Chapter 81: Ruan Chanchan: Fine, I will do it
Ruan Chanchan closed her eyes and accepted her fate. Fine, let it be. Even if she wanted to pull her leg back now, she knew that it was going to be almost impossible. With her teeth gritted hard, she said, "Fine. I will see what I can do. However, no matter what happens, the responsibility is my own; don’t try to make things difficult for Zeqiu."
"Sister!" Ruan Zeqiu was angry. He was a grown-up; he didn’t need his sister to take care of him.
"If you call me big sister, then stay quiet," said Ruan Chanchan sternly. Though she pretended to be fine, inwardly, she was already sweating buckets of cold sweat. She was worried that things might go south, and Ruan Zeqiu would get dragged down by her. The mer had done nothing wrong, and he had suffered enough all these years by taking care of a sister whose mind was no different from that of a one- or two-year-old.
She didn’t want to entangle him with her troubles.
"Darling, don’t you trust me?" Xiao Xi pouted. He looked at her with tears in her eyes and said to her, "I am telling you to trust me. I will certainly treat this woman."
Like I can trust a word that you say, thought Ruan Chanchan. Though she had a lot of opinions about Xiao Xi, she knew that this was not the time to quarrel with him. She hurriedly got to work. Ruan Chanchan, under Xiao Xi’s persuasion, brought the novice pack that came with small skills like mending cuts, stitching wounds and other small first aid skills that were quite basic.
Fortunately, these basic skills could be used at the moment.
Ruan Chanchan hurriedly exchanged the goodwill point and started mending Nan Wu’s wound. She was quite lucky, as the wound only looked serious due to the heavy blood loss; other than that, it was quite easy to deal with. She wiped the blood, cleaned the wound with the novice pack and then started to stitch it.
In the end, it turned out that Xiao Xi was still a bit reliable. Even though the necessities that she got with the pack were used up, the skill that came with it was really good. Ruan Chanchan didn’t feel her hand shake even though she was doing it for the first time. It was truly slick!
"What? Is she mending the skin back? How is she doing that?" one of the elders spoke out loud; he was truly stunned when he saw Ruan Chanchan mending the skin back as if he were tying leaves together. He had never seen such a thing before; he had heard about this skill and had read it in an old scripture that was written on the wall of the Beast Temple, but he had never thought that he would actually see such a godlike thing happen in front of him.
Even Chief Xie was shocked. She rubbed her eyes again and again; she could see what was happening in front of her, but she couldn’t believe it. How in the world... just how in the world did Ruan Chanchan do such a thing? She wanted to question her, but when she saw how focused Ruan Chanchan looked, she didn’t say a word and silently waited for her to finish up.
Only Priestess Yuan looked calm. Thank the heavens! It seemed like the Beast Goddess had not given up on this world, and they still had time to turn their situation around. If not, they all would have died in a stampede in the next six months.
She sighed in relief, feeling grateful for the timely help.
While Xie Daiyu looked at Ruan Chanchan with a gaze so affectionate that if Ruan Chanchan had seen him, she would have run for the hills. Fortunately, her eyes were fixated on Nan Wu’s wound. After she finished tying the last stitch, Ruan Chanchan felt as if a mountain had been pushed off her shoulders.
She threw the needle back in the space and then looked at the people in front of her who were looking at her in shock.
Ruan Chanchan: "..."
Why were they looking at her as if she were some kind of monkey in the zoo?
Touching her nose awkwardly, she said to the people of the tribe, "Move her to her cave and let her rest. If everything goes alright, she will be fine. If she starts burning up in the middle of the night, you should come straight to me. I will fix her up." Ruan Chanchan didn’t know how she knew this information; she just knew it in her mind.
"I will!" Nan Zhi agreed at once. He looked at his sister, who was no longer looking as pale as before with her wound sewn shut, and hope surged in his heart. He hurriedly asked a few warriors to take Nan Wu to their cave. But before leaving, he didn’t forget to glance at Ruan Chanchan.
In the past, he was often disgusted whenever he looked at Ruan Chanchan, but this time around, the second he looked at her, he felt the woman was literally glittering with a hint of an aura that he couldn’t explain.
However, as he was too worried about his sister, he didn’t have to worry about such things. He turned on his feet and rushed after the warriors who were taking his sister to the cave.
Ruan Chanchan, on the other hand, stood up and tried to sneak away. A task that was as impossible as sneaking a whole lamb away from the grasp of a tiger. The second she moved, Chief Xie caught her by the back of her neck. If the woman had been a bit harsh, she would have torn the beast-skin top that Ruan Chanchan was wearing.
Though the beast warriors were used to showing off skin, Ruan Chanchan certainly wasn’t. She covered the top and turned to look at the woman behind her, catching Xie Daiyu staring at her with a pair of shiny eyes like those of a hungry wolf.
Ruan Chanchan: "..." You Hooligan!