Chapter 15 Chapter 15 Gu Yanzhou, let’s fight our way out together…
"You..." Song Siyun stared at his blurry back, hesitated for a while, and then said in a muffled voice: "Just now... Thank you."
Hearing this, Gu Yanzhou, who was fully on guard against the wolves, quickly turned his head to look at her. Seeing her gaze on his back, he paused and explained in a low voice: "This was injured during the fight in the forest. It has nothing to do with you."
The implication was that she should not be so self-indulgent.
The touch in his heart died instantly, and he remained motionless. Song Siyun rolled his eyes and didn't want to say a word.
The two of them were silent. After a while, they suddenly heard a crisp "crackling" sound. The sound was particularly loud in the silence at the bottom of the cliff, as if bones were cracking in their ears, which made their teeth ache.
Before Song Siyun could react, he felt the familiar feeling of weightlessness.
The next moment, it seemed as if something picked him up again, and when he landed on the ground, it was not as painful as he had imagined.
He opened his eyes hesitantly, and what he saw was a sea of darkness. His already dead chest began to beat violently again. Song Siyun blamed it on the wolves surrounding him.
Ever since the two men fell, the surrounding wolves became restless and slowly walked out.
Knowing that the person under her was afraid of the dark, she quickly stood up, straightened her clothes, picked up the bow handle that had long been broken into two pieces, and protected the person behind her. She hunched her body slightly and stared around vigilantly, saying: "Gu Yanzhou, if you can get out alive today, you should call me a benefactor in the future."
"Oh--"
A cold laugh came from behind her. Before she could turn around, she was pulled behind her. Then the broken bow was taken away from her hand and a warm, slender object was stuffed into her hand. Looking down carefully, she found it was a jade hairpin.
Gu Yanzhou stood in front of her, raised his hand to wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth, and sneered: "It sounds better when you call me benefactor, Miss Song Er."
"You!" Song Siyun was about to curse, but suddenly saw his hand trembling slightly while holding the broken bow. He paused and changed the subject: "Are you afraid?"
The person in front of me didn't answer.
It was dark at the bottom of the cliff, with no sky visible. In the vast darkness, she stared at him for a long, long time.
After a while, she sighed heavily, stepped forward and covered his eyes, holding his trembling hand with her other hand, and whispered softly, "Don't be afraid if you don't look. At this moment, I am your eyes."
"Gu Yanzhou, let's fight our way out together. Fight our way out to see the vast mountains and rivers of Dayuan, and the four seasons of spring."
The bottom of my hand feels like it's being scratched by a feather. It's a little itchy.
She suddenly realized that this action was inappropriate, and when she was about to retract it, she was pulled back by a pair of rough, calloused hands, and the person in front of her finally spoke.
He said, "Okay."
Hearing this, Song Siyun's eyebrows raised, and an inexplicable joy surged in her heart. She whispered and pointed the way: "Left three steps forward."
"There's a wolf four steps to the right!"
"Straight ahead."
"Diagonally behind."
"Be careful, there's another one behind you..."
The two men cooperated tacitly. One reported the direction, and the other threw out the broken bow in response, holding the other half of the bow in his hand. With one throw and one throw, the wild wolf was silent.
Song Siyun clapped his hands in applause.
She didn't know when it slipped out of her hand. When she came to her senses, Gu Yanzhou was already aiming at his next prey with the broken bow. She suddenly realized that he didn't seem to need her to point the way.
In other words, after four years in the northern border, he had already learned to identify locations by sound.
When she realized that staying here might be a burden, she fell silent and wanted to stay away so as not to get in his way.
But before he could take a step back, he was pulled back by a brute force.
The man was extremely strong. He clamped her down and asked coldly, "Where are you going?"
The tone was not good, and could even be said to be aggressive. After waiting for a long while without a reply, he ignored the wild wolf behind him, took her hand, fumbled and put it to his eyes, and said in a gentle voice: "Ayun, I need you."
