"well……"
Hua Shi heard his own helpless sigh echoing in the quiet house.
The high fever finally subsided...
Looking at Hua Yu's pale face, Hua Shi had a premonition that if there was no effective medicine, the wound would gradually become infected and might really drag him to death...
From yesterday till now, there has been no sign of improvement.
Hua Shi came out of the room, rubbed his forehead tiredly, and just as he was pounding his sore arms, he suddenly heard three or two voices talking outside the yard.
The tone of those voices seemed a little panicked, as if they had seen something. There was also the sound of noisy footsteps approaching from far away.
Hua Shi frowned, and at first thought he was hallucinating. The sky had just brightened, and usually the courtyard was quiet at this time, so why were there so many noisy sounds today?
She walked towards the courtyard, and soon she heard footsteps coming from the direction of the main hall behind her.
Turning around, I saw Huazhu walking out holding Xiaohuaying's hand.
Huaying rubbed her sleepy eyelids and looked at her sleepily.
Hua Zhu didn't seem to expect Hua Shi to be standing in the yard so early. After a moment's pause, he explained, "Xiaoying said he was hungry, so I planned to bring him out for breakfast."
After rubbing her eyes, Xiao Huaying seemed to be much more awake. She tilted her head to look at the bamboo flower that was half a head taller than her, then looked at the flowers again, pursed her lips, and nodded seriously.
Yes... He remembered, he was hungry...
He remembered that he was chewing a piece of meat pie just now, but when he opened his eyes, the meat pie was gone...
"Can you cook?" Hua Shi asked after thinking for a while.
Hua Zhu nodded without hesitation, "Yes."
"Then you come and make breakfast. I'll go out and see what's going on outside."
As they were talking, the noisy footsteps outside the courtyard gate, mixed with chaotic voices, were approaching little by little.
Hua Shi's heart also began to beat fast. She always felt as if something bad was happening.
She opened the gate and walked out. Hua Zhu only saw her back swaying before she disappeared from his sight.
Outside the courtyard gate, there were indeed groups of villagers gathered in twos and threes. They had different expressions on their faces, but they all looked in the same direction.
Even when he heard the sound of a door opening, he seemed to have no reaction. His expression was either terrified or panicked as he stared in one direction without moving at all.
Hua Shi didn't know what was going on, so he followed curiously and looked in the direction they were staring at, but didn't see anything wrong.
After taking two steps forward, I heard the villagers talking about something.
“…Did he run away from the mountains?!”
"I don't know, it doesn't look like..."
"Oh, what do you mean by missing someone? Don't you remember? Didn't a wild boar die by the stream not far away a while ago?"
"That's a tiger! How could it run into the village for no reason? I've lived for thirty or forty years, and I've never seen such a big tiger..."
Hua Shi could no longer hear clearly what they said afterwards, and only caught two words: tiger?
The deep uneasiness in her heart made her vaguely guess something.
She thought about the past two or three days, it was probably the past two or three days, she hadn't had a good rest for several days, she had hardly slept, her mind was confused and she forgot the time.
After they left Taohua Town overnight, that tiger that got lost in the black market... wouldn't it come looking for them?!
As soon as this thought came to his mind, Hua Shi shuddered with horror.
But before she could go forward to ask, a dozen or so big men with strong arms, as tall as cows, came up from the village road not far away, looking dejected.
"How is it? Did they catch him?!" The onlookers couldn't wait to ask.
The man holding the hoe sighed and shook his head, "I didn't catch it."
"How could they not catch it?! More than a dozen of you just watched it run away?!"
"What can we do? It's a fully grown tiger, a beast that eats human flesh and drinks human blood. If it wants to escape, it's doubtful we can stop it."
One person growled in dissatisfaction and argued.
"So, where did that beast go?"
"In the direction of the front mountain, I guess he went back to the mountain. Forget it. Everyone should stay at home for the time being. If anything happens, don't run out. Just inform each other."
Perhaps it was the tiger that ran out from nowhere that made the group of people panic. After just a few words, the crowd dispersed.
Hua Shi was standing at the gate of his own yard, which was neither too far nor too close. As the men had loud voices, he was able to hear most of what was said.
In the direction of the front mountain...
Hua Shixin was startled and walked back into the yard, closed the door tightly, lowered his head, and walked quickly towards his backyard.
If she remembered correctly, the front mountain was the mountain in her backyard...
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