Chapter 22: Changes in Attitude
When Xiao Jin raised his head, he saw that she had taken off all her clothes except for a small piece of clothing, and her slender waist suddenly appeared before his eyes.
Xiao Jin's eyes deepened. This was the second time she had taken off her clothes in front of him without any scruples. Didn't she have any sense of shame?
Does she really think of him as her husband?
"Are you also so careless in front of others?"
Su Ying moved without any pause. She hung all the wet clothes on the branches she picked up, used the roots of plants to tie the longer branches into a tripod, and then placed them next to the fire to roast.
"Take off your pants quickly so I can see the wound on your foot." Su Ying didn't think too much about the meaning of his words. She just wanted to get things settled quickly and then sit down and eat meat properly!
Xiao Jin's face was tense, and he felt that he couldn't talk normally to this woman.
"Do you have any medicine on you?"
"Yes, they were all wrapped around my body, and they didn't fall off when I dropped them."
"Then give me the medicine and I'll take care of it myself."
Su Ying thought about it, and then put the medicine bottle in front of him, "First check if the wound on your foot is red, swollen, or festering. If there is rotten flesh, apply medicine quickly."
Xiao Jin took the medicine and responded calmly.
Su Ying returned to the fire and sat down, turning the barbecue on the fire rack. She suddenly remembered that when they were chatting casually before, He Shouyi told her that if she wanted to roast the meat deliciously, it was best not to use an open flame, as the meat would have a strong smoky aroma. She could find a large leaf to wrap the meat, then wrap it with a layer of yellow mud and throw it into the fire. It would be ready to eat after half an hour of roasting.
Thinking of this, she stood up and walked out of the cave.
Before Xiao Jin could say anything, she disappeared.
When Su Ying returned to the cave with a handful of leaves, she found Xiao Jin sitting at the entrance of the cave, staring at her.
Su Ying asked doubtfully, "What are you doing here?"
Xiao Jin said expressionlessly: "The smoke is uncomfortable, come out and get some fresh air."
Su Ying did not doubt him and went into the cave holding the leaf.
After Xiao Jin saw her go in, he slowly moved his hands in as well, "Why did you get so many leaves?"
Su Ying said excitedly: "Try the beggar rabbit and beggar chicken that Uncle He taught me to make."
She took the chicken and rabbit off the rack and wrapped them in large leaves. Then she wrapped the leaves with the yellow mud she brought back. After she was done, she put the mud balls wrapped with meat into the fire to cook.
Su Ying sat by the side, slowly adding firewood, her eyes almost never leaving the fire.
Because the fire was burning so fiercely, not only the clothes but even Su Ying's hair was dried.
Su Ying stared at Xiao Jin while staring at the fire, "Have you treated the wound on your leg?"
Xiao Jin looked at her and nodded.
Su Ying looked at his calm features and suddenly felt something was wrong. She felt as if Xiao Jin's attitude towards her seemed to have softened a little.
Maybe it was because she bravely jumped off the rope bridge to save him, which moved him?
Su Ying felt that this possibility was very high. She did not think too much about it. She calculated that the time was almost up and used branches to take out the dried mud ball and smashed it and pulled it apart.
The moment the leaves were opened, a rich meaty aroma filled Su Ying's sense of smell.
Su Ying knocked several mud balls in a row, put a cooked rabbit and a chicken in front of Xiao Jin, and took out a piece of dry food from her pocket and gave it to him.
"This is yours, the rest is mine."
Su Ying saw that he was still looking at his mud ball, and frowned. After a mental struggle, she pushed a cooked rabbit in front of him and said, "I can only give you one more at most. No more."
Xiao Jin didn't need to eat so much, but seeing her painful expression, he accepted it without hesitation, "Okay."
Su Ying grabbed a rabbit leg and took a big bite without caring about the heat.
The chicken has been cooked to be very soft and glutinous, and even without any seasoning, it tastes particularly fragrant.
Compared with Su Ying's wolfing down of food, Xiao Jin's eating style was extremely elegant. He ate not slowly, but that didn't make people feel that he was anxious at all.
Xiao Jin didn't expect that the meat would be so delicious. After eating it with a mouthful of dry food, he felt that a lot of his strength had been restored.
After Su Ying devoured all the rabbits in a flash, she had them all in her stomach. She leaned against the stone wall and let out a breath of satisfaction.
"This day is really, comfortable."
Xiao Jin saw her leaning against the stone wall, her eyes barely open. He took a branch to make the fire smaller, then slowly moved closer to the cave entrance, where he could see the situation outside the cave first.
Su Ying was so tired that she fell asleep. In her dream, she was fighting zombies with a laser. She kept fighting until she was exhausted and no rescue came. Finally, she fell down exhausted. Before she fell, she seemed to see a figure walking towards her.
But he was facing away from the light, and she couldn't see him clearly even if she tried to open her eyes wide.
Su Ying snorted lightly and opened her eyelids, only to see Xiao Jin sitting at the entrance of the cave with his back straight. The golden light outside shone into the cave, enveloping his entire body in a halo of light.
Under the golden light, his eyebrows and eyes appeared more profound, and his nose, as straight as a distant mountain, was as three-dimensional as a sculpture. Even his profile from any angle was flawless.
After falling into the water yesterday, all the dirt on his face was washed away, and his skin exposed to the sun still had a light wheat color.
As if sensing her gaze, Xiao Jin slightly turned his dark eyes and looked towards her.
"woke up."
"Yeah." Su Ying didn't feel embarrassed at all about being caught peeking. She sat up neatly and circulated her Qi around. She instantly felt refreshed.
Su Ying looked at the situation outside the cave. It seemed that it had not rained since they came out of the water yesterday. "Do you know where the team will stay next?"
Xiao Jin stretched out his hand and tapped the ground, and Su Ying discovered that he had drawn a map on the ground with gravel.
"We should be at this location now." Xiao Jin pointed to a certain location on the map with a branch.
"And they crossed the bridge successfully yesterday and will settle in the dilapidated temple outside Yuecheng."
"By the time we get to Yuecheng, they must have gone far away." They are still deep in the mountains and don't know when they can get out.
“Where will they go next?”
Xiao Jin moved his fingertips and finally stopped at a red spot. "We want to meet up with them, but it's hard to chase them from behind. We can only walk ahead of them and wait. They can't take the official road, but we can after we get out. The prerequisite is that we have to find the nearest village first, let them take us into the city, and then take a car to Yunshui City."
Xiao Jin had been in the court for many years and knew that the officials escorting exiled prisoners would be supplied with dry food at designated locations. These designated locations were set up by the court and were fixed.
For a large team of several hundred people, dry food needs to be replenished every five days at the latest. According to the previous consumption rate, they will not last more than four days. After passing Yuecheng and reaching Yunshui City, there are no more supply points, so they can only go to Yunshui City.
Therefore, as long as they wait in Yunshui City, they will definitely wait for them.
(End of this chapter)
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