Chapter 214 Uncle, You Really Look Like My Dad
Late at night, in Yunzhou, beside a small stream far away from the official road.
Zheng'er had diarrhea again. Lin Bao was holding the child and washing his butt by the stream, while Lin Hu was using a branch to pick fish in the stream.
He had excellent eyesight and accurate shots, and in a short while he caught seven or eight fish.
"Uncle Hu, it's almost enough to eat. Come up and warm yourself up."
On the shore, Chunxi was chatting while gutting and cleaning the fish neatly.
Lin Hu returned to the shore silently and sat by the fire to warm himself.
Chunxi skewered the fish with branches and placed it next to the fire to roast. He then picked some wild grass from the side, burned it, and dissolved the ash in water. After it settled for a while, he poured the water out and poured it on the fish.
Chunxi's original clothes were transferred to the female corpse. Now he was wearing the same coarse cloth shorts as Lin Hu and the others, dressed like a man.
After traveling for several days in the open air, Chunxi became much darker and more haggard, but her eyes were still bright, especially when she was preparing food, her eyes were full of desire for food.
Lin Hu was quite knowledgeable in this line of work, but he had never seen a girl as greedy and careless as her.
After watering the fish with grass ash, Chunxi took a wild fruit that he had not finished eating during the day, broke it open, and smeared the juice on the fish.
Lin Bao came back with the child in his arms. Seeing her like this, he couldn't help but ask, "A Xi, what are you doing?"
Chunxi immediately explained, "Uncle Bao, I found a kind of grass called saltwort growing by the river. If you soak the ashes from burning it in water, it will have a slightly salty taste and can also make the fish meat tender. Adding wild fruit juice can remove the fishy smell. This is a secret recipe my father taught me. My father used to be a bodyguard and has seen a lot of things. I also know another one..."
Chunxi helped prepare food for the past few nights. The conditions in the wild were limited, and although the food Chunxi made was not amazing, it was much more delicious than what those two rough men made.
Lin Bao relaxed his guard against Chunxi a lot. When he heard Chunxi talking about her father, he became curious: "Your father used to be a bodyguard. Which agency did he belong to? Where has he been? Maybe we can..."
“Ahem!”
Lin Hu coughed twice to interrupt Lin Bao and gave him a sharp look.
Lin Bao immediately fell silent.
They are kidnappers now, and the victim is the wife of a third-rank official in the imperial court. If they are caught, they will be beheaded. They must not be fooled by this little girl calling them "uncle".
Lin Bao sat down next to Lin Hu, and the child in his arms reached out to scratch his beard restlessly.
The child has lost some weight because he hasn't had milk these days, but fortunately he is in good health and not sick, and his spirits are pretty good. After spending a few days together, the child became familiar with him and was no longer afraid of him. He would either pull his beard or scratch his face, and occasionally even urinate on him.
"If you keep grabbing my beard, I'll chop your hand off, little brat!"
Lin Bao glared at the child and threatened him in a vicious tone, but the child was not scared. Instead, he giggled.
They still have to rely on this child to control Chunxi, so naturally they won't do anything to this child.
Lin Bao's beard was pulled and hurt, so he simply stuffed the child into Lin Hu's arms.
Lin Hu was a serious man, and his aura was much colder than Lin Bao's. The child became much more obedient in his arms, blinking his eyes and looking at Lin Hu curiously.
Lin Hu was not as good-tempered as Lin Bao. He grabbed the child's head and pressed it against his chest.
"Aa ...
The child flapped his arms and legs in protest. Lin Bao watched the noise for a while, then, seeing the child was about to cry, reached out and pulled him out. "See? If you move again, your Uncle Hu will suffocate you to death. Do you believe it?"
The child didn't understand what was said, but he obviously liked him more and stretched out his little hands for a hug.
Lin Bao's eyes softened and he held the child in his arms.
At this time, the smell of fish wafted out.
Chunxi turned the fish over more diligently, and when both sides were golden brown and juicy, he selected two relatively large ones and handed them over: "They're done, Uncle Hu and Uncle Bao, try them while they're hot."
Lin Hu took the fish and ate it silently. Lin Bao took a bite and his eyes lit up. He immediately praised: "It's really delicious. Your method is good."
Chunxi raised his chin, proud and proud: "Of course, this is the secret recipe my father taught me. I won't tell others."
For people in their line of work, sleeping in the open and living on the edge of danger are common, but after spending these days with Chunxi, he actually felt like he was living a stable life.
If nothing had happened at home, his and Brother Hu's daughter would be this old now.
Lin Bao's heart softened, and he couldn't help but ask, "How did the daughter of a bodyguard like you marry a third-rank official?"
"That's a long story."
Chunxi took Zheng'er from Lin Bao's arms, tore off the fish skin, picked the tenderest part and fed it to Zheng'er. While feeding him, he talked about his experiences in the years after Cao's father's death.
When Chunxi was young, he loved to listen to the adventures of Cao's father and the uncles and aunts from the escort agency who traveled all over the country. Now his stories are still very attractive.
Lin Bao was able to concentrate on eating fish at first, but when he heard that Chunxi had sold herself to the Wei family and was secretly being harassed and tripped up by the steward, he could not help but feel indignant: "Damn it! A mere steward is nothing more than a servant after all, yet he dares to be so arrogant and domineering! If it were me, I would have killed him with a single blow!"
Chunxi immediately showed a touching expression: "Uncle Bao, you look like my father now."
"If I were your father, I would have stormed into that damned Wei family long ago."
Lin Bao answered without hesitation. Seeing that he had finished eating a fish, Chunxi handed him another one.
Lin Bao took a bite and suddenly felt uncomfortable.
If this little girl's father were still alive and knew that his daughter and grandson were kidnapped, he would definitely unite his brothers in the underworld and find them at all costs to prevent them from bullying like this.
Chunxi was not sad at all and continued to talk about her life in the Wei family.
In the first two years after entering the mansion, she did not understand the ways of the world and suffered a lot. However, she learned from her mistakes and gradually learned to read people's faces and act according to circumstances. With the arrival of new people, her life gradually became better. But not long after, Wei Lingze was injured and paralyzed. She had no money to bribe him, so she had to be transferred to serve him.
Hearing that Wei Lingze had become violent and violent after being injured, beating and killing servants at will, Lin Bao became even more angry. "Why didn't this idiot young master die on the battlefield? The one who injured him wasn't a servant from the mansion, but he just took it out on them. Even if he can't stand up again, he still has a group of people to serve him. They didn't throw him out on the street to beg for a living. What's so unbearable for him?"
"Being a slave is a cheap life. If people pay a little more money, no one will say anything. Thanks to my father who has always blessed me in heaven, not only did I not die at the hands of the young master, I also got a sum of money to leave the Wei family and met a husband who loves me."
"But my husband also has a tragic fate. He lost his mother at a young age. Although he won the top spot in the imperial examination at the age of seventeen, his stepmother secretly schemed against him and forced him to marry two women who died young. Later, he married me, a woman of humble origins, as his second wife. Now that something has happened to me, I'm afraid he'll never be able to shake off his reputation as a wife-killer."
Chunxi's tone was quite cheerful before, until she started talking about her husband, then she showed sadness.
Lin Bao looked at the half fish in his hand and couldn't eat it anymore.
Aren't the wives of officials supposed to live a life of luxury and be in cahoots with the officials? Why are this little girl and her husband so pitiful, one more pathetic than the other, so pitiful that he feels like he is the most unforgivable criminal?
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