Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Paradise
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There was dead silence all around, Su Muling's whole body couldn't move, his eyes couldn't see, he couldn't speak, he only felt a splitting headache. She seemed to have returned to the small river where Song Mingjie's broken leg and gouged out her eyes and tongue, and only the birds in the forest made a few cries from time to time.
Footsteps come from far and near. A low and hoarse male voice came from his ears: "Ling'er? ”
Why is this male voice so familiar? Su Muling tried to open her eyes, and in a trance, she saw a man walking in front of her with a copper basin, only Su Muling opened her eyes, and he was stunned and rushed to her in surprise.
"Are you awake?"
Su Muling's eyes finally focused and saw the person in front of him clearly: "Shizi? ”
It's good to recognize people, Wei Huai'an finally let go of his heart.
"We ...... Where are we? What about the ship? Where's Daddy? Su Muling looked around and lay on the ground, surrounded by a simple shack surrounded by branches.
Wei Huai'an helped her up, picked up the bowl from the side and handed it to her mouth.
"Drink some water first, and I'll tell you slowly."
Su Muling felt that his throat was smoking, his lips were chapped, leaning on his chest, holding his hand, drinking all the water in the bowl, he didn't have time to wipe his mouth, and hurriedly asked, "Shizi, where is Daddy?" Is he okay? ”
Wei Huai'an helped her sit down, and then spoke again:
"Master Su is fine. The waves were so strong that we didn't have time to get on the boat and were carried away by the waves. I thought we were going to die in the ocean, but a plank saved our lives. We drifted at sea for three days and we got here. Your leg was cut in the sea and you've been having a fever for the past few days. ”
Saying that, Wei Huaian stretched out his hand and put it on her forehead for a long time, withdrew his hand, and his tone was much more relaxed: "Fortunately, the fever is subsided now." ”
Hurt your leg? Su Muling looked down, and there was an unfamiliar piece of silk wrapped in her right leg, which was still aching.
After Wei Huai'an's explanation, the scattered memories in Su Muling's mind began to slowly integrate.
"I remember, Shizi, you saved me again."
Su Muling picked up a life and looked at Wei Huai'an gratefully, wandering on the sea without eating or drinking in the past few days, Wei Huai'an's eye sockets were sunken, and his cheeks were empty and thin.
Wei Huai'an showed his lazy smile and raised his head slightly without care.
"You don't have to be grateful to me, I'll settle this account with my cousin."
Su Muling smiled bitterly, this person looks like he doesn't care about anything, and people don't know how to pay it back if they owe it.
Su Muling struggled to get up, and Wei Huai'an supported her by the side.
"Where is this? Let's go find out if there's anybody. Even if you can't leave for the time being, you have to ask someone to send a letter to your father. We didn't get on the boat, and Daddy didn't know what to do, maybe he was looking for us somewhere now. ”
"Ling'er...... During the time you were unconscious, I had explored the entire island...... It's a deserted island and no one lives. So, if we want to get out of here, ...... It's a really difficult thing. ”
What the? Su Muling's movement touched the wound on her leg, and the pain made her close her eyes, and she slowed down before speaking.
"Desert island?" So we're stuck here?
Su Muling didn't know how to describe his mood at the moment. Shipwrecked at sea, immortal, trapped on a desert island. She didn't know whether she should be grateful to God for not killing or grateful to God for his tricks.
Wei Huaian knew that she might not be able to accept the truth for a while, so she could only patiently comfort her:
"Actually, you don't have to worry too much, you see that this island is full of mountains and trees, it really can't be done, we can build our own ship, we can always think of a way, but now what we have to do is to find a place to live."
He looked up at a few black clouds drifting in the distance, this beach is better when the weather is fine, in case of rain, even good people are afraid that they will go into gonorrhea.
Su Muling knew that he had made Wei Huai'an worry a lot, he was a pampered noble son, and he had never suffered or suffered. Being stranded on this uninhabited desert island this time is ultimately her responsibility. If she hadn't insisted on jumping into the sea at that time, Wei Huai'an would not have ended up here in order to save her.
She smiled reluctantly and took a few steps forward, the wound on her leg that made her stop.
"I'm afraid I can't walk a few steps on this leg."
"I'll carry you." Wei Huai'an walked up to her and squatted down.
Su Muling looked at his thin figure like a thorn and smiled bitterly: "You can't carry me." ”
"You're underestimating me, come up!" Wei Huai'an didn't get up, still maintaining that posture.
Su Muling hesitated for a moment, but still leaned on his back.
Wei Huai'an straightened up and adjusted his posture and walked into the woods in the distance.
Su Muling was lying on his back, feeling his thin bones, and he couldn't help but feel a little distressed. I'm afraid that in his life, others have always carried him and others, and it should be the first time in his twenty years.
Wei Huai'an walked forward without speaking, holding her legs as thin as arms.
Donggudao and his party have been coming and going for more than 40 days, because she is not used to the bumps on the boat, and the food is not as fine as at home, she has obviously lost a lot of weight. Coupled with the three days of sleepless and drifting on the sea through the dense fog that accompanied Su Haoran, the weight of her entire body was half that of ordinary people.
