Tian Jing entered the east room with Xuanxuan and her mother-in-law. "What's going on?"
"Don't know."
Mother Li placed Siyu, whom she was holding, on the bed and took Xuanxuan.
"Si Ji was playing outside. I heard Siyu wake up, so I went into the room. Xuanxuan followed me in."
"I heard someone come in. Before I could ask who it was, I heard the boy ask Si Ji where your sister was. Ji Xiang, being the cleverest, said your sister wasn't home."
"Siyu started to whimper. The boy then entered the room. Upon seeing Xuanxuan standing by the bed, he picked her up and said he wanted to take her home as a toy."
"Ji Xiang, followed by Ji Qing, Ji Nian, and Ji Yang, came into the room. Seeing the boy leave with Xuanxuan, they blocked him."
"The boy ran straight into them, causing Ji Xiang and Ji Qing to fall. Ji Xiang then grabbed the boy's leg, and Ji Qing joined him."
"Ji Nian and Ji Yang climbed up and clung to the boy's right arm. The boy, with the four children clinging to him and Xuanxuan, ran outside."
"When they reached the bottom step outside, Ji Nian and Ji Yang couldn't hold on and fell. That's when you saw what happened."
Tian Jing frowned, "This boy is no ordinary person."
Not only because of the boy's strength and his two accompanying bodyguards, but also from what the boy said, she could guess he was someone who wasn't afraid of causing trouble.
"I'll take Si Ji to see Doctor Yang. You call Lu Shi. We can keep this from Lili, but we can't keep it from Lu Shi."
Mother Li nodded, "Alright."
...
Tian Jing, with Si Ji, ignored the three vine sculptures in the yard and reached the blocked main entrance. She placed Si Ji on the hood of the Hongqi car. Then, she used vines to wrap around the second-floor window of the village committee office and leaped over the Hongqi car.
She retracted the vines and turned to see four pairs of surprised and delighted eyes.
Tian Jing picked them up one by one. "Your great-aunt is even more amazing. If you want to become heroes who can drive away bad guys, ask your great-aunt to teach you martial arts."
"Learn!"
Ji Xiang was the first to speak, his tone extremely resolute.
"Learn!"
Ji Qing had always liked to follow Ji Xiang and imitate him.
"Learn."
"Learn."
Ji Nian and Ji Yang didn't understand what martial arts were. If their elder brothers said to learn, they wanted to learn too.
Ouyang Meihua, who was mixing chicken feed, suddenly had a premonition...
Doctor Yang looked at Ji Qing and Ji Xiang's wounds and asked them what they were playing, to have slid on the ground.
Ji Qing looked at Ji Xiang.
Ji Xiang looked at Tian Jing.
Tian Jing smiled, "The children were naughty. Doctor Yang, please disinfect and bandage them."
Doctor Yang called his apprentice who was home that weekend. "Fang Fang, it's yours."
Yuan Fang, in a professional manner, picked up tweezers and a cotton ball soaked in iodine.
A few minutes later, he put down the tweezers. "No need for bandaging. Just be careful not to get them wet, or expose them to dust and dirt."
Tian Jing smiled, "Little Doctor Fang has great demeanor. Take a look at Ji Nian and Ji Yang. Are they injured from the fall?"
Yuan Fang nodded and pointed to the examination table. "Sit down, I'll take your pulse."
A moment later, Yuan Fang waved his little hand. "They're fine internally. Where did they fall? Let me see."
Tian Jing cooperated and undressed Ji Nian and Ji Yang. "Take a look. They can't pinpoint where it hurts."
Yuan Fang's small hands went from Ji Nian's fingers to his toes, asking if it hurt as he touched.
Ji Nian giggled, "Tickles."
After Ji Yang received the same treatment, Yuan Fang waved his hand again. "They're fine."
Tian Jing smiled, "Then may I have your grand-teacher re-examine them, please?"
"Alright."
Yuan Fang walked away from the examination table with his hands behind his back.
Doctor Yang sat down. "Let me take a look."
Tian Jing was worried because they weren't her own children. "They fell from the corridor, it was quite high."
