Ancient Eden Chapter 31:

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The Muqing roasted mushroom broth was pretty good. The ingredients she had worked so hard to hide were basically not ruined. She even tasted a hint of freshness that she had not seen for a long time. The only regret is that it still lacks saltiness. While drinking soup, she thought that it would be great if she could get some salt one day.

Li Mang was not as sentimental as she was. It was very painful to eat and drink, and in the end there was not even a drop of soup left. After eating, he left in a hurry. In the evening it was his turn to keep vigil with several other tribesmen.

It has been more than ten days since that incident happened. Not only did the number of night watchmen in the tribe increase, but every man also kept a weapon at hand before going to bed in case Gangtu attacked in the middle of the night.

As autumn approaches, the temperature becomes cooler at night, and you have to cover yourself with an animal skin when sleeping at night.

Mu Qing slept alone for a while and woke up in the middle of the night. Remembering that there were still some pieces of potato roots left over from Naduo today, she was afraid that he would be hungry, so she got up and brought a bowl to deliver them.

The moonlight was in the sky, illuminating everything everywhere.

Mu Qing arrived at the outskirts of the settlement and gradually approached Li Mang's place, when he heard several voices carried by the wind, as if Li Mang was talking to someone. He raised his head and looked around, and saw that the figure behind him was Dawu.

Since Dawu came back, he seemed to have aged a lot and was recuperating from his injuries, so he was rarely seen coming out of the house during the day. It's midnight, why is he here again?

Mu Qing hesitated and stopped behind a nearby tree stump.

Their voices were very low and they were far apart, so Mu Qing couldn't hear what they were saying. But after arriving, Li Mang seemed very excited and his voice became louder.

"...it is not allowed to...hurt her..."

Mu Qing vaguely heard only this.

Her heart tightened.

Da Wu also seemed stunned by Li Mang's reaction. After a while, he turned his head and left slowly, but his shoulders drooped, and his figure looked a little lonely and weak under the moonlight.

Mu Qing looked at Li Mang and saw that he was already sitting on the ground, leaning against a tree stump. His head drooped slightly, and his face was covered in shadow, making it difficult to see his expression clearly. But he felt that his whole body was tense, and he seemed to be radiating anger.

Mu Qing hesitated and walked slowly to him.

He is always on high alert. At this time, he didn't even notice that she was approaching. It wasn't until her figure in the moonlight landed in front of his feet that he suddenly woke up and suddenly grasped the sharp spear beside him with one hand. When he looked up and saw it was her, he relaxed.

"I'll bring you food."

Mu Qing smiled slightly at him and handed the bowl over.

He didn't answer, but looked at her intently for a while, then reached out and took her hand, and with a slight tug, she fell onto his lap. I couldn't hold the bowl firmly, so I dropped it and broke it, and a few pieces of potato roots rolled out.

Mu Qing sighed and reached out to grab it, but his hand was blocked by his big hand.

He hugged her waist tightly from behind, buried his face in the long hair on the back of her neck, and remained motionless.

Mu Qingxin suddenly jumped.

She felt a trace of depression coming from him on her back.

She didn't move anymore, and just let him hold her, sitting against him, leaning her head on his shoulder, feeling him exhale on the back of her neck. It wasn't until she fell asleep that she felt him pick her up and carry her to the shed.

He gently put Mu Qing back to the sleeping place, covered her with an animal skin, reached out to touch her hair, and then turned around and went out.

When he came back from vigil the next morning, Mu Qing had already cooked breakfast for him.

While slowly drinking vegetable porridge, Mu Qing secretly looked at his expression.

After he finished eating, he purred a few times, raised his head and smiled fiercely at her, and stood up.

Mu Qing felt that her mood improved a lot.

He was back to the Li Mang she was familiar with.

Watching him and the other men leave, Mu Qing went to Na Duo's place.

