Chapter 74
(24.2)
On the way towards the settlement, the gloominess and anger on Li Mang’s face gradually faded away, but his eyebrows were still furrowed. Feeling her squirming in his arms, he looked down at her, but ignored her, and just continued to walk forward.
Mu Qing saw countless eyes looking towards her, and felt a little awkward. Fortunately, his steps were big, and he very quickly left people’s eyes behind.
He carried her into the hut and put her down on the animal skin, before turning around and going out. After a while, he came back in, holding a bowl in his hand. There were pounded medicinal herbs turned into a pulp inside. He squatted beside her, and carefully applied the herbs on her ankle, and then he used a small animal skin to wrap up her ankle, and then gently massaged it. After doing this, he went out.
Mu Qing ate the meal Naduo brought her, listened to her ramble for a while, while occasionally responding to her with a simple syllable she learned, as the sky gradually grew dark.
Naduo left, but Li Mang still wasn’t back.
Mu Qing waited for him, up until the moonlight was casting its light a few inches in front of her feet. According to her experience, it was around after ten o’clock at night by this time. It was considered very late here.
Mu Qing kept thinking of the scene that happened by the stream in the evening.
Li Mang carried her back and gently applied the medicine on her, as if he was afraid of hurting her, but she never saw his face relax.
It was as if he was avoiding her gaze.
This was the first time she had seen him look like this in almost a month of time being with him. Besides, he was not returning even though it was this late. Before, even if they did nothing, he always liked to stick to her.
She knew he was probably still very angry.
At first, she thought he was angry about Yi Jia’s actions, and that maybe he needed to be alone to calm down.
But now, she suddenly had a thought, Li Mang, could he have misunderstood her too? After all, the scene he saw at that time, was Yi Jia sitting on top of her, and she was not resisting. In the eyes of onlookers, it would look like the two of them were gazing at each other’s eyes.
Mu Qing’s heart slowly became uneasy and she started to worry because of this thought.
If Li Mang really thought she had betrayed him, would he abandon her? If she lost his protection, the changes that would happen in the future were not of a nature that she could predict, but she knew that, at the very least, her life would become a hundred times harder than now.
Mu Qing got up from the animal skin, wanting to go out and find him.
Just as she tried to put her right foot on the ground, the curtain of the door was lifted and a tall figure came in.
“Li Mang!”
Mu Qing almost blurted out in surprise.
When she heard her own trembling voice, she realized that this was actually the first time she had called out his name, and she blurted it out without even thinking about it. When the two were alone before, when she wanted to get his attention, she was always used to kick him with her legs, or just called him with a “hey.”
The pale moonlight shone on Li Mang’s face.
Mu Qing could not feel him respond. She only noticed that he was staring intently at her, there seemed to be a blue light flashing in his eyes, like she had seen once before.
That might have just been the light of the moon. But it made her feel cold and strange.
The joy of seeing him just now was gone. Her shoulders cowered slightly she lowered her head, and her long hair covered half of her face. She slowly propped herself up and sat down on the spot where she was usually sleeping.
But the next moment, she realized that she was mistaken.
Almost like a gust of wind, Li Mang moved up to her, pulled her in his arms and hugged her tightly, kissing her face recklessly, while vaguely whispering, repeating the words she had heard him say once before: “Taisakamu.”
Chapter 74
(24.2)
On the way towards the settlement, the gloominess and anger on Li Mang’s face gradually faded away, but his eyebrows were still furrowed. Feeling her squirming in his arms, he looked down at her, but ignored her, and just continued to walk forward.
Mu Qing saw countless eyes looking towards her, and felt a little awkward. Fortunately, his steps were big, and he very quickly left people’s eyes behind.
He carried her into the hut and put her down on the animal skin, before turning around and going out. After a while, he came back in, holding a bowl in his hand. There were pounded medicinal herbs turned into a pulp inside. He squatted beside her, and carefully applied the herbs on her ankle, and then he used a small animal skin to wrap up her ankle, and then gently massaged it. After doing this, he went out.
Mu Qing ate the meal Naduo brought her, listened to her ramble for a while, while occasionally responding to her with a simple syllable she learned, as the sky gradually grew dark.
Naduo left, but Li Mang still wasn’t back.
Mu Qing waited for him, up until the moonlight was casting its light a few inches in front of her feet. According to her experience, it was around after ten o’clock at night by this time. It was considered very late here.
Mu Qing kept thinking of the scene that happened by the stream in the evening.
Li Mang carried her back and gently applied the medicine on her, as if he was afraid of hurting her, but she never saw his face relax.
It was as if he was avoiding her gaze.
This was the first time she had seen him look like this in almost a month of time being with him. Besides, he was not returning even though it was this late. Before, even if they did nothing, he always liked to stick to her.
She knew he was probably still very angry.
At first, she thought he was angry about Yi Jia’s actions, and that maybe he needed to be alone to calm down.
But now, she suddenly had a thought, Li Mang, could he have misunderstood her too? After all, the scene he saw at that time, was Yi Jia sitting on top of her, and she was not resisting. In the eyes of onlookers, it would look like the two of them were gazing at each other’s eyes.
Mu Qing’s heart slowly became uneasy and she started to worry because of this thought.
If Li Mang really thought she had betrayed him, would he abandon her? If she lost his protection, the changes that would happen in the future were not of a nature that she could predict, but she knew that, at the very least, her life would become a hundred times harder than now.
Mu Qing got up from the animal skin, wanting to go out and find him.
Just as she tried to put her right foot on the ground, the curtain of the door was lifted and a tall figure came in.
“Li Mang!”
Mu Qing almost blurted out in surprise.
When she heard her own trembling voice, she realized that this was actually the first time she had called out his name, and she blurted it out without even thinking about it. When the two were alone before, when she wanted to get his attention, she was always used to kick him with her legs, or just called him with a “hey.”
The pale moonlight shone on Li Mang’s face.
Mu Qing could not feel him respond. She only noticed that he was staring intently at her, there seemed to be a blue light flashing in his eyes, like she had seen once before.
That might have just been the light of the moon. But it made her feel cold and strange.
The joy of seeing him just now was gone. Her shoulders cowered slightly she lowered her head, and her long hair covered half of her face. She slowly propped herself up and sat down on the spot where she was usually sleeping.
But the next moment, she realized that she was mistaken.
Almost like a gust of wind, Li Mang moved up to her, pulled her in his arms and hugged her tightly, kissing her face recklessly, while vaguely whispering, repeating the words she had heard him say once before: “Taisakamu.”
