"Are you sure you're not going to eat?" Yue Jiu Nian asked in surprise. "If you don't know how, I can teach you how to kill a chicken. I told you you should learn more survival skills. You were lucky to meet me this time and won't starve, but what if there's a next time?"

"That's true, what you said makes a lot of sense. My luck is so bad, what if it happens again? Then teach me how to kill **."

Liu Zhan's family was actually quite wealthy. He had also been kidnapped when he was a child, so after hearing what Yue Jiunian said, he thought it would be good to learn some wilderness survival skills. So he mustered up his courage and took the pheasant that Yue Jiunian handed him, with a look of fearlessness: "Come on, you tell me what to do and I'll do it."

Although Yue Jiu Nian was secretly amused that she had found free labor, she still solemnly instructed him on how to handle the pheasant: "First, pluck its feathers, then use a knife to cut open its belly..."

"Ugh~ This plucking looks painful!" Liu Zhan still looked disgusted.

"Come on, you're plucking its fur, not yours. What's it hurting you for? Besides, it's already dead..." Yue Jiu Nian said disdainfully, "Hurry up, it's getting dark."

"Oh, I see. What happens after you pluck the fur?"

"After plucking the fur, we'll cut open the belly with a knife to clean out the internal organs. You wait here while I go get you some water..."

Under Yue Jiu Nian's guidance, Liu Zhan finally managed to process the pheasant, albeit haltingly and slowly. He even started a fire before nightfall and roasted the chicken.

"Um, well, is our roast chicken missing something? I feel like something's missing..."

Liu Zhan said as he turned the roasted pheasant over and over.

Yue Jiu Nian was looking down and rummaging through her backpack. Without looking up, she said, "What else could be missing? Seasonings, of course."

Upon hearing this, Liu Zhan excitedly replied, "Yes, we're just missing the seasonings! I knew it! But do we have any seasonings?"

“Yes,” Yue Jiu Nian finally pulled out a packet of instant noodles from her backpack and tossed it to Liu Zhan, “but it’s just the seasoning from the instant noodles.”

Liu Zhan happily accepted the instant noodles: "It's okay, as long as it tastes good. I was afraid it wouldn't taste good if it didn't have any flavor, hehe~"

As he spoke, he tore open a packet of instant noodles, then took out the seasoning and roughly smeared it all over the roasted chicken: "Hmm~ This will definitely taste delicious."

Yue Jiu Nian didn't care what he did, as long as it was edible later.

By the time the roast chicken was finally ready to eat, both of them were starving. They deserved to be hungry, since there was other food available, but they refused to eat it and insisted on waiting for the roast chicken.

Liu Zhan tore into a large chicken leg with all his might, his mouth full of grease: "Wow~ I never thought my first barbecue would taste so good, I'm really amazing!"

Yue Jiu Nian also praised, "Hmm~ It really is quite good."

"Hehe~ Actually, it's also because of your excellent teaching." Liu Zhan was a little embarrassed by the praise.

"Tsk tsk~ Not bad, being humble is a good thing, keep up the good work!"

After eating the roast chicken, it was already quite dark, and there was nowhere to rest nearby, so the two decided to rest where they were. Yue Jiu Nian stopped urging Liu Zhan to find a cave, since it wouldn't be easy to find one so late at night.

"You can sleep under this tree, I'm going upstairs."

Ignoring Liu Zhan's surprised gaze, Yue Jiu Nian continued climbing the tree while speaking to him.

Liu Zhan was extremely curious because he couldn't understand why Yue Jiu Nian would climb a tree to sleep: "Why did you climb a tree? Isn't it better to sleep on the ground?"

Yue Jiu Nian lay on the tree trunk, looking down at him and casually said, "I just like being in trees, there's no reason. Go to sleep early, we still need to find a cave tomorrow."

Liu Zhan still didn't quite understand what kind of weird hobby Yue Jiu Nian had, but he also knew that it was getting late and he needed to rest as soon as possible to leave and go down the mountain, so he could only say, "Okay, then be careful up there and don't fall. Hey, you still have to keep climbing, it's already so high."

"Yes, I want to go to the top of the tree."

Yue Jiu Nian climbed to the top of the tree, found a branch where she could lie down and sleep, and then took out her phone and turned it on.

Sure enough, as soon as she turned on her phone, she saw a whole bunch of missed calls and text messages, all of which were sent or made by members of the Jiang family. When Yue Jiu Nian saw these, she thought to herself, "It seems that the Jiang family still cares about her quite a bit. It's just a pity that I still have to leave them eventually. There's nothing I can do because they are not the same kind of people."

Yue Jiu Nian only glanced at the messages and didn't reply. She only sent a message to Yue Jiu Ling, telling her that she had found the pair of short swords and that she would be back soon.

After sending the message, she looked at her phone, which still had half battery left, and finally decided to turn it off.