Chapter 283 He is
Seeing the worry in her daughter's eyes, Li Mingshu shook her head and reassured her, "Uncle Lin will be fine, go on, Yue'er."
After sending Yue'er away, Li Mingshu directly began to rip off Lin Changning's clothes. When she saw the blood-stained bodice on Lin Changning's chest, she pursed her lips.
However, the most urgent task was to save lives. Li Mingshu pulled open Lin Changning's clothes and looked at the penetrating wound on Lin Changning's shoulder. It was no longer bleeding, but there was still some risk in pulling out the arrow.
Li Mingshu took the herbs, stuffed them into her mouth, chewed them into a large chunk of paste, tore the hem of her dress into a long strip, and smeared the paste on it.
He tentatively tried to pull the arrow out of Lin Changning's shoulder with his hand, but with just a gentle pull, he heard Lin Changning let out a muffled groan.
Lin Changning was instantly awakened by the pain. The moment he opened his eyes and saw his disheveled state, a murderous glint appeared in his eyes as he stared intently at Li Mingshu in front of him.
Li Mingshu was startled by Lin Changning. Seeing Lin Changning's suddenly clear-headed and murderous gaze, she shrank back and explained, "I need to help you remove the arrow."
Lin Changning's gaze softened somewhat. He looked at Li Mingshu with a probing expression, then glanced around at the person who was propping themselves up to sit up, seemingly preparing to get up.
Li Mingshu tugged at Lin Changning's clothes: "Don't get up, your wound will bleed."
Lin Changning paused for a moment, then sat down and remained silent. Li Mingshu seemed to understand what Lin Changning was thinking and said softly, "I won't tell anyone, Commander, please rest assured."
Lin Changning tilted his head and glanced at Li Mingshu, blinked twice, and suppressed the murderous intent in his heart.
Li Mingshu tentatively tried to pull out the arrow from Lin Changning's shoulder, but it seemed she was too weak. After several attempts, she only managed to pull it out a little bit, and Lin Changning turned pale with pain.
He gritted his teeth and grabbed Li Mingshu's hand, pulling the arrow out with all his might.
The arrow had barely left his body when blood gushed out of Lin Changning's shoulder. Li Mingshu tossed the arrow aside and quickly applied mud to the wound.
In no time, the cloth strips and medicinal mud were soaked with blood. Li Mingshu broke out in a cold sweat, pressing her wound tightly. The gaps between her hands were filled with blood gushing from Lin Changning, sliding down her wrists and arms.
Li Mingshu seemed a little anxious. After covering the wound with one hand, she tore off a piece of her own clothing, chewed up the herbs beside her, and quickly put it on Lin Changning. She did this four or five times.
Lin Changning's face had completely lost its color, but thankfully the bleeding had stopped.
Li Mingshu tore a large strip of cloth from her own clothes to bandage Lin Changning's wound before finally letting out a sigh of relief.
Just as he was about to say something to Lin Changning, he realized that the person had fainted again.
Li Mingshu felt a mix of emotions. After helping Lin Changning put on his clothes, she sighed.
To my utter surprise, this commander was actually a woman.
Furthermore, because the mother and daughter had suffered such severe injuries, Lin Changning clearly saw the murderous intent that flashed in her eyes after waking up. Presumably, her father did not know that this commander was actually a woman.
After laying Lin Changning down, Li Mingshu quietly stayed by his side, waiting for him to wake up.
Whether she was male or female, she was indeed their savior, so she would keep this secret to herself. Moreover, they would still need to rely on Commander Lin on their journey ahead, so Commander Lin must not be harmed in any way.
Li Mingshu hugged her knees to clear her mind, glanced at Lin Changning, and sighed.
"Mother! I'm back."
Holding half a wild gourd in her hands, with half a pot of water inside, Yue'er presented the gourd like a treasure: "Mother, I caught a few small fish and some clean water."
Li Mingshu rubbed her daughter's head: "Yue'er is really amazing."
After I finished speaking, my daughter took three or four small fish, each about an inch long, from my hands, looking somewhat worried. They didn't have a tinderbox, so even if they caught fish, they couldn't eat them. This all-night escape had already exhausted them both.
With Lin Changning seriously injured, Li Mingshu was at a loss for what to do.
After drinking two mouthfuls of water from the gourd, Li Mingshu gave her daughter a few more mouthfuls, and then poured two mouthfuls of water from the gourd into Lin Changning's mouth.
I hope Lin Changning can wake up soon.
The temperature at the bottom of the cliff dropped sharply at night. Although the clothes had been warmed and dried during the day, the temperature at night was still unbearable. Li Mingshu hugged her daughter tightly, and the two of them huddled together to resist the cold below the cliff.
Li Mingshu, who was sleeping with her daughter in her arms in the middle of the night, slowly opened her eyes to check on Lin Changning's condition, but found that Lin Changning's face was flushed, and she woke up instantly with a start.
He reached out and touched Lin Changning's forehead, and found that she was indeed feverish. He was a little anxious, so he leaned his daughter against the rock and took the strips of cloth that he had washed during the day to the stream to wash them clean. After wetting them, he sat down next to Lin Changning and kept wiping her cheeks with water.
Startled awake, Yue'er saw her mother sitting next to Uncle Lin, constantly wiping his cheeks and arms. With her big, dark eyes wide open, she rolled over and got up.
After picking up the strips of cloth from the ground, she imitated her mother by wetting them and wiping Lin Changning's body with water.
While wiping, she asked, "Mother, when will Uncle Lin get better?"
Li Mingshu shook her head with a bitter smile on her face: "Mother doesn't know either, but Uncle Lin has a fever now, and there's no medicine here, so we can only try to bring Uncle Lin's fever down first."
Yue'er nodded: "Then Yue'er will help too."
As she spoke, she imitated her mother and used a strip of cloth to wipe Lin Changning's burning hands and arms.
Lin Changning burned all night, and the two of them were busy all night as dawn broke. Finally, Yue'er couldn't resist the sleepiness and slowly fell asleep next to her mother.
Li Mingshu used strips of cloth to lower Lin Changning's fever throughout the night, and when she checked Lin Changning's forehead at dawn, the fever had finally subsided.
Her complexion had returned to a light pink, but her lips were still somewhat pale.
Li Mingshu breathed a sigh of relief, feeling utterly exhausted. The tension of the past few days had finally reached its breaking point. As soon as she let out a sigh, an overwhelming wave of fatigue engulfed her, and she unconsciously collapsed, leaning against her daughter, and fell into a deep sleep.
When Lin Changning woke up, it was already noon. After she endured the pain and got up, she was stunned to see the two sleeping, one big and one small, next to her.
The princess already knew her secret. Lin Changning touched the knife at her waist and hesitated for a moment.
Upon seeing the scattered strips of cloth beside the two, Lin Changning instantly understood what had happened last night.
He slowly loosened his grip on the sword, sighed, stood up, and walked out of the cave.
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