Chapter 13
The cable-stayed bridge, about 300 meters long, connects the two mountains. Its deck is paved with twisted iron bars. The surging stream below is about 30 meters away. Walking on the bridge, one can see through the bars as long as one ducks. The bridge also sways, so those who are not brave enough might faint.
Among this group of people, Shao Tai, his sister, and several athletes all turned pale.
"Let's take a rest for a night first and recover our strength before crossing the bridge tomorrow!" Chu Huaiqin looked at others for their opinions.
"That's fine," Su Huaichen agreed, glancing at the iron chain bridge and quickly turning his head back. He was also afraid, "Let's camp farther away, it's safer."
Everyone agreed. It was still early, just after four in the afternoon. They retreated about ten meters before deciding where to camp. They began clearing the ground, picking up branches, and cutting the stove. Lin Yongfu dug a small hole in the ground and stacked stones in three directions, sighing as he did so. "Our food consisted of leftover mushrooms from this morning and a handful of noodles. After we boiled them, the water was gone, and so was the food."
Chu Huaiqin listened thoughtfully, walked to the edge of the bridge and looked down, then turned his head and called out, "Little monk."
"Brother, what's wrong?"
"Can you bring up the water?"
"No problem, leave it to me."
The little monk finished speaking and ran back to the camp. The first thing he did was to talk to Lin Zhinan, who was sitting on the ground taking off his shoes and removing the gauze. "Xiaonan, don't apply the medicine on your feet yet. I'll go get some water to clean them and then reapply them."
Lin Zhinan asked in surprise: "Is it the water under the suspension bridge?"
"yes."
"Did you think of that? That's amazing. How do you hang it?"
"Ah, hahaha," Xiao Heshang scratched his head, "Dig a hole on both sides of the bamboo tube, tie it with vines and throw it down, then lift it up little by little, that's how you get very little water."
"That's pretty cool too." Lin Zhinan smiled at the little monk. Since they set out on the journey, apart from his brother, the little monk helped him the most, carrying his backpack and helping others. Lin Zhinan quite liked the little monk's silly personality.
"Then can I go fishing?" Lin Zhinan's eyes lit up and he said excitedly, "I have a needle, fishing line and hook."
When my sister first participated in this program, it was undoubtedly a bit entertaining, so she secretly brought these things with her. In addition, before departure, the director had no restrictions on clothes and these small things, so Lin Zhinan brought them up.
"This..." The distance between the halfway point of the mountain and the bottom of the valley was thirty meters. When the wind blew, I didn't know where the fish had flown. How could I catch them? But seeing his sister like this, the little monk didn't want to disappoint her, so he was speechless for a moment.
"Sure," Chu Huaiqin's voice sounded from behind the little monk, "Tie a few small stones to the fishing line to hold it down. The hook should be able to sink into the water. Whether you can catch a fish is hard to say, but you can give it a try."
"Then I'll try." The sister's gloomy mood instantly brightened up because of Chu Huaiqin's words. She took out slippers from her bag and put them on. She wanted to drag the little monk to try it, but Chu Huaiqin stopped her and asked them to find earthworms first. So the two children went to catch earthworms excitedly. Looking at the bamboo tube on the ground, Chu Huaiqin called Feng Shan over and asked him to go with the little monk to hang water.
Chu Huaiqin called Su Huaichen, Bing Xiangjiang and Boyi over and divided them into two teams to look for food. He also asked Lin Yongfu to look around the iron chain bridge and the camp to see if he could find anything from the director team.
The two of them walked into the dense forest with the frames on their backs. Su Huaichen asked Chu Huaiqin about the intersection of the three lines. "Our map shows that we're going to the iron chain bridge. This is the intersection point. Why don't we see Group A2?"
"Maybe they are at the foot of the mountain." Chu Huaiqin guessed.
This guess turned out to be correct. Although Group A2 had saved time by foraging along the streamside compared to Chu Huaiqin and his group, Yang Ling's health had slowed their progress. As a result, their overall progress was roughly the same as Chu Huaiqin and his group. They were now arguing fiercely by the stream below the suspension bridge. The cause was Yang Ling, who had been traveling all day, had fainted. Chang Rong and Luo Jun accused Tong Tiao and the others of being inconsiderate, while amateur Guo Wan accused Yang Ling of being delicate. The two groups argued until the team doctor administered fumigation to Yang Ling, who finally stopped. Finally, Yang Ling declared she couldn't go any further and demanded to return to the city to rest.
The director of the filming team asked worriedly, "Are you choosing to abstain?"
"I'm not giving up," Yang Ling shook her hair, her face pale as she brushed her hair, and said in a hoarse voice, "I'm going back to the city for treatment due to health issues. I'll be back after I'm healed."
The group director said helplessly: "Sister Yang, this is against the rules"
"I'm not eliminated due to health reasons," Yang Ling's eyes instantly turned red. "You directors, please be reasonable!"
"There are only two options here, continue or abstain."
Director Huang's voice came from the drone, and his attitude was much more resolute than that of the group directors. This cold voice also aroused dissatisfaction among Yang Ling's fans in the A1 live broadcast room. She has been in the industry for more than ten years, filmed countless TV shows, and is the best actress. She has her own fan base. In an instant, the live broadcast room was filled with abusive comments. What's more, Yang Ling's fans even went directly to Weibo to bomb the official Weibo of the program team and the director team. In an instant, the hot searches for the outdoor live broadcast room once again ranked among the top. For a time, Weibo was in turmoil.
However, this did not affect Chu Huaiqin and the others. At this time, the two of them were standing in front of a tree, looking at two unknown fruits on the tree that were oval, slightly yellow in appearance, not very long, and covered with scales, and chatting.
