"Maybe," Kong Wenjie said slowly, his eyes falling from the mottled shadows of the trees to Fang Chengyin's heroic face. He was too busy to look away again, and he said again while spurring his horse. "But I never thought so. When I was a child, I saw my mother's bound feet. Her toes were deformed and twisted. She was so scared that she cried. My mother never dared to put her feet in front of me again. Later, my father died. My mother died with him. It was not because she committed suicide for my father out of love, but because there was a set of "Four Books for Women" in her dowry. This matter caused a sensation in our hometown at that time. The prefect was very moved. Later, he wrote to the court to ask for the title of heroine for my mother. Later, the prefectural government built a chastity arch for my mother on the road in front of our house. Later, it was also because of my mother's help. My brother and I were able to enter the capital and join the Imperial Guard. Everyone said that our ancestors had accumulated virtues and were greedy for a good mother. But I would rather be an ordinary citizen with a face to the loess and a back to the sky. I don't want to lose my mother at a young age." Kong Wenjie paused here. He took a deep breath and exhaled gently, "No one knows how I felt every time I walked past the chastity arch at that time."
He had never told these words deep in his heart to anyone else, not even to Kong Wenmin. For some reason, today, in this deep and mottled jungle, he actually spoke to Fang Chengyin. As soon as the words came out, Kong Wenjie himself was actually a little surprised, and then uncomfortable. He couldn't understand what was wrong with him, why would he confide his feelings to an eighteen-year-old girl.
Fang Chengyin was speechless for a long while after hearing this. She raised her whip and gently whipped him on the back: "I'm sorry, I misunderstood you."
"How can you be so arrogant even when apologizing to others?" Kong Wenjie laughed in silence, and the discomfort in his heart disappeared.
"I can't help it. I'm just like this. I've been a bully since I was little and I can't change it!" Fang Chengyin looked nonchalant and whipped Kong Wenjie with the whip again, looking at him cunningly, "Come on, I'm in a good mood today. I'll take you, a newcomer, to fight a wild boar to open your eyes!"
The thirty-year-old little Yazi's mouth twitched: "...You are such a disrespectful girl!"
Fang Chengyin seemed not to have heard it. She suddenly spurred her horse and whipped it. With a roar from the horse, she quickly galloped into the forest. Her fiery red cloak was blown up by the wind, like a dazzling cloud.
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"Are there really wild boars in this place?" Kong Wenjie looked around and felt that the forest was too quiet.
"Really? We killed a wild boar near here last year. It was about the same size as a horse, just a little shorter," Fang Chengyin said as she took off her backpack from the horse's back and urged Kong Wenjie, "Remember to dig a bigger and deeper hole. The depth should be such that the wild boar can't climb out if it falls in."
"Got it," Kong Wenjie took a shovel and started digging a hole. Although he had never hunted before, he had heard that to hunt wild boars, you have to drive them into a hole. While he was digging the hole, he saw Fang Chengyin take out the tent from her backpack and start to set it up quickly. Kong Wenjie felt a little uncomfortable. After a pause, he finally asked awkwardly, "We...are we going to stay in the mountains tonight?"
"Ah, of course you have to stay. It's already past noon. It will take you at least five or six hours to dig such a big pit by yourself. How can you dig it properly?" Fang Chengyin looked back at him and snorted, "Put away your dirty thoughts. I'll live in the tent and you just keep digging the pit. Don't forget, I'm the eldest daughter of a fourth-rank prefect!"
Kong Wenjie suddenly burst out laughing: "What dirty thoughts do I have?"
"Humph, I'm just afraid you have it," Fang Chengyin snorted again, and while continuing to set up the tent, she casually asked Kong Wenjie, "Hey, Kong Wenjie, can you cook?"
"Didn't you bring some cakes with you?" Kong Wenjie answered while digging a hole.
Fang Chengyin turned to him silently: "Aren't the biscuits for the dogs?"
Kong Wenjie: "...You are really a young lady."
"Yes, a young lady who has never touched women's daily life and has been spoiled by her father," Fang Chengyin smiled slyly, and raised her chin towards Kong Wenjie. "Then you can go with me to get some roe deer and rabbits and cook them when you come back. Don't we have a pot with us?"
Kong Wenjie sighed: "Miss, can you wait for me to dig the pit first?"
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