The weather was hot and muggy, a sign of impending rainstorms. Wei Huai'an quickened his pace, he had to find a place to hide before the rainstorm came.
Half an hour passed, and they entered a dense forest. The dense foliage blocked out the scorching sun, making them a little more comfortable.
After walking for about half an hour, they came to the foot of the mountain, and Wei Huai'an put Su Muling next to a boulder, intending to explore the terrain around. When they first drifted to this island, Wei Huai'an took advantage of Su Muling's sleepiness and walked along the coast, and there was no trace of human beings, but he did not go deep into the deep mountains and old forests.
Wei Huai'an broke off a branch from the tree on the side, removed the side branch in his hand, made a "crutch" and handed it to her.
"You wait here, I'll go and have a look."
Wei Huai'an left, and Su Muling sat on the ground, boredly using the cane in his hand to flick the weeds that grew in the crevices of the rocks. Suddenly, her hands were empty, and half of her crutches reached into the rocks...... Su Muling pushed aside the weeds and stepped forward to check, it was a small hole, she knelt on the ground and stretched out her hand to probe the hole, and there was a breeze coming from inside.
"The Prince...... Shizi ......" Su Muling shouted.
Wei Huai'an generally ran from a distance: "What's wrong?" Seeing that she was fine, he took a deep breath.
"Shizi, there is a hole here, and there is wind in it." Su Muling was excited about her discovery.
Wei Huai'an took a closer look, and there was indeed a small hole in the weeds, which was covered by dense weeds, and he couldn't see it if he didn't pay attention.
"I'll go in first."
After Wei Huai'an finished speaking, he lay on the ground regardless of his image and got into the hole.
Su Muling didn't expect that a person of Wei Huai'an's size could easily enter from such a small hole, and looked at the entrance of the cave in surprise for a long time without moving.
About a quarter of an hour, there was movement at the entrance of the cave, and Wei Huai'an came out of it, and his gray face couldn't hide the excitement in his eyes.
"Guess what's inside?"
Su Muling thought about it, what could be in a cave?
"Water?"
She heard Xiao Wenxuan say that there are dark rivers in some caves, and there are clear water sources that can be drunk.
Wei Huai'an smiled mysteriously and reached out to hold her: "You keep your eyes open and look for yourself, just don't call it out." ”
Su Muling was infected by his emotions and wanted to know immediately what made a well-informed prince so excited. She threw down the crutches in her hand, easily entered the hole, crawled over a distance about the length of two bodies, and the front gradually widened, allowing a person to bend over and walk, and a little further, Su Muling straightened her waist, walked another hundred and ten steps, and finally walked out of the cave.
Su Muling stopped, and was greeted by an incomparably beautiful landscape and idyllic scenery.
The sparkling lake is embedded in a large green plain, and the weeping willows on the shore of the lake are gently brushing the water. The open space of the lake valley is dotted with plots of cultivated fields. On the hillside, there is a strong village among the ancient banyan green bamboos, and the waterwheels built and set up by the villagers along the river and the fences in the fields form a small rural scene.
Oh, my God! Could this be the "paradise" that Xiao Wenxuan said?
Wei Huai'an, who followed later, looked at Su Muling's stunned face, smiled and nudged her: "What?" Silly? ”
Su Muling immediately smiled, so thin that her big eyes that took up half of her face were bright and compelling.
"It's stupid, we inadvertently discovered the place that your cousin didn't find."
"Let's go." Wei Huai'an had a look of loss in his eyes, and he turned around and squatted down in front of her.
Su Muling obediently lay on his back, and the two of them walked towards a few houses on the slope.
After only a few steps, Su Muling patted Wei Huai'an's shoulder and pointed to the field at the foot of the mountain, and asked him to look at it with some anxiety: "Look, it seems that something is wrong there." ”
Wei Huai'an stopped and followed her finger to look over: at the foot of the mountain, in a green field, a behemoth was surrounded by a group of people, and many people were running there with hoes and sickles in all directions.
"Hold on, let's take a look."
As soon as Wei Huai'an's words fell, he rushed towards the crowd as quickly as the wind under his feet.
Su Muling only felt the wind whistling in her ears, and the scenery in front of her turned into a touch of green for a moment.
Su Muling hurriedly hugged his neck, it turned out that this sick seedling still had such good light skills, but he had underestimated him before.
The voices became clearer and clearer, and the two arrived in an orchard. Wei Huai'an put Su Muling under a fruit tree: "Stay here, don't run around." ”
After saying that, the person had already hidden into the crowd.
This fruit forest was on a high place, and Su Muling leaned on the tree to look over, just in time to take in the scene in the field in front of him.
This frightened her a lot, and she saw hundreds of peasants with hoes in their hands, enclosing a brown bear weighing a thousand pounds in the middle.
Then look at the brown bear with a man in its mouth, and he is rushing around impatiently, trying to find a way to escape. The crowd of people shuddering as the brown bears moved, moving forward and retreating. Others held the copper basin in their hands and tapped it repeatedly, trying to scare it away.
Suddenly, there was a scream from the crowd, and the brown bear suddenly rushed towards the crowd at the foot of the mountain......