What does it mean to protect her completely?
My sister is a divine archer, okay?
Mi Guo's back sent a shiver down his spine just thinking about his archery practice on Cliff Mountain.
The level of composure and steadiness of her arrow, daring to place an apple on his head and split it with an arrow, was something Mi Guo still wouldn't dare attempt.
Yan Xin led the way, a group of seven heading to the spot where Wu Yu had been bitten by a wolf yesterday.
After walking for almost an hour, they finally arrived at the scene of yesterday's incident.
"This is it. If it was a mother wolf giving birth, she should be nearby. Since she gave birth here, there must be a den. Let's go look for it."
Yan Xin said with considerable experience.
The mother wolf had just given birth, so she wouldn't have gone far.
Gu Qingcheng took her bow from her back, nocked an arrow, and dared not be careless. Carelessness could lead to the same fate as Wu Yu.
Yan Xin quickly positioned himself with a few hunting team members to shield Gu Qingcheng and Mi Guo in the middle, lest they be ambushed by the mother wolf.
Gu Qingcheng, however, waved them away, signaling them to step aside. She walked forward alone at the front, scanning her surroundings vigilantly.
On a leaf in the grass, Gu Qingcheng spotted a pool of dark blood. Yan Xin pointed to the bloodstain and said:
"Young Master Gu, this is the blood Wu Yu shed when he was injured."
Gu Qingcheng nodded. Just then, the nearby grass rustled.
Gu Qingcheng heard a faint sound of grass shaking and pointed the tip of her arrow cautiously in that direction.
Unexpectedly, the grass stopped shaking after a moment.
Gu Qingcheng cautiously stepped forward and parted the grass. She saw a wolf staring at her with ferocious eyes in the clump.
Was this the mother wolf?
Gu Qingcheng instinctively dodged, narrowly avoiding the wolf's pounce.
Yan Xin, on the side, was terrified and was about to aim his arrow at the wolf when he saw the mother wolf lying on the ground, panting but unable to move.
Gu Qingcheng said, "It's fine. I sliced open her belly."
Yan Xin stepped forward and saw that indeed, blood was flowing from the mother wolf.
It turned out that as the mother wolf lunged, Gu Qingcheng had casually drawn her dagger, pointed the blade at the charging wolf's abdomen. The wolf leaped over her head, and her belly was pierced, so she couldn't move upon landing.
Yan Xin saw the mother wolf struggle for a while and then lie still, seemingly dead. He walked forward and kicked the wolf. Confirming it was dead, he couldn't help but admire and say:
"Young Master Gu, you were fearless in the face of danger. If you had panicked, this wouldn't have been the outcome."
The hunting team members were stunned. They had talked about protecting Young Master Gu, but it turned out to be a slap in the face. Without any real action, Young Master Gu had already eliminated a fierce mother wolf.
Everyone looked at Gu Qingcheng with reverence.
"Search around, see if you can find the wolf's den. There should be cubs."
Gu Qingcheng said.
Several people split up and searched, and indeed, they found a litter of cubs in a burrow on a nearby slope.
However, upon further inspection, three of the four cubs were dead, with only one alive. It was a newborn cub, its eyes not yet open.
Gu Qingcheng reached out to touch the live cub. Perhaps sensing the scent of its mother from Gu Qingcheng, it extended its tongue and licked her finger.
"Wow, brother, it thinks you're its mother!" Mi Guo exclaimed with delight. "Why don't we adopt it?"
"But it's a wolf, shouldn't we cut the grass from the roots?" Yan Xin asked.
"Even though it's a wolf, it's just a newborn cub. Let's take it back and observe it. If it's friendly, it might help us protect the village in the future!"
Gu Qingcheng said after thinking for a moment.
Yan Xin did not object further.
As Young Master Gu said, it was just a wolf cub. If it was friendly, they could keep it; if not, they could kill it later.
The mission accomplished, everyone headed back to the village.
The hunting team carried the mother wolf, while Gu Qingcheng held the cub in her arms to keep it from freezing.
The poor little thing, unaware that its mother was dead, was sleeping soundly in Gu Qingcheng's warm embrace.
Upon arriving home, Yan Xin went to handle the mother wolf, while Gu Qingcheng and Mi Guo took the cub home.
Mi Guo prepared a wooden box, lined it with cotton wadding, and placed a cotton cloth inside to make a nest. They put the cub in it and placed it by the stove, where it was warm and wouldn't freeze.
Gu Qingcheng saw that the cub was resting comfortably in the warm nest, but it kept sniffing with its nose and making "whimpering" sounds.
At that moment, she suddenly realized that the cub must be hungry.
So, Gu Qingcheng bought milk powder for pets from a pet store, along with a bottle. She prepared a bottle of milk, about 250 ml, and placed it in the cub's mouth.
The cub was indeed hungry and drank the goat milk with "gulping" sounds, finishing the entire bottle in a short while.
"Wow, the wolf cub's appetite is amazing. It's only been born a few days and can drink 250 ml of goat milk?" Gu Qingcheng smiled as she watched it drink so contentedly. "Fortunately, I can afford you. Anyone else, and you'd bankrupt them."
The most satisfying thing in life is being able to afford the expenses of another person (or animal).
Awesome!
As soon as she thought this, the system sent her 50 'shuang' points, credited from: The Joy of the Rich!
After finishing the goat milk, the cub fell into a deep sleep, looking no different from a puppy.
Younglings are at their cutest at this age, soft, adorable, and super cute.
Gu Qingcheng couldn't help but think of Wang Cai and said to Mi Guo:
"I suddenly miss Wang Cai."
"Right! And Kele. It's a pity we didn't bring them out then." Mi Guo said. But then he thought about it again and added, "It's good we didn't bring them out, otherwise Mom and Dad would have been even more bored."
Gu Qingcheng took the goat milk powder from the storage cabinet and put it in a kraft paper bag, folding the opening to prevent it from getting damp and clumping. She then hid the plastic bottle in a nearby cabinet and told Mi Guo:
"If I'm not back and the cub gets hungry, you feed it goat milk."
"Okay." Mi Guo happily accepted the responsibility of feeding it.
By then, it was past lunchtime. Gu Qingcheng directly took out the dishes she had bought from Yunwu Restaurant in Zhanchun Town from the storage cabinet:
Sichuan peppercorn chicken, braised sea cucumber and meat, rice, sea clam soup – simple yet exquisite.
Having exerted a lot of energy on the mountain trek, both of them felt very hungry and each ate a large bowl of rice, finishing all the dishes.
"Sister, look! The strawberry seeds have sprouted!"
After finishing their meal and washing the dishes, Mi Guo suddenly made a joyful discovery.
Seeing how much his sister cared about the seeds, he had moved them to the kitchen stove, where the temperature was warm and the charcoal fire was constant, so they shouldn't freeze to death.
As expected, not only did they not freeze, but the seeds quickly sprouted.
Gu Qingcheng was also overjoyed to see them and said:
"Keep waiting. Once the sprouts grow a bit more, we'll transplant them into pots."
If the strawberry seeds could successfully grow into vines, soon the villagers would have their own strawberries to eat.