After a while, the man saw Qin Wen walking towards him.
On the carriage side, Zhao Yiming also helped Tian An to the campfire, followed by Deng Xue and Ye Zi.
"Let's go! My lady agreed." Qin Wen returned to the man and said.
He then looked at the two people still sitting on the ground and said, "Sister-in-law, it's time to get up! Your clothes will get wet soon."
The woman looked at the man timidly, and when he nodded, she stood up tremblingly.
When Qin Wen led them to the fire, Tian An and the others were already there roasting themselves.
Seeing them coming, Deng Xue hurried forward and asked them to sit down.
Tian An then asked Ye Zi to fetch a few steamed buns from the grain wagon and placed them in front of them. He said, "My guard didn't mean to frighten you. I apologize on his behalf. You must be starving! We're out in the wilderness, and there's nothing good to eat. I can only treat you to some steamed buns."
Eat as many steamed buns as you want. If you don’t have enough, I’ll send someone to get more. I’ll make sure you’re full.”
The three of them were stunned, looking at the plump but slightly hard steamed buns in front of them and were hesitant to take action.
Tian An saw this and looked at them with a smile, "Why don't you eat? Didn't you say you were starving?"
"Oh! Eat, eat. Thank you, ma'am! We'll eat it now." The woman hurriedly picked up a steamed bun, put it to her mouth and took a bite.
Then she cried out "Ouch!" and took out the steamed bun with the teeth marks in her mouth, "Why is this steamed bun so hard?"
Tian An said as if it was a matter of course: "It's cold! The steamed buns will be frozen solid."
He looked at her with a puzzled look on his face, "Where is your hometown, sister-in-law? Don't the steamed buns freeze hard in winter there?"
The woman was stunned and stammered, "I, this is the first time I've eaten such delicious steamed buns! I thought, I thought steamed buns were all soft and delicious, I forgot, I forgot that."
Tian An nodded, "So that's how it is!" Then he pointed to the fire in front of him and said, "Then put the buns on the fire and let them warm up! They'll become soft when they're hot."
"Yes, yes, they will become soft after baking. Let's bake them now, bake them now." The woman said and quickly put all the buns in the basket next to the fire to bake.
Ye Zi volunteered, "Then you guys light the fire quickly, and I'll help you turn the buns over to prevent them from getting burnt."
Tian An's eyes turned and fell on the child beside the woman. "Is this your sister-in-law's child? How old is he this year? What's his name?"
The woman pulled the child over to Tian An and said, "This is my son, Chunsheng, he's ten years old." Then she tugged at the child and said, "Chunsheng, hurry up and call for help."
"Auntie." Chunsheng spoke in a hoarse voice and timidly.
"What's wrong with Chunsheng's voice? It doesn't look like it's natural!" Tian An looked at Chunsheng in surprise.
At this point, the woman began to explain, wiping away tears. "When this child was little, he followed some other children to play in an abandoned house behind the village. Somehow, the house caught fire. When he was rescued, he couldn't speak. After a long period of treatment by a doctor, he was able to speak again, but his voice had changed. "
Tian An's eyes flashed with sympathy: "Chunsheng is a very well-behaved child. He's been hungry for a long time. When my sister-in-law told him that he couldn't eat the steamed buns yet, he just waited obediently. If it were another child, he would have cried and complained."
Hearing this, the three of them looked a little unnatural. The woman quickly echoed Tian An's words and said, "This child used to be naughty, but he became a bit stubborn after accompanying us on our escape these days."
Seeing that the topic had come to this, Tian An asked with concern: "How long have the sisters-in-law been out? How is the disaster situation over there?"
"We have been out for more than a month. When we first left, our houses and fields were all destroyed. We didn't have a single grain of food, so we followed everyone else to escape." The woman covered her face with her sleeves and choked with sobs.
Tian An comforted him with a few words at the right time, then looked at the man who had been silent for a long time, "I guess this big brother is a capable person.
Even without a grain of food, he was able to take such good care of his sister-in-law and Chunsheng.
The other refugees are all skinny, but you look like ordinary people, hmm! You're just a little more haggard at best."
Upon hearing this, the three of them broke out in cold sweat even in the freezing winter.
The man forced himself to remain calm and said, "Just now, I was able to hunt some wild game in the mountains, and I could barely fill my stomach with a good meal. But now the weather is getting colder, and the wild animals in the mountains are hibernating. It's hard to hunt them anymore. We haven't been hungry for several meals."
"Ah! So this brother is a hunter! Then my husband and I are in the same business, what a fate!" He looked at Zhao Yiming and said, "Isn't that right?"
"Yes, it is indeed fate." Zhao Yiming nodded, and then talked to the man about hunting.
Tian An turned around and pointed at the steamed buns that were already baked to a golden brown color and said, "Sister-in-law, these buns are baked, come and eat them!"
The woman was stunned and looked back at the steamed buns placed next to the fire, but she hesitated and was reluctant to start.
Seeing this, Ye Zi, who had been helping to turn the steamed buns, took one and stuffed it into her hand, "Sister-in-law, come and eat! This steamed bun smells so good."
She turned around and called the man again, then took one herself, broke off a piece, blew on it twice, and stuffed it into Chunsheng's mouth. "Brother, sister-in-law, just eat yourselves, I'll help you take care of Chunsheng."
By the time the two of them reacted, Ye Zi had already stuffed two steamed buns into Chunsheng's mouth.
"Chunsheng!" The two looked at Chunsheng, as if they wanted to say something but hesitated.
"Sister-in-law, what do you mean?" Seeing the two of them looking at her nervously while feeding Chunsheng, Ye Zi thought they were questioning her ability to feed Chunsheng well, and looked at them angrily.
"No, nothing?" They didn't dare to say that they were afraid that the steamed buns were poisonous, so they had no intention of really eating them. But if they didn't eat them now, they would be suspected, and they were suddenly in a dilemma.
At this point, the woman couldn't help but blame the man. Even if he wanted to get closer to them, he couldn't just casually ask for their food! Now, he had gotten himself into trouble.
What should they do? The man and the woman looked at each other and saw what was in each other's eyes.
In a place where no one could see, the woman patted Chunsheng on the back three times.
Then Chunxi, who had been standing obediently beside the woman, suddenly snatched the steamed bun from Ye Zi's hand. Regardless of Ye Zi's reaction, she ran to Tian An and said in a hoarse voice, "Pretty auntie, can I have you feed me?"
Tian An was stunned for a moment, then glanced at Zhao Yiming and said with a smile on his face: "Okay!"
As he said that, he was about to take the steamed bun from Chunsheng's hand.
However, just when Tian An's hand was about to touch the steamed bun, Chunsheng suddenly let go of the steamed bun in his hand, and the golden steamed bun immediately fell to the ground, covered with dust.
Then, a gleaming dagger slipped out from his sleeve. His innocent expression instantly turned ferocious, and his hoarse voice became even more terrifying like a ghost: "Go to hell!"
The sharp dagger stabbed straight towards Tian An's heart. As the dagger got closer and closer, Chunsheng's face was full of a bloodthirsty and flattering smile that showed he was determined to win.
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