Black Owl surveyed the surroundings and said, "This is probably a cave with an underground river flowing through it. We don't know where we've been swept into, and we probably won't be able to get out for a while."
"If we can't get out, we can't get out. Anyway, we have each other. It's just..." Ji Fengming tried to get up, but failed and fell back down in pain. He gasped for breath and said, "I'm just worried that my father and sister won't know about us and will be anxious."
Black Owl quickly went over and helped him up, letting him lie on the boulder: "There's nothing we can do about it. You're badly injured. The most important thing now is to heal your wounds as soon as possible so we can get out of here quickly."
"Hmm," Ji Fengming nodded, then reached into the storage box on his chest and took out a flask of wine and a packet of braised meat: "Good..."
Before he could even utter the word "hunger," the wine jug in his hand was snatched away.
Black Owl spun around and put the wine jug into his storage ring, then scolded him sternly, "You're injured like this and you're still drinking? I think you're deliberately courting death. You're not allowed to touch a single drop of wine until you're fully recovered!"
Ji Fengming: "..."
After a while.
"Really not even a single drop? Just one drop?"
"Unless you beat me."
"You're obviously bullying me. You know perfectly well that I can't beat you even if I don't get hurt."
"Who told you to slack off during practice?"
"Oh dear, Xiao Chen, you've been spying on me since you were six, haven't you? You even know when I slack off during my training!" Ji Fengming rambled on as he stuffed braised meat into his mouth. "Let me tell you, back then, to keep me disciplined during my training, my dad would often set up an incense burner and light a stick of incense this thick and long for me. He wouldn't let me rest until the incense had burned out, and then I... hahahaha..."
He started laughing so hard he almost died, coughing and choking.
A cough aggravated the internal injuries to his lungs and caused him to howl in pain for a long time.
Black Owl was speechless, and had a real urge to sew his mouth shut right then and there.
After helping him catch his breath for a while, he finally calmed down, and Ji Fengming immediately started rambling again: "As soon as he left, I squatted down there and blew on the incense stick as hard as I could, so every time he came back, he could only see a nearly burnt-out stick, haha... cough... ha cough..."
Black Owl, unable to contain himself any longer, glared angrily and shouted, "Can't you just shut up!"
“Emmmmm…” Ji Fengming thought for a moment and said, “It’s not impossible. If I keep quiet, you have to talk. Otherwise, if it’s just the two of us here and neither of us speaks, the surroundings will be deathly silent, which will be very creepy, like being in the deepest hell.”
Black Owl paused for a moment: "What did you say?"
"Tell me about your past, or what you want to do in the future." Ji Fengming replied listlessly, "Anything is fine."
Black Owl remained silent for a long time.
He has lived in darkness for the past twenty-odd years, his identity is something that cannot be seen in the light, and there is no light in his heart;
It wasn't until Xiao Jiu married Xiao Yao'er, and until he met Ji Fengming and came into contact with the Ji family;
Only then did he feel a glimmer of light and a touch of warmth.
He also gained a second, unbreakable bond of friendship, one that transcended life and death, besides Xiao Jiu.
Looking at the deeper gloom in Hei Xiao's eyes and face in the dim light, Ji Fengming subconsciously reached out and grasped his hand: "It's okay if you don't want to tell me. Anyway, I've made up my mind. Sooner or later, I'll drag you up the mountain. When that time comes, we'll kill all the corrupt officials in the world and take all the ill-gotten gains. We'll live our lives to the fullest and not have lived in vain."
Wouldn't a life lived to the fullest be a wasted life?
Black Owl was momentarily dazed, and the image of an incredibly dashing light blue-clad youth vaguely appeared in his mind.
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