Chapter 260: Chapter 260: Heartache
Her eyes were clear and bright, like a clear spring, or like glistening black grapes, gazing hopefully at Yang Yunhai without blinking.
Uh...
Yang Yunhai felt a little uneasy under her gaze, so he rubbed his nose and looked in the direction Gu Lingling was pointing, and then he fixated on that object.
"This... is ginseng." And from the looks of it, it seems quite large.
Really, Yang Yunhai didn’t know how to describe his feelings at that moment, was it a blessing in disguise?
"There’s another one here," Gu Lingling said joyfully.
The distance between the two plants wasn’t too far, but the other one probably wasn’t as old as this one.
"Brother Yang, do you know how to dig up ginseng?" Gu Lingling looked at him with sparkling eyes, her joyful emotions overflowing.
"Yes, I know," Yang Yunhai nodded.
"That’s great," Gu Lingling, still holding his hand, said happily, "Let’s hurry over there to stop your bleeding, then we’ll come back to dig up the ginseng."
She was truly delighted.
Yang Yunhai followed her with a smile, not reminding her that she was still holding his hand.
Gu Lingling was so happy that by the time they reached the edge of the spring, she hadn’t even realized she was holding Yang Yunhai’s hand, and he was so accommodating.
Yang Yunhai squatted down beside her, slowly unbuttoning his shirt to reveal his sturdy shoulders.
Gu Lingling was washing a handkerchief, planning to use it to clean Yang Yunhai’s wounds. When she turned her head, she saw Yang Yunhai removing his shirt, and her face turned instantly red.
Her face stayed red for a moment, and then she was completely stunned.
On Yang Yunhai’s back were many long and short scars, some still bloodstained, others old and already scabbed over.
Was this person made of iron?
Didn’t all those wounds hurt?
Yang Yunhai removed his shirt and stayed still, waiting for Gu Lingling to help. After a long moment of silence, he turned around and met her red and swollen eyes, which were filled with a heartache as she looked at him.
For some reason, something seemed to hit him in the heart, and he just stood there, tightly staring at the girl in front of him.
"Don’t cry, you’ll look bad if you keep crying," Yang Yunhai sighed and said deliberately in a light tone, "I never noticed you liked to cry so much before."
"S-sorry," Gu Lingling lowered her head, and with it, tears fell to the ground.
If it weren’t for her, Yang Yunhai wouldn’t have gotten hurt again.
"Silly girl," Yang Yunhai wanted to reach out and ruffle her hair to comfort the little girl, but the distance was too far, so he smiled and put his hand down, "If you keep crying, I’ll catch a cold."
The mountains were already much cooler than the plains, not to mention they were next to a spring at the bottom of a valley.
"Oh, I’m coming, I’m coming." Gu Lingling hurriedly walked up and squatted down behind Yang Yunhai, "How did you get all these wounds?"
"These, some were from when I was a child, and a few deep ones were from past missions." Yang Yunhai spoke lightly, but listening to him, Gu Lingling felt a wave of sadness in her heart.
Especially when she thought of his lonely figure in past lives, she couldn’t help but shed tears again.
She sniffed, silently determined that, no matter what in this life, she would help Yang Yunhai avoid the loneliness of past lives.
Moreover, she felt she was doing a good job.
Yang Yunhai seemed to be less focused on He Yue than in past lives.
That’s a good sign.