"Is it a mutant durian?" Su Huaichen reached out and touched it. The scales were very hard, very similar to durian, but also a little different from durian. "This little thing looks quite unique."
I bent down and smelled it. It smelled really good, but it wasn't the smell of durian.
"careful."
Chu Huaiqin saw a green thing pulling down from the corner of his eye, and hurriedly reached out to pull Su Huaichen, but it was too late. The green hairy insect brushed past Su Huaichen's nose and fell to the ground. Su Huaichen, who was bent over, was stunned at first, and then his eyes turned red instantly.
"Oh, that's hot! It hurts."
Su Huaichen yelled and reached out to wipe it, but Chu Huaiqin held his hand down, "Don't touch it, if you touch this thing, your hand will get sticky too."
This green insect is unique to jackfruit. Its hair is very thick and will shed. Even if the wind blows and it sticks to your skin, it will feel itchy, hot, painful, and swollen. If you scratch it, the skin will be broken even more seriously.
Chu Huaiqin lifted the corner of Su Huaichen's clothes and covered the area behind his nose, then moved closer to him and blew air at the tip of his nose to blow away the tiny insect hairs that had settled on it. Su Huaichen, who had already been hurt by the insect hairs, burst into tears and wanted to scratch his nose hard.
"It still hurts and itches!" Su Huaichen blinked, and tears slid down uncontrollably. He blinked twice because of the discomfort. For a moment, the temperament of the weak and handsome scholar was very seductive, and Chu Huaiqin, who grabbed Su Huaichen's wrist with one hand and lifted the corner of his clothes to cover his mouth with the other hand, was like a bully.
The camera of A1's live broadcast room just happened to turn from Group A2 at this time.
Live broadcast audience: ...
Someone in front of the live broadcast room: ...
Xia En, who was one step behind, said: ...
"What are you doing?" Xia En shouted from afar, looking at the scene in disbelief. Then, with a fierce gleam in his eyes, he rushed down the hillside like a raging dragon, with his veins bulging. He rushed to the two of them, pulled Chu Huaiqin's hand away, pulled him behind him, and yelled at Su Huaichen, "What did you do to him?"
Su Huaichen: ...
audience:……
"I..." Su Huaichen was a little confused by the insect hair. After hearing Xia En's words, he spoke for a while: "I feel itchy and want Huaiqin..."
Xia Entang said angrily: "You...ah..."
Chu Huaiqin kicked Xia En's calf without any hesitation, causing him to scream in pain. He turned around and stared at Chu Huaiqin in disbelief, with endless accusations in his eyes that made people sad.
"If you make trouble again, I will beat you up, believe it or not." Chu Huaiqin stretched out his hand, and Xia En instinctively shrank his neck and took two steps back. The state of the angry turkey just now immediately turned into a wilted little yellow chicken, but his eyes were full of dissatisfaction and anger.
Chu Huaiqin looked at Su Huaichen and said, "Don't scratch your nose. It will swell up if you do. Just bear with it and go back to find some peanut oil to rub it on."
Su Huaichen sniffed and nodded. While Chu Huaiqin turned around to chop the two jackfruits, he walked closer to Xia En and said, "Your last name is Xia? What a coincidence, haha!"
Xia En frowned and said coldly, "What are you laughing at?"
Su Huaichen turned around and smiled: "By the way, I am quite familiar with Huaiqin now. He might care about what I say!"
"What do you want to do?"
"Oh, it depends on my mood."
After saying that, Su Huaichen walked towards Chu Huaiqin, sniffing as he walked, his face grim. It was so hot and itchy, I wanted to scratch it.
"I kind of want to support the Chu-Su couple, what should I do? That scene just now, ahhh, I didn't take a screenshot, they are so compatible, especially when Actor Su looked at Chu Huaiqin, almost crying, I instantly imagined a million tragic love stories."
"The above post rejected it. Bully vs. Little Scholar. Sweet stories must be sweet stories."
"Here, give the pen upstairs and you write."
Because of Su Huaichen's nose, he wasn't in the mood to continue looking for food. Instead, Chu Huaiqin carried one and Xia Entang carried another, and the three of them quickly headed back. Su Huaichen was a bit embarrassed during this process, from sniffing at first to tears and snot running down his face, shocking the entire livestream. Are those bug hairs really that powerful? His nose was red even without scratching.
Back at the camp, Su Huaichen rushed to his backpack without Chu Huaiqin's reminder, took out a small bag of peanut oil from the director team, and rushed towards Chu Huaiqin like the wind. His dependent look made everyone in the camp look at him sideways.
When the cold peanut oil was applied, the initial tingling and itching sensation was the same. Su Huaichen couldn't help scratching it, but Chu Huaiqin held his hand and stopped him from moving, making him jump and dance on the spot with tears streaming down his face. After three or four minutes, the condition finally eased.
The first thing Su Huaichen did was wipe his eyes and nose dry. The second thing he did was rush to the director's camera to take a picture of his nose. He was relieved to see that it was only slightly red and swollen. The feeling just now was so strong that he thought his nose was swollen like a pig's nose.
On Chu Huaiqin's side, Xia Entang had been following him the entire time. He was there when Chu Huaiqin was applying oil to Su Huaichen. He was there when Chu Huaiqin turned around to see if Feng Shan and the others had caught anything in the water. He was there when he went to see if his sister had caught any fish.
Chu Huaiqin was puzzled, then slapped his forehead, finally understanding. He took a hatchet and cut one of the jackfruits in half. It was still raw, what a shame. He handed the unripe half to Xia En, "I'll give you a quarter if you bring it back. The flesh is still raw, but you can cook it and eat it. You can also eat the core. Just dig it out and boil it in water until it cracks."
"I don't want it."
Xia En refused, looking at Chu Huaiqin with a look of hesitation.
Chu Huaiqin: ...
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