Jun Haoyue stretched out his long arm and snatched Danqing back from her hand. Xu Xingchen was still pondering the identity of the woman in the painting when it was suddenly taken away. She let out a low "ah".
The person who took the painting rolled it up and put it in the box of painting tools. He pointed seriously at the painting of high mountains and green pines on the table and asked, "How about this one?"
Xu Xingchen looked in the direction his finger pointed, took a look and nodded approvingly, saying, "Not bad, not bad, comparable to everyone else." But this time she was not so easily fooled.
She then asked, "Who is the woman in the painting just now?"
Jun Haoyue remained expressionless and didn't answer. Xu Xingchen peppered him with questions, "Is this the person you like? Your sweetheart?"
"Could it be..." Her eyes widened, Jun Haoyue's heart tightened, and he felt a little nervous.
"Could it be your ideal partner?"
Jun Haoyue calmed down and curled his lips, "No, I just made it casually." After that, he lowered his head to pack up his tools and ignored her.
Xu Xingchen circled around him without giving up: "Tell me."
"But I'm your cousin!" she emphasized in a high-pitched voice.
"It's fake." Jun Gaoleng Haoyue replied without even raising his head.
"You and me, aren't we friends?" She played the emotional card.
Jun Haoyue said: "Friends also have their own privacy."
This sentence blocked Xu Xingchen's reasoning. She curled her lips and spat, "Stingy!"
"Okay, I'll take these to the calligraphy and painting workshop in town today to ask." After packing up, Jun Haoyue carried the box containing calligraphy and paintings and said to Xu Xingchen.
Xu Xingchen tilted his head, "You won't take me with you?"
"What should I do with the one in my room when you're not here?"
He realized that he was talking about the beggar, but somehow, Xu Xingchen heard a hint of displeasure in his words.
"That's right...be careful on the road then."
After Jun Haoyue left, Xu Xingchen turned on the light brain and entered the system backpack to look for medicine that could heal the wound. After looking around, he found no functional medicine except disinfectant and painkillers.
What can we do? Just disinfecting and giving them pain relief isn't enough; they need treatment. Medical care here is so poor, getting tetanus or something like that would be incredibly painful.
She opened the almighty Baidu again and entered the question in the search bar. After thinking for a moment, she added the word "ancient".
After sifting through herbs that didn't fit the season or location, I finally settled on Imperata cylindrica, a grass native to the north that can be found along riverbanks. The snow on the mountain has melted, so I should be able to find it there.
Before leaving, Xu Xingchen told the beggars in the house not to run around in front of Jun Haoyue's door, then he carried the bamboo basket and went up the mountain.
When she reached halfway up the mountain, she saw Zhang Xiaochun chatting with another man. She did not appear to disturb them, but hid behind a huge rock.
The man turned his head as he spoke. Xu Xingchen searched her memory. There were only about twenty households in Sanwan Village, and she had no recollection of such a person. It seemed this man was from another village.
Zhang Xiaochun said to the man with a shy look on her face, "Brother Qiangzi, you called me out like this, aren't you afraid of being seen?"
The man replied heroically: "Don't worry, your brother Qiangzi is here, don't be afraid, at worst, I won't fight anymore, I will marry you."
As soon as these words were spoken, Zhang Xiaochun covered his face and stamped his feet in shame.
"Sister Chun, it's spring now, and all the birds and beasts are out. Whatever you want to eat, no matter if it flies in the sky or swims in the water, as long as you want it, I will catch it for you." The man said solemnly to show his masculinity.
In fact, the man had already made preparations. He had buried traps nearby in advance. When the time came, he could just treat the prey caught in the trap as his own. This would not only fool the stupid woman in front of him, but also demonstrate his ability, killing two birds with one stone.
Zhang Xiaochun thought of Xu Xingchen's family always having pheasants and rabbits, and said inexplicably: "I want to eat pheasants and rabbits."
The man called Brother Qiangzi pounded his chest and said, "No problem, watch me catch eight or ten."
Hearing this, Xu Xingchen silently stood up and stepped back, intending to find another way up the mountain.
After taking a few steps, there was a sudden scream, "Ah——"
She was startled and went back behind the boulder. She thought Zhang Xiaochun was being bullied, but she didn't expect that both of them were being "bullied".
A black snake spit out its tongue and slid towards the two of them at an extremely fast speed. Zhang Xiaochun was so scared that her legs went weak. After screaming, she collapsed to the ground. The man who had just vowed to marry her saw the black snake and ran away without looking back. He disappeared in the blink of an eye.
The black snake did not change its target because of the man's departure, and continued to move towards Zhang Xiaochun. The rustling sound of the snake sliding on the ground, the hissing sound of its tongue, and Zhang Xiaochun's whimpering sounds all entered Xu Xingchen's ears.
Xu Xingchen originally thought that since Zhang Xiaochun had troubled her many times, it would be no big deal if she suffered a little, until she saw the markings on the black snake.
Poisonous snake - black tiger snake!
After this bite, even if Zhang Xiaochun didn't die, he would only be half alive.
Action speaks louder than thought. Before Xu Xingchen could think, she rushed out, the wooden fork in her hand stabbing straight at the snake's head that was about to bite Zhang Xiaochun.
The black tiger snake was extremely cunning. It slid out from between the wooden forks!
Xu Xingchen screamed "Oh no!" and had to pull up the limp Zhang Xiaochun and run away. Zhang Xiaochun was dragged forward, which greatly hindered Xu Xingchen's movements.
The black tiger snake was not willing to let go of its prey and rushed towards them like lightning.
Xu Xingchen saw that she couldn't escape by running, and there was a slope next to her. She made up her mind and pushed Zhang Xiaochun down the slope. There was a mountain road below the slope, so Zhang Xiaochun should be able to escape.
After pushing the person down, she was free of the burden and moved much more agilely.
The black tiger snake first coiled its body into a spring shape, then suddenly rushed out and rushed straight towards Xu Xingchen's face. The fishy smell hit his face. Xu Xingchen was startled and lunged to the side, landing on his arm first.
Finally, the snake dodged it. With a "snap" sound, Xu Xingchen felt a pain in his arm. A cut was made on it. It turned out to be a hunting trap!
Xu Xingchen cursed inwardly, "Knock, which bastard buried it here?" She rolled twice and happened to slide down the slope.
Not surprisingly, she ran into Zhang Xiaochun, who was pushed down by her. The first time Zhang Xiaochun saw her, he yelled, "Widow Xu, what do you mean by pushing me down?"
Xu Xingchen stood up, covering his arm, and looked up at the slope he rolled down. The black tiger snake did not chase him, so he replied to Zhang Xiaochun.
"You're like a dog biting Lu Dongbin. If it weren't for me, you would have been bitten by a poisonous snake long ago."
Zhang Xiaochun wanted to open her mouth to refute, but when she saw Xu Xingchen's bleeding arm, she lost her momentum. He did push her to save her, and now he was injured. No matter how you look at it, she was the one in the wrong.
"How are you?" she asked awkwardly.
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