Chapter 62: Escaping Danger

Two little birds flew from somewhere and landed on the branch, their chirping breaking the silence of the morning. Their clear and melodious voices were like a beauty singing.

Under the big tree, the roars of the blind bear and the big tiger shook the branches, and Liu Li reached out to hug the tree trunk to keep from falling off.

Everyone held their breath and watched the situation under the tree, not daring to make a sound, fearing that they would disturb these two wild beasts.

When the big tiger saw the big black bear, it bared its sharp teeth and released a message that only animals could understand. Both sides were testing each other and both wanted to scare the other away.

The blind bear was clearly deterred by the big tiger and retreated step by step, seemingly intending to give up the prey in the tree.

However, Liu Li couldn't let the black bear give up just like that. Once the black bear was scared away by the tiger, they in the tree would really not be able to come down.

Thinking this, Liu Li exchanged for another jar of honey, let Chen Fei unscrew the lid, and then threw it directly at the big tiger.

The sticky honey fell right on the tiger, and Liu Li exclaimed: "That was a very accurate throw."

The honey jar fell to the ground, and the honey in the jar flowed all over the ground. The tiger stepped forward to sniff it and even tentatively stretched out its tongue to lick it.

The blind bear also smelled the scent of honey. It roared twice and pounced directly on the tiger.

The big tiger felt the danger and jumped to the side flexibly, once again posing a defensive and intimidating posture facing the blind bear.

However, this time the blind bear was not afraid. It roared and waved its bear paw at the tiger, fighting for food.

The two wild beasts instantly twisted together. The ground was kicked up with dust by their tearing and fighting movements. The tiny humans watching this great battle in the tree were dumbfounded.

Liu Li even heard a soldier cheering for the tiger: "Bite it, bite this blind bear to death."

"..."

The two wild beasts were fighting fiercely, which was a good opportunity for them to escape. Liu Li pointed to the other side of the big tree and reminded Chen Fei: "We leave from this direction, be light."

Chen Fei nodded, understood, and reached out to let Liu Li step on his shoulder to get down the tree first. Then he carefully received Wei Qing and Huo Qubing, and finally, the four of them landed safely.

Seeing this, the other people in the tree also quietly climbed down along the tree trunk, and then everyone tried to lighten their steps and left on tiptoe.

It wasn't until they were far away from the territory where the bear and tiger were fighting that they sped up and ran.

After a night of rest, everyone had regained quite a bit of energy. They ran for about the time it takes to burn an incense stick before slowly stopping.

When their feet truly stepped on the earth, everyone had a sense of joy of survival after a disaster. However, immediately after, their rumbling stomachs reminded everyone that they had no food or water at this time.

And when they would be able to walk out of this dense forest was still an unknown. Thinking of this, everyone's expressions instantly became dejected.

"We will definitely be able to walk out alive." Wei Qing spoke at this time to encourage everyone: "We survived such a dangerous situation last night, what else is there to be afraid of?"

"Leader Wei is right, we will definitely be able to walk out!" The soldiers responded to Wei Qing's words one after another.

However, the next moment, Wei Qing's eyes went dark, and he rolled his eyes and fell down. Fortunately, Huo Qubing supported him, so he didn't hit his head on the ground.

"Uncle!" Huo Qubing hurriedly hugged Wei Qing, his pale little face full of guilt and fear. He was afraid that his uncle would never wake up again, and even if he used his own life to repay it, it wouldn't be enough.

Liu Li noticed that the gauze bandaged on Wei Qing's arm had turned red. She walked to Liu Che's side and whispered a few words to him. Liu Che nodded slightly, then looked at the remaining soldiers and said: "You guys carry Wei Qing, we'll continue on our way and find a relatively safe place to think of a way to treat Wei Qing's wounds."

"Yes."

Liu Li didn't let Chen Fei carry her anymore, but held the compass and walked in front to explore the path. She held a branch in her hand and didn't forget to tap the soil on the ground while walking.

Suddenly, Liu Li vaguely heard the sound of rushing water. She stopped abruptly, wanting to hear it more clearly.

Liu Che behind her saw her stop suddenly and said: "What's wrong?"

Liu Li signaled everyone not to speak. She pricked up her ears and listened carefully, and indeed heard the sound of water, which seemed to be coming from the northwest direction.

