Chapter 443
At this moment, Rong Shu didn’t care about any male or female defense, shy and timid, and directly reached out her hand towards the clothes on Fu Jingting’s body.
The suit jacket on his body was easy to take off, but when she took it off, Rong Shu was shocked by the sight in front of her and couldn’t help but suck in a breath of cold air.
Only to see that the back of Fu Jingting’s white shirt was completely stained with blood.
But because it had been soaked in water, the originally bright red blood stains were now haloed away turning pink.
“Oh my!” Rongshu subconsciously covered her mouth, her pupils trembling.
How could so much blood have been shed?
He had always thought that his back was just bruised and battered into the bruising kind.
But to his surprise, it had actually crashed out with blood!
But soon, Rongshu remembered that Fu Jingting had only recently been mauled by the old lady, so his whip wounds should not have healed fully yet, so it was possible that these were whip wounds that had opened up.
Taking a deep breath, Rongshu tried to calm herself down, then reached out again and carefully took off Fu Jingting’s shirt.
This time, Rong Shu finally saw the specifics of Fu Jingting’s back.
What a back it was!
Some of the scars were good, while others were cracked and flesh was flopping out, with hints of bright red coming out, making people shudder.
Rongshu’s hands were trembling as she gripped Fu Jingting’s shirt, and her eyes were red as she looked at Fu Jingting’s pale face, her mouth open, unable to speak at all.
A person’s pain tolerance is limited. If it was her, she would have screamed out in pain when she was injured like this.
Fu Jingting, on the other hand, didn’t cry out in pain when his arm was broken, didn’t cry out in pain when his head was hit, and didn’t even cry out in pain when the wound on his back was split open.
Did he not know the pain?
Rongshu reached out and touched a raised scar on Fu Jingting’s back, her heart suddenly clogged with astringency, sourness, and some indescribable taste.
She huffed and took her hand away, then quickly got up and went over to the dishes.
She remembered that she had just been there, and had seen a medical kit.
Sure enough, Rongshu had been right, there really was a medical kit there.
Rongshu laughed a little, it was really a blessing from the heavens, when it was raining and she had to take shelter, she saw a cave, and when she entered the cave, she saw all kinds of necessities, even a medicine box.
Rongshu took the medical kit back to Fu Jingting, then opened it and rummaged through the medicine inside, finding that there were not only common anti-inflammatory medicines fever-reducing bandages and the like, but even medicines for animals.
It was probably kept by the rangers when they lived here and occasionally rescued some small animals.
Rongshu didn’t bother with the medicine for animals, and after finding the medicine and bandages that Fu Jingting would need later, she gently patted Fu Jingting’s face, “Fu Jingting, can you hear me?”
Fu Jingting’s brow furrowed and he quickly regained his composure.
Rongshu sighed.
It seemed that it was impossible to hear.
Forget it, she would do it herself.
Rongshu cut a long bandage with scissors, then wrapped it into a strip, reached out and cupped Fu Jingting’s cheek, forcing him to open his mouth and put the strip of bandage horizontally into his mouth.
In this way, when he was disinfected and medicated later, he would not be worried that he would bite his tongue in pain.
After doing this, Rongshu began to apply the medicine.
She first stopped the bleeding and waited until she saw no more blood coming out before starting to disinfect.
During this time, Fu Jingting’s body was trembling lightly in pain, his face was sweating, his brow was furrowed fiercely, and his eyes were rolling under his eyelids, but he just couldn’t wake up.
Finally, ten minutes later, Rong Shu had given him the medicine and bandaged him up, and began to change his camouflage uniform.
Just as Rongshu carefully tucked both of his arms into his sleeves and was about to turn him over and button up his front, she suddenly saw that there was actually a scar on his left chest as well.
The scar was almost ten centimetres in size and so faint that it could easily be missed if you didn’t look closely.
There were also traces of stitches on that scar.
There is only one type of scar that can be stitched up, and that is a surgical scar.
So Fu Jingting had had open heart surgery?
When was this? Why had she never heard of it?
During the six years of being married to him, he had never had any surgery, and it was impossible these past few months because of this scar, which looked some years old.
So from that, she deduced that Fu Jingting should have had it done six years ago.
Just what, exactly, was his illness that required open-heart surgery?
Rongshu touched the scar on Fu Jingting’s chest and her eyes were full of doubts.
She suddenly realized that she actually didn’t know Fu Jingting as well as she thought she did.
At least, she didn’t know why there was this scar on his chest.
Let’s wait for him to wake up and ask about it.
Thinking, Rongshu buttoned him up, then rolled him back over again, hugged the quilt to the side and unfolded it, covering him up.
“Get a good night’s sleep, I’ll definitely take you out tomorrow.” Rongshu looked at Fu Jingting’s pale, handsome face and said with guilt in her eyes.
It was impossible not to feel guilty.
After all, it was because of her that he was injured like this.
