Chapter 017 Smoke Rising from the Foot of the Mountain
After returning to the ground, the places on Yang Zengyue's hands that were scratched by the branches had healed, so she didn't even notice it.
She was very confused: "Master, the bird's nest is much higher than in previous years. I remember that when I climbed the tree to get the eggs, I could find the nest halfway up the tree, but I only saw it when I was almost at the top."
Jiuxiao looked up at the lush old trees and noticed that their leaves were particularly moist this year. "Because the birds are as smart as Zengyue. To avoid being drowned by the floods, they build their nests higher in years with heavy rain. Birds also have a sense of crisis."
"So that's how it is!" Yang Zengyue got new knowledge.
She had also noticed these anomalies during the end of the world, but no one would tell her this common sense anymore.
After sending the little eagle back to its nest, the three of them went down the mountain directly after having a good rest.
It was dusk when I got home.
The sun set quickly in the mountains.
Yang Zengyue stared at the sunset for a long time and felt that this kind of peaceful beauty was the real gift from nature.
The sunset he saw before his death was beyond ordinary strangeness and magnificence. The appearance of that kind of sunset also foreshadowed the arrival of danger.
Jiu Xiao was puzzled: "Why, have you suddenly realized something about the sunset?"
Although he knew that she had experienced the baptism of the end of the world, he still could not understand her appreciation and desire for the natural world now.
Yang Zengyue pursed her lips and said, "It's not enlightenment, I just like this peaceful and tranquil feeling. During those seven years, whenever strange phenomena appeared in the sky, it indicated that a disaster was about to come."
Jiuxiao patted her and said, "Alright, what's coming will come naturally. There's no point in thinking too much. What we should be thinking about is how to build the project."
"Well, Jiaer and I are going to make dinner."
Yang Zengyue turned and went to the kitchen. She washed rice, Chen Jiaer lit a fire, washed and cut vegetables, and cooked all in one go.
The movements of both men's hands seemed very skilled, and it seemed that they were used to working with firewood.
In more than an hour, she stewed pork belly, fried eggplant boxes, sweet and sour spare ribs, and finally stir-fried beans and made a three-fresh vegetable soup. Her busy figure used all the earthen stoves and pots in the kitchen.
I tasted it after it came out of the pot and it seemed okay. At least my cooking skills have not become rusty.
Chen Jiaer was already drooling.
After the end of the world, she had only tasted Zengyue's cooking a few times, and she always remembered it.
Chen Jiaer said exaggeratedly: "Sister Zengyue, I want to eat three bowls of rice tonight!"
Yang Zengyue looked up, gazing at Chen Jiaer's apple-shaped face through the smoke, hoping that the years would always be this peaceful. A slight smile appeared on his face, "Okay, I'll make sure you're full."
Jiuxiao looked at the dishes on the table and frowned, but he didn't say anything. Instead, it was Yang Zengyue who noticed something was wrong first.
He patted his forehead and said, "Oh, Master, I was thinking about eating meat all the time, so the dishes tonight are all heavy flavors."
Jiu Xiao felt a little sad after hearing this: "You haven't eaten meat for a long time."
Chen Jiaer continued, "Hehe, it feels like I haven't smelled this kind of meat aroma in my entire life."
Yang Zengyue felt a little embarrassed.
I felt so embarrassed when my master exposed my predicament.
The big boss who hadn't had a quarrel for seven years in the apocalypse, who was always powerful wherever he went and whom no one dared to provoke, suddenly became like a child.
"Then eat more." Jiuxiao picked up a piece of braised pork ribs and gave it to Zengyue, and then picked up another piece for Chen Jiaer.
Chen Jiaer smiled sweetly: "Thank you, Master Jiuxiao."
Since Jiuxiao started practicing in Xingyun Temple, his diet has mainly been light, and he rarely eats oily and sweet foods.
Tonight, he planned to eat with the two girls who had endured seven years of inhuman torture.
Yang Zengyue took a bite and it was obvious that she had not lost her cooking skills. The food tasted as good as always.
"Hehe, tomorrow, we will return to the previous menu. Let me eat enough today." Yang Zengyue said incoherently.
The girl's clear voice echoed in the dining room. Jiuxiao shook his head, but still accompanied her to eat two bowls of rice.
Yang Zengyue ate heartily. She had just been sloppily eating during those few days at school.
She and Chen Jiaer were both very satisfied with the dinner. After the meal, they both burped several times in an unceremonious manner.
Jiuxiao felt helpless and distressed when he saw this.
Not wanting to see her unladylike appearance anymore, Jiuxiao went outside the yard.
He rubbed a black ring on his left thumb with his right hand, thinking about the end of the world that Zengyue had mentioned, and did not notice that the sky had darkened.
After cleaning up the dining room and kitchen, Yang Zengyue heard footsteps in the yard. He leaned against the door with his arms around his chest, not saying a word.
It was dark, and Yang Zengyue was worried that the master couldn't see the steps under his feet, so he turned on the street lights.
Jiuxiao was startled by the bright light before he came to his senses.
Yang Zengyue walked over and said, "Master, you don't have to worry about these things. I can build Sikun Mountain into an iron wall. It will become the safest place in Zhongwei."
She is very confident about this, as she knows clearly the thickness, height, load-bearing capacity and other data of the wall to be constructed.
She had participated in the construction of these buildings before. She was an excellent warrior who could fight, endure hardships, and had great strength.
"Well, I was thinking about other things."
"Oh, is this Xingyun Temple?"
Yang Zengyue smiled. In her previous life, she had not been able to guess the secret of Xingyun Temple. She only knew that Meng Chuyang took some things away from Xingyun Temple.
However, before she left Nanyuan for Zhaoqi Mountain, as an elder, she left a big surprise for Meng Chuyang.
The kind that could cause death, and he would be grateful to her! Humph, wanting to dig food out of her Yang Zengyue's mouth, without even considering how much he weighs.
As for being trapped in Zhaoqi Mountain, it was ultimately her own will.
Otherwise, she could have simply turned around and left, leaving the six thousand survivors behind.
However, if that happened, she would not be able to face her master and Master Xingyun.
Because the education she received since childhood is that the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility.
Her master passed away because of the end of the world, and she didn't want anyone else to suffer the same pain as her, losing a loved one.
Call her stubborn or stupid, it is the belief that keeps her moving forward.
Jiuxiao frowned: "Well, tomorrow I will look through the records of Xingyun Temple again. Maybe I missed something."
One of the points Zengyue said that he was very concerned about was that several groups of people had come to Sikun Mountain and headed straight for Xingyun Temple.
Moreover, someone took something away from Xingyun Temple in the end.
What was taken away?
"Master, when I came back, I got two swords, Jiusheng and Yichao, and a box of ancient books from the seat of Xingyun Patriarch."
She took the two knives away, and the ancient books were later lost. She finally found out that it was Meng Chuyang who stole them.
But without evidence and unable to testify face to face, she had to resort to the worst possible strategy.
Before she left Nanyuan for Zhaoqi Mountain, she found an opportunity to exchange the Xingyun ancient book from Meng Chuyang.
In the end, the Xingyun ancient books and she were reduced to ashes.
Jiuxiao knew about the two knives: "Well, the things are indeed there, but there is one thing you probably didn't get."
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