Liu Che also heard it, his eyes lit up: "There should be a river ahead, everyone hold on a bit longer, we'll rest by the river."

They no longer walked along the mountain body, but turned to walk in the direction the river came from. In this way, everyone walked for almost half an hour before they saw the river.

"We walked out!" Everyone's eyes were full of hope. Where there is living water, there must be an end.

Everyone ran to the river, carefully put Wei Qing down, and then lay by the river to scoop water to drink, regardless of whether the water was clean or not.

Huo Qubing filled a water bottle with his own water bottle and turned to feed Wei Qing.

Liu Li walked carefully to the river and carefully observed the situation in front and behind. This river flowed from east to west, and the opposite side of the river was still an endless dense forest, but as long as they walked along the river now, they should be able to walk out in at most one or two days.

"Everyone is tired, let's rest here now." Liu Che began to arrange for the soldiers to work: "You two go into the forest to pick up some wood, you three go nearby to see if there are any wild rabbits or something."

Several soldiers drank water and regained a bit of energy. Liu Li also specially exchanged for a few loaves of bread and handed them to them: "Eat something to cushion your stomachs first."

Everyone took the bread from the Princess's hand, feeling moved in their hearts: "Thank you, Princess Jianling."

Liu Li smiled, looked up at everyone, and urged sincerely: "Everyone don't run too far, pay attention to safety."

The soldiers nodded and bit into the bread, then entered the forest together to hunt and find wood.

At this time, Wei Qing also woke up. He struggled to climb up from the ground. Huo Qubing hurriedly supported him to sit up: "Uncle."

Wei Qing's gaze looked around, but he didn't see a single soldier. He frowned painfully: "Where are the others?"

"They were arranged by the Empress to find wood for starting a fire." Huo Qubing answered in a low voice.

Seeing Wei Qing wake up, Liu Li hurriedly ran to his side: "Leader Wei, how are you feeling?"

Facing Princess Jianling's concerned gaze, Wei Qing smiled weakly and said hoarsely: "Thank you, Princess, for your concern, I am fine."

Liu Li pointed to his arm bandaged with gauze and said: "Last night, the blood here should have stopped, but when running this morning, it might have cracked again. Now I need to change the gauze for you."

For humans at this time, the way to treat wounds was to crush herbs, apply them to the wound, and then bandage it.

As for whether the wound would become infected, it was up to fate. It wasn't until the Eastern Han Dynasty, with the advent of people like Hua Tuo and Zhang Zhongjing, that the backward medical situation changed and there were so-called golden sore medicines for treating external injuries.

Wei Qing turned his head to look at his arm and nodded slightly: "Good." He said, reaching out his right hand, intending to untie the gauze bandaged on his left arm.

It was fine at first, but the closer he got to the injured area, the slower his movements became, and it was clearly very painful, with sweat even coming out on his forehead.

Liu Li was especially afraid to see such a bloody scene. She closed her eyes even more afraid than Wei Qing and turned her head away so as not to look.

Her small actions made a smile appear on Wei Qing's face. Finally, he hardened his heart and tore the gauze on his arm off. The wound slapped by the black bear's claws was not small, and the middle one of the three wounds could vaguely see the bone.

Huo Qubing on the side gasped when he saw this.

Wei Qing asked in a hoarse voice: "I wonder if the Princess can bestow a bit of that gauze from yesterday again?"

Liu Li said with her eyes closed: "You wait a moment, I'll give it to you in a while." As she said this, she turned and ran to Liu Che's side, closed her eyes, and searched the system store for special medicine for treating external injuries.

It was mainly for anti-inflammatory, anti-bacterial, and anti-infection. Liu Li chose and chose, and finally chose disinfectant alcohol, which was relatively cheap, costing only 100 points, and then

paired it with an oral penicillin-like pill.

After exchanging for these things, Liu Li handed them all to Liu Che, letting him help Wei Qing bandage the wound.

She didn't dare to look at all.

Liu Che didn't refuse either. He got up and walked to Wei Qing's side, knelt and sat down beside Wei Qing, his gaze falling on his bloody wound, his slender brows furrowing slightly.

The wound on Wei Qing's arm was more serious than he had imagined.

