Chapter 78 Injured
"Bang!"
After a loud bang, the hyena fell down in front of her, and warm blood splashed on her face.
She turned back blankly and saw Mu Xi walking towards her, supporting himself with the barrel of his gun, limping with unsteady steps.
Fortunately, fortunately I made it in time.
He walked up to her and wanted to squat down to check if she was injured, but the wound on his leg made him unable to hold up his body, and he fell to the ground in a somewhat embarrassed manner.
He looked up and down at the stunned Zhao Yeqing. Her face was covered in blood. He couldn't tell if she had any wounds. His voice trembled slightly, "Are you injured?"
Zhao Yeqing shook his head, looking at the blood flowing out of Mu Xi's trouser legs, his eyes reddened, "Hurry up and stop moving, I'll stop the bleeding for you."
Mu Xi's tense body finally relaxed, and he curled his lips, "It's okay, why are you crying?"
He used the butt of his gun to support himself and stood up. "Let's get out of here first."
Animals all have their own territories. If a hyena appears in this area, there may be other hyenas.
Zhao Yeqing supported Mu Xi and walked westward. Fortunately, they had already bypassed the fissure in the ground, so they no longer had to climb the mountain to walk westward.
But we can't go down the mountain, because there are forests all the way down the mountain. It's too dark now and the situation in the mountains is complicated. We have to walk straight west along the mountain and get out of the forest to be safe.
She had never been to the west, but only heard about it when she was a child. There were almost no trees on the mountains in the west, and it was just a large meadow.
The two leopards were not injured and walked in front to lead the way.
After walking for half an hour, they finally got out of the forest. Zhao Yeqing found a big rock and put Mu Xi against it.
After this incident, it was completely dark.
Zhao Yeqing turned around and went to the edge of the woods, picked up some dead branches and started a fire. The rising flames illuminated the surroundings.
Mu Xi's pants were waterproof and scratch-resistant, but they were torn by the sharp claws, leaving three deep scratches on his calves, a bloody mess.
Zhao Yeqing took out a medical kit from his backpack and took out the ointment and a small bottle of iodine.
She made a homemade saline solution by adding salt to water and rinsed the wound.
Then I disinfected it with iodine, applied antibiotic ointment, and finally wrapped the wound with a bandage.
Mu Xi didn't say a word during the whole process.
Zhao Yeqing was not at all relieved. There were no conditions for vaccination and the sanitary conditions were not good. He didn't know if he would be infected.
The hyena must have been very hungry. Normally, striped hyenas would not actively hunt, they prefer to eat carrion.
I don't know if there is any dirt in those claws.
After Mu Xi's wound was bandaged, he was about to get up but was stopped by Zhao Yeqing.
"We won't set up a tent tonight. There aren't many trees in the open air, so let's just leave it as it is."
Zhao Yeqing spread out his sleeping bag on the spot, planning to sleep while looking at the moon tonight.
They had just walked out of the woods, with woods behind them and a meadow in front of them. Looking up, they could see the unobstructed sky.
Zhao Yeqing fed Mu Xi with porridge and snow cakes, then baked two sweet potatoes and handed one to Mu Xi.
She ate sweet potatoes and petted the two leopards. If it weren't for them, even if she managed to stab the hyena to death today, she would definitely be injured.
Snow Cake was thrown out by the hyena. She checked him up and down and found no injuries, so she stroked him a few times with peace of mind.
"I'll give you some extra food when we get home."
The two leopards were whining and acting coquettishly.
Mu Xi stared at Zhao Yeqing in a daze.
Seeing his eyes fixed on her hand that was stroking the leopard, Zhao Yeqing hesitated and said, "Uncle, do you want a snack too?"
When he heard the word "uncle", his face darkened, and he lay down on his sleeping bag, closed his eyes, and said, "Call me later."
In the end, Zhao Yeqing didn't wake Mu Xi up. In the early morning, she found that Mu Xi had a fever.
His forehead was burning hot, so Zhao Yeqing wiped his forehead, neck and chest with alcohol.
I kept an eye on him all the time, and finally the fever went away just before dawn.
She removed the bandage on Mu Xi's leg. Fortunately, the wound was not infected. She wiped it with salt water again, applied ointment and bandaged it.
As long as I get through the first night of fever and the wound doesn’t get infected, there shouldn’t be any major problems later on.
Zhao Yeqing felt a little drowsy after his tense nerves relaxed.
I fell asleep in a daze, and when I opened my eyes it was already bright.
At some point a tarpaulin was put up above her head to shield her from the scorching sun.
She sat up and saw only Xuebing lying next to her. Seeing that she had finally woken up, she walked over and licked her hand.
The tarpaulin was fixed diagonally to the ground with the large rock behind her as its apex, almost blocking her entire view.
She crawled out from the tarpaulin, and the vast meadow and clear blue sky in front of her instantly brightened her mood.
There was no one around. No one knew where Mu Xi had gone and had taken Hu Hu with him.
Zhao Yeqing planned to go out and look for it after washing up.
Before she could go out, she saw Mu Xi coming back, leaning on a homemade crutch in one hand and holding something in the other.
As she got closer, she found that it was a rabbit that had been cleaned.
Yes, the most common animal in the border area between meadows and woods is rabbits.
Huhu also had a rabbit in his mouth. He walked briskly with a proud look on his face.
Huhu put the rabbit in front of Xuebing to take credit. Xuebing rubbed Huhu's face with his nose to express his affirmation to his sister.
Zhao Yeqing walked over and took the rabbit from Mu Xi's hand and asked, "How is the wound? Does it hurt?"
Mu Xi wanted to say that it didn't hurt, but then he remembered how Zhao Yeqing had been stroking the two kids with such heartache last night, and the words on his lips turned into
“A little bit…”
Zhao Yeqing pursed his lips, quickly put the things down, and turned around to support him, "Then why are you still running around."
Helping him sit down, Zhao Yeqing saw that Mu Xi's brows were slightly frowned, and he looked like he was enduring the pain and not saying a word.
Her heart tightened, "Are you feeling uncomfortable somewhere else?"
Mu Xi lifted up his clothes and saw bruises all over his body. When he took off his coat, there were still bruises on his arms.
Zhao Yeqing thought he had hurt him when he was supporting him, so he quickly took out the safflower oil from the medicine bag.
She poured safflower oil into her palm, and before she could think about it, her hand was already on Mu Xi's bruised abdomen.
Both of them froze, but Zhao Yeqing didn't notice Mu Xi's abnormality in his panic.
She subconsciously looked up and found that Mu Xi had his eyes closed and his brows slightly frowned. He still looked very uncomfortable, and it seemed that he didn't think there was anything wrong with her applying medicine to him.
Zhao Yeqing gritted his teeth and continued to apply safflower oil on Mu Xi's abdomen.
It's useless to just apply safflower oil on your skin. You have to rub it with your hands, and it's best to rub it until your skin is warm so that it can be absorbed to the greatest extent.
Zhao Yeqing didn't know if his hands were hot from rubbing, he only knew that his face was almost cooked.
Mu Xi felt a little regretful. He didn't know who he was torturing.
He grabbed Zhao Yeqing's hand, somewhat helplessly, "I'll do it myself."
Zhao Yeqing was as if he had been pardoned. He stuffed the safflower oil into his hand and said, "I'm going to roast the rabbit."
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