Chapter 51 The inexplicably awkward atmosphere was a little subtle for a moment, ...
The atmosphere suddenly became awkward. Qi Buchen shifted his gaze uncomfortably, lowered his hand unhappily, and lightly nudged Yinzhen: "What are you looking at? Look around."
She pounded her leg pretentiously: "I'm tired, let's find a place to rest for a while."
Yinzhen was also somewhat uneasy with the subtle atmosphere. He coughed lightly and stood up straight. Following Qi Buchen's imaginary push, he turned sideways, looked around, and then pointed to a place: "That's it."
Then he tilted his head and looked at Qi Buchen inquiringly: "Are you tired? How about getting on a horse and strolling over there?"
Qi Buchen didn't know what he was thinking, so he reflexively refused, "No need, it's not far, let's go together."
Yinzhen didn't try to persuade them. As they walked side by side, silence fell for a moment. This sudden silence slowly turned into an awkward one. They both seemed to be staring straight ahead, but in reality, their peripheral vision occasionally darted at each other. They'd been brewing a thousand topics in their minds, but they always felt a lack of energy, unable to bring themselves to speak.
When they arrived at the agreed place, their eyes met, but they separated immediately.
Qi Buchen looked back in the direction they came from without any reason and muttered, "I wonder if they're going in the wrong direction."
After hearing this, Yinzhen thought about it seriously: "It shouldn't be. The land here is endless and we are not running fast, so we shouldn't lose them." However, when he looked in the direction of Qi Buchen's sight, he found that although he could see some fuzzy black spots, he couldn't tell who was who.
He simply called Lin Changqing over and said, "Take two people and go back to look for them. If you find them, bring back some important things first, and leave one person to lead the way."
After receiving the order, Lin Changqing ordered two guards to rush away.
Silence fell between the two of them again. Qi Buchen didn't want to experience this strange awkwardness again. She thought hard for a while, her eyes lit up, and she found a topic to talk about. "Oh, I forgot to tell you. I got the news yesterday that Princess Li Jia from the Crown Prince's house is pregnant."
Yinzhen raised his eyebrows slightly in surprise, then nodded: "I understand." There was no more expression on his face.
Qi Buchen held his breath and thought, "Is it easy for me to find a topic? Well, you just ended it with a single word: 'I know.' Well, if others don't feel embarrassed, why should I? I, a twenty-first-century otaku, can't outlast you? Humph!"
After complaining in her heart, she felt that she was not so embarrassed anymore. She ignored Yinzhen and just looked around, immersing herself in the grassland scenery that she had been seeing for more than ten days.
No one knew what Yinzhen was thinking, and surprisingly, he didn't say a word.
It was not until Lin Changqing and a guard came back with a few things that Yinzhen asked, "Are you hungry? I'll ask them to hunt some game. We'll be ready to cook when the rest of the people get here." They had brought all the people and things with them on their trip, because they had to have a meal outside at noon, so they had a lot of cooks and various cooking equipment.
Qi Buchen nodded indifferently, sat down in the place prepared by Lin Changqing and Su Peisheng, and rested his chin on his hand in a daze.
The grassland scenery is really a bit boring.
Yinzhen sat opposite her and seemed to be in the mood for conversation. He asked curiously, "What are you thinking about?"
Qi Buchen propped up his chin and shook it slightly, looking into the distance and said, "I'm wondering if those monks and lamas are really capable of Taoism."
"Why do you suddenly think of this?" Yinzhen was surprised. He had never seen his wife interested in Buddhism before.
"Hmm." He had just said it casually, but remembering his previous desire to verify whether the original owner was still alive, Qi Buchen became more serious. "I want to tell my own fortune."
Yinzhen laughed and shook his head: "It's fine, what's the point of fate."
"Hmm." Qi Buchen pursed his lips, frowned slightly and shook his head. "How about telling my fortune? How long can I live? When will I become rich? Do I have children? Ah, how many children..."
She talked nonsense casually, and when she realized what she had said, she quickly shut her mouth, shrank her neck guiltily, and secretly looked at Yinzhen.
As expected, a suspicious pale pink flush appeared on Yinzhen's face. However, perhaps due to the practice he had done recently, he managed to feign composure and said, "Well, I do need to do a proper calculation. Many lamas are coming to see you this time, and some of them are quite famous. I'll invite them over to do your calculations tomorrow."
"Okay." Qi Buchen responded hesitantly.
Then, the two fell into silence again, but this time the silence made Qi Buchen feel guilty.
Feeling guilty, she impulsively stood up and rushed to her horse, saying, "It's a bit cold sitting here. I'll go back and look for them and warm myself up."
"Hey..." Before Yinzhen could stop her, he saw her riding away on the horse with nimble hands and feet. He could only angrily and amusedly remind her loudly, "Be careful!" Then he pointed to a few people and asked them to follow and protect her.
Qi Buchen didn't run far before he met a large group of people who were rushing on the road panting.
"Fujin." The man who was breathing heavily stopped to greet her, and the team was temporarily in disarray.
Qi Buchen couldn't bear to watch: "Get up, walk slowly, don't rush."
She turned her horse around and stopped running, instead walking at her usual leisurely pace. The others followed her and finally caught their breath.
It took them almost twice as long to get back to where Yinzhen was stationed. When they were still far away, Qi Buchen saw a bonfire lit there.
