It was obviously the cold winter season, but Guan Jiyu felt uncomfortable with the heat and struggled to break free from Jiang Yingnian's hand.
"Okay, it doesn't hurt anymore. Stop blowing." She hurriedly took two steps forward and distanced herself from him, as if saying "don't touch me".
Jiang Yingnian walked quickly to follow her and said jokingly: "What's wrong? You are such a shameless woman. If someone wants to hurt me, I'm too lazy to do it."
Guan Jiyu walked forward minding his own business, not forgetting to say sarcastically: "I don't care who wants you to suffer, anyway, this person is definitely not me!" As if she remembered something, she suddenly turned around and said: "If I were
You guessed it right, the person who wants you to suffer is Qu Yin, right?
Jiang Yingnian was startled and quickly retorted: "What nonsense are you talking about?!"
Guan Jiyu turned his head and continued walking forward, leisurely saying: "I'm not talking nonsense, otherwise when we were in the main city of Yanjiang Corridor, why did she say you were kind enough to let her go? And she said you were a good person and so on. Alas.
, our third young master is truly blessed wherever we go."
"Guan Jiyu!" Jiang Yingnian gritted his teeth and said, "You really talk a lot now."
She still spoke at the same leisurely pace, saying: "If you are close to vermillion, you will be red. If you are close to ink, you will be dark. There is no way."
Jiang Yingnian grabbed her shoulders and said: "Don't go forward, go this way -" He turned her body towards the right side of the road and said: "You idiot, you don't even ask.
Ask which direction, and just keep walking forward stupidly."
Guan Jiyu never expected that the place Jiang Yingnian took her to was actually a wilderness outside the city where few families could be seen.
"What the hell is this place? What can you do here?" She looked confused and didn't understand what he was going to do.
Jiang Yingnian quickly picked up some firewood and piled it up, lit a fire skillfully, and said: "What do you think you can do? I won't trick you into doing anything bad, right?"
"You don't have that ability." She lit the fire and sat down next to it. She looked around the surroundings. There was no one around here, but it was very quiet.
But the silence was soon broken by Jiang Yingnian. He walked into the haystack in the dark and plucked it out. Instantly, there was a sound of chickens flying and dogs jumping. In Guan Jiyu's shock, he held a haystack in his left hand.
The chicken came over holding two eggs in his right hand.
Guan Jiyu looked at the fat chicken that was flapping fiercely and asked: "How do you know there are chickens here?"
Jiang Yingnian still had a natural look on his face and said: "I have been here with Zhao Zhou and the others before. A farmer has specially built a chicken coop here. Their chickens are very fat. It would be a pity not to bring you to taste it."
Already."
"Are you...stealing?" She whispered.
Jiang Yingnian guessed what she would say and said seriously: "I threw the money in the chicken coop."
"Now all that's left is to kill the chicken." He directed to Guan Jiyu: "I catch the chicken and light the fire. You have to help me, right? Go and kill the chicken."
"Me?" Guan Jiyu said as if he couldn't believe it, "Where can I go? I won't go."
Jiang Yingnian tilted his head and said matter-of-factly: "If you don't go, who will? Let me go?" He scratched his head and said, "Where have I ever done such a thing? It was all done by Zhao Zhou and the others before.
I'm only responsible for food."
"Hurry up, you moron," he urged impatiently.
Guan Jiyu couldn't stand it, so he called someone over to kill the chicken in the middle of the night? Only Jiang Yingnian could come up with this inhumane idea. Of course, she was very reluctant to do this job, but when she thought of Jiang Yingnian
With such a squeamish look, how could this young man with his clothes on his back and his food on his hands open his mouth do such a thing well? She could only admit that she was unlucky.
If she goes, let her go, so that Jiang Yingnian will not be able to clean it up and end up eating a mouthful of chicken feathers later.
Guan Jiyu is not unfamiliar with this kind of work. Even though he has never done this kind of work since arriving in Jiang Mansion, he can still handle it easily.
"You are really ruthless." Jiang Yingnian couldn't help but exclaimed when he saw her coming over with the slaughtered chicken.
Guan Jiyu put the killed chicken on the simple grill made by Jiang Yingnian, and replied: "Let's go to each other. You were about the same when you attacked Qu Mo."
It was an unintentional remark, but Jiang Yingnian fell silent after hearing it.
He quietly added firewood, and after a long time he spoke: "Do you think I'm sorry for letting Qu Yin go, brother?"
Guan Jiyu thought for a while and said: "There is a wrongdoer and a debtor. Although Qu Yin is also the daughter of the Guyi royal family, her crime is not as bad as hers, and she will not be implicated to death."
The wood in the fire was burning loudly, and sparks kept rising, making his face turn red.
"Guan Jiyu, Qu Yin and I are not what you think. That time I went after Gu Yi's army and almost caught Qu Mo. At that time, Qu Yin ignored his own safety and insisted on letting Qu Mo go first." Jiang
Yingnian said slowly: "At that time, I was more touched by emotion than by hatred. I was thinking that if I had the chance to save my eldest brother, I would definitely do what Qu Yin did."
Guan Jiyu didn't expect that he would seriously explain so much to her, so why didn't she think so?
If she had a chance to save Jiang Qing, even if there was only a glimmer of hope, she would be willing to go through mountains of swords and seas of fire.
"She must hate us very much." Guan Jiyu's eyes dimmed and he silently helped Jiang Yingnian add firewood.
The two of them stopped talking for a long time.
