Chapter 379 The Little Old Man Who Fell For
"Excellent! What a magnificent view of mountains and rivers!"
The next second, Li Rong pushed open the door and entered, looking travel-worn. His eyes shone brightly as he looked at Jiang Nuanzhi.
"Father!"
When Baozhu saw Li Rong, her eyes lit up and she ran happily towards him.
As the saying goes, fat doesn't disappear, it just moves. Little Baozhu, who used to be so thin and frail like a kitten, has now been fattened up by Jiang Nuanzhi and is quite plump. When she runs, the chubby little face trembles.
Jiang Nuanzhi was somewhat worried. Should she restrict the girl's food intake?
"Daddy's bad! He's eavesdropping on our conversation with Mommy!"
Baozhu threw herself into Li Rong's arms, pouting as if she was angry.
Li Rong hurriedly wiped the mud off his hands and then picked up his daughter. There was no trace of guilt on his face, but he still looked up and laughed, "If it weren't for this, how could I have heard your mother say such things? Li Rong is ashamed of himself."
As she spoke, she held her daughter in her left arm and picked up the basket in her right hand, walking up to Jiang Nuanzhi and saying, "I found the coltsfoot flower you wanted. Here are also red peony root, white peony bark, saposhnikovia root, and astragalus root, from the place you mentioned earlier. I didn't expect to find all of them on this one trip. Do you think these might be useful?"
From the moment he entered, Jiang Nuanzhi's eyes were fixed on the basket. She was pleasantly surprised and immediately examined it closely: "It works! Everything works! You guys are really something, you actually found it! This should last us for a while."
Then, with a hint of confusion, she asked, "Where's the old man? Didn't you go after him? It's been so long, why hasn't he come back?"
Upon hearing this, Li Rong raised an eyebrow: "Hasn't he returned yet? I saw him on the mountain. His basket was fuller than mine. He was saying he wanted to have a competition with me. He was determined to dig up more herbs before bringing them back. While I was still digging for herbs, I saw him already carrying his basket back."
Jiang Nuanzhi frowned immediately: "I didn't see anyone. Children, did you see your Grandpa Jing?"
The children shook their heads repeatedly. Fu Man said, "Aunt Nuan, I've been home all day and haven't seen Grandpa Jing come back."
Jiang Nuanzhi's eyelids started twitching inexplicably.
When he woke up in the morning, the old man heard himself say that there weren't enough medicinal herbs, so he volunteered to go out and collect herbs, carrying a basket on his back.
Jiang Nuanzhi couldn't stop them, so she simply told them exactly where it was in the mountains. The old man went out with great interest.
Now that it's getting dark, and it's freezing outside, people will freeze if they stay too long.
The old man wasn't one to suffer much, and besides, he hadn't even come back for lunch, so Jiang Nuanzhi felt something was wrong. It's already this late, why haven't we seen him yet?
"Anuan, don't worry, I'll go and take another look."
Seeing Jiang Nuanzhi's furrowed brows, Li Rong patted his hand to comfort him, then put down his things and prepared to leave.
Chi Heng had been listening intently the whole time, and immediately rushed downstairs, saying, "I'm going too."
"You two stay here and protect your sister-in-law and the children." He said this while instructing Sun Wen and Chen Shu behind him before following Li Rong out the door.
Seeing his furtive appearance, Li Rong couldn't help but frown: "If you're going to stay home, just stay home. Why are you acting like a thief?"
As Chi Heng walked, he rolled his eyes, thinking to himself, "If he hadn't been eavesdropping, he wouldn't have known that you could be such a sycophant."
He even said he felt ashamed of himself, which really made his teeth ache.
Chi Heng thinks your sister-in-law is quite formidable. From any perspective, it's best to avoid contact with her.
The next second, Jiang Nuanzhi also came out dressed.
Li Rong subconsciously reached out to shield her from the wind and snow: "Anuan, it's getting late, you can just wait for me at home."
Jiang Nuanzhi shook her head, frowned slightly, and said, "I keep feeling my eyelids twitching, I have a bad feeling, let's go together."
Upon hearing this, Chi Heng shuddered and quickly distanced herself from Jiang Nuanzhi, watching her with great vigilance.
Jiang Nuanzhi was a little confused, glanced at him, but didn't seem to care much.
He quickly went out the door.
In fact, although Changshan Mountain on the opposite side completely surrounded the village, it was not without its flaws.
When Li Rong and the old man went out, they chose a place with weak defenses and knocked two of them unconscious.
The same method was used today; once they left the village, they quickly headed into the woods.
The snowfall today wasn't heavy. It's gradually stopping now. Finding someone in the snow isn't difficult; wherever someone has walked, footprints will be left. Even in the mountains and forests, as long as they're not buried by snow, finding someone isn't difficult either.
Upon seeing footprints on the road, Li Rong and Jiang Nuanzhi exchanged a glance and quickly followed in the direction of the footprints.
"Hey, aren't you two tired? Slow down, slow down!"
Chi Heng ran alongside, complaining, "I don't know what he's worried about. He's the renowned Grand Preceptor of the Great Jing Dynasty. Could anyone possibly hurt him?"
After chasing for a while, Chi Heng stopped in a daze, realizing that something was wrong.
He looked ahead in near terror.
etc……
Can someone tell him why this young woman is moving so quickly?
She didn't even complain of being tired once, despite running for so long.
He was even more agile than I was.
Looking at that slender figure with a face spanning several thousand square meters, a bunch of question marks flashed through Chi Heng's mind.
So, is she a young lady or a tough soldier?
Look over there!
Upon hearing Jiang Nuanzhi's voice, Li Rong and Chi Heng instinctively looked in the direction she was pointing.
"That should be it!" Li Rong said as he quickly stepped forward.
Chi Heng spat out the grass clippings she was holding in her mouth and quickly followed after her.
Deep in the woods, behind a large tree, the old man who had been so imposing and energetic that morning was now slumped in the snow. The thick snow had buried half of his body.
The herbs from the basket in his hand were scattered all around.
His face was bluish-purple, as if a palette had been smeared on his face, and his lips were swollen like two large sausages. His eyes were closed, as if he were unconscious, but his legs would twitch from time to time.
"Old man!"
Jiang Nuanzhi was startled, her heart leaped into her throat, and she ran to the old man as fast as she could to take his pulse.
"Sister-in-law, what's going on? Tell me!" Chi Heng was pacing anxiously beside her.
(End of this chapter)
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