After reining in his horse and dismounting with the help of Yinzhen's hand, Qi Buchen asked curiously, "Why are you making a fire in broad daylight?"
Yinzhen smiled helplessly: "Didn't you say it was cold sitting there?"
"Uh..." Qi Buchen was even more speechless and argued in a low voice, "That's not enough to start a fire."
Yinzhen shook his head in amusement and said, "Even cooking requires fire."
Qi Buchen immediately looked at him suspiciously, wondering deeply whether this man was teasing her with what he just said.
Yinzhen seemed to sense her silent questioning and blinked innocently, but said nothing. Instead, he leisurely walked to the side and directed the servants to set up the site. After working for a while, he found Qi Buchen still standing there glaring at him. He shook his head in amusement and waved her over: "Come."
Qi Buchen walked over with reluctance on his face: "What are you doing?"
"Look? Look? What do you want to eat?" Yinzhen pretended not to see her expression and pointed at the ingredients he brought.
Qi Buchen took a quick look and found that it was nothing but meat. For some reason, he pursed his lips and complained, "I'm tired of eating meat every day. I want to eat vegetarian food."
Yinzhen was truly helpless upon hearing this, and coaxed him in a tone that would comfort a child: "Don't make a fuss, where can you find this now?"
It's been almost two months since we left. Even if we had brought some vegetables with us, they wouldn't have been good enough for now. And on this grassland, where could we find fresh vegetables to replenish our supply? Fu Jin's request was truly unreasonable.
Qi Buchen blushed a little after she finished speaking. She knew she was being unreasonable, so she didn't want to argue and quickly said, "I remember we have some dried mushrooms. Let's make a soup with them. Just skim off the oil."
This request wasn't excessive. Yinzhen himself didn't like greasy soups, so he nodded in agreement and then asked, "Anything else?"
Qi Buchen shook his head and said, "It's nothing. Let them watch and cook. It's okay as long as it's not greasy. We're doing it outside, so don't make too much. It's troublesome."
After finishing the meal and packing up, Qi Buchen asked, "Do you still want to go out?"
Yinzhen looked at the people behind him carrying things on their shoulders and in their hands, and shook his head: "Forget it, they can't keep up. Let's go around and walk back slowly."
Qi Buchen frowned and hesitated for a moment, then suggested: "We've already eaten, so we can go back to the camp directly after dinner. There's no need for them to follow us. Why don't we let them go back first?" She had just discovered the new fun and wanted to run happily for a while, but she couldn't bear to let so many people chase her with their two legs.
Yinzhen hesitated for a moment and agreed: "Okay?"
After instructing the logistics personnel who could not ride horses to go back on their own, and asking Lin Changqing and others to take some necessary items, Qi Buchen and Yinzhen kicked the horse's belly and ran happily.
The feeling of the wind blowing across his cheeks was so wonderful that Qi Buchen's eyes were full of smiles. He even couldn't control the urge in his heart and wanted to sing the magical song "Dang" from the legendary drama "My Fair Princess".
Let us be companions in the world, live carefree and unrestrained, gallop on horseback, and share the prosperity of the world...
The climax that could come as soon as she opened her mouth turned around several times in her mind, but when she thought of Yinzhen who was following her, she rationally suppressed the desire to sing that rushed to her throat.
Glancing sideways, Yinzhen happened to be looking over, and the two smiled at each other. After their eyes parted, they both said "Gee," and they couldn't help but stare at each other again, then laughed happily.
Running for a while and resting for a while, Yinzhen always kept the rhythm in check and didn't let Qi Buchen lose his composure.
But even so, after galloping on horseback for more than half an hour, Qi Buchen still felt a faint burning sensation on the inside of his thigh.
She frowned and slowed down the horse. Yinzhen noticed something was wrong with her and approached her slightly and asked, "What's wrong?"
"It seems like the skin has been rubbed off." It was difficult to describe the inner thigh, so Qi Buchen was vague about the subject. However, Yinzhen had been paying attention to this matter, so he understood immediately. "Does it hurt?" He glanced in the direction of the camp. "It's not far away. Can you make it back?"
Qi Buchen nodded and said, "It should be fine if I walk back slowly."
"That's fine." Yinzhen breathed a sigh of relief. Fu Jin's skin was too tender. Even with all the care, it still got rubbed. Thinking this, he sent someone back to ask the imperial physician for medicine.
Qi Buchen stopped him: "No need, the ones I prepared before haven't been used yet."
On the first day she said she wanted to learn horse riding, Yinzhen asked someone to prepare a bunch of medicine for her, but because her progress was slow, the medicine was of no use at all.
Yinzhen also remembered this and did not insist. The two of them slowly walked back to the camp. Yinzhen accompanied Qi Buchen to the place where men were allowed to go before stopping, and gave him detailed instructions on a lot of things.
Qi Buchen found his nanny-like behavior very funny, and finally used the excuse of "pain" to escape from Yinzhen's evil voice early.
When I got home to take a look, I found that the skin was not broken, it was just a red area with a few blood spots. I applied some topical medicine and it didn't hurt so much anymore.
Qi Buchen thought he would be well by the next day, so he just went to sleep.
Who knew that in the middle of the night I suddenly had diarrhea and couldn't close my eyes anymore. I just had to go to the toilet again and again.
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The author has something to say: I have to go back to the mountains tomorrow to burn paper for my grandparents. I don’t know when I can come back. It is likely that there will be no more updates.
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