In the cave where the fire was swaying, Peng Peng slept sweetly with Ding Man, a cat and a dog on their stomachs, limbs facing the sky, and Peng Peng also unconsciously moved his paws from time to time.

"We are injured like this, it can still sleep so soundly, do you have a little conscience?"

Xue Rin muttered while holding the strip of cloth torn from his clothes and wrapping it around Yao Zhixia's injured hand.

As soon as the words fell, Peng Peng actually snored, and Xue Rin was so angry that he stomped his feet.

Yao Zhixia didn't care about Pengpeng, but just quietly watched the gentle movements of Xue Rin's hand, a little surprised that he was so careful and patient.

"Hiss~" Feeling the pain in the palm of his hand, Yao Zhixia couldn't help but take a breath.

"Did it hurt you?" Xue Rin immediately stopped what he was doing and asked nervously.

"Nope. Yao Zhixia forcibly spread his palms.

"Do you think you're stupid? How can you pick up that thorny vine with your bare hands? You haven't practiced iron sand palms. ”

Xue Rin wrapped one hand, put Yao Zhixia's other hand in front of his eyes and continued to wrap the strip of cloth.

"I'm not in a hurry. Yao Zhixia looked at the hand that had been wrapped in the strip of cloth, which was wrapped tightly like a mummy.

"One second I didn't blink, and the next second I went offline. You can't take such a risk in the future, what if the wound is infected, or if the plant is poisonous?"

"You've been pierced too, I'll show you too. Yao Zhixia saw the little blood stains on Xue Rin's clothes, and was a little uneasy, and made a gesture to stand up.

"Don't worry about it, stay honest, it's not done yet! Xue Rin pressed Yao Zhixia's shoulder and continued to chatter.

"Tomorrow you will stop working, lest you make the wound worse. You just wait for me in the cave, and I'll go to the boat and pull some more supplies. ”

Yao Zhixia nodded obediently, seeing that Xue Rin had wrapped the strips of cloth and was about to stand up, but found that his hands had no fulcrum, and he couldn't stand up at all.

Xue Rin couldn't help but smile when he saw Yao Zhixia clumsily struggling to get up, and then took her arms and lifted her up.

Yao Zhixia couldn't stand on his feet for a while, leaned over, and his face was directly attached to Xue Rin's chest, Yao Zhixia was so surprised by this sudden close contact that he tried to pull away, but his arms were held in Xue Rin's hands, and his upper body couldn't move at all.

"Hmm...... It's not too early, let's go to bed. Xue Rin pretended to be calm.

"Huh?"

"Well, I mean, you go to sleep, I'll clean up the chickens. ”

Xue Rin didn't dare to look down at the top of Yao Zhixia's head, his eyes swept around uncomfortably, straightened Yao Zhixia's body, carried her to the straw mat, settled her, and put the quilt on her.

"Be careful, don't get cut by a knife, cut a hole in the breast of the chicken, and take out the internal organs. ”

Yao Zhixia, who was lying in the quilt, still explained to Xue Rin uneasily.

"Okay! Got it! Go to sleep! Get up tomorrow morning and drink chicken soup. Xue Rin said, tucking the corners of the quilt.

Seeing that Yao Zhixia finally closed his eyes obediently, Xue Rin got up softly, walked out of the cave with the chicken, and began to study how to pluck feathers and take internal organs by the faint light of the fire.

While Xue Rin was working, he looked into the cave from time to time, the warm firelight reflected on her face, he stared at her eyebrows, and unconsciously stopped the movement of his hand.

He wasn't a fool, he could feel what had caused her to lose her mind and composure, but he vaguely didn't want to explain.

A warm current slowly flowed in Xue Rin's heart, so quiet that even he didn't notice it, he deliberately withdrew his gaze and continued the work in his hand, a secret smile raised at the corner of his mouth.

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When Yao Zhixia opened his eyes again, the cave had been covered with a golden veil of sunlight, and the kettle was placed above the stone-stacked stove, and there was a gurgling sound from inside, and the fire below occasionally crackled.

Yao Zhixia smelled the smell of meat in the air, but the straw mat beside her was empty, even Peng Peng and Ding Man had disappeared, she looked out of the cave, but Xue Rin was nowhere to be seen.

She barely supported the straw mat on her elbows, moved a little, and finally stood on the big stone at the entrance of the cave, looking out into the woods.

