Ye An

Gardenia's injury is imminent.

Confirming that the old man was not lying, Ye An personally went to the muddy pond to catch an earthworm, cut it neatly into several sections, squeezed out the smelly blood, tore it into pieces according to the old man's instructions, mixed the mud, held it with leaves, and prepared to apply it on the gardenia's legs superior.

Under the effect of the toxin, Zhizi became delirious, her eyes were slack, white foam flowed from the corners of her mouth, and a beast-like roar came out of her throat.

When the medicine was applied, the wound was irritated and caused severe pain. Zhizi struggled so hard that she almost bit the Bauhinia that was holding her.

There was really no other way but to tie her up first so that she could not move, so that she could continue to heal her wounds.

The mutated earthworm fragments mixed with the mud gave off a disgusting smell.The effect of the treatment is quite good, almost immediately.After the initial excruciating pain, the bleeding from the wound began to become normal.

Zhizi's eyes gradually recovered, but she became very weak.Seeing the tooth marks on Bauhinia's arm, she felt very guilty.

"It's okay, the skin is not broken."

Zijing comforted Zhizi and wrapped the animal skin around her body, which was inconvenient to carry, so two women lifted her up to avoid wiping off the wound medicine while walking.

"Let's go."

After treating Zhizi's injury, everyone continued to move forward.

In order to prevent similar situations from happening again, everyone in the team was very careful, especially when crossing the road full of mud pits, try to line up as much as possible, and act on the footsteps of their companions to avoid danger to the greatest extent.

The rain has been falling, gradually becoming a pouring trend.

When the group arrived at the place where the settlers were hunting wild boars, all the remaining bloodstains were washed away, and a few wild boar corpses were missing. Judging from the traces left on the ground, it seemed that they were dragged away by some kind of mutant beast.

Ye An squatted down, looked at the paw prints covered by rain, stretched out five fingers to compare, estimated the size of the mutant beast, and immediately became vigilant.

"Take two wild boars and go!"

The women collected materials locally, found suitable branches, and cut them off as lifting poles.Then tie the wild boar's four legs with a rope, pass the lifting pole through, put the two ends on the shoulders, and lift it up neatly.

There were three wild boars on the ground. Ye An observed carefully and found one with scratches on its body.

"quick!"

The rain was getting heavier and the team continued to pick up speed.

The old people supported each other, and the children tried not to make themselves a burden, and tried their best to keep up with Ye An and his party.

Not long after they left, a leopard climbed down from the tree and landed silently. The tip of its tail moved to confirm that there were no other predators nearby before walking towards the wild boar on the ground.

The paw prints and scratches that Ye An found belonged to this leopard, and the few wild boars that disappeared were also dragged away by it and hid in different trees.

It has two babies to support and needs a lot of food.

If Ye An didn't make a decisive decision, there was no guarantee that the two sides would not have conflicts.

The leopard dragged away the last wild boar. Because it was too heavy, it had to take out the internal organs under the tree to reduce the weight.

The wild boar's heart and liver were eaten by the leopard, and the rest was scattered in the rain, attracting small animals hiding nearby, and fierce competition took place to fill their stomachs.

The roar of the little beast was drowned in the rain, and it could not be heard very clearly at a distance.

Ye An and his party arrived at the edge of the high ground. Those who stayed on the boat heard the call and saw the returning team through the rain. They immediately lowered the rope from the bow of the boat and helped everyone board the deck.

The weight of the wild boar is not light, and it must be tied with three ropes before it can be successfully dragged to the boat.

The old man and the child persisted all the way, already tired, hungry, and exhausted.Seeing the warship moored at the edge of the highland, the uneasiness in his heart began to spread.But they have nowhere to go, maybe there is a way to survive by boarding the boat, other than that, there is only one way to die.

"My lord, wipe it off quickly."

After Bauhinia boarded the boat, without caring about herself, she quickly ran back to the cabin, found a clean animal hide, and handed it to Ye An.

Ye An waved his hand, combed the wet hair on his forehead with one hand, touched the burnt part, and pulled out the dagger to cut off all of it.

After leaving the isolated island for a long time, Ye An's hair had grown to his shoulders, and it seemed indecent to cut off a part, so he asked Bauhinia to help him cut all his hair short.

"My lord, is this okay?"

Bauhinia moved neatly, and a ring of broken hair quickly fell from Ye An's feet.

