Lu Wanfeng silently watched Han Zhaocai sitting on a rock, and saw her neatly washing the soles of her feet with mountain springs, and then applying the picked and mashed herbs to the blistered soles. Finally, she took two thick leaves as big as the soles of her feet and tied them tightly with vines.

After taking care of this, Han Zhaocai stood up, gave him a toothy smile and said, "Okay, let's go." This body was really useless. After walking for only half a day, blisters appeared on the soles of his feet.

He hesitated for a moment, squatted slightly towards her, and said, "Come up." The sole of her foot was so injured, but she didn't say a word before, which made him somewhat admire her.

"What to do?" She was stunned.

"You have blisters on the soles of your feet. I'll give you a ride."

She chuckled softly, "Are you doing this to repay me for saving your life?"

"No. This is just a small effort, how can it be compared with Miss Lou's life-saving grace."

"Why is that?" she asked curiously.

"Since we are traveling together, we should help each other. Didn't you teach me how to distinguish lotus mist before?"

"But we men and women are not intimate." She wanted him to carry it, which would make it easier, but she had to worry about each other's identities.

"A monk can carry a woman across a river who dares not to wade. Now that you have an injury on your foot, I am carrying you for a ride out of morality." He looked serious.

Feeling that what he said was very reasonable, Han Zhaocai no longer had any scruples and climbed onto his back. He gently held her hips to stand up and walked steadily down the mountain.

She gently circled his neck with both hands. Apart from her family, this was the first time she was so close to a man. Maybe it was because the sun was too strong, but her face began to heat up. Her chest felt like a hare was scurrying around, and her heartbeat was pounding out of order.

Suddenly she caught a glimpse of his two ears that were bright red, and realized that she was not the only one who was ashamed, but he was too. With a smile on her lips, she deliberately asked him, "Hey, is this your first time carrying a girl on your back?"

"Yeah." He whispered.

"How does it feel to carry a girl on your back?"

"Nothing."

"But your ears are red."

"It's too hot."

She faintly noticed that he stiffened slightly when she asked him, and then asked with a smile: "Then will I be very heavy?"

"No."

Hearing the hint of impatience in his tone, she smiled and said, "If you're tired, just put me down and I can walk by myself." She was retreating in order to advance. In fact, she wanted to laze on his back for a while longer.

"I'm not tired yet."

Hearing him say this as she wished, Han Zhaocai said in a very good mood: "Then let me tell you a story." Without waiting for him to say whether she wanted to hear it, she continued on by herself, "Once upon a time, there lived a white tiger spirit on the mountain. He took a fancy to it.I fell in love with a wild boar spirit, but what the wild boar spirit fell in love with was a green snake spirit. Unexpectedly, the green snake spirit fell in love with a spider spirit, and the spider spirit fell in love with a butterfly spirit. Unexpectedly, the butterfly spirit fell in love with a yellow mouse at first sight..."

Hearing this, Lu Wanfeng finally couldn't help but say, "Why is your story so endless? Isn't it about mutual love? Is it all wishful thinking?"

"So you are listening to my story seriously." She said with a smile.

Realizing that he had been tricked by her, Lu Wanfeng pursed his lips and stopped making any sound.

"Actually, it's not that there is no mutual love. I haven't finished the story yet." Her voice with a smile echoed in the quiet mountain forest. "Then the weasel met a mouse spirit, and the two monsters fought over a cat monster. The mouse beat the weasel away, and finally won the heart of the cat monster, and the two monsters worshiped the bridal chamber of heaven and earth."

Her breath caressed the back of his neck, her soft hands were wrapped around his neck, and her crisp voice came to his ears. The faint anxiety caused by being trapped in the wilderness seemed to have been stroked away, replaced by a strange feeling. Lu Wanfeng couldn't help but gradually slow down his pace.

At sunset, I finally saw the smoke from a cooking stove not far away. The smoke from the cooking stove meant that there was a home there. Han Zhaocai and Lu Wanfeng looked at each other, with a look of joy on their faces, and walked towards there faster.

Han Zhaocai didn't care about the pain in his feet. He arrived at the house two steps faster than him and raised his hand to knock on the door.