Today's sun is very big, and a layer of fine sweat appeared on Yao Zhixia's forehead, but she didn't pay attention, and her eyes kept searching in the direction of the mountain.

"Wow, Wow, Wow!"

It's Puffy!

Yao Zhixia saw Peng Peng's reddish-brown figure shuttling between the trees from a distance, followed by Ding Man, who was chasing after him as hard as he could.

She bowed down and looked behind them, only to be completely relieved when she saw Xue Rin walking back with the box.

Xue Rin also saw Yao Zhixia who was looking forward to it in the distance, he stopped and stretched out a hand to wave it in the air.

A bright smile bloomed on Yao Zhixia's face, and she happily raised her arms, her hands wrapped in strips of cloth crossed above her head.

"Have you drunk chicken soup?" Xue Rin shouted.

"Waiting for you to drink together!" Yao Zhixia put her hands to her mouth.

Xue Rin walked closer and said proudly, "Look at what treasures I brought back!"

Xue Rin pulled the supplies into the hole, and Yao Zhixia wanted to step forward to help put things away, but was pressed aside by Xue Rin.

"Don't do it! just watch from the sidelines and give me a round of applause!"

As soon as Yao Zhixia heard the music, she no longer insisted, and stood aside to watch Xue Rin unpack it.

Xue Rin took out a plastic basin from the box and held it in front of Yao Zhixia, "How about it! Isn't it great! So that we can use hot water to wash our clothes, face, and hair, and you don't have to go all the way to the lake." ”

Yao Zhixia nodded happily.

"I also came back with some canned food, and there were a few bottles of canned fruit! I ate those sour and astringent wild fruits every day, and I was sick to my stomach. ”

Xue Rin said and put a few bottles of canned food according to categories, Yao Zhixia noticed that one of them was a red hawthorn can, and she couldn't help but swallow.

"Shall we have a canned hawthorn today?"

It was rare for Xue Rin to hear what Yao Zhixia would take the initiative to make, so he immediately agreed: "What's not okay with this, you can eat whatever you want!"

After packing up the supplies, Xue Rin lifted the kettle, poured the chicken soup that had already been made into the iron lunch box, and put a few pieces of chicken meat in the soup with a knife and fork, and handed it to Yao Zhixia.

Yao Zhixia was a little uncomfortable with Xue Rin's extra care of herself these days, and the feeling of being taken to heart by another person was too strange to her.

"Take it quickly! hot hands!" Xue Rin saw that she was hesitating, so he urged her hard.

Yao Zhixia hurriedly took the lunch box, but as soon as she took it, she found that the lunch box was warm, not only did she feel hot, but she felt that the temperature of the soup was just right for her mouth.

She looked down and saw that there were two chicken legs in the lunch box.

"You eat this! I can't eat so much!" Yao Zhixia took out a chicken leg and handed it to Xue Rin.

"I still have it! If you can't eat, eat the next meal. Xue Rin raised his hand to show Yao Zhixia the chicken wings in his hand.

Yao Zhixia snatched the chicken wings from Xue Rin's hand, put them in his lunch box, and stuffed his chicken leg into Xue Rin's hand.

"I don't like pure meat, I like to gnaw on bones. This time, Yao Zhixia became angry, and after she finished speaking, she immediately took a bite of the chicken wings.

Xue Rin couldn't help but laugh when she looked at her stubborn appearance.

"What are you laughing at!Eat quickly!" Yao Zhixia didn't know why.

"Fool!" Xue Rin finished and took a big bite of the chicken leg.

Peng Peng on the side had already gobbled up his share of chicken bones, and was watching Ding Man next to him chew slowly and enjoy the fat chicken breast.

"Puff Pong, your saliva has fallen to the ground!" Xue Rin turned around and saw Puff Pong staring at the unfinished chicken on the ground.

"You are righteous, and you don't rob Ding Man of meat like that. ”

Xue Rin said, and threw the gnawed chicken leg bone to Pengpeng, who opened his mouth wide as quickly as possible, grasped the bone accurately, and lay on the ground to gnaw on it contentedly.

Xue Rin snorted lightly and turned around, only to see Yao Zhixia holding the lunch box in front of him.

"I'm full, you can drink some soup. Yao Zhixia stuffed the lunch box into Xue Rin's hand, got up and walked out of the cave.

"What are you going to do?"

"It's too hot in the cave, I'll go out and cool off. ”

Yao Zhixia tied up her sweat-soaked hair and hid in the shade outside the cave, perhaps because of drinking chicken soup, her face and neck were sweaty.