"I'm not afraid while you're here."
Almost as soon as he uttered the last word, the wolf bit his left calf. Intense pain echoed with the girl's screams, and the hand he clamped struggled to escape.
The subordinate exerted a little more strength, imprisoned her by his side, and called her with a chuckle: "Ah Yun, help me."
"You're crazy!" Song Siyun tried to shake him off, but instead of getting free, her wrist was pulled so hard it hurt. She lost all her strength in anger and just stared at him intently.
When she realized that he really didn't take the wolf on his leg seriously, she couldn't bear the condemnation of her conscience and stuck a hairpin into the wolf's neck.
The beast's hot and bloody red blood poured over the two men. One of them curled his lips in satisfaction, while the other stood there in a daze, unable to come back to his senses for a long time.
She had never killed anything at such a close distance before. By the time she came to her senses, she was so choked that she covered her chest and vomited continuously.
Hearing her movements, Gu Yanzhou was silent for a moment, and then he did not stop. He swung the broken bow in his hand frequently, and muffled sounds came from all around.
Perhaps they realized that the two were not easy to mess with, and after a howl, the wolves gradually dispersed.
Gu Yanzhou didn't put away the broken bow until he could no longer hear any sound. He walked towards Song Siyun with confidence, "Are you okay?"
She hadn't eaten much today, and she vomited for a long time, but nothing came out except tears. Now she was sitting on the ground with her hands on her chest, exhausted.
Seeing him coming over, she rolled her eyes in annoyance and said to him: "Why don't you try vomiting?"
"You still have the energy to curse, so I guess you're fine." Gu Yanzhou smiled and squeezed her to sit on the ground.
After a short nap, he suddenly thought of something and turned to her and asked, "When did you know I was afraid of the dark?"
Song Siyun turned his head to look at him.
It's strange to say, it was pitch black at night, but after staying there for a while, I could vaguely see the expressions.
"Then when did you start to be afraid of the dark?" She stared at him without blinking and asked softly.
As expected, silence.
Song Siyun was not annoyed, but just said to himself: "It's because of that time."
She tilted her head to look at him and spoke quietly, "That time you angered the dandies in the capital, and they tied you up and threw you into a trap set up by hunters in the suburbs for wild animals. You stayed there overnight. The next day, my sister was passing by to worship Buddha and heard her cry out, and that's when you were rescued."
"Since then, you can't stand the dark." Song Siyun smiled and repeated with certainty.
After a while, he chuckled again and murmured, "No wonder..."
At that time, sister must have been like a savior to him, right?
She didn't dare to ask this question.
After all, in the following years, he proved with his actions that his sister was his savior.
But she really couldn't understand why, if he cared so much about her, he would let her enter the palace!
At that time, he was at the peak of his favor. If he could offset the favor with Uncle Gu's, he might have a chance!
But he...
But did nothing.
Thinking of this, she suddenly felt annoyed and stood up, kicking her skirt.
As soon as I stood up, I saw the people next to me also stand up and follow closely.
Song Siyun was helpless: "Aren't you afraid?"
The man remained silent and only asked, "Where are you going?"
For a moment, she was really stumped by the question.
In fact, she didn't know where to go, but she was angry and didn't want to see him.
But now, seeing his pitiful, dirty appearance, she softened her heart and explained, "It's cold at the bottom of the cliff, so it's good to drive away the cold."
"Yeah." Gu Yanzhou nodded in agreement: "Beasts are afraid of fire. If it really comes to life, we will be much safer tonight."
Song Siyun rolled his eyes at him, muttering to himself, "Everyone knows how to make sarcastic remarks. But you're telling me how to give birth."
Fortunately, she had read many storybooks and knew the cheap way to make fire by rubbing two pieces of wood together. It only required two pieces of wood.
I excitedly found two pieces of wood, but before I had even started drilling for a while, my hands were sore that I wanted to give up immediately.
