Chapter 411: A tiger in troubled times is bullied by a chicken

the next day.

Qiao Xi woke up in the master bedroom, her eyes still half-closed and she was still half-conscious. After a while she realized that she was in the countryside. She touched the bed beside her and found it was already cold.

She frowned and thought about last night when she was half asleep and felt that Huo Xingzhou got up in the middle of the night.

He has no habit of getting up at night.

Qiao Xi changed her clothes and walked out of the room. A cool breeze blew away all her sleepiness. She didn't see Huo Xingzhou and Lao Chen in the room, so she simply washed up and went to look for them.

As soon as I walked out of the yard, I saw Lao Chen standing next to the Lincoln.

"Old Chen."

Qiao Xi shouted.

"Madam, you are awake."

Qiao Xi walked closer, looked at him and said, "Are you alone? Where's the boat?"

"Young Master was called away by Aunt Chunhua, who said she had prepared some specialties from Moon Village for us to take back. Madam, breakfast is ready and is on the stone table in the yard. You can have some first."

"You haven't eaten yet? Then I'll wait for you guys."

Qiao Xi looked at the pile of fresh vegetables, country eggs, various dried goods, and a rooster that was clucking fiercely beside the car and said, "These things were sent by the villagers last night. Why did you take them out of the trunk?"

Old Chen smiled innocently: "I want to clean it up again."

"Then I'll help you."

"No! No!" Old Chen hurriedly stood in front of her and said, "Just leave these things to me, Madam, you don't have to do anything. Look, the young master is here!"

Qiao Xi turned around and looked over. Huo Xingzhou was holding a bulging plastic bag and a plate of hot cakes in his hands.

He handed the plastic bag to Lao Chen, then naturally took Qiao Xi's hand and walked into the yard.

"These are the breakfasts that Aunt Chunhua prepared for us. Old Chen has already cooked millet porridge in the morning." There is still some food stored at home, which can last for a while.

Huo Xingzhou took her to the stone table, got her a bowl of warm porridge.

Everyone in the village likes to set up a small stone table in the yard so they can have breakfast and dinner in the cool breeze in the summer evening.

Seeing how skilled he was, Qiao Xi couldn't help but laugh out loud: "You can survive in the countryside."

Huo Xingzhou took a sip from the bowl and said slowly, "As long as you want to live, you can survive anywhere."

"Did you go thiefing with Lao Chen last night?"

Qiao Xi stared into his eyes for a long time and said.

There were red bloodshot under his eyes, and Lao Chen's eye circles were dark blue, and it was obvious that he hadn't slept well.

It shouldn't have been an illusion last night, he really got up in the middle of the night.

Huo Xingzhou paused and said, "I'm not used to sleeping here, let's get up and walk around."

"Then I can come here by myself next time. You can stay in Haicheng."

"no."

Huo Xingzhou looked at her tenderly and said, "I will still come with you."

Qiao Xi curled her lips and said, "Hurry up and have breakfast. We'll go back to Haicheng as soon as possible after breakfast. You still have to work on the Future City project. Don't waste time here."

"good."

If we waste any more time, someone will die of pain.

Huo Xingzhou ate his breakfast leisurely. After finishing his breakfast, he tidied up the small yard casually before leaving.

Qiao Xi looked back at this familiar little house with mixed feelings. It held her memories for more than 20 years, but now everything had changed and no one would wait for her here.

"Let's go."

Qiao Xi held Huo Xingzhou's hand tightly.

"Um."

Old Chen opened the car door and said, "Master, Madam, please get in the car." He glanced at Huo Xingzhou and added, "I put everything in the trunk. Nothing is left behind."

Huo Xingzhou looked at him and understood what he meant.

Qiao Xi and Huo Xingzhou sat in the back seat. The smell in the car was mixed, so she immediately opened the window.

The black-feathered rooster seemed unhappy and was clucking in the trunk.

It also seems to have the taste of stinky mandarin fish and sour bamboo shoots.

"They are too enthusiastic." Qiao Xi said awkwardly, "Honey, does it make you uncomfortable to smell it?"

"will not."

Huo Xingzhou put his arm around her shoulders and said, "This is all from their good intentions. Food raised in the countryside is nutritious and healthy. Aunt Qian will definitely like it."

His little miracle doctor has a keen sense of smell.

If it weren't for all these things emitting various smells, she would definitely smell the blood.

Old Chen chuckled: "Young Madam, I particularly like sour bamboo shoots! I also love eating snail rice noodles the most. Have you ever tried it?" He stepped on the accelerator and the car drove away from Moon Village.

Qiao Xi shook her head: "I haven't tried it."

When she was in school, she would quicken her pace and hold her breath every time she passed by such a store.

Old Chen grinned and said, "That's a rare delicacy. You must try it if you have a chance. Although it smells bad, you can't stop eating it. I'm going to ask Aunt Qian to make a dish of bamboo shoots stewed with lamb and snail rice noodles for the jar of sour bamboo shoots in the trunk."

He thought it was delicious just thinking about it.

Good stuff!

Qiao Xi sniffed the particularly sour smell in the air and couldn't imagine what it smelled like.

I just think the taste of Lao Chen is quite strong.

Huo Xingzhou closed his eyes and pretended to sleep. He really didn't sleep well last night. Seeing this, Qiao Xi didn't say anything. She leaned in his arms and closed her eyes to rest quietly.

In the trunk.

It was dark.

Zhong Yi suppressed her anger and curled up in the narrow space!

Damn Huo Xingzhou, this is the way he came up with to bring him back to Haicheng!

There were fresh vegetables and various local specialties piled up around him. The smell of sour bamboo shoots in the small pot was so pungent that he felt like he couldn't breathe. In front of him was a rooster with its wings and claws tied up.

Its two green eyes look particularly majestic and ferocious.

Zhong Yi couldn't help but glare back.

“Cluck, cluck, cluck!”

The little rooster lowered his head and pecked his hair hard.

“Giggle!”

It pecked at his hair again and again as if it was searching for food.

"hiss."

Zhong Yi gasped in pain. He was really mad to death.

A gentleman can be killed but not humiliated.

Huo Xingzhou!

It's hard to believe that Huo Xingzhou didn't do it on purpose!

There were a lot of sour, smelly, and alive things in the trunk. The sour bamboo shoots and smelly mandarin fish had only appeared this morning. He also heard Lao Chen shamelessly asking the villagers for sour bamboo shoots.

How can there be such a thing in this world!

Zhong Yi was almost suffocating in the trunk, but he didn't dare to breathe deeply. The air he breathed in had an unbearable sour smell.

He made a note of Huo Xingzhou and Zhong Lingxiao respectively in his heart!

The car drove for a while, and what was even more terrible was that the mighty and domineering little rooster broke free from the straw rope and started to jump around in the trunk.

One claw stepped on Zhong Yi's handsome face.

He gritted his teeth, this was intolerable!

He grabbed the rooster by the legs, and the rooster clucked and clucked, making sharp, terrified noises, flapping its wings and slapping him a few times.

"yawn!"

He couldn't help but sneeze.

Qiao Xi woke up in shock and suddenly opened her eyes.