Chapter 353: Know Nothing
The iron pot from Monk's family saved Yun Chen's life.
When Xuehong buried her deeply, the iron pot was turned upside down on her head, leaving a gap for her to breathe.
Yun Chen didn't know how she was lucky enough to escape the disaster. After sleeping for half a day, she woke up in the tent.
Through the gap in the curtains, she saw the people of Luojiang singing and dancing on their homes which had become ruins after the avalanche.
The leader was Monk, who was wearing a big iron pot on his head and dancing in a silly way with an extremely proud look on his face.
She looked on in confusion, wondering what mysterious ritual the Luojiang people were performing.
"The Monk family's pot is really strong. I knocked it so hard that the snow collapsed, but the pot didn't leak."
After Yun Chen finished speaking, Huo Gannian beside him remained silent.
If it were the same as before, when she woke up from a dangerous coma, his first reaction would be to rush up and hug her, feeling distressed, regretful, self-blaming, and regretful.
It requires all kinds of love and affection.
But this time he didn't.
He just rolled up his sleeves, held a piece of still warm linen in his blood-stained hands, and sat there dejectedly.
With a bang, he kicked the two cold wooden basins at his feet away, stood up straight, his shoulders stretched straight, and stared at her with a look she had never seen before.
She was startled by the sound and movement, and subconsciously curled up and shrank back. At the same time, her leg injury hurt, and she couldn't help but let out a soft "ouch".
This instantly extinguished all his anger, turning it into bitterness that rushed straight to his forehead.
With red eyes, he questioned her in a hoarse voice:
"Why is this happening? Yun Chen, why?"
Her first reaction was to look around the tent to confirm that they were the only two people in it, and her second reaction was to look outside the tent.
After seeing that it was Ye Yan and Buyan who were guarding the tent, she scratched her head and said apologetically:
"I know I was too reckless, but the situation was really urgent and there was no better way. I didn't have time to discuss it with you. I was wrong. Next time..."
"There won't be a next time!" He raised his voice to interrupt her, with an unprecedented look of grievance and anger on his face.
Although his voice was loud, it was distorted by sobs that could not be ignored:
"You're always like this! Always like this! Putting other people's lives first! Putting yourself last! What about me? Where do you put me? Every time you risk your life for others! Have you ever thought about me?!"
She glanced outside the tent with fear. Sure enough, Huo Gannian's voice was so loud that it attracted the old lady, Doji and several Luojiang people to come and check, but they were all turned away by Ye Yan with various excuses.
She quickly made a gesture to silence the crowd, "This is Luojiang! We are still carrying out a mission, please keep your voice down!"
She had never seen him lose his temper like this, disregarding the overall situation. It was really unlike him.
Seeing that she was still thinking about the mission even at this moment, he let out a bitter laugh, gritted his teeth, clenched his fists, and almost shouted at her:
"Yun Chen! Am I, Huo Gannian, so insignificant to you? If you had cared about me, you wouldn't have gone into such danger! But you never did! All you saw was this damn fire! These stranger Luojiang people! And that worthless mission! But not me!"
"Don't talk nonsense!" She didn't know which sentence to refute him first, so she could only explain:
"I know I was wrong, but the fire is right in front of me. What should I do if I don't use an avalanche to put it out?"
"What if the fire burns right in front of you? What if the people of Luojiang are burned to death? There are plenty of horses here! Your first choice should be to escape on horseback!"
"What about the pasture? And there's also Grandma and Doji. There are so many people in the tribe, how can we escape?"
"What does that have to do with you?! The grassland burned! The royal court will definitely send people to clean up the mess! New grass will grow again in three years! The dead are dead! That was their fate! What do the enemy people have to do with you?! What are you to them?"
"A Nian!"
She interrupted him in surprise and anger:
"What nonsense are you talking about? That's not what you said when you were building the new tent for Grandma! You couldn't find a sturdy main beam, so you searched back and forth in the snowy forest for two hours before you found one! You didn't look down on them like this back then!"
He completely collapsed, clenched his fist in frustration, pressed it against his forehead, and yelled almost in tears:
"That was then! But compared to you! They are nothing but ants! And you are my life! Yun Chen—you are my life!!"
The last sentence obviously touched her heart. She stared at him blankly, looking into his eyes that were filled with tears.
She felt guilty and distressed, but her eyes were still full of confusion.
He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and swallowed his tears gently, trying to ease the pain in his chest that was almost breaking. Then he threw the sackcloth in his hand and rushed out of the tent without looking back.
The curtains brought in a cold wind. Yun Chen sat on the couch, wrapped tightly in the quilt, staring blankly at the top of the tent, looking a little confused, as if he was still digesting Huo Gannian's words just now.
Looking at Huo Gannian's angry back as he left, and then at Yun Chen who "knew nothing at all", Ye Yan and Buyan looked at each other and could only shake their heads helplessly.
Not to mention Yun Chen, even they had been with Huo Gannian for so many years, and this was the first time they saw him collapse and lose his mind like this.
Because no one is him.
No one could understand how desperate he felt when he was facing the endless sea of snow in madness and vain.
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The avalanche stopped the prairie fire and almost crushed all the tribe's tents.
But for the people in the tribe, being alive is a blessing.
Although their homes were destroyed, all their daily necessities were buried, and people became impoverished overnight, no one in the entire tribe was injured except Yun Chen.
The people of Luojiang cheered for this, and they were not angry even when they knew that many slaves from the Nan Kingdom had escaped during the chaos.
They even thanked God for his kindness to them, and set all the slaves in the tribe free as a sign of respect for God.
Even Huo Gannian and the other two were restored to their "human" identities and were no longer "dogs".
Moreover, the people of Luojiang did not find it strange at all about the abnormal behavior of the three people who risked their lives to rescue Yun Chen, the "slave trader".
In their perception, slaves have no personality and it is their duty to risk their lives to save their masters.
So they thought that the behavior of Huo Gannian and the other two was very normal, and they had won the opportunity to get rid of their "slave" status.
In this way, a world was created where only Yun Chen was injured.
But what excited her was that because the tribe was destroyed, they had to find a new place to resettle.
The sheriff has reported the matter, saying that the royal court has specially approved a piece of grassland as the address of the new tribe, which can be reached in about twenty days on foot.
Since the tribe has some connection with the royal court, it means that someone in the tribe must know where the royal court is.
Yun Chen felt that he was one step closer to the royal court, and he couldn't wait to ask the people around him for news about the royal court.
This time, facing this "hero" who disregarded his own life and death and saved everyone's lives from the fire, the people of Luojiang no longer guarded against or concealed anything.
They dug out the only remaining ox cart from the tent that was crushed by the avalanche, placed Yun Chen, whose body was covered with scars from being pressed by snow, on it, wrapped her in three or four layers of sheepskin blankets, and arranged for Doji to be by her side for her to serve.
The other men, women, young and old followed the sheriff on foot, in groups of two or three, heading towards the new tribal address.
Monk was driving the ox cart in front and turned back to say to her with a smile:
"As for the Royal Court, we've never been there. I heard it's covered in gold, the rivers flow with fine wine, it's very beautiful, and there's even the best witch doctor in Luojiang who treats heart problems. Oh, and my grandmother used to be a maid in the Royal Court. You can ask her."
It is really true that after searching for a needle in a haystack, it was finally found without any effort!
The breakthrough to find the royal court was right before our eyes!
Yun Chen's eyes lit up, and he felt there was hope.
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