Crossing to Live in the Wilderness Plains 076 part1
Chapter 76 part1
“Exercising?” Ake rolled his eyes and looked at Chen Qi’s gasping for breath after running this short distance. He asked uncertainly, “Is this your plan for exercising? Just running like this?”
Chen Qi accidentally sucked in two mouthfuls of cold air just now so his throat was feeling uncomfortable and he could only nod his head. He only ran for a little while and his body had not warmed up, yet now he was standing here chatting, just stomping his feet in the cold. Ake couldn’t look on any longer. He took off his cloak and put it on Chen Qi, then took on a tone of reproach. “You’ll end up freezing before you finish running. If you want to exercise, go back and exercise in the house.”
Suddenly feeling the warmth on his body, Chen Qi looked at Ake gratefully. Ake finished speaking with Chen Qi, then climbed back on top of the wall to continue standing guard.
“Are we going to run some more?” Ajing asked, raising his head.
Chen Qi sighed and shook his head. “Let’s stop for now. We’ll continue tomorrow.” It’s better to come out to exercise tomorrow at noon when the sun is warmest. Chen Qi’s first attempt to exercise ended in failure.
It would be foolish to be careless in this world, let alone in this kind of weather. Chen Qi drank a large bowl of sweet ginger soup, which made him feel better. However, to his surprise, he suddenly developed a fever at night.
Males’ recuperation abilities were not as good as females’. In this world where there was no medicine and no hospitals, beastmen seldom get sick. But once a male gets sick, it almost always results in death.
Chen Qi didn’t notice anything wrong with his body at first. He just thought that his throat had not recovered from sucking in the few mouthfuls of cold air. Aze was on guard duty for most of the night, and didn’t change shifts with Ake until the morning. After helping Chen Qi finish the running track, he simply ate something and went to sleep. When he woke up, he saw Chen Qi cooking dinner with a flushed face.
Seeing that Aze had woken up, Chen Qi turned his head towards him and smiled, “Wait a little bit more. It will be ready soon. I made a potato and meat stew today.”
Aze looked at Chen Qi’s abnormally red face. “Why is your face so red?”
Chen Qi reached out his hand and touched his face. He’d just used his hand to touch the charcoal ash by the fire and hadn’t had time to wash his hands, so as soon as he touched his face, he left several obvious fingerprints. Chen Qi tilted his head, askew, “Red? Did I stay too close to the fire for too long?”
Crossing to Live in the Wilderness Plains (CLWP) is translated by Betwixted Translations. The site you’re reading this chapter on stole our translation.
Looking at Chen Qi’s reaction, which was obviously slower than usual, Aze’s heart sank. He walked over and raised his hand and gently touched his forehead. It was burning hot.
“What’s the matter…?”
Before Chen Qi finished speaking, Aze picked him up and quickly walked back to the heated kang bed. He tucked Chen Qi into the warm quilt and covered him with another two layers of animal skin blankets. His eyes were filled with anxiety.
Looking at Aze’s solemn expression, Chen Qi’s heart jolted, “Aze, what’s wrong?”
Aze gently brushed aside the fringe from Chen Qi’s forehead and leaned down to kiss the corner of the other’s lips. His voice was gentler than it had ever been. “You are a little feverish. Don’t worry. You lie down for a while and I’ll have Uncle Ali come over.”
After saying that, Aze got up and went out. When he left, he carefully stepped out of the door at an angle, making sure not to let any wind get into the house.
Ali was weaving at home. Now he needed fabrics to make clothes, towels, rags and even to use as paper. Although there were only a few of them, there was a great demand for cloth. As soon as he was available, he would weave with the wool cocoons. Half of the wool cocoons stored from before winter had been used up. After this batch was used up too, they would have to go to the forest to look for more wool cocoons before summer comes.
The sound of Aze knocking and opening the wooden door startled Ali. He was about to ask what all the hurry was about when he looked up and saw Aze’s face that was gloomy and his eyes were red. He was followed in by Ake, who had just finished his shift and swapped with Azhang. Before Ake got home, he saw Aze rushing out and bursting open the door of Ali’s. He had never seen Aze forgetting his manners like this before, so he got worried and followed him.
Before Ali could ask what happened, Aze grabbed Ali’s hand and walked out, “Chen Qi has a fever, Uncle Ali, please hurry and help have a look.”
A thought sprang into Ake’s mind, “A fever? Is it because he was wearing so little when he ran outside to exercise?”
“What did you say?” Aze, who was just about to step out of the door, stopped abruptly at Ake’s words. Because Ali was hurriedly dragged by him earlier, he couldn’t stop in time and bumped directly into Aze’s hard back, smashing the bridge of his nose, and tears of pain were released.
Suddenly seeing Aze’s fierce expression, Ake couldn’t help but take two steps back. He didn’t know whether to tell about Chen Qi’s actions that may have caused self-inflicted illness. But looking at Aze’s aura that spoke of his unwillingness to stop pursuing the matter, Ake gulped and told him everything that had happened earlier.
Crossing to Live in the Wilderness Plains (CLWP) is translated by Betwixted Translations. The site you’re reading this chapter on stole our translation.
Aze’s eyes were almost ablaze. He could never have imagined that Chen Qi would go running outside in thin clothes in winter. Would a normal male do this? Like his younger brother Ka Luo, he just wanted to stay indoors and not go anywhere during winter.
