Chapter 17 Chapter 17 Going up the mountain to save people
After leaving the Yu family, Yu Li did not return to the Fu family, but went towards the mountain behind Qingshi Village.
Qingshi Village is located at the foot of a mountain, with a river running around the village. It is said that the Yi people live on the other side of the mountain.
Although this mountain does not look high, it is deep and wide. Many poisonous snakes and ferocious beasts live in the mountain. Few people can cross the mountain safely. Most people dare not go deep into it and just walk around the periphery.
Whenever he arrived at a place, Yu Li would patrol the environment, check whether there were any dangers, and try to eliminate them in advance.
These days, because I was feeling really unwell and was busy adapting to the new environment, I had to suppress the idea of patrolling and stayed where I was.
She had eaten very well last night and this morning, and finally felt less uncomfortable. Her strength seemed to have recovered a little, so she decided to go out for a walk and explore the surrounding environment.
When Yu Li walked up the mountain, he met quite a few villagers.
Some of these villagers work in the fields, some go into the mountains to chop firewood, or go to the bamboo forest to dig bamboo shoots and pick up bamboo shoot shells.
When they saw Yu Li, they all greeted her and kept looking at her.
This kind of look is more of kind curiosity, without any other meaning.
What Yu Li did when she returned home yesterday was not made public because of Grandpa Yu’s good reputation. Therefore, people in the village still don’t know about Yu Li’s “great achievements” in the Yu family. They are now more curious about whether she is really a “lucky star”.
"Isn't this Li Niang? Where are you going?" asked a square-faced aunt.
There are hundreds of households in Qingshi Village, and everyone knows each other every day. Although the sisters from the second branch of the Yu family rarely go out, everyone can still call them by their names when they meet them on the road.
There was nothing else to say, it was just that the four sisters from the second branch of the Yu family were too thin. There were not many young girls as thin as them in the village, so they were very easy to recognize.
Yu Li recognized that this was the Fu family's next-door neighbor - Da Zhuang's mother. Her husband's surname was Zhou, and it was said that she and the Zhou family were relatives. Everyone called her Aunt Zhou. There was also a young wife beside her, who was the wife Da Zhuang had just married at the beginning of the year.
Yu Li said truthfully: "Aunt, I want to go up the mountain."
Aunt Zhou was surprised to see that she had nothing in her hands.
"What did Li Niang do in the mountains?" she asked casually. "By the way, I heard that Xiao Ge'er has woken up. Is he okay?"
Because Fu Wenxiao was in poor health, they usually didn't disturb him easily. So even though they knew Fu Wenxiao had woken up, they didn't know what his condition was.
Yu Li thought back to when he saw Fu Wenxiao last night and said, "Fortunately, he can open his eyes and speak."
Even when he was sleeping, his breathing was still very weak, and he might die at any time, which always made her worry that he would not be able to open his eyes the next day.
What are you talking about?
Aunt Zhou was a little confused. What did it mean to be able to open your eyes and speak?
Seeing that she had nothing to ask, Yu Li said something politely and continued walking up the mountain.
Looking at her figure, Aunt Zhou was really puzzled and had no idea what she was doing in the mountains.
Who would go up the mountain without bringing anything? No backpack, no axe, not even some water. If you get thirsty in the mountains, it won't be easy to find water to drink.
Aunt Zhou's daughter-in-law looked at her and asked in a low voice, "Mom, is this the lucky star that the villagers are talking about? Why is she so thin?"
How can a lucky star be so thin? You can tell at a glance that he is not living well.
If he was lucky, he wouldn't have such a miserable life, right?
"What lucky star?" Aunt Zhou didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "Those words are just lies. If Li Niang was really a lucky star, would the Yu family treat her harshly? It's just that the Yu family made it up for the 20 taels of betrothal money from the Fu family."
Although many people believed that Yu Li was a lucky star because of Zhou's solemn oath, most people knew the reason clearly.
Thinking that Yu Li had been a pitiful person since childhood, even if they knew the inside story and knew that Yu Li was not a lucky star, they would not go out of their way to refute it, or run to Zhou to tell her that it was all fake.
After all, Fu Wenxiao did wake up.
Da Zhuang's wife was a little disappointed. It turned out that she was not a lucky person.
Come to think of it, if she was really Lucky Star, the Yu family would never be willing to marry her to a dying person.
She said with some pity: "She is also a poor person..."
"That's right." Aunt Zhou agreed, "The Yu family is well-known in the village for favoring boys over girls... No, it should be that they only look down on the four girls from the second house. Yu Qin from the first house has never been treated harshly."
"This is not surprising. Qin Niang's parents and brothers are all capable. Her mother Chen is the daughter of a scholar and has a high status in the Yu family. Even the old lady of the Yu family dare not provoke her easily. With her protection, Qin Niang's life is much better than the girls in the second room."
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The vegetation on the mountain is lush and the temperature is lower than that at the foot of the mountain.
Soon after entering the mountain, Yu Li felt that the hot summer weather had subsided a lot. The sunlight filtered through the treetops above his head. When the wind blew from the mountains, the shadows of the trees swayed and rustled.
Yu Li found a place to sit down and rest, wiping the sweat from his face with his sleeve.
This body is too weak. Just climbing a mountain makes me so tired that my breathing becomes rapid.
She looked down at her skinny hands and clenched them into fists.
Although she was stronger, her body was still weak, so she could only use this strength to smash houses. It was impossible to kill the aliens. If the aliens from her previous life appeared in front of her, she would only be killed.
