Chapter 213 'Old Pig'
Chapter 213 'Old Pig'
Zhao Yeqing froze on the spot, only to see two dogs running out happily with their tongues hanging out, followed by Mu Xi, who was limping with a wooden stick and crutches.
Mu Xi still held the arrow she shot just now in her hand.
After seeing her, he stood there dumbfounded, holding up an arrow and saying, "You are good at archery, you just grazed my scalp."
When Zhao Yeqing heard what he said, he realized what he was saying and hurriedly stepped forward.
"I don't know if it's you... What did you do? Where is it hurt? Does it hurt?"
She helped Mu Xi walk to the fire, wanting to see where he was injured, but she didn't know where to start.
When Mu Xi reached the fire and had light, he could clearly see the tears on Zhao Yeqing's face. The big tears were falling down.
He hurriedly threw the arrow aside and wanted to reach out to wipe her face, but his hands were stained with dirt, so he could only open his backpack in a hurry and take out a tissue to wipe her face.
His voice was trembling slightly, he was panicking like never before, and his voice was soft and soft.
"Don't cry...I'm fine. I just got hit. Really, there's no injury at all."
Only then did Zhao Yeqing realize that her face was covered with tears. She had been holding back her emotions for the past two days, but now she couldn't hold it back. The tears fell out without even realizing it.
She took the tissue and dried it herself, and suddenly realized what he said,
"What does it mean to be hit? What did you hit?"
Mu Xi opened his backpack and took out two bags. One bag contained bloody raw meat, and the other bag contained a piece of animal skin.
"Two days ago, when I was planning to go back, a wild boar suddenly jumped out of the forest. Two leopards went out to look for food. The good guys were knocked out by me."
When he said this, Mu Xi was also frightened, "Fortunately, I wasn't stabbed by the fangs. Guoguo and Xuebing came back just in time. I didn't even shoot. The two leopards killed the wild boar in a few blows."
After Mu Xi finished speaking, Zhao Yeqing remembered that the two leopards were there, and subconsciously looked up in the direction where he had just seen the trembling treetops.
Mu Xi nodded clearly, "There are the two of them over there. They like to stay in the tree now."
Keeping Mu Xi from being knocked away by a wild boar is no small matter. Zhao Yeqing asked Mu Xi to sit down and wanted to pull off his clothes to see the scars on his back.
Mu Xi took off his coat and carefully pulled up his clothes.
"Actually, I'm fine now. I couldn't move a bit on the first night. I was worried that I might have internal injuries. I rested on the same spot for two days before going back. Judging from the state of recovery in the past two days, it doesn't seem to be a big problem."
Zhao Yeqing looked at the bruise on Mu Xi's back. As soon as his fingers touched it, Mu Xi trembled subconsciously.
"itch."
Zhao Yeqing took out the medicine from his backpack. The marks on his back showed that the medicine had not been applied. It was probably because he was hit hard and his hand could not be used to apply the medicine.
"Bear with it."
After rubbing her hands to warm them, she put the medicated oil on the heated palms and gently massaged his waist in circles.
Mu Xi straightened his back subconsciously. Zhao Yeqing thought that he had hurt him, and was about to take it easy. When he looked up, he saw that his face was calm, but his ears betrayed his emotions and were red.
She couldn't help laughing and scolding, "What are you thinking about? When is it?"
She thought Mu Xi would deny it, but he suddenly lowered his head and touched her mouth lightly. His face was a little tired, but his eyes were gentle and caring.
"miss you."
Zhao Yeqing felt soft, stretched out his hand to prevent the medicinal oil on his hand from touching his clothes, and moved closer to him across his neck.
"I miss you too...Fortunately you're okay."
Mu Xi knew that she must be worried this time. He buried half of his face in her shoulder and said in a muffled voice, "I'm sorry for asking you to come out to find me."
"I'm sorry. I'm just staying at home. You are in danger outside. It's not easy for me to just walk here in the past two days, not to mention you have to clear the wasteland and clear the road..."
Before Zhao Yeqing could finish speaking, Mu Xi let go of her, "You only left for two days and got here?"
Although he had cleaned up the road, this was a virgin forest after all, and it would take him two days to reach this point, and this was because he was relatively familiar with the road.
Mu Xi asked Zhao Yeqing to sit down, "Don't move."
He reached out and took off her shoes and socks, only to see big blisters on her fair feet, some of which had already been worn out.
He hurriedly took out alcohol and ointment from the medicine box and applied it on her.
Zhao Yeqing still stretched out his hand, with the medicated oil still on his palm, and said helplessly, "I'm not in a hurry, just let me apply it to you first. If you don't apply the medicated oil, it will almost be absorbed by my skin."
Mu Xi's face was dark, but he carefully applied the medicine to her, then turned his back and exposed his lower back to her without saying a word.
Zhao Yeqing knew that he was angry with himself, so he rubbed the medicinal oil and comforted him softly, "Oh, I don't feel any pain at all. I'll be fine after two days..."
After applying the medicine, she went to the river to wash her hands and came back. Seeing that Mu Xi still had a dark face, she went over and hugged his neck, "I'm hungry."
Mu Xi sighed softly and took out a folding pot and knife from his backpack, "Would you like wild boar boiled or fried?"
"Fried."
The backpack carries seasonings, besides salt and pepper, and a small jar of butter.
The butter was semi-solidified in this weather, so I poured a spoonful into the pot and melted it. Then I added the thinly sliced wild boar meat and fried it. There were wild onions he picked beside the pot. The aroma of onions was mixed with the aroma of meat. It made the two dogs wag their tails.
Zhao Yeqing looked at the small bag of wild boar meat and asked, "Is that all?"
Mu Xi said, "The rest was given to paste and snow cakes. Unfortunately, the bones were too heavy and I couldn't take them with me."
After he said that, he remembered something again, and couldn't help but smile a little, "Look at that wild boar skin."
During the two days he was recuperating, he peeled off the wild boar skin and placed it on a stone where it could be exposed to the sun to dry. Now when he takes it out, it doesn't smell much.
Zhao Yeqing spread out the wild boar skin and found round bullet holes on it. He suddenly thought of Mu Xi saying that he had no time to shoot and that the wild boar was bitten to death by the sticky snow cake. Just as he was wondering, he suddenly realized something.
Her eyes widened, "Is this true?"
Mu Xi smiled and nodded, "That's it."
Zhao Yeqing found it unbelievable. This was the wild boar that ran into their fence when they were in Meishan. They shot him twice and ran away before encountering a bear!
"It's actually still alive." She thought it must have died after being shot and encountering a bear, but considering the wild boar's powerful defense and self-healing abilities, it wasn't surprising.
Zhao Yeqing put the wild boar skin back into the bag with great emotion and said,
"Doesn't that mean that this place is not far from Meishan?"
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