The Spirited Daughter-in-law and the Mountain Man
Chapter 1133 - Chapter 1133 1133 Pond Bottom Exit 1

Chapter 1133: 1133 Pond Bottom Exit 1 Chapter 1133: 1133 Pond Bottom Exit 1 “Third brother, go warm yourself by the fire,” she said, not in a hurry to ask about the condition inside the water cave, but instead, she swiftly wiped his body with her sleeve.

“Wife…

you’re wiping my body with your sleeve…

Your sleeve is getting wet,” he frowned slightly.

“It’s okay, it will dry after heating it a bit,” she quickly grabbed his clothes for him.

He had been underwater naked for so long that if he were an ordinary person, he would have been frozen stiff by now.

Third brother had said that he often took cold baths in winter, sometimes even soaking in the river on extremely cold days.

Thus, his resistance to the cold was somewhat better than average people now as he had submerged himself in the pool water in this cold weather.

He hurriedly put on his clothes and then sat by the fire to warm up.

Su Qingyue sat beside him, continuously rubbing the palms and backs of his hands.

Feeling the warmth of her palms, his numbed heart seemed to thaw as well, and he said with a pang of distress, “Wife, my hands are ice-cold, don’t touch them anymore.

It’s not good for you to catch a cold.”

She shook her head, still briskly rubbing his hands, and did not ask about the state of the cliff walls and caves inside the pool, as she could hear his teeth chattering as he spoke.

He took the initiative and said, “I swam through the cave, and at first, the cave was wide enough to fit a tiger, but it narrowed further on, allowing only one person to pass through.

That’s why the tiger corpse got stuck previously.

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I slowly swam forward, the cave was very deep, running under the cliff bottom, and the pond water filled the cave, flowing continuously to the outside.

Just about a meter from the cave exit, it suddenly became even narrower, completely impassable for people.

Not even if you tried to sidle through; there was only enough space for half a person.

I couldn’t turn around to swim back either.

I had to press against the cave wall and move backward until I reached a slightly wider space where I could barely turn around to swim back.”

Su Qingyue fell silent, “To think that the exit from the water pool is so close at hand and yet blocked by a single narrow slit…

It’s truly…”

Frustrating.

“Wife, this must be the only exit leading outside,” Xiao Yuchuan said, “I’ll have to dive back in and widen that one-meter gap.”

Looking at the still-falling snow, “The snow keeps coming down intermittently, and the weather is getting colder.

In a few days, the pond will freeze over.

If it freezes, we can’t dive, and we won’t get out until the spring thaw.”

Su Qingyue also looked at the cold weather, “In no more than five days, it’s certain to freeze over.

Third brother, we have to widen that gap within five days.”

Although it was only a matter of widening a distance of one meter, that was underwater, a long cave filled with water, draining all the breath left in a person.

To even reach that one-meter spot was an achievement; where would the extra breath be to chisel the wall stone?

Furthermore, with such icy water.

Xiao Yuchuan looked troubled, “Reaching that narrow slit and sparing enough breath to swim back is already pushing the limit, there’s no chance to catch my breath, I immediately have to swim back, there’s no way to conserve breath to chisel the wall.

To widen that one-meter gap for a person to pass through, you need the right tool, each time you dive, you need to be able to take at least three breaths.

Otherwise, it’s impossible within five days.”

Both felt worried, encased within the water-filled cave walls of the pool, what could they use to catch their breath?

In ancient times, there was no such thing as diving equipment, but clever people could use a reed tube for breathing underwater.

The problem was, there were no reed tubes available here, and the cave was situated more than two meters underwater; reeds were not that long either.

The two fell silent.

The cold wind whistled through.

Su Qingyue added a couple of logs to the fire, stirring up the flames to burn brighter.