Chapter 289: Sheltering in the Wind and Rain Pavilion
At noon, a spring rain came suddenly and fell on the mountains and plains.
Everyone found a pavilion with a long corridor to shelter from the rain.
Yan Xingchuan took a handkerchief and wiped the raindrops from her hair, then asked her, "Are you cold?"
It’s still the end of February, and the wind and rain are still a bit cold.
Cui Si shook her head. Seeing that he was already half wet, she told him to go to the carriage and change his clothes. "Yanzhi, take out the clothes prepared for Fifth Brother and let him change into them."
"Is there none for me?" Yan Xingchuan pursed his lips, feeling a little aggrieved.
Cui Yi has clothes, and Cui Jing certainly has enough, but he has nothing.
Cui Si paused. She hadn't thought of this before. After a moment's thought, she explained, "These were all prepared by my family. Naturally, yours isn't included."
"Yeah?"
"Yes."
Well, Yan Xingchuan believed her for the time being.
If she is gone, then she is gone. He has enough clothes to wear. As long as she is by his side and he can see her, it is already great.
In the end, he was too greedy. He always wanted her to be thinking about him all the time, and he always wanted to be with her like in the last life, when they had just gotten married for two years and she arranged everything for him.
"Go change. Be careful not to get the carriage wet." Seeing that Yanzhi had taken out her clothes and got off the carriage, Cui Si urged him to change.
Yan Xingchuan nodded and went to the carriage to change his clothes.
The pavilion on the corridor is rectangular, with a passable area in the middle and resting places on both sides. Cui Si had someone bring a curtain to cover it. She rested on the left side, and the guards roasted fire and dried clothes on the right side. In the middle, people set up a pot and made a fire to cook lunch.
When traveling, you should eat better if possible.
Cui Si asked someone to wash the rice and cook it, then cut some cured fish, cured chicken, cured duck, etc., put them on the rice, and finally poured some sauce on it. A serving of iron pot rice was ready.
Finally, cook a pot of wild vegetable soup picked on the way and serve it with rice, which is lunch.
Cui Si had a small appetite, so she used a small pot to cook a pot of porridge, added some dried shrimps, a piece of ginger to remove the fishy smell, and some salt.
Yan Yunwei and others took out the dry and hard steamed buns, ate them with water, and prepared to have a full meal.
Cui Si reached out and pressed her solar plexus, feeling a slight headache. She said to Yun Gang, "There are still three pots with food. You guys should cook some too. Don't just chew on the hard buns."
If you are in a hurry to get on the road, it would be fine to just take a few bites, but now there is no hurry, so eat something hot.
Yun Gang didn't feel the slightest bit embarrassed and immediately responded, "Thank you, Princess Wang. You are so considerate. The Lord had no idea about this and would have just been eating steamed buns with us every day."
"I'm about to vomit this steamed bun."
Cui Si said, "You are different from us. You are all people who do great things, traveling through wind and cloud. For the sake of your journey, you can't bring much with you. Steamed buns are the most convenient and filling food."
Most of the time, the Yanyun Guards followed Yan Xingchuan to fight and had to go to the battlefield at any time. They could not carry too heavy a burden immediately. Steamed buns were filling and easy to store, so they were the dry food they often prepared.
She is nothing like me, who always prepares ten pots when she goes out.
"But eating steamed buns every day is indeed boring. You can ask someone to dry some meat or make some salty cakes that you can take with you."
Yun Gang's eyes lit up: "Then I'll go back and ask someone to try it."
In fact, Yanyunwei is not short of money. If there is a better one, they will naturally change it.
Yun Gang followed the others to get the pot and rice, and learned how to cook two pots of rice so that he could have a hot meal today.
Yan Xingchuan changed his clothes and got off the carriage. He saw people busy in the pavilion. Cui Si was sitting alone on a beauty's seat covered with a blanket in the pavilion. There was a table with a set of tea sets next to her.
She was dressed simply today, in a narrow-sleeved blue shirt with a lake green wide-sleeved jacket on the outside, and a blue skirt on the bottom. Her hair was casually tied into a bun, and she pinned it with a tourmaline hairpin with plum blossom and bamboo knot patterns. The rest of her hair was casually scattered on her shoulders.
Her face was clean and without any makeup.
She just sat there quietly, with an air of elegance and composure, as if the beautiful mountains and rivers were not even a bit as beautiful as her.
For a moment, Yan Xingchuan didn't dare to go forward to disturb her, for fear of startling her.
"Why don't you come over?" Cui Si turned her head and looked over, then asked him to come and sit down and poured him a cup of tea.
Yan Xingchuan came back to his senses a little, walked over, and sat down next to the beauty who was some distance away from him.
"Watching the rain?" Yan Xingchuan asked her.
"Well, spring rain falls on the earth, nourishing it. After a spring rain, it is the best time for grass and trees to grow. It is indeed a good rain, worth seeing." Cui Si smiled. "Every time I look at the scenery of the world, I feel that the world is so vast and humans are so insignificant."
"Then I remembered that many times, people have used human power to shake the world and change their destiny. It is really shocking."
"Do you think... time can really go back?" Yan Xingchuan suddenly asked.
He really couldn't understand why he, Cui Si and Cui Yun could suddenly return to their youth, back to the time when nothing had happened.
"Why not?" Cui Si thought for a moment and said, "Perhaps this is just a chess game played by the gods. The chess pieces didn't move the way they wanted, so they got angry and overturned the chessboard and started over again."
As Cui Si finished speaking, thunder exploded and lightning flashed wildly from the dark clouds in the sky.
Not sure if it was a coincidence or if this was some kind of miraculous thing, Cui Si was a little annoyed: "Why are you angry? If you have the guts, just let me die."
"A'si." Yan Xingchuan's expression changed immediately, "Don't talk nonsense."
Cui Si was embarrassed. Even though she might be used as a pawn, her chance to live a second life was real. She saved Cui Changyou's life and also saved Old Lady Xu's life.
However, she was really annoyed, as if fate was pressing her step by step, forcing her to be by his side.
She felt a little aggrieved.
"I don't want to be a pawn in someone else's hands, without any autonomy over my own life, or even end up in the same situation one day."
"You are not anyone's pawn." Yan Xingchuan said immediately, "You can live your life however you want. As long as you think it is right, no one can force you, not even me."
"As for the same situation, it is even more impossible."
Even if Lin Qingning forced him again, he would never let his wife suffer such grievances again.
"If there is no choice but to choose one of the two, I can find a third way."
Yan Xingchuan said this and smiled: "It's just that I am the only one who will die."
Once he died, all grudges were resolved.
Whatever the Yan family owed to the Lin family, he would pay it back, and she could live a carefree and stable life without any burden.
"But before I die, can you please be a little nicer to me..."
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