C325

"Hm." Duan Chengrui felt a burning pain on his back.

Gu Danyan quickly lowered her head to look at him. She wanted to get up, but her left ankle suddenly hurt and she rolled her eyes. She really had gotten into trouble. She hadn't recovered from her previous injury, but now her foot was injured again.

She quickly found a suitable position to sit down, and the pain lessened.

"Are you alright?" Duan Chengrui didn't care about the pain in his back as he quickly got up and looked at Gu Daiyan. Seeing that her head wasn't injured, he felt his heart drop.

Gu Danyan patted her shoulder: "Go see if there's water nearby, take me there, I'll treat your wounds."

Duan Chengrui surveyed his surroundings, and he actually had a bewildered expression.

The two horses had been chasing for who knows how long and in which direction. Just now, he had only been focusing on getting Gu Daiyan down, afraid that she would lose her strength on the horse and lose her bearings as she rolled down. Now, it was too difficult to find the location of the tent.

Nodding his head, Duan Chengrui ignored the pain and quickly went to look for it. After walking for a while, he finally found a small river. The spring should be nearby, and it was extremely clear, but there wasn't much water.

Duan Chengrui quickly ran back, only to see that Gu Daiyan had fixed his left foot with tree branches and shredded cloth. He was even holding onto a simple walking stick that was wrapped with two pieces of wood as he jumped towards him: "Found it?"

"Your legs …" Duan Chengrui saw that her feet were slightly twisted and swollen.

"I still have some medicine here, but I might need someone to help me straighten my bones when I go back." Gu Danyan waved his hand and patted the bag on his waist. All of these things were there to deal with emergencies.

Duan Chengrui wanted to carry her on his back, but Gu Meiyan waved her hand: "There's a wound on your back. Just support me. Is the water source far away?"

In his heart, Duan Chengrui was slightly angry and directly beat her up. Gu Daiyan's first reaction was to pinch his shoulder: "It's a good thing your arm isn't injured, otherwise with your actions, your arm would have been dislocated."

"You're not in pain?" Duan Chengrui was even angrier as he kicked the two wooden sticks that were tied to the crutches to the side.

Gu Liuyan pursed his lips and looked at his feet. He took a deep breath and said: "It's alright, I can endure it."

"Just say it's painful."

"It hurts more." Gu Danyan looked at him, and there seemed to be some light in his eyes.

Duan Chengrui didn't say anything. He knew that Gu Tinyan was actually afraid of pain and was just enduring it.

Such strong people would only make people feel fear, because they could resist the cowardice of instinct.

However, the person in their embrace was very light. To martial artists like them, it was almost as if she was weightless. However, in order to relieve the pain, she muttered the name of a snack.

As Duan Chengrui listened to her carefully counting, he seemed to relax a little.

When he arrived at the spring, he was about to bend down to put her down, but Gu Pingyan immediately flipped over and landed with a weird posture, letting his right leg fall to the ground first. He seemed to be in pain and frowned while waving at him: "You can't bend down. If your back is injured, you'll be done for."

Duan Chengrui was scared to death by her actions earlier. Seeing that she was fine, he heaved a sigh of relief and slowly sat down.

Gu Liuyan first helped him clean up his wounds before using the medicine in Xiaoyao's bag to apply it on the wound on his back. She then tore off her own clothes to wrap him up properly before putting his clothes back on.

Just as Duan Chengrui wanted to hug her, Gu Danyan leaned against a large rock and looked at him: "Go and find reinforcements first, I'll wait for you here."

"Together." Duan Chengrui frowned and wanted to go get her.

"Let's not talk about friendship." Gu Yue moved away a little and looked at him seriously. Suddenly, there was a lot of sweat on her face, "You left quickly by yourself. If you bring me along, we won't even be able to leave if we get lost."

"If I can't find the way when it gets dark, you're going to sleep here for the night?" Duan Chengrui glanced at the bird shit area. Even the trees in this main forest were much taller.

Gu Daiyan choked.

Duan Chengrui held her up horizontally with a dark expression and said in a deep voice, "We rolled down the hill, it's fine as long as we follow you up."

"But …"

"The blood will attract the wild beasts. If you stay here alone, you will die." The strength that Duan Chengrui used was slightly greater. When he saw that Gu Pingyan was glaring at him while gasping for cold air due to the pain, his heart softened. He had no other choice: "Do you want to die?"

"I don't want to die." Gu Daiyan shook his head. He thought for a moment, then raised his hand and wrapped it around his neck: "The back of your shoulder is connected to your shoulder. Let me hold onto your neck, you should tire a little."

Looking at the person who still needed to exert some strength in his embrace, Duan Chengrui was slightly dazed and nodded dumbly, then he carried her up the stairs. Gu Pingyan was in his embrace and his body was still trembling slightly, as if he was really afraid of what happened just now and was humming a song that only children would sing.

It would only take him a moment to roll down the mountain. However, it would be difficult for him to climb up the mountain through the traces he had left behind.

Duan Chengrui crawled for a while before Gu Dai Yan made him put him down. He found a flat area and stopped, "Why not light a fire? If there's smoke, they might be able to find us more easily."

"It's almost dark." Duan Chengrui also had his own considerations. "If the wild beast sees that there's a fire in the mountain, then things will become difficult. At that time, both of us will easily lose our lives here."

The two of them looked at each other, thinking that it was better to climb the mountain.

This was near the hunting grounds, it was impossible that there were no wild beasts. Moreover, they did not make a fire, so those who came to look for them would definitely carry torches.

After walking for a while, Gu Danyan didn't know how far he was and his feet didn't hurt anymore. He could only helplessly say: "Last time we met, we were fishing and playing, but this time our fate is bleak."

Duan Chengrui was helpless as well. "We've fallen into a trap."

"Why?" Gu Liuyan's mind cleared up a little.

"Someone gave me a piece of paper. It said that I would meet you here, and the handwriting should be yours." Duan Chengrui waved his hand at her, and Gu Qing Yan took out a note from his pocket. The words were actually identical, causing her to frown immediately.

He then continued, "Moreover, I was afraid that Su Yu Wan might have some tricks up her sleeve, so I intentionally sent people to watch over her. But she only saw the Fourth Prince's Consort once, and she doesn't seem to have done anything after that, so she returned …"

"That's the problem." Gu Liuyan's gaze turned cold. He twisted the note in his hand into a ball and threw it away.

She had originally thought that the silver needles on Silver Ear's body were from Mu Qing, but now that she thought about it, not only did the fourth prince's consort enter the stable openly, she even knew how to use Gu poison.

Was this Litchi Bay jealous? Or was it because the Concubine Xian sent her to harm him?