Chapter 213 'Old Pig'
Zhao Yeqing was stunned on the spot, only to see two dogs running out happily with their tongues hanging out, followed by Mu Xi, who was limping with a wooden stick.
Mu Xi still held the arrow she had just shot in her hand.
After seeing her, he stood there, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, holding up the arrow and said, "You are really good at archery. It just grazed my scalp."
Zhao Yeqing heard him talking, then he reacted and hurried forward.
"I didn't know it was you...what happened to you? Where are you hurt? Does it hurt?"
She helped Mu Xi walk to the fire, wanting to see where he was injured, but she didn't know where to start.
When Mu Xi got to the fire and there was some light, he could see the tears on Zhao Yeqing's face. The big tears were falling down.
He quickly threw the arrow in his hand aside and wanted to reach out to wipe her face, but his hands were covered in dirt, so he could only hurriedly open his backpack and take out a tissue to wipe her face.
His voice was trembling slightly, and he was more panicked than ever before. His voice was soft and gentle.
"Don't cry... I'm fine, I just got bumped, really, nothing serious."
Only then did Zhao Yeqing realize that her face was covered with tears. She had been holding back her emotions for the past two days, and now she couldn't hold it back anymore. Before she even realized it, tears were falling.
She took the tissue and wiped herself dry, then suddenly realized what he said.
"What do you mean by being hit? What hit you?"
Mu Xi opened his backpack and took out two bags. One bag contained bloody raw meat, and the other bag contained a piece of animal skin.
"Two days ago, when I was about to go back, a wild boar suddenly jumped out of the woods. Two leopards were out looking for food at the time, and the one that hit me was knocked flying."
When talking about this, Mu Xi was still frightened. "Luckily, I wasn't stabbed by the fangs. Huhu and Xuebing came back at the right time. I didn't even shoot. The two leopards killed the wild boar in a few shots."
After Mu Xi finished speaking, Zhao Yeqing remembered that the two leopards were also there, and subconsciously looked up in the direction where he had seen the treetops trembling just now.
Mu Xi nodded in understanding, "Those two are the ones over there. They just love staying in the tree now."
Being knocked away by a wild boar is no small matter. Zhao Yeqing asked Mu Xi to sit down and wanted to pull open his clothes to see the scars on his back.
Mu Xi took off his coat and carefully pulled up his clothes.
"Actually, I'm fine now. I couldn't move on the first night, and I was afraid I had internal injuries, so I rested there for two days before heading back. Judging from my recovery over the past two days, it shouldn't be a big problem."
Zhao Yeqing looked at the purple bruises on Mu Xi's back. As soon as his fingers touched it, Mu Xi trembled subconsciously.
"itch."
Zhao Yeqing took out the medicine from his backpack. The marks on his back showed that no medicine had been applied. He was probably hit hard and couldn't put his hands behind his back to apply the medicine.
"Hold on."
After rubbing her hands warm, she placed the medicated oil on her warm palms and gently massaged his lower back in circles.
Mu Xi subconsciously straightened his back. Zhao Yeqing thought he had hurt him and was about to go gentler, but when he looked up, he saw that his face remained expressionless, but his ears betrayed his emotions and were red.
She couldn't help but laugh and scold, "What are you thinking about? What time is it?"
She thought Mu Xi would deny it, but unexpectedly he suddenly lowered his head and gently touched her lips. His face looked a little tired, but his eyes were gentle and affectionate.
"miss you."
Zhao Yeqing's heart softened, and he stretched out his hand to prevent the medicated oil on his hand from touching his clothes, and moved closer to him over his neck.
"I missed you too... Glad you're okay."
Mu Xi knew that she must be worried sick this time. He buried half of his face in her shoulder and said in a muffled voice, "I'm sorry for asking you to come out to find me."
"What are you sorry for? I'm just staying at home. It's dangerous for you to be outside. It's not easy for me to walk here in the past two days, let alone you have to clear the way..."
Before Zhao Yeqing finished speaking, Mu Xi let go of her and asked, "You've only been gone for two days to get here?"
Although he had cleared the road, this was a primeval forest after all, and it would take him two days to walk here, and that was when he was relatively familiar with the road.
Mu Xi asked Zhao Yeqing to sit down, "Don't move."
I reached out and took off her shoes and socks, only to see large blisters on her fair feet, some of which had already burst.
He quickly took out alcohol and ointment from the medicine box and applied them to her.
Zhao Yeqing stretched out his hand, with the medicated oil still on his palm, and said helplessly, "I'm not in a hurry, let me finish applying it on you first, otherwise the medicated oil will be absorbed by my skin."
Mu Xi had a gloomy face, but he carefully applied the medicine to her with his hands. Then he turned his back to her without saying a word and showed her his lower back.
Zhao Yeqing knew that he was angry with himself, so he rubbed the medicated oil and comforted him softly, "Oh, I don't feel any pain. I'll be fine in two days..."
After applying the medicine, she went to the river to wash her hands. When she came back, she saw that Mu Xi still had a dark face, so she went over and hugged his neck, "I'm hungry."
Mu Xi sighed softly and took out a folding pot and a knife from his backpack. "Do you want to boil or fry the wild boar meat?"
“Fried.”
I carried seasonings in my backpack, including salt and pepper, and a small jar of butter.
The butter was half solidified in this weather. He scooped a spoonful of it into the pot to melt it, then put the thinly sliced wild boar meat into the pot and fried it. There was also wild onions he picked by the side of the pot. The fragrance of onions mixed with the fragrance of meat made the two dogs wag their tails.
Zhao Yeqing looked at the small bag of wild boar meat and asked, "Is that all?"
Mu Xi, "The rest were given to Hu Hu and Xue Bing. Unfortunately, the bones were too heavy to take with them."
After he finished speaking, he remembered something and couldn't help but smile, "Look at that wild boar skin."
During the two days that he was recuperating, he peeled off the wild boar skin and placed it on a stone that could be exposed to the sun to dry. Now there is not much odor when he takes it out.
Zhao Yeqing spread out the wild boar skin and found a round bullet hole on it. He suddenly remembered that Mu Xi said he didn't have time to shoot, and the wild boar was bitten to death by the snow cake. Just as he was wondering, he suddenly realized something.
Her eyes widened, "Could this be?"
Mu Xi smiled and nodded, "That's it."
Zhao Yeqing suddenly felt incredible. This was the wild boar that ran into their fence in Meishan, was shot twice by them, and then encountered a bear after running away!
"It's still alive." She thought it must have died after being shot and encountering a bear, but when she thought of the wild boar's strong defense and self-healing ability, she didn't find it strange.
Zhao Yeqing put the wild boar skin back into the bag with great emotion and said,
"Doesn't that mean that this place is not far from Meishan?"
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