After hearing Ake’s words, Ajing, who had been playing with the little wolf cub, did not wait for the few adults to react and pushed past Aze, who was in the way, and ran out with his little short legs. It’s all his fault. If he hadn’t gone to exercise with Chen Qi, Chen Qi wouldn’t have gotten a fever.
Aze also came back to his senses and pulled Ali to leave. Ake went home to notify Ka Luo before also going over to help.
Chen Qi’s head was already a little muddled, but by this time he had already realized that he probably caught a cold. He didn’t expect to encounter such a thing when he just started wanting to exercise. It was a huge blow to his self-confidence. After all, when he first came to this world, he had been fine even after freezing in the wilderness for most of the day. It seemed that his physical condition was not much better than before when he stayed in the office all day.
Chen Qi struggled to get up and stumbled over to the storage room with slow steps. There was still a half-full bag of perilla leaves in the storage room, which Chen Qi had been reluctant to use for cooking since there wasn’t much of it. Now, he grabbed a small handful of dried perilla leaves and then picked up a piece of wild ginger. Just as he was about to return, a loud roar sounded behind him, “What are you doing?!”
Aze’s eyes were red with anger. He had just returned to find that the bed was empty. Before being able to worry, he heard some movement coming from the storage room and walked over to find Chen Qi, who was supposed to be lying in bed, bent over and rummaging for something. Does this person not care about his body at all? Does he not know how serious it is to be sick? What if…
Chen Qi was startled by the loud roar and dropped what he was holding all over the floor. He turned around and saw Aze standing by the door with his fist clenched and his eyes red. Chen Qi had never seen Aze like this before. He couldn’t care less about the things scattered over the floor and reached out his arms to hold the tall man in his embrace, stroking the other’s firm back. “It’s okay, don’t worry. I’m fine. It’s just a common cold. I’ll be fine after a good night’s sleep.”
Fine after a good night’s sleep? Aze laughed scornfully. His father had told him the same thing back then. But the result was that he never woke up after falling asleep. Aze’s body visibly trembled and he gently broke free from Chen Qi’s arms, then picked Chen Qi up, returning to the heated kang bed. He tucked him tightly back into bed, covering him up with animal skins and quilts.
Crossing to Live in the Wilderness Plains (CLWP) is translated by Betwixted Translations. The site you’re reading this chapter on stole our translation.
Taking advantage of his posture while tucking him in the quilts, Aze leaned in close to Chen Qi’s ear and said with a tone of pleading, “Don’t fall asleep.”
Chen Qi paused, looked at him seriously and smiled. “Okay.”
Ali, who had been following behind, had already picked up the things on the ground. At this time, he took the small handful of perilla leaves and wild ginger to Chen Qi and asked, “Chen Qi, what were you going to use these two things for?” He believed that it was impossible for Chen Qi to deliberately rummage for these two things when he was sick for no reason. Chen Qi had previously said that these perilla leaves could be used as medicine, so he was always reluctant to use it for cooking.
Chen Qi turned his head to look, “Ali, could you help me wash these two things and boil them together in a bowl of water?”
“Would cooking them like that be to make medicine?” Asked Ali.
Chen Qi nodded lightly, “Actually, I am not entirely sure, but it should be able to cure a cold.” Then he patted Aze on the hand and comforted him, “You don’t have to worry, it’s just a little cold. I catch a cold every year. I will end up getting sick like this once every winter, and will get better after drinking the medicine and sleeping.”
You get sick every winter? How on earth did you survive to this age? If you knew you would get sick, why would you still go out in thin clothes to be blown by the cold wind? Aze wanted to throw out these questions, one by one, but looking at Chen Qi’s slightly sleepy face, he finally swallowed his words down, stood up and took the things in Ali’s hands. “I’ll make it.”
Aze took them and drew half a dish of water from the bathroom. Then, he carefully cleaned every dried perilla leaf, poured a bowl of water, minced the wild ginger into a ginger paste and boiled it together with the perilla leaves.
“You… Really! As old as you are and you don’t know how to pay attention to your body. You wore so little to run outside to be blown with the cold wind. Aze is so worried that he’s about to cry.” Ali sat down beside the bed and looked at Chen Qi reproachfully.
Cry? Chen Qi’s eyes moved to the man who was seriously helping him make the medicinal soup by the fire. The red rimmed eyes really looked like he was about to cry. He couldn’t help feeling his heart soften a bit, and he also felt a bit chagrined. It seemed that he would have to consider things more carefully in the future.
“You don’t know just how much everyone is worried for you.” Ake came in pulling Ajing by his small arm. Although Ajing was the first to run over, the child ran up to the door but did not dare to enter. It wasn’t until Ake went in and dragged him in no matter what that he followed along.
“If there’s anything you want to say, just tell it to Chen Qi well. Don’t hide your thoughts on the side by yourself. You are a female. You must have the consciousness to bear the consequences. You can’t back down at any time.” Ake reached out a finger, flicked at Ajing’s little head and opened his mouth to lecture, resembling Chen Qi.
Chen Qi was puzzled. What happened? Did Ajing do something wrong?
Ajing’s head drooped even lower when he was scolded by Ake. He stepped forward and did not dare to look up at Chen Qi, but said quietly, “I’m sorry.”
Words from the Translation Crew
Miiya: Sorry for the cliffie! It’ll get better!
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