Yu Li was very dissatisfied with this and hoped to quickly recover the strength he had in his previous life.
Although the original owner's memory showed that there seemed to be no pollutants or alien species in this world, there were still other things that could threaten human life and safety, such as ferocious beasts in the mountains.
She must have the strength to beat the beast, right? What if the beast comes down the mountain one day?
She went up the mountain today to investigate the situation in the mountain.
First, see if there are any ferocious beasts in the mountains. If you can defeat them, that's fine. If you can't... then you have to exercise your body quickly. First, practice a few sets of physical skills that you are familiar with in your previous life, and use physical skills to make up for the lack of physical strength.
After making the plan and resting for a while, Yu Li stood up and continued to move forward.
This is still the outskirts of the mountain. There are many people who go into the mountain to chop firewood, so a road was specially opened here, and Yu Li walked along this road.
But the further we went in, the fewer roads there were. After walking for another hour, we could hardly see any roads anymore. This should be the place where the villagers stopped, and they would not come here easily under normal circumstances.
Yu Li walked and looked around, keeping his ears and eyes on all directions.
Unfortunately, along the way, not to mention the traces of wild beasts, she didn't even encounter any small animals. She couldn't help but wonder, is it because the villagers usually go into the mountains to chop firewood, so the small animals don't come near here?
However, Yu Li did see quite a few wild fruits.
She didn't know whether these wild fruits were edible. After observing for a while, she picked some that had been eaten by birds, put them in her mouth to taste, and couldn't help squinting her eyes.
So sweet and delicious!
There is also a kind of wild fruit that was common in the original owner's memory. The hot summer is the season when it matures. It is ripe and turns black and red. It is not big in size and tastes sweet.
Yu Li felt in a good mood.
It turns out there are such delicious things in the mountains. This mountain is really a treasure.
Yu Li was motivated and ate as he walked. He ate a lot of wild fruits and actually filled his stomach.
Some wild fruits grow on tall trees, but this is not a problem for her. She can quickly jump up the tree, stay there and eat them, even competing with birds for food.
Sure enough, the fruit snatched from someone else's mouth is sweeter.
“Chichichi!”
The bird whose fruit had been taken away cried angrily at her.
Suddenly, Yu Li hissed at the bird. The bird had no idea what the two-legged beast meant, so it chirped at her for a while and then flew away.
Without the noisy bird calls, Yu Li could hear a certain sound more clearly, as if it was someone crying for help.
She blinked, jumped down from the tree, and followed the sound.
The roads around were not easy to walk on. The vegetation here was very lush and there were no signs of human walking. Yu Li used a stick he picked up on the roadside to clear the way.
The cry for help was intermittent, getting closer and closer, and the voice was hoarse. I didn't know how long it lasted.
Yu Li used a stick to separate the overgrown grass and finally saw a pit about ten feet deep in front of him, with a person lying in the pit.
This man must be injured, and he could smell a faint smell of blood in the air.
The surrounding vegetation was lush, blocking the light from above. Yu Li could not see the person in the pit clearly, but he knew it should be a man.
She leaned over and asked, "Are you okay?"
The man in the pit heard the sound and looked up weakly. Seeing that someone had actually come, he was overjoyed and cheered up. He hoarsely said, "My leg is injured. Can you please pull me out?"
Yu Li estimated the height and said, "Wait."
Seeing Yu Li disappear, the man in the pit became worried, fearing that she would not come back.
He leaned back in the damp and cold pit, smiling bitterly, feeling that he was really unlucky to have ended up in this situation.
And the voice just now seemed to be that of a young girl...
Although I don't know how a young girl could end up in such a place, I'm afraid she doesn't have enough strength to pull a grown man out of the pit.
Just as he was worried and having wild thoughts, something suddenly fell on his head.
The man was stunned by the blow, and just then the girl's voice rang out above his head: "Tie your waist with the rattan, and I'll pull you up."
"I'm very heavy..." the man said subconsciously.
Yu Li thought he was scared, so he kindly comforted him: "Don't worry, I will never let you fall."
Man: “…” Is he worried about this?
In the end, the man chose to tie his waist with the vine and let Yu Li pull him up.
Before she pulled him up, he pushed the ground with his uninjured leg, thinking that if she couldn't pull him up, he would let her tie the vines to the tree next to him, and he could grab the vines and slowly climb up.
But the next moment, his body suddenly flew upwards, directly out of the pit that had trapped him for a day and a night, and fell into the grass nearby.
The man looked up in confusion.
In the sunlight, Yu Li discovered that this was a very young man, probably less than 20 years old. Although he looked very disheveled, his handsome features could not be concealed.
After rescuing the people, Yu Li prepared to leave.
But when the young man saw her turning around and leaving, he quickly shouted, "Wait, are you just leaving like this? Benefactor, I haven't thanked you yet."
Yu Li waved his hand, indicating that it was just a small favor and he didn't need to thank him.
Even if she saw a passing dog in distress, she would save it, not to mention a living person, as long as they were not monsters, she would save them.
Seeing that she was about to leave, the young man suddenly became anxious, "But my legs are broken, I can't walk."
Yu Li suddenly realized and asked, "Do you want me to take you down the mountain?"
The young man was a little embarrassed, "If it's possible, thank you for your help." Suddenly remembering that the other party was a girl, he added hurriedly, "You should be from a nearby village, right? Why don't you go find someone from the village first..."
"No need to be so troublesome." Yu Li said, walking towards him.
Under the other person's puzzled gaze, she stretched out her slender hand and lifted the man up.
The tall and strong young man: "..."
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