Quick Transmigration: Saving That Cannon Fodder

This was a tall and strong man, and Liu Yu felt that she probably couldn't escape.

He looked around and knew he was in the mountains, on the same mountain path he had used when he was digging for medicinal herbs. He just didn't know where this person was taking him.

Chixing carried the person all the way back to his small courtyard on the mountain before dark.

The yard was very simple, and the little black cat was already waiting at home.

Looking at the somewhat familiar courtyard, a tall and muscular figure appeared in Liu Yu's mind, a figure that overlapped with the man who was holding her.

His face grew even paler. So, was the person who bought him the Red Hunter from this mountain?

Liu Yu had a deep impression of Chi Xing; he first met this hunter when he went up the mountain to collect herbs as a child.

His tall figure looked like he could kill a bull with a single punch. He dragged a struggling wild deer to the riverbank, plunged a dagger directly into the deer's throat, bled it out, and skinned it.

Blood splattered onto the scars on his face, making his features even more grotesque and terrifying. That bloody scene was deeply etched into Liu Yu's mind, becoming a nightmare from his childhood.

After that, he would avoid the Red Hunter whenever he went up the mountain, and only came here occasionally when he was sure the Red Hunter wasn't home.

But to my utter surprise, he actually bought her.

Liu Yu became increasingly frightened as she thought about it. The villagers all said that the Red Hunter might have been possessed by a mountain spirit, otherwise why would his appearance become increasingly ugly?

So, are we going to eat him up later?

Akahoshi was unaware that his little husband was thinking of him as a monster. He entered the courtyard, closed the door behind him, and carried the man into the main room.

The courtyard was simple, with a main hall in the middle and two bedrooms on the left. After the master left, one of the bedrooms was converted into a storage room.

On the other side is the kitchen, and further away is the outhouse.

After placing Liu Yu on the kang (a heated brick bed) in the main room, Chi Xing lit the small oil lamp in the room.

Liu Yu gripped the hem of her clothes tightly, but still looked up at Chi Xing.

When I saw that hideous face, my heart skipped a beat. It really was the Red Hunter!

Oh no, he's going to die.

Liu Yu suddenly felt sad. He had just turned eighteen yesterday and hadn't even said goodbye to his mother yet. Was he going to die tonight?

Chixing kept looking at Liu Yu, and seeing his sad and heartbroken expression, she couldn't help but want to care for him.

However, since he is not yet familiar with Liu Yu, he cannot simply go over and hug her.

"Do you know who I am?" Chi Xing sat down on the bench in front of Liu Yu.

Liu Yu seemed to muster up her courage to glance at him, but quickly looked away and said nervously, "Red, Red Hunter."

Looking at his pale face, Akahoshi felt a pang of sympathy; his wife in this life seemed a little timid.

I sighed inwardly, thinking, "Never mind, I won't scare him."

Chixing said earnestly, "My name is Chixing, I am twenty-five years old, and I live alone. From now on, you will be my husband. You don't need to do farm work; I will hunt to earn money to support you."

As Liu Yu listened, she suddenly froze. Husband?

He looked up at Chixing's face again, and this time he could see it clearly by candlelight. His face was somewhat dark with a scar, but upon closer inspection, it was not hard to see that his features were prominent, with sharp eyebrows and bright eyes.

If it weren't for that scar, Chixing would certainly not be ugly, Liu Yu thought to himself.

"Am I ugly?" a deep voice asked.

Liu Yu suddenly realized that he had been staring at the other person for quite a while, which was extremely rude.

"Not ugly."

This time he was telling the truth. If we're talking about ugliness, everyone in the village knows that Liu Yu is the ugliest guy.

Thinking it over, Liu Yu lowered her head again and whispered, "I... I can't have children."

For some reason, Chi Xing felt a pang of pain in his heart upon hearing these words. The people in this place valued offspring, and Liu Yu had been ostracized since childhood largely because of this.

"Well, that's perfect, I can't have children either," Akahoshi said casually, making it up.

Liu Yu's eyes widened: "What?"

He subconsciously looked at Akahoshi's lower abdomen. As a semi-doctor, he naturally knew a little about men's problems in this area.

Chi Xing quickly explained, "It's okay in that respect, but we can't let the boy get pregnant, otherwise he won't have any offspring in the future."

Have you seen a doctor?

Akahoshi: "Yeah, it can't be cured, but it doesn't matter anyway, I don't like children."

Liu Yu was not a doctor specializing in this area, so he believed what he said.

Knowing that the other party was buying him to be a husband, Liu Yu was not so afraid anymore, as long as he wasn't being eaten.

Chixing went out to cook, telling Liu Yu to rest for a while.

Having just recovered from an illness, Liu Yu was too weak to stand up and could only rest on the kang (a heated brick bed).

His mother is still down the mountain, he must take good care of himself, and hopefully earn enough money to bring her back.

This matter might be easier if Akahoshi were to help.

But will Akahoshi help him?

From the conversation just now, Akahoshi was clearly a reasonable person. Liu Yu pondered that it seemed he had to try to please him.

Liu Yu recalled how the husbands in the village treated their wives.

It's simply about growing vegetables and raising chickens every day, cooking meals, and waiting for her husband to come home. It's very simple, and she can do it.

Akahoshi stood in front of the stove, with the little black cat helping to tend the fire. Akahoshi threw the wild pheasant he had just hunted into the earthenware pot to make soup.

I'm not very skilled at the movements, but if I follow the recipes I found online, it shouldn't taste too bad.

He went out of the yard, picked two bunches of greens from the vegetable garden next door, steamed the rice, boiled water in the pot, blanched the vegetables, took them out, and finally poured the freshly made chicken soup over them.

Considering Liu Yu's physical condition, he did not bring the chicken over.

People who haven't eaten meat in a long time shouldn't eat too much at once. Tonight, let him eat some animal fat and chicken soup to get used to it.

When he brought the food over, Liu Yu was still leaning against the kang (a heated brick bed). She glanced away briefly when he entered, then called out softly:

"Husband."

Upon hearing the word "husband," Chi Xing almost dropped the food in his hands, but fortunately he quickly regained his composure.

Suppressing his lips tightly, Akahoshi hummed softly and said:

"Come over for dinner."

Remembering that Liu Yu was still unwell, he added, "Never mind, don't move, I'll move the table over here."

Chixing was strong; he carried the tray in one hand and moved the table to the edge of the kang (a heated brick bed) with the other.

He served Liu Yu a bowl of rice and a bowl of soup.

"Have some soup first."

Having not eaten all day, Liu Yu was starving, especially since the food on the table was so delicious.

This was the first time he had ever eaten white rice in his life; before, he had only eaten coarse grains mixed with bran.

Their family wasn't allocated any farmland; they had to go up the mountain to dig up medicinal herbs to get their coarse grains. Sometimes, if Liu Yu was lucky, she would encounter wild rabbits that had crashed into trees and died.

But he rarely encountered it, only during the Lunar New Year when someone in the village slaughtered a pig, and his mother would go to help and bring back some meat.

The rest of the time, he and his mother ate coarse grains and wild vegetables.

The white rice smelled delicious, and even the vegetable soup smelled wonderful. Liu Yu ate with her eyes squinted.