After a while, Su Chenhao managed to sit up.
"I'm too weak to walk back. Why don't you ride your bike back and get some people to come and pick me up?"
Qiao Xiaoni shook her head without even thinking, "How can I leave you alone in the middle of nowhere? What if another snake appears later?"
Su Chenhao said, "Do you think I'm made of paper? The situation was urgent just now, and the snake was very fast, so I couldn't dodge it. If another snake came, I definitely wouldn't have been bitten."
Qiao Xiaoni glanced at the sky. It was probably afternoon. If they rode their bicycles back, it would be dark by the time they got back up the mountain with the people. It would be time-consuming and exhausting, not to mention the potential dangers. But if they stayed to wait for him to recover, they would have to find a place to stay. They couldn't just sit on the ground forever, could they?
"Just go back and call Xiaoshan over. He knows this place well. We used to come here to hunt when we were kids," Su Chenhao urged. "Don't worry, I'll be fine."
“No, I can’t leave you here alone. Since you used to come here often when you were little, do you know where there’s a safe place to rest?” Qiao Xiaoni asked, tilting her little face up.
Su Chenhao nodded, "I do know a place to rest, but if you come with me, my body won't recover in a short time. We might not be able to go back until after dawn, which would affect your reputation, and I can't do that."
So he was thinking of her first. Qiao Xiaoni smiled sweetly.
“You’re right, but I can’t leave you here alone. Let’s be careful on our way back, as long as the villagers don’t find out. As for my parents, we can just explain it to them.”
Su Chenhao was actually worried about Qiao Xiaoni going back alone. This road was very remote, and what if something happened to her?
"Go ahead into the bushes, about 100 meters ahead, and you'll find a cave. Your brother and I usually rest there when we hunt. There's firewood and some simple cooking utensils inside."
I haven't been there for the past two years, so I don't know if the things are still there. But even if they aren't, we can still spend the night in the cave.
Qiao Xiaoni glanced in the direction he was pointing and said, "Then I'll help you over there first, and then come back to push the bicycle."
Su Chenhao nodded, using his hands to support himself as he struggled to his feet. Looking at the snake's corpse on the ground, he said, "We'll take it with us later. We can sell it for twenty or thirty yuan at the pharmacy."
"These snakes are so valuable!" Qiao Xiaoni's greedy mind started again. One snake is worth twenty or thirty yuan, so if she got ten, wouldn't they be worth several hundred yuan?
Su Chenhao saw her eyes sparkling and knew what she was thinking. He had seen that expression several times before. She definitely wanted to sell snakes to make money... even more greedy than him... But he liked it, like finding a kindred spirit.
"What are you thinking? This snake doesn't usually come out. Besides, you've seen it yourself, it's very fast. Trying to catch it with your bare hands would be life-threatening."
“You’re right, making money isn’t so easy.” Qiao Xiaoni gave up the idea of catching the snake. It’s not worth thinking about if the money isn’t easy to earn. However, she would definitely take the snake on the ground back and sell it for a good price.
First, she helped Su Chenhao across the grass. They walked a long distance, but the path was not easy to walk on. The weeds around them grew very lushly, more than half a meter high. Every now and then, their calves would get pricked, which was both painful and itchy, an indescribable feeling.
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