Wooden Bed, Woolen Blanket

"Grandpa!, his hand is moving"

She immediately stood up from her recliner and unconsciously dropped her book and wooden pen on the floor where she was, she ran like a panicked person but on her face was clearly drawn an expression of surprise, relief, pleasure.

"Thank ancestors, his consciousness is gradually recovering"

the old man sitting on his reclining chair next to the young girl stood up and followed the girl to the wooden bed.

"But Herbalist Huang said Liang'er should regain consciousness tomorrow"

The girl knelt down with half of her body standing up right and her palms grasping the edge of the mattress with a slight squeeze of the edge of the blanket.

"It's okay, maybe this is a good sign, grandpa believes the ancestors made it easy for his health recovery"

The old man stood to the left of the young girl.

They both cast their eyes towards the unconscious and helpless young man, lying covered in a warm fleece cloth, on a wooden bed mattress that had circular cloud reliefs and mountain silhouettes on the right and left sides of its frame.

A young girl who was fully kneeling and half-standing, had clear and beautiful eyes, a naturally sweet face as smooth as natural jade, long black hair flowing down with a delicate impression, wearing a loose-sleeved light blue set of clothes under a white set of clothes, and light blue headband around her head and waist of her pants.

An old grandfather who is still standing upright, has slightly narrowed eyes with wrinkles clearly visible on the sides of the edges, has long white hair tied up on the shoulders and a long white beard curled on the chest, wearing a set of loose-sleeved dark blue clothes under a set of white clothes, then dark blue headbeand around his head with dark wooden crescent ornaments at the center and at the waist of his pants.

Grandfather Wu Ming Qi and elder brother Wu Shan Yu, they are the family of Wu Liang.

Wu Liang is currently lying helplessly on his bed, lost in sleep for a whole day from yesterday due to an incident that caused a stone protrusion to hit him right on the head, leaving the skin of his upper left temple open and requiring stitches.

The soft and cool breeze of the valley wind this morning came and passed through the gap of the wooden wall and the open window in a medium sized room made of brown pine wood, the breeze that came caressed both of their faces and then strengthened the impression of the expression of relief and pleasure that was clearly on their faces.

Shan Yu knelt down and gently squeezed the edge of the left blanket of the bed, deep in her mind was the responsibility of being a big brother, now she was expecting the second movement that her young brother would do.

"Yu'er, just let your brother rest first, the doctor said his injury is quite serious, maybe he moved just now because he was recovering but certainly now he is not stable"

Grandpa Ming Qi said trying to make the situation feel comfortable.

"Grandpa is right, I hope he will wake up soon, my little brother is very reckless."

"Hohoho, it's the life of young people, youth is fun, but the risk is also worth it, I miss my youth."

Grandpa Ming Qi then walked from his place, stood up and headed to the window to the right of the bed, while his right hand rubbed his long white beard, Grandpa Ming Qi brought himself closer to the open window of the room looking at the panoramic view of the sea of pine forests called border forests in front with a distance as far as the eye could see.

"When was it...? Ahh technically thats a long time ago when grandpa was young but not young as like you, a bit older, at that time grandpa was once have good friends with an outsider, if I'm not wrong, his name was Bai Hao Jian, our meeting happened because grandpa accidentally found him, he was dying and unconscious on the side of the border river, when grandpa was looking for wild mushrooms near there time, he was badly injured!, his face was slightly blue, the ground and water below him were dark red due to his blood"

Shan Yu then seriously listened to his grandpa with a little surprised expression while still kneeling fully, he remembered and knew his grandfather had been out of the village with his uncle Huang Gu but never heard stories about this.

"I'm sorry to interrupt, but grandpa never told me about this before."

"Grandpa is just waiting for the right time, of course this is only Huang Gu and the elders of the meeting hall thats know about this, let's not discuss that matter, and... then Grandpa took care of him, I couldn't bear to see people dying in that condition, dying like that is very painful"

The reflection of his grandfather's image in Shan Yu's eyes clearly recorded his grandfather's nostalgic behavior when bringing up this old story, Shan Yu had no choice but to remain silent and listen to what his grandfather said.

"Is it so bad that you have to take care of it, aren't we forbidden to bring outsiders in carelessly?"

"Yes, that's right, then I outsmarted him by taking Bai Hao Jian to a nearby hunting lodge and also fortunately the lodge I stayed in was rarely filled, then... when I took off his clothes to see his wound, he had a harder and sturdier physique than us, then as I thought, that he is a cultivator who strayed into the border forest."

Then Grandpa paused for a moment as he took in the natural landscape in front of him, looking at the painting of the morning blue sky and the soft white hues of the clouds moving slowly across the mountains and lowlands below, and the light dewy mist that usually appeared in the morning.

This dense sea of pine forest called the border forest is known to hold a variety of vegetation within it, one of which is the brown pine tree, a type of pine tree wood used by the Wu family for house building and other construction matters.

In addition to the abundance of vegetation, there are also many dangers in its depths, such as wolves, bears, snakes, and even mutated animals that are often the subject of chatter among the Wu tribe just to fill the topic, in addition to dangerous animals, there are also black-tailed squirrels as meat for consumption that live in the pine trees with scales, there are also green fin salmon in the streams that cross the border forest from south to north.

From the top of the village, the outermost layer of the frontier forest is also faintly visible, bordering another vast grassland with a few silhouettes of mountains and hills.

The area where the Wu tribe lives is inland but with natural conditions that happen to be neatly shaped by the forest to the west and mountains to the north, east, and south.

When one starts to leave the Wu village, one only has the option of heading westward, on the way one will pass through a grassland with slightly bumpy ground that is in the middle of the first layer of bordering forests and mountains.

Then after passing through the grassland, one will enter the first layer of frontier forest, here has quite a lot of vegetation and can be cultivated according to needs, and can also be utilized as utilization is done in the grassland, one only needs to step hundreds of feet to pass through this.

After passing through the first border forest, one encounters a shallow stream only waist deep, slightly less wide than the first layer of forest, where Wu family members who play a role in the hunting lodge group will usually catch fish as a variant in the diet.

Past this stream, there is another layer of forest that is denser and denser than the first layer of forest, called the second layer of border forest that is less dangerous, harboring snakes and wild mushrooms that freely grow on fallen dead trees at almost every dozen steps or even a leaf of herbs that grow randomly among the trees, the Wu tribesmen who play a role in plant management will often go to this area because they are looking for herbs that can be used as medicine or food flavor enhancers.

Then going further, one would enter the dangerous zone of the frontier forest, said to be dangerous by the Wu tribe because here often passed mountain silverback bears that often migrated during the snowy cold period, female bears would go out of the mountain to eat their fill, they would be guarded by male bears when returning to the mountain during the hibernation range in the snowy cold period.

Then it's just a matter of walking thousands of steps, one will go to the outermost layer and end up in another grassland, this vast layer of frontier forest clearly confines the Wu tribe from any other free human interaction.

At first glance it looks like a living cage, but this living cage allows the Wu tribe to defend its territory from the knowledge of other humans out there, in case there are bandits or fugitives who want to find a place to live but cannot come to the Wu tribe village because it is protected by a vast pine forest.

Before entering the first layer of forest from the direction of the Wu tribe's village, there is a grassland where the Wu tribe used to raise cattle and sheep, and farm wheat, slightly undulating from end to end, flowering and fertile.

While the Wu tribe's village itself was on the slightly uphill, wide and somewhat flat side of a mountain fault, just to the east of the grassland, and further behind it, there was a high mountain range that pierced the clouds.