Volume 2 Frontier Chapter 19 The Ins and Outs
Chunyue was like a walking corpse, exhausted and dragged her injured body into the Mountain Spirit Village, the whole state was the same as when she went out in the morning, and her promise to come back before dark was not fulfilled.
The villagers who occasionally passed by, I don't know if it was because the night was too dark, or because they were already indifferent, they didn't pay attention to Chunyue, who was covered in scars and slow to move, and only cared about the road in front of them, pretending not to notice anything unusual.
Before reaching the hut where they lived, she let out a long sigh, pushed open the door, moved into the house with difficulty, put down her cane, and sat down on the bed with her head bowed silently.
"You're back, didn't you tell you to go back before three o'clock in the afternoon, why did this time come, are you..."
"You... You are... How did it get like this..."Mo Cheng got up from the bed, and looked closely, she had more than a dozen external injuries all over her body, her clothes were torn and she couldn't cover her body, her left hand was holding her right shoulder and she didn't move, and she could see that it was the most seriously injured.
Mo Cheng hurriedly got out of bed, took the right shoulder in her hand with both hands, carefully checked it back and forth, frowned and said: "This is a broken shoulder, I can't take it, the medicine I made can treat trauma and relieve pain, and the highest level potion is used to heal bones, I can't make it, you drink this bottle first." After speaking, he took out a bottle of pale red potion from his bosom and handed it to Chunyue.
Chunyue took it and held it in her hand motionlessly, looking at Mo Cheng and not knowing what she wanted to express. Mo Cheng was still checking other wounds, and when he saw her stop, he raised his head, just staring at her, both of them were silent, and after a while, Chun Yue cried loudly, holding Mo Cheng regardless of it, sad.
"What's wrong with you, why are you so wronged, who injured you like this, don't worry, I will fix you with gauze and wooden boards in a while, the bones will heal on their own, and when you are injured, we will go back to take revenge." Mo Cheng just remembered to bandage her wounds, but Chunyue hugged her so hard that she couldn't move.
"Okay, okay, I don't move, don't push hard, it hurts. The two hugged each other for a long time, until the frequency of Chunyue's sobbing slowed down, and Mo Cheng changed his posture slightly to relieve his already numb legs.
"You're tired. Junyue let go of Dark Orange as she spoke, wiping her tears while holding the potion she had given her in her left hand.
Mo Cheng got up with pain on his face, the right side of his clothes was soaked with tears, and he struggled to hold on to the edge of the bed and twisted his body to sit down, and then hugged his numb legs with both hands and straightened them.
"You drink the bottle of medicine first, it won't hurt if you drink it, I'll take it slowly, and fix your shoulder for a while. ”
Chunyue looked at the small glass bottle in front of her, about twenty milliliters in capacity, the mouth of the bottle was sealed with a wooden cork, and she wanted to open it with her right hand, but the pain was unbearable as soon as she moved, so she had to bite it out with her teeth and drink it all.
The wounds on the body began to heal slowly, and the slight swing of the right hand did not feel the pain, but due to the cracking of the bones, it was still unable to move normally.
"Isn't it painful, come here, I'll help you fix your shoulder, and tomorrow I'll do some medicine to speed up bone healing, and it won't take long to grow." Mo Cheng took the medicine bottle in Chunyue's hand, virtualized it, and took out a wooden board and gauze, wrapping her shoulder and right hand left and right.
"During this time, it can't be used here, if it hurts again in a few days, tell me, I'll give you painkillers, and the trauma on your body will not be in the way tomorrow, and those that don't heal completely can recover on their own." After the bandaging was completed, Mo Cheng stood up and moved his body, stretching his waist and abdomen from side to side.
"Thank you, meeting you is the luckiest thing I have ever done to the Human Continent. ”
"Hmm, what the hell did you encounter on the black market, and why did you get hurt like this?"
Chunyue was temporarily relieved by the physical pain, coupled with the previous crying and runny nose, and was able to vent emotionally, so she told Mocheng all her experience in the black market, and when the cyclops was mentioned, she cried again, but it was already controllable, not as heartbreaking as just now.
"Your spirit stone is... I took it. Mo Cheng lowered his head and suddenly said this.
"What did you say, what did you take?" Chunyue questioned that she hadn't heard clearly, and asked again.
"I took your spirit stone, not someone from the black market. Mo Cheng avoided her gaze, not daring to make eye contact with her.
Chunyue originally thought that she was the only person she could trust here, from her listless entry into the house, to the kindness and warmth she felt from the dark orange, and now, all these changes made her overwhelmed, and she remembered the unbearable self when she came back, so she asked with a gloomy expression: "Why did you do this?"
Mo Cheng is not a person who is easy to have emotions with others, except for the Patriarch, she doesn't care about anyone, this time she treats Chunyue so kindly, and she is relied on and caring, it is indeed not like what she usually does, maybe it is because she is ashamed that she will deliberately behave like this.
