Ancient Eden

~End of chapter 96

When Mu Qing reached the outskirts of the settlement, gradually approaching where Li Mang was, she heard a few words sent over by the wind. It seemed as if Li Mang was talking to someone. She raised her head to follow the sound, and saw that that figure was actually Da Wu’s.

Since his return, Da Wu seemed to have aged a lot all of a sudden, coupled with the fact that he was recovering from his injuries, she rarely ever saw him out of his hut during daytime. Now it was the middle of the night, why would he come here?

Mu Qing hesitated and stopped behind a stump on the side.

Chapter 97

(31.2)

Their voices were very low and separated from her by some distance, so Mu Qing couldn’t hear clearly what was being said. But later on, Li Mang appeared to be very agitated, and his voice got a little louder.

“…… won’t allow …… to hurt her ……”

Mu Qing only vaguely heard these words.

Her heart immediately tightened.

Da Wu also seemed to be stunned by Li Mang’s reaction. After a while, he turned his head and slowly left, but his shoulders were slumped and his figure under the moonlight looked somewhat desolate and powerless.

Mu Qing looked at Li Mang and saw that he was already sitting on the ground, leaning against a stump behind him. His head was slightly lowered, and his face was being covered by the shadows, so she could not see his expression clearly. But she could feel that his whole body was tense, and he seemed to be furious.

Mu Qing hesitated for a moment before slowly walking up to him.

His vigilance was always very high. But at this moment, however, he did not even realize that she was approaching. It wasn’t until her silhouette, under the moonlight, was being cast in front of his feet that he was startled, and grabbed in his hand the sharp spear beside him. He only relaxed when he looked up and saw it was her.

“I’m bringing you food.”

Mu Qing smiled at him slightly and handed him the bowl in her hand.

He didn’t take it, and just looked at her fixedly for a moment, before reaching out and pulling her hand. With a slight forceful tug, she dropped and was already sitting on his lap. She wasn’t holding the bowl firmly, so it fell to the ground and broke in pieces. The pieces of potato root inside also rolled out.

Mu Qing let out an “Ah?!” and reached out to pick it up, but her hand was stopped by his large hand.

He held her waist tightly from behind, burying his face in the long hair at the back of her neck, not moving a muscle.

Mu Qing’s heart suddenly jumped.

She felt him trying to repress his emotions from behind her back.

She didn’t move anymore and just let him hold her, and she kept sitting against him, leaning her head on his shoulder, feeling his breath on the back of her neck. It wasn’t until she was almost drowsy that she felt him pick her up and head for the hut.

He gently put Mu Qing back to her sleeping place, covered her with the animal skin, extended his hand and stroked her hair, before turning around and going out.

When he came back early the next morning after finishing his night watch, Mu Qing had already cooked breakfast for him.

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Mu Qing slowly drank the vegetable porridge while secretly gauging his expression.

He finished drinking the porridge in a few breaths, looked up and smiled brightly at her, before standing up.

Mu Qing felt a lot better all of a sudden.

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

After watching him and the other men leave, Mu Qing went to Naduo’s place.

The day before yesterday, Youyou had a fever, and after touching her forehead, Mu Qing estimated that she had at least a thirty-nine degrees fever, so she had been helping Naduo take care of her. She saw Naduo making her drink the medicinal juice that that old woman who wanted to cure her stomachache last time made, so she was really uneasy. But there was nothing that she could do, she could only dip her hand in cool water and wipe her forehead and limbs, help her drink warm water, and hope that this physical cooling could help her more or less get through this ordeal.

Children here died easily. She had been here just over a month but she had already seen two children die. One was only a few months old and the other was about the same age as Youyou. Both died of a sickness that they couldn’t recover from.

Today, Youyou seemed to be doing better, but she was still a bit out of sorts, her lips were dry and peeling, and her eyes looked bigger.

Youyou was the one who looked after her younger siblings most of the time, but she had been sick for the past few days, so Naduo had not been able to work for two days, so now that she was feeling better, she asked Mu Qing to take care of her and the other younger children, and hurriedly went out with the women to gather wild fruits and vegetables. 𝑏𝑒𝑑𝑛𝘰𝑣𝑒𝘭.𝑐𝑜𝑚

Now was the time where fruits and vegetables were the most abundant in the jungle. After this period of time passes, it would no longer be so easy to find big and abundant fruits, so Naduo was a little anxious.

Translator : Laura

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