"Hurry up and clean it up now, otherwise you won't be able to handle it if he wakes up!"
"Or something else? What if he wakes up right away? You two are alone together right now!"
It felt like two little people were having a fight in Li Qiaozhen's heart, making her head ache.
But the pain overcame all her thoughts, and she felt she had to clean her wound now.
So she went out and searched for some herbs, and tore off a piece of cloth to bandage herself.
Before bandaging her, she checked again to make sure Lin Shansheng hadn't woken up, then sighed deeply and took off her clothes.
While they were dealing with the situation, Lin Shansheng woke up.
He opened his eyes in a daze and saw a half-naked back. He rubbed his eyes, thinking he was seeing things. After checking again, he realized that it was actually Li Qiaozhen.
"What happened to you?" Lin Shansheng hesitated to ask, but after seeing Li Qiaozhen's injury, he asked anyway.
Li Qiaozhen turned around abruptly, met Lin Shansheng's gaze awkwardly, and then shouted as she put her clothes on, "Why are you awake?"
"Hey, it wasn't a big deal for me anyway." Lin Shansheng lowered his head awkwardly, not daring to meet Li Qiaozhen's gaze.
The two of them remained silent for a while before speaking.
However, Lin Shansheng was still concerned about Li Qiaozhen's injured back, so he spoke first: "What happened to your back? Let me help you."
Li Qiaozhen blushed and shook her head, "No need, you can turn around, I can handle it myself."
Lin Shansheng recalled the horribly mangled back he had just seen on Li Qiaozhen's back, "Let me do it, or you'll make things worse for yourself..."
He then stepped forward, took the medicine, tore off a piece of cloth from his own body, tied it to his hand, and crushed the medicine.
Li Qiaozhen had no choice; she couldn't heal the wound by herself. So she turned around, half-opened her clothes, and waited for Lin Shansheng to apply the medicine.
"It's okay, he's so much younger than me, I'll just treat him like my own brother," Li Qiaozhen kept reassuring herself.
After finishing pounding the medicine, Lin Shansheng cheered himself up, "It's okay, just treat him like your own sister, and saving lives is the most important thing."
Lin Chaosheng and Li Daniu had already come down the mountain, and were soaked to the bone.
The two decided to split up. Li Daniu went back to Dufang to call his brothers to go up the mountain together, while Lin Chaosheng went home to prepare some tools.
As soon as they got home, Liang Mei saw that Lin Chaosheng was soaking wet and hurriedly said with concern, "Quickly get a towel to dry yourself off, or you'll catch a cold."
Liang Fu looked behind Lin Chaosheng and, not seeing Lin Shansheng, asked, "Strange, why did you come back alone, brother-in-law?"
Lin Chaosheng explained simply: "Shansheng and I got separated, I'm going to find him now."
Zhao Shufang and Lin Shanhai immediately panicked upon hearing this: "What? Quick, quick, we'll go too!"
"Father, Mother, you two shouldn't go. It's raining outside. What if something happens to you two?"
"Yes, Father and Mother, Chaosheng will definitely find Shansheng. Let's wait at home," Liang Mei reassured them.
Liang Fu was very worried about Lin Shansheng, so she volunteered, "Yes, you guys stay at home, I'll go with my brother-in-law."
Lin Chaosheng didn't really want to take anyone with him, but time was tight and he didn't want to waste any more time, so he took his tools and went with Liang Fu to meet up with Li Daniu.
"Here I am!" Li Daniu stood at the foot of the mountain and greeted Lin Chaosheng, who was walking towards him from a distance.
Seeing that Li Daniu had brought a bunch of brothers and tools, Lin Chaosheng said without hesitation, "Let's go now!"
Then he summoned Feifei, took out Lin Shansheng's clothes that he had brought from home, and asked Feifei to use its sense of smell to guide him.
Although Feifei has an excellent sense of smell, it's raining now, and the rain has washed away many scents, making them mixed together, which makes it quite difficult for Feifei to find them.
"My master should be around here, but there are a lot of creatures around here, so I'm having a bit of a hard time finding him."
Lin Chaosheng was very anxious, so he decided to split up with everyone. "Brother Da Niu, there are many forks in the road here. Let's split into several teams."
Li Daniu immediately agreed to Lin Chaosheng's request, dividing his brothers into several groups and setting off according to several suspicious locations told to Lin Chaosheng by Feifei.
Lin Shansheng had already treated Li Qiaozhen's wounds in the cave. Although the bandages were a bit tattered due to his nervousness, it was still much better than Li Qiaozhen treating them herself.
"Thank you," Li Qiaozhen said softly.
"It's nothing, it's all what I should do." Lin Shansheng had his back to Li Qiaozhen, not daring to turn around and look at her.
Lin Shansheng groped his hands, savoring the feeling of Li Qiaozhen's back skin that he had just touched. When he came to his senses, he cursed himself in his heart: "Damn it, am I an animal?"
Li Qiaozhen didn't know what Lin Shansheng was thinking, but she could tell he was embarrassed, so she quickly changed the subject: "I'm sorry, you wouldn't have fallen if it weren't for me."
Lin Shansheng immediately replied, "No, no, even if you hadn't fallen, I should have fallen first. It's all because that bush was too deceptive!"
"But you knocked yourself unconscious while protecting my head, so I'm really sorry." Li Qiaozhen recalled the process of falling, only vaguely remembering that there was a large hand protecting her head.
Liang Fu's voice was almost hoarse from shouting after Lin Chaosheng, "Lin Shansheng, Lin Shansheng, where are you?"
She was drenched in the rain and couldn't open her eyes; tears streamed down her face along with the rainwater, but she didn't realize it.
Lin Chaosheng looked back at Liang Fu and felt that her emotions seemed a little strange, but because he was worried about Lin Shansheng, he didn't think about it any further.
"Brother-in-law, is this fabric from Lin Shansheng's clothes?" Liang Fu suddenly noticed a piece of fabric on the pebble that didn't belong to nature.
Lin Chaosheng took a closer look and discovered that it had indeed fallen from Lin Shansheng's clothes.
At this moment, Fatty was squeaking and barking at a cave.
"Master! That cave!"
Upon receiving Fei Fei's message, Lin Chaosheng immediately led his men to Shandong.
"Shansheng, are you there?"
Lin Shansheng was sitting in the cave, having an awkward, rambling conversation with Li Qiaozhen, when he suddenly heard someone calling him.
"Shh!" Li Qiaozhen stopped Lin Shansheng from speaking, then spoke softly.
"You heard that too?" Lin Shansheng initially thought it was his imagination, but seeing that Li Qiaozhen had said the same thing, he quickly shouted towards the outside of the cave, "Help! There are people here!"
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