Allure of a Country Maiden
Chapter 913 - 911_1

Chapter 913: Chapter 911_1

Ouch... she was in extreme pain.

Fang Wanping could not help but shed tears due to the unbearable pain.

In reality, Xiao Ling’s situation was not much better, but as a servant, she was used to coping with physical hardship. Therefore, she reacted quicker while being injured and so her injuries weren’t as severe.

She quickly crawled up and limped towards Fang Wanping.

When Xiao Ling reached Fang Wanping’s side, Fang Wanping immediately slapped her: "You filthy girl! Why didn’t you cushion my fall when I got thrown off from the carriage?"

Xiao Ling held her face, crying while replying: "Miss, I’m sorry. This was my fault, I won’t let it happen again!"

"There’s a next time? Are you jinxing me?!" Fang Wanping furiously gave her another slap.

Xiao Ling’s face immediately swelled up. She managed to whimper: "Miss, I apologize."

"Crying, crying, crying! Why are you crying!? I haven’t even cried yet!" Fang Wanping became even more irritated when she saw Xiao Ling’s tears.

"I won’t cry, Miss. Don’t be angry, I just felt pity for you since you’re injured so I cried!"

"Your sympathy is as counterfeit as a rat crying over the death of a mouse!"

Seeing that Fang Wanping still had the energy to berate and hit her maid, the old coachman knew that her injuries were not severe, otherwise where could she find the strength for this?

He glanced sympathetically at Xiao Ling, then said: "Miss, how about your injuries? Can you move? If not, should your maid help you back onto the carriage? I can take you back to the city to see a doctor?"

Hearing these words, Fang Wanping redirected her anger towards the coachman: "Dare you still mention the carriage! What kind of broken carriage is that of yours!? Can I still ride in it?"

"Yes, Miss, it’s still usable. It’s true that the wooden panels of the carriage compartment were affected by weathering and damaged by woodworm, but the undercarriage is perfectly fine, see, it’s still intact!" The old coachman pointed towards the carriage a short distance away. He felt guilty for seeing someone fall from his carriage and hoped to quickly get them back to the city to see a doctor.

Fang Wanping followed his pointing finger and saw that one side of the carriage compartment had fallen off and the other two sides were on the verge of toppling over.

"You want me to ride in such a carriage? You think I dare to ride in it again?"

The old coachman turned his head to look at his own carriage, then gestured with his hand: "Miss, I can take down the remaining panels of the carriage, luckily the weather is neither too hot nor too cold, so it’s okay without the carriage compartment!"

For the coachman, riding in a carriage without a compartment was still better than walking back.

However, to Fang Wanping, it felt like the coachman was insulting her. If she were to ride in such a carriage, how could she show her face after everyone in the city saw her in such a miserable state?

"I won’t ride on it!"

"Miss, if you don’t want to ride, do you intend to walk back?" The old coachman looked at her leg, noticing the blood seeping through her pink skirt. Considering the severity of her injury, could she really walk back?

Walk back? Was that even possible? Fang Wanping thought the coachman was an idiot!

"With my leg injured like this, how can I walk back?" She responded irritably.

The old coachman was a bit confused by Fang Wanping’s attitude. She was unwilling to ride the carriage and unable to walk. What did she want? Did she plan to stay on the road and not move?

"What do you propose to do, Miss?" the coachman asked kindly.

Fang Wanping didn’t know what to do either, but there was certainly no way that she would ride in a carriage without a compartment.

She refused to let herself be humiliated like this!

Knowing her mistress’s concern about face, Xiao Ling suggested: "Miss, how about having the old coachman go back to the city first? He can notify our master and madam and ask them to send a carriage and a doctor here. Miss might have a fracture, it’s not good to move carelessly."

Fang Wanping indeed felt intense pain whenever she moved her leg. She nodded her head after hearing Xiao Ling’s suggestion: "You should do as you suggested."

Fang Wanping also had another plan in her mind. She didn’t know when the Magistrate would return. Perhaps she could just wait here to be rescued by the Magistrate!

The hero would save the damsel in distress, and then the hero would win the lady’s heart.

The lady, touched by the hero’s act, would then devote herself to him.

...

What a perfect ending it was!

Xiao Ling, seeing her mistress’s agreement, told the coachman the name and location of the inn where their master and madam were staying.

"If they’re not at the inn, find them at the Government Office. Our master is the sub-prefect." When Xiao Ling spoke these words, she held her chin a bit higher. Her arrogant expression resembled Fang Wanping’s.

However, she was merely a servant, a bullied one at that, bearing a bruised and swollen face. These words coming from her seemed quite absurd.

The old coachman shook his head, unable to comprehend where her sense of superiority was coming from, considering that she was just a maid.

"Don’t worry, I’ll deliver your message!"

"Our Miss is the daughter of the sub-prefect! Don’t even think about leaving us behind and escaping! Unless you no longer wish to stay in this county, my master will not let you off!"

"Rest assured! Even though I’ve never had a proper education, I know it’s wrong to leave someone in distress."

"Glad you’re sensible! Also, my Miss got injured because of your broken carriage. You must compensate us!" Xiao Ling looked at Fang Wanping as she spoke.

She was unsure about how much the compensation should be, worried that if she mentioned a lower amount, Fang Wanping would be discontented.

Fang Wanping gave her an approving look, praising Xiaoling for finally doing something sensible.

"Although you’re an old man and still working as a coachman, I know that your life is not easy. Therefore, I won’t ask for too much for the compensation."

The coachman, who initially had no good impressions of Fang Wanping, suddenly had a change of heart. He thought to himself, maybe she was just a bit temperamental, but deep down she still had a kind heart.

But Fang Wanping’s next words completely shattered his illusions. He felt rather naive!

How could a person who could beat her own servant to such a state be kind-hearted?!

"100 taels should be enough."

taels? Was that not too much? The coachman was taken aback.

Even with a broken leg, the medical expenses wouldn’t amount to 100 taels!

The coachman rubbed his hands: "Miss, 100 taels is too much. I really can’t afford it. Besides, if you hadn’t kept urging me to go faster, the carriage wheel wouldn’t have landed in the pothole, and you wouldn’t have got injured..."

"What? Are you trying to back out on your debts? Yes, I did ask you to speed up the carriage, but I didn’t ask you to drive the carriage into a hole! You refurbished an old carriage and tricked me into thinking it was a new one. Because of that, I fell off and now you find the compensation too high! I can’t accept anything less than 100 taels! If you say anything more, it’ll be 200 taels!"

The coachman also knew that he was in the wrong. If his carriage hadn’t been a mere facade of its former self, they wouldn’t have fallen out.

But to ask him for 100 taels as compensation, he truly didn’t have the money!

What was he to do now?!

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