Chapter 597 Making a Sledge

Seeing that he stopped eating steamed buns, Qiao Ran asked:

"How about it, can you still stand up and walk?"

Qi Tiandong felt his injured foot and felt that it was much better, so he stood up carefully and took two steps forward.

"Hiss! It hurts!"

When his right foot landed on the ground, there was still a stinging pain from the injured ankle, and he quickly fell back to the ground.

Qiao Ran knew that he had injured his bones, and the spiritual spring water and wound medicine could not make the bones recover quickly.

It was already noon, and the sun had begun to set towards the west. If we didn't set off quickly, we might not be able to leave the mountain before dark with this injury that was holding us back.

Qiao Ran had to find a way on her own, but she couldn't carry the stretcher alone. She thought about it and said:

"You sit here and don't move. I'll go find some canes."

"Miss Qiao, let me go there too!"

Qi Tiandong quickly struggled to stand up from the ground, supported his body weight with his left foot and one leg, and jumped after Qiao Ran.

He was really afraid that the girl would think he was a burden and leave him, then he would become the beast's meal.

Qiao Ran didn't want to wait for him to jump over slowly, and gave him a cold look:

"If you want to leave the mountain as soon as possible, you must listen to me and don't waste time!"

After saying that, he turned around and left.

Qi Tiandong did not dare to speak and watched helplessly as the girl disappeared into the grass that was taller than a person.

Qiao Ran walked to the thorn bush at the foot of the mountain, took out a machete, and cut down several long and tough vines.

Then it twisted and twisted, and soon it turned into a sledge that could sit on people. One end was bent into a U shape with extra rattan, so it could be pulled along.

Qiao Ran dragged her homemade rattan sledge back to the trap.

Qi Tiandong didn't sit down either. He was carrying the flattened medicine basket on his back and was standing alone, looking longingly in the direction Qiao Ran had just walked.

As soon as I saw my savior back, my uneasy heart finally relaxed and I smiled flatteringly:

"Miss Qiao, are you back? Thank you for not abandoning me."

Qiao Ran rolled her eyes at him: "If I'm going to abandon you, why should I rescue you? Sit down quickly and I'll pull you away."

Qi Tiandong saw clearly that the thing she was dragging in her hand was actually a sledge made of rattan.

In just one cup of tea, he cut so many canes and made such a strong sledge. He was really impressed by this legendary ghost doctor.

She was flattered and asked: "Is this sledge made for me? The girl is so handy!"

"Come on, don't be nagging! Do you want to spend the night in the mountains?"

"No, no! I'll go up right away. But, girl, don't you have to wait for your companion? Just the two of us going out? Can you pull me away?"

Qi Tiandong asked curiously while sitting on the sledge.

In his opinion, although Miss Qiao has excellent medical skills, it is impossible for such a little girl to go into the mountains alone to collect medicine, right?

If you encounter a large beast, you can't escape safely just by relying on medical skills!

And although he is only a few years older than her, he is a man, and his weight is much heavier than her petite self. How can such a teenage girl pull him up and out of this mountain? Lao Lin?

However, as soon as he climbed onto the sledge, the sledge began to move forward. Before he could sit firmly, he leaned back and almost fell off the sledge.

He quickly adjusted his center of gravity, sat upright, and firmly grasped the two rattan ropes on the sledge with both hands, not daring to let go.

Qiao Ran answered casually while pulling the sledge forward:

"I came alone, without a companion. Look, didn't I drag you away now?"

Qi Tiandong also didn't expect that a girl of this age could pull him forward so easily.

Although this is a grassland, it is indeed easier for the sledge to slide on the overwhelming grass, but it should not be so easy to pull it under my own weight.

He thought that this girl might just be a little stronger than the average person. It would not be easy to walk up the mountain with rocks and thorns, let alone having to hold him.

I'd better get up and climb the mountain as much as possible later, and I have to endure the pain in my feet.

Otherwise, if Miss Qiao thinks she is a burden and throws herself in the mountains, she will have no place to cry.

But when they reached the foot of the mountain, before Qi Tiandong said he wanted to come down and walk, he saw Miss Qiao pulling the sledge directly up the mountain without stopping.

Falling back, he gripped the sledge harder.

The road up the mountain is quite steep. Even if the legs and feet are fine, ordinary people have to hold on to the weeds and branches in front of them to stabilize themselves and climb up. However, Qiao Ran pulled a person and it was as stable as walking on flat ground.

Qi Tiandong sat on the sledge, his whole body leaning back, and he had to hold on to the vines on the sledge to stabilize his body.

He thought that if Qiao Ran hadn't pulled him, it would have been difficult for him to climb halfway up the mountain with his injured feet.

Generally, the vegetation in valleys and at the foot of mountains is denser, and in inaccessible deep mountain valleys there are no roads, and there are many snakes and insects.

Therefore, Qiao Ran took people up the mountain and walked back from the mountainside where the trees were slightly sparse.

Qiao Ran used Qing Gong when she came here, and she was many times faster than ordinary people.

Now he was holding someone, and he was walking as fast as flying, without any sign of difficulty. Qi Tiandong opened and closed his mouth when he wanted to say that he was walking away.

Yes, it’s faster this way. In order not to drag down Miss Qiao, he’d better sit there obediently!

It's just that he was much shorter when he was sitting, and the oncoming weeds and branches were denser, and they hit him head-on.

Qi Tiandong had to cover his face with one hand to prevent his face from being scratched by grass leaves and branches, but he still had to poke his face out from time to time to recognize the way.

In this way, Qiao Ran dragged the sledge and pulled the disabled Qi Shaodong through the woods. It took Qiao Ran more than half an hour to reach the place where Qi Tiandong saw the suspected gallbladder plant.

Qiao Ran roughly estimated the location. It was about fifteen miles away from Devil's Valley. However, when she came out, she came from the mountainside of the opposite mountain, but she didn't know that the plant suspected of being gallbladder would be on this mountain.

"Miss Qiao, the kind of gallbladder you mentioned, when I came here I saw a clump of trees over there that looked very similar. I don't know if it is. Now, it's right over there."

Qi Tiandong pointed to a place almost at the foot of the mountain. There was a small tree over there that was not very tall, with green branches and leaves.

Qiao Ran put down the sledge and walked to the foot of the mountain to take a closer look.

Sure enough, he was the daredevil he was looking for!

And all this bush is a javanica tree!

Although it is still in flowering season, there are a lot of fruits that fell last year on the ground, and they have all been dried.

Those that fell into the soil have rotted or sprouted, but there are still many that fell on the thick fallen leaves. Qiao Ran opened the thick fallen leaves on the ground, looking for those that were covered by the fallen leaves and were not wet by the rain, so they were still fine. shriveled fruit.