Chapter 106: Meal on a Plate
"Don't I have a place to stay?"
Cen Yu put a hand on Zhao Erniu's shoulder.
"Are you serious?" Zhao Erniu kept staring at Cen Yu.
Cen Yu pouted, "Do I look like I'm joking?"
"That's fine. Cen Yu lives in the best house in the whole village. You're really lucky."
Lucky?
I hope so.
Jiang Cha will never forget the bite he gave her on the neck last year.
She kicked the box towards Cen Yu's feet.
Cen Yu looked at her.
Jiang Cha said arrogantly, "It's not like I won't give you money."
She rolled her eyes at Cen Yu.
Cen Yu reasonably suspected that this girl was seeking revenge for personal gain.
"Who is this girl? Why is she so arrogant?"
"She's from a wealthy family. Even with the fabric and money and tickets, you can't buy the clothes she's wearing."
"And the pair of leather shoes she's wearing, that style, I'm afraid you won't find a pair like it in the entire Northern Province."
"You've already gone to the countryside, but you still don't know how to behave? Sooner or later, you'll be used as a sitting duck."
The sour words gradually disappeared in Jiang Cha's ears.
Sitting target?
She was eager to become a sitting duck.
Jiang Cha carried his own small bag and used Cen Yu as a coolie.
Cen Yu felt like he had seen a ghost.
Obviously, I have a bad temper, but in front of Jiang Cha, I can't show my temper at all.
"Hello, Miss."
Cen Yu stared at Jiang Cha's back and said, "He's gone."
Jiang Cha turned his head and asked, "Why didn't you say so earlier?"
It really looked like I was meeting these two people for the first time.
Along the way, people kept greeting Cen Yu.
Ginger Tea responded from time to time.
This place looks pretty good, but Jiang Cha always feels weird.
Along the way, she rarely saw any lesbians.
Even in the educated youth centers, most of the people were gay men.
Cen Yu lived in a tiled house.
"I built this house with someone else. You came at the perfect time. The person I lived with fell off a cliff a few days ago. It's been two months and he hasn't come back. He's probably died. The vacant east room is perfect for you to live in."
As Cen Yu spoke, he moved Jiang Cha's things to the east wing.
Jiang Cha's heart moved, and she was about to ask something when she saw Cen Yu raise his eyebrows, put one hand on the door frame of the east wing, and look at her with a smile.
"Why aren't you coming in? Are you afraid I'll eat you, or are you afraid my neighbor will come back to life and look for you?"
Following the direction of Cen Yu's raised eyebrows, Jiang Cha saw a shadow passing by outside the door out of the corner of his eye.
What Chief Ji said was indeed true. Cen Yu had been targeted.
She followed Cen Yu's words and snorted coldly.
"There's no word 'fear' in my dictionary!"
She crossed her arms and went into the east wing.
Cen Yu made way for him, but was suddenly pushed out by Jiang Cha, and was kicked out of the room.
Jiang Cha closed the door with a snap and bolted it.
Leaning against the door, he looked down and found a note stuffed into his palm by Cen Yu.
There were only two simple words written on it: hunting.
Jiang Cha clenched the note again, picked up the match on the table, struck a flame, and burned the note to ashes while lighting the candle.
The sky here gets dark early and gets light early.
Jiang Cha looked around the room carefully in the dim light of the candle.
A large kang took up half the room.
In the cabinet at the end of the kang, there were two neatly folded quilts and a money box inside.
Jiang Cha took out the money box and opened it. The box was empty, without a single bill.
A thin layer of dust fell on the desk.
Jiang Cha opened the drawer and recognized Huo Jingchuan's pen at a glance.
There was a pen, letter paper, and an iron box next to it.
Jiang Cha took out the iron box and as soon as she opened it, tears started falling.
It's filled with little rabbits carved out of carrots.
It is sealed with a layer of transparent wax. Some parts have oxidized and turned black, but most of them still show the red color of carrots.
What's so good about her?
Is it worth him thinking about her so much?
Jiang Cha bit her arm, not daring to cry out loud.
The room was filled with traces of Huo Jingchuan's life.
His clothes, shoes, a first aid kit full of medicines.
When she opened the box, almost all the medicines she had prepared for him were there.
This means that Huo Jingchuan has been living here in good health, rarely getting sick or injured.
Only this time.
Just now, Cen Yu said that he fell off a cliff and his life or death is uncertain.
Is this the mountain that Cen Yu is going to tomorrow?
After Jiang Cha put all her things in place, her hand just touched the door handle when she heard a faint conversation coming from the next room.
"Boss, let me be honest. The girl who came today is really good. Are you really interested in her?"
"Nonsense, if I don't like her, can I bring her home?"
"You put her in the room that boy stayed in. Aren't you afraid that she'll figure it out and get scared away?"
"If she were so timid, I would really look down on her."
Cen Yu fiddled with the crossbow on the table.
When he went into the mountains to hunt, he relied on this thing and the hunting rifle he assembled himself.
"I knew you like something exciting, Boss."
