Chapter 122: A Big Wild Boar

Li Xinyue’s face turned black with exasperation.

“It’s just a bruised toe, why does it feel like someone chopped off my entire foot?”

“Let’s go up first.”

Chen Mingchuan had no choice but to comply with her stubbornness. He turned around and hid the cart wheel in the deep grass.

“Let’s go.”

The path up the mountain was narrow and steep.

Not far from the start, Chen Mingchuan noticed she was slowing down. He frowned, “How is it? Still hurting?”

“It’s a little bit, but it’s not unbearable.”

Li Xinyue wouldn’t let anyone carry her up the mountain.

“It’s already stopped hurting. You just don’t believe me. I’m a medical student, you know.”

“The medicine you applied earlier was an anti-inflammatory and painkiller, it works very well!”

Alright.

Living in the mountains, knowing some basic herbal medicine was a skill every soldier had to master.

However, Chen Mingchuan was still worried.

“Give me your hand.”

He held a machete in one hand, a backpack on his back, and extended the other hand to Li Xinyue.

Li Xinyue: “…”

“I’m not a clingy person, really!”

“No need, I can climb up myself.”

She refused, and Chen Mingchuan didn’t force her.

But soon, Li Xinyue blushed: she couldn’t go on, she was out of breath…

Chen Mingchuan didn’t say anything, he just took her hand and they continued walking for about three hundred meters.

“Let’s sit down for a while, rest, and have some water.”

“There are herbs here, you pick them here, I’ll chop firewood over there. Don’t wander too far.”

This was a pine forest, with pine trees of all sizes filling the entire area.

Not far away, there were many pine trees that had been crushed by snow the previous year, now half-dried, they could be cut down and dried for a few days before burning.

Li Xinyue saw many herbs she wanted…

“Okay.”

The two of them worked separately. After digging for a while, the backpack was almost full. Li Xinyue decided to look for some wild chickens.

Even if she couldn’t find any wild chickens, she could find some wild eggs.

On the other side of the forest, she found a thicket of trees.

The bushes seemed to be very dense, a perfect place for wild chickens to nest.

Li Xinyue immediately went there, and discovered a tree with fruit.

She widened her eyes: Was that a yellow pear?

There were so many, and they were big, about the size of her fist!

Li Xinyue was about to pick one to taste, to see if it was ripe.

But after climbing for a while, she finally admitted that she was a terrible climber!

So she ran back a short distance: “Chen Mingchuan, come quickly, there’s a whole tree of pears!”

Hearing her call, Chen Mingchuan immediately dropped his machete and ran over.

When he got there, he just glanced at it: “These pears are ripe.”

Huh?

Li Xinyue was curious: “You haven’t tasted it, how do you know?”

Chen Mingchuan was preparing to climb the tree, and said: “Just look at the color.”

“The skin is turning yellow, that’s the sign of ripeness.”

Alright, Li Xinyue admitted, she didn’t know much.

Soon, Chen Mingchuan picked a few and gently threw them down, then he climbed down himself: “I’ll peel them for you.”

Li Xinyue was curious: “You brought a knife?”

“I have a dagger.”

Alright, a dagger is also a knife.

Soon, a white and tender pear was placed in front of Li Xinyue: “Try it.”

She didn’t hesitate, she took it and took a big bite, and a sweet taste instantly spread in her mouth.

“Delicious! It’s so soft and crisp, and sweet!”

“I want to pick some to take back.”

Women like to eat fruit, Chen Mingchuan knew that.

“Okay, the ones on the sunny side are ripe, leave the ones facing north for a few more days.”

Suddenly, Li Xinyue realized a problem: “There’s nothing to put them in!”

“I’ll cut some vines and tie up the herbs, that way we can carry them back. We’ll put the pears in the backpack.”

“That’s brilliant!”

Li Xinyue nodded repeatedly, “Let’s do it!”

They each ate two pears, instantly feeling energized.

“How’s the firewood? Is it enough?”

Chen Mingchuan nodded, “Almost, we can just pick it up at the bottom of the mountain, I’ve already thrown it down.”

The mountain was a bit steep, and there was a gully on one side of the mountain path where fallen trees had collected.

Li Xinyue had never chopped wood before, but she loved watching those short videos about rural life on Douyin.

So she understood.

“That’s good, I’ll go tie up the herbs.”

“Okay.”

Back at the herb digging spot, Chen Mingchuan had cut some vines.

In a flash, he had woven the vines into a basket.

Li Xinyue was amazed, “Wow, you’re really skilled!”

Chen Mingchuan’s face was expressionless, “It’s not really a skill, we soldiers learn to do this when we spend a long time in the mountains.”

Li Xinyue was even more convinced that soldiers were excellent, their practical skills were too strong.

Soon, the herbs were bundled and placed in the basket, ready to be carried down the mountain on their shoulders.

They left the herbs at the entrance and went to pick pears with their backpacks.

Twenty minutes later, the backpacks were almost full.

Li Xinyue looked up, “Enough! We can’t fit any more.”

The ripe pears on the trees were almost all picked, Chen Mingchuan immediately climbed down.

“Woo…feed, feed, feed…”

Just as they were about to take a break, a pig’s scream startled them.

Chen Mingchuan’s face changed, “No good, there’s an injured wild boar! Get up!”

Li Xinyue looked up and saw a large wild boar charging at them from a dirt mound nearby…

The wild boar was indeed injured!

“Chen Mingchuan, run!”

An injured wild boar is very ferocious, the more you run, the more it chases.

Chen Mingchuan stood up, it was too late to run, without a word, he picked up Li Xinyue and sent her up the pear tree.

“Hold on tight, I’ll lure it away!”

Li Xinyue was immediately panicked, “No! Chen Mingchuan, come up!”

But the tree was too small, if the wild boar got angry, it could even break the tree, making them even more dangerous.

Chen Mingchuan picked up the firewood axe on the ground, waving it, “Don’t worry about me, I can handle one wild boar!”

“Hey! Come here!”

An injured wild boar can’t be stimulated, he provoked it, and sure enough, the wild boar went crazy, charging towards Chen Mingchuan without hesitation…

In an instant, Li Xinyue was terrified.

“Chen Mingchuan, get on that tree!”

At the same time, a thought flashed through her mind, “Crash, crash into that tree, let it kill itself!”

One wild boar, he could handle it!

Hearing Li Xinyue’s screams, Chen Mingchuan could only climb onto a large pine tree.

As fast as lightning.

Just as Chen Mingchuan jumped onto the tree, the wild boar slammed into the tree stump…

“Bang,” the wild boar fell to the ground, groaning a few times, then twitched its limbs and died.

Damn!

Finally dead!

Li Xinyue breathed a sigh of relief.

But just as she relaxed, two young wild boars charged over.

Li Xinyue’s heart sank, she almost screamed, “Crash, crash!”

Sure enough, “Bang bang,” the two young ones also crashed into the tree and died.

On the tree opposite, Chen Mingchuan was completely dumbfounded: What’s going on?

Are the wild boars committing suicide?

Li Xinyue felt dizzy, she could only cling to the trunk.

“Xinyue, what’s wrong with you?”