Seeing that he didn't catch her, Su Yan looked a little anxious. It would be useless to float when the water rose. "If you don't come up, I will jump down and accompany you."
She is a person who remembers kindness. If she left like this, she would never forgive herself for what Qin An did.
Maybe without her, he would have walked into the mountains alone.
Jiang Caifu glanced at her after hearing what she said, and then urged: "Come up quickly, we are holding on to the tree."
Qin An looked at Su Yan, hesitated for a moment, and then stretched out his hand to grab it. He kept paying attention to the ground under their feet. If there was any looseness, he would let go immediately.
At this time Goudan's mother also came back and helped pull it together.
Fortunately, Qin An came up safely. Su Yan anxiously grabbed his wrist, "Are you okay?"
Qin An couldn't tell what hit him. His heart softened suddenly and he shook his head, "It's okay."
A group of four people ran inside. Su Yan ran without looking at the road. She tripped on the grass and fell to the ground.
Qin An turned around and ran over in stride, bent down to pick her up, and strode forward.
He comforted him in a low voice: "Don't be afraid, it's okay."
She didn't let him go and run away, and neither would he.
There was no place to hide from the rain along the way. Qin An took Goudan and his family to the cave together. He put a fence on the cave and opened the door with a key.
Goudan's mother quickly wiped the rain off Goudan's body, and the clothes she brought were already wet, "Goudan, take them off quickly and your dad will twist them for you."
Qin An glanced at the wet Goudan, and then at the wet Su Yan. He hesitated for a moment, then found the only piece of tattered cloth in the cave and gave it to Goudan's mother.
Then he looked at Su Yan, pursed his lips, and said, "I'll make a fire right away."
Su Yan didn't think there was anything wrong with him. Even if he gave it to her, she would still give it to Goudan.
Fortunately, Qin An has the habit of putting firewood, because it was a bit cold at night, so he naturally had to light a fire.
The fire quickly rose. Qin An looked at Su Yan and motioned for her to sit over. After a group of people roasted for a while, it was no longer so cold.
Jiang Caifu glanced outside and let out a long sigh, "I come here every few years. Sooner or later I have to move to the town."
Goudan's mother was much more optimistic. While baking Goudan's shoes, she said, "As long as everything is fine, the house can be lived in after soaking in water and drying for a few days."
"Fortunately, Qin An is here, otherwise I would be caught in the rain outside right now."
Hearing this, Su Yan glanced at Qin An. The man's whole body was now covered in mud, no place was clean, and there was a lot on his cheeks.
Meeting her gaze, Qin An pursed his lips, without evading, and said in a low voice: "How are your feet?"
"It's okay, I just tripped a bit." Su Yan shook her head.
The heavy rain outside continued until night, and everyone except Qin An fell asleep leaning against the mountain wall.
Qin An added firewood to the fire, glanced to the side out of the corner of his eye, and finally took off his outer clothes, gently placing them on Su Yan's body.
When he was sitting on the firewood pile, his eyes met Jiang Caifu's. Their eyes met, and Jiang Caifu immediately closed his eyes.
Su Yan woke up in the middle of the night and found the clothes on her body. She looked in the direction of Qin An. He was sitting outside, his eyes slightly closed, looking a little tired.
Suddenly I understood that rough men also have a tender side.
Qin An was completely discredited by the villagers, otherwise he would have married a wife and had children long ago, and he would probably be living a very happy life.
Once she has settled down, she will help him more and try to get him to have a wife.
She took off her clothes and was about to stand up when Qin An looked over, pursed her lips and whispered: "Cover it, it's cold at night."
Just when Su Yan was about to say something, she heard him say again: "I'm keeping myself warm by the fire, it's not cold."
In the end, she only hooked up with him again, and whispered: "Thank you, Brother Qin."
The heavy rain gradually stopped until around 10 o'clock in the morning. After being hungry all day, Goudan kept looking for Goudan's mother to eat.
Qin An took the bow and arrow, but he was worried about Su Yan. After all, Goudan's family was a family, so he would naturally take care of himself first.
He looked at Su Yan and said, "Let's go together. You go pick some wild vegetables."
Su Yan didn't think much, nodded, smoothed her messy hair and followed him out. It was raining on the mountain road and it was not easy to walk.
After the rain, the sun got hotter, and the ground was dried out just by walking.
Not only people suffered from heavy rain, but also animals. Qin An picked up two drowned hares.
Su Yan pulled some wild vegetables from time to time, "Brother Qin, when will the water recede?"
"About four or five days."
Qin An turned his head slightly and looked at the woman's face. She was probably frozen, her lips were a little white, and he said, "You won't starve in the mountains."
"I'm not worried about that. I just want to dry the vegetables and I'm afraid they'll get soaked. The rice I bought is probably spoiled too."
Su Yan sighed, she had finally saved so much food, but now it was all gone.
Qin An didn't care about this, and said in a low voice: "We will do it when the time comes."
He paused and said, "As long as the person is fine."
Half an hour later, the two returned to the cave. Goudan's family was about to leave. Jiang Caifu explained: "The rain stopped. We went to find my parents. We don't know how they are doing."
Qin An gave them a hare and said nothing. After they left, Qin An squatted by the entrance of the cave to clean up the hare.
Su Yan was sitting on the other side cleaning wild vegetables, "Can that earthen pot in the cave be used to boil water?"
"Try it, it hasn't worked before."
Qin An just brought it to hold water. He thought of something and said, "I'll get it later."
Su Yan didn't say anything, and went outside to scoop out water with the earthen pot. There was a mountain spring pit nearby. It must have rained, and the water kept pouring out.
While scooping out water, she saw two herbs, so she pulled them off and took them back to the cave together.
"Brother Qin, can we go down the mountain to the town?"
There is nothing in the cave, so I still have to buy some.
"You can go down there. It takes three or four hours."
"Then let's go to town later and buy some food. We don't know when the water below will drop."
"Um."
Qin An didn't say that it would be unsafe to go alone. It would be troublesome if there were wild animals.
After that, Su Yan wandered around again and couldn't find any spices, so she had to give up.
Qin An roasted the hare and gave Su Yan two rabbit legs, "Just eat some."
Su Yan only wanted one, "One for each of us."
Qin An didn't eat the chicken leg either, so he pulled off the rabbit body and ate it. In the end, Su Yan ate the rabbit leg.
After eating, Su Yan couldn't stand idle anymore. She picked up some branches and tied them into a broom to clean the dirty cave.
Qin An looked at the woman in the cave, his expression softened a little, and then he was not idle, picking up slightly dry branches around.
It didn't take much effort to make the cave feel like home.
At dusk, Qin An took Su Yan to the town and saw that the village at the foot of the mountain had receded a bit and the roofs could be seen.
The construction was almost completed, but now it might take a while. Su Yan was a little helpless, but there was nothing she could do.
The two of them climbed two mountains. The terrain here was high and the flood had no effect at all. They just heard something screaming from time to time.
Qin An, who had been walking in front, stopped for a moment. The next moment, he turned around and held Su Yan's wrist, "You are not familiar with the road and may slip easily."