Chapter 225 The Little Gift (1/2)

Ning Xue stretched out her hand, wanted to wipe off the remaining water drops in the corner of his mouth. This was already something she used to do everytime she fed him the water. Because in the past, everytime she finished drinking water, he would help her wipe the corner of her mouth clean. Ning Xue hand extended out halfway, suddenly she remembered something, like being electrocuted she took back her hand, then nervously asked: “Brother, are you hungry?”

Ning Xue’s hand pulled back too fast, but in a short moment it made Ye Wuchen’s heart feel shocked, his weak breath became more confused, he used his hoarse voice anxiously asked: “Xue-er, let me see your hand.”

At first Ning Xue was startled, then in a conditioned reflex she hid the hand behind her back, her expression became more frenetic, “My…… my hand is quite good, I will not let brother see……”

Her actions made it look more conspicuous, made him realize that it was not a misconception a while ago, he gently and resolutely said: “Xue-er, listen to me, stretch out your hand.”

In front of Ye Wuchen, Ning Xue simply didn’t have the strength to refuse. She finally put out her hands from her back, carefully opened them in front of Ye Wuchen’s eyes.

Although with preparation, but when the moment Ye Wuchen’s eyes focused on her palms, his heart suddenly felt as if being simultaneously pricked by a thousand steel needles, his heartache almost made him suffocate. He even didn’t believe that, are these really Ning Xue’s hands?

The structure of the hands were still perfectly delicate, before he would always hold these two hands in his hands, enjoying such kind of warm feeling. But in comparison to the delicate and flawless hands that he had known before, this time they were covered with thick calluses of all sizes, quite awfully thick, being dark, yellow, even some of them were covered with bloody blisters of different sizes. In the palm and fingers, numerous scars were crisscrossed on them, some of them were already healed, some of them were new, but too many wounds had made the entire palms to be totally refuted. Extending further to the wrists, it were similarly riddled with scars…...

Ye Wuchen looked for a short moment, then closed his eyes, couldn’t look further. He couldn’t imagine that, how much grinding, and how much friction, and through how much pain had to be experienced by her before these factors destroyed the soft and delicate both hands like that. Those wounds crisscrossed in her hands were like several incomparably sharp knives, ruthlessly piercing through the softest spot in his heart, causing him to be so much in pain.

The sight that shocked the eyes, and astonished the heart.

“Are they painful?” Ye Wuchen asked in a trembling voice.

Ning Xue quickly took back her hands, placing them to his body, then anxiously shook her head with all her might: “Not painful, not even the slightest bit.”

“But, it pains me.” Ye Wuchen looked at her gleaming eyes, feeling the heartache that he had never experienced before. Even to compare with the full moon nights before, he never experienced such kind of heartache.

In this world, who else will be more beautiful than his Xue-er. Even to compare with the fairies in heaven, they simply couldn’t compare to his Xue-er by any chance.

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Ning Xue arrived again in this mysterious forest, but her mood was already completely different from before, the only same thing was her impatient heart. Ye Wuchen’s awakening made her even wanted to just stay beside him, hoping she could find the fruits earlier, then quickly return to his side. On her way here, she repeatedly cheered in her heart: “Brother is awake! Brother is awake……”

She had came to this forest numerous times, although she never went deeper into it, but she had clearly remembered the exact location of every tree in its border, also familiar with the small creatures that frequently roamed around. This time, her footsteps were more lively than before, when she stepped on a bush, suddenly the bush stirred restlessly, Ning Xue retreated a step back as she was frightened, a startled rabbit jumped out from the bush, as it run ahead at a lightning speed.

Before Ning Xue could regain her attention, that panicked rabbit without determining its right path knocked against a solid old tree with a “thump”, as it laid flat on its back afterwards, its claws and legs twitched for a few times then it stopped moving.

Ning Xue opened her eyes wide, looked at it for a very long time, seeing no further movement on this rabbit, she pat her own chest to calm down her thumping heart then went over there. She sat down, used her hand to carefully touch the rabbit’s body, after seeing it without any response she picked it up, then returned back running.

For the whole two years, she and Ye Wuchen never ate any meat or fish. Because a small young girl like her simply couldn’t hunt for wild animals, even if she catched one she would refuse to kill it. And today this pitiful rabbit had knocked itself to death, was like a gift given to her by the heavens, allowing her to cook it for her brother’s nourishment.

“Brother, look, I catched a rabbit.” Separated by a long distance, she lifted this pitiful rabbit high, swaying it while she gurgled with laughter, for her, this was something quite amazing. Because she ran too fast, she stumbled and fell to the ground, she made her efforts to climb up, but her face still looks excited.

Her laugh had lifted up Ye Wuchen’s depressed and painful heart, his heart was silently thanking this rabbit that fell into her hands due to an unknown reason. For him, Ning Xue’s smile was the most beautiful sight in his life.

Ning Xue ran to his side, happily showing him the fat rabbit: “Brother look, hee hee, this rabbit was so clumsy, it had unexpectedly knocked itself against a tree, really clumsy!”

Knocking itself against a tree? Ye Wuchen felt somewhat ridiculous then he yelled in his heart “no wonder”, then in his mind he couldn’t help but remembered a story that was called “Staying by a Stump Waiting for More Hares”.

“Brother, let’s just eat this clumsy rabbit, okay?” She laughed happily, then immediately she remembered something, she flattened the corner of her mouth, then became somehow anxious: “But, there’s no fire here, how can we cook the rabbit……”