23. Roast leg of lamb
In the misty morning mist, Xiao Baoer is boxing as seriously as ever, different from the wheat-colored skin of the noble girl in the Central Plains, which makes her look very healthy, and her delicate and tall figure is even more seductive~ bewildering. Yao Xitong, the www.biquge.info of pen & fun & pavilion, said seriously, "I ate and slept with her, and I was a little worried that I would not be able to control it, and I gave her medicine to avoid accidents." Even if nothing happens, it's better to bury a hidden danger to Qingshanjun, lest he want to use the princess to annex Northern Liao. ”
"Princess, mountain spring, do you want to boil it before drinking?" Xiao Bao'er took the mountain spring in the magpie's hand and drank half of it before saying, "No, how sweet the mountain spring is."
Yao Xitong watched all this silently, the suspicions he had last night disappeared like morning mist, he must have thought too much. If Xiao Baoer is really a smart person, she should know that the magpie is not simple, whether it is the killing of the Empress Dowager or the defeat of Wu Jun, many signs indicate that there are people behind the magpie. In this case, how could she not have any sense of precaution against the magpie?
"Xiaoxiao, do you remember being deliberately admitted to your mistake at the cantonment station?"
"Remember, what's wrong?" Xiao Bao'er said and handed the kettle in her hand to Yao Xitong, "Do you want to drink water? ”
Yao Xitong shook his head, how dare he drink the water he added, "After today, you have to learn to make a fire and cook." ”
"Okay," Xiao Bao'er agreed without asking why. Yao Xitong couldn't help but ask, "Aren't you curious?"
"Something to do with a change of life?"
"Cooking gives you attention to detail, and over time, things like yesterday when the woman pretended to admit you wrong will never happen again. Xiao Bao'er really wanted to say that she didn't care about this matter at all, and it was only in the Central Plains that she regarded false etiquette as so important, so what could she do if she deliberately admitted her mistakes, anyway, she couldn't change the fact that she was a princess. As soon as the words came to her lips, she said, "Sanchi, go ahead!"
Xiao Bao'er's vigorous appearance is a lack of heart in Yao Xitong's opinion, as long as she hands over the cooking to Xiao Bao'er, no matter if she is poisoned or drugged, she will have an excuse to shirk in the future.
In late autumn and early winter, the dense forests are full of fallen leaves, and if you are not careful, you will slip. At first, the ox cart could still walk in the sparsely wooded area, but after half a day, the forest became denser and denser, and everyone had to abandon the cart, carry the supplies on their backs, and lead the oxen in the direction of Chendi.
Yao Xitong was injured in the leg, he and Su Su rode a horse, Sanji carried most of the luggage, and the rest was carried by Magpie and Xiao Bao'er. He Bo wanted to help, but Xiao Baoer took pity on his frailty and took the initiative to take on the bags that should have belonged to him.
Su Su rode a horse, and seeing that Xiao Bao'er was working so hard, she pushed Yao Xitong in front of her, "Your leg is not injured at all, is it?" The moment the bronze mirror fell down, instinct drove Yao Xitong to dodge, the smash on his ankle was actually a sprain, and he did it with his own hands in order to conceal the fact that he knew martial arts.
"It's the military doctor from the cantonment station who helped to see the doctor, is there any injury to my leg that can fool the people you invited?"
Su Su was silent for a while and then asked: "According to this way, you won't be able to reach Chen Di in a month or two, how long do you plan to let Uncle He pretend?"
Yao Xitong glanced at Xiao Bao'er, lowered her voice and said, "Distressed princess? If she marries Qingshanjun, won't you have no chance at all?"
"I don't understand what you're saying?"
"As far as I know, a woman's loyalty is mostly based on affection. You like your son-in-law, don't you?"
Yao Xitong didn't look back, thinking about it, he knew that Su Su's face would not look good. God gave her a beautiful appearance and a smart mind, but he didn't give her a good birth. Even if Qingshan-kun has a heart for her, he can't marry her as a wife according to secular standards. Thinking about it this way, God is actually quite cruel, how can a smart woman be willing to live under others?
At noon, the group stopped to rest. The magpie is responsible for finding water, Yao Xitong strongly asks Xiao Baoer to make a fire to cook, he is the most picky about food in the group, and eating bread for two days in a row is the limit of his patience.
Xiao Bao'er looked at the branches picked up by He Bo in a daze, and Yao Xitong asked unceremoniously: "You don't know how to make a fire to cook?" Doesn't it mean that the girls on the grassland are born to use a fire sickle to cook? Or is the princess different from other girls on the grassland?"
"The branches are not dry, and it is easy to smoke when you start a fire, but these branches are enough to warm the water, but not enough for cooking. ”
"The princess is so smart, can't she think of any other way?" After Yao Xitong finished speaking, he asked Uncle He to help him to make it convenient, and the two walked to a secluded place, and Uncle He asked puzzledly: "Why is the prince so mean to the princess?"
Yao Xitong asked rhetorically, "Do I have it?"
He Bo was silent, Yao Xitong introspected for a moment, and finally realized what the problem was. Xiao Bao'er has a good temper, and such a huge change is all about changing his life to marry Xuan Ze, which is something he is very unhappy to see. Not only did he learn the information about the death of the Empress Dowager, but also held the princess of Beiliao in his hands, if this situation still allowed Xuan Ze to win, wouldn't it mean that he was incompetent? For Xiao Bao'er, he had a feeling of hating iron but not steel, no matter whether the rhino incense was true or not, Xiao Bao'er should not be fascinated by Xuan Ze, this is the consciousness that a princess should have.
