Before Xu Yin could ask, he had already explained: "The rabbit was hunted during the day. It has been cooked for a day, so it must be delicious."
Of course Xu Yin was not focused on this. She asked: "Can you still hunt prey? Is there anything else to eat?"
"Luckily, I picked one up when I went out to explore the road." Yan Ling sat next to her and said with a bit of pride, "Smell it and see if there is anything else."
Xu Yin took a sniff and found that the aroma of the broth was so overwhelming that she couldn't smell anything else at all. She turned her head and saw someone pushing out a large pot with steam rising from it.
"Come on, come on, it's time to eat!" shouted the sergeant holding a big spoon.
Xu Yin was shocked when he saw what he was serving: "Is this porridge? Where did the rice come from?"
Yan Ling was trapped during the pursuit. Most of the sergeants only had dry food around them. Even if they had rice, they couldn't survive now.
"Hehe." Yan Ling pretended, "After you finish the soup, I will take you to see it."
This man! Xu Yin gave him a roll of his eyes, lowered his head and drank the soup slowly.
Yan Ling touched her hand and felt the heat, then pulled her to stand up: "Come."
The cave was very deep, and Yan Ling took her all the way inside. The sergeants who were resting on the edge saluted them one after another. He waved his hand, indicating that they should ignore it.
Going further inside, there are fewer people and more horses. These horses have cages on their mouths and will only be released when eating. Xu Yin thought thoughtfully: "No wonder they can't find your whereabouts. The horses are all
Hidden here."
As we walked deeper, we gradually found unusual traces, such as the torch slots on the wall and the stone benches and tables on the ground.
"Has anyone lived here?"
After she finished speaking, she saw a rotten righteous flag.
Yan Ling replied: "This place should be where bandits store their food. I have inquired about Feilong Mountain, and there used to be many bandits in Feilong Mountain, but they were later wiped out by the Jiangbei Army."
Xu Yin couldn't help but sigh: "You are so lucky. If you had known, I wouldn't have come."
Yan Ling also felt: "The escape route was cut off, and I planned to take advantage of the chaos to break out of the siege. Who knew I would find this place, and after thinking about it, I decided to stay."
With so much food, it won't be a problem to store it for several months.
After seeing the food and fodder, the two went back. They glanced at each other on the way but didn't speak.
When they arrived at a secluded place, Yan Ling couldn't help it anymore: "Father didn't ask you to bring a message?"
Xu Yin asked back: "Do you have other plans?"
Yan Ling touched her nose and smiled dryly.
Xu Yin was so angry that he threw away his hands and said: "Before you do anything, can you think about whether someone will worry about your safety? Can you give me a letter? I don't believe that Chai Qi can't spread the news."
Yan Ling humiliated: "I...I thought the battle report wouldn't be so clear."
Xu Yin didn't want to talk to him and just walked alone.
"A Yin..." Yan Ling followed her and tried her best to explain, "It was my fault. I really didn't think much about it at the time. Later I thought it was too late. If I asked Chai Qi to deliver the message, I might be discovered on the way..."
"I was wrong, I won't do it again next time."
"Please understand me. I'm used to being single. I didn't expect it for a moment!"
"Madam? Lady?"
Xu Yin was not an angry person at first, so he yelled around her like this and finally made her laugh.
"Do you still want a next time?"
Yan Ling hurriedly replied: "Don't dare. Just this once, I will remember it in the future."
After a pause, he asked: "Don't you know, mother?"
Xu Yin glanced at him and replied: "I don't know. I asked my eldest brother to be careful and make up a reason why I went out."
Yan Ling laughed: "That's it! In the past, if there was such news, I would hide it from my mother..." The more he spoke, the softer his voice became.
This kind of important military affairs would not be told to the female family members in the first place. Who is Xu Yin who is in charge of military affairs? It is impossible for the battle report to miss her.
"Do you think I'm troublesome? It's fine if my father and elder brother know about it, but I know it will cause trouble."
"Of course not." Yan Ling refused to admit it to death, "They are both stupid. How are they the same as you?"
He paused and showed a silly smile: "You don't know how happy I am to find you here. It turns out that I am quite important in your heart."
Hearing this, Xu Yin couldn't help but said angrily: "What are you talking about? When did you no longer matter in my heart?"
"That's not what I meant..." Yan Ling hurriedly closed her mouth, "It's my fault that I can't speak."
"Hey..." Xu Yin was angry and funny. After thinking about it, he felt that he still had to say some things clearly. "In the past, I had a lot of things on my mind, so I couldn't take care of you. But I know you are good to me.
If I really don’t mean anything to you, I won’t accept it, do you understand?”
Yan Ling nodded: "I know."
Does Miss Xu San still lack someone to admire? But besides him, who else has she accepted?
However, knowing some things in your heart is different from saying it out loud. Listening to these words, Yan Ling was so happy that she couldn't even close her mouth.
Xu Yin came all the way here and didn't mind making him happier.
"You are very important to me. From before to now, every moment is important. I have something I must do, which is responsibility and wish. I want my father to survive, my sister to be happy, and those who follow me to
People have a good death. But when I finish these things, you are the most important thing to me. I hope you are safe and happy, and I hope we can grow old together."
No matter how beautiful the words of love were, nothing was as beautiful as what she said. At this moment, Yan Ling was not only happy, she was about to fly.
"Really? Am I so important to you? You will stay with me from now on and you will never leave, right?"
Facing his expectant gaze, Xu Yin nodded, feeling more and more that his trip was right and that he really wanted to say something.
"Ayin!" Yan Ling hugged her hard, and her emotions seemed to overflow, "You are more important to me. Without you, I would never be happy in this life. The first time I saw you
, I decided to marry you. If I don’t marry you, I will be a bachelor for the rest of my life!”
The words sounded childish, but Xu Yin's eyes filled with tears. She thought of the Second Young Master Yan in her previous life. He never got married. Does this mean that he...
"I believe you." She murmured.
She once thought that her previous life was terrible. Her father was killed and her sister suffered humiliation for her. She was so incompetent that she could only watch her sister sacrifice for her. Such a life was so broken that there was no brightness at all.
It wasn't until she discovered him that she realized that that period of life was also shining brightly. Maybe she was miserable and full of suffering, but there was someone who was always thinking about her, paying attention to her, and even dropped everything and traveled thousands of miles to come to her.
This was the light in her life, the meaning of that period of life.
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I've had too little deep sleep recently, and I feel like my body is very sleep-deprived. I want to have a good rest tomorrow. If I get better, I'll update as usual in the evening. If not, I may not update.