Chapter 5: Overnight in the Cave 1

Sha Da Wang from Honeycomb Village is 35 years old this year. Not only is he stupid, he also beats people. It is said that Sha Da Wang's family was very poor. When he was born, Sha Da Wang's grandfather wanted to give him a name that would bring wealth and change the family's poor days, so he named him Da Wang. Maybe he was too hot, and the high fever burned his brain, and he ended up becoming a fool. His first wife was from far away and her family was very poor. In order to raise money for the dowry for their son, they took the money and sent their daughter over. Her parents' family didn't care, and the woman was tortured and had no one to complain to. Just look at this: once he was beaten severely, so he went to complain to the team leader. He filed the complaint during the day, and was beaten to death at night.

Sha Da Wang's family said that it was the fool who asked her to go to bed, but she refused, so she was accidentally beaten to death by the fool. In fact, it was the daughter-in-law who went to complain. The disobedient daughter-in-law was beaten to death.

That woman just died and it didn't cause any ripples in the village. Some people even said that if a woman doesn't sleep with the man after she gets married, she should be beaten to death and left for others to sleep with. Such a woman deserves to die! This is the ignorance of the mountain people.

The second wife was tricked back from outside by the fool’s mother. No one knew how she was tricked back, but all they knew was that after she was tricked back, she was locked in the room and not allowed to go out. She ate, drank, defecated and urinated in that room.

I heard that the second wife who was beaten to death was pregnant and died of miscarriage after being beaten by the idiot. It is said that the scene was extremely tragic and the room was full of blood. To such a fool, Yang Huaihua actually wanted to sell the original owner Xiaocao'er, who was only in her teens. Isn't this sending the original owner Xiaocao to death? Is this what your mother did?

Yi Ke couldn't help but doubt whether the original owner was Yang Huaihua's daughter, otherwise how could she be so cruel? Thoughts flashed through my mind. At this moment, Yi Ke had no time to investigate further. She was often in the thorn bushes, and she was so scared that she breathed softly, fearing that if she breathed heavily, Yang Huaihua would hear it.

Yang Huaihua passed by the thorn bush, and slapped the grass on both sides with the broom handle, as if those grasses were the original grass. Fortunately, she did not slap the thorn bush. Perhaps she thought that no one could be hidden in this thorny bush. With so many thorns, who would dare to drill into it? That’s why Yi Ke escaped the disaster.

In fact, Yike was thinking about where he could hide while running. It has to be hidden in a place where Yang Huaihua can't expect it. When you see a thorn bush, you know where to hide. This kind of thorn bush has many thorns on the top, but the thick stems below have fewer thorns. The thicker and older the bush is, the more likely the thorns will fall off. Yike often collected firewood in the mountains and was very familiar with these things, so she pushed aside the thorn bushes and crawled under them. It was better to be pricked a little than to be caught and killed.

Yang Huaihua chased for a long time without success and must have thought that the original owner, Xiaocao'er, had hidden herself. The easiest places to hide are those with dense grass, so she used the broom handle to beat the grass, thinking that Xiaocao was hiding in the grass and would be knocked out with one hit. However, she didn't expect that a little girl would dare to hide in a thorny bush. There are thorns on it. No normal person would dare to go in there.

If it were the original owner, a thirteen-year-old girl, she probably wouldn't dare to go in and wouldn't think so much. It would only be a matter of time before she was found by Yang Huaihua. Fortunately, Yi Ke traveled through time, otherwise the original owner's life would be too miserable.

"What the hell, where did this damn girl hide? She thought she would be fine if she just hid. If she can, she shouldn't come back."

The sound of Yang Huaihua's cursing became farther and farther away. After waiting for a while, he could no longer hear Yang Huaihua's voice, and then Yike slowly emerged from the thorn bush. Her hands, face, and body were all burning with pain. She was hit, bumped, and stabbed, and it was a horrible sight.

Yike restored the thorn bush to its original state. Although he grimaced in pain, he still moved his feet with difficulty and walked into the mountain. When they reached a valley, Yi Ke simply treated the wounds on his body. He ignored the minor ones and picked a few leaves, chewed them up and applied them on the wounds that were bleeding. Although these leaves had no hemostatic effect, they could stop the bleeding.

"This Yang Huaihua is really a scoundrel. He can kill his own daughter."

"Xiao Cao'er, Xiao Cao'er! How did you end up with such a mother? If I hadn't taken over your body, you would have died long ago. Oh! That's not right! You were already dead. Haha, I'm confused, I'm a nobody now!"

In his previous life, Yi Ke had learned martial arts from a master, so he was quite good at boxing and kicking. Therefore, Yang Huaihua tried his best to avoid hitting vital parts when beating Yi Ke. The bloody wounds looked scary, but none of the vital parts were injured. It would not be fatal for the time being, but it was really painful. And if you don’t take anti-inflammatory medicine, it will be a different story if inflammation occurs.