Touching Fu Jingting’s hair, which had already dried naturally, a trace of envy flashed through Rongshu’s eyes.
Short hair was good, it dried quickly.
Unlike her, her hair was still damp and stuck to her scalp, heavy, cold and uncomfortable.
Rongshu got up, walked to the side and also changed into the lady’s camouflage, then picked up her own wet clothes and Fu Jingting’s wet clothes and went to the fire, sticking them up with wooden sticks and putting them by the fire with the intention of baking them dry.
During the roasting process, Rongshu’s stomach suddenly rumbled.
Only then did she realise with a start that she hadn’t eaten anything for a day.
“I’m so hungry!” Rongshu couldn’t help but mutter as she rubbed her stomach, then turned her gaze towards the pile of pots and pans.
She hadn’t gone through them carefully yet, and wondered if there would be any food there.
With that in mind, Rongshu put down the small wooden stick in her hand and got up to walk towards it.
After a search, she did find something to eat, a few vacuum-packed biscuits and a few bottles of mineral water.
Seeing these, Rongshu was so excited that she almost burst into tears.
She hastily tore open a bag of biscuits and unscrewed a bottle of mineral water and returned to the fire to eat them.
These biscuits would not expire for three years, so she did not have to worry at all about eating expired ones.
Just as Rongshu was halfway through eating, a coughing sound suddenly came from behind her.
When she heard it, Rongshu hurriedly frowned and swallowed the not-so-sweet biscuit, turning her head to look.
Seeing that Fu Jingting had stretched his body a bit, he hurriedly put down the mineral water and biscuits and ran over, “Fu Jingting.”
Hearing her voice, Fu Jingting opened his eyes and met her nervous and concerned eyes, his voice was hoarse and weak as he shouted, “Rong Shu.”
“I’m here.” Rongshu nodded her head.
Fu Jingting propped his body upwards again.
As he had little strength and only had one arm to move, he nearly fell back after he had propped himself up a little.
Seeing this, Rongshu hurriedly gave him a hand, “Don’t move, you want to sit up right, I’ll help you.”
After saying that, she helped him up with great force, and then turned his face to sit down.
Fu Jingting was about to say thank you when he suddenly saw the somewhat small camouflage clothes on his body, and the somewhat old quilt, his whole body couldn’t help but freeze for a moment.
Chapter 444
Then he noticed something else, and that was what was going on with this cave, and all these supplies in it?
“Where did these …… come from?” Fu Jingting asked as he lifted the quilt on his body.
Rongshu sat down and explained, “It’s from the cave itself.”
“Self-built?” Fu Jingting raised his eyebrows, obviously moved surprised by this answer.
Rong Shu nodded, “Yes, I was going to carry you out of this forest to see if there was anyone living outside, as long as there was someone living there, we would be saved, but before we could walk out, the sky changed, then I found this cave, brought you in to hide from the rain, and when I came in, I found these things.”
“So that’s how it is.” Fu Jingting nodded, then wrinkled his brows and said, “This cave, could it be where the fugitives live?”
Some prisoners who were on the run liked to hide in the deep mountains and old forests.
So for these things to appear in a cave, it was hard not to think that it was a fugitive’s.
“No.” Rongshu shook her head, “At first I also wondered if it was a fugitive’s residence, but later I found this.”
She pointed to the left bręąst pocket of the camouflage jacket she was wearing.
Fu Jingting lowered his eyes and saw the words ranger, and instantly dropped his heart, “It’s good that it’s a ranger.”
He had indeed heard that some rangers would build some straw huts or wooden huts or something like that on the mountain so that they would have a place to stay in the mountain when they were late for their patrol.
So it made sense that this natural cave would be used by the rangers.
“Yeah, that’s why I’m comfortable taking you here for the night.” Rongshu smiled, “Speaking of which, we should thank these two rangers for leaving clothes and quilts here, and most importantly, a medical kit and food and drink, otherwise tonight, even if we had a fire, it would have been difficult to get through.”
Speaking of this, she suddenly remembered something and looked at the man’s pale, handsome face and asked, “By the way Mr. Fu, how is your head now? And your arms and back, do they still hurt badly?”
Fu Jingting laughed lightly and said, “My head is still a bit dizzy, my arms don’t feel anything, my back doesn’t hurt as much as it did at the beginning, you gave me medicine, right?”
He remembered that she had just said medicine box.
So it was highly likely that she had given him medicine.
Rongshu nodded with a hmph, “Yes, the wound on your back was cracked and it would have been inflamed and feverish without the medicine, so I gave it to you.”
“Thanks.” Fu Jingting looked at her.
Rongshu waved her hand, “You don’t need to thank me, it’s me who should say thank you, you suffered these undeserved disasters because of me.”
“I did it of my own free will, so you don’t need to put it to heart.” Fu Jingting comforted her.
Rongshu took a breath, “Alright Mr. Fu, let’s not talk about that, are you hungry?”