Jiang Cha felt ashamed after hearing this. Cen Yu plays a bully?
It's completely a natural performance, no skills are required at all.
The next morning, Jiang Cha got up early and changed into clothes suitable for climbing. He hid all his equipment inside his clothes so that no one could see it from outside, and then he opened the door.
Behind Cen Yu, there was a group of younger brothers, one of whom was Zhao Erniu, who drove a ox cart to pick her up at the station yesterday.
There were more than a dozen people in the group, and Jiang Cha was the only woman.
The gazes of those men on her made her feel particularly uncomfortable. Jiang Cha stood beside Cen Yu.
Cen Yu glanced around, and all the malicious looks on Jiang Cha disappeared in an instant.
"Boss, we're going to the mountains today. There are many ferocious beasts there. You're bringing a delicate little girl with you. Isn't this holding us back?"
Cen Yu raised his hand and pulled Jiang Cha's shoulders into his arms.
"How about I not go anymore and you guys go by yourselves?"
Those who hold opposing views suddenly stop talking.
Are you kidding? If Cen Yu doesn't go, even if this large group of people goes into the mountains, they may not be able to catch anything.
Zhao Erniu knocked the man on the forehead and said, "This is my future sister-in-law. Can you guys be a little more discerning?"
"What sister-in-law?" Jiang Cha shook her shoulders and came out of Cen Yu's arms. "Did I agree?"
Cen Yu was disliked by her, but he was not annoyed. "I just like the way you are so energetic, so hot."
Ginger tea: “…”
She seriously doubted that this guy was not acting at all.
The place they were going to was the mountain behind Dongfeng Village.
The weather is getting colder and there are fewer prey going out.
But Cen Yu has his own way of hunting.
He made his way inside, setting traps along the way.
There are small traps for catching pheasants and rabbits, as well as large traps for catching big guys like wild boars.
Ginger tea was like someone who came out specially to play with you, looking at this and that.
The snow that had accumulated a few days ago in the mountains had not melted yet. They walked all the way into the mountains, leaving behind a long trail of footprints that stretched as far as the eye could see.
Jiang Cha was carrying a backpack on her back. She didn't talk to anyone, and with Cen Yu protecting her, no one dared to ask her what the backpack was for.
Until he saw Jiang Cha taking advantage of Cen Yu and a group of brothers setting a big trap, pushing away a piece of snow, picking wild flowers and throwing them into the backpack.
Zhao Erniu is the only one among this group of people who can talk to Jiang Cha.
He squatted beside Jiang Cha and asked curiously, "Why did you pick this? It's just a wild flower. You can't eat it or drink it."
Jiang Cha looked at him dimly, "Coltsfoot flower can cure diseases."
Zhao Erniu looked surprised.
"Jiang knows, can you cure the disease?"
"Um."
"Come, let me help you."
Zhao Erniu got excited and grabbed a handful of them.
Jiang Cha pulled the backpack to the side.
"The buds of coltsfoot are used as medicine."
"Ah?" Zhao Erniu took a look at the flower he had pulled up by the roots, chuckled, pinched the bud awkwardly, and threw it into the ginger tea basket.
"Doctor Jiang, then you..."
Jiang Cha didn't want to listen to his nagging, so she picked up her backpack and went somewhere else.
The traps that Cen Yu set this time were a bit big, with three in a row, and it took longer to set than other traps.
Jiang Cha saw the jujube tree that Chief Ji had told her about.
It is winter now and all the leaves on the trees have fallen, but the faint knife marks at the roots are still there.
Jiang Cha's ability to identify plants is beyond that of ordinary people. This jujube tree is the information that Cen Yu once sent back.
She raised her watch and checked the time.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, Cen Yu stood in the direction of the setting sun.
The place where Huo Jingchuan disappeared was at the eight o'clock direction of the jujube tree, to the right of Cen Yu, on the top of the slope behind him.
Jiang Cha stared at the hill for a long time, then walked towards it step by step.
"where did you go?"
Cen Yu was cutting bamboo and looked up and asked her.
Jiang Chatou didn't even turn around, "There are cassia seeds there."
Zhao Erniu trotted over, a look of surprise on his face.
"Boss, I just found out that Jiang knows the truth and is a doctor!"
"Really?" Cen Yu was particularly surprised.
"I didn't even know about this!"
He handed the task to Zhao Erniu and said, "I'll go ask her. Why did she only tell you about such an important matter and not me?"
As Cen Yu said this, he happily caught up with Jiang Cha.
That attentive look was simply unbearable to look at.
"Jiang Cha, don't you know what I think of you? In front of me, you can't even say a word, so why are you so talkative to Zhao Erniu?"
"You didn't ask!"
Ginger Tea continued to move forward.
Climb that steep slope with a clear purpose.
Zhao Erniu was a little nervous.
"Uncle Hu, why did she go there? What if..."
"Why are you panicking? Didn't Cen Yu go with them?"
Hu Zi is calm and composed.
She’s just a little girl, what can she achieve?
What's more, the last person who trespassed there might have even had his body become a meal for the wild wolves.
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