Seeing Xing Yifei sliding down the slope, Tian Xiaolan pretended not to see anything and started walking. After a few steps, she stopped. Unknowingly, the sky became darker and darker, and fog had begun to spread from the depths of the woods towards this side. Tian Xiaolan was not familiar with the terrain of the forest, and she could not guarantee that she could get out before dark.
After walking for a long time, I came back.
I hurried to check on the person at the bottom of the slope, hoping he was still alive. The steep slope was only four or five meters. Xing Yifei's body was stuck in the withered leaves, holding his legs and sinking down little by little.
The layers of leaves turned into mud that could trap people. Xing Yifei was still struggling without knowing whether he was alive or dead. As he struggled, most of his body was buried in the mud.
Tian Xiaolan knew that if she didn't do something at this moment, he would be finished in a short while, and she didn't want to go up the mountain and cause a death.
So he quickly picked up a stick and rushed down the slope.
He stopped a few steps away from Xing Yifei, poked the still unconscious man with the stick in his hand, and shouted anxiously: "Xing Yifei, wake up quickly, your father is still waiting for you to come home."
After being poked by the stick and moving a few times, Xing Yifei opened his eyes and looked at the surrounding environment. He found himself in a pit. His back was wet and cold, and he seemed to be still falling.
Xing Yifei covered his head with his hands as he hissed. He looked at Tian Xiaolan, who had caused him to fall into the pit. He looked at the stick in her hand warily and said sternly, "Just wait for me. I'll kill you when I get out."
Tian Xiaolan said "ah" in confusion, as if she didn't understand what he said.
"My leg was right there. Who was so blind as to walk there? Did I tell you to walk there? You kicked my leg, and I haven't even come to terms with you yet."
Hearing her making up stories and pretending to be ignorant, Xing Yifei felt angry and had no place to vent. He hoped that someone would notice that he was missing and come looking for him.
Xing Yifei licked his lips and chuckled coldly and mockingly, which made the person he stung tremble all over.
"Why don't you leave? Are you here to laugh at me?"
"Hey, you really don't know what's good for you. If you don't want to die, just listen to me. Now relax your whole body and don't move, otherwise you will get deeper and deeper, and then I won't be able to save you." Tian Xiaolan pointed at the stick in her hand, without saying anything nonsense to him, and signaled him to hold it with her eyes.
After hearing this, Xing Yifei stopped moving immediately, as if he had been acupunctured, and his body no longer went into the mud.
Seeing him take the stick, Tian Xiaolan, who was holding the other end of the stick, pulled him towards her with force, and his body leaned back like a full bow. Sweat slid down Tian Xiaolan's forehead, and in the afterglow, it seemed to carry a hint of golden light.
Even though Tian Xiaolan used all her strength to torture Yifei, he was still sucked into the mud. He seemed to have forgotten something. Right, the slogan! Without the slogan, it would be impossible.
Tian Xiaolan glanced at him and said seriously, "When you poop later, you have to say you don't want to die, I want to live! Keep shouting until you poop."
Xing Yifei held the stick tightly in both hands, his feet were deeply embedded in the swamp and were a little loose because of what he had just done. No matter what her purpose was, he had no time to care about anything else at the moment and could only listen to her first.
"I don't want to die, I want to live..."
As Xing Yifei kept shouting, his back was miraculously pulled out of the mud. Tian Xiaolan pulled him to the shore.
After pulling Xing Yifei's upper body ashore, Tian Xiaolan threw down the stick and let him climb up by himself. She then collapsed on the ground and breathed a sigh of relief.
"You look so weak!" a joking voice came from beside me.
Xing Yifei looked at her with a smile, and finally climbed up using his hands and feet. It was already dark at this time, and the mist added a touch of weird color to the woods. The moon was hanging on the treetops, and there were some insects chirping on the trees. A cool wind blew, and Tian Xiaolan shivered suddenly.
Tian Xiaolan lowered her eyes and pretended to be calm in denying, "You are weak. You can't even climb out of the pit you fell into."
Maybe it was because it was getting dark or because there was something wrong with her eyes, but Tian Xiaolan couldn’t see Xing Yifei’s face clearly. She only felt a dark shadow lying in front of her.
When did she develop night blindness?
"You're right. I, a weak person, won't bother you anymore."
As he said this, he got up from the ground. The wound on his knee had stopped bleeding. He used the stick to climb up the slope, taking one deep step and one shallow step.
Tian Xiaolan glanced at the sky, and could still hear the faint howling of wolves. She quickly chased after him and whispered urgently, "Wait for me, are you going to leave your savior here?"
He took a few steps forward, held Xing Yifei's hand, and said calmly, "What are you looking at? I'm just afraid you'll fall again. Let's go!"
He tried to pull her hand helplessly, but her grip was so tight that he couldn't get it free. Xing Yifei ignored her and tried to find a way out first. He walked back to the woods where he had found the Ganoderma lucidum. His bag was still on the tree with a few cakes in it. If he couldn't get back at night, he could just take the bag and he wouldn't go hungry.
"You, go knock that bag down from the tree."
Tian Xiaolan obediently picked up a few stones from the ground, held the stones in her hands and threw them at the tree that Xing Yifei pointed to. The stones formed a curve in the sky, avoided the tree and flew to the side. She threw several stones in succession, but they didn't even touch the edge of the tree.
…
"Can't you see? Look at what number this is?" He raised his hand and stretched out two fingers in front of Tian Xiaolan, wondering if she was pretending to be stupid.
Tian Xiaolan slapped her hand away and took out the mushroom from her pocket, her stomach growling in response.
"Two, what do you mean? I can see. How about mushrooms tonight."
Xing Yifei brought her to a cave that they had accidentally discovered before. The cave was dark and quiet. She followed Xing Yifei in. He skillfully found firewood, took out a match from a corner, and rubbed the matchbox with the tip of the match, and a fire started.
The firewood deep in the cave was piled together and lit. The flames grew from small to large, and Tian Xiaolan hurried over to warm herself.
"Comfortable!"
Xing Yifei looked at her happy smile and sat down quietly to warm himself by the fire. He had been lying in that damn place for so long that the mud on his back was stuck to it like a maggot, making him feel very uncomfortable.
As soon as Xing Yifei lifted up his clothes, he met a pair of clear eyes.
"I'm going to take off my clothes, are you sure you want to see?"
"oh."
As a new-age woman of the 21st century, Tian Xiaolan had seen everything, so she turned her back to avoid embarrassing him.
After she responded, he quickly took off his shirt, leaving only a pair of pants, and placed the clothes on a stone beside him to dry.
There was silence for a moment.
Staring at the shadow on the wall, Tian Xiaolan took the initiative to start a conversation: "Xing Yifei, why are you stealing Ganoderma lucidum?"
"My father is sick. Can you sell it to me?" Xing Yifei held the firewood tightly in his hand. His voice trembled a little. He tried to adjust his breathing, as if trying his best to hide his inner uneasiness.
Although she couldn't see Xing Yifei's expression, Tian Xiaolan noticed that his breathing was gradually becoming heavy.
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