Lunch was very simple, the green vegetables were boiled in white buns, Yao Xitong looked at the boiling food in the pot and said cheaply, "You are worthy of being the princess of the grassland, you really know how to cook, and you ran to collect firewood by yourself?"
"Cow dung. ”
"What?"
"I use Sanchi's for firewood, and it's like this on the grasslands, don't you think it smells like the grass is fermenting? In the grasslands, it's the smell of the earth, and the herders depend on it for the long winters. ”
No matter how well it is said, cow dung is still cow dung, Yao Xitong can't accept the meals cooked with dung, so he can only continue to gnaw hard buns at noon. Su Su sat next to him with the vegetable soup and drank it slowly, "Doesn't Childe often say that you should pay attention to details?
"You know?"
"Yes, because I washed the dirty clothes, in addition to cow dung, she also picked up horse manure, and I washed the clothes. Su Su's complaint caused Yao Xitong to laugh, it was really embarrassing for her, and she actually followed a princess who liked to pick up feces.
Another day slipped by, and Lin Hai, who still couldn't see the end, finally made everyone a little afraid. Xiao Bao'er sat by the fire and muttered: "What kind of broken place is this, I can't see the beasts, why don't I even have a bird, I really want to eat roast lamb legs." ”
Yao Xitong joked: "Want to eat meat? I have a way to let you eat meat, but I don't know if you dare to eat meat when it comes to your mouth." ”
"Why don't you dare? You want to eat Sanchi?" Yao Xitong was silent, and Xiao Bao'er asked again: "Do you want to eat Doc?"
"What is Doc?" Yao Xitong asked everyone's questions.
Xiao Baoer pointed to the horse napping next to her and said, "It's Doc." ”
Yao Xitong had already accepted Xiao Baoer's hobby of naming animals, and only said, "If I find meat, will you eat it or not?"
Xiao Bao'er looked around again, in the past few days, she has been trying to find some living things in the forest, but she doesn't want to have any living things to eat, even the most common gophers have disappeared, it's really a strange forest.
"Eat. ”
Yao Xitong threw the branch in his hand to her, pointing to a raised mound not far away, "Stick the branch in and stir for a while, pull it out and wipe it with your hand, hundreds of ants will give you to eat." Ants, also known as Xuanju, can activate the meridians, detoxify and reduce swelling, how about it, I'm good to you, right?"
Xiao Baoer really wanted to use a branch to beat Yao Xitong to death. After holding it for a long time, she calmly poked the ant nest, and put the ants on the fire with a branch, only to hear a crackling sound, and the ants all fell into the fire and burned into slag.
"It's a pity, ants are also meat, and the princess is such a waste. Xiao Bao'er followed Su Su's example, glanced at Yao Xitong a few times with her eyes, and said, "I want to pray to God to roast a leg of lamb for me." ”
"How could the gods of the Central Plains hear the prayer of a foreign princess, if you eat roast lamb shank tomorrow, I will volunteer to be a vegetarian for a month. Xiao Bao'er glared at Yao Xitong, poked the ant nest again, and swallowed a few live ants when she opened her mouth, "I ate ant meat, and you have to talk too." ”
Yao Xitong sneered a few times, how could she meet such a stupid princess, she wouldn't really think that she would be able to catch a sheep in the forest tomorrow!
The next day, Xiao Baoer woke up and knelt on the ground to pray, seeing that she was so pious for a leg of mutton, Yao Xitong really felt like she couldn't cry or laugh.
It was noon, Su Su fed a few plants in his hand to Sanji's mouth, "I walked all morning to find so many edible wild vegetables, instead of cooking them on a fire, it is better to give them to Sanji, we will eat the bun at noon......"
"How do I smell lamb?"
Xiao Bao'er walked towards the end of the forest as she spoke, and seeing that she was walking fast, Su Su pulled her heels, and the magpie followed behind the two unhurriedly, and the figures of the three quickly disappeared into the dense forest.
Yao Xitong and He Bo stood in place and waited for a while, but they didn't come back for a long time, so they had to follow. Yao Xitong said as she walked, "How could she smell the smell of meat, she has been in here for so many days, and she can't even see a bird here." Strange to say, there is no miasma in this forest, and there is no poison, where have all the animals gone?
He muttered to himself as he rode forward, and He Bo moved faster, and in the blink of an eye he was gone. After a while, there was suddenly no shelter in front of him, and the originally dense woods seemed to have been cut out of a vacancy, and a village suddenly appeared in front of Yao Xitong's eyes.
The appearance of a village where there could be no village was like seeing an ocean in the desert, and Yao Xitong pondered for a moment whether they should enter this village. It was a pity that Xiao Bao'er's footsteps exceeded his speed of thinking, and before he could make a decision, he saw Xiao Bao'er walking towards the village in front of him.
On the path full of loess and gravel, Yao Xitong sped up his horse's speed, but he didn't have time to catch up with Xiao Bao'er but caught up with Su Su. "What's going on?" Su Su's face was no less surprised than his, "You think I know?" He looked at the magpie again, He Bo was already standing beside the magpie, and judging from the posture of the two, the magpie was also confused about it.