Shan Yu was not dead, but because his hand had been steady, accurate, and ruthless, and the injury was even more serious than before.

Wan Qiu sat on the edge of the bed with red eyes, stroking his pregnant belly that was not bulging yet, and wept.

Shan Yu opened his eyes and saw an astonishing scene of a “fierce ghost” crying. Knowing that he had failed to return home, he said helplessly: “Stop crying…” It was too scary.

When Shan Yu woke up, Wan Qiu was overjoyed. He wiped his tears and gave him a bowl of wild vegetables cooked in the morning. He said in a trembling voice: “Husband… Husband, are you okay?”

Shan Yu shook his head and felt that the back of his head was in severe pain, so he asked: “Is there a doctor? Come and take a look at me. I feel like I have a concussion.”

Wan Qiu shook his head: “Yaba… Grandpa Yaba went up the mountain to collect medicine. He is not… at home.”

The original owner didn’t have much information about the grandpa Yaba in his memory. Shan Yu guessed that he was a doctor. He also heard from Wan Qiu that medicine could be collected in the mountains, so he asked him to take him there.

The village wasn’t very big, the air was very good, and the scenery wasn’t bad, even the people he met on the road looked at Shan Yu in a certain bad way.

This was the pot left by the original owner, and Shan Yu silently carried it on his back.

The mountain was just behind the small village. All they could see with the naked eye were rugged rocks and fallen branches and leaves, giving it a decaying scene.

Shan Yu intuitively felt that no herbs would grow on this mountain, but since he was new here, he didn’t express any opinions and followed Wan Qiu to climb up in silence.

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After a while, they came to a small stream.

Shan Yu glanced around and felt that except for a flowing stream, there was no life here. Even the wild vegetables dug up by Wan Qiu had a withered, yellow, and dead air.

Shan Yu felt a stomach ache at the thought of them becoming his meal. He walked to Wan Qiu and said, “Don’t you have land at home? Don’t you grow food? Just eat this every day?”

Wan Qiu stopped digging vegetables when he heard this.

He glanced at Shan Yu cautiously and said, “Husband said that farming is too tiring and too… embarrassing, so…”

Ha~

Shan Yu was speechless to the original owner, thinking that he was obviously a village man, and the family couldn’t open the pot. If he didn’t farm but followed the example of rich people to go out to eat, drink, whore, and gamble, he could only bully the pregnant wife at home… tsk tsk! No wonder God wanted to take him away!

“So why did you…” Shan Yu didn’t understand what Wan Qiu was thinking, thinking that although he didn’t look very good, he wouldn’t marry someone like the original owner, right?

Shan Yu asked Wan Qiu as tactfully as possible: “What do you like… about me? Why do you want to live with someone like me?”

Wan Qiu’s face turned pale, and he gritted his teeth as if he thought of something bad. He lowered his lower lip, and his whole body looked like a frightened deer, very uneasy.

Shan Yu didn’t pay too much attention to Wan Qiu’s emotional changes because a rabbit appeared in the grass not far away.

At this time of year, the grass on the mountains was almost dry, and there were only a few green and fragrant grasses by the river, carrying a little morning dew, attracting rabbits who come out to look for food.

Shan Yu’s eyes widened as he looked at the rabbit. He made a silent gesture to Wan Qiu and moved closer to the rabbit little by little.

The body of the original owner wasn’t very easy to use, and the speed, physical strength, and reaction ability were all unable to keep up. But luckily, Shan Yu encountered a stupid rabbit.

Shan Yu panted, and his head shook slightly from the action of attacking the rabbit just now, making his wound tremble and giving him cold sweat, and he kept shouting to Wan Qiu: “Quick! Come and help!”

Wan Qiu ran over in a hurry, stretched out his hand to pull the rabbit from Shan Yu’s grasp, put it in the basket and said with a smile: “My husband is so awesome!” He was so happy that he no longer stuttered.

Shan Yu wiped the cold sweat from his head, sat on the ground, and calmed down for a long time, then found a sharp stone, picked up the rabbit, and was about to kill it, disembowel it and start eating, when he found… the rabbit’s eyes were red and its bulging pregnant belly.

Note: Grandpa Yaba actually didn’t have a name. The author just called him the mute grandfather. I thought it was a bit annoying to type and read, so I just changed it into Grandpa Yaba.

哑巴 (yǎba)  is Chinese word for mute person.

Thanks for reading everyone^^