"Is anyone here?"

After a moment, a response came from inside, "Who is it?"

"My brother and I got lost in the mountains, and we wanted to ask how to go down the mountain?" Han Zhaocai planned to ask for the way later, and then find a way to stay here overnight and go back down the mountain early tomorrow morning.

For a moment, the wooden door opened and Zhang Yanmei's face couldn't help but be amazed. What came to mind in the next moment, a look of surprise appeared on his face, and he blurted out: "Are you a human or a ghost?"

The sudden appearance of such a beautiful woman on this desolate mountain had to make him suspicious. He had lived on the mountain for more than two years. Although he had never seen any ghosts, he had heard many legends about them before.

Being so doubted by him, Han Zhaocai replied in a funny way, "My father-in-law, please see clearly that I am a human being, a living person. You see I have a shadow." She pointed to the figure reflected on the ground.

On the road behind, Wanfeng stepped forward and stopped in front of her, and asked aloud: "Old man, we want to go down the mountain to Suyuncheng. Which way should we take?"

The old man looked at the two of them and asked doubtfully: "You are going to Suyuncheng, why are you here?"

Han Zhaocai spoke from behind, "The passenger ship we took earlier capsized in the Huaijiang River. We walked all the way from the shore."

The old man was surprised when he heard this: "How could this perfectly good boat capsize?"

"Yesterday, there was a sudden thunderstorm. The rain came quickly and violently, and lightning struck our boat. The boat was sunk by lightning. My brother and I escaped from death and finally swam to the shore and saved our lives." In fact, Han Zhaocai had no idea how the passenger boat capsized. He just said a few random words to win the trust of his father-in-law.

The old man said in confusion: "But it doesn't rain here."

"The heavy rain has almost reached the river. You don't know that the rain yesterday was like a big hole in the sky, pouring down bucket after bucket. There were also lightning and thunder, it was like the sky was about to collapse. What else, thatIt's like there are several dragons fighting in the river, turning the whole river upside down.It's scary!" After saying this in a jealous tone, Han Zhaocai patted his chest, showing an expression of lingering fear.

When the old man heard her words, he imagined the scene and frowned. His dark and thin face became less defensive and more sympathetic, "It's so scary, but you are lucky."

"No, I don't know how many people on the boat can escape." She sighed deeply and changed the topic, "Old man, we were originally going to Suyun City. Now the boat capsized and we can only go overland. Do you know how to get there?"

The old man pointed to a mountain path and said: "After you go down the mountain, you will see Baifeng Town. From Baifeng Town to Suicheng, there is a post train from Suicheng to Suyun City."

"How long does it take to go down the mountain from here?"

"If you walk quickly, it will take about an hour or two. It's getting dark now. Why don't you rest here for the night and go back down the mountain early tomorrow morning." The old man believed what Han Zhaocai said and said kindly.

"Thank you so much, father-in-law." Seeing that she not only asked for directions, but could also spend the night here, Han Zhaocai pushed the road in front of her with a smile and said warmly, "Are you making dinner right now? Do you want my help?" She wanted to take the opportunity to get a meal. All she had eaten since last night was nuts, and she wanted to have a hot meal.

"I don't have anything to entertain here. I just picked some wild vegetables and bamboo shoots to eat with some whole grains."

"I recognize a lot of wild vegetables. I'll pick some for you. When I came over there, I saw a lot of edible wild mushrooms. I'll pick some along the way." After saying that, Han Zhaocai walked back in a hurry.

Chapter 2(2)

Lu Wanfeng glanced at her thoughtfully, then nodded slightly to the old man, followed her, and saw her neatly picking a lot of wild vegetables and mushrooms along the mountain path.

The first time he saw Lou Zhuxin and the one he had seen these two days, their temperaments were completely different, just like two people, especially she knew a lot of things that he didn't know.Along the way, she could not only find where there were mountain springs to drink from, but also identify edible mountain fruits. Even though the soles of her feet were blistered, she did not complain. She also knew that she had picked herbs and applied them to the soles of her feet, and then tied thick leaves under her feet to act as insoles.