Traveling through troubled times, he fled with his stepson

A cave much larger than the one they were in before, with many things inside.

Seeing them coming, a figure ran out at an extremely fast speed.

A kid about his age, but much stronger than him, rushed out like a little calf.

"father!"

The clear voice's happy tone stopped abruptly after seeing Li Yuan and the woman in his father's arms.

"What are you looking at, little brat? Come and give your old man a hand."

The man shouted in a gruff voice, "Go get the herbs to remove the snake venom, and the wound medicine as well."

"okay!"

The boy turned around and went back to the cave, while the man carried Wei Qiqi to the depths of the cave, where there was a large bed in the corner.

The bed was incredibly large, about the same size as three beds put together.

Wei Qiqi was laid down on her side, and the man made her half-lying down so that it would be convenient to apply medicine on her back later.

Li Yuan silently watched the man and the child busying around. It was obvious that they had a lot of things, and the child was making some good herbal medicine.

While boiling the herbs, the burly man was first preparing to treat the area on his back that was scratched by the tiger's claws.

The wound was bleeding, staining the blue-gray bed fabric, making the man sigh.

He first wiped most of the blood with a clean cloth, but some of it flowed out again as soon as it was wiped. The man obviously had no patience.

After only the wound was exposed, he began to apply powdered herbs on the hideous wound.

I applied a thick layer of herbs, I don't know if it worked, but the bleeding stopped.

Then the man stood up and reached down to Wei Qiqi's calf. He pulled down her pantyhose and saw the bandaged wound.

Li Yuan walked over, took off his cleaner clothes and covered Wei Qiqi's exposed parts with them.

"Boy, what does that snake look like?"

Li Yuan spoke in detail without missing a single detail.

"Ah, the poison is not strong, this medicine can cure it." As he spoke, he untied the knot, and suddenly two tiny blood holes appeared in front of him.

"Have you already smoked it?"

Li Yuan nodded, and the man muttered: "Tsk, you have done all the good things..."

Then the boy took the herb the man had specified, pounded it randomly twice and then took it back.

The man didn't care either. He smeared some herbs on it and tied it up with cloth.

"She has toxins all over her body, and she has to take the medicine separately for almost half a month."

Li Yuan nodded and stood silently beside Wei Qiqi's bed.

While Wei Qiqi was awake, the father and son ate, drank, and chatted, but Li Yuan did not participate at all and did not even say a word.

He just looked at Wei Qiqi's unconscious face in silence.

It was at night when Wei Qiqi woke up.

When she woke up, there was a bowl of extremely thick and black herbs in front of her. The smell was so strong that even the living dead could smell it.

"Qiniang..."

Li Yuan's eyebrows finally moved, revealing the only smile in such a long time.

Wei Qiqi wanted to get up, but Li Yuan quickly held her down, "Don't move, or the wound will burst open again."

As he said this, he picked up the herb and brought it to Wei Qiqi.

Wei Qiqi: “…”

Li Yuan scooped a spoonful and fed it to Wei Qiqi. She took a sip and the taste almost made her leave.

There is no medicine in the world more bitter than this.

Seeing Wei Qiqi's facial features wrinkled in pain, Li Yuan laughed. Pain can be endured, but not suffering?

After finishing a bowl of medicine, the man next to him couldn't bear it anymore. He was considered patient to have been able to endure it until now.

"This... girl? No, ma'am."

Wei Qiqi and Li Yuan looked at the man at the same time.

"Old... My name is Guan Lu, and he is my son Guan Zhou."

Pipeline? Pipe porridge?

"This name..."

Wei Qiqi was lying on his stomach, his voice a little unclear.

"Is this a good name? I chose it myself because I hope he will be successful in the future and be able to govern a state!"

The man laughed, obviously satisfied with the name.

"That's right." Li Yuan spoke. He and Wei Qiqi looked at each other and didn't say anything else to discourage others.

"I have already explained that. You can also tell me your origins."

Guan Lu signaled Guan Zhou to pull the wooden stool over so that he could sit opposite them.

"Why are you in this deep forest? Was your wedding dress stolen by bandits and you escaped? Who is this child to you? He doesn't look like a son. At your age, should he be a brother or a nephew?"

Guan Lu's rapid flow of words made both Wei Qiqi and Li Yuan a little confused.

This... before I could even think of how to say it, a ready-made answer was fed to me.

Li Yuan looked at Wei Qiqi, and then spoke first: "Yes, we just ran away from the bandit's den, and they are still outside pretending to catch us."

"Her name is Wei Qi, and she is my stepmother."

The stepmother hit people so hard that they felt dizzy.

Guan Lu exclaimed.

Li Yuan thought that Guan Lu would not ask again, but he heard Guan Lu ask again: "Is your father dead or alive?"

Wei Qiqi was a little amused and confused. How could this person be so choking when talking?

"His father was killed by bandits." Wei Qiqi said in a low voice. The atmosphere between the two was a little depressed.

"That's great!"

? ?

What confusing statement?

What's so good?

Li Yuan stood up suddenly. Realizing that something was wrong, the man immediately retracted his cheerful expression and said, "I mean, it's great that you're still alive."

Then Wei Qiqi saw Guan Lu leaving with a smile that he couldn't hide.

Because Wei Qiqi was seriously injured, Guan Lu said that she might have hurt her bones, so she needed to rest. It would take a hundred days for a broken bone to heal.

Wei Qiqi discussed with Li Yuan and decided to stay with the man first, after all, the man was familiar with the jungle.

Once he was sure that she was going to stay here, the man made a plan.

He would first take the tiger to the county town to sell it, which should fetch a good price. He could then use the proceeds to buy some things. When the woman's injuries had healed and she could go out to work, they could return to the village and then he would propose marriage.

After marrying such a beautiful bride, Guan Lu felt happy all over when he thought of the envious eyes of others.

Not knowing what Guan Lu was thinking, the mother and daughter planned to find a place to hide out first. If possible, they would pay the man money for medicine, accommodation and food expenses.

Li Yuan and Wei Qiqi had not eaten yet. The roasted rabbit they had prepared was still in a simple bag. The two decided to just make do with it for dinner.

Unexpectedly, the man brought a large piece of rabbit meat.

"Eat this. Yours must not have salt. It can't be delicious."

They replaced the one in the man's hand with the one they had baked themselves.

Although the rabbit meat tasted particularly bad to Wei Qiqi, the salt was coarse salt and a bit bitter, plus the rabbit meat had a slightly earthy smell.

However, the food they had eaten these days was even worse than this, and the two of them slowly finished the large piece of meat.

……

Seven days later.

Guan Lu had already dragged the tiger to the city and sold it. He was very happy having made a lot of money.

I have money, a son, and most likely a beautiful wife. How can I not be happy?

So I couldn't hold it back on the way and just spoke out.

"That Wei... Wei or something, I just need a wife, and you're a widow, and it's not easy for widows and orphans to survive in this world, so why don't you follow me?"