Chapter 25 Beaver
Gu Zheng found two people by the waterfall.
"He Xiangyi?"
"Um! Long time no see, General Gu!" He Xiangyi turned over and saluted.
"Why are you here?" Gu Zheng handed a few leaves to He Jing.
"Tang Qi asked me to pick you up. He said you had a cute kitten with you, so I came to take a look." He looked at the two of them with shining eyes, "What is this?"
He Jing also raised the leaf in his hand curiously: "What is this?"
Gu Zheng: "...Isn't this the tea you mentioned?"
He Jing shook his head. "No, it's very similar, but the taste is different."
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"Hahahaha!" Beaver laughed wildly. When had he ever seen General Gu with such an expression? "I understand, I understand."
"Tang Qi is right, you..." She stopped looking at him immediately, "Kittens are indeed cute."
Gu Zheng withdrew his gaze.
"But she is still in the transformation period, which means she still has two years to go before she becomes an adult~" After saying that, he immediately hid in the water, leaving only his head outside to watch the joke.
"???" He Jing didn't know how the topic turned to his age. "I've already reached adulthood. I'm 24."
As soon as the words fell, the two people beside him fell silent.
"???" He Jing asked with a questioning face, "Really?"
Gu Zheng said calmly: "19 years and eight months, your age."
"The kids are pretending to be adults!" He Xiangyi couldn't help laughing.
He Jing and Gu Zheng looked at each other.
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“…”
He Jing was unbelievable, He Jing was shocked, He Jing... was numb.
Well, anything is possible.
"Are you going to stay here tonight?" He Xiangyi interrupted the two people's eye contact.
"Yeah." Gu Zheng looked away.
"Oh! Okay, I lose." The beaver floated on the water.
"What?" Seeing her like this, He Jing was also eager to try. Her fur was so thick, so it should be possible...
Gu Zheng stopped him without leaving any trace and said softly, "The sun is about to set."
"All right."
He Xiangyi didn't see what the two did. "Before I came here, Tang Qi asked me to come back tomorrow. He thought you two would stay here for one night, but I didn't think so, so we made a bet."
He Jing asked curiously, "What are you betting on?"
"Whoever loses has to wash dishes for a week after returning home."
He Jing pondered and tentatively asked, "It's the interstellar age now, do you still have to wash the dishes manually?"
“…Hahahaha! You are so cute!” He Xiangyi laughed wildly with her hands on her belly!
"(⊙_⊙)?"
"Either a robot or a dishwasher, or you can think of yourself." Gu Zheng said, thought for a moment, and added, "Tang Qi is the head of the third department and also her fiancé."
He Jing understood that this was just a little trick played by a young couple.
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"What do you want to eat tonight? I'll treat you to anything from the river!" He Xiangyi rolled over in the water several times, looking very cool.
"There are no fish this close to the waterfall, right?"
"Yes! They're all hidden underneath. Besides fish, scallops? Abalone? Oysters? Squid?"
“…? All of them??”
"I checked when I got here, and yes, they have everything. I can feast on it today. I haven't had such a rich meal since I came here. Every day I have either supplements or compressed biscuits. The supplements have no taste at all and are not tasty at all!"
"Don't supplements come in many flavors?" He Jing looked confused.
"...What flavor are you drinking now?"
"Watermelon and strawberry."
“…”
"Gu Zheng!! You have to prepare special drinks for her and give us the original flavor!!!"
He Jing quickly took out a strawberry-flavored one from his kitten bag and handed it to He Li. "Here you go, strawberry-flavored one..."
Wait, why should she feel guilty?! She knows nothing! She looked up at Gu Zheng standing beside her.
Gu Zheng looked up at the sky without turning back, "She is small."
"...Okay, okay. By the way, let's get down to business." He Xiangyi's face turned serious as she emerged from the river. "Xiao He doesn't look like he's completed his transformation. If we go any further, we'll reach the landing point of the third division. There's a lot of people around here, and I'm afraid someone might notice."
"Huh? Me?" He Jing tilted his head. He didn't expect that he would suddenly be mentioned in such a serious tone.
Gu Zheng patted the cat's head and said, "You are in the transformation period. If you are discovered, it may be reported to the Federation."
"It's okay. Just wait one night. At her current growth rate, she'll be close to the size of a small adult cat tomorrow. She's a distant relative of mine on my mother's side, a B-level Chinchilla."
"Well, okay, as long as you have a plan in mind."
Gu Zheng looked at He Jing, and He Jing nodded obediently. They were all cats anyway. For a seasoned cat lover, any cat would do!
"Okay! Watch my show!" The beaver said, and then he flipped over and entered the water perfectly without even making a ripple.
He Jing and Gu Zheng were waiting on the shore. In just one minute, there was movement on the water surface.
A fish bigger than He Jing flew out of the water and fell in front of her. Then, it was as if a launcher was pressed at the bottom of the river, and it jumped onto the shore with a crackling sound.
"So strong..."
He Jing hurriedly went to catch it, and was hit by it. He Jing gave up and hid aside...
"How is it? Is that enough?" He Xiangyi emerged from the bottom of the water and looked at the embarrassed kitten with a smile.
"That's enough." Gu Zheng said from the side. "Let's go."
As he walked back, he collected firewood, returned to the stone, and lit the fire.
The sun went down, the stream turned deep blue, the cold air came slowly but was driven away by the heat.
The three of them sat by the campfire, and He Xiangyi huddled close to the kitten to keep warm.
Gu Zheng grilled big fish and lamb legs, and He Jing placed scallops, abalone and oysters on top one by one.
With a crackling sound, the protective shell opened quietly. It looked very delicious, and He Jing and He Li were drooling with greed.
"Alright, alright, that's enough!" Beaver stared with bright eyes.
He Jing carefully picked up one and handed it to her, then handed it to Gu Zheng, "Here you go, be careful, there's soup inside!"
The kitten's eyes are also bright!
Gu Zheng didn't say no, he took it, poured it into his mouth and swallowed it in two gulps.
"Well, well?"
"fresh."
He Jing chuckled and carefully ate one himself, "Mmm! So delicious!"
Gu Zheng finished one and didn't eat any more. He roasted the fish and the lamb leg, cut them into small pieces and handed them to the two of them.
"Thoughtful! General Gu is so thoughtful!" He Xiangyi teased, "Xiao He, do you know what he was like before?"
"Hmm?" The kitten kept talking, looking curiously.
"Before, whether he was out on an event or practicing, he usually didn't cook the food himself. Even if he was kind enough to grill it, he wouldn't care how others ate it. He wouldn't cut it into slices like he does now~"
“…I didn’t know that before.”
"Huh?" He Xiangyi was stunned for a moment before she understood what he meant next: "Come on! Do you think everyone can tear off a crocodile's skin and crush an elephant's bones as easily as you can?"
He Jing smiled and understood.
The sky turned completely dark blue. The stones beneath them were hot from the fire, and the three people lay on them to digest their food.
The sounds of streams, waterfalls and cicadas make you drowsy.
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