Xue Rin raised his head, drank the rest of the chicken soup in one gulp, and then immediately ran out.

"How come your hair is wet like you've taken a shower. ”

Yao Zhixia's cheeks were flushed, her sweat-soaked hair was sticking to her ears, and a drop of sweat slid down her neck and chest.

"Drinking hot soup in the summer, I wrapped my hands and couldn't breathe, it was so hot that I was dizzy. Yao Zhixia said as she fanned her face with her hand.

Xue Rin thought for a moment and said, "I'll help you wash your hair!"

"Huh?"

"Cool and cool for you!"

Xue Rin ran back to the cave as he spoke, and when he came out again, he already had a basin of water in his hand.

"Wait for me!" he confessed and ran in the direction of the falls.

Yao Zhixia watched Xue Rin walk around the cave and outside the cave like this, boiling water for a while and looking for a towel for a while.

Looking at the man in front of her, she suddenly remembered what her mother had been like many years ago.

When she was a child, every time she washed her hair, her mother would ask her to bring a small bench and put a basin of water on it.

The mother's hands are soft but strong, although there is a layer of calluses, Yao Zhixia loves her mother to massage her scalp, which is the warmth she will never forget for the rest of her life, and it is also a rare quiet time for the mother and daughter.

Xue Rin put the basin of warm water on the big stone at the entrance of the cave, and pulled Yao Zhixia over.

"I really don't need you to bother, I'll just do it myself!" Yao Zhixia was a little embarrassed.

"Come on, your hands won't get better for a week, you smell your hair, and it stinks if you don't wash it!"

Xue Rin pressed Yao Zhixia's back with one hand and asked her to bow down, while with the other hand grabbed Yao Zhixia's wrist and pinned it behind her to prevent her from resisting.

"I don't have ......it!"

"Bend over!"

Xue Rin directly ignored Yao Zhixia's rebuttal this time, grabbed her neck and pressed it into the water.

Who knew that this water temperature was just right for Xue Rin's hands, but for Yao Zhixia's scalp, it was really unbearable.

Yao Zhixia, who was burned, couldn't help but retract his head, but this shrinking head hit the chin of Xue Rin, who was bowing down, impartially.

"Ahh

Xue Rin let go of his hand, covering his aching chin with both hands.

Yao Zhixia knew that he was in trouble, and hurriedly reached out to rub Xue Rin's chin, but he grabbed him.

"Don't move!"

Xue Rin stopped what he was doing and stared at Yao Zhixia's eyes.

Being stared at by Xue Rin's serious and sharp eyes, Yao Zhixia unconsciously lowered his eyes.

"You wait for me here, I'll go get some cold water. ”

Xue Rin immediately let go of Yao Zhixia's hand, rubbed his chin and left, leaving the guilty Yao Zhixia standing in place.

While waiting, Yao Zhixia gave herself a little psychological construction, and finally decided to accept Xue Rin's kindness with peace of mind.

This island seems to have magical power, which makes Yao Zhixia's long-standing secret inferiority complex and unconscious wariness of men gradually disappear.

Far from the slightest fear of possible death these days, she has always felt a sense of security and groundedness that she has never felt before, and if time could stop, she would rather stay in this moment forever.

Xue Rin's slender fingers shuttled between Yao Zhixia's hair, and the warm water poured down from the top of her head, Xue Rin had only washed her mother's hair when she was sick before, and she hadn't done this kind of thing for a long time, and her technique seemed very rusty, but fortunately, he deliberately lightened the intensity.

After washing his hair, he took a little water with both hands and poured it on the back of Yao Zhixia's neck, and gently stroked her neck with both hands along the water, Yao Zhixia trembled unconsciously.

"What's wrong, what's uncomfortable?" Xue Rin immediately stopped.

"No, no, it's windy, I'm excited. Yao Zhixia was glad that Xue Rin couldn't see her expression at the moment.

When Xue Rin heard this, he hurriedly dried Yao Zhixia's hair with a towel, and finally wrapped the towel around her head.

"Wait a minute. Xue Rin ran back to the cave and came out with an extra piece of clothing in his hand.

"You put it on, don't catch a cold. Xue Rin said as he draped his wide shirt over Yao Zhixia's shoulders.

Yao Zhixia knew that she had told a little lie, so she tightened her clothes and didn't look over her head to see the scenery.