Drunken Exquisiteness Volume 1 Chapter 2 Part1

Chapter 2 is starting!!! As usual, please let me know if there is any mistake. Thank you and enjoy! ?

Ching Chen was surprised, opened her mouth to scream, but her voice was cut off before it pa.s.sed her throat. The hand tightly covering her mouth has a foul smell of nicotine and saliva. While struggling, she could see on the reflection of the water, a big guy with a face full of beards, wearing an armour was seizing her. In the state of fear, she used all her strength and elbowed him, then ran for her life while the big guy was in pain.

"Little beauty! Where are you going?" He staggered due to the unforeseen attack, but he was not anxious, only lifting his hand to wave.

In a short time, Qing Chen realised that he is now very close. Furthermore, there are 2 more big guys blocking her escape route.

"Pretty gutsy, looks pretty too, I didn't think we would be able to find such good stuff in this wild mountain." The first person looks at her as though evaluating a prey, as though to strip her off her clothes.

"Us brothers must have good luck with beauty, this trip is not wasted." Another guy gave out an evil laugh.

The 3 person laughs and walk closer at the same time. Qing Chen was frightened, they look like soldiers, but the things they said are definitely not kind. She was forced to slowly move back, they did not rush but did not slow down their step either, slowly forcing her to move towards the stream. Still, they did not make any sudden movement, but look like they playing  with a toy.

Under pressure, Qing Chen steps onto a huge rock and turns around, only to see that there is a mountainous pool. She turned back to look at the flow of the stream, moved back another step and said: "What do you want to do? Don't come closer!"

"Looking for death? Even if you want to die, you should only die after serving us. We might even hate to part with you after." One of the guy rudely laughed out loud. The person next to him spits out the nicotine in his mouth and said: "Why are you still talking nonsense!" Without finishing his sentence, they rushed to her.

Qing Chen was frightened by the situation, turned around and jumped into the water without further thought.

An angry shout can be heard from the sh.o.r.e, then a sound of another person jumping into the water.

Actually, Qing Chen cannot swim. Previously, she was thinking that she would rather be a broken jade than a tile, not wanting to be insulted by these people. In the chaos, she used all her strength to swim towards the deep water. The stream is not very wide, but gets deeper and deeper, the water is currently at her chest level. Not even a moment, she could almost feel that her chaser is getting very close, she can see the opposite bank in front of her, but a strong current suddenly came.

At this time, there is a loud noise of something piercing through the wind, two sounds of 'chi, chi' followed by a shrill, she heard a cool and low voice in her ears: "Extend your hand!"

Qing Chen unconsciously follows the command, a hand that is almost as cold as the water pulls her out from the water towards the sh.o.r.e, a pair of deadly eyes was in front of her. Before she could see the person's face, she saw 2 golden arrows shot in front of the 2 person at the opposite sh.o.r.e, not one more and not one less, the arrows pierced into the stones, it could seen that the strength used is not normal.

The man chasing her into the water was shot at his arm, screaming in pain, crawling back towards the opposite sh.o.r.e, leaving a trail of blood.

"Which camp are you from? Dare to leave your camp without permission! 3 man bullying a weak woman, is this an att.i.tude your should be proud of?!" A young man, holding a silky gold bow,  standing firm at the sh.o.r.e (at Qing Chen's side) shouted.

Qing Chen finally realised that the person who saved her and the person who shot the arrows are not the same person. The person who pulled her is currently leaning on a rock at the sh.o.r.e, a tall and straight body covered with a long black cloak. He is wearing a bronze mask that covers half of his face. Because of the mask, Qing Chin is not able to see a clear picture of his full face, only the eyes behind the mask, deep and dark, without any emotion. He has a pair thin lips, that is as cold as his eyes.

"Eleven**, be careful, they are Mongolian."

**(T/N): The Eleven here is referring to his order among the siblings. Like second brother, third brother, he is number eleven.

The man said with a low voice after saving Qing Chen. The young man next to him understood and released his arrow. The man in the water did not get back to the opposite sh.o.r.e in time, an arrow pierced through him from his back, he fell into the water, blood floating up to the surface.

The other 2 men at the opposite sh.o.r.e were angry after seeing this. They removed their knives from the scabbards and jumped into the water to cross over. The young man slightly smile, his gold bow rang again, releasing succession of arrows. Screams of pain can be heard in the air, 2 pools of blood like flowers blooming in the water. The 2 man fell into the water almost at the same time, never moving again.

Qing Chen has not calm down, but saw that the young man who killed the 3 evil man, still smiling, he slowly put away his bow and went closer to check the bodies, turned back and said: "Fourth Brother has better eyesight, the armour on these people are fake, not sure how they…"

The man called "Fourth Brother" only shakes his head. The young man did not continue, only going back to his side, looks at Qing Chen and stilled, he immediately turned his face away.

Qing Chen looked down, realised that her clothes are now soaked, and they look almost transparent. Dumbstruck, then her face turned red, not really sure what to do. Suddenly, a huge cloak pa.s.sed over her head, falling on her shoulders.

