Chapter 248
Chapter 248
Jiang Yunsui had no idea how extraordinary her new, enormous friend was. She lay at the river’s edge and helped Youyou drag the white wolf onto the bank.
It was badly hurt. The bear’s claws had ripped a wound so deep that bone showed beneath it.
Youyou paced anxiously around the dying wolf.
“Woof, woof…”
The great big dog looked pleadingly at Jiang Yunsui. Even someone who could not understand him would have recognized the plea for help.
“Shen Qingzhu!”
Naturally, this was the moment to call for rescue.
Jiang Yunsui fed the white wolf some Imperial Flowing Essence.
“Don’t worry, Youyou. We’ll do everything we can to save your little friend.”
When Shen Qingzhu arrived, he first fed the wolf a concentrated anesthetic pill.
“This wound needs stitches.”
Ever since Jiang Yunsui had taught him that wounds could be sutured, he had practiced the technique repeatedly in the military camp. He had grown increasingly proficient and had even commissioned a special set of suitable instruments.
The white wolf soon lost consciousness after swallowing the pill. Shen Qingzhu took out his tools and began working.
The rest of the wolf pack remained intensely wary of them, however. Even with Zuozuo and Youyou present, they did not want Shen Qingzhu touching the injured wolf.
Little Mushroom jumped up, grabbed their ears, and began reasoning with them.
The wolf whose ears she held bared its fangs.
Jiang Yunsui squeezed with her little hand, closing its jaws for it.
“Be reasonable. We’re saving its life.”
Her practiced sequence of movements terrified the guards into rigid silence.
Those were wolves-wild wolves! They were not Zuozuo and Youyou.
Yet the pack did not bite Jiang Yunsui. They merely looked very displeased.
One guard asked, “Has Miss Yunsui met these wolves before?”
Why else would they not bite her?
Another answered, “I don’t think so. Hasn’t Miss Yunsui only had those tigers around her lately?”
At most, there had been a few birds as well.
If this truly was their first meeting and Jiang Yunsui still dared act like this…
The guards were speechless. Miss Yunsui really was absurdly bold. She dared put her hands on anything.
The most outrageous part was that the wolves actually stopped acting fierce.
Did she possess some secret dog-training technique?
Jiang Yunsui darted from one place to another, manually closing the mouths of every wolf that bared its teeth.
The reason she dared behave so boldly was simple: weren’t these wolves friends with Zuozuo and Youyou?
Her dogs’ friends were her friends.
She was always happy to make friends with animals, and she could sense that these wolves bore her no malice.
Shen Qingzhu stitched the white wolf’s wound closed. Meanwhile, the great battle between tiger and bear came to an end, with the bear fleeing in defeat.
Tigers were called kings of beasts for good reason-especially an atavistic tiger of extraordinary size.
If nothing else, those teeth hurt terribly when they bit down.
After the fight, Fatty Tiger sprawled beside the water, licking his paws and washing his great furry face. His body was covered in blood.
He did not come over. He merely lay lazily on the bank and watched them from afar.
The wolves eyed him warily, then even began whispering among themselves.
Once Jiang Yunsui saw that the injured wolf was out of danger, she joined the pack to eavesdrop.
A human child suddenly appeared in the middle of the wolves, crouching among them with her head tipped back as she listened intently to their conversation.
It was a rather uncanny sight.
‘That’s him. He’s wandered around our territory plenty of times before.’
‘He’s incredibly thick-skinned. Even the king couldn’t drive him away.’
‘I didn’t know he was so strong.’
‘What does he have to do with this human child? Why does he listen to her?’
‘This human child looks terribly weak. I could bite her in half with one snap.’
‘But she smells so good. I can’t bear to eat her.’
Jiang Yunsui fell silent.
I’m standing right here. Is it really all right to gossip about me so loudly?
Many of the wolves were wounded.
Jiang Yunsui muttered under her breath as she moved among them and fed medicine to the injured.
Fatty Tiger had naturally been wounded too. Against such an enormous opponent, there was no way he could emerge completely unscathed.
The wolves were intelligent. With Zuozuo, Youyou, and Jiang Yunsui acting as interpreters, they remained much calmer during the rest of the treatment.
“Why aren’t they back yet?”
After dealing with the fight and treating the injured wolves and tiger, Jiang Yunsui returned to crouch beside the waterfall and wait.
Four whole hours had passed, and evening was approaching.
Worried, she paced beside the falls and kept looking upward.
Shen Qingzhu said, “The water is growing stronger now. Even if Ji Si and Ji Lu wanted to leave, trying it would be dangerous. It would be best for them to come out at noon tomorrow.”
“Oh. I understand.”
The roar of the falling water was deafening, so Jiang Yunsui covered her ears.
She edged closer, wanting a better look at the Moonlight Flowers above.
She wondered whether she could keep them alive. She definitely had to take some home when they left.
“Do they have seeds? Let’s look.”
She began searching along the waterfall, picking up anything that looked remotely like a seed.
“Huh? This looks like a tea tree.”
Ji Yan’an liked drinking tea. Jiang Yunsui thought it smelled lovely too, so she could recognize tea leaves to some extent.
She plucked a leaf from the tree and held it beneath her nose. A fresh fragrance drifted from it.
Her eyes lit up. It really was a tea tree.
The tree was not particularly large; its main trunk was only as thick as a man’s arm. It grew directly from the cliff face not far from the waterfall, some of its leaves drooping downward while others thrust proudly upward.
“Shen Qingzhu! Shen Qingzhu…”
The waterfall was too loud. Shen Qingzhu, who was digging up a medicinal herb, did not hear her.
Jiang Yunsui had no choice but to churn her short legs and run over to him.
“Shen Qingzhu, come quick! I found something good.”
She dragged him toward the tea tree.
When the two reached the waterfall, the rocks proved far too slippery and-entirely unsurprisingly-they fell.
Jiang Yunsui tumbled straight into the water. The current swept her through the pool beneath the falls, rolling her over and over.
“Gurgle, gurgle, gurgle…”
Shen Qingzhu fell into the river too, but quickly steadied himself.
“Jiang Yunsui!”
That unlucky little girl had even dragged him into her misfortune.
When he finally found her, Little Mushroom, who had tumbled through the water several times, was not frightened in the least.
She was fighting.
Her opponent was an enormous fish, as long as she was tall. Living beneath the waterfall had given it tremendous strength. It did not look plump, but its body was armored in hard scales.
Jiang Yunsui had bumped into the fish underwater, so it had slapped her with its tail.
Petty as ever, Little Mushroom refused to let that stand. She knew how to swim, so she wrapped herself around the fish and started fighting it. She even used her teeth-only to nearly crack them on its scales with her first bite.
“What are you doing?” Shen Qingzhu demanded, his voice overflowing with helplessness.
Jiang Yunsui immediately complained, “This fish hit me! It slapped me with its tail.”
Aggrieved, Little Mushroom pointed at her face.
Her skin was fair and tender. One side of her face was now red and swollen, with the imprint of the fish’s tail clearly visible.
“Hurry up and help! It’s getting away!”
Shen Qingzhu waded toward her. At that moment, Jiang Yunsui had all four limbs wrapped around the fish.
Sensing someone approach, the fish shot through the water at breakneck speed-with Jiang Yunsui still clinging to its back.
“Aaaah! Gurgle, gurgle… Ptooey, ptooey…”