CHAPTER 22: CHAPTER 22, THE EYES OF DISDAIN_1

The tribe’s laughter and chatter marked the beginning of a new day.

Ji Nuan opened her eyes in a daze. The sunlight outside the cave was already cast on the cave walls, indicating another clear and beautiful day.

She carefully moved her hands and feet. Apart from some slight prickling pain, she had recovered her strength.

Ji Nuan’s eyes lit up, and she sat up from the stone bed, pinching her arms and legs, laughing joyfully.

She had recovered.

"Shan Zaizai, are you up?" Ge Rou’s voice sounded from outside the cave.

Wiping the silly smile off her face, Ji Nuan ran her hands through her messy hair, "I’m up, Aunt Rou, please come in."

Ge Rou held a piece of roasted meat wrapped in large leaves, "I roasted this at the shaman’s cave today. Xiu Yan has already eaten, this is for you."

She handed the dark piece of roasted meat to Ji Nuan.

Ji Nuan playfully patted her flat stomach, "Aunt Rou, I was just woken up by hunger, thank you for bringing me the roasted meat.

"By the way, how is Brother Xiu Yan? Is he doing better?"

Speaking of Xiu Yan’s injury, Ge Rou’s eyes dimmed, "As you know, orcs have a strong recovery ability.

The shaman applied some herbs on him yesterday and his wound has healed.

However, his arm still hurts and there is a big lump where the wound is."

Ji Nuan’s hand shook, nearly dropping the roasted meat onto the ground, "Already...healed?"

She ended her sentence with a rising tone, carrying a hint of disbelief.

The severe wound from yesterday had healed by today?

Ge Rou, not noticing Ji Nuan’s surprise, nodded, "Yes."

Ji Nuan felt a bit taken aback. Originally, she planned to secretly find Xiu Yan and help him set his bones.

In this world, they did not fix injured bones, but let them heal naturally like external wounds. If the injuries were severe, they would go to the shaman.

That’s why many orcs, despite being in the prime of their life, had to stay in the tribe, living gloomily because of their injured bones.

Ji Nuan felt a sudden sense of urgency in her heart. It seemed that she couldn’t delay this matter any longer.

She grabbed Ge Rou’s arm, "Aunt Rou, I want to go see Brother Xiu Yan, is that okay?"

Ge Rou nudged the roasted meat in her hand, "What’s the rush? Hurry up and eat your meat first. It will be hard to bite once it cools down."

Despite saying that, she turned and walked towards the outside of the cave.

"Let’s go, Xiu Yan should be tidying up his cave right now."

Ji Nuan chuckled and crammed the roasted meat in her hand into her mouth, took the big leaf and followed behind Ge Rou.

...

Ji Nuan was dumbfounded as she watched Ge Rou walk into the cave next door. She followed her in a daze.

Xiu Yan was tidying up the pile of beast skins with one arm.

He raised his head at the sound of footsteps, his slender, deep eyes sweeping over Ge Rou and the distracted Ji Nuan behind her.

"Mother." His cool, magnetic voice brought Ji Nuan’s wandering mind back to reality.

Ge Rou’s face was full of distress, she quickly went up and took the beast skins from his hand, "You stubborn boy, didn’t I tell you to take one at a time? They are too heavy when you take so many at once.

"Where’s your father? Wasn’t he supposed to watch over you?"

Xiu Yan stood up after placing the beast skins down, "Father has gone to get food."

He glanced at Ji Nuan again. Why was this little she-cub here again?

Seeing Ge Rou moving the beast skins to another cave, Ji Nuan hurried over to help.

However, before she could touch the beast skins, a slender hand blocked her.

Ji Nuan looked up in confusion, only to meet the fleeting look of disdain on the face of the hand’s owner.

Looking at the clean white beast skin in front of her and then at her own thin, dark hand, Ji Nuan instantly interpreted Xiu Yan’s disdain. She was angry and felt a dull ache in her organs./p