In this silent wilderness, there was only the sound of burning firewood. After an unknown amount of time, Jiang Yingnian said softly: "Hate as much as you want. As long as I can let my eldest brother rest in peace, I don't care who hates me or not."
He turned over the roasted chicken on the shelf, raised his voice and said easily: "It's cooked, ready to eat!"
As he spoke, he pulled off a chicken leg and handed it to Guan Jiyu, saying: "Try it, you must have never eaten such delicious roast chicken!"
Guan Jiyu took it, blew it on it, took a bite, chewed it, and said, "The quality of the meat is good, but it doesn't taste very good. Did you not put any salt in it?"
Jiang Yingnian exclaimed: "Oh! I was so busy talking that I forgot." He took out a paper bag from his pocket and said, "I wrapped some salt in it and brought it out, you can eat it with it.
.”
Although the seasoning was indeed too simple, Guan Jiyu had been hungry for most of the day, and his stomach was already growling with hunger. At this time, he couldn't care so much, so he dipped some salt in it and ate it.
"Eat slowly." Jiang Yingnian saw that she was eating well and couldn't help laughing: "No one is trying to compete with you. If you eat in such a hurry, there will be no water for you to drink if you choke later."
The two of them quickly finished the whole roast chicken. Guan Jiyu sighed with satisfaction and said with emotion: "It's really delicious."
"Then what do you think?" Jiang Yingnian said with a proud look on his face: "I told you that the Third Young Master must have something different to eat with you. I baked this with my own hands. This is the only one. What else do you think?
I can’t even eat it!”
He looked up at the sky and said, "It's a pity that I didn't see any stars today. The last time I came here, there was a sea of stars in the sky. It was so beautiful."
Such a wide flat land is perfect for admiring the moon and stars.
"Next time, let's come over and watch the stars together. Bring wine and snacks. It will be very pleasant."
Jiang Yingnian turned his head and stared at Guan Jiyu's face. His eyes were bright and full of expectation.
Guan Jiyu met his gaze generously, and she was equally sincere.
"Jiang Yingnian, there is one thing I have to tell you clearly." She said seriously: "In the past, you and I did have many inextricable grievances that we couldn't explain, but I think those have passed."
Jiang Yingnian locked her almond-shaped eyes intently and said softly: "I never said I couldn't go. Brother's revenge has been avenged. We are not the same people we were in the past. Where do we have any grudges now?"
"It's best if you think so." She looked up into the dark sky, as if searching for something, and said, "This world is a big place, and I hope you can find someone who can truly accompany you in everything you do.
"
Jiang Yingnian also looked up into the endless dark night, and there was no end as far as the eye could see.
He simply withdrew his gaze and continued to focus on her.
"This world is too big, I'm too lazy to look for it anymore."
Guan Jiyu's eyes were still looking straight up into the sky. Even though she couldn't see anything, she still raised her neck and watched the night sky carefully.
"Guan Jiyu." He called her softly.
"Um?"
"Have you found the person who can do anything with you?"
After Jiang Yingnian asked this question, his heart beat loudly unconsciously.
He suddenly didn't want to know her answer anymore, and he felt a little panicked at the thought of hearing the answer he didn't want to hear from her.
"Forget it, there's no need to say it." Jiang Yingnian hurriedly interrupted to stop what she was about to say. He said coldly: "I'm too lazy to listen to what you have to say."
Guan Jiyu is no longer surprised by his behavior. He has always been like this, sometimes like this, sometimes like that. No one can guess what he is thinking at every moment.
"It's really baffling..." She was just slightly annoyed.
Jiang Yingnian lowered his head and dug through the ashes in front of him, and took out two eggs. "They are already cooked. You can apply them on your forehead. Don't let them swell like horns tomorrow."
Guan Jiyu was about to reach out to pick it up, but he took it back again, knocked it on the side a few times, and quickly peeled off the eggshell and took out the white and tender eggs.
His hand holding the egg reached into the air, and when he was about to touch her forehead, he carefully retracted his hand.
"You can take it yourself. You're such a big man, don't you want me to hold it for you?"
He threw the egg to her as if he didn't care, causing Guan Jiyu to roll his eyes again.
"I didn't ask you to lift it for me, how can I have such dignity." Guan Jiyu muttered, her forehead still hurt slightly at this moment, so she had to raise her arm to apply it to the bumped area.
"Go back. It's so late and you're full. It's time to go back."
The two of them walked back slowly in the darkness. Jiang Yingnian went back to his room in the mansion. After Guan Jiyu said goodbye to him, he walked towards Qing'anju.
"Guan Jiyu." Jiang Yingnian called her from behind and asked, "Would you like to have breakfast together tomorrow? Let's go to Pinxiang Tower early in the morning and eat freshly baked jujube cakes."
Guan Jiyu waved his hand and said with a smile: "No need, I want to have a good sleep tomorrow, so I won't go to eat with you."
The next day, Zhong Sitang.
As usual, Jiang Xian arrived at the study early and was about to study, when he saw the housekeeper carrying a large bag of things wrapped in oil paper and placing them on his desk.
"What is this?" he asked confused.
The housekeeper just shook his head and said: "It was sent from the capital, saying it was for you, the second young master."
Jiang Xian opened the oil paper and found some tonics and a few ginseng sticks inside.
"This is a rare species only found in the Qiang Wu Kingdom in the south. Who is so generous as to give away so many of them?"
He opened the letter, and before he read the contents carefully, he only glanced at the irregular font, and his calm heart was suddenly lifted.
