Chapter 214 Who do you want to kill?
After Huo Gannian finished speaking, Yun Chen's eyes widened and he asked several soul-searching questions in succession:
"You? Digging water chestnuts? For me? Cooking?"
She stretched out a finger and pointed Huo Gannian up and down several times.
Looking at that face that has been living a life of luxury, guarded by thousands of people and served by tens of thousands of people, and has never been beaten by the world, I am afraid that he can't even tell the difference between oil, salt, sauce and vinegar in the kitchen.
She felt that she would never be able to associate words like "digging wild vegetables" and "mixing cold dishes" with the person in front of her.
But Huo Gannian had a look of "confidence" on his face. He carried a basket and a small hoe, and dragged her to the slope behind the mountain. He took out the "water chestnut vegetable" pattern that Rong Jiang had drawn for him in advance, and began to dig and pick everywhere.
"Chen'er, sit in the shade and rest. I'll find enough soon."
He tied up the hem of his robe, rolled up his sleeves high, revealing his strong forearms, and bustled around in the weeds.
"Are you sure?" She sat under the tree with her chin in her hand, watching him speechlessly as he stuck his butt out and dug out two wild weeds that even dogs wouldn't eat, and then accidentally slipped into a mud pit and could hardly pull his boots out.
Or maybe you treasure the scorpion grass, dig it out, pat the leaves and dust it off, then your hands hurt from the stings, grimacing and shaking your hands, and comforting yourself:
"It's okay, it's okay."
She watched helplessly and amusedly from the side, shaking her head repeatedly.
When he finally filled a basket with wild vegetables, he immediately took her back to the camp kitchen.
When he walked into the kitchen, although he didn't look at her, he clearly noticed that her body stiffened.
But he didn't ask any questions, just acted as if nothing had happened and started picking and washing vegetables.
"What did Rong Jiang say we should do first?" He took out the recipe Rong Jiang had written from his pocket and trotted off to gather firewood and boil water, not forgetting to continue instructing Yun Chen:
"Chen'er, just sit there. I'll make you a delicious cold dish right away—"
As a result, Yun Chen sat on the small stool for almost half an hour, and the fire under Huo Gannian's stove had not yet lit.
He stretched out his long legs like a giant mantis, leaned over the mouth of the furnace, and desperately fanned and blew air inside. Before the fire got bright, the whole kitchen was filled with thick smoke.
This caused many soldiers to think that there was a fire, and they all rushed over to help, but they saw Huo Gannian coughing with a dark face and waving his hands at everyone:
"It's okay, it's okay."
After finally getting the fire started, he clumsily threw the wild vegetables in, took out the recipe and looked through it, muttering:
"Three winks? Is this some kind of mysterious ritual?"
Although he didn't understand, he still strictly followed every cooking step, put his face in front of the pot, and blinked three times at the pot of wild vegetables seriously.
Yun Chen was amused by this scene and burst out laughing.
Huo Gannian also grinned happily, then clumsily picked out the wild vegetables and began to search on the spice rack.
"Get some salt first." He muttered as he took out a bottle of sweet potato starch.
"Get some more vinegar." He "cleverly" opened the bottle cap, smelled it, and then poured out the sour plum sauce.
Finally, among the soldiers gathered at the door, the cook in charge of the kitchen couldn't stand it any longer, so he stuck his head in and asked tentatively:
"General, how about I do it? You've already done most of it, I can just mix it."
After hesitating for a moment, Huo Gannian nodded in agreement.
The military chef immediately rolled up his sleeves, quickly mixed a beautiful dish of cold dishes, picked up a pair of chopsticks, and sighed:
"Such tender tiger palm grass! If you eat this plate, you'll definitely have vomiting and diarrhea, and die in the middle of the night. Speaking of which, General, you personally dug the grass and prepared it into a dish. It's of such high quality, and it's so toxic. Who are you trying to kill?"
Huo Gannian was stunned.
He looked at the delicious poison on the plate that he had dug out with great effort, looked at the military chef, and then looked at Yun Chen. The surprised and stupid expressions on their faces finally made Yun Chen unable to hold back and burst into laughter.
“Hahahaha…” Yun Chen held his stomach and laughed so hard that he fell over.
The soldiers around him, who had never seen the aloof and serious General Huo make a fool of himself, also burst into laughter, and then were immediately driven away by the discerning military chef.
When there were only two people left in the kitchen, Yun Chen had laughed enough, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, and imitated his catchphrase today, comforting him in a serious manner:
"It's okay, it's okay."