The day before yesterday, Youyou had a fever. Mu Qing touched her forehead and estimated that it was at least thirty-nine degrees, so she continued to help Na Duo take care of her. I was really worried when I saw Naduo asking her to drink the concoction that the old woman got for her last time to treat her stomachache. But there was nothing she could do, so she could only dip her hands in cold water, wipe it on her forehead and limbs, and feed her warm water, hoping that physical cooling would help her get through this.

Children die young here very easily. She had only been here for more than a month, and she had already seen two children die with her own eyes. One is only a few months old, and the other is about the same size as Youyou. They are all too sick to survive and die.

Youyou seems to be in better condition today, but some of you are still in low spirits, your lips are dry and peeling, and your eyes look big.

Most of the time on weekdays, you are responsible for taking care of your younger siblings. She has been sick these days, and Naduo has been delayed for two days. Now that she is getting better, she asks Muqing to take care of her and a few Xiaodian. My child, I hurriedly went out with the women to collect wild fruits and vegetables.

Now is the time when the products in the jungle are abundant. After this period of time, it will not be so easy to pick plump and rich fruits, so she is a little anxious.

Mu Qing touched Youyou's forehead, which was already warm and cool. I was very happy. She put a large piece of Limang into the warm water and brought it back to the wild honeycomb a few days ago. After the honey was dissolved in the water, she sloshed it for a few times and then drank it.

Youyou drank it all, licked her lips, and smiled sweetly at her.

At noon, Mu Qing felt sorry for Youyou, so she rummaged through the pots and pots at her house and found a few pieces of leftover potato roots and a bowl of millet seeds. She threw them into the pot, added water and honeycomb pieces, and cooked sweet porridge. Let them eat.

While she was lighting the fire to cook porridge, seven or eight women in the settlement looked askance at her. Mu Qing knew that they probably couldn't stand him cooking for lunch, so he didn't bother to pay attention.

Youyou ate too much liquid food and needed to go to the ditch in the northwest corner to urinate. Mu Qing accompanied her. When I arrived, I saw Huya and another man patrolling with spear poles.

It is a common practice here to take turns leaving two men's gathering places during the day in case of emergencies.

Mu Qing nodded towards Huya and smiled. Huya stood there motionless, his dark face slightly red.

He has a good relationship with Li Mang and has always been friendly to Mu Qing. Mu Qing also felt that he was a generous person, so he would say hello to him occasionally when he met him.

As I got closer to the trench, I smelled the peculiar smell.

Mu Qing was waiting for Youyou when he suddenly heard a woman screaming from one end of the settlement. She was extremely frightened, and was mixed with the roar of a strange man.

Mu Qing was shocked and turned around suddenly. Huya shouted at her, "Don't go there," and he flew towards the direction of the sound.

Strange sounds came continuously. Like shouting during a fight.

Youyou's face turned pale with fright, and she couldn't stand still.

Mu Qing almost dragged her and hid in the bushes on the edge, telling her not to come out, and ran quickly along the bushes on the edge of the settlement.

Through the gap between the trees, she saw a scene that almost stopped her breathing.

Gangtu was leading his tribe to sweep the settlement.

A bunch of women and children were tied up. Huya was fighting with Gangtu and several others. On the ground beside him, his tribesmen had fallen down, with a hole stabbed in their abdomen.

Hu Teeth's eyes widened in anger, as if he was going crazy. The sharp spear in his hand was thrust into the chest of an intruder, but at the same time, his own back was also stabbed deeply. He let out a roar and slowly fell down.

A cruel smile appeared on Gangtu's face that was no longer human. He looked up and saw his own people escorting Da Wu and Yao Yao out.

Originally, he was cursing angrily, but when he saw Gang Tu sticking his face in front of him, he screamed, his whole body was shaking, and he was whimpering in his throat, unable to say a word.

Dawu glared at each other, and Gangtu circled around him with a sullen face. Without hesitation, he raised the bone knife in his hand and struck it down hard.