"Xiao Jun?" Wei Qing met the "Empress's" eyes and suddenly became a bit stiff, not even knowing what kind of expression to show to face her.

"I'll help you treat the wound." Liu Che didn't notice the change in Wei Qing's expression. He followed Liu Li's instructions, unscrewed the alcohol bottle, poured a little alcohol into the bottle cap, and finally poured it all on Wei Qing's wound.

Wei Qing's eyes widened suddenly. The wound stimulated by the alcohol was even more painful than the one slapped by the black bear earlier. He couldn't help but scream: "Ah!"

The sound startled the birds in the forest.

Huo Qubing smelled the scent of wine and asked in surprise: "Is this wine?"

Liu Che also felt it was wine, but A Li said that this wine could not be drunk and could only be used to disinfect the wound. Although Liu Che didn't quite understand why he had to disinfect it since there was no poison on the bear's claws.

After simple disinfection with alcohol, Liu Che asked Wei Qing to lift his arm, and he leaned over slightly to help Wei Qing bandage the wound with gauze.

A strand of hair slid down Liu Che's cheek to the side of his face. Wei Qing's gaze also carefully moved from his own wound to the "Empress's" face in front of him.

At this time, the "Empress" was in a sorry state, with even very obvious dust on her face, not at all as dignified and elegant as usual. But Wei Qing looked at it and still felt that the "Empress" in front of him was so good-looking.

He looked at the strand of hair falling by "her" face, his right hand moved slightly, wanting to help "her" tuck the hair behind.

Just as his hand was raised in mid-air, Liu Che raised his eyes slightly to look at Wei Qing, his willow brows raised slightly: "The wound is bandaged, eat this medicine." As he said this, Liu Che naturally tucked his hair behind his ears, revealing his round and exquisite ears.

Afterward, he handed over a small bottle of medicine from his other hand, looking at Wei Qing's hand frozen in mid-air: "Take it."

Wei Qing turned his hand stiffly and took a small medicine bottle from the Empress's hand, listening to "her" say: "Two pills each morning, noon, and night, until your wound heals and scars."

Liu Che said, fearing he had said it wrong, and turned his head to look at Liu Li: "Is this how it's eaten, A Li?"

In Liu Che's call, Liu Li suddenly came back to her senses. She nodded randomly and responded: "Ah, yes, yes, yes."

After answering, Liu Li took a secret glance at Wei Qing uncertainly, and then glanced at Liu Che, who was wearing Ajiao's appearance.

She shouldn't have been dazzled just now, right?

Wei Qing's look at Liu Che... why was it so affectionate?

Did Wei Qing fall in love with Liu Che?

No, from Wei Qing's perspective, the person in front of him was Ajiao, the Empress. Did Wei Qing fall in love with Ajiao's appearance and the soul of another person inside her body?

Eww, she should... have seen it wrong!

When Liu Li was extremely uncertain in her heart, the soldiers who were arranged to pick up firewood and hunt all returned. Their harvest this time was quite good. Chen Fei was dragging two wild rabbits in both hands, and a soldier behind him was also holding one.

The other soldiers were holding wood such as branches in their arms.

Everyone returned happily, preparing to start a fire and set up a wooden frame to roast rabbit meat. Seeing that Wei Qing had also woken up, everyone was even more delighted.

Before long, they had set up a simple campfire by the river. The soldier responsible for processing the rabbits had already skinned the rabbits and strung them on sturdy wooden sticks, preparing to roast them with fire.

Liu Li stayed far away the whole time, and only returned to the crowd after smelling the fragrance of rabbit meat.

Liu Che mocked her: "You weren't afraid when facing the black bear before, why are you hiding now when killing wild rabbits?"

Liu Li curled her lips and said: "This is called having a compassionate heart."

"A compassionate heart?" Liu Che found it funny

and only said one sentence: "Then don't eat it when the wild rabbit is roasted in a while."

The wild rabbit was roasted with a sizzling fragrance, and Liu Li felt the speed of her saliva secretion becoming faster: "No, I want to eat."

"Didn't you say you had a compassionate heart? Since you are compassionate, why do you still want to eat?"

Liu Li puffed out her cheeks and said: "My stomach also needs compassion." She hadn't eaten meat for several days!