He threw his head back and laughed out loud, his hearty laughter seemed to blow the roof of the kitchen off.
The two of them laughed at each other for a long time like two fools over such a small matter of "cold dish".
The gloom on Yun Chen's face finally dissipated a lot.
After laughing, she curled up into a ball, hugged herself, and asked softly:
"Looks like you all know, don't you?"
Huo Gannian sat down next to her and handed her a fresh fruit he had just taken out of the storage tank, and said "hmm".
He knew it.
Ye Yan, Hua Jue, Buyan, including Rong Yi and the others, also knew about it.
Originally, I was just worried about her sleepwalking, thinking that since she sleepwalked into the kitchen, her knot was probably related to the kitchen of the Black Scale Cavalry's Yancheng Camp.
People speculated a lot, thinking that after she was captured after sneaking into the enemy camp, she might have been locked up in the kitchen and beaten, or she might have witnessed the abuse of the prisoners in Yancheng.
Even the worst guess, which Ye Yan thought of but dared not say out loud, was that Yun Chen might have been discovered to be a girl and was insulted in the kitchen...
But when Ye Yan and the other two received Huo Gan Nian's order and rushed to the former site of the Black Scale Cavalry Camp outside Yancheng overnight.
Looking at the mess hall that had been torn to pieces when the enemy retreated, and the bloodstains on every wooden board, Ye Yan felt a rare and strange fear in his heart.
He pulled out a handful of human hair from the crack of a wooden board, gritted his teeth, and said to Hua Jue and Buyan:
"Get started! Dig the swill pit!"
Soon, the traces that were deliberately buried by the Black Scale Cavalry were revealed bit by bit.
Skull, ribs, leg bones.
Men, women, young and old, big and small...
Densely packed skeletons and bones were piled up together, without a single piece of flesh.
Bu Yan collapsed immediately and lay beside the pit vomiting violently, almost vomiting out his heart, liver, spleen and lungs.
Hua Jue was so frightened that his scalp exploded and his whole body felt numb.
At that moment, they finally understood why Yun Chen had been so silent for the past six months.
Just looking at the wreckage was enough to make the three grown men shiver all over and speechless.
But Yunchen, she saw it all with her own eyes...
Those inhumane Black Scale Cavalrymen killed living civilians right in front of her...
While recounting these stories, Ye Yan and the other two burst into tears several times.
They felt sorry for Yun Chen, and even more sorry for the 20,000 people in Yancheng.
At the same time, they finally understood Yun Chen's good intentions.
She remained silent because she was afraid that if the news of the Black Scale Cavalry eating people leaked out, it would shock the entire army and greatly reduce morale.
I was afraid that the soldiers who had no war horses and could only run on their own two legs would be filled with fear of being captured and eaten when they fought against the fierce enemy riding tall horses.
If the army's morale is in chaos, the battle will be lost before it even begins. How can we have the chance to advance to Guying City with such glory and bravery as we do now?
"We can't spread the news yet," Yun Chen said. "We have to wait until our soldiers have enough horses and equipment and are confident enough before we can make the Black Scale Cavalry's evil deeds known to the world."
"I understand. When the time comes, turning 'fear' into 'hatred' will be the best strategy to make the entire army fight bravely." Huo Gannian hugged her distressedly, "It's just that my Chen'er has suffered too much. If it had happened earlier..."
He wanted to say, why didn’t you tell me earlier, and tell only me, so that I could comfort you and share your burden?
But before he finished speaking, he understood.
She couldn't say it at all.
Asking her to recall and recount the tragedy would be tantamount to forcing her to experience it all over again.
That kind of despair and pain is really unbearable for ordinary people.
Besides, it was Yun Chen, a guy who regarded protecting the country and the people as his bounden duty.
The self-blame and guilt of watching the tragic deaths of the people of Yancheng made her unable to speak.
The heart that was eager to achieve success a few months ago is now filled with haze.
"Twenty thousand people, Chen'er, you're not a god with three heads and six arms, how could you possibly save so many people? If I were in that situation, I couldn't do better than you..."
Huo Gannian held her face in his hands and looked firmly into her eyes:
"Chen'er, never forget that it was because of your defense plan that we were able to break through the dangerous pass held by the Black Scale Cavalry. Every inch of land we've recovered and every civilian we've saved is due to your efforts."
Yun Chen didn't say anything. Her eyes trembled and two lines of tears slowly fell.
He gently kissed her eyes, hugged her lovingly, and his tone became calm and cold:
"Don't worry. We will repay the Black Scale Cavalry double for their wrongdoing!"
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