The sixth day of the sixth month in the thirty-third year of Jiasheng
Changbai Mountain.
Fang Chengyin and Kong Wenjie have lived in this small village at the foot of Changbai Mountain for eight days.
This was not Fang Chengyin's first time going into the mountains to hunt, but it was the first time she was injured, and the way she was injured was quite tragic.
The back was injured. Fang Chengyin had been lying on the bed for several days. Where could there be a good inn in such a remote village? Although Kong Wenjie had found the best inn within a radius of ten miles, how good could the room be at the price of three hundred coins a day? It was also because Fang Chengyin had a good temper that she didn't bother with him.
One day. Kong Wenjie sent the doctor away, borrowed the stove of the store to boil some medicine and brought it in. Fang Chengyin was lying on the bed, grimacing. Her wound was not big, but it was a bit deep, otherwise she wouldn't have to stay in this broken place to recuperate. In addition, the weather is hot now. It has even festered in the past two days, so it hurts a lot more than before. The doctor just came to clean Fang Chengyin's wound. Fang Chengyin gritted her teeth tightly to prevent herself from crying out. But now she couldn't stand it anymore. She lay on the bed and kept wailing softly.
When Kong Wenjie heard her cry of pain, his scalp tightened a little. He walked over and put the medicine bowl on the small table beside the bed, and asked awkwardly, "It... it hurts so much?"
"What do you think?!" Fang Chengyin was immediately furious. She suddenly turned her head to look at Kong Wenjie, and then she screamed even louder, "Ouch! Hiss!"
"Don't move. It must hurt if you touch the wound," Kong Wenjie was also anxious. He took out a handkerchief and handed it to Fang Chengyin, "Hurry up and wipe the sweat off your face."
"What do you care?!" Fang Chengyin glared at him until her eyes became wet. Then she turned away and buried her whole face in the floral pillow, saying in a muffled voice, "I am so unlucky. Why would I want you to go hunting with me?"
When Kong Wenjie heard her say that, he felt even more embarrassed. He wanted to say sorry to Fang Chengyin, but he couldn't say it. He just stood there rubbing his hands, feeling awkward and guilty.
Why was Fang Chengyin injured?
The story begins from the first day they entered the mountains.
That day, Kong Wenjie and Fang Chengyin set out from the foot of the mountain with twelve hunting dogs and entered the dense forest. Fang Chengyin had been to this forest in previous years, so she was quite familiar with the route. However, it was Kong Wenjie's first time to go into the mountains to hunt, and he found it very novel. Fang Chengyin told him about her past hunting experiences along the way, and Kong Wenjie listened quietly. He has always been a man of few words and afraid of noise, but Fang Chengyin kept talking all the way, and he didn't feel annoyed, but instead felt very engrossed.
"Have you really killed a wild boar?" Kong Wenjie looked at Fang Chengyin curiously. Even though he knew from the beginning that Fang Chengyin was not the kind of noble lady who never left her house, he still didn't believe that this slender girl in front of him could actually kill a wild boar. "I heard that wild boars are the most difficult to kill, even harder than tigers and leopards."
"What? You look down on me?" Fang Chengyin raised her chin towards Kong Wenjie, with an undisguised look of pride on her face, "Let me tell you, I have hunted wild boars more than once. Do you know what I call that?"
"What?" Kong Wenjie looked at her energetic face and couldn't help but curl his lips.
"I'm just like a woman who is as good as a man!" Fang Chengyin rolled her eyes at him and snorted loudly, "You just don't have good taste. You look down on me and my other parts."
"How could I look down on you?" Kong Wenjie laughed in silence amid the scattered barking of hunting dogs.
"Don't think I don't know that you looked down on me before," Fang Chengyin rolled her eyes at him, and continued to speak slowly while slowly spurring her horse, "I used to always run to Jixian Book House with you, and you didn't say anything on your face, but I'm afraid you disliked me in your heart. How can a girl be so reserved? How can you have the nerve to cling to a man? You really don't have any moral integrity at all."
Kong Wenjie said hurriedly: "I am not..."
"Don't deny it!" Fang Chengyin suddenly interrupted him and glared at him, "Don't you men all think that way? You always think that we women should bind our feet and stay in the backyard obediently. Even if our husbands die, we must not think of marrying someone else. We must just follow the dead man and die. That's what a chaste woman should be like. What about the three obediences and four virtues, what about men and women not being able to touch each other, what about marrying a chicken follows the chicken and marrying a dog follows the dog? Aren't all these ridiculous things said by you men?"
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