Chapter 142
Chapter 142
“Yunsui, hide and don’t run around. I’ll go draw them away.”
Sure enough, they found members of the Quanrong Tribe and their wolfdogs in the woods.
Fat Chef and the others had sprinkled medicinal powder on themselves to mask their scent, so the pack couldn’t smell them.
They showed themselves on purpose, all to lure these people farther away. Whatever happened, they couldn’t let them head toward the cave.
“Yoo-hoo! Hey, Quanrong Tribe! If your chief’s daughter is that desperate for a man, why doesn’t she come herself? Why are you grabbing our people?”
“Exactly! Not like you people care about propriety anyway-aiyo, Mother, if you can’t win an argument, why are you hitting people?”
“You little mutts, come chase your grandpa!”
Fat Chef and the others slapped their backsides. Their gestures and words were pure provocation.
Even if the language didn’t get through, the Quanrong Tribe knew nothing good was coming out of their mouths.
The rage from having so many things stolen erupted in an instant. They immediately grabbed their weapons and chased after them with the dogs.
Fat Chef might look fat, but he could run incredibly fast.
And he was strong, too.
Back in the military camp, Fat Chef had made quite a name for himself by killing soldiers of the Barbarian Army with nothing but a huge iron wok and a kitchen knife.
Now, Fat Chef still had an iron wok on his back and a kitchen knife in his hand. He might be fat, but he was a nimble fat man.
The Quanrong Tribe members, dogs and all, chased after them.
Jiang Yunsui was a little worried, but she didn’t dare run around.
She waited for a while. Then came the sound of flapping wings.
A large bird had landed on a branch beside her.
Jiang Yunsui turned to look.
What a huge eagle.
This… couldn’t be an eagle from the Quanrong Tribe, could it?
While the eagle was resting and preening its feathers, Jiang Yunsui couldn’t help sneaking a touch.
“Coo!”
Having its feathers suddenly stroked startled the eagle. It spread its wings, instantly on guard.
A tiny person was clinging to the tree trunk beside it, one hand still stretched out in midair, clearly wanting to touch it again.
“Coo!”
The eagle was furious and pecked at her.
It messed up the hair on Jiang Yunsui’s head.
“Don’t peck me.”
She quickly covered her head, somewhat regretting her itchy fingers.
But with such a huge bird right beside her, she really couldn’t resist.
The eagle didn’t use lethal force. It only wanted to drive this creature away and stop her from sticking so close.
But with all that flapping, Jiang Yunsui lost her balance and fell straight out of the tree.
When people fall, they panic and try to grab onto anything.
Jiang Yunsui was no exception.
“Gaa!”
The eagle let out a miserable cry. With its talons seized, it vanished from the branch in a blur.
Thud…
They landed on the ground.
It didn’t hurt, though.
Because the eagle she was clutching had flapped its wings for dear life.
It hadn’t managed to lift this little chubby girl into the air, but it had slowed her fall.
Jiang Yunsui was still holding the eagle’s talons.
The unlucky eagle kept shrieking.
When it fell, one wing had been pinned beneath it and snapped.
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry! My bad, okay?”
Jiang Yunsui climbed to her feet, crouched on the ground, and pressed her hands together. She sincerely apologized to the eagle, whose one wing drooped as it angrily cursed at her in bird language.
Little Mushroom scratched her head awkwardly.
This… what was she supposed to do now?
“I’ll give you something to eat. Stop yelling, stop yelling QAQ.”
Eagle: The fact that I haven’t clawed you to death already means I have a great temper!
Just as the eagle lunged over to scratch her, Jiang Yunsui stretched out her little hand, grabbed the eagle by the neck, and stuffed a lump of Imperial Flowing Essence straight into its mouth.
The way she grabbed the eagle’s neck was exactly the same as grabbing a goose by the neck.
The eagle…
Humiliation. Absolute, overwhelming humiliation!
But… what was this thing? Why was it so delicious?
The great eagle smacked its beak. Its sharp eyes fixed on Jiang Yunsui, and the fire in them seemed to fade a little.
Seeing that it worked, Jiang Yunsui stuffed several more clumps into its beak.
“Coo~~~”
It still wanted more.
“There isn’t any left.”
Jiang Yunsui’s little face scrunched up.
She still had to save some for Ji Yan’an.
With Ji Yan’an’s frail little body, if she hadn’t been around, he probably would have been close to dying by now. How would he have had the energy to run around outside? And he still wanted to rebel like this.
“You need a doctor for your wing.”
Jiang Yunsui glanced at its drooping wing and offered a suggestion.
Then, ignoring its wishes, she grabbed the big eagle by its other wing and started dragging it back.
“I was the one who crushed it, so of course I have to get you healed.”
“Don’t worry. I’m not an irresponsible mushroom.”
“Aiya, stop struggling. Doesn’t your wing hurt?”
“You can’t fly like this. What if you starve to death later, or get eaten by some other beast in the woods?”
Little Mushroom chattered on and on as she half-dragged, half-pulled the eagle away.
“Ji Yan’an! Ji Yan’an, I picked up an eagle and brought it back!”
“Coo coo!”
When the eagle saw all the people in the camp, it felt that something was very wrong.
Oh no. It had entered the enemy’s den.
It had been tricked!
“Little Yunsui, weren’t you out with the patrol? What’s going on?”
“And you brought back such a huge eagle. Speaking of which, doesn’t this eagle look a little familiar?”
“Don’t all eagles look the same?”
Ji Yan’an had been strolling around nearby to move his body a little.
Drawn over by Jiang Yunsui’s voice, he stared at the eagle too.
“You picked it up?”
Jiang Yunsui nodded.
“Why does it look rather unwilling to me?”
Jiang Yunsui lied through her teeth. “Nonsense. It is clearly willing.”
“Where’s Shen Qingzhu? Hurry over and look at the eagle. Its wing is broken.”
Shen Qingzhu crouched down. He had just been about to examine the eagle when it viciously tried to peck him.
Jiang Yunsui hugged the eagle around the neck.
“Don’t move around. Injured patients have to be obedient.”
“Gah!”
With its neck pinned, the eagle let out a series of gagging squawks.
“Shen Qingzhu, hurry and check it. I’ll hold it down.”
Everyone: “…”
They had to admit, this child was truly fierce.
“Its wing is broken. How did this happen?”
Jiang Yunsui’s eyes went guilty, and even her voice lost confidence.
“I, um, accidentally fell out of a tree and landed on it.”
“You fell out of a tree? Are you all right?”
Jiang Yunsui quickly shook her head. “I’m fine. I grabbed onto it, and it flapped really hard, so the fall didn’t hurt. I just accidentally crushed it.”
Hearing that, everyone let out a breath of relief.
Then they couldn’t help but look at the eagle with sympathetic eyes.
Running into Little Yunsui… you really are pitiful.
The eagle: “…”
In the end, its wing was treated and then splinted before it was put in the cave.
It couldn’t run. It absolutely couldn’t run.
Jiang Yunsui even stuffed a mushroom into its beak.
“Hurry and try this. It’s tasty.”
Ji Yan’an said, “Eagles are carnivores. They don’t eat mushrooms.”
Jiang Yunsui said, “I know. I just wanted to let it change flavors and see if it likes it.”
Clearly, the eagle did not like it. It nearly choked.
Jiang Yunsui brought over some meat, but it would not eat that either, looking as if it were too depressed to eat and had gone on a hunger strike.
Little Mushroom scratched her head. “Aren’t you hungry? Then you can eat this afternoon.”
Jiang Yunsui remembered that Fat Chef had told her to wait in the same spot. Now that she had run back, they would get worried when they returned and couldn’t find her, wouldn’t they?
So she quickly called Ji Si over and had him carry her back with qinggong to find Fat Chef and the others.
“Fat Grandpa…”
Fat Chef let out a breath of relief when he saw Jiang Yunsui.
“Where did you run off to, little thing? Didn’t I tell you to wait here?”
Jiang Yunsui hurriedly told him all about how she had picked up an eagle.