Chapter 31: Confession

I have been lighting the fire before, otherwise I would never have thought that the early morning dew on the island would be so heavy. After waking her up, she shivered a few times.

"It's so cold."

"Hold on for a while. When we go back, there will be meat to eat." I patted her on the shoulder: "We are gone, after we go back and have a look, we will go back the same way."

She hummed twice, rubbed her eyes, pushed aside the branches leaning on the cliff, and stood up.

"Brother Lu Fei, you said that if your wife knew, you have been with me during this period of time, we always hold hands, and you hug me to sleep again. Will she be angry?"

Faced with her innocent smile, I deliberately joked: "It's okay, it would be great for me to marry you as an aunt."

"Fuck you." She shook her head: "I won't do it. Sister Wanxue won't agree. I guess she will kill you."

"I know, just ask." I warned: "By the way, when I rescue Li Wanxue later, you can't tell her this."

"I know, I'm not stupid." She tugged at me, and said squeamishly: "Hey, walking in the morning is so tired. Brother Lu Fei, can you carry me on your back?"

"The front will be here soon." I panicked myself too tired.

"Don't pull it down." She threw away my hand and walked forward angrily.

After I caught up, she turned around, ran directly behind me, and jumped on my back. I had to protect her legs.

I beat my shoulder twice with hypocrisy: "Oh, what are you doing.? If you don't want to memorize it, you still have to memorize it. You will find opportunities to take advantage of other girls."

I stopped and turned my head to look at her: "Yutong, can we stop making trouble? We all need to save some energy."

She stuck her tongue out and nodded.

When I walked to the place where the torch disappeared last night, I finally saw a real thing. The place was trampled on very flat. It should be the place where the aborigines came down from the high ground every time. There are no facilities to assist climbing on the cliff, which proves my guess that they climbed up with ropes.

When I thought that Li Wanxue was still in the hands of the aborigines, I really wanted to go straight up to rescue her.

After thinking about it for a while, I said, "Yutong, why don't you go back by yourself and take back the things you shot last night. We also dug so many wild sweet potatoes, and it’s enough for you to eat for a while."

"What about you?" she asked.

I sighed and said, "It's been several days, and I don't know how

 Li Wanxue and the others are like. I will stay here and find a way to save her."

"Brother Lu Fei, don't be stupid." Zhang Yutong persuaded: "I know you love your wife very much, and I am very worried about her. But you can't save her at all. Even you yourself will be caught by the aborigines. Go. Let’s go back first, and think of a way to rescue them."

I didn't want to leave, so she dragged me desperately.

Looking eagerly at the high ground that I can't get up, I can only listen to her.

On the way back, we searched for a while before we found the thing she shot to death last night. It was really a wild goat, about the size of a domestic goat. The elder's light yellow hair, the corners of the top of the head are slightly curved toward the back, and it is more than 20 centimeters in length.

After carrying the wild goat back into the river, I dropped it and ran into the turn of the river to take a look. It was crooked, and the beach was wide and narrow.

After running back to Zhang Yutong, I pointed to the river channel and said, "Let’s change to another camp. The river channel is full of cliffs. The aborigines will definitely not find us hiding in it, and we also have a source of water."

Zhang Yutong walked to the river, squatted down and held the river water, licked it, and drank. Seeing how she was drinking, I hurried to take a few sips. It smelled like mountain spring water. This is the first time we drink real fresh water since we went to the island.

In order to be able to drink water anytime, anywhere, she agreed. After returning to the camp, I started dealing with wild goats. I am afraid that if I don't deal with it soon, it would be rot because of the hot weather.

After peeling the sheep's skin, I chopped a branch with the thickness of a child's arm and two Y-shaped logs to make a grill. Meat roasted with an open flame is awful. For this reason, I took the ashes of the fire team and collected the charcoal that was not burned out. After the preparation was ready, I put the wild goat on it and roasted it over and over.

After the strong smell of meat came out, Zhang Yutong ran to take out two bowls and two knives that they polished with iron pieces on the plane, and started to cut the mutton directly by himself.

Looking at her greasy red lips, I just feel hungry.

"How?"

She nodded: "It's delicious and fragrant. But it has a stinky smell. It's a pity that there were no condiment, otherwise it would be more delicious. Brother Lu Fei, we don't have to go into the mountains today, right?"

I mean, she said happily that she was going to change to better-looking clothes in a while.

After filling my stomach, I chopped the remaining lamb into several chunks. After digging the soil to moisten it, I wrap the lamb, and then use an open flame to lean on it fiercely. This is the most primitive and most effective way to preserve food. If the lamb is isolated from the outside air, it will not rot and deteriorate. It is not a problem to keep it for ten and a half months.

After the ibex was processed, we split up. She was responsible for collecting the things we had to use. I went to bring the boat and the previously hidden wild sweet potatoes, and then I could go to the river to find a new camp.

When I returned to the harbor in a canoe, I saw her wearing a white brim hat and a white dress standing on the beach, with four boxes beside her.

"Do we need to bring so many things?" I was surprised.

She nodded: "Yes, one box contains your clothes and one belongs to mine. Oh, it's actually someone else's, but it's now owned by both of us. There's another one containing lamb and sweet potatoes, and the last one. The box contains utensils."

"Your skirt is pretty." The skirt went over the knee, only showing a section of the calf. The half sleeves, the shoulders are hollowed out, and the neckline is V-shaped, showing a little white and shallow grooves. The red inside is also very obvious.

She grinned, lifted the skirt and said, "My legs are beautiful. If the legs are not long and straight, no skirts will look good."

"Then what do you mean by this hat?" Good-looking means good-looking, but I always feel that it doesn't match our current situation.

"It’s to cover the sun." She pinched the brim of her hat: "You see, I am white from head to toe, like a little fairy."

"You say it looks like it, then it would be." I smiled and started to load the box on the canoe.

When she was left in the end, she proactively raised a hand. After taking her in, I began to push the canoe back into the sea.

She lay down on the stern and said with a grin: "Brother Lu Fei, if I were your wife, I feel that we must be together for fun."

I deliberately teased her and said: "Yes, I don't mind having another wife."

"Fuck you." She waved her hand disgustingly: "If you are single now, I can still think about it, but unfortunately you have a wife. I won't agree with that even if you kill me."

"Come to row with me." I climbed into the canoe and handed her a paddle.

"Do you think the rescuers have forgotten us? It's been half a month without any letter. I'm really afraid that I won't be able to go back for the rest of my life. I don't want to be single for a lifetime." During the voyage, she kept talking endlessly like a tuberculosis.

The water in the river is so green that you can't see how deep it is. In short, it is not difficult to navigate the canoe in it.

After making a sharp turn, I began to look at the banks of the river on both sides, looking for a suitable foothold. Several caves were discovered during the period, but unfortunately they were either too small or appeared on the cliffs. After going in for two or three kilometers, I finally saw a big cave, and the beach in front was four or five meters wide. There is no need to dock in the narrow river. When I used the wood pulp in my hand to top the other bank, the boat leaned to the other side and ran aground.