Chapter 33

Chapter 33

~End of chapter 32

In the evening, Li Mang brought her a packet of fruits wrapped in large leaves, several of which she had never seen before, and which looked very tempting. All of them had been washed.

It was like this for several days in a row.

Once, he even brought her a fresh honeycomb full of honey.

When he did these, it looked like he was doing it secretly. He only brought over these things after it was dark and threw them in front of her. Mu Qing guessed he was probably afraid of being seen by his people. Of course, most of these were eaten by Youyou and her siblings the next day.

He probably could see that she was angry, so these actions could be interpreted as him trying to please her. At night however, when they slept, he still had to pull her to his side. The only difference was that his hands touched her with a lighter touch, and he often took care to watch the expression on her face.

Chapter 33

Li Mang seemed to find these actions of hers ridiculous, especially the little thing she hung above the door curtain where the wind came in. That was her underwear that she hung after washing to dry on a clothes-hanger that she had made using branches. He did not seem to understand the reason why she liked to wear this thing, tirelessly washing it and drying it, drying it and washing it over again.

Sometimes, when he was in a good mood, he would go tug at it and fiddle with it, and several times he even went as far as to smell it. Mu Qing saw it but did not make a fuss about it, she just pretended not to see it.

But very quickly, Mu Qing thought of a rather troublesome problem. Women monthly period.

What made her think about this issue was that she saw a woman in the settlement having her period. She didn’t know whether the woman had stuffed anything down there, for that place was covered, but she saw a large streak of crimson blood flowing down her inner thigh, and then that woman used tree bark to wipe it clean, as if nothing was the matter, leaving a long red faint smear.

Mu Qing was a little startled, or rather, to be more precise, she was shocked. Then she noticed that another woman was in the same condition. Finally, one day when she walked by the ditch in the settlement, which was dug up for drainage, she happened to see a woman pulling out a narrow band from her lower body that looked like it was made of knitted reed. There was a pile of hay-like stuff on top of the band.

This scene made Mu Qing unable to forget about it.

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Translator : Laura

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