Although she could exchange for meat from the system store, her points were not much, only a few hundred left, so she had to save them.

The medicine exchanged for Wei Qing was still exchanged by her gritting her teeth. At this time, Liu Li was afraid that they hadn't walked out of this forest yet, and her points would be used up.

The wild rabbit in Chen Fei's hand was the first to be roasted. He seemed not to be afraid of the heat, tore off the most delicious rabbit leg, and handed it to Liu Li: "Princess."

Liu Li didn't stand on ceremony with Chen Fei either, happily took the rabbit leg with her sleeve, and after it cooled down a bit, she started to enjoy it.

Anyway, the clothes on her body were already dirty, so it didn't matter if they were a bit dirtier. And the bacteria in ancient times were much, much less compared to modern times, so it should be fine for her to eat a rabbit leg like this.

As the saying goes, if it's not clean, you won't get sick if you eat it!

Liu Che saw Chen Fei's care for Liu Li and thought to himself that this Chen Fei was loyal. Even though he had already joined the Feathered Forest Guard, he was still the same to A Li, his old master.

The wild rabbit in Huo Qubing's hand was also roasted. He subconsciously turned his head and wanted to hand it to Wei Qing to eat first, but was stopped by Wei Qing: "Give this wild rabbit to the Empress."

Huo Qubing paused, but finally followed Wei Qing's arrangement, stood up, walked to Liu Che's side, and handed the wooden stick with the wild rabbit in his hand to him: "Empress, this is for you."

Liu Che took the wild rabbit from Huo Qubing's hand as a matter of course. He smelled the scent and praised: "Roasted well."

When everyone was roasting rabbits, they weren't idle either, talking about the difficulties when hunting just now, and then talking about the black bear they encountered last night.

A soldier looked at Liu Li: "Princess Jianling, can I ask you a question?"

Liu Li nodded while gnawing on the rabbit leg: "Yes."

"What did you throw to the blind bear yesterday, and why did it stop chasing us after you threw it to it?"

"It was honey." Liu Li said: "This is food that black bears like to eat."

"So that's how it is, worthy of being Princess Jianling!" Everyone suddenly realized and admired Princess Jianling's wisdom again. The Great Han absolutely couldn't do without our Princess!

After experiencing the crisis last night, there were nine people left, and a total of five rabbits were hunted. Chen Fei gave Liu Li a rabbit leg, and Liu Che also shared a rabbit leg with her. After eating two rabbit legs, Liu Li was full.

She wiped her greasy mouth with her sleeve, climbed up from the ground, and said: "I'm full, you guys eat slowly." As she said this, she walked slowly to the river, intending to wash her hands.

The river water here was extremely clear, and one could clearly see the stones at the bottom of the river, as well as some very, very small swimming fish.

After Liu Li washed her hands, she was bored alone, seeing that others were still eating. She simply sat down by the river, slowly took off her shoes and socks, and put her little feet into the cool river water to wash her feet.

Although Father Emperor had carried her for a long way over the past few days, she had also walked quite a bit herself. If her mobile phone was on her, her WeChat step count would definitely be the first on her friend list.

Thinking of this, Liu Li felt melancholy again inexplicably. The experience of these few short days was even more exciting than her life of more than twenty years in her previous life.

If it weren't for the memories of modern times in her mind, she would even suspect whether she should have lived in this era.

The cool river water washed over her feet, and Liu Li felt very comfortable. She simply lay back on the ground, looking at the cloudless sky overhead, feeling very comfortable for a while.

The sun's light was a bit dazzling. Just as she was about to close her eyes, Huo Qubing's head suddenly appeared in front of her, blocking the sunlight for her.

Liu Li blinked her eyes and hurriedly sat up from the ground, taking a long time to adapt to the light: "Why did you come over too?"

Huo Qubing knelt and sat down beside Liu Li and said: "

I'm full too, come to keep you company."

Liu Li smiled, lowered her eyes to look at the river surface, and then said in surprise: "Look quickly, there are little fish eating my feet!" In the clear river water, a group of little fish like tadpoles surrounded Liu Li's feet.

Huo Qubing turned his head to look at the bright smile on Liu Li's little face and whispered: "Sometimes you really don't look like a child, and sometimes you are very innocent."

