*Gurgle...* Yan An's stomach growled at an inopportune moment. "Hehehe, I got up too early, I'm a little hungry."
"Let's rest and eat something before looking for other secret doors." Yue Xiyuan held Yan An's hand and sat down to wait for the two of them to restore the graveyard they had just left.
"Alright." Su Jingzhan patted the dust off his clothes.
"Senior brother, you hold Qi Hongchen's hand." Yan An gestured for Su Jingzhan to take Qi Hongchen's hand.
"What? How can two grown men like us..." Su Jingzhan hadn't finished speaking when he met Yue Xiyuan's cold, stern eyes. "I'll hold your hand, I'll hold your hand, it's just holding hands..."
Yan An and Yue Xiyuan intertwined their fingers, and Yan An pulled on Su Jingzhan's sleeve. With a flash of his consciousness, he went to his spatial dimension. "Welcome to my secret place. Please feel free."
Yan An trusts anyone she approves of completely, but if there is even the slightest betrayal, her poison will kill them silently, with no cure. She is not worried about anyone leaking her secrets, nor is she afraid that they will pose any threat to her.
Qi Hongchen looked around. This was a world he had never seen before. He figured the princess must already consider him one of her own. He would definitely protect this secret with his life.
"Hongchen, come here quickly, I'll show you some good things." Su Jingzhan had been here once before and knew the way well, finding Tianshan Water and Tianshan Snow Green. He took a winnowing basket and picked a lot of them.
Qi Hongchen heard Su Jingzhan calling him from outside and hurriedly went out. He was stunned by what he saw. The rich aroma of Tianshan water filled his nostrils. "This...this...this is Tianshan water?"
"That's right, isn't my junior sister amazing? Others risk their lives to obtain the water from Tianshan, but my junior sister seems to have an inexhaustible supply." Su Jingzhan said proudly, "Hongchen, let me tell you, my junior sister brought you in because she considers you one of her own. You can't be ungrateful and act like a villain, otherwise I, Su Jingzhan, will be the first to not let you off the hook."
"When have I, Qi Hongchen, ever been that kind of person? You can put your mind at ease; you'll never see that in your lifetime." He and Yue Xiyuan had been like brothers since childhood; how could he betray them?
"Not even in the next life."
"Okay, I won't in my next life either."
Yan An listened to their conversation from inside the room, a genuine smile playing on her lips. "I never expected my senior brother to have such a serious side."
"Su Jingzhan is a reliable person when things are going well, but he's also the most unreliable person when things are going well."
Yan An took two glass jars out of the cabinet and walked outside. "Don't pick so many, these things won't last long."
"It's alright, junior sister, I'll dry them and keep them." Su Jingzhan leaned closer to Yan An and secretly told her, "That stingy Xiyuan will definitely not let me come by myself. If I don't pick enough this time, I don't know when I'll be able to come back next time."
When Su Jingzhan saw Yue Xiyuan approaching, he quickly turned around and continued picking the fruit, pretending that he hadn't said anything, as if he wasn't the one who had just spoken ill of Yue Xiyuan.
"What are you standing there for? Hurry up and pick them!"
Su Jingzhan looked at Qi Hongchen, who was standing there dumbfounded, and thought, "It's better to rely on yourself than on anyone else."
Yan An and Yue Xiyuan returned to the house, intending to take out the food they had prepared to fill their stomachs, when they noticed a square water dispenser nearby. "When did it come out?" they wondered.
Yue Xiyuan recalled what had just happened, "It wasn't there before, but it was here when I came in." Yue Xiyuan was also a little puzzled, as it seemed that every time he came in, something would change and be added.
Yan An touched the water dispenser, but couldn't open it; it was sealed up and there was no power cord, just like the equipment in her lab. She had wondered before how the equipment got power when there wasn't even a socket in the space, but she stopped thinking about it. Since there was no power cord, it obviously didn't need electricity. As long as it worked, that was fine...
Yan An took out a cup, filled it with water, and smelled it carefully. It was water from Tianshan! This bracelet really shows great care. You know, she used to boil water in her alchemy furnace before.
Yan An opened the cabinet, revealing a dazzling array of food, all prepared by Bai Lan yesterday. Yan An took out the meal and handed it to Yue Xiyuan, when he suddenly noticed a long-unseen instant noodle in the cabinet next to him...
"It's instant noodles!" Yan An opened two boxes, quickly tore open the packaging, and made one for herself and one for Yue Xiyuan. The aroma was one she had been longing for.
Did you know that instant noodles were something we desperately wanted to eat as children, but our parents wouldn't let us? And now that we're grown up, we don't want to eat them, but we have to eat them every day—a kind of spiritual sustenance for working people?
Of course, Yan An doesn't have this kind of trouble in modern times. Although she didn't inherit her parents' billions of assets, her parents didn't mistreat her. Every month, the lawyer would transfer 500,000 yuan to Yan An's account. She just rarely eats junk food because of her poor health, so she is always a little envious when she sees others eating it.
"Junior sister, what kind of meal did you make? It smells so good!" The two of them had picked almost all the Tianshan snow greens outside, and Su Jingzhan came in following the aroma.
"This? Instant noodles, do you want some?"
"Yes, yes, yes." The food in Yan An's hands was extremely delicious, the kind of food he had never tasted before.
Yan An took out two more boxes from the cabinet and made one for each of Su Jingzhan and Qi Hongchen, saying, "They'll be ready to eat in a bit."
Yan An took out a tea set she had prepared earlier from the cabinet, filled a pot with hot water, took some tea leaves picked by Su Jingzhan, and brewed a pot of Tianshan Snow Green tea.
"Junior sister, this is really delicious. Can I come and eat here often in the future?" Su Jingzhan was becoming increasingly presumptuous.
As Qi Hongchen listened to Su Jingzhan's audacious words, he couldn't help but silently pray for him, hoping that he could "die" peacefully.
"You really want to come?" Yue Xiyuan swallowed a mouthful of instant noodles. It was indeed good, and the key was that it was very convenient. You could eat such delicious food in less than half an incense stick's time.
“Of course, Junior Sister has so much delicious food…” Su Jingzhan suddenly remembered that it was Yue Xiyuan who had just asked him. Oh no… How could he have blurted out the truth? “Hehehe, of course I can only come because Xiyuan told me to.”
Su Jingzhan planned to shut himself up with delicious food, but it really was true that the more he said, the more mistakes he would make.
"An'an, try this." Yue Xiyuan picked up a piece of meat and put it in Yan An's bowl.
"Yue Xiyuan, try this." Yan An picked up a piece of fish and put it into Yue Xiyuan's mouth.
During this meal, Su Jingzhan and Qi Hongchen ate quite a bit of dog food, consuming about the same amount of food as usual, yet they were unusually full.
After the meal, Yan An and the other two drank tea to cleanse their stomachs, while Qi Hongchen drew the first hidden cave they had discovered that day.
"I never expected Qi Hongchen's drawing skills to be so exquisite." Yan An looked at the lifelike drawings Qi Hongchen had created. Holding these few sheets of paper, it would be hard to find them anywhere else.
“Hongchen’s painting skills are so good that even our teachers are impressed. There is probably no one in the four countries who is better than him,” Yue Xiyuan said without any exaggeration.
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