After taking their pulses, Doctor Yang palpated and examined Ji Nian and Ji Yang's backs, buttocks, and tailbones. He found no painful spots.
"If they still say they are in pain, we'll take X-rays. I haven't found any injuries on them."
Tian Jing then called Ji Qing and Ji Xiang over, and had Doctor Yang take their pulses.
"They're fine, just a little frightened."
Upon hearing Doctor Yang's words, Yuan Fang immediately came back. "Let me take a look."
After taking their pulses, he scratched his head. "Grand-teacher, I was wrong."
Doctor Yang nodded. "You're fined ten pages of Qian Jin Yao Fang (A Compendium of Essential Prescriptions)."
"Yes."
Tian Jing: "..." Her concern had caused Yuan Fang to be punished.
Back at the courtyard house, Tian Jing used her powers to sort out the four children one by one. Ji Qing and Ji Xiang felt it the most, as their tension and panic were completely gone.
Of course, they didn't understand these emotions as panic or tension. They only knew that their moods had improved.
Mother Li, knowing that the four children were all right, felt relieved. "From now on, when you're not home, I'll have to close the main gate."
Tian Jing looked at the three vine figures in the yard. "What did Lu Shi say?"
Mother Li said, "Lu Shi was relieved when he heard Xuanxuan was fine. He said he would investigate the cause of this incident."
"He said the boy is likely the youngest son of Commander Mai from the Beijing Military Region. He's an unruly character who takes any pretty child he sees home for a few days. Once he gets bored, he abandons them. They're just discarded."
"The boy is one thing, but the girls, after being sent home, all show symptoms of fear towards men approaching them."
"Rumors then spread that the boy was precocious and that the girls taken by the boy had been violated by him."
"Therefore, girls who had been 'played with' by the boy were sent away by their families."
Tian Jing frowned. The sudden appearance of a boy with such unhealthy habits in her home, targeting Xuanxuan, was clearly not without guidance.
Tian Jing looked at the boy tied up like a zongzi in the yard. "Who told you our address? Or who told you we have a pretty little girl?"
The boy turned away and ignored Tian Jing.
"Stupid!"
Tian Jing shook her head faintly. "Someone is using you to deal with me, and you're still willing to keep their secret for them."
"Look at yourself, you have such developed limbs, your brain must be very simple. If you didn't have a good father, you would have died countless times by now."
"However, don't worry, I won't inform your father to rescue you, because I don't know who your father is. But I won't mistreat you either."
With that, Tian Jing waved her hand. The vines on the boy were reduced to only a section on his hands and feet.
The section on his hands was about two feet long, and the section on his feet was only about a handspan long.
As for the two bodyguards, after Tian Jing's operations, they were tied up as if they were one person.
How were they tied?
The two were back to back, heels touching heels, the backs of their heads touching the backs of their heads, palms touching palms.
Their wrists were tied, their ankles were tied, their waists were tied, their shoulders were tied – six points to secure them both.
The boy, seeing the bound men, actually smiled.
Tian Jing saw his smile and asked, "Are you happy?"
"Yes."
The boy nodded. "They can't relay messages anymore."
Tian Jing crossed her arms and looked at him. "So, I saved you?"
"Uh!"
The boy paused for a moment, then nodded. "Sort of, but it won't last more than two days. My old man will find me soon."
Tian Jing asked, "What if he can't find you?"
The boy shook his head. "Impossible. Usually, he can find me within a day."
Tracking device?
Tian Jing glanced at the three of them. Their opponent was a commander. With the military rank suppression, she would definitely have to let them go.
But if these three were in a special skills team, no matter how high their military rank, they couldn't storm into the special skills team under direct higher leadership to demand people.
Lu Shi was in the special skills team. Martial arts could be more torturous than superpowers...
A smile appeared on Tian Jing's face.
Seeing the smile on Tian Jing's face, the boy's spine chilled, and he instinctively took a step back.
"Bang!"
The vine on his feet was only a handspan long. This step back caused him to fall straight onto his backside.