Yike walked into the mountains while observing the surrounding situation, especially some medicinal herbs. Once she saw them, she would never let them go. The further you go into the mountains and forests, the richer the resources are. Look at what Xiaocao has picked:

Panax notoginseng, the root can be ground into powder, which has the effects of stopping bleeding, dispersing blood stasis, reducing swelling and relieving pain. This is exactly what Xiaocaoer needs right now. It is really a timely help. Thank you mountain god! Pick!

Yuanhu, promotes blood circulation and relieves pain, pick it!

The leaves of the octagonal lotus look like a lotus. There are many snakes, insects, rats and ants in the deep mountains, and the octagonal lotus is their nemesis. Pick!

Houttuynia cordata, clears away heat and detoxifies, is an essential medicine for snake bites. Pick!

Wild vegetables are often used to treat colds and fevers, and are exactly what we need right now. Thinking about all the injuries on my body, I might have a fever at night. Wild vegetables are good stuff! In previous lives, wild vegetables were also called Bupleurum. Pick!

Houttuynia cordata, a plant with purple-red leaves growing in a low-lying area, who else could it be but Houttuynia cordata. It is very effective in clearing away heat and detoxifying, and relieving lung heat and cough. Houttuynia cordata can also be used as a dish. Its rhizomes can be eaten cold, fried with eggs, stir-fried with shredded pork, cooked in porridge, etc. The leaves can also be eaten cold or brewed into tea. Every part of your body is a treasure. Good stuff, good stuff, pick it!

Purslane is a medicinal and edible vegetable with many uses. If you can’t use it all, you can dry it for later use. Pick!

Mint, exogenous wind-heat, anti-inflammatory and analgesic. Pick.

Motherwort, mugwort, wild ginger…

"Oh, Yanghuahua, you would never have thought in your dreams that Xiaocao is so brave that he dares to go into the mountains alone. Haha, maybe he is still waiting at home for Xiaocao to come back so that he can sell it to Shada Wang." Yike thought while picking herbs.

"I took the money from Sha Da Wang, but now there's no one to deliver it. I'll just wait for Sha Da Wang's family to come and smash our house." Yi Ke thought maliciously, "Yang Huaihua, since you are Xiao Cao'er's mother, I won't bother with you. Otherwise, when I recover, I will avenge this beating."

As soon as you can see, the problem of medicine has been solved, and the problem of eating has also been solved. I feel better and the injuries on my body don’t seem to hurt as much.

"The supplies in the deep mountains are so abundant!" Yi Ke exclaimed.

As we went deeper into the mountains, the bushes and weeds became less and less numerous, but the trees became more and more numerous and larger. The lush treetops blocked the blue sky and white clouds, and the dense branches and leaves reminded the grass: Don't go any deeper. She stopped and took a short rest. She stopped picking herbs and instead hurried in one direction. The most important thing for her now is to find a suitable place to spend the night. The forest is most dangerous at night and is not suitable for night travel. Moreover, with her injured body, she couldn't sleep outdoors at night. Not to mention whether there were large animals, the humidity in the open air would be fatal to her broken body.

The original owner, Xiao Cao'er, once got lost while picking mushrooms and fell into a cave. The direction we are heading now is the direction of the cave. The cave is not far away and we will definitely get there before dark.

When we arrived at the cave, the sun was no longer visible above our heads and the light in the woods had dimmed. We must have guessed that the sun had slipped to the edge of the woods. She quickly used the stick in her hand to knock on the entrance of the cave and the surrounding grass. The most difficult things to guard against in the cave were snakes, insects, rats and ants. Yi Ke knocked on the grass to scare the snake away while observing the surrounding environment.

There are short bushes growing at the entrance of the cave, which completely covers it. If I hadn't gotten lost last time and accidentally fallen down, I would never have discovered that there was a cave here.

One way is to push the bushes at the entrance of the cave to the sides to reveal the entrance. The entrance to the cave is a small circle, only about one and a half person tall. If you want to go in, you can only bend down and crawl in.

You can't just enter a cave in the wild, because you're afraid of wild animals and snakes, insects, rats and ants. So you pick up a few stones and throw them into the cave. I sprinkled some mud and sand into the hole, so that if there were any snakes, rats or the like, they would be scared out. It was a pity that there was no fire, otherwise smoke would have been more effective.

After waiting for a while and seeing no movement, Yike looked into the cave. The light was dim and he couldn't see clearly inside, but he didn't feel any wind, which meant that the cave had no ventilation on all sides. It shouldn't be cold if he lit a fire at night.

While the sun was still dimly setting in the cave, Yike quickly made a broom out of weeds and went into the cave to clean it up.