The Spirited Daughter-in-law and the Mountain Man
Chapter 1116 - Chapter 1116 1116 Cliff Survival 1

Chapter 1116: 1116 Cliff Survival 1 Chapter 1116: 1116 Cliff Survival 1 A corner of the rock was smashed and broken off.

Su Qingyue’s long-stick pitchfork caught the piece of flintstone that had come loose.

She withdrew the pole fork, took the ‘mountain’-shaped stone from its top, and skillfully struck the stone wall again with force, breaking the flintstone into two pieces.

Xiao Yuchuan tried to stand up, but Su Qingyue stopped him, “Third brother, you’re injured, don’t move around.”

“I’ll gather firewoodaEUR|”

“No need.

You just sit there,” she said, “Leave the firewood gathering to me.”

“ButaEUR|”

“No buts.

At most, I’ll gather the firewood and snap some more tree branches.

You can do the job of making the wooden raft with the branches.”

“Okay.” With his current injury, any movement caused his internal organs to ache unbearably; better not to trouble his wife.

With Su Qingyue’s skill, not to mention a cliff that was slightly slanted, even if it were a vertical ninety degrees, as long there was a place where her feet could find purchase, she could climb up.

Although higher up, dozens of meters above, there were no footholds, she observed and saw that within those few dozen meters, there were more than ten trees, some with branches so dry that they were dead.

She estimated the climbable points on the cliff face, picked up the long waistband used previously to bind Xiao Yuchuan, climbed a few steps diagonally upwards to the left, tossed the belt over the trunk of the tree directly above, then tied a knot at both ends of the belt.

Pulling on the belt for leverage, she climbed further up, slipped the loop of the belt over her body under her armpits, tightened the belt, and was able to free both hands to snap branches.

Crack crack crack!

The sound of branches being broken continuously.

Xiao Yuchuan watched his wife scale the wall, his heart nearly leaping out with worry, “Dear, be careful.”

“Third brother, don’t worry.

After all, there is pond water below; at most, if I lose my balance, I’ll just take another shower.” Perhaps because hope was in sight, her mood was exceptionally good, and her tone became cheerful.

“You’ll turn into an ice stick if you soak again,” Xiao Yuchuan said with a lift to his lips, hearing her cheerful voice, “Dear, you seem to be in a good mood.”

“I can’t help it.

Who told me I married a clever husband.

I hadn’t thought of building a ‘wooden raft’ to stand on, nor did I think to lay mud and stones on the raft to start a fire, but you did.

Truly, two cobblers make better than a Zhuge Liang.”

Xiao Yuchuan asked, puzzled, “Dear, who is Zhuge Liang?”

“Oh, that’s one of the ancestors of modern people, according to legend.

It’s a person considered very clever by modern people.”

“Oh, I haven’t heard of himaEUR|” He looked at his wife climbing rocks and breaking branches with swift movements and always felt that her skill was extraordinary.

For an ordinary person, just climbing such a steep cliff face would be terrifying, let alone gathering firewood.

But his wife did it with ease.

Who is his wife, exactly?

A flicker of doubt crossed his shining eyes.

He always felt that his wife was too mysterious, impenetrable and incomprehensible.

Remembering that she would rather die herself to ensure his survival, his heart filled with a warmth overflowing with emotion.

No matter who she was, she was the woman who loved him the most, and whom he loved the most.

Su Qingyue snapped a bundle of branches and then sat on the tree trunk, took off the belt, tied one end around the ‘bundle of branches’, and lowered the bundle down with the long waistband.

Xiao Yuchuan caught the branches she lowered down, and after the belt was loosened, she retrieved it.

He then began to construct the wooden raft with those branches.

Although it was impossible to make a wide and flat raft with the uneven, twisting branches of different lengths and sizes, it was enough to construct several pieces that could be supported by a few straighter poles underneath; as long as it could bear a person’s weight, that would suffice.