Chapter 12 Qing Yu 4 (1/2)

Chapter 12 Qing Yu (4)

The fox watched Qing Yu silently; Qing Yu took it for the fox’s tacit approval, so she boldly approached him again.

She gently stroked his fur and found at least a dozen wounds that had not yet healed, most of which still had the arrowheads or spearheads stuck inside.

“If you don’t pull those out, your wounds will never heal!” Qing Yu blurted out.

The fox stood up and scornfully glanced at her. “As if you care.”

“I, I——” For a second, Qing Yu did not know how to reply, but she quickly refuted, “Why? So do you think that there are no good people in the world? Do you think that all human beings are as ferocious and evil like you?!”

The pupils of the nine-tailed fox immediately constricted. “Ferocious and evil? You——”

Before he could finish the sentence, he let out a groan because of the sudden severe pain in his thigh. He looked back and found that the princess was holding a blood-stained arrow in her hand.

“Don’t make those noises, just endure it.” Qing Yu threw the arrow on the ground and then she grabbed another broken spear shaft stabbed in its body.

“You!” The fox growled. But before it could release its anger, this bold girl interjected it.

“If you don’t treat those wounds, they will get infected, and the consequences will be terrible. You might lose your legs.”

Maybe the fox was frightened because of Qing Yu’s serious tone, but he stopped complaining. He lay quietly on the ground and turned his head aside, letting Qing Yu treat his wounds.

It took Qing Yu a while to pull out all of the broken weapons from the wounds. The mixture of short and long broken wooden sticks laid piled on the ground with blood dripping from them looked quite shocking.

Qing Yu checked his wounds one last time and felt relieved. Then she gasped and sat down on the ground.

“Well, that is everything that was stuck inside your wounds. I believe they should heal soon enough.”

Qing Yu felt exhausted and had to sit down for a break. The bruises on her body began to ache.

“So, you have to thank me for——” Qing Yu gasped, but she did not hear any response. She turned around and found that the fox had already gotten up. She stared at him, but the fox just turned around and walked away.

“Hey! Stinky fox! ”

Qing Yu almost cried out. She worked so hard to clean up his wounds, however, instead of being grateful, this bastard fox walked away!

Qing Yu felt that her kindness was wasted on this fox. For that moment, she even forgot the idea of running away, and she just sat there, feeling really angry.

However, after a short while, a low voice called her.

“Hey.”

Qing Yu looked up. The fox had returned with some green herbs in its mouth. He chewed on those leaves before applying them to his wounds.

Qing Yu stared at him and thought, ‘Did he leave to look for medicinal herbs?’

While Qing Yu was absent-minded, the fox drew closer to her. Qing Yu subconsciously held out her hand, and some chewed up herbs fell on her palm.

“Thank you,” the fox said. “This is a token of my gratitude.”

Although the nine-tailed fox still looked distant, it was surprisingly straightforward, which was totally unexpected.

“You… you have a good heart,” Qing Yu said in surprise.

The fox snorted, “Don’t put me on the same scale as you humans.”

The fox’s attitude greatly evoked her curiosity.

“Hey, you. You said that people in our country framed you. What happened? ”

“You don’t know?”

Qing Yu shook her head. “No, I don’t. I’m the princess of the country and my father’s only child. My father protected me so well that he never let me know anything outside the palace. When I knew about you, you had almost destroyed our country.”

The fox looked at Qing Yu, amused. “So, that is to say, you didn’t know anything at all and you just blindly sacrificed yourself?”

Qing Yu’s face flushed. “Ye…yes! But if I knew from the beginning that you were just a perverted fox, I would never have done that!”

The fox glanced at her and did not answer her question, but then he said abruptly, “I did nothing wrong. Qingqiu is surrounded by the sea on three sides. The salt in the seawater can easily enter the farmlands. Of course, a salted land cannot grow crops. Furthermore, you human beings recklessly cut down too many trees in the mountains. Without trees, the land can’t store water, and your farmland certainly became drier as time passed. Your stupidity caused that, none of that was my fault.”

Qing Yu smiled and said seriously, “Em, I believe you.”

The nine-tailed fox narrowed his eyes; it seemed that he did not believe her.

“I don’t believe that you’re inherently bad, but you are very proud.” Qing Yu sat down by the creek and applied the herbs to her wounds. “So I guess that you got angry and began to massacre people after being framed.”