Chapter 75
Chapter 75
Jiang Yunsui immediately started drooling, turned around, and squatted down beside Ji Lu.
“It smells so good. How can this mud lump smell so good…?”
Ji Lu burst out laughing. “Mud lump? If you think it’s a mud lump, why did you bring it with you?”
“I saw that chef treating it like a treasure.”
They cracked open the mud, then peeled away the lotus leaves inside.
A tender, juicy, fragrant beggar’s chicken appeared before them. Jiang Yunsui sniffed, her eyes shining so brightly they practically glowed.
Her entire face was screaming, I want to eat that.
Because it had been wrapped in mud, even after all that running, the beggar’s chicken was still warm.
Ji Lu tore off a drumstick and handed it to her.
Jiang Yunsui sat down on the grass and began eating with happy little munching noises.
In the blink of an eye, her mouth was shiny with grease.
So good, so good…
Ji Yi slowly walked over while clutching the spot where his ribs had broken. His eyes fixed darkly on the two of them, who were eating with great enthusiasm.
Jiang Yunsui felt guilty. After all, he’d broken those bones catching her.
“Boss, want a bite?”
Ji Yi said irritably, “Hurry up and get back.”
“Oh, oh. Going now.”
Jiang Yunsui’s short little legs still couldn’t walk, so in the end, a Yaoguang Guard carried her on his back. Ji Lu refused to carry her, because the little brat had wiped her greasy mouth all over his clothes!
On the way, they ran into Ji Si and the others.
Jiang Yunsui’s little face was full of accusation. “Si Si…”
Ji Si pretended not to hear her. He simply plucked her off the Yaoguang Guard’s back.
“Get on.”
He crouched down in front of Jiang Yunsui.
Jiang Yunsui climbed onto his back without the slightest politeness.
“You were all too much. You actually forgot about me.”
“Si Si, I’m thirsty. My throat hurts so much.”
Sigh. She hadn’t even stored up many spores yet, and now she was injured again.
This time, she could take care of her throat, but not her legs.
Why was she so unlucky?
Ji Lu walked over. “Here, here, drink some water to soothe your throat.”
Ji Yi and the others moved much faster than Jiang Yunsui could.
It felt like hardly any time had passed before they were already back in the village.
“They’re back, they’re back…”
Nanshu let out a breath of relief when he saw them return.
Jiang Yunsui lay on Ji Si’s back, raised her little hand, and greeted Ji Yan’an with a brilliant smile.
She wasn’t exactly filthy, but she was a mess. Not only were there red marks on her chubby little face, there were also tiny scratches.
When the moose had carried her while running, plenty of branches had whipped across her body.
Right now, she felt like she’d been thrashed.
“What happened to you this time?”
That “this time” was truly the essence of it.
Jiang Yunsui pouted in grievance, then rolled up her sleeves to show him.
“Wuwuwu… I got whipped all over.”
Her skin was fair, so the red marks on her body looked especially frightening at the moment.
Nanshu’s expression turned exaggerated. “Good heavens, you… were you captured? And what’s wrong with your voice?”
Jiang Yunsui said, “I want tea.”
Ji Yan’an had just been about to pour her some when the little fellow boldly picked up the teapot and started chugging straight from it.
After drinking quite a lot, she finally felt better.
As expected, once she absorbed that trace of natural energy in the tea, her body felt much more comfortable.
“I wasn’t captured.”
With her head drooping and a look of sheer bad luck on her face, she slowly explained how she’d found a moose to help her, only to be discovered by three bandits and chased all over.
“Good thing Yi Yi caught me at the end. Otherwise, Ji Yan’an, you wouldn’t have gotten to see me again, wuwuwu…”
Crying, Jiang Yunsui buried her face in his sleeve.
Ji Yan’an closed his eyes. “Do not wipe your snot on my clothes!”
Jiang Yunsui pouted. He didn’t even know how to care about her.
Nanshu’s mouth fell open. “You… you’ve had quite the adventure, haven’t you?”
Everyone had been exhausted for ages. Aside from the wounded, who were being treated by Shen Qingzhu, the rest had all gone to rest.
Jiang Yunsui had also had medicine applied to her wounds.
They had even brewed a dose of medicine for her.
The moment that bowl of dark-brown herbal medicine was brought out-smelling bitter enough to make her tongue curl-she wanted to run.
But Ji Yan’an seemed to have expected it and pinned her down at once.
“Nanmo, hold her.”
Jiang Yunsui immediately started thrashing again. “I’m not drinking it, I’m not drinking it! I’m not drinking that stuff! Let me go, aahhh!”
Ji Yan’an threatened, “If you don’t drink it, you can forget about eating today.”
Jiang Yunsui shrieked in anger, but her throat still hadn’t recovered, and she soon started coughing.
Seeing her like that, Ji Yan’an softened in the end.
“Be good. Pinch your nose and gulp it down in one go. If you can’t smell it, it’ll be a little better.”
“Nanshu, go bring the candied fruit.”
Nanshu went and fetched a box of candied fruit.
“Drink it, and you can have some.”
Jiang Yunsui’s big eyes turned watery. In the end, after Ji Yan’an both threatened and coaxed her, she still pinched her nose and forced it down in one go.
In an instant, her delicate little face twisted into a mask of pure suffering.
It tasted awful!
Ji Yan’an grabbed the candied fruit and, quick as anything, stuffed one into her mouth.
Jiang Yunsui was still pinching her nose as she hurriedly chewed and chewed…
Once she let go of her nose, the taste of the medicine was still lingering in her mouth, and she gagged twice.
She quickly ate two more pieces of candied fruit, and only then did she finally manage to suppress that strange taste.
She planted her little hands on her hips, pouted as high as she could, and complained.
“They’re all plants, so why is tea so tasty, but when you mix a bunch of other plants together and boil them, they taste so horrible?”
Little Mushroom felt utterly betrayed by plants.
Shen Qingzhu couldn’t help laughing at her indignant little face.
“Why don’t you go ask them?”
Jiang Yunsui’s little face fell. “Never mind. They can’t talk anyway.”
Oh, right. She had almost forgotten the important thing.
Jiang Yunsui quickly took out the item Li Yunniang had given her and handed it to Ji Yan’an.
“Ji Yan’an, look at this. A pretty sister I met in the stronghold gave it to me. She also told me to tell you that there are more than five hundred people in the stronghold in total. That Third Chief took more than a hundred people out, and then took some more people away after that…”
Jiang Yunsui’s little face was serious. Though she spoke slowly, she still managed to relay everything Li Yunniang had entrusted to her.
Keeping all that in mind had worn Little Mushroom out.
“Oh, right, right, there’s more. I saw that Third Chief talking to someone. They were barbarians, and they came out of a cave.”
As she spoke, Jiang Yunsui yawned.
After all the chaos that morning, and after not sleeping well the night before, she was so sleepy.
Once she had explained everything, she yawned again, tilted her head against Ji Yan’an, and fell asleep just like that.
Ji Yan’an: “…”
He had not slept from yesterday until now either, and traces of fatigue had already appeared on his face.
But he was used to it.
The information Jiang Yunsui had brought back was extremely important.
“Go call Mr. Song and Magistrate Fan over.”
With one hand, he supported Jiang Yunsui’s little chubby face as it pressed down, adjusted her position, and let her rest her head on his lap.
Only then did he pick up the item on the piece of cloth and examine it.
It was a layout map of the entire bandit stronghold. Even the locations of some traps had been marked very clearly.
After Song Jin and Fan He arrived, he handed the item over.
“Take a look. Jiang Yunsui got this from a woman inside the stronghold.”
At that, both men were rather shocked.
That child?!