The women screamed and whined, and the children cried.

Gang Tu suddenly turned his head, and the women immediately stopped, shivering and coaxing their children.

The others dug out almost everything from the cellar, put it into leather bags, and then brought the captives over, the women and children cheered and left.

After being robbed, the settlement finally became quiet, too quiet to be like the human world.

With trembling hands, Mu Qing touched the fallen tiger's teeth, other tribesmen and Dawu's breath one by one.

There is no breathing anymore.

They were just preparing for the night, thinking they would make a night raid. No one expected that Gangtu would lead his men to attack the empty nest during the day.

Mu Qing suddenly hated himself at this moment.

She felt that she should have thought of this, but she just didn't.

When Yuyou wiped her face with her hands while crying, she realized that she was also crying.

"Save them...save them..."

Youyou kept repeating this sentence.

Mu Qing suddenly woke up. If Li Mang and the others outside knew something was going on here as early as possible, they would be more likely to rescue the captured women and regain their property.

But how to let them know? Now there is still a long afternoon before they usually come back in the evening.

The sweat on her forehead kept seeping out, pooled together, and dripped down the tip of her nose.

A moment later, a fire ignited in the open space. Mu Qing kept throwing firewood into the fire that was soaked by water. Thick smoke billowed straight into the sky.

Being recalled by the billowing black smoke rising from the direction of their homeland, Limang and other tribesmen saw such a scene: Dawu and the two soldiers guarding their homeland were lying in a pool of blood, women and children were taken captive, and in the cellar The reserves used for winter were looted. Next to the fire, which was still billowing with black smoke, Mu Qing and Youyou had tears stains on their faces blackened by the smoke.

The roar of revenge rushed over the settlement along with the black smoke.

Tracking is what people in the jungle are good at. From an early age, they must learn to use keen eyes and sensitive noses to track and spot their prey. Now, they are tracking the enemy.

That night, only a few sentries were left, still immersed in the ecstasy after the plunder. When Gangtu and his people snored everywhere in the campsite, Li Mang and his companions quietly approached.

When Gangtu died, there was an expression of disbelief on his ugly face. Even before he died, he couldn't figure out why Li Mang and his tribe got the news and rushed here. Based on his previous estimate, by the time they came back at night and learned the news, the traces left by his group would have been swallowed up by the darkness. They would travel at least one night slower than me.

The women, children and their stolen property were taken back again. Before the sun rose, they returned to the settlement.

But no one could laugh, not even the children.

The light is very bright.

He knelt in the middle of the open space, looking ahead almost numbly. There, women mourned and cried around the corpse on the ground, Yao Yao crying very sadly.

His leader and two heroic tribesmen died in their homeland. Because he was negligent.

"That woman is a disaster! She is the cause of our disaster! Get rid of her!"

A sharp voice suddenly sounded, attracting everyone's attention.

Mu Qing looked up in confusion, and saw that the old woman who had been hiding somewhere before was walking towards him. The bells on her cane made a dull sound when they collided, and he was shocked to realize that she said it was him.

She subconsciously took a step back, then stopped because she found someone standing behind her.

After a short period of silence, she found that almost everyone's eyes were directed at her.

She looked at Li Mang.

Li Mang slowly stood up from the ground and walked towards her.

Many years later, when Mu Qing was surrounded by her children and watched them playing carefree, she couldn't help but think, if Li Mang didn't want her at that time, but Da Wu What will happen to the feathered crown above his head and his people?

This is a difficult fate hypothesis to answer.

But no matter what, he wanted her. So at that moment, she told herself that in the days to come, she would never let him have the opportunity to regret the steps he took when he walked towards her.

The author has something to say: If you haven't received the children's shoes, please wait a moment. I will go to the front to make up for them one by one. thank you all.

Well, starting from the next chapter, the ancient life of these two sweet and adventurous people begins. . .

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