Ye An flipped his hair twice, scratched the back of his neck, feeling very refreshed, and gave Bauhinia a thumbs up.

Bauhinia smiled, put the dagger back into the scabbard, cleaned off the hair on the deck, and followed Ye An's previous instructions, organized everyone to sail and prepare to leave this highland.

As the boat sailed on the river, looking back from the stern, there was no longer any fire, only thick smoke lingering, like a cloud of black clouds, weighing heavily on the high ground.

The old man and the child are uneasy, not knowing what fate awaits them.

Seeing their nervousness, Ye An signaled Zijing to take Zhizi into the cabin first, arrange for someone to take care of her, and then boil some hot water for the people on board to take a quick bath.

"After taking a shower, we will arrange cabins for them." Ye An said.

Old people and children have been homeless for a long time and locked in cages for many days, so lice are inevitable on their bodies.It has to be cleaned up carefully.Ye An didn't want to bring these little things back to the island.

Bauhinia arranged manpower to carry out large buckets from the warehouse to hold clean rainwater.

Ye An moved the rattan umbrella left by Weng Zhao, motioned for the elderly and children to take shelter under the umbrella, and then went to the kitchen to fetch a large piece of bacon and stored wheat cakes.

The bacon was cold, and the wheatbread hadn't had time to bake yet, but it was enough to make the elderly and children salivate and their stomachs roar.

Ye An cut the bacon into slices and put them in the pancakes, half of each person.It wasn't because he was stingy, but because he could tell that these people had been hungry for a long time, and if they were allowed to eat with their stomachs open, they would probably starve to death.

The oatmeal was handed to them, and the aroma wafted into their noses. The children kept swallowing, but unexpectedly managed to control themselves. Instead of taking it immediately, they looked up at the old man, waiting for the old man's permission.

Surprise flashed across Ye An's expression, he met the old man opposite him, and clearly sensed what they were thinking at the moment, and explained: "Don't worry, this is not a slave ship, and I'm not a merchant, let alone doing human trafficking."

While talking, Ye An picked up a piece of wheat cake, took a bite in front of the old man, chewed a few times and swallowed it into his stomach.

The old people were skeptical, but soon felt that Ye An didn't need to deceive themselves, and immediately nodded to the children.The children were allowed to each grab half a rye cake and start gobbling it.

"My lord, we don't understand, why did you save us?" The old man with the fish pattern on his arm said.

"Smoothly." Ye An didn't give all the answers, but it didn't count as deceiving them.It was an accident to meet that group of residents, and saving this group of people was also a matter of course.

The old man nodded and did not continue to ask.

This made Ye An a little curious. Did he really believe him, or did he see that he didn't intend to say more, so he didn't continue to ask?

After eating the wheat cakes, the hot water has already been boiled.

The women took turns entering the cabin, while the elderly and children were arranged on the deck.

The children have followed the old people to wander in the wilderness since they were sensible.Outside of the rainy season, there are only a handful of showers.Most of the time, in order to avoid being attacked by ferocious mutant beasts, they have to find ways to change the smell on their bodies and smear all kinds of strange things on their bodies, so the smell will not be very good.

It is no exaggeration to say that this is the first hot bath in their lives.

Just touched the hot water, the child will scream.The old people patted their backs while pouring hot water on them, and the comfort overwhelmed their tension before they calmed down.

Before taking a bath, Ye An obtained the old man's permission to shave off all the children's hair.The old people do it themselves, help each other, and also shave their heads.

The animal skins that were replaced could not be worn again, and all were thrown into the fire and burned.

The lice hidden inside were crackled and crackled, like a string of firecrackers.

Ye An asked someone to fetch clean clothes and gave them to the old people to change into.There is no suitable size for children, let them wrap in animal skins first, and change the clothes to the appropriate size before changing.

During the process, Ye An was surprised to find that not only one old man had fish patterns on his body, some on his arms, some on his back, and some on his waist and legs.Most of them were covered by clothing, so I didn't notice them before.

The old people noticed his gaze and looked at each other. One of them raised his arm and said, "My lord, have you seen this?"

"Yes." Ye An nodded, and cut straight to the point, "I have a question, I hope you can answer it honestly."

"Please ask."

"What's your relationship with Haicheng?"

Hearing the word "Haicheng", the old people froze at the same time, their expressions changed.