Chapter 81: Chapter 81: Little Brother, Don’t Be Afraid, Sister is Here Chapter 81: Chapter 81: Little Brother, Don’t Be Afraid, Sister is Here Hearing Bai Zhi’s words, Bai Fei hesitated, “Right, if we eat now, what will we eat for lunch?”
But if she didn’t eat now, she felt like a cat clawing at her insides.
“My stomach says it doesn’t eat much, just one, just one would be okay, right?”
Bai Fei reached out, carefully tugging at Bai Zhi’s clothes and started batting her eyelashes, acting coquettishly.
“One?”
Bai Zhi, somewhat helpless, set down her basket, took out one, and handed it to Bai Fei.
Bai Fei’s eyes immediately lit up, and she quickly grabbed it, afraid that Bai Zhi would change her mind.
After grabbing it, she split it in two halves, and when it split open, she saw inside yellow potato strips, green cucumber strips, red strips of cured meat, and an egg.
Bai Fei swallowed her saliva, hurriedly took a bite, squinted her eyes and savored the delicious moment, truly enjoying it.
However, a few bites later, it was all gone. She hadn’t had enough. Turning back, she saw Bai Zhi staring blankly at her with a pancake in hand.
“Aren’t you eating? I…”
Bai Fei wanted to say that she could help her eat, but before she could finish, she saw Bai Zhi take a big bite. Bai Fei pouted, feeling a bit wronged, “Mommy, Bai Zhi is bullying me…”
Bai Zhi pretended not to see her aggrieved expression and quickly finished eating, noticing that Bai Fei hadn’t reacted for a while?
When she turned around, she saw that Bai Fei was just watching her, not crying, just that look, “I’m just watching you, quietly watching you.”
…
“Cousin, what is this…”
Why did she feel a bit eerie?
“I’m looking at you like this, and you can still eat?”
“???” Bai Zhi was baffled. Weren’t you just unable to eat?
“Don’t you feel embarrassed?”
“I don’t feel embarrassed.” What was there to be embarrassed about?
Bai Fei stopped talking, okay, she couldn’t argue with Bai Zhi.
“Let’s go, we’ll eat lunch when we get there.”
Such tasty pancakes, she could eat two, she saw that Bai Zhi had prepared six.
Thinking about this gave her energy.
Bai Fei immediately got up and moved forward, but climbing the mountain was exhausting, especially climbing up the riverbank…
After walking a bit more, she became thirsty.
“Bai Zhi, I’m thirsty…”
She looked expectantly at Bai Zhi, believing that Bai Zhi was omnipotent and would definitely have a solution.
“Uh, there’s none left.”
Bai Zhi also felt annoyed; taking care of children was exhausting. This kid, first hungry, then thirsty, had drunk all the water.
“Either we wait till we find water in the mountain, or we head back…”
Bai Zhi hadn’t finished speaking when she glanced at a thorny tree not far away. That looked like…
Bai Zhi immediately walked over, and upon closer inspection, it was a type of plant with thorns, easy to prick oneself.
Even the fruits on it had thorns; those were thorny pears, a wild fruit particularly rich in vitamins.
In real life, they were quite expensive, selling for over ten yuan per half kilogram, often used to make liquor.
Bai Zhi’s hometown also had them, growing on the riverbanks just as beautiful here, but then someone came to develop the area, promising villagers to build roads, and so the riverbank’s beautiful stones disappeared, were dug out.
Finally, only deep, very deep ditches remained. It used to be beautiful looking at it, but now it looked frightening; the mountains on either side appeared even steeper, Bai Zhi was always afraid that a flood might cause a mudslide whenever she went back…
Back to the topic, not only were these fruits rich in vitamins, but they were also very sour, the kind that makes your mouth water a lot when you bite into one.
Bai Zhi immediately went over, picked some, accidentally pricking her hand, and quickly stepped back. Some stones also rolled down.
“Hiss…”
Suddenly, Bai Zhi heard a noise coming from a small hollow near the riverbank.
Bai Zhi was about to go over to check it out when Bai Fei approached her.
“Bai Zhi, what are you looking at?”
Thorny pears are all spikes. To eat one, you have to remove the spikes and nibble bit by bit, causing a tartness to spread instantaneously in your mouth, which makes you salivate. How do they say it again? ‘It whets your appetite.’
Bai Zhi handed the thorny pear to Bai Fei.
“Eat this, and you definitely won’t feel thirsty anymore. I’m going down to check it out, there’s some noise.”
Bai Zhi slowly walked down and saw someone lying in the hollow, and there was blood. Were they injured?
Was this child from their village?
“Cousin, it looks like someone is injured, I’ll go take a look. Wait for me here.”
The children in the village were all quite adorable, and Bai Zhi couldn’t just ignore this situation, so she went down to take a closer look.
Indeed, there were two children who looked older than them because they were quite tall—almost like adults, but their faces still retained some childish features.
Bai Zhi furrowed her brow, wondering how such people had suddenly appeared in their village. Could it be… the male protagonist?
Impossible, right?
Bai Zhi felt incredibly frustrated inside. According to the book, the group pet had rescued the injured male protagonist and brought him home for proper care.
In reality, it was the original owner who had carried him back, but when he woke up, he saw the group pet and mistook them for…
So sometimes, all this talk about life-saving gratitude and devotion was false. Seeing Bai Zhi, who was as thin as a bamboo pole, he certainly wouldn’t like her.
But…
There were two people here; which one was it,
Both were unconscious. One looked like a well-behaved little boy who seemed kind of cute, and the other had decent features—someone who would probably grow up to be quite handsome?
As for the exceptional beauty described in the narrative with an abundance of adjectives, it was not standing out.
However, why were they unconscious? Bai Zhi noticed a small snake not far away, venomous but not deadly.
Both people had wounds on their feet. Had it bitten both of them?
That seemed unlikely; the poor snake was in a bloody mess.
Bai Zhi walked over to them, and the quaintly adorable boy suddenly opened his eyes, his alert gaze shooting towards her.
But he was too cute, Bai Zhi didn’t find him threatening at all. She really wanted to say,
“Little brother, don’t be afraid, sister is here to help.”
Somehow, Bai Zhi blurted that out.
The boy’s face darkened.
“Who are you? We’ve been bitten by a snake, do you have any medicine?”
Wow, he was quite clear-headed.
“No, but I have some Chonglou and some Bidens here. I can apply these to you, and it should be enough to get you down the mountain. How did you end up here?”
Seeing the Bidens, Bai Zhi immediately gathered some along with the Chonglou to prepare them. Coincidentally, she had also brought some with her today.
Bai Zhi took out her sickle, ready to start cutting around the unconscious boy’s wound.
Just then, the other one woke up…
Seeing a sickle in his daze, he blurted out,
“Why can’t you use a smaller knife? Why can’t you suck it out?”
Bai Zhi’s mouth twitched upon hearing this. She was saving him, and he was still complaining about the type of knife she used?