After looking around, she saw Gu Yanzhou coming back with a bunch of thin sticks and dead leaves. She waved her hand and said, "Husband, come quickly, I have something to tell you."
After the man squatted over properly, Song Siyun suddenly stood up, pressed his hand hard on the wood, and said righteously: "I thought about it, you have been in the northern border for many years, you must be more skilled than me in making fire. Tonight, it all depends on my husband."
After saying that, she winked at him and happily ran to the side to slack off.
Even if he couldn't see or hear anything, Gu Yanzhou could imagine that she must be secretly delighted at this moment.
What a pity...
He chuckled helplessly, then stood up, threw the wood away, and rummaged through the bag of things he had brought back.
After a while, he was seen taking two black objects and rubbing them casually a few times. With a "boom", the pile of dead leaves in front of him burst into flames.
The air suddenly became warmer. Song Siyun gathered his clothes and moved closer curiously. "What is this? It's quite useful."
Gu Yanzhou raised his eyes and glanced at her, adding more firewood while saying, "This is called flint. It's the cheapest way to start a fire in the wild."
As he was speaking, he saw her pick up two stones and hand them to him, with a sincere face: "Then is this a flint?"
"No." He raised his hand to pick up the flint beside him, put it together with the one she picked up, and taught her how to distinguish the flint.
At the end, as if checking her homework, he asked her, "Do you understand?"
Song Siyun frowned and turned the two stones in his hand over and over, nodding hurriedly at the words. As if to prove himself, he clearly distinguished the two stones and placed them in front of him.
After that, she opened her eyes again and asked him for confirmation: "Is that right?"
"Right." She smiled with her eyes curved in laughter after receiving the affirmation. She held her head high and boasted, "Back then, I was the daughter of the Grand Tutor, so naturally I was smart!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the person opposite him shaking with laughter.
Perhaps it was because of excessive joy that sorrow came to him, and the wound on his back was pulled, and he hissed again. His face was neither smiling nor in pain, and it was distorted beyond recognition.
"Hahaha!" Now it was Song Siyun's turn to laugh at him.
After a long while, she finally stopped laughing and walked around to his side with great compassion. "There's a river over there. Take off your shirt and I'll wash your wound."
After washing and drying the jade hairpin with river water, she waited for a long time before anyone came.
As if he hadn't heard what she had just said, he was still reluctant to part with the riding clothes with tassels on the back.
Song Siyun looked at him, speechless.
When he came close, she stripped him of his upper body without saying anything. But after that, she couldn't say a word for a long time.
The injury on his back was even more serious than she had imagined.
His skin was turned inside out and covered with dirt, leaves and other debris, making it impossible to move. Moreover, she had just stripped off his clothes, causing the wound that had just been healed to bleed again.
The bright red blood mixed with mud flowed down the spine to the waist. Song Siyun tried to stop it in a panic, but ended up with his hands covered in blood.
"sorry……"
Her eyes were red and stained with silver light. She looked at him with her hands folded, feeling extremely helpless. "I... I didn't expect..."
"It's okay." Gu Yanzhou raised his hand to wipe the moisture from the corners of her eyes, and smiled comfortingly: "It will be clean after washing."
"Okay." Song Siyun took out a handkerchief from his arms, soaked it in water, wrung it out until it was half dry, and washed it carefully. When he wiped his rolled skin, he was afraid that it would hurt him, so he blew on it while wiping.
For a long, long time... until the river water near the edge was dyed red, Song Siyun took out the jade hairpin and carefully picked out the debris embedded in the skin.
After picking them out one by one, it was another hassle.
The air at the bottom of the cliff was chilly, yet Song Siyun broke out in sweat. When she finally washed herself clean, she clutched the handkerchief and stood in a daze for a long time.
Only when he heard the question from the person in front of him did he come back to his senses. With his fingertips, which were slightly sweaty, he supported Cun Cun as he rolled over, and couldn't help but feel pity: "Does it hurt?"
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