Fu Jingting nodded slightly, “A little.”
“You wait a moment.”
She got up and went to where she had just taken the biscuits and mineral water and came back with a bag of biscuits and mineral water.
“These are the only emergency dry food here, so you’ll have to make do.” Rongshu said as she tore open the packet for him and unscrewed the screw cap.
Fu Jingting looked at her doing this for himself, his eyes full of tenderness, “It’s okay, it’s already good to have food in this situation.”
“Yeah.” Rongshu nodded in agreement, “So we should thank the rangers who left things here, but I don’t have my phone wallet on me and I don’t know how to ……”
“The wallet in my pocket should still be there.” Fu Jingting said, pointing to his trousers by the fire.
Rongshu looked over, “No wonder I felt something resting on me when I just took off your trousers, it turned out to be a money clip.”
Fu Jingting raised his eyebrows, “Take off your trousers?”
Rongshu met his deep gaze, only then did she react to the fact that her words were somewhat inconsiderate and made people misunderstand, her face suddenly flushed with embarra*sment, “That what …… you fainted, so I just put my hands on you to change a set of dry clothes, but don’t worry, I didn’t do anything to you, nor did I look more. ”
“Is that so?” Fu Jingting looked at her with a wry smile.
Rongshu met his smiling eyes and blushed even more, while a little sheepishly looking away, “When …… of course it’s true.”
It was true that she hadn’t done anything to him, nor could she have done anything to him.
It’s just that what she shouldn’t have seen, she did.
“Okay, I believe you.” Seeing the woman’s face blush to the point of dripping blood, Fu Jingting laughed lowly twice before not teasing her anymore.
Otherwise what if she became annoyed later?
“That’s right.” Rongshu turned her head back, “What’s with the surgery scar on your chest?”
When Fu Jingting, who was drinking water, heard her question, his movements paused for a moment.
But soon, he returned to his natural self and put down his water bottle and said back lightly, “Had a heart replacement surgery.”
“Heart replacement?” Rongshu exclaimed, her eyes widening.
When she had an operation on her chest, she could imagine that it must be heart-related, such as a bypa*s, a heart repair or something.
But she had never imagined that it would be a heart replacement.
A heart transplant was the heart in Fu Jingting’s chest at the moment, not his own, but someone else’s.
“How can it be a heart replacement?” Rongshu looked at the man in astonishment.
The man took a bite of the biscuit and chewed slowly, “I have a congenital heart condition, my heart has had holes in it since I was a child, the kind that can’t be mended, when I was born, the doctor concluded that I wouldn’t live past twenty years old, but because the Fu family had money and poured everything into treating me, I lived until I was twenty-four before I had the heart replacement surgery.”
“Twenty-four years old ……,” Rong Shu’s mouth opened wide, “that’s not six years ago?”
“Mm.” Fu Jingting nodded, then met her eyes, “Six years ago, I used a letter and asked you to meet, just to tell you that I was in love with you, you agreed to meet, and even called me specifically to ask me on which day to meet, then I gave the answer of one month later.”
“I know.” Rongshu said back.
Fu Jingting swallowed the biscuit in his mouth, “The day you called me was the day I had my surgery, and the reason I made an appointment to meet a month later was because I wasn’t able to get out of my hospital bed until a month after my heart replacement surgery.”
“So that’s how it is.” The tip of Rong Shu’s nose was slightly sour as she understood everything.
No wonder she heard his voice that day, so weak and breathless, it turned out to be that he was sick and had to undergo surgery.
Otherwise, she would have been able to hear that he was the one she had always loved, the gentle senior who loved to wear white shirts and smile.
Unfortunately, it was all in the past.
Taking a deep breath, Rong Shu suppressed the bit of sourness inside, pulled the corner of her mouth and asked, “I remember, congenital heart disease is a genetic disease, who did you inherit it from?”
“My mother.” Fu Jingting opened his mouth and said back.
Then thought of something else and added, “Not Wang Shuqin, Wang Shuqin is not my real mother, it’s my stepmother, I inherited it, it’s my real mother.”
“I know Wang Shuqin is your stepmother, my grandmother said that before.” Rongshu was not the least bit surprised to hear his words and returned them.
“But I’ve always been curious as to why Wang Shuqin is so good to you, she doesn’t look like someone who would be a good stepmother either.” Rongshu was curious.
Fu Jingting smiled a little, “It’s true, she’s snobbish and vulgar, and loves to be calculating and unforgiving, she doesn’t look like a good stepmother in any way, she should be a vicious stepmother, but she, as a person, isn’t a bad person, and she does treat me well, because she feels guilty, I guess.”
“Guilty?” Rongshu raised her eyebrows, “Could it be that she was a third party to your parents, so she knew she was ruining their relationship, and that’s why she felt so guilty towards you? But that’s not right either, if that’s the case, given your character, you would have spared her, so how could you treat her like your own mother?”