Chapter 143: Not So Familiar Stranger

Gu Xiaoxi chewed the candy silently, but Qi Shuangshuang couldn't help but roll her eyes and said, "It's just to regulate the body."

Fu Jiani felt that Qi Shuangshuang's tone was a bit harsh, and her eyes became red for a moment.

Gu Xiaoxi's forehead twitched and he said softly, "I'm fine. Is the meal ready? Don't you want to eat?"

"Eat. Why not?" Qi Shuangshuang gave the first bowl of rice to Gu Xiaoxi and also gave her a lot of sausages.

Gu Xiaoxi also opened the lid of the clay pot so that everyone could eat together.

Qi Shuangshuang was quick-witted and picked out the two chicken legs and put them into Gu Xiaoxi's bowl.

Gu Xiaoxi blinked, a little flattered?

Qi Shuangshuang is a little abnormal today!

"Eat more and keep your body healthy!" Qi Shuangshuang said seriously.

"You guys eat too!" There were too many dishes in Gu Xiaoxi's bowl, so he put a chicken leg into Qi Shuangshuang's bowl.

Fu Jiani's eyes dimmed and she went to the side to get some rice.

There was a lot of rice in Gu Xiaoxi's bowl, so she gave half of it to Lu Jiansen and then ate slowly.

Lu Jiansen ate very quickly. By the time he finished, his little girl had not yet finished a chicken leg.

He waited patiently, watching her finish the rice and egg custard in the bowl. Only then did he put away the bowl and got up to boil water.

Gu Xiaoxi had nothing to do, so he rearranged the place where he would rest at night.

After a while, Lu Jiansen came in with a bucket of hot water.

While no one was in the tent, he secretly kissed the little girl on the forehead and said, "You should go to bed early tonight. Nanyu, Zhuizi and I will set some traps nearby to see if we can catch any prey. You and the others should stay here and rest. You can't wander around when I'm not here. Do you understand?"

Gu Xiaoxi immediately responded, "Then I'll go with you."

"Have a good rest tonight, we have to get up early tomorrow." Lu Jiansen raised his hand and gently rubbed her head.

"Oh, okay then! Be careful!" Gu Xiaoxi did not insist on going.

After Lu Jiansen and Si Nanyu left, she washed her face and soaked her feet with the hot water that Lu Jiansen brought.

Although I would rather take a shower, the conditions do not allow it.

Fu Jiani also wanted to wash her face and soak her feet, but there was no water, so she couldn't help but push Zhong Jue.

"Brother Zhong Jue, please boil some water for me! I want to wash my face too."

Zhong Jue nodded, "Then I'll go get some water."

Zhong Jue quickly picked up the bucket and left with a flashlight.

But after half an hour, Zhong Jue didn't come back.

Zhang Bingyi was worried, so he told Li Kun who was staying behind and went to look for someone.

Half an hour later, Zhang Bingyi came back alone.

He said to Li Kun anxiously, "I didn't see Zhong Jue at the water source. I don't know where he went. I called for help but no one answered."

Li Kun frowned, "Isn't this the wrong place?"

As he spoke, he walked to the door of the tent and shouted inside, "Sister-in-law, Zhong Jue hasn't come back yet. He might have taken the wrong road. Zhang Bingyi and I will go look for him. You guys should stay here and don't wander around."

Gu Xiaoxi walked out, scanned the area in the darkness, and said softly, "Be careful. Look to the left."

Li Kun was stunned for a moment. "Isn't the water source to the right of our tent? He went to fetch water!"

Gu Xiaoxi blinked slightly and guessed, "Is it possible that he can't tell left from right?"

Hearing this, Fu Jiani couldn't help but say, "That's impossible. Brother Zhong Jue has a very good sense of direction, even better than Brother Zhang. Otherwise, Grandpa Zhang wouldn't have let him bring Brother Zhong Jue here."

Gu Xiaoxi thought about it and felt that it made sense.

"That could be something else, anyway, let's find someone first!"

"I'm going too." Fu Jiani suddenly spoke up.

When Li Kun was about to refuse, Gu Xiaoxi said, "Let her go with us!"

Seeing that his sister-in-law agreed, Li Kun had no choice but to take Fu Jiani with him.

Before leaving, he still reminded her worriedly: "Sister-in-law, we will come back after we find the person. You must not wander around, otherwise we will look for you when we come back."

Gu Xiaoxi nodded, "Got it."

"If we don't come back for a while, you can rest first and don't wait for us, but don't put out the fire." Li Kun reminded again.

"I understand, you guys please be careful!" Gu Xiaoxi also reminded.

After saying that, she also gave Li Kun a super bright flashlight that she had modified herself.

After the people walked away, Gu Xiaoxi took an empty bucket from outside the tent and called Qi Shuangshuang.

"Let's go get some water!"

Qi Shuangshuang immediately took the bucket over and said, "I'll get it."

"Then I'll use a flashlight." Gu Xiaoxi smiled slightly and turned on a flashlight that he had modified himself.

The light from this flashlight is much stronger than that of an ordinary flashlight and can shine farther.

After walking a short distance, Gu Xiaoxi finally spoke, "Shuangshuang, do you dislike Fu Jiani?"

Qi Shuangshuang snorted in frustration, "No, I don't like her. Do you like her?"

Gu Xiaoxi chuckled, "I can't say I like him! He's just a stranger I'm not that familiar with, so I don't care."

Qi Shuangshuang curled her lips, "I don't have such a good attitude as you. She looks several years older than you, but she calls you Sister Gu all the time, which makes me uncomfortable."

Gu Xiaoxi was stunned for a moment, "She should be younger than us!"

"Then she just grew up too fast." Qi Shuangshuang didn't think she was wrong at all.

Gu Xiaoxi suppressed his smile and said, "Then I thought you were complimenting me!"

Qi Shuangshuang couldn't help but laugh, but quickly added, "Actually, I didn't attack her because of her appearance. You didn't notice that Fu Jiani especially liked to stare at you and your Lu Jiansen. After seeing Si Nanyu, she kept staring at him. I don't know what she was thinking."

Gu Xiaoxi was stunned for a moment. She knew that Fu Jiani liked to look at people and she looked at them very directly without any concealment.

However, she did not think much about it, because Fu Jiani seemed to have a strong possessiveness towards Zhong Jue and even misunderstood herself because of it.

Therefore, she shouldn't have any other ideas.

Seeing that Gu Xiaoxi didn't care much, Qi Shuangshuang said, "Maybe she doesn't have any bad intentions, but she is definitely a petty person."

"At noon, for example, she made a yam cake, which was a complete mess. The dough was raw. I said something about it, and she turned her face away from me. When distributing the yam cakes, she gave the well-fried ones to Zhong Jue and Zhang Bingyi, while mine and yours were both raw with flour..."

Gu Xiaoxi was startled again. She didn’t notice this at noon. She thought everyone’s yam cakes were not delicious.

Qi Shuangshuang couldn't help but continue to add as she looked at her expression: "Also, at night, ever since Lu Jiansen was boiling medicine and steaming egg custard for you, her eyes never left the egg custard. When you were heating up the chicken, she came over to help just because she smelled the fragrance..."