“It’s the Village Chief!”
Wei Wei was elated. She turned around and shouted at the rest of the village.
Then, Li and Yuan rushed out at the same time, pouncing into Fu Rui’s arms from both sides.
“What’s wrong, what’s wrong? It’s only been a short time since we last met, yet you’re already throwing yourself at me?” Fu Rui teased them.
“Stop that!” Li hit him coquettishly. Then, she snorted as she clenched her fists. “Do you know how dangerous it is to clash with the porcupine tribe outside!”
“I’m fine, aren’t I?” Fu Rui grinned as he pointed at the two porcupines on the ground. “Look, I even brought back three days’ worth of meat from their tribe.”
“Don’t do this again next time!”
“You actually hope for a next time!”
“You… Ow!”
“Hey, hey, hey! Since when did you learn from Yuan to bite me?”
“I just feel like it!”
Fu Rui suddenly felt that Li was quite cute when she was unreasonable.
After comforting her, Fu Rui looked at the other girl in his arms.
Yuan had already hugged his waist and buried her head into his chest while secretly crying.
As expected, this little girl was a little girl. She couldn’t be like Li, a mature woman who would treat this experience as a joke.
Fu Rui tried to coax her again, but Yuan cried even louder.
“Boohoo… Yuan was so afraid… I was so afraid Rui won’t be able to come back…” The little kitten wasn’t as calm as she was back then.
She had simply hidden all her emotions and made the most appropriate decision at the right time.
“Stop crying, stop crying.” Fu Rui held her face and gently wiped away the tears on her cheeks. “If you continue crying, your face is going to become dirty. It won’t look good then.”
Yuan immediately stopped crying. Then, she put on a pitiful look and said, “Really… I won’t cry then, meow.”
Her appearance was really too seductive. Fu Rui couldn’t help but lower his head and kiss her deeply.
“Eh…” Li pretended to be disgusted and almost covered her eyes.
“What do you mean, ‘eh’?”
Fu Rui chuckled and let go of Yuan’s lips. Then, he turned around and hugged Li tightly, kissing her fiercely.
“Oh…”
Li opened her eyes wide. She never expected Fu Rui to really do this.
Yuan’s face was red as she turned her head away. After spending so much time with Tu Tu, she finally understood when it was time to be shy.
After ‘teaching’ Li a lesson, Fu Rui turned around and picked up the porcupines.
“Let’s go into the village first. I have something to tell you.”
“Hmph!”
Li stomped her feet angrily. “I’ll settle the score with you after you’re done.”
“Sure, wait for me at your place.”
“…”
Li rolled her eyes.
Fu Rui laughed and walked towards the village.
The beast-eared females who gathered at the village entrance saw Fu Rui returning unscathed after being attacked by more than ten porcupine scouts. He even brought two of them back as spoils of war. As a result, their praises came one after another.
Fu Rui smiled and instructed the beast-eared females to disassemble and store the nearly 500 kilograms of food he had brought back.
“Yuan, where’s the coarse salt we collected by the lake?”
Yuan immediately went forward and handed over the leather bag that she kept close to her body.
“Here.”
Fu Rui nodded, took the bag, and said with a smile, “Li, call Xia, Wei Wei, Li Li, and the others over. I have something to tell you all.”
“Alright, I’ll make the arrangements now.”
“Rui… Can Yuan go too?”
The cat-eared girl sat on a nearby stone bench and looked at him expectantly.
“Of course.”
Fu Rui carried her up in a bridal style. “Let me take a look at your ankle. Hold me tight.”
Yuan put her hands behind his head with a blush.
Then, Fu Rui carried her to the pool and used the stream water to wash the mud off her feet. However, the mud had dried up and formed a shell. It was not easy to deal with, so he could only use his hands to remove it.
“Hiss…”
Yuan gasped and retracted her feet unnaturally.
“Does it hurt a lot?”
“Meow, it doesn’t hurt…”
“Bear with it. I have to clean it up.”
As her tender feet were revealed, Fu Rui gradually started to frown.
Since they had rushed to salt water lake in a hurry previously, there were actually fine wounds on her feet that had already formed scabs.
Should he debride her wounds?
This was a difficult problem. In this era, there was no alcohol at all, nor was there any iodine or hydrogen peroxide. Thus, there was no way to debride or disinfect the wound.
Although wood ash had sterilizing and disinfecting effects, the substance contained in it was too mixed and dirty. If it was not refined, it would instead contaminate the wound.
Thus, he had no choice but to make do.
He hoped that the constitution of the beast-eared girls allowed them to resist the invasion of bacteria.
He simply could not think of another way now.
For now, the area around the wound had to be cleaned first.
Fu Rui carried Yuan into her house, took a ceramic lamp, lit the candle, then dipped his clean T-shirt in water and wiped her wounds bit by bit.
Not long after, Li walked in with Li Li and the others.
Upon seeing this scene, she could not help but approach him with concern.
“Is Yuan injured? Is it very serious?”
“It’s alright, but she won’t be able to walk for the time being. I’ll have to observe the changes in the wound as well.”
Fu Rui hesitated for a moment. He felt that it was necessary to let them know the severity of the wound infection, so he explained some of the possible problems that could occur after the injury.
Some examples included a fever and festering wounds.
Unexpectedly, he received three Civilization Points as a reward after explaining these.
This was a pleasant surprise.
However, the beast-eared girls were not that happy.
Li looked at Yuan worriedly. She was afraid that Yuan would get infected and fall sick, just like Fu Rui said.
Oh… Rui also said that the conditions were not appropriate for amputation at the moment. If the amputation wound was infected, it was very likely that Yuan would die…