Qing Chen quickly tighten the cloak around her, lifted her head and her eyes met the silent eyes behind the mask, her eyes moved down a little, and was surprised at the sight.

He has a short arrow pierced into his chest from the front. Previously, it was covered by the cloak. Now that the cloak has been removed, showing his dark black clothes which has been soaked by the fresh blood with a darker shade at the side of the stain, even her hands currently holding onto cloak are now stained with blood.

It's is no wonder that he stayed leaning on the rock, his wound looks serious. Maybe also because he exerted strength to pull her out, the wound is now bleeding again. He pressed his lips, looking pale.

While Qing Chen was stupefied, she heard him say: "Eleven, remove the arrow."

The young man called "Eleven" has no time to take care of Qing Chen, went over and help him to set on his right, hesitating while looking at the injury.

The man took out something like a command plate from his chest pocket and pa.s.sed to him: "You act according to the situation, you can start now."

Eleven's sharp brow frowns, holding tight onto the command place: "Fourth Brother, please bear with it." Lifted his hand and held onto the arrow tail poking out from the chest.

"Wait!" Qing Chen acted by reflex, hurriedly said, "if you pull out the arrow like that, even if he doesn't die by the pain, he will die from losing too much blood."

"Then, what should we do?" The man in front of him bleeds continuously with his breaths, Eleven stopped his movement, feeling a little anxious said, "if we don't remove this arrow, it will take his life."

Qing Chen went over and squat down next to the man, she studied medicine in her previous life, specialising in surgery, so she's very familiar with a situation like this. She studied carefully the position and type of the injury. It looks like it did not hit his heart or lung. Otherwise, he might not even last till now, then she said: "Do you have a knife? Best if it's small one."

Eleven took out a small 3 inch blade, the scabbard is very finely made, definitely not something commonly seen. Qing Chen said: "I know a little in the art of healing, if you trust me, I can try."

Eleven hesitates, turns his head to look at the man. The man looked at Qing Chen, she could not catch any wave of emotion in his eyes, as though seeing a calm and quite lake water, a pair of bottomless eyes, clearly seeing through people only by stopping for a short while, then his voice with the same calmness said: "Alright."

Such a cold voice, pa.s.sing through people's heart, bringing along a little unexpectedness. Qing Chen did not think he will believe her. She looked at him then picked up the small knife that was pa.s.sed over by Eleven. The knife is slightly heavy. The edge is narrow, thin and sharp. Even though it is not as good as a surgical knife, it will do.

She put up her hair, folds her sleeves, and said to Eleven: "Slowly help him to lay down, make sure the wound is higher than the heart. Then look for things like wine, if not think of a way to set up a fire."

Eleven said: "I have a little wine, also a match tube**." Taking out silver made match tube from his chest pocket.

**(T/N): below is a picture of the match tube. I'm not sure if I'm using the right name for it… Please correct me if you know the right name!! :"

Qing Chen nods her head, quickly uses the small knife and cut up small pieces of clothes from the clean part of the cloak, then washes her hands. She then took the small jar of wine from Eleven and pour it on the knife and wipe it dry. She carefully cut off the clothes around the wound, to uncover the injury.

She bended forward to carefully examine the wound, found out that the blood continued to leak whenever he breathed. The wound was dark red, meaning that the artery was not damaged, so it would not be to dangerous when pulling out the arrow. After disinfecting the knife using the fire that Eleven had set up, she pa.s.sed the knife to Eleven to hold on to, used the wine to clean her hands, picked up the cloth that had been wet with wine to simply tidy up the wound, then picks up the knife and said: "I don't have anaesthesia, so it might be very painful, please bear with it."

The man did not say a word, only nodded.

There are thorns facing a reverse direction on the arrow, she could not pull it out directly, Qing Chen pressed on his vein, then asked him: "How did you know that those two are Mongolian?" Then man was surprised after hearing her, she took the chance to cut the flesh near the wound, followed by a slight "hm" from the man. She held on to the arrow, using a little bit of strength, the arrow came out following the direction of her hand. Fresh blood flowed out from the wound immediately. However, due to a neat operation, there was not a huge amount of blood spurting out.

Qing Chen threw aside the short arrow, said to Eleven: "Cloth."  She was only trying to distract the man by what she asked. She did not really care about his response. Eleven also does not think too much about this. He quickly picks up the stack of clothes to her, seeing her putting them on his wound, anxiously asked the man: "Fourth Brother, how do you feel?"

The man's lips have gone pale. However, even under such pain, he can still remain alert. After a short while, he slowly said: "I'm fine."

Qing Chen showed Eleven the position of the vein and said: "Use your hand to press at this point, I will go and see if there are any medicinal plant around that can stop the bleeding. Remember, not to heavy, not to light."

Eleven quickly took over. After a while, Qing Chen came back holding some green herbs. She cleaned and ground that herbs then spread it on the wound. She changed to clean clothes and dress the wound. The bleeding really stops.

At the time, the sky has slowly turned dark, the mountains look slightly purple, moving to dusk. At the corner of the sky, the evening clouds started to burn, spreading around the mountain through the setting sun. Following the colour of the sky, flocks of birds rustling to fly back to their nest.