Chapter 130

“Thump!”

Hearing the loud sound of something falling into the water, Yu Xiaohu was so startled that he almost injured his own foot with the axe in his hand.

After quite a while, he managed to calm himself down. Throwing the axe away, he ran to the river.

He did not expect that anyone would come to the river in such cold weather. Some stupid bird must have hit the cliff and fallen into the river! Every winter, he would pick up birds that fell off the cliff. He needed to hurry up, or the stupid bird would be washed away by the melted snow! From the loud sound as it fell, Yu Xiaohu could tell the bird must be super fat!

He ran to the river joyfully, and as he had expected, he saw something moving in the middle of the river where there was a thin layer of ice!

He immediately found a long pole. Lying on the thick ice surface on his stomach, he moved to the “huge bird” carefully. However, when he got close to it, he saw no bird but a pair of hands of someone!

Heavens! Someone fell into the river on such a freezing day! Yu Xiaohu was astonished. He touched that pair of hands with the pole while asking, “Hey, are you all right? Can you move?”

The hands struggled a few times, trying to grab the bamboo pole. However, instead of grab it, they made the hole in the ice get even bigger.

Having grown up by the river, Yu Xiaohu was aware of the seriousness of the situation. Though he was frightened, he managed to stabilize his voice. “Don’t move! I’m going to find a way to save you!”

The person in the water seemed to be calm, and he stopped struggling at once.

Fortunately, as Yu Xiaohu had just come near to chop trees, he had not untied the rope which he fastened around his waist to bind the firewood. He had been learning hunting and chopping wood from his grandpa, Yu Laosan, since he was a child, so even though he was not a master of these things, he could easily catch something with a knotted rope. In his hand, the rope was like a snake that understood human language, and as soon as he threw it out, it firmly wrapped the hands in the ice cave.

He grabbed the rope, turned around, and crawled to the bank.

That person must be a fatty! He thought while crawling. As it was so heavy on the other end of the rope, he started panting with sweat soon.

After arriving at the bank safely, he looked back and saw in astonishment that it was not a fatty, but two people! Wait, how could one of them look so familiar?

“Zixiu?” he shouted out uncertainly. That person was lying on his side on the ground with his eyes closed, so he only intuitively thought it was Zixiu.

“You know Liu Zixiu?” The other person immediately raised his head and asked.  Although this guy was soaked all over and looked a total mess, the momentum around him gave off a gloomy feeling, and with a single glance at his eyes, one would feel cold deep to the bones!

Yu Xiaohu shuddered, feeling nervous for no reason. “Yes, Zixiu’s dad once saved my grandpa!”

The man remained cold. He pointed at the one who was lying on the ground and continued, “She’s Liu Zixiu’s younger female cousin. Take us to your house!”

“Younger female cousin?” Yu Xiaohu was a little surprised. It turned out that Zixiu had a cousin?

“Then you’re…” When he was about to ask more, he suddenly saw the big belly of Zixiu’s cousin, who had just turned over by that young man! Yu Xiaohu’s face turned pale instantly.

Heavens! A pregnant woman fell into the ice water! “Let’s go! Hurry up!”

Yu Xiaohu was very strong from years of hard work. In spite of the difficulty, he managed to get the two drowning men home.

When he pushed open the gate, his wife, Shiliu, was drying quilts in the yard. Seeing her exhausted, sweaty husband, whose clothes were wet through, she was startled. “What’s wrong? Did you…”

“Hurry up! Get me some warm water and a cotton quilt!” Yu Xiaohu had no time to explain.

When Shiliu looked out of the door, she saw a man and a pregnant woman wet all over and their clothes almost frozen!

Without further questions, she strode over to support the pregnant woman, who was in a semi-coma state, while urging anxiously, “Come on! Get into the room and change your wet clothes! You must have suffered a lot on such a cold day! We need to send a physician asap!”

Then she started blaming the man. “How come you were so careless and let your wife fall into the river? Do you know how dangerous it is for a pregnant woman to fall into the water in such a cold winter? Look, she’s freezing! Hum! If something happens to her and the baby, you’ll regret it for the rest of your life…”

Yu Xiaohu admired his wife so much for her courage. He did not dare even take a look at that man! But how come Zixiu’s cousin’s husband looked so cold and he did not seem to worry about his wife and his baby at all?

But next, he denied his assumption.

As soon as they entered the room and before they could sit down, the man suddenly pushed Shiliu away and took the pregnant woman in his arms. “You two go out!” he said.

“Huh?” Stunned by his domineering momentum, Yu Xiaohu and his wife looked at each other, without knowing what to do.

The man put the pregnant woman on the bed carefully. When he saw the two still in a daze, he continued, softening a lot, “Let me know when the warm water is ready!”

Shiliu came back to her senses first. She grabbed her husband’s sleeve and hurried out of the room.

Yu Xiaohu was still suspicious, but it was urgent to burn water, so he hurriedly went to the woodshed to get firewood.

It was not until the water was burned and brought into the room that Yu Xiaohu believed that this man was really the husband of Zixu’s cousin! He asked them out because he was about to get his wife changed!

Seeing that the bumpkin couple was honest, Nangong Du temporarily calmed down, showing no intention to kill them due to the possibility that they might reveal his whereabouts to outsiders!