, shouted with a sullen face: "Let's go back quickly. They are so busy. Don't let them miss their important event!"

Da Qi then noticed that there was a group of people standing not too far away at the corner of the street, quietly waiting for Jiang Muxia. He immediately felt guilty, and held Xiaonan and Xiaoyao's hands, "Sorry, I delayed you."

While saying to the children, "Let's go back. Sister is going home too."

The children said goodbye to her sensibly. Jiang Muxia looked ahead and saw that Hu Zi had already left on his own.

Jiang Muxia curled her lips and smiled. This child has a strong personality.

She waited for them to walk away, and the moment she turned around, she caught a glimpse of two familiar figures passing by at the corner leading to the west of the city.

Jiang Muxia narrowed her eyes slightly, twitched the corners of her lips, and sneered.

He said to the disappearing figure, "You are really courting death. Evildoers will be punished by God."

Back at the restaurant, Lu Chaoyun and Jiang Hongtao quickly placed the prepared brazier at the door and motioned for her to step over it.

Jiang Muxia took off his cloak, straightened his chest and head, and strode over the red-hot brazier.

Lu Chaoyun sang on the side: "Step over the fire basin with a big step, don't turn back, get rid of the evil spirits and bad luck, and you will have a smooth and safe future."

Lu Chaoyun didn't have time to tell her his true feelings, and ordered: "Tao'er, take your sister to the room to take a hot bath. Take out all her clothes, I need to scald them with water."

The three mothers started to act according to their division of labor, and the others dispersed and went about their own business.

Xu Da sat in the hall waiting for her to finish packing, as he had something to discuss with her.

Jiang Muxia soaked comfortably in the hot water. Although there was no shortage of food in the prison, he also slept well.

But compared with my own home, it is a world of difference.

She enjoyed the bath very much. The fire in the room was burning brightly. As soon as the water cooled down a little, Jiang Mutao added hot water to it.

Xu Da sat there and drank one cup after another, but Jiang Muxia didn't come out.

Fuzi couldn't help but complain in her heart, and muttered quietly, "Sister Jiang is really good at washing!"

Xu Da raised his eyelids and said, "If it were you, I'm afraid you wouldn't be able to get out for a whole day. As a girl, I can understand."

Fuzi laughed and ran to the tavern.

Half a minute later, Jiang Muxia was covered in water vapor and white mist was coming out of her body, like a fairy walking out of a fairyland.

Her eyes were moist and dark, and every step she took was full of life.

Xu Da secretly felt sorry for Tang Zhongbai. The boy was unlucky and did not get to see such a brilliant side of his sister-in-law.

Xu Da coughed lightly and his eyes followed her movements.

Jiang Muxia gathered her half-dry hair, frowned, and said impatiently, "It's really troublesome. It's better to be a man, so he can shave his head."

Xu Da rolled his eyes at her and sneered, "Those with shaved heads are monks and nuns! What? Have you seen through the world?"

She shook her thick black hair to her head. "That's not the case. Tell me, why have you been waiting for me for so long?"

Xu Da looked at her bright expression and couldn't bear to tell her.

Based on his understanding of her, if she knew, she would try her best to repay him with everything.

But if he doesn't tell her now and finds out from other channels later, she will take all the responsibility on herself and torture herself.

It will make her feel more isolated and helpless, lose trust in everyone, and have to do everything herself.

Xu Da thought about it for a long time and decided to tell her in the simplest and most straightforward way.

"Last night, when we went to capture Lin Xiao, one of our brothers was poisoned and lost a leg. Another child who led the way for us was cured of the poison, but his body collapsed."

Xu Da looked at her intently, paying attention to her changes.

Jiang Muxia did as he wished. She stood up with a bang and almost knocked over the stool. "Are they still there?"

Xu Da stepped forward and held the stool in place, and pushed her to sit on it. "As long as the person is still alive, there is hope. This matter has nothing to do with you. Even if it wasn't you, Brother Tang and I would have tried our best to save her, and the result would have been the same."

In these two lives, Jiang Muxia was afraid that others would be nice to her but she would have no way to repay them, and she was afraid of owing favors to others.

This is her fatal weakness.

Jiang Muxia smiled bitterly, "But brother, there is no if. They took the risk just to save me. Where are they? Can I go see them?"

In the backyard of the tavern, Xu Gang couldn't stand the piercing pain, so he asked Xu Da to give him a heavier drug to keep him in a coma and avoid the deep heart-wrenching pain.

When Jiang Muxia saw him, he had just regained consciousness.

Jiang Muxia felt bad. Looking at his broken leg, she thought to herself, another person implicated by her. And a stranger who had no relatives or friends with her and was purely out of help and whom she had never met.

There were tears in her eyes, and she murmured to herself: "Brother Xu Gang, how could I have deserved that you lost a leg for me!"

As she was secretly shedding tears, a barely audible sound reached her ears.

"Miss Jiang has done a great favor to our Xu family. Our entire clan is willing to sacrifice our lives for you."

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