"What?" Liu Li didn't understand.

"If it weren't for you last night, we might not have been able to walk out of that black bear's territory alive." His voice was a bit heavy. The incident last night made Huo Qubing deeply realize the danger of the unknown world.

When that black bear's paw slapped people, it was as easy as slapping a melon. This also made Huo Qubing realize that in the face of absolute disparity in strength, even if he was powerful, it was useless.

"How did you know so much about black bears?" Huo Qubing was a bit curious.

Liu Li thought about it, her voice clear and agile: "There is a golden house in books, of course, it was all learned from ancient books."

Huo Qubing lowered his head silently and whispered: "The thing I regret most this time is not listening to my uncle, thinking I was very powerful, and secretly following everyone down the cliff."

He came down from the cliff safely and even felt smug when standing on the ground, thinking he was more capable than those soldiers who died unfortunately.

But in fact, when facing the big black bear pouncing, he was scared until his legs went soft.

If it weren't for his uncle rushing to save himself, he would probably have died here long ago.

If he had listened to his uncle before and waited obediently on the mountain, his uncle would not have been injured at all.

It was all his fault.

Liu Li could feel that Huo Qubing at this time was seriously reviewing his mistakes. The only people who could make this proud teenager lower his head, besides the Emperor, were Wei Qing.

"Knowing mistakes and correcting them is the greatest good. Since you know you regret it, then just correct it in the future." Liu Li said: "Listen to your uncle obediently in the future."

After all, Huo Qubing now was only a ten-year-old child. After this time, he should have grown up, which was not a bad thing.

Huo Qubing responded with a muffled "Mm" and then didn't speak again.

Liu Li picked up a stone from the ground and aimed it at the river, intending to skip a stone for fun. As a result, none of them skipped, and it just fell into the water with a plop.

"After the summer vacation ends, I will study seriously at the Imperial Academy." Huo Qubing added another sentence: "I want to be like you, knowing a lot of knowledge." So that if he encounters a similar situation in the future, he won't panic again.

Liu Li chuckled: "If you want to be as learned as me, you have to study for at least twenty years."

"Aren't you only six years old now?"

"Because I am a genius."

Seeing Liu Li pick up another stone and throw it into the river, Huo Qubing also picked one up from the ground, stood up from the ground, and threw the stone out. The stone seemed to have grown legs, skipping seven or eight times on the river surface before finally sinking into the river.

Liu Li was surprised: "Wow, you are so amazing!"

Huo Qubing raised his eyebrows: "You teach me knowledge, how about I teach you how to skip stones?"

Liu Li was silent: "..." You are quite good at exchanging.

She blinked her eyes and said: "Okay, after you go back, you can start by studying "The Art of War" first."

Huo Qubing nodded seriously: "Good."

【Huo Qubing favorability: 50】

Liu Li looked at Huo Qubing's sudden increase of 20 points of favorability and felt a bit surprised. However, she was happy again. After all, 20 points of favorability, if exchanged for points, would be 200 points.

Although it was not much, at least it could exchange for 20 loaves of bread, enough for everyone to eat for a day.

Liu Li happily went ashore barefoot: "Then teach me how to skip stones now, like you just did, skipping seven or eight times."

"Put on your shoes first." Huo Qubing frowned as he watched her white little feet stepping on the ground, feeling that this was very inappropriate.

"Oh." Liu Li responded and bent down to put on her shoes.

"Princess Jianling, are we friends now?" While Liu Li was bowing her head to put on her shoes, Huo Qubing suddenly asked another question.

Liu Li was stunned, looked up at him, her eyes turned slightly, but she asked back: "Then do you hope we are friends?"

Huo Qubing paused, then nodded seriously: "I hope so."

"Then we are friends." Liu Li said so.

Although Liu Li was not sure what the future direction of this space-time would be. But as long as the Empress couldn't give birth to a prince in the future, relying on the future military exploits of Wei Qing and Huo Qubing, the eldest prince born to Wei Zifu would very likely be recommended as the Crown Prince by the courtiers.

At that time, for her, the eldest prince Liu Ju would be a threat.

At that time, she didn't know which side this new friend would choose to stand on. But for now, having one more friend is better than having one more enemy. ===== CHAPTER 63 =====