Chapter 199 My dear aunt, what are you doing now?
"Twenty kilometers to go." Seeing Lin Luoxi's stubbornness rising, Lin Jize could only answer truthfully.
Thinking to myself that I could just take a detour later, since this girl doesn't know the way anyway.
"Stop the car. Let's rest first, and continue our journey after we've eaten and drunk our fill." If we're going to fight, we need to be well-fed so we have the strength to beat the other side to a pulp.
Coincidentally, there was a stream where their carriage was traveling, which was perfect for a picnic.
"Oh my goodness, what are you planning to do now?" Hearing Lin Luoxi's words, Lin Jize felt like he wanted to stay far away.
"Grandpa, stop the carriage, I need to cook." Lin Luoxi didn't care whether Lin Jize had stopped or not, jumped off the carriage, and started busying herself on the spot.
"Oh, right, Grandpa, if you're scared, you can take these things I bought back to Wutong Village first, and I'll go back later." Lin Jize hesitated in the carriage, and Lin Luoxi didn't force him to go to the most dangerous place with her.
"You brat, what are you saying? Now that I've brought you here, I'll take you back safely."
"If you get hurt, your parents and your older brother will kill me!" Good heavens, I should never have brought that girl out.
Lin Wenqian was worried that he would take his sister to a dangerous place and that something might happen to her.
He felt that by bringing Lin Luoxi out, she was clearly taking him to a dangerous place, and he should be the one worrying about her.
"Luo Xi, we don't have a pot, a ladle, or water, how are we going to cook?" Lin Jize asked curiously when he saw Lin Luo Xi piling up stones to make a makeshift stove.
"It's alright, I was prepared." After saying that, he climbed into the carriage and rummaged around for a while, finding pots and pans, and carrying them down with a clatter.
"Hey, girl, you're quite well prepared. If I hadn't suddenly thought of bringing you out, I would have thought you had planned this all along." Lin Jize said, seeing that Lin Luoxi was well-prepared.
He suddenly suspected that Lin Luoxi's trip with him was premeditated, otherwise why would she have brought pots and pans along?
"Grandpa, what nonsense are you talking about? I saw it at the rice shop just now and asked the shopkeeper. When I heard that their pots and pans were so cheap, and since we were short of them at home, I bought some from the shopkeeper."
Now Lin Luoxi doesn't even bother to think before she lies. Anyway, when she was shopping at the rice shop, Lin Jize complained that Lin Luoxi was like a shopaholic, spending money recklessly. He felt bad for her, so he simply stood outside the door and waited.
"Oh, I see. I thought you had something planned all along." Lin Jize was unaware of what had happened in the rice shop. Seeing Lin Luoxi's serious expression, he assumed that Lin Luoxi had bought the pots and pans at the rice shop earlier.
As they were talking, Lin Luoxi had already fetched water from the stream and started washing the beef.
"Grandpa, let's have boiled beef slices today. I guarantee you'll never forget the taste." This boiled beef slices is the dish that this beef lover is most skilled at making.
"Do you need my help?" Now that things had come to this, Lin Jize knew that there was no point in struggling anymore, so he could only resign himself to staying and keeping Lin Luoxi company.
"Grandpa, can you help me start the fire? Just boil the water in the pot." Lin Luoxi's biggest headache was starting the fire, so she dumped this difficult task on Lin Jize.
The two of them set up a pot and started cooking in the open air by the roadside.
"Clatter clatter clatter..." Just as the boiled beef slices were put into the pot, the sound of several galloping hooves came from afar.
The two looked in the direction of the sound of hooves and saw a caravan of carriages heading towards them.
"Hey, Grandpa, doesn't that person in front of the carriage look familiar?" As the carriage drew closer, Lin Luoxi noticed the person sitting next to the coachman. He felt the person looked familiar, but she couldn't quite place where she had seen him before.
"How could you not recognize him? That's the old man Li who generously gave you a carriage. You've forgotten him so quickly, you ungrateful little thing." Lin Jize rolled his eyes at Lin Ruoxi and said sourly.
"Oh, it's Grandpa Li. Strange, where are they going?" Could something have happened to his master? Ugh, ptooey, ptooey, she had already recovered almost completely by the time she treated him.
Lin Jize's thoughts were similar to Lin Ruoxi's; he stood there with a worried expression, waiting for the carriage procession to approach.
"Little Lin, what are you still doing here? I thought you were almost at Bear Ridge." As the car approached, Old Man Li smiled at Lin Jize and Lin Luoxi.
"Are you cooking? Haven't you eaten all day?" Old Li asked belatedly, noticing the boiling water in the pot.
"Oh dear, we really didn't think of that earlier. We forgot to invite you to stay for a meal." He felt guilty saying that; wasn't this a classic case of hindsight bias?
"General Lin, we meet again." After being treated with acupuncture by Lin Luoxi, the sickly-looking man was able to stand up with the help of those around him, get off the carriage, and walk over.
"Master, where are you going?" Reporter Lin narrowed his eyes when he saw the sickly-looking handsome man and stepped forward to ask respectfully.
"I figured that General Lin had stayed in a place like Qingshui County for decades, so it must be a beautiful place with clear waters, lush mountains, and fragrant flowers—perfect for recuperation. That's why I packed all my belongings and came to stay with General Lin..."
Although he was speaking to General Lin, his eyes were fixed on Lin Luoxi, making it clear that Lin Luoxi was now his savior and he couldn't stray too far from her.
"This, this..." What is all this about? One wants to raid the bandit's den at Bear Ridge, and the other wants to seek refuge with him. Lin Jize is now in a real bind.
"General Lin, is this putting you in a difficult position?" The handsome man asked in a slightly cold tone when he saw the reporter's hesitant look.
"Master, you've misunderstood. We probably won't be back so soon." Having served the sickly handsome man for many years, Lin Jize could tell his master was unhappy, so he quickly answered truthfully.
"Oh, where are you planning to go next?" Seeing Lin Jize's troubled expression, the sickly-looking man became curious instead.
"I plan to go to Bear Ridge and take down the bandits there in one fell swoop, and earn a reward from the imperial court." Lin Luoxi answered quickly, as if they were doing something shady, seeing the hesitant expression on Reporter Lin's face.
"Hehe, girl, do you know what you're saying?" The sickly-looking man seemed to have heard some outrageous joke and couldn't help but chuckle twice.
"I know, so what? Since I've said it, I'm not afraid of you laughing at me."
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