Baomei nodded. "Yes! She knew Dad had taken you out to sea on our fishing boat! I said we had another boat, but it was small, and rowing it would be very slow!"
"Lan Ying said that was fine. It might be slower, but it wouldn't rock so much. So I told her I could take her and that man to Xiaohe Village. There's a road there, and they could catch a bus to the hospital."
"So before that, Lan Ying only said she wanted to help him, not that she wanted to take him to the hospital?" Song Ning asked again.
Lan Ying tilted her head and thought for a moment before answering, "I think so! But she said he was hurt and she wanted to help him. Wouldn't that mean taking him to the hospital?"
Song Ning nodded. "Yes, under normal circumstances, you'd be right. So... what happened next?"
"Then I took Lan Ying to the boat and started rowing. When we reached that big reef, she helped that man aboard. There was so much blood on him, I got a little scared! But Lan Ying didn't seem scared!"
"She must have really wanted to save him! She saw how young I was and even asked me to teach her to row because she didn't want me to get tired! But I'm just small. I can row just fine!"
Song Ning said nothing as she listened, but her fingers slowly curled inward.
"Then the man lying in the boat said something. His voice was really weak. I think he said something about Yutoubao, but I didn't hear him clearly. I knew Yutoubao, though. There's nothing there. He was hurt, so he should have gone to the hospital right away! I told Lan Ying, 'He's badly hurt. We have