"I can explain that I started out for your own good, not to steal your money. She paused, glancing at Junyue.
"Didn't Village Chief Xia look for me yesterday, he did discuss with me if he could leave you to protect the village, let me be an intermediary and say good things, although he sent a messenger to Homeland City two days ago, and also got a reply from the young city lord who would send more mercenaries to come, but the time is uncertain, he is afraid that an accident will happen, if this place is looted again, he will really not be able to live, so he thought of you in case of emergency. The other thing is to ask me to steal your animal skin bag, didn't we discuss buying herbs before we had dinner yesterday? When you gave me three gold coins, he happened to bump into me, and I kept covering it up at the time, but he still got into a thief's heart, and asked me about it, trying for me to find an opportunity to steal the animal skin bag. But I didn't say yes, so I refused at the time. ”
"And then?" asked Junyue weakly.
"Didn't you go to him, I took this opportunity to rummage through your animal skin bag out of curiosity, and found that there were two spirit stones and a lot of gold coins inside. I took the spirit stone, I didn't move the gold coin, I was afraid that you would find out, so I found two stones of the same size and put them in, but I didn't expect it to be really fooled. ”
"Why don't you take it all?"
"Take it all, you must have found it, and the thief will confirm that it is undoubtedly me. I didn't take it away to help Village Chief Xia, I came here to save people, not to steal things, and the old man Xia always made some difficult requests, which was particularly annoying. ”
"You're just picking a valuable one, no different from Village Chief Xia. Junyue no longer believed her arguments.
"That's not it, I thought at the time, since Village Chief Xia has already set his sights on you, he must find someone else to steal it, it is better for me to take the spirit stone away for safekeeping, and when you find out that it was stolen, I will return the spirit stone to you, saving you a lot of losses in the end." ”
"Where's the spirit stone?"
"Don't mention it, he cried and knelt down, and begged me with a group of villagers, saying that you are different from them, you wasteland people have strong adaptability, outstanding survival skills, and can live without spirit stones, and they have just been looted, the grain has been robbed, and the land is also barren, these two spirit stones are life-saving money, or the whole village will be destroyed, etc., kneeling there and kowtowing to me vigorously, saying that it is pitiful, I can't bear to listen to it, so I gave it to him. ”
"How did he know that the spirit stone was with you?"
"Did your money bag be stolen in the black market, that is, he sent someone, after we set off in the morning, he asked someone to follow behind, saying that you stole it when you had a conflict with others, and when you took it back, there were dozens of gold coins and two stones in it, and he guessed that the spirit stone must have been dropped by me, so he brought someone to find me. ”
"Why didn't you tell me in the first place?"
"Do I dare to say? I said what would you think of me, I don't know you, you are a wastelander, you are absolutely strong here, we are not afraid compared to you, you are going to be furious and kill us all, can we resist?"
"Hmph, I'm a waster, and the wastelanders shouldn't be here at all. Chunyue sighed angrily.
"My idea is very simple, the villagers take away the gold coins, I will help you keep the spirit stone, and when the incident happens, I will return the spirit stone to you, the villagers pretend to be pitiful and beg for mercy, I believe you will not continue to pursue it, the best of both worlds, but unfortunately it did not develop according to my plan. "Mocheng seems to be kind-hearted, but it always makes people feel that no matter what she does, it's for fun.
"Why don't you just say it, you have to steal?"
"Who can be sure you're going to give it? The people in this place never believe in good people, good people are just big liars to whitewash their own name, if you believe him, the end will only be worse. Haven't you seen the black market, even I was deceived, who else is trustworthy. But you can't blame them all, the customs here are like this, they envy people who have lived well, but they never achieve it through their own efforts, but use some indiscriminate means to find opportunities to harm others and rob others. The border, it's embarrassing. Mo Cheng felt that he had seen through everything, and sighed with emotion.
"You heal me, don't be afraid that I'll kill you if I'm better. ”
"This is also what I want to say, I stole your spirit stone out of good intentions, although the result was unsatisfactory, but I never thought of harming you, in the final analysis, your injury was all because of Village Chief Xia, you have to take revenge on him, after all, all the benefits have been given to him. I'll do my best to help you with treatment, and even if the two of us are even, you can see if it's okay. "Dark Orange haggled like nobody.
"Alas..."During the whole conversation, Chunyue didn't look at her, her face was expressionless and weak, in order to let her finish the story, she is not in the mood now, and she doesn't have the strength to talk nonsense with her anymore, the experience of Shanling Village has made her see through human nature, and she is discouraged, and she doesn't want to have any intersection with this world.
The night was getting deeper and deeper, Chunyue was exhausted, and she fell asleep after just lying down, and Mo Cheng explained everything clearly, relieved, and fell asleep. In the same room, the two of them were neither friends nor enemies, so they got along peacefully, and they didn't know how to get over tonight.