Chapter 102

Chapter 102

When Jiang Yunsui came back looking utterly miserable again, everyone was already used to it.

Fortunately, she had brought a maid this time, who quickly helped her change into fresh clothes.

Ji Yan’an said, “As expected, she really goes through clothes.”

When she emerged from the carriage, her big eyes were brimming with two pools of tears.

“Wuwuwu, my butt hurts so much.”

“Why are wild chickens so fierce?”

Amused, Shen Qingzhu applied medicine to her face and arms.

“You were going to eat it. How could it not be fierce?”

Jiang Yunsui rubbed her little bottom.

Little Mushroom argued shamelessly, “But it’s a rooster. Keeping so many wives must be really stressful for it. I was helping it reduce its stress.”

Everyone: “…”

How did such a vicious thing come out of that little mouth of yours?

“What’s this thing you brought back?”

Song Jin was tossing a lemon up and down in his hand.

Jiang Yunsui blinked, her big, dark eyes darting around.

One look was enough to tell she was plotting something bad.

She thought she was hiding it well, completely unaware that the foxes around her had seen right through her.

Song Jin thought, Let me see what this little thing is up to.

Jiang Yunsui opened her eyes wide. “This is something tasty.”

Then she added, “Especially tasty. Hurry and try it.”

Song Jin sat down on the stool beside her, his long legs looking like they had nowhere to go.

“Fine. I want to see just how delicious this ‘good stuff’ is if even a little glutton like you is praising it.”

“How do you eat it?”

It looked a little like some kind of orange.

“Cut it open with a knife.”

Song Jin gave a hum of acknowledgment, pulled out the dagger strapped to his leg, and sliced the thing cleanly in half.

The lemon had a distinctive fragrance, but once it was cut open, a sharp, sour smell came wafting out as well.

A look of understanding flashed through Song Jin’s eyes.

So this thing was very sour.

He dug out the pulp, then, under Jiang Yunsui’s expectant gaze, pretended to bring it to his mouth.

Jiang Yunsui stared at him nervously, practically one step away from writing “waiting for the show” across her face.

Ji Yan’an looked like he couldn’t bear to watch.

How on earth did she have the confidence to trick other people so openly?

The next second, Song Jin suddenly pinched Jiang Yunsui’s chubby little cheeks. Her mouth opened a little beyond her control.

Then that small lump of lemon pulp was stuffed into her mouth.

Jiang Yunsui: “!!!”

An extreme sourness exploded in her mouth. Jiang Yunsui hurriedly shoved Song Jin’s hand away, lowered her head, and spat the lemon out.

“Peh, peh, peh…”

“Eee…”

On her tiny face, all her features scrunched together. Drool kept spilling from her mouth beyond her control, and her little body trembled from the sourness.

Seeing her like that, the others also made a collective “eee” sound and tactically leaned their upper bodies back.

They clearly hadn’t eaten any, but somehow it felt like saliva was surging uncontrollably in their own mouths too.

“Good heavens, just how sour is that? She’s shaking like she’s got the chills.”

Ji Yan’an quickly poured a cup of tea and handed it to her.

Jiang Yunsui grabbed it and gulped it down.

“So sour, so sour!”

That only made her angrier.

With a howl, she pounced onto Song Jin, grabbing his clothes and hair like a little madwoman and yanking wildly.

“I’ll fight you to the death!” Her childish little voice cracked from the force of that shout.

Song Jin cried out in pain. With his hair caught, his head was forced to tilt toward her, while he frantically grabbed at his clothes.

“Hey, hey, hey… You were clearly the one trying to trick me. I just gave you the tasty thing you talked about so you could eat it yourself.”

“Let go! Who fights like you do?”

“Ow, my hair-hiss… Jiang Yunsui, are you a puppy? You’re even using your teeth!”
Jiang Yunsui sank her teeth right into Song Jin’s head, and her mouth was still full of saliva from that sour lemon.

Song Jin was so disgusted he nearly lost it.

Aside from the shameless, undignified scuffles he had gotten into with the village children when he was little, he had never fought like this after growing up.

Everyone else just stood around watching the show. Not a single one of them came over to help.

Nanshu was laughing so hard at the side that he could barely straighten his back.

Ji Yan’an also raised his cup and drank some tea to hide the smile tugging at the corners of his mouth.

Fan He said, “How unseemly. Truly unseemly…”

But all he did was shake his head and say a few words. He had no intention of stepping forward to help either.

In the end, it was Ji Yan’an who pried her off.

He casually wiped her mouth. “You’ll bite anything. Do you even know how many days it’s been since he last washed his hair?”

Jiang Yunsui said, “Pah, pah, pah…”

Song Jin was furious.

“I washed it just yesterday!”

“I haven’t even complained about you drooling all over my head!”

Jiang Yunsui gave him a sideways look.

Hands on her little hips, she said, “So what? Who told you to make me eat a lemon!”

“You tricked me first.”

“Bullshit. I did not.”

Ji Yan’an flicked her on the forehead.

“No swearing.”

Jiang Yunsui pouted.

“That thing really is edible. Just not eaten like that.”

She absolutely refused to admit that she had been trying to trick him. In the end, she was the one who had suffered anyway.

Song Jin went off cursing and grumbling to wash his hair.

Next time he pissed this little thing off, he would have to grab her first and keep her from getting close. What kind of child bit people on the head?

“It’s getting late. Go rest. We still have to travel tomorrow.”

That said, after all the horseplay, the exhaustion from their journey had indeed faded quite a bit.

Everyone tidied up and prepared to sleep.

The temperature dropped at night. Ji Yan’an and Jiang Yunsui slept on the low couch inside the carriage, while Nanshu spread a bedroll on the floor to one side. Shen Qingzhu took over the other carriage, and Song Jin laid out his bedroll inside.

When traveling away from home, there was no room for so many rules. If they could squeeze in, they squeezed in.

Ji Yan’an held Jiang Yunsui in his arms like a little hand warmer. The carriage window was open, and moonlight spilled in from outside. With every breath Jiang Yunsui took, she absorbed a little of it.

Ji Yan’an naturally benefited from it as well.

His consciousness gradually blurred, and he fell asleep.

At daybreak the next morning, people began waking one after another.

They quickly made some food, ate, and continued on their way.

By lunchtime, Jiang Yunsui finally got the beggar’s chicken she had been longing for.

The two balls of mud were cracked open, and the fragrance inside wafted out. Jiang Yunsui took a deep breath.

“It smells so good, so good.”

She snatched two drumsticks first, one for herself and one for Ji Yan’an.

There were four drumsticks in total. When Jiang Yunsui saw Song Jin reaching for a drumstick from the other chicken, her little mouth opened, ready to bite his hand.

Song Jin pulled his hand back.

“Hey, are you seriously addicted to acting like a puppy now?”

Jiang Yunsui grabbed his hand and called out smugly, “Nanshu, hurry, hurry! Snatch the other two drumsticks!”

“We have to save one for Si Si.”

After all, that chicken had been caught by Ji Si.

Nanshu moved quickly too. “Got it.”

Song Jin: “…”

He pinched Jiang Yunsui’s nose.

“You little brat, you really know how to hold a grudge, don’t you?”

Jiang Yunsui gave an extremely loud hmph.

“I’m not giving you any drumsticks.”

Then, like a little rooster that had won a fight, she was utterly pleased with herself.

The others smiled. She really was a little treasure.

“The entire Liaoyang County is full of the Li Family’s informants now. Have you thought of how we’re going to get in?”

As they ate, everyone began discussing how to enter Liaoyang without alerting the enemy.