Chapter 372: Xiao Jin, Where Is Your Home?

372. Chapter 372: Xiao Jin, where is your home?

It didn't take long before a shout.

A sound came from above.

Qiao Sheng let out a sudden cry, looked upward, and saw that the newcomer was a man in his twenties; they instantly breathed a sigh of relief.

"Big brother, help me, I fell in by accident."

Xiao Jin truly hadn't expected that a woman would fall into the pit he dug for hunting wild boars, and that she would be a good-looking woman.

He came to his senses.

Xiao Jin used Thus Technique: Lightness Skill to rescue Qiao Sheng.

When Qiao Sheng's foot touched the ground, the pain made them lift it up.

Xiao Jin noticed and said, "Did you injure your foot?"

Qiao Sheng nodded.

Xiao Jin told Qiao Sheng to wait a moment, then used the hatchet he carried to cut some branches and made a simple stretcher, tied it with vines, and let them sit on it.

Qiao Sheng was startled and asked, "Where are you taking me?"

"Where is your home?"

Xiao Jin intended to send Qiao Sheng home.

This pit was dug by him; Qiao Sheng fell into it and was injured.

He naturally had to take responsibility.

When Qiao Sheng thought of their so-called family, they didn't want to return, and they blurted out, "I have no family; my parents are dead, my aunt forced me to marry, and I ran away because I didn't want to marry…"

He learned that this was the case.

Xiao Jin hesitated briefly and said, "Then, shall I take you to where I live?"

"Alright!"

Qiao Sheng agreed.

Xiao Jin dragged Qiao Sheng toward his residence; his dwelling was a wooden house on the side of a mountaintop, small but fully equipped.

The only drawback was that there was only one room.

Xiao Jin felt embarrassed to let Qiao Sheng stay elsewhere, so he let them use his own room.

"That's fine, I can stay in the firewood shed or whatever."

Qiao Sheng also felt embarrassed.

Xiao Jin said without further discussion, "You are a woman; how could I let you stay in a firewood shed? Fine, you can stay in the room I used before."

He told Qiao Sheng to wait a moment.

He went inside and changed the sheets and such.

Finished changing.

He let Qiao Sheng go in holding a stick.

After Qiao Sheng entered the house and sat down for a while, Xiao Jin poured a cup of water and handed it to them, then said, "There is no doctor nearby; if you need your foot examined, you have to go to the town."

"How long does it take to get to the town?"

Qiao Sheng asked casually.

She asked this merely to find out whether Jing Tao had deceived them.

Xiao Jin replied honestly, "I'm a bit far from the town; it will probably take more than an hour. Rest for a while, and I'll take you to the town to have your foot looked at later."

Qiao Sheng did not refuse.

Xiao Jin changed clothes, made a simple frame, and let Qiao Sheng sit on it while he carried them down the mountain.

The main downhill path was difficult in places, so he couldn't drag them down. The reason he didn't carry them directly was also out of consideration for the impropriety between a man and a woman.

They descended the mountain.

Xiao Jin found a place to settle Qiao Sheng, told them to wait there, and went to rent an ox cart in a nearby village.

The road was rugged and uneven.

The whole journey was very bumpy.

Qiao Sheng felt their buttocks were about to be split in two.

When they were not far from the city gate.

Qiao Sheng noticed two people sitting by the city gate; upon looking closely, they immediately hid behind Xiao Jin.

"What's the matter?"

Xiao Jin noticed and asked.

Qiao Sheng whispered, "I saw my aunt and the others; they're definitely here to capture me and bring me back. Xiao Jin, I'm scared, let's not go to the town; you take me to find another doctor."

She wasn't actually as scared as she pretended to be.

The reason she didn't want to confront them.

First, she was injured now; second, she wasn't sure whether Zhang Meilan and the others were actually her family.

If they truly were.

Xiao Jin would definitely be unable to protect her.

At that time.

He might even end up implicating him.