Chapter 10: Rescue

  "Alas! I'm really unlucky, becoming a cushion for misfortune and still having to save people. Alas! I'm truly kind-hearted, not having the heart of stone to ignore someone's death!" Yang Zilu muttered to herself as she treated the wild man's wounds.

  Don't look at Yang Zilu as if he's a young man who doesn't know anything, but in fact, he's a fairly experienced hiker. He has studied medicine and the like. Especially for external injuries, after all, it's easy to get hurt in the mountains, and fractures are very likely to happen. At this time, you can't rely too much on Western medicine. Because of fractures and the like, it's possible that you fell from a slope or a cliff. This backpack may have been scratched during the rolling process, causing everything inside to leak out. Not all of them leaked out, but one of them, painkillers, was lost. Therefore, Yang Zilu still learned some Chinese medicine.

  However, when it came to the crunch, Yang Zilu was still rescuing and treating the wounded for the first time. He first used an axe to chop down a few wooden boards and tough rattan strips to treat the wild man's fractured arm. It was estimated that he was still in a lot of pain, although he was in a coma, but the wild man was still groaning softly in pain. Yang Zilu remembered that bear gall had analgesic properties. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but miss his backpack, which had many good things inside, such as maps and medicines. There was also a genuine Swiss army knife and a special steel dagger made for military use that he had specially asked a friend to buy back. However, when he crossed over, except for the clothes on his body, everything else was gone, including the wallet, ID card, mobile phone, and house keys in his pocket, and he didn't know where they went.

  Yang Zilu had no choice but to use the bronze axe to painstakingly cut open the bear's fur and dig out a black-red bear gall. It was nauseating. Fortunately, Yang Zilu's father was a veteran who had participated in the Vietnam War and was very strict with him. In order to train Yang Zilu to become a man, he was usually responsible for slaughtering chickens and dogs at home, while his father supervised and instructed on the side. Yang Zilu's adaptability to blood was still not bad, but it was inevitable that he would feel nauseous.

  Yang Zilu opened the wild man's mouth with an axe, slowly squeezing out the bile into his mouth. It was unclear whether Yang Zilu had remembered incorrectly or if the pain-relieving effect hadn't taken hold yet, but it seemed to have no effect. Yang Zilu didn't care anymore; he was now treating a dead horse as if it were alive. He opened up the cloth bag that originally held stones, poured out the stones, and put the bear's gallbladder inside.

  Yang Zilu went to look for herbs nearby, and fortunately, the several herbs Yang Zilu needed were also found. Because there was no tool to crush the herbs, Yang Zilu had no choice but to chew them. Watching people on TV chewing herbs didn't seem to have any effect, but when it was his turn, Yang Zilu knew the bitter taste. The medicine tasted terrible, so bitter that you could vomit a hundred times and still want to vomit. Yang Zilu quickly tore off a strip of cloth from his pants, applied the medicine to the savage in a flash, wrapped him with the cloth, and took out a water bottle to rinse his mouth. Although Yang Zilu soon became a person wearing ultra-short shorts, he didn't mind at all, but rather let out a sigh of relief, at least not having to continue chewing herbs. Thinking of the herbs, Yang Zilu's stomach couldn't help but churn with a wave of nausea.

  Suddenly, Yang Zilu remembered that there was another injured person. He patted his forehead and walked over, only to find that the girl had already woken up at some point. She was now staring at Yang Zilu with a pair of eyes that resembled black gemstones.

  Yang Zilu walked over, and the girl's eyes flashed with a hint of vigilance. She struggled to get up but let out a cry of pain and could only sit on the ground. Yang Zilu froze in place, putting down the axe in his hand and spreading open his palms to indicate he meant no harm. Suddenly remembering what Zheng Dan had said about defining himself as a mountain barbarian because he spoke Cantonese, Yang Zilu used Cantonese to say to the girl: "I mean no harm, I just want to help you with your illness!"

  He spoke very slowly, and Yang Zilu was still afraid that the other party would not understand, so he gestured with his hands as he spoke.

  The girl frowned and didn't speak. Yang Zilu took a step forward, seeing that the other party didn't have an extreme reaction, and only then did he walk over with ease. The girl cooperated very well by stretching out her leg, but it seemed like she was more open-minded as a wild person and didn't mind that Yang Zilu was a man. She pulled at the beast skin skirt, revealing almost her entire thigh, which gave Yang Zilu an urge to peek under her skirt like he was looking at beautiful scenery.

  "Don't look at me like that! Don't look at me like that! Form is emptiness, emptiness is form!" Yang Zilu's face turned bright red as she babbled on, and her restless heart finally calmed down a bit. Taking a closer look at the wound, it was a bloody mess, but she could vaguely see five claw marks, which looked somewhat similar to the shape of that bear's paw. She reckoned that bear must have ravaged her.

  Luckily, I picked some extra herbs earlier when I was gathering them for that savage, so there are still some left. Although Yang Zilu had a lingering fear of the taste of herbal medicine, as a big man facing a beauty, would you choose to ignore her and pretend not to see, or put on a fearless and intimate appearance to save her?

  For Yang Zilu, who has been poisoned by many Korean, Japanese and Hong Kong melodramatic love dramas, "cherish the fragrance and pity the jade" has become his motto. Moreover, the other party is a little beauty, so Yang Zilu chose to chew on grass medicine without hesitation, but the taste made people unbearable to look back, with a belly full of blood and tears flowing into his heart.

  However, when it came to applying the medicine, Yang Zilu's hands involuntarily trembled, and his face turned red as if Guan Gong had arrived, daring to shout with Guan Gong about what was truly a red face.

  Nineteen springs and autumns have passed, but due to his strict father, Yang Zilu is still a pure-hearted young boy. Not that he hasn't had any romantic experiences - in his first year of high school, at the age of 15, he did have one relationship, but as everyone knows from their own experience, although it's not as intense as the college entrance exams, it's also not easy to get anywhere, and they were exposed after just two weeks.

  It's also because his father and four uncles, by the time of Yang Zilu's generation, had eight children, only one of whom was a girl. With a strong sense of family tradition, his uncle and father didn't hesitate to force him to break up with his girlfriend, hoping that the next generation of the Yang family would prioritize learning. Poor Yang Zilu hadn't even held hands with the girl before they reluctantly parted ways.

  When she was in the third year of high school, Yang Zilu didn't know when to choose, and fell in love again. This time it wasn't just holding hands, but only lasted a week before suffering another heavy blow from her parents. Because of this, Yang Zilu stubbornly gave up on taking the college entrance exam and chose to become a donkey friend instead. On one hand, she wanted to relax her mood, and on the other hand, she wanted to vent her dissatisfaction with her parents.

  But now Yang Zilu had to touch a girl's thigh, which was closer to the lower abdomen. In the end, Yang Zilu was in a hurry and wrapped the bandage torn from his clothes on his body. However, due to excessive tension, Yang Zilu sadly discovered that he had forgotten how to dress himself, only remembering that the girl's skin was very smooth and elastic.

  "It's okay!" The girl stroked her wound, which no longer hurt as much, and gave Yang Zilu a pure and genuine smile.

  "Huh?" Yang Zilu was still a bit dazed and didn't understand. She looked at the girl with a bewildered expression.

  "It's nothing!" The girl didn't mind either, looking at Yang Zilu and repeating it.