The sound dissipated in the strong wind.
Suddenly, a man and a horse returned.
Li Ruo smiled and extended her hand to him, "Come on up!"
Liao Fusheng's eyes lit up slightly, "That..."
Before I could finish dawdling, I was pulled onto the horse.
Liao Fusheng: ...Innate superhuman strength, young lady is indeed—
"Stop wriggling around." Li Ruo placed him in front of her, wrapped her arms around his arms, held the reins, and circled him in front of her.
She hadn't expected him to be so big; her arms weren't long enough. "Can you ride a horse?"
"I..." Liao Fusheng's voice sounded a little awkward.
Li Ruo was wondering if she should switch places with him. Just as she was in front of him, Xie Xiao returned and glared at her, saying, "Come here with me."
Liao Fusheng: "Huh?"
To his astonishment, Xie Xiao pulled him over, but the head of the Xie gang clearly didn't know how to be gentle with women, and threw him sideways onto the horse's back, saying, "Just lie there like that."
"Ugh...ugh." Liao Fusheng vomited up his dinner from the night before.
Li Ruo felt like vomiting just looking at it, but she was happy to be relaxed. With a "giddy-up," she ran ahead of Xie Xiao.
Not to be outdone, Xie Xiao roared and caught up with him.
Of all the sounds in the world, Master Liao's "Ugh, ugh, ugh..." was the loudest.
There was also thunder, booming and rumbling, which mingled with lightning, creating a scene of revelry in the apocalypse.
"The water's getting deeper, everyone hurry up!" Sun Ergou shouted from the front. "Sister, sister, hurry up too. It's a pity we didn't manage to steal that horse, so we couldn't give it to you."
Li Ruo almost kicked him, saying, "Don't be reckless in the future."
Sun Ergou grinned. Little did she know, he had been an orphan since childhood.
"Fool, run!" Li Ruo laughed.
She can ride a horse, which is something no one would believe; she learned it in a dream.
Several years ago, she dreamed of a general who taught her to ride horses and shoot arrows.
"Ruo'er, hold the reins like this, lean your body slightly forward..." "Ruo'er, stand with your legs straight and your shoulders level, so you can draw the bow with force..." Strangely, she couldn't see the person's face clearly.
"Giddy up!"
The legs clamped around the horse's belly seemed tireless, leaving a sharp silhouette in streaks of pale lightning.
Many people were fleeing along the way, returning to their villages from the city.
Heaven and earth are ruthless, treating all things like straw dogs. Even sages are like this, so she, a mere mortal, can't help them. They can only rely on themselves to survive.
As she passed a mother and child stuck in the mud, she slowed down slightly, pulled them out, and said, "Quickly make a raft, stock up on some food, and head to the mountains. Maybe we can still make it in time!"
Leaving behind those words, she and Xie Xiao and the others continued their frantic run.
Halfway there, they ran into Little Li and his two brothers.
"Miss Li, something terrible has happened! Your sister-in-law is about to give birth; her water broke just now."
"What?" Why are they all happening at once? Isn't my sister-in-law's due date still a month away?
But it's not surprising; if floods can come early, why can't children?
"Giddy up!" This time it was a desperate dash, snatching life from the jaws of death.
"Xie Xiao, hurry up too. The one on your horse knows a bit about medicine. Also, when you get back, please invite the midwife from your village over."
Xie Xiao's face tightened. "Fine!"
Liao Fusheng: ...You can do whatever you want, I'm about to die.
Everyone rode their horses back up the mountain. By the time they got back, the horses were half dead from exhaustion. Li Ruo picked up Liao Fusheng, who was still barely alive, and said, "Hey, wake up."
After vomiting violently, Liao Fusheng was dragged into the house.
Lianlizhi was screaming in agony, "I...I don't know how to give birth."
But seeing Li Ruo and her cousin, she finally felt a little relieved.
Li Ruo: I've never given birth and I don't know how to give birth. "Liao Fusheng is counting on you."
Liao Fusheng was leaning against the wall. "But I don't know how either. Oh, I've delivered babies for horses before."
"It should be about the same."
"Hot water's here, hot water's here!" Old Mrs. Li came in carrying a steaming basin. "You're back. Go to the side for a moment."
Li Yi, the young man who tended the fire, ran in covered in soot, "Waaah, sister, you're finally back! My sister-in-law is dying."
"Pah, pah, children say the darndest things. That's how it is when you give birth, Azhi will definitely be fine," said Old Lady Li, rolling up her sleeves to check on the situation.
In crucial moments, it was still that old woman who had to step in.
“Yes, sister-in-law, you can do it.” Li Ruo grasped her sister-in-law’s hand; that’s how it always goes on TV.
Master Liao finally stopped vomiting. "Give me your hand."
Li Ruo extended her hand.
“That’s my cousin’s hand.”
"Oh, oh." Li Ruo was stunned and quickly offered her seat.
Liao Fusheng took Lian Lizhi's pulse and said, "She is a little weak, probably because she has been working too hard lately."
“After you left, my sister-in-law went to collect firewood and those dead birds. She insisted on going even though we told her not to, and she didn’t even rest,” Li Yi said.
"It's my fault for not watching her properly," said Grandma Li, looking guilty.
Li Ruo: "Sister-in-law, what do you think?"
"It hurts so much, it hurts in waves, ahhh, it's happening again." Lian Lizhi gripped the blanket tightly with her other hand, her lips bleeding from being bitten.
Li Ruo felt pain just looking at it. Could this be the legendary contractions? Oh right, she had a system! She quickly connected with the system in her mind and searched on Baidu.
Counting the intervals of my sister-in-law's contractions, they became more and more frequent and more and more painful; she must be about to give birth.
She glanced at her and said, "You've opened quite a few, isn't that enough, sister-in-law?"
Liao Fusheng imagined what it would be like for a horse to give birth, "How big, how large?"
“It’s this big.” Li Ruo gestured with her fingers.
"Oh, conserve your energy, and wait a little longer."
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