Chapter 273 Children vs. Squirrels
Li Lao Er and Li Lao San then realized why Qin Sui Sui had suddenly said she wanted to eat honey—it was to distract Tie Dan'er!
Tie Dan'er then belatedly realized that the sound he had just heard was the sound of his ankle being reset. With a mouthful of honey in his mouth, he raised his little foot in surprise, exclaiming in a muffled voice, "It really doesn't hurt! Sister Qin... so amazing!"
"Don't move!" Qin Suisui gently pulled his little foot down again.
"We just reset the dislocated joint, but there's still a fracture below your shinbone that hasn't been treated!"
Qin Suisui was right. Tie Dan'er's right leg was dislocated at the ankle, and his shinbone was also fractured. Judging from the injuries, he must have fallen from a height and hit a rock with his right leg. Fortunately, it was only his right leg. If it had been a little more twisted and he had fallen all over, the consequences would have been unimaginable.
Hearing Qin Suisui's words, Li Lao Er and Li Lao San were filled with lingering fear, and then they scolded him: "You brat, doesn't your family tell you every day not to run up the mountain, not to run up the mountain? Why don't you listen? You still run so high, if you fall and die, no one will even find out!"
Tie Dan'er was also quite frightened, but he felt wronged by what his second and third uncles said. He pouted and said with a bit of grievance, "Grandpa taught me since I was a child that I should be a grateful person. Sister Qin saved me and prevented me from getting rabies. I want to thank her, but we don't have any money, so we organized everyone to go up the mountain to dig up herbs and pick wild fruits for her."
He looked at Qin Suisui, his eyes sparkling: "Sister, you'll definitely like herbs and wild fruits, right?"
Qin Suisui, seeing the sincerity in his eyes, couldn't bring herself to say something insincere: "Yes! I like it very much!"
"See! I knew it! That's why I organized everyone to go up the mountain to give Sister Qin a thank-you gift! Who knew that after we finally found a few ironwood bushes, a bunch of squirrels would suddenly appear and try to take them from us! Of course, we couldn't let them have them! We found them first, so we fought with them!"
As Tie Dan'er spoke, he tilted his little head back, looking very proud.
The five adults present were puzzled: "You...fought with the squirrel?"
Tie Dan'er nodded: "Yeah! They fought! But we won!"
He even looked proud.
Li Lao Er tapped his little head with his hand and said speechlessly, "Tell me in detail, what exactly happened?"
Tie Dan'er covered his head, glared at his second uncle, and then spoke: "That auspicious spot has five clumps of tin husks, it's a perfect place! It's neither a cliff nor a steep slope, so we definitely can't give it up! We grabbed our baskets and rushed over, and then a group of squirrels rushed out from the other side. They wanted to eat the tin husks, but we certainly couldn't let them, so we went up to stop them. They tried to bite us, and then we started fighting!"
"In the end, we managed to grab three clumps of mushrooms from the tin can, while the squirrels only managed to grab two. They were furious and tried to steal the mushrooms from our basket. Then, when I was running away, I didn't see the road clearly and slipped and tumbled down the hillside! When I woke up, I saw you all!"
Well, this little guy described it quite vividly. Qin Suisui could almost picture the scene of the children battling the squirrels, and she couldn't help but laugh out loud.
Jia Zhenzhen laughed wildly, feeling a little regretful that she hadn't encountered such a scene before! She also wanted to fight with the squirrel!
"What about your friends?" Li Lao Er thought further ahead. The children were brought up by his son Tie Dan'er. If something happened to the other children, his family, as the instigator and the brigade leader's family, would also be implicated.
Tie Dan'er shook his head: "I let them run first, and I stayed behind to cover their retreat. They're probably still looking for me there!" He was very confident that his underlings were loyal and would never abandon him to go home alone.
While he was recounting his battle with the squirrel, Qin Suisui quickly helped him bandage his wound. It was almost 3 p.m., and they had to hurry to find the children. It gets dark early in autumn and winter, and it could be dangerous on the mountain after dark.
But Tie Dan'er didn't know how to get from here to the place where they found the tin bucket.
The group of people immediately turned to look at the clouded leopard, who had been comfortably dozing off since drinking the water Qin Suisui had given him.
Cloud Leopard opened his half-closed eyes, not looking at anyone else, but only at Qin Suisui.
Qin Suisui reached out and patted its head: "Little Cloud, can you take us to the place where we found Tiedan'er?" Qin Suisui thought that the clouded leopard probably found Tiedan'er, who had fallen unconscious, while wandering in the mountains. Tiedan'er had the same scent as them, so the leopard rescued the child and brought him to them.
So now, the clouded leopard can definitely lead them to that place.
As expected, after hearing Qin Suisui's words, Yunbao raised its head and let out a "roar," then gracefully stood up and led the way. Qin Suisui and the others followed behind. Tiedan'er was unable to move due to his leg injury, so Li Laosan used a strip of cloth as a sling to carry him securely on his back.
Jia Zhenzhen whispered beside Qin Suisui, "Suisui, when did it get called Xiaoyun?"
Qin Suisui turned her head and whispered to her, "I can't just call it 'Cloud Leopard' directly, can I? It just doesn't feel very polite!"
Jia Zhenzhen thought about it and agreed; calling her "Xiaoyun" did seem much more endearing!
With this new discovery, she followed the clouded leopard the whole way, calling "Little Cloud, Little Cloud" and taking the opportunity to touch its smooth, shiny fur. This made Tie Dan'er, who couldn't move on Li Laosan's back, extremely envious. Every time Jia Zhenzhen touched it, he would squeak and bark behind her until the clouded leopard got impatient and turned around to let out a loud "Awoo!" at her. Only then did Jia Zhenzhen and Tie Dan'er stop.
Led by Yunbao, the group walked for about an hour and finally found the "feng shui treasure land" that Tiedan had mentioned. The place was semi-shaded and semi-humid, with good ventilation and drainage, which was indeed a suitable place for Dendrobium officinale to grow.
Qin Suisui had just learned from Li Lao Er and Li Lao San on her way here that the "iron-skin bucket" that Tie Dan'er mentioned was actually Dendrobium officinale.
Sure enough, before we even got close, we could hear a group of children chattering, and we could also faintly hear a few cries:
"Waaaaah... Did the big tiger carry Tie Dan away? What should we do? We can beat the little squirrel, but we can't beat the big tiger!"
"Gouwa, don't talk nonsense! Tiedan wouldn't have been carried away by a big tiger! Let's search carefully again. He might have just fallen unconscious and is probably somewhere crying and waiting for us to rescue him..."
Tie Dan'er, carried on Li Laosan's back, was very proud and moved to see that his friends were really waiting for him there. However, he was also a little angry when he heard what his friends said. What did they mean by telling him to cry and wait for them to rescue him? Although he was small, Tie Dan'er was still a little man who would shed blood and sweat but not tears!
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