Before leaving the kitchen, Ye Wenxue didn't forget to put two chickens in a cloth bag and hang them on the wheelbarrow, and then casually took two sheep.
There were still two wild boars in the kitchen that Baldy and Suiye had hunted the day before.
Since the wheelbarrow was already full, Ye Wenxue only took two chopped pig legs and piled them high on the wheelbarrow.
She slowly pushed her way to the spot where she had separated from Sanyuan and the others, and directly called out to Suiye, who was all muscle: "Get to work."
Suiye glanced at the cart full of things, then handed the rope binding two sheep to Su Jiu: "Make amends for your mistakes."
Su Jiu: "..." Speechless, she reluctantly agreed.
Ye Wenxue was about to leave with Sanyuan in her hand when she heard footsteps behind her. She turned around and glanced at the bald man who was following her with an embarrassed smile.
"Sister-in-law... no, well, Brother Ye, my mother and I have nowhere to go, do you think we could..." The bald man, carrying the old woman on his back, spoke hesitantly and breathlessly.
Ye Wenxue glanced at the old woman, then handed her a small bag of brown rice, saying, "Thank you for taking care of Sanyuan."
The bald man thought Ye Wenxue was going to take them with him and was about to cry tears of gratitude when Ye Wenxue shook her head: "I don't trust you, so let's part ways here."
The bald man was speechless for a long while before nodding dejectedly: "It's my duty, it's my duty."
The old woman remained silent with a smile until Ye Wenxue and the others had walked quite a distance away, at which point she finally sighed.
“It’s not easy for this young girl to raise a child alone, so let’s not trouble her. She even helped me by telling me that there were bad people in the cave and that I should find a place to hide. It’s all my fault for being old and useless; I almost got you into trouble.”
She claims she took care of Sanyuan, but she didn't actually do anything.
Seeing that the boy looked a bit simple-minded and silly, and resembled her Suinian when he was little, she took advantage of Suinian's slightly higher status in the mountain village to prevent the people in the cave who were bored from bullying Sanyuan, and also helped him grab food twice.
This little thing was easily forgiven by Sanyuan's mother taking her away from the cave.
The old woman didn't want to take the bag of brown rice, but... she was greedy and afraid of being hungry, so she shamelessly accepted it.
The bald man shook his head, following at a distance behind Ye Wenxue and her group, and said gently, "Mother, that's not true. If I hadn't been greedy for that one bite of food, you wouldn't have been locked up..."
"Zhang Suinian?" Ye Wenxue noticed the name keenly when she heard Sanyuan whispering about the bald man she had learned from the old woman.
...It sounds familiar, no, it looks familiar.
She thought for a moment, then unconsciously frowned.
Isn't Zhang Suinian a capable henchman of another rebellious force in the later part of the original book?
It should be noted that the rebel forces were almost comparable to the power that the male protagonist of the original book—the exiled prince—had taken over, which Prince Shuheng had been plotting for several years.
Zhang Suinian was no ordinary person, having gained the favor of a leader of a major rebel force.
I just don't know if this Zhang Sui Nian is the same as that Zhang Sui Nian.
"mother?"
Ye Wenxue came to her senses. Whether it was true or not, it had nothing to do with her and her children.
"By the way, where's the goose?" Ye Wenxue glanced at the two chickens hanging on the cart and suddenly asked.
The goose clearly came out with them, but it wasn't at Su's old residence, nor was it seen in the mountain village. Could it have been released?
That shouldn't be the case. Who would complain about having too much meat these days?
Sanyuan said weakly, "It ran away. When it saw me being captured, it originally wanted to save me, but when it saw that Master was also captured, it flapped its wings and flew away without looking back."
Su Jiu, struggling to move forward with two stubborn sheep in tow: "..."
This child could barely utter a few words in front of him, but became much more talkative as soon as he saw Ye Wenxue.
Sui Ye pushed the wheelbarrow with difficulty along the mountain path, glancing back at Ye Wenxue every now and then, and then at her empty waist, his expression momentarily confused.
Suddenly, Ye Wenxue asked Su Jiu, "When do you plan to go down the mountain? Isn't someone at home in urgent need of herbs?"
Su Jiu was still struggling with the stubborn sheep, and without looking up, he said, "Let's wait a little longer, until Sui Ye finishes helping you with the work. It's not very safe down the mountain right now, and I was thinking of teaching San Yuan some more herbal medicine knowledge."
Ye Wenxue paused for a moment: "He'll be coming down the mountain in the next couple of days. If you want him to give you a ride on his way, you should pack your things as soon as possible."
Sui Ye and Su Jiu stopped walking at the same time.
Suiye frowned and turned around abruptly: "I didn't say when I was going to go down the mountain!"
Su Jiuwei was slightly taken aback: "So fast? His injuries haven't even healed yet."
Ye Wenxue ignored Sui Ye and only said a few words to Su Jiu: "Find suitable herbs as soon as possible and heal his injuries quickly, in case he encounters danger after going down the mountain."
Su Jiu responded awkwardly.
Su Jiu knew perfectly well that Ye Wenxue was giving him a heads-up, telling him not to have any more doubts and to stop tampering with Sui Ye's wounds, considering that Sui Ye had come to rescue him.
Actually, even without Ye Wenxue bringing it up, Su Jiu planned to heal Sui Ye's wounds after returning from this trip.
After spending so many days together, he could tell that apart from the wild man being a bit simple-minded, arrogant, bad-tempered, domineering, and unreasonable, he was still kind-hearted.
There's no need for any pre-planned precautions.
Su Jiu agreed, but Sui Ye got angry after not receiving a response for a while.
He put the cart down on the ground, strode over to Ye Wenxue, looked down at her silently, and emphasized again:
"I never said I'd be going down the mountain these next few days!"
Ye Wenxue looked up and met his gaze, her voice calm: "Before we left the valley, I said I would send you down the mountain after I saved the person."
Fuming, Suiye ruffled her neatly combed hair in frustration: "I didn't agree!"
"So what?" Ye Wenxue told Sanyuan to rest under the tree, then raised an eyebrow at Suiye. "Have you forgotten that you didn't stay to work for me voluntarily? I forced you to submit by using force. What, are you addicted to working?"
Sanyuan looked left and right, and fearing that another fight was about to break out, he quickly pulled Su Jiu and led the sheep to hide under a tree in the distance to avoid being hurt.
Suiye clenched his fist, about to blurt out without thinking, "You know perfectly well that I..."
Ye Wenxue interrupted him: "Shut up and don't say things you shouldn't say. Anyway, you'll be going down the mountain sooner or later, so a few days earlier won't hurt."
Suiye covered his face in frustration, wanting to say something, but after a short silence, he took a step back: "I'll find some time to go down the mountain after I finish building the house."
Fearing Ye Wenxue's resolute refusal, Suiye feigned weakness and said, "There's more than one person down the mountain waiting to kill me. You don't want to find me severely injured by the lake again, do you?"
Ye Wenxue frowned.
She wasn't afraid that Suiye would get hurt again, but she was afraid that if he was seriously injured, it would attract enemies and implicate her and her children.
Ye Wenxue thought for a moment and reluctantly replied, "Whatever you say, but at the latest, after the house is built, if you don't leave by then, I'll use a broom to chase you away."
Sui Ye cautiously observed Ye Wenxue's cold and serious expression, and responded sullenly, inexplicably missing the willful and spoiled manner of Ye Wenxue when he coaxed the bald man.
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