Even After My Death
Chapter 142 - 117 Dispute

Chapter 142: Chapter 117 Dispute

Mu Mingxuan heard Huo Miao asking him to look for Huo Ziheng and was startled at first, intending to ask what happened to Huo Ziheng, but then he heard Jiang Ning’s name from Huo Miao.

Mu Mingxuan suddenly felt as if all the bones in his body were aching.

This was probably a side effect of the beating he had received from Jiang Ning before; after all, as the eldest young master of the Mu Family, no one had ever treated him with such roughness and disrespect.

Mu Mingxuan’s brows slightly furrowed; he particularly didn’t want to go look for Jiang Ning.

However, the fact that Huo Ziheng hadn’t returned was indeed a matter of concern.

"You sit here first, I’ll go out and look for him," Mu Mingxuan said reluctantly.

He wasn’t an actor, and there were no outsiders in the tent, so Mu Mingxuan naturally did not hide the expression on his face. The audience in front of the screen saw the same look of reluctance on his face as Huo Ziheng had shown earlier and burst into laughter:

[Hahaha, Mu Mingxuan’s expression is just like the one Huo Ziheng had when he heard Huo Miao ask him to go look for Jiang Ning for medicine just now!]

[Pfft, it really is!]

[It must be side effects from being beaten]

[Poor thing, he was only beaten a few times, and he’s already developed a psychological shadow from Jiang Ning]

...

Mu Mingxuan didn’t know about the teasing of the viewers in front of the screen. After stepping out of the tent, he looked towards the tent of Jiang Ning and Nong Chun and didn’t see Jiang Ning but instead saw Nong Chun sitting in front of Langyan.

Mu Mingxuan felt determined and walked up to Nong Chun, asking if he had seen Huo Ziheng.

Suddenly questioned by Mu Mingxuan, Nong Chun, who had been concentrating on studying the map, was a bit surprised.

However, he didn’t have any issues with Mu Mingxuan previously, and his silence these past few days was mainly due to unfamiliarity, so after a brief moment of surprise, Nong Chun calmly shook his head, "I don’t know, he hasn’t come looking for me."

"Where is Jiang Ning? Where did she go?" Mu Mingxuan asked tentatively.

"Sister Jiang seems to be in the tent... I’m not really sure though..." Nong Chun replied vaguely.

Mu Mingxuan didn’t know if Nong Chun was truly unaware or was just stonewalling him.

He stood in place for two minutes, not rashly approaching Jiang Ning’s tent but instead turned back towards his own.

He remembered that there was medicine in the tent he shared with Huo Ziheng, thinking it better to give the medicine to Huo Miao before considering the situation further. Alone, he had no desire to face Jiang Ning and risk discomfort.

It must be said that after being beaten by Jiang Ning, Mu Mingxuan had gained quite a bit of self-awareness.

It was also after returning to his own tent that Mu Mingxuan found Huo Ziheng lying there.

Startled upon discovering someone lying inside, Mu Mingxuan jumped, then saw clearly that it was Huo Ziheng lying there and couldn’t help but demand, "What are you doing here?!"

Huo Ziheng hadn’t fallen asleep and had already heard the footsteps outside the tent, so Mu Mingxuan’s arrival was expected. Upon being asked, Ziheng looked up confused, "Huh?"

Mu Mingxuan, "Do you know that Miaomiao is looking for you? She wanted you to go ask Jiang Ning about the medicine."

He wouldn’t have had an issue if the question hadn’t been asked, but once asked, Huo Ziheng’s expression turned gloomy, "Didn’t get it, Jiang Ning wouldn’t give."

Mu Mingxuan did not notice Huo Ziheng’s unease and frowned upon hearing his answer, "I knew it."

Jiang Ning had been so ruthless to Huo Ziheng and himself these past two days, showing no mercy at all. She was like a crazed person, utterly devoid of empathy, selfish and cold-blooded. How could she possibly lend medicine to Miaomiao.

However, having found Huo Ziheng, Mu Mingxuan felt a sense of relief deep down. Since Huo Ziheng had already asked Jiang Ning, it meant that he did not have to look for Jiang Ning himself.

But thinking about the wound on Huo Miao’s hand, Mu Mingxuan couldn’t help but worry, "The injury on Miaomiao’s hand seems pretty serious. Don’t we have any external injury medicine here?"

Huo Ziheng replied, "We have a little, but it might not be enough. Did you go out with Ling Bo? Is he back? Let’s go ask him."

Huo Ziheng nodded, "He’s back."

One, the brother of Huo Miao, and the other, her fiancé, their concern for Huo Miao went without saying. The two men walked out of the tent together and found Ling Bo and Jian Tiantian cleaning things by the seaside.

From a distance, Huo Ziheng began to shout, "Ling Bo, do you have any medicine for injuries?"

Ling Bo looked up, stopping what he was doing, "What kind of medicine?"

"For external injuries. Miaomiao just slipped on some rocks and fell, cutting her hands all over," Huo Ziheng said as he and Mu Mingxuan got closer, finally seeing what Ling Bo and Jian Tiantian were cleaning, "What are you doing... washing clods of dirt?"

"These are wild water chestnuts that Mingxuan and I dug out from the forest. Once they are cleaned, we can eat them," Ling Bo said, and then added, "I have medicine, but I am not sure if I have external injury medicine. I’ll have to check when I get back."

Huo Ziheng nodded, "Mhm."

His gaze fell on the things that Jian Tiantian and Ling Bo were washing, clumps of earth that, once rinsed by the sea water, revealed small, black fruits not much larger than a thumb. Wild water chestnuts are tiny, and covered in mud, requiring someone to painstakingly rub them clean with fingers, making Jian Tiantian and Ling Bo’s fingernails full of dirt.

Huo Ziheng showed some reluctance, "Can you really eat this?"

"You can, just bite open the skin and spit it out, or use a knife to peel it and eat the white flesh inside. I just ate a few, and they tasted quite good," Ling Bo responded.

Hearing this, Huo Ziheng crouched down, took one of the cleaned wild water chestnuts that Jian Tiantian and Ling Bo had scrubbed clean, and tried it; it was pleasantly sweet with a decent flavor.

He raised an eyebrow and immediately grabbed some, squatting beside them and started eating.

Mu Mingxuan, feeling hungry too, also grabbed some of the cleaned ones and bit open the dark brown skin to eat directly.

The viewers in front of the screen were somewhat speechless:

[Ah, you two grown men, got the nerve?]

[Jian Tiantian and Ling Bo have been busy all morning, haven’t eaten a thing yet! They barely managed to clean some, and now you two pigs are gobbling it all up!]

[If you want to eat, can’t you do it yourselves? I cleaned these as a kid, and they’re so hard to clean! Ugh, this is raising my blood pressure!]

[I feel sorry for Tiantian and Ling Bo, hurry up and split off from these two gents, don’t stay with them, starving one moment and stuffed the next.]

Never mind the audience, even Jian Tiantian and Ling Bo themselves felt a bit disgruntled.

Wild water chestnuts grow in the mud, the soft, sticky kind, and if she weren’t starving, Jian Tiantian would not have considered cleaning them, for they are indeed difficult to clean! You must continuously rub them one by one, and it had even caused Jian Tiantian’s fake nails to flip up.

And here came Huo Ziheng and Mu Mingxuan—straightaway eating up more than half of what she and Ling Bo had struggled to clean!

Even a mud figurine has a three-point temper, let alone her. After being busy all morning since she got up, her stomach was now totally empty, with nothing eaten...