The Spirited Daughter-in-law and the Mountain Man
Chapter 1112 - Chapter 1112 1112 No foothold on the cold pool cliff1

Chapter 1112: 1112 No foothold on the cold pool cliff1 Chapter 1112: 1112 No foothold on the cold pool cliff1 The tree closest to the water’s surface was still over a meter above it.

There was no choice but to try climbing the nearest one.

With all the tree leaves fallen, Su Qingyue could tell by the thickness of the tree trunk that it would support the weight of two people without a problem.

The real issue was that with one hand she was supporting him in the water, and with the other she was swimming; despite the fact that branches from the cliff protruded just over a meter above the water, figuring out how to hang Xiao Yuchuan on them was still a challenging puzzle.

There was no time left to think, as third brother’s body was as cold as an icicle.

If it was under normal conditions, she could leap out of the water and shoot up a meter or two, but now with her entire body numb and dragging a person with her, the difficulty was too great.

After a brief thought, she undid her waist belt, then pulled off Xiao Yuchuan’s, propped his chin on her shoulder, and let go of him.

In his unconscious state, he couldn’t resist buoyancy and immediately started sinking slowly.

In an instant, she had knotted the two belts together.

With one hand she grabbed him as he sank, and with the connected belts now longer, she tied one part around his waist, clutching the other end in her hand.

She let go of him, letting him float in the water, while she herself scrambled a few times against the cliff face, and in a couple of moments, she was on the thick trunk of the tree more than a meter above the water.

Once she was steady on the trunk, she pulled on the waist belt in her hand, lifting Xiao Yuchuan out of the water.

The thick branches of the tree forked in many places; she spotted one that looked like a ‘U’ shape after a particularly large branch split, sturdy enough to bear weight.

She then broke off two relatively thick branches, laid them across the ‘U’-shaped branch to create a makeshift ‘ladder,’ and with difficulty, moved Xiao Yuchuan’s body onto it.

To prevent him from accidentally rolling into the pool again, she decided to tie him to the tree trunk.

At this moment, she saw the pool surrounded on all sides by nearly vertical cliffs, with only a few sparse trees protruding from the sheer rock faces.

Su Qingyue stood on one of the tree trunks over a meter above the water, while an unconscious Xiao Yuchuan was bound to the ‘ladder-shaped branch bed’ she had fashioned.

A gust of cold wind blew.

So cold.

Both she and he were soaked through, their clothes clinging to their bodies; her lips turned purple with cold, and her skin was covered with a web of purple veins from frostbite.

Even in his unconsciousness, he was trembling uncontrollably.

The sun still had a bit of lingering light, but when it fully set, they feared it would get even colder.

Looking up, all around them were cliffs of ten thousand feet rising almost vertically; climbing out was an impossibility.

If they didn’t find a way to get warm soon, both of them feared they wouldn’t make it through three hours, and would freeze to death alive.

Setting up a temporary footing on the tree trunk was a desperate measure; there was no place to make a fire.

No wood, nothing at all.

Even if they managed to avoid dying from the cold, surrounded by the pool with no way out, with the cliff walls rising vertically, how would they escape?

Even the always resilient Su Qingyue couldn’t help but feel a sense of despair.

She gazed down at Xiao Yuchuan, who lay on the makeshift ‘ladder’ of branches she had set up.

His handsome face was pallid, darkened with bloodshot veins from the cold.

She touched his pulse; the tiger’s stamp had been too heavy, he had severe internal injuries, and the impact with the water after crashing had caused a concussion, which was why he remained unconscious.

She could be certain that before they fell off the cliff, she had thrown him onto flat ground at the top.

There was no way he could have fallen down.

This meant, he chose to jump down to join her in death!

Considering the speed at which he followed her down, he must have jumped without hesitation as soon as he was thrown up onto the cliff.

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