Chapter 41

Chapter 41

~End of chapter 40

Li Mang had invited this old woman most probably because she was the witch doctor of the settlement. According to her understanding, she was probably the kind of person that could communicate with the ghosts and the gods, and also make remedies, she might even serve as a midwife when the women here give birth.

Mu Qing subconsciously shrank a little further, she did not dare to drink the stuff in this bowl.

The old woman grinned at her and said a few words to her. But the look of her smile under the light of the burning torch looked extremely creepy.

Mu Qing shook her head desperately.

Chapter 41

(13.3)

Li Mang fed her some of the water she had boiled for herself in the pot during daytime, and then held her with one hand while rubbing her stomach with the other. Both of them were tormented all night, and it was only when dawn came, that they managed to fall asleep.

Mu Qing’s diarrhea did not stop until the third day. There was no mirror here, but she didn’t need to look at herself to know that her eyes were at least two times bigger than before. Even her strength to speak had been drained.

During the day, Youyou always stayed by her side, and Naduo would visit her at intervals. At night, Li Mang brought her all kinds of fresh fruit, and Mu Qing gained herself an additional advantage. He always disliked her sleeping with her clothes on, and before he absolutely required her to be naked to sleep with him, but these nights, Mu Qing insisted a little, and he did not force her, but only hugged her to sleep, sometimes he would put his hand into her clothes to feel her skin for a moment before stopping.

Here the daily salt intake was not much, Mu Qing had diarrhea for a few days, with a lot of difficulties she had managed to recover some vitality, and she thought that she should replenish her body with some salt. So she drank the soup with the strangest taste she ever had in her life: animal blood was added to water and then a piece of honeycomb was added as well. The soup was boiled like this, and after stirring it, she pinched her nose to drink it. This was the only sugar and salty water she could get out here.

Mu Qing’s stomach pain finally healed. But there were still three to four days, according to her own estimation, before the end of her danger period. She didn’t know if Li Mang would continue to leave her alone starting from tonight. Or should she pretend to have stomach pain again? She even wondered if she should go to the old woman and ask her to let her drink another bowl of that stuff.

(14.1)

It was the thirteenth day after Mu Qing’s accident, and the tenth day since she had arrived in this settlement. The people here all worked during the day, she hadn’t seen anyone not working except for the very young children and Naonao, and even the chief was often out with the men. So when Li Mang left this morning, although he seemed to want her to stay inside and rest for another day, but feeling that her energy had recovered, she decided to go with the children to the crop field again.

Translator : Laura

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