Gu Anran endured the pain in his heart and slowly stood up.
As soon as she sat up, the mother and son came in.
There was a rope hanging on Arnold's wrist. As soon as he came in, he stared at Gu Anran walking towards her. He walked to the bed and stopped. His shoulders shrugged with the breathing in his chest. He looked angry.
Not light.
Arnold's mother put down the porridge she was holding, caught up with Arnold and took hold of his wrist and said: "Don't do this, you will scare the little girl. Look at the rope in your hand, the rope is almost catching up.
The little girl's wrists are thick, and the little girl has thin skin and tender flesh, how can she withstand the binding of this rope?"
"You still think you can't run away?" Arnold raised the rope and waved it in front of Gu Anran. The rope was so thick that it almost caught up with her wrist to scare her.
Gu Anran saw the animal hair wrapped around the rope in his hand, and her eyebrows twitched fiercely. No, she didn't want to be tied up by this rope covered with animal hair!
Gu Anran rubbed her heart and smiled bitterly: "Brother, look at how weak my sister is, can she run away? I can't even walk now. I fell into the flood and was hit in the chest by a big wooden board. It hurts to breathe.
I'm sweating coldly."
"So brother, please take pity on me and stop tying me up, okay?"
After Gu Anran's brief contact with the mother and son, she thought that although they were a little strange, they were not bad.
Those strange thoughts and cognitions are just the reason why they have grown up on this mountain for generations and rarely go down to communicate with other people.
That's why she dared to reveal her true situation in front of the mother and son: she was injured and it was difficult to even walk. There was no need to tie her up, and she couldn't run away at all.
After hearing this, Arnold immediately threw away the thick rope in his hand and asked her worriedly: "I just asked you if you need medicine. I went to town to change medicine for you, but you still said no! Since you are so seriously injured,
How can it be cured without medicine?"
Arnold was very worried. He finally picked up a wife, and she was such a beautiful wife. He couldn't let his new daughter-in-law die of illness before they slept together!
"I'm going to change the dressing right now!"
Arnold turned around and was about to leave, but Gu Anran stopped him: "Brother, wait a moment..."
Even if he needs to change the medicine, does he know what medicine he needs to change?
"What did you call me?" Arnold turned his head and frowned slowly. He was just listening to her talk about her injury and didn't pay attention to what she called him. Now he heard clearly that she actually called her brother?
"I'm not your brother! I'm your future man!"
"..." Gu Anran was speechless. She resisted the urge to roll her eyes and explained patiently again: "Didn't I tell you? I have a man and a child. I think you are only in your early twenties, so I'm sure
I'm older than you, do you still feel disadvantaged when I call you brother?"
"Mom! Listen!" Arnold pulled his mother to him, his nostrils widened with anger, "Is she a cunning and spicy woman? Look at what she said! She looks like a very ordinary girl.
At the age of eighty or nine, where did she get her husband and children? She lied to me!"
Eighteen or nineteen years old? Gu Anran hummed inwardly: Thank you! I just think you are complimenting me on how young I am.
Arnold's mother patted her son's hand and said to him: "You go out first, and grandma will help you ask questions."
"I'm just listening here." Arnold took a step back, put his big hands on his waist, and looked at Gu Anran with wide eyes. Those widened eyes seemed to say: I'm just here watching.
You, look how you are talking nonsense in front of my grandma!
Arnold's mother shook her head, walked forward and sat on the edge of the bed and asked softly: "How old are you, girl?"
Gu Anran said: "Twenty-four."
"twenty four?"
"Um."
"Arnold is twenty-three this year..." Arnold's mother turned to look at Arnold, "Girl, you really look much younger than Arnold."
"So girl, you said you have a husband and children..."
Gu Anran nodded seriously: "It's true."
"I don't believe it!" Arnold frowned, "I don't believe that she is twenty-four, and I don't believe that she has a man. So what if she does? I saved her life. I asked her to be my wife, and why?
I saved my life, is this wrong?"
"Brother, if you just want a wife, when I recover from my injury, I will go down the mountain and find a wife for you. What's the point of worrying about me, a married woman?"
"Don't call me brother! I'm not your brother! I want a wife, I don't want a sister! And I don't want you to call me a wife, I want you! You are the wife God gave me! I gave you your life
!You don’t have the right to choose.”
Gu Anran complained in her heart: What the hell did she meet a wife-obsessed man! But he caught someone else's shortcomings, and just because he fished her out of the water, he had to force her to commit herself!
Anuo's mother explained: "Girl, you may not understand the rules of our tribe. Our tribe has hunted for a living for generations. There are more men than women. In recent years, the number of tribe members has dropped sharply. In our generation, the number of tribe members has dropped even more.
Many died, and the rest were either old, weak, sick, or disabled and had lost the ability to hunt, or they couldn't find wives and couldn't reproduce."
"Women are very scarce here. The tribesmen don't care whether women have been married before. In the past, everyone's life was hard. Our hunting tribesmen were relatively good and could eat meat. At that time, we could use animal meat and skins as food.
The betrothal gift goes to the foot of the mountain in exchange for a wife."
"Now that people's living standards have improved, if they want to marry a woman, they have to give them three big gifts. No one is willing to accept our method. According to the rules left by our ancestors, people like you, girl, were saved by our tribe.
He should be one of ours, my son Arnold was very happy when he rescued you."
"I have never seen my son so happy. When he came back with you in his arms, he looked like he had picked up a big treasure. He grinned and said to me: 'Look, mom, what a beautiful gift God gave me!'
"
This is the first time I see such a person. It doesn’t matter whether the woman has a husband or children. According to the tribe’s rules, if the person saves someone else’s life, then he will be married to her. What if the person who fell into the water is a man? If he saves someone else, he will be required to do so.
Promise? Or do nothing to save someone?
She had never heard of such an ancient tribe hiding in the mountains of Yaocheng before.
"Mom, please stop telling her. If she wants to run away, tie her hands and feet. When she gives birth to a litter of babies for me, she won't be willing to run away."
"..." Gu Anran glanced at Arnold, who looked at her with burning eyes.
She glanced at him and quickly turned away. She closed her eyes and said weakly: "My chest hurts so much. If you want to tie it, you have to wait until I recover, okay?"
Arnold said: "Okay, I won't tie you up now. If you are obedient and don't run away when you get better, I won't tie you up either."
"Okay, okay." Stabilize him first, heal your own injuries, and then think of a solution.
In the quiet night in the mountains, the sound of a gunshot was particularly harsh.
Gu Anran's eyes that had just been closed suddenly opened